#fuck winged nosk

[probablyanalienindisguise]

Fym it's only a creature that shows up in like two boss fights and never gets mentioned again??

[dromaeo-sauridae]

fuck this place fr

[funkyratman]

Now it’s Your Turn🫵 Hand us your Hollow Knight hcs🔫 (if you’d like)

Omg so ok. Most of my headcanons are more focused on worldbuilding than individual characters but!! That’s okay because I still have a decent chunk of them for individual characters thanks to trying to figure out their storylines for a fic I’m writing, I’ll try not to repeat any that you also said lol cause there was a decent bit of crossover

General context that’s sometimes relevant for the character specific headcanons -

The way aging and growing is a little different, for bugs that experience complete metamorphosis they do still have that but instead of as the transition between child and adult it happens at like. Pre-school or early elementary school age just depending on how capable the larvae were. Something similar happens for bugs that have incomplete metamorphosis, they still get the big final molt that would mark the transition from childhood to adulthood but here it happens like at the start of puberty. Just because I think it’s easier to give characters childhoods when their experience isn’t ‘oh I was a grub for 18 years and then I became an adult :3’.

When it comes to inter-species reproduction if they’re in the same order it works (I’ll probably go more in depth on how I think it works in another post)

Zote -

I absolutely subscribe to nosk Zote, because it’s fun of course but also because it adds texture. This fucking guy is a nosk?? Wonderful.

Emilitia -

Honestly, I don’t think her life pre and post infection changed much. She says that she was already a social outcast before the infection, no real reason to go outside. Undoubtedly she’s from a wealthy family, they would probably still support her financially even if they didn’t talk about her (think ‘madwoman in the attic’) so she just kinda stayed home all day.

Oh she is spiteful, she absolutely despised the rest of the upper class bugs, both for excluding her and just in general even before, full of grudges and repressed rage.

The flowers were something she kept before the infection, but since the infection started she saw no purpose in keeping them in her pots. It was very satisfying to watch them take over the room.

Cloth (& Cicadas) -

Ok important context for Cloth. I think Cicadas do in fact in the context of hollow knight have wings. Cloth didn’t lose hers in a battle or anything dramatic, they just didn’t harden right after she molted. The lower parts had to be removed but she still has the tops, just partially hidden under her clothing.

She and Nola grew up together, and Nola was the one to suggest they leave to adventure. They were on their way to Hallownest together when Nola died, and Cloth wanted to at least finish the journey for her.

She knows how to sew specifically because she picked Cloth as her name and what kind of Cloth can’t sew?

Tiso (& ants) -

Ok so to me ant queens are definitely higher beings. Their society works similar to actual ants in that the queen lays all the eggs and reproductives go off to start new colonies. Workers are her followers and very much not higher beings themselves.

He made basically a whole new identity after he left the colony (not in small part because leaving the colony meant being able to transition), doubtful anyone he knew back then would recognize him now

He’s absolutely horrible with geo nobody let this man touch money

Anyways to me Hallownest is inside a mountain with dirtmouth in a crater at the top. The wastes are the sides of the mountain.

[ostebee]

GUYS GUYS GUYS I WAS LIKE IN FIVE BOSSES FROM ABS RAD!!!!

It was fucking HORRENDOUS I WAS FUCKING NERVOUS AND I'M SHAKING BECAUSE I DIED TO MARKOTH and that's my day so far. IT WAS FUCKING AAAAAAAA BECAUSE I FORGOT ABOUT SENTINEL AND SHE WAS LIKE AFTER SLY, I HAVEN'T ENOUGH MASKS FOR HER AND ALSO WINGED NOSK WAS LIKE

I completely buried my hopes for this run, I thought I'll die right here BUT DAMN. Markoth was the one who killed me. Now there's only the shittiest options like him, Zote and Failed Champ. NKG and PV I know just so much better so I'm more chill about them.

[thehatmenace]

the pantheons in hollow knight aren't that hard until you get to the unique bosses that you haven't fought yet and then you die to fucking winged nosk

[fungal-wasted]

Fuck it I wanna do a poll tournament on bosses but based on their *Lore*, not their gameplay.

The point is to focus on bosses... but if we can't make a good number for brackets we can add non-bosses such as Quirrel, Cloth or Tiso.

Anyways. I'm gonna make a list below the cut with every entry for the tournament.

EDiIT: I have decided on a final list. I will make the brackets later today and announce as soon as it is possible to vote.

I counted every "boss" starting from the ones in p5 (42) But then realized that technically a few of them are just stronger variants of the same people (Crystal Guardian, False Knight, Dung Defender, Hornet...) so making two entries for them wouldn't make sense and a few others could be considered slightly different in lore but idk if enough to have two entries, Grimm vs. NKG, Nosk vs. Winged Nosk, while others.... have very little lore attached to them, such as Gruz Mother, MMC, or Brooding Mawlek. I am trying to make the list fit in multiples of 4.

EDIT: the list below is the final one I think I can fit 32 entries this way.

False Knight

Hornet

Gorb

Dung Defender

Oro and Mato

Xero

Soul Master

Oblobble

Tiso

Mantis Lords

Marmu

Flukemarm

Nosk

Broken Vessel

Sheo

Hive Knight

Elder Hu

The Collector

God Tamer

Troupe Master Grimm

Uumuu

Quirrel

Galien

Grey Prince Zote

Sly

Traitor Lord

Cloth

No Eyes

Watcher Knight

Markoth

The Hollow Knight

The Radiance

Possible additions:

Cloth (honorary entry due to her help against Traitor Lord)

Quirrel (honorary entry due to his help against Uumuu)

Tiso (honorary entry due to his presence in the Pantheon of Hallownest)

Splitting up Oro and Mato and making them separate entries (adds 1 to the total number of entries)

Putting all Nailmaster brothers in the same entry (reduces 1 to the total number of entries)

Remove Crystal Guardian for having little lore

[newnevermind-sanity]

Got to Winged Nosk. Immediately died, but that's unlocked now at least

and yeah being able to play different more energetic music is helping a lot. Still fucking hate Uumuu though

[midgemash]

im having a time

[kingofdinosaurs]

feeling the duality of gamer

[payasita]

i may have had my weekly vodka ginger beer but ive been thinking a lot about this one video that posited that godhome just pits you against idealized/full potential versions of bosses 

what strikes me about that premise is how it’s feasible that these versions of the bosses may not necessarily have to exist? like -you never encounter nosk w/ wings in the base game

-your fight with Sheo is against an artist, and not a nailmaster. which one could argue would be where he considers his full potential to be 

-the sisters of battle, all at once, displaying skill and teamwork at peak performance in a way you dont see in the meat-space (reality) 

-markoth being as mean to you as is physically fucking possible given limitless opportunity

so, all of this in mind, what does that say about your fight against the hollow knight themself? consider how they’re only ever called “the vessel” and never the “Pure vessel” by either of their parents, or at all in the base game 

if this theory about godhome holds any credence, then it would stand to reason that the Pure Vessel isn’t what thk was before their sealing. being Pure was just the ideal. they were never pure, and so this version of them never existed 

which, i think, might probably also be why you can’t dream nail them. the “ideal” version of thk wouldn’t have any dreams to share, huh

[hkfuckabilityranking]

Official Hollow Knight Boss Fuckability Ranking

Grey Prince Zote (#31) The Ultimate incel. This guy is so obsessed with himself that he can’t comprehend anyone else having a personality. He pounds you for one minute without lube, comes, and immediately falls asleep. I cannot describe how little I want to fuck him. 

Galien (#30) This man is not to be trusted. You know he’d open the door for you to be “chivalrous,” complain about feminists, and say you owe him sex because he paid for dinner. 

Traitor Lord (#29) I don’t know how else to put it— this man is a sexist homophobe. He was so threatened by his own sisters’ authority that he went and sucked on some toxic orange goo to be better than them. This man is an incel. 

The Collector (#28) Look, normally I’d be into a black amorphous blob, but the man is Obsessed with grubs. I don’t want to fuck something that likes kidnapping kids. 

Gorb (#27) Classic example of ‘being intelligent doesn’t mean you’re interesting.’ Obsessed with himself. Would Not treat me right. 

Flukemarm (#26) Look at all those sexy, sexy hol— nope, I can’t do it. Maybe some people want to fuck those holes, but I’m still stuck on her living in the sewers. 

Massive Moss Charger (#25) This is. A Bush. I do not want to fuck a bush. 

Nosk (#24) Would eat me and not in the sexy way (unless you’re into vore). Nice legs though. 

Winged Nosk (#23) Every benefit and drawback as Nosk, except that it has wings, which gives it a slight edge. 

Dung Defender (#22) A nice guy, but he’s senile and bathes in literal shit. Sorry dude, but you’re not fuckable. 

Elder Hu (#21) Sorry folks, I don’t have an old guy kink. Even if he’ll literally smash me to bits, that doesn’t make up for his age. 

White Defender (#20) Dung Defender, but before his fall. Decent combatant, devoted to his friends, but you know he’s just going to end up rolling in shit. 

Vengefly King (#19) Looks like he’d be hard to kiss, but he’s a literal king AND he can hold you up while he fucks you on the ceiling. Unfortunately, he’s emotionally unavailable. How can I tell? I just Know. 

Enraged Guardian (#18) Same benefits and drawbacks of the crystal guardian, he’s just faster 

Crystal Guardian (#17) Slow, screams a lot, but decent color sense. 

Soul Master (#16) Powerful, can fly, can do magic. Unfortunately, he’s obsessed with power and won’t spend enough time on me. He’ll lock himself away in his study instead of locking me to the bed. 

Markoth (#15) Classic shield, skilled at magic, nice cape, good color scene. Unfortunately, he likes to make you follow him around, and that’s not sexy. 

Brooding Mawlek (#14) Social, loving, with an orange goo hot tub on top of its head? It might not be the most fuckable, but it’s a decent hookup 

Uumuu (#13) Normally, I’d be down for tentacles. Unfortunately, with uwu there’s nothing TO fuck— the tentacles are too short. Electricity is Very sexy though

Soul Warrior (#12) Look at him— classy, althetic, has a sword. It’s everything I look for in a dinner date and hookup. 

False Knight (#11) Big. Strong. That’s a bear right there. Also, the armor? Very sexy. -2 points because he doesn’t fill out his armor. 

God Tamer (#10) This lady loves her pet, and I can respect that. Unfortunately, she’s also not an incredible fighter. Nothing special, nothing terrible. 

Xero (#9) Now THIS is a man with swords. Two swords? Four swords? Six swords? He has it all. Not to mention his impeccable fashion sense. I’d trust this man to rail me right. 

Watcher Knights (#8) Look, I like a good gangbang as much as the next person, and there are eight of these fellows. Not so sure about the whole roly-poly aspect, but so long as there’s at least two of them focused on me, I’m into it 

Nailmasters Oro and Mato (#7) Look, these guys are absolute units. They’re combat masters, thick as hell, AND there’s two of them. Hell yeah. 

Hive Knight (#6) Cute, devoted, and master of an army. What’s NOT to like? This guy would take you home, make you dinner, and give you oral until you scream. He’s a sweetheart! Unfortunately, he has nothing visually to make him sexier than some of the other characters. 

Hornet (#5) Bicon. Has a sword. Can and Will step on me. What’s not to love? (except her flighty tendencies). She’d fuck me and run, but my god what a fucking it would be. 

Mantis Lords (#4) These are powerful women. They’re competent politicians, incredible warriors, and have some gorgeous horns to boot. Not to mention that there’s THREE of them. These women would take care of me. I’m talking chained to the bed and fucked until I can’t even think. 

The Hollow Knight (#3) This one has it all. Long legs, combat capabilities, horns, a sword, AND a bondage kink. The hk would make love to me, and they’d make love to me WELL 

Grimm (#2) Okay. Okay. This man? This man right here? This is a goth KING. He’s the lord of nightmares, the keeper of the heart, AND he wants to coparent. He’s lithe, slender, an incredible opponent, and he runs his own business. I can’t describe how much I want to peg him. 

Radiance (#1) This woman is a literal Goddess. This woman saw what she loved, and became it. And when an invader came into her land and tried to wipe her out, she destroyed his kingdom. She is beautiful, she is powerful, and I love her more than anything. I would worship the floor beneath her feet, but she’s so powerful she doesn’t even stand on the floor. If she loved me, she would peg me, and I can’t imagine anything sexier than that.

[hollowknightheadcanons]

My opinions?

Well personally I think nosks arent from hallownest but are invasive predators that are notorious for their ability to mimic.

They way that nosk begins the fight by expanding to its true form from the lookalike of ghost makes me think that they can hinge all of their limbs and compress themselves to mimic smaller creatures

They definitely do what spiders do and drink the dissolved insides of their prey and leave them as empty shells (as seen in the nosk arena)

I personally like to believe that there are many forms of nosk such as the basic nosk, winged nosk but also a smaller more nimble nosk that could ambush its prey or a bigger armoured nosk that would be better in direct combat

I think nosks make small clicking noises while stalking prey to unease them so they might trust the mimicking more

Nosk resin is used to create most masks of hallownest (I do believe I was the anon to say nosks made their mimic masks with bodily resin. I think I was on anon?)

And finally some nosks are know to mimic normal creatures instead of loved ones to attract hunters

For the last bit: The Hunter: o cool a grub. delicious- woah what the fuck this isn’t a grub.

Also Im so sorry but the first thing I thought of with the different types of Nosks was the DK Rap with different nosk types. The second was the different species of headcrabs! Nosk, Fast Nosk, Armored Nosk, Poison Nosk, Lightning Nosk. Etc.

[betawooper]

winged nosk, fucking bitch

[toriz0]

Hollow Knight Spoilers the presence of Hornet as an important figure to the Knight (as indicated by Winged Nosk using her as bait) means ultimately the Knight would fail as a vessel because he can think and feel fondly upon his sister meaning in the sealed siblings ending Elderbug will die because Hornet is the only dreamer left but maybe not because she'll die because the black egg will sap her power anyways the world's fucked in every ending except dream no more and the flower one

[vynnyal]

dumping my random thoughts, comic ideas, and wildly misinformed theories abt hk onto my victims: part 2!!! p clear what I was doing in some of these, lmao

btw if you have any input im very, super interested please feel free 2 share

"So who's the mother?" Grimm: "Mother? No, there was no mother." "Then how--?" grimm: "Mitosis, obviously." Cut to two panels of the person dissociating over what they imagine the process to be.

FUCKIN... ASEXUAL PRIDE GRIMM

Hornet yelling shaw instead of yeet or koby.

Hornet yelling git gud at inappropriate times in place of like... Actual Advice. Alt: jdghghf or when she gets nervous, as a distraction.

Her thinking of something cool to say while waiting outside the black egg temple. alt: her thinking so hard she almost misses her cue, making her flub; aka the reason she says somn more like "geddun" in-game. alt alt: thk and ghost sharing a blank look (mid-battle) and thinking "she flubbed" in disbelief.

Hornet and something with the "spidersilk paper" lemm mentioned, maybe using it to """document""" her day when she has time to spare. She insists it's not a diary, so don't even try.

Hornet grieving the little weavers.

(speedrun) "You wanna fight? Huh? Huh? Well I dont, bye"

Zote "I only saved you for the money" joke.

Quirrel pretending not to understand modern slang.

Quirrel... Dad jokes... Holy shit

FUCKIN... DAD BOD???

conifer appearing in increasingly absurd locations.

Quirrel playfully commenting on the uh... "information"... The tablets display. alt: he can actually read it just fine, but is coy abt telling ghost what it says.

rather than just appearing, Quirrel and ghost walk through the archives together, the mood bittersweet.

Hollow knight passing the time in the black egg lightheartedly.

Wyrm and root trying to argue but the height difference just makes them both laugh.

ghost appearing before Root, expectant, only for them to slowly realize she doesn't actually... care about them. or any of the vessels, really. she expects them to do their duty, her claims of shame apparently not deterring her away from the fate they were created for. alt: she acts like that not out of any kind of malevolence, but out of pure ignorance. It doesn't occur to her how much it costs the little vessels... Or that they even have anything to lose, at all.

Cut to the future after the bad end, as yet another fragile vessel appears before the queen, far too late to save anyone now.

Godmaster traitor lord battle, ghost walks in looking very nervous. Traitor looks smug, asking if they're afraid (of him), only for the next panel to show ghost sweating profusely as they have Fragile Flower Flashbacks. alt, they're imagining/being pressured by the ghost girlfriends glaring at them/wailing "WAIIII" in tendem.

Ghost asks how thk got so big, only for them to reveal their body is still the same size, and they're just controlling a big suit of armor like false knight. Jdbfjfgjr

its been pointed out the bee knight doesnt... actually have any wings to buzz with. the noises are entirely vocalized. The reason buzzy baby makes buzz noises is because he felt left out when he was a kid; the queen, seeking to comfort him, explains how he can create his very own buzz sounds using an alternative method, instead. Despite his battle prowess, his mind never matured, continuing up to his very last moments to make the habitual noises of his childhood.

(godmaster) having soul left over and fuckin SCREAMING in the faces of the nail masters just before the bench.

Defeating bee boy by one mask, relaxing for a sec, before realizing the bees are stILL COMING ACTUALLY,,,,

The aftermath of the sheo fight, ghost just DRIPPING with rainbow-colored paint.

ze'mer and her lover meeting in their dreams.

flower lesbos hanging out with the thorn husbos (nailmaster/sheo hfshh)

Team cherry hid the gays behind some of the hardest missions because, let's be honest, no homophobe would put that much effort into anything.

Quirrel saying "I've only had ghost for a day, but if anything happened to them I'd -" Cuts to ghost, shade over their body Quirrel: "..."

Messing with the hot springs... geysers? Idk 3 heads things. whats in there? How were they made? By the ancient civilization, maybe pale king? alt: finding quirrel relaxing casually inside one of the eyesockets instead of in the spring, lmao.

"I'd sure like to be a shade, like heck- they can fly, they can do that weird teleport thing, and they have-", turns to it, "- ALL MY MONEY!!!"

Ngl I still don't fully understand the relationship between ghost, their shell, and their shade, and should prolly read up before blabbing, but what is it that separates ghost's body from their shade? Or their shade from ghost, themself? We see in the dnm ending they can very much "control" their shade, as they voluntarily rip off their shell to release it. Or... Oh shit am I dumb? Did ghost kill themselves right then? Oh fuck did ghost die to let their shade kill the radience. Please tell me I'm wrong I'm really upset now yfjfihrufhgi

Gonna be honest the previous one was me trying to contextualize the concept of ghost being able to fly like shades do but now I'm just thinking abt ghost, fuck. Still. Imagine ghost n thk just, like, hovering towards people with their funky tentacle legs. Or better, no tentacles, they can just Do That. Establish your dominance, little vessels.

Ghost doing the superman "ripping off your shirt to shift into super-mode" thing except they just tear apart their shell. Alt: hornet: "that looks painful"

Broken vessel was stuck. Out of all the dead vessels we see- the one in greenpath, those hung in nosk's den, the floor of the abyss, even ghost themself- not one retained their body after death. Except, that is, for broken vessel. Something, somehow, was anchoring their shade to their shattered shell and keeping it there, unable to seep away and reunite with their siblings below. They weren't just another corpse. That was ghost's sibling.

Just what is a vessel's coak? From what I've seen of the sprites, it's clearly attached to their shells; some in nosk's den are even hung from them, with their shells dangling below it. It seems biological- by which I mean, not some sort of clothing or ambiguously god-based substance- which makes its selective decay rather odd. On one hand, in greenpath, nosk's den, and some specific corpses within the abyss, their cloaks have stayed firmly attached. On the other, we have countless shells left naked all over the place- even ghost's shell is like this. Of course we have to keep in mind ari prolly just didn't wanna animate that, but that's no fun. I don't really have a prompt or theory here, as nothing I come up with quite fits the bill... Just more of a thinkpiece, I suppose.

Nyooming past quirrel at blue lake, freeze frame of ghost and q sharing a startled look.

Ghost distracting sheo by making him gush over his artwork. alt, "winning" the battle by showing him something they made, and/or just having a paint-off. Ghost wins no matter what, obviously.

Ohhh... Ghost learning to express themselves through art...

Lurien secretly has multiple eyes, fit neatly in the one socket.

Appreciating the genius of the mimic grub room (the real grub's location is hard-coded. im still mad)

Hearing Hornet say "get down" instead of "git gud" and the connotations of that. alt: hearing "git gud" when she's actually saying "get down", being offended or otherwise reacting to that, before being promptly smacked in the face by whatever she was warning them abt.

Hornet doing weird, obscure spider things.

Ghost: WHAT is THAT?? uumuu: uumuu emoji face

Where does the shade get its sword? Is it a void-sword? Did they scavange it? Did they make it???

The actual guttural horror of falling into the centipedes in deepnest.

The irony of feeling incredibly sad and hurt at thk's pain, but absolute bloodlust for pure knight.

What was written upon the journal found with the corpse in ash at hollownest’s edge. Alt: h. how did ash even get up there.

[trobbio-silksong]

Do share abt your nosk variants 👀

Ok so theory is if a nosk (as in yes i think there's multiple) chills out in a place long enough they take those characteristics 

Best example? Ash Nosk (i meed a better nickname). Pale because all the ash thats everywhere. Also has vine/root thing going on bc roots

Well theyre like a angler fish web spider mix. they do That. Also i think theyre a obligate canivore bc deepnest doesnt really have a buncha plants ('cept mushrooms but knowing deepnest they aint edible)

Ash nosk, on the other hand, is a ambush predator!! Usually poses as a weak boofly, or more rarely, a colossuem fool, and yeets themself out at whatever falls for it at 200 mile per hour. Also became part scavenger after the Colosseum was established (said colosseum keeps trying to capture them but. That aint it, sticks). They don't have much stanima, though. Also that one in particular that i drew likes the hive bc bees occasionally feed it excess honey from time to time

Both garden variety nosks are really similar in that theyre omnivores and foragers and usually covered in plantlife but the unn-touched nosk is much smaller than the average nosk and the queen's root nosk is much bigger than the average nosk.

Unn touched nosks are more of the types to run and hide, and also!!! The mosskin have sorta.... 'partnered up' with some, so to speak. Fun fact i wanted to call them acid-washed nosk but because jeans dont exist in hallow nest im not gonna do that. Point of that fun fact is that they have resistance to acid!!! Also theyre a fun mottled greenish color so there's that too

Queen's root nosks can and will kick the shit out of you if you bother them, or whatever flock of mossflies they protect. Their spines have become a lot smaller, and theyre typically covered in moss and other small plants! Also lighter and slightly greener than deepnest nosk. Anywho theyve got like. A bit of a protective/territorial instinct and while theyre pretty chill theyll fuck you up if you like. Mess shit up. They Don't Care For the traitor mantises, for this reason

Uhhhh ok so the thing w ash nosk's wings is that they're usually too heavy to actually fly with said wings. Theyre normally used to glide around chasms, and for a extra mid-air boost when grabbing prey (like asphids!)

They only time they get light enough to fly is when they're starving. like, really super bad ultra starving. Anyways if you see an ash nosk flying towards you you've been slated straight up for for death

Also like. A lil tidbit. The major difference between a actual hurt boofly and a ash nosk pretending to be a hurt boofly is if the boofly seems to be surrounded by odd looking roots. Of course, this being kingdom's edge, that doesnt really super help, but its something

Or you could like. Throw a rock at it. Ash nosk will run away, or you'll just have a mildly annoyed to actually angry boofly on your hands. Its a role of the dice, really

That's all ive got rn! But! If you wanna ask more you should. Get the ol' brain rollin