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scarletswarmhktheorizer · 1 year ago

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What will the plot of the Scarlet Swarm AU be?

Going through all the publicly available scsw outlets: such as the Graphic Ginger YouTube channel and the fandom wiki. We can conclude the story will be told through two different eras - and a possible third era which could explain the appearance of an out of place character.

The main difference which drives the plot of Scarlet Swarm differently from the canon of Hollow Knight is Grimm’s behaviour. In this alternate universe, Grimm is a lot more violent. Instead of performing rituals like in the original game, he pillages and destroys kingdoms to gather nightmare essence. This is what drives the Pale King to make the vessels and use them as soldiers against the Nightmare King.

This is the basis of the first half of the story of Scarlet Swarm. A war is waged between Hallownest and the servants of the nightmare realm. An important character to focus on will be Fervid. Fervid is a regular vessel made to fight the war but will be unfortunately captured and indoctrinated into the Grimm Troupe, which gives them their new identity as Ardentia.

We speculate that possibly in the first half of Scarlet Swarm it will explore Ardentia’s new life in the Grimm Troupe and it’s members.

Then this will eventually lead to the second half of the plot. Ardentia’s abandonment after the Grimm troupe wins their war against Hallownest, leaving it in ruins. Grimm discards Ardentia, either because they are of no use to him anymore or out of absentmindedness. This will leave Ardentia distraught, leading them into a blind bloodlust into Hallownest.

The main character of this section of the story is Vestige. A young vessel looking to explore Hallownest much like Ghost in canon (in Scarlet Swarm Ghost served as a knight during the war, we don't know if they are still alive). Which leaves Ardentia as more of an antagonist to threaten Vestige’s life.

We speculate that there may be a third section to the Scarlet Swarm story. We think it could possibly be a prequel section of the Grimm Troupe before the war. We think this because there is a character that doesn't seem to fit anywhere else in this timeline, Vagrant. Vagrant is a cloaked white beetle of mysterious motives and origin. Though they are clearly important as they appear ominously often with the Grimm troupe. They don't seem affiliated with the Troupe it seems as on the wiki page he states he doesn't ever remember meeting a troupe. Though he has clearly met them, as seen in the animation memes. Another thing to note about Vagrant is his association with knives and red string. In the God meme, he is seen with a nightmare lantern tangled in red thread and in concept art on his fandom page his main weapon is a knife on a red string. Red string can also be found tangled on the hand of Ameise the fire ant. Which may suggest Ameise is associated with him in some way.

Although we don't know what his motives are, we can assume the section of the story he will be included in is before the war due to how uninvolved the troupe are in the story after Ardentia’s abandonment. Vagrant is only depicted with the Troupe (not being a member) it would be odd if he entered the story when the Troupe is no longer involved in the story.

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