#LO AND BEHOLD THSI DID NOT GET EATEN!!!

[ruthlesslistener]

Since the void can be made into things like solids, liquids, gases, physical beings and can even mimic a soul (The shades)...do you think that The Void could replicate emotions? Like they'd be expressed differently but they'd still be present in some way. Perhaps even imprinted upon The Void forever, leading it to lash out in anger, weep in sadness, long to be loved...

I don't think that it's a possibility, I think that it's canon. For one, the entire tragedy of Hollow Knight is based upon the Pale King's and the White Lady's fundamental misunderstanding of the Void- the assumption that because it is not like them, it is incapable of feeling pain, sorrow, or some form of existence similar to a lightbased being. They weren't trying to be intentionally cruel, they just were not capable of understanding the experiences or tells of a being so fundamentally different from them. And it wasn't just them- people who still play the games assume that Ghost is hollow despite a myriad of evidence pointing otherwise, simply because they do not speak, write, or use body language that is close enough for us to easily understand. To pick up on what they are trying to tell us, we have to first accept the lack of similarities between how a vessel emotes and how we do- which is not something that many people are capable of, or willing to try. Everyone wants to feel like they know more than others in the room, and so it is simply much easier to assume that the lack of familiar cues they pick up from Ghost indicates that they feel nothing at all (or, in reverse, they project their own emotions and desires onto them to 'humanize' something that is very much not human, thus crowding out the subtle cues of their personality that we DO get in-game).

Similar things happen in real life, for example- people assume that animals that can copy human speech are more intelligent that others, and a great variety of nonverbal or crudely-speaking human beings are treated as nothing more than dumb beasts despite speech itself being a poor indicator of one's intelligence. Many times, it's not intentionally malicious- it's merely due to our own human bias, as a species that communicates exclusively through sight and sound. We are not unique from other animals in the advanced nature of our communication skills; we merely have the most complex version of auditory communication to accommodate our similarly-complex behaviors, and somewhat limited range of body language. Unfortunatly, this complexity has lead us to assume that because we react in a specific way to certain stimuli, like pain, love, or displeasure, then other animals that don't are incapable of feeling the same way. Therefore, it's not too far off to believe that gods like the Pale King or White Lady would be incapable of understanding their own children until it was far too late, simply because the gap in communication would have led them to falsely assume that none of the vessels- and the void themselves- were fully autonomous.

So yes, the void does feel, and it reacts as a living being, but compared to most other beings or gods in Hallownest, it's extremely alien and hard to understand. Whether it does so because the Pale King essentially induced life into it via the vessel process (hatching children, killing them, and returning their shades to the Sea), or because it clings to some scrap of life that it had before the Radiance felled it in battle isn't clear, but it does experience some sort of emotion. We're just not sure what that is