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"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die." H. P. Lovecraft, from The Call of Cthulhu
Instead of doing another redesign, I decided to extend on my own AU with the final form of the Nightmare King. This is the Nightmare God, the most powerful form of the Nightmare King. Basically in my AU, the Nightmare King consumes the Void after the Knight defeats him in the dream realm. Having no power left to take on his mortal Grimm form, He crawls his way to safety in the Ancient Basin, eventually falling down into the Abyss, where he becomes one with the Void. The nightmare flames of his form fused with the Void, giving him limitless power.
Like the Radiance and the Pale King, the Nightmare God is a Higher Being, almost the same as a Pale Being. But instead of being a Pale Being, the Nightmare God is an Infernal Being, a creature born of flames, void, and sin. They cannot die, but in exchange for their immortality, they lose their mind. Much like the Vessels, Infernal Beings have no true will, other than their innate hunger for the souls of bugs and the scarlet nightmare flames.
I quite like writing my own lore! It gives me the opportunity to experiment with designs and characters that already exist. I feel as if my series of redesigns have improved how I approach character designs.
But anyways-
I'm hoping to add to my lore as I design more characters!
#art#artists on tumblr#sketch#hollow knight#hollow knight au#the nightmare king#hk nightmare king grimm#nightmare king grimm#hk void#hk voidheart#the nightmare god
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made the kingsoul x voidheart charm into an ACTUAL CHARM!! and its also double sided!!!!
#my art#acrylic charms#charms#hollow knight#hk#hk art#hk fanart#kingsoul#voidheart#pale king#hollow knight fan art#hornet#silksong#path of pain#white fragment#hollow knight ghost
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Hey I'm here to gove an updt on my HK playthrough :)
Got Voidheart
Fought Hollow
Beat Hollow
Fought Radiance
Haven't beat Radiance
Beat The Collector
Got Hiveblood
Got Grubberfly's elegy
Haven't beaten Grimm but got him to phase 2
Ayyy, nice!! Congrats on your progress!! And yeah, I'd recommend saving the Radiance for later. Might as well be as powered up as you possibly can be before taking her on! (But still, for the future, Abyss Shriek is THE Radiance Killer)
Since you've gotten (at least what I consider to be) the most annoying Pale Ore to get ((the Grubfather reward)), I assume you've got the Pure Nail now too?
Anyway, Troupe Master Grimm!
I'll put it under a cut, since the post is fairly long.
So. The funny thing about Grimm is that I've actually gotten so used to fighting Nightmare King Grimm and his attack patterns that when I fight regular Grimm, it. Looks pretty pathetic lmao
Still, I'll offer what tips I can!
Back when I first started fighting NKG, I used a pretty much exclusively nail-based playstyle for him. Normally I'm a very big advocate for using spells because they're Great, but for him? SOUL was used pretty much exclusively for healing during his staggers. Nowadays I do use spells during his fight, but since you're trying to win for the first time and it's for his sidequest? A nail-based build might be worth considering!
Mind you, that's Nightmare King Grimm. Because Troupe Master Grimm is a lot slower, there are probably more opportunities to sneak in some spell attacks. But, even so, your Charm Notches are limited! Especially due to Grimmchild completely wasting two of them. So, this is a very rare occurrence where I'd say Shaman Stone might not be worth equipping!
Instead, focus on Nail-based Charms! Quickslash is probably the one I'd recommend the most (and thus Steady Body would be a good choice as well, since those two pair great together). Fragile/Unbreakable Strength is, of course, amazing, but if you haven't been able to make it Unbreakable yet, then I totally understand not wanting to use it.
Grimm staggers after you've done 14 hits! And while he's staggered is the best time to heal. Assuming you have the SOUL for it, I believe you should be able to get at least two masks healed during his stagger, maybe even three. I honestly wouldn't even bother attacking him while he's staggered unless you don't need to heal (or don't have the SOUL for it), since you can only deal a maximum of 50 damage to him while he's in that state. And, sidenote, at least for NKG, I find that his first stagger and his first Pufferfish attack normally happen at around the same time! Not sure if the same is true for Troupe Master Grimm though.
Speaking of the Pufferfish, that happens a total of three times, specifically at each time he loses a quarter of his max health (i.e., 75% left, 50%, and 25%). You can use that knowledge to track how far you are in the fight!
As for evading that attack, it's... Mostly a matter of practice, I think. Stick to the far side of the battlefield, and avoid using the Monarch Wings as much as possible. You can use the Shade Cloak to dodge through the fireballs if you're really in a bad spot, but it's risky and might just make you collide with the next ball. I think avoiding damage using Descending Dark's invincibility frames should be a viable option, though? At least for Troupe Master Grimm anyway.
For Troupe Master Grimm, I think his floor spikes attack might be slow enough for you to safely get one heal in? But I'm not 100% certain. That said, if he happens to be close to you when he uses that attack, it's also the prime time to get a ton of damage in on him.
His lunge attack from the ceiling to the floor: thanks to Nightmare King Grimm, my default response to this attack is to use Descending Dark and its iframes. It's not as necessary to do that for Troupe Master Grimm, but it does still work!
His uppercut attack from the floor to the ceiling, with the falling fireballs afterward: dash through him with Shade Cloak when he dashes forward, then walk toward Grimm. You don't want to get under him, since a fireball drops there, but right next to him is a safe spot. ...At least, again, that's what I do for NKG, but I believe Troupe Master Grimm works the same way.
Fire bats: ...This is the attack I constantly take unnecessary damage on now because I'm used to NKG's version of it lmao. I no longer remember what I used to do to avoid it, but it might have been Jump, Double Jump, Shade Cloak? But I'm not certain.
If you're good at dodging the Pufferfish attack, then it might be worth getting that extra damage in at the start of the fight by hitting him while he bows to you (especially if you have Quickslash). Of course, this also comes at the cost of being a Horrible, Rude, Disrespectful opponent, but! Hey, whatever it takes to win, right? Alternatively, I think you should also have enough time to Dream Nail him while he bows (which doesn't bother him) and allow you to start the fight with a bit of extra SOUL
#ask#chaos-ace#gameplay ask#boss fight ask#troupe master grimm#. yeah sure i'll put this one in the main tag#hollow knight
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@radiance1 SO the ambiance of hk title screens got to me lifeblood/classic - laying down in the rain. floating along a river, holding a flower. peaceful and alarming at the same time godmaster - some statues have mariana's essence/likeness. let's say someone happens to walk in on her connecting with the statue (probably ase). she's literally glowing- radiating bright light. her hair almost looks white with golden tips, as her form is ascending to the point of that which you cannot look upon and survive- a god. there's an overwhelming pressure that pours out the moment he opens the door, forcing most to kneel, as while it was similar to theirs, it was more like... demanding respect and worship. something about it, about her, was regal now. he can hear the shimmering noise even before opening the door, the faint, almost wind-chime sound. it grows quite loud when the door is opened. it isn't meditation, but it isn't praying, either- she's somewhere in between the two 52 precepts - no. i won't be touching on the achievable ones either- eternal ordeal's the only one i have so far voidheart - kneeling in the void, abyss wrapped around her. frail, drained, hopeless. there was no light to speak of. her eyes were dull. they may have to seek out dusek to enter and retrieve their poor, beloved mariana before it's too late- assuming alaric doesn't just do it himself. she's dying. it is her opposite, after all. she's bound to be consumed sooner or later. hidden dreams - almost shimmering, but reminiscent of a dreamcatcher. hital can see the glow, after having mariana deposit part of herself in him to save his life, though everyone can hear the shimmer, it's just louder for him. he can hear her whisper for him to pick it up. in the version where she's dead, it seems to be his way to rebuild her. by the time she no longer has the strength to speak to him, he knows the drill grimm troupe - she kneels, surrounded by flames. she's accepted her fate. might as will bring out the candelabra for one last show. HJIEOKFJNHUJOISEK you can tell which one i liked best
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You're generally incredibly lgbtq+ friendly, so I have to ask, why is it that you consistently misgender the vessels?
I promise I'm asking in good faith. You trust me, don't you? I'm random anonymous person on tumblr, your most trusted confidant!
Very good question! And unfortunately with a good question the answer is a little complicated. But I'll do my best to try and explain Now I'm amusing that you're talking about how the Vessels are non-binary, if it's not, then I'm not sure what you mean. And if that's the case it's because I did not know I was misgendering them and legitimately do not know what you mean lmao But assuming the former is true. The answer is, because, at some point, I couldn't tell you when, but HKR became a different story then Hollow Knight. And quite a bit of that story is about the Dude Currently Haunting The Narrative, The Pale King In HK proper, The Pale King was *correct* about what he was doing. Moral implications aside, he did create void vessels that could trap or even destroy the radiance, he was trying to save his kingdom, no strings or frills or secret plots. That's what he was doing. The vessels are nb, because they are Void. They Were Built For A Job kind of like a machine. The Pale King just chose the wrong one. When The Hollow Knight started feeling, even if it was a little bit of love for his father, the machine broke. Despite it all, he was a good enough father that one of his kids loved him, and thus into downfall, and horrible tragedy. The Main Character Vessel, especially after turning the kings soul into the voidheart and being able to capture the Voids essence, was proof that the plan did, actually, work, it just took some more time. In HKR the pale king, spoilers, is kind of a Lying Bastard who is mostly interested in continuing his hegemony at any cost. He created children who he beveled were empty vessels that he could put anything into, that would continue to grow his empire. Charlie is not that. He chose a name and a gender for himself (and did for his compatriots too, even if they didn't entirely like it.) He was a person even if the world saw him, and constantly told him that he was a tool for his father's plans. (Big reason I'm lgbtqia+ positive is because I'm queer as shit myself, and so I got daddy issues that go STRAIGHT into the fanfic lmaooooo). when he got out of that he met several men that were kind, and caring, and honorable and he wanted to emulate them. Hornet did the very same thing except there were women around her, and that's who she felt most conformable identifying as. They're both extremely similar in that regard, but, like the siblings they are, took very different roads to the same destination. That's why I voice both of them! As for everyone else essentially immediately assuming Charlie and the rest of the vessels are male, That one is easy. Hallownest is a patriarchal society that used to be a matriarchal one, is bordered by matriarchal societies, many that it has subsumed into itself, and is, even after it's death, trying to assert cultural dominance. You know how it is. This sort of didn't really come up as a thing in the game, because the game wasn't terribly interested in that aspect of it's world and didn't really need to be. I'm just a freak about that sorta thing. So, I guess the main answer is, due to the theming of these two stories and how I sorta divested from cannon somewhere along the way The Knight is Non-bianry Charlie is not Now, does that mean that the other vessels might've been non-binary if they were given the same opportunities as charlie?, and charlie might be jumping the gun a little by just gendering them all as male? Yeah. But he's not the brightest bulb in the box. Or even thinking about any of this consciously. The only one who is, is Hornet. And she's only thinking about it in, like, an early 2000s girl power sort of way.
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now i am. Extremely bored
i dont wanna play hollow knight cause i already did white palace, traitor lord, white lady, kingsoul, voidheart, saved cloth, unlocked NKG, etc
and i feel like thats enough for today so i dunno
do you want me to draw bob in hk form
cause i will if you want im just extremely bored and dunno what to do
[You can draw Bob if you want, tbh I'm just watching a show if you want we could rp or smth]
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"would you like a cup of vessels on the side?"
#hk#hollow knight#hk spoilers#the abyss#hk sibling#hk vessel#hk void#voidheart#tea#hk fanart#fanart#digital art#illustration#doodles#yeah :)#pinky's gallery
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I decided to make a Hollow Knight oc because I wanted to.
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Redesigned human-ish Knight!
#hollow knight#little ghost#the knight#hk gijinka#human!ghost#I need to go back and change all my ghost tags to knight...#bee vessel au#copying the old versions tags to say that the knight doesn’t have wings or voidheart yet but they fit the ~aesthetic~ so I included them :3
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oh god oh fuck... i got the sealed siblings ending
#shut up dave#I FORGOT HORNET CAME IN#I WAS GOING TO DEFEAT THE HOLLOW KNIGHT TO GET THE ACHIEVEMENT THEN DO THE RADIANCE FIGHT#hk#i forget she shows up if you have the voidheart D:
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the most chilling part of HK for me really was that climb up out of the abyss in the dream from when you dreamnail The Egg. just, the utter darkness, and the music, and the vessel corpses falling as you climb past them, and the king's horrific monologue over it all, and the very end with that scene at the top, where ghost's and hollow's gazes meet for a single second. the whole thing wreaked havoc on my emotions it was unbelievably good and i still think about it
#and then you get voidheart after !!! just. ugh#blog chatter#hk chatter#there's so many fantastic moments but that one.... hoo boy
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I’m sorry everyone
#watching my friend play through white palace to finally get kingsoul#hollow knight#hk#silksong#kingsoul#voidheart#silksong when
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I remember that the shade will look over the lake without voidheart
#hollow knight#hk shade#lake of unn#it's just a neat fact.. i think it is without voidheart that it will do this?#i be fixating on the shade it seems#voidart
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UH
So, I didn't really find any prompts I wanted to work with for art october so I made some myself based on charms/charm sets!
Here's to also pulling through the month because I made these myself and it would be silly if I don't (a little bit of self pressure shouldn't hurt haha...) 🤞
Will be tagging these as #hk artober '22
List of the prompts with the charms they're based on under the cut
Wayward Compass: DIRECTION
Gathering Swarm: COLLECTION
Starwart Shell: COWER
Soul Catcher, Shaman Stone, Soul Eater: LIFEFORCE
Dashmanster: SWIFT
Sprintmaster: TIME
Grubsong, Grubberfly Elegy: HOME
Unbreakable Heart/Greed/Strength: PRICE
Spell Twister: DRAINED
Steady Body: STURDY
Heavy Blow: ESCAPE
Quick Slash: DAMAGE
Long Nail: REACH
Mark of Pride: STAND
Fury of the Fallen: MORTAL
Thorns of Agony: SPIKE
Baldur Shell: PROTECT
Flukenest: OFFSPRING
Defender’s Crest: HEROES
Glowing Womb: OUTNUMBERED
Quick/Deep Focus: CRYSTALIZE
Lifeblood Heart/Core, Joni’s Blessing: TABOO
Hiveblood: EVERLASTING
Spore Shroom: GROWTH
Sharp Shadow: DEEP
Shape of Unn: ADAPT
Nailmaster’s Glory: MENTOR
Weaversong: TRADITION
Dream Weilder/Dreamshield: PAST
Grimmchild/Carefree Melody: COMPANION
Kingsoul/Voidheart: UNITY
The meme version had:
Heavy Blow: USELESS Flukenest: BROKEN
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The Abyss as an area in hollow knight--with the black and white colour scheme, the general bleakness of the entire area, the empty yet oppressive atmosphere, and the lighthouse--reminds me of both of playdead’s games
#with lighthouse shining the beam of white light on the lake so u can swim across...i feel like playing limbo while swimming across#and then the blue lifeblood area has this ambient music identical to ones from either inside of limbo. or both#the 'u have discovered something magical/disturbing in this bleak world' music#or the 'u have entered a very difficult platforming area of the game. there r 87 ways u can die from ur way from point a to point b' music#it def sounds identical to the turbine tank section in 'inside' (a section i havent gotten to cause i still need to finish playing inside)#im going down the abyss one..last...time. to transform kingsoul into voidheart and THEN i will be ready for the final boss fight(s)#but not before i get my last soul vessel fragment and dliver the delicate flower--which i have broken twice already cause im an idiot#that area is so depressing. yet...i love#yolanda talks#i should probably put this under read more since i have been putting hk blogging under read mores lately#but whatever
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super tardy 2 the lore party coz of timezones but i love seeing hk as like, the story of the self determination of a neglected child (coz im projecting LMFAOO) like the hunter mentions all that shit about the aspid mothers using their children to hunt for them and theres parallels to how pk used his own children as tools and means 2 an end and u literally get the best ending (in the base game) by chucking out the kingsoul 4 the voidheart by understanding ur past and making peace with what u are and what happened to u and uniting with ur siblings who were also neglected like my brain super duper picked up on the dehumanization of the vessels so its a massive FUCK YOU to pk for the knight 2 literally carve their own path independent of the one chosen 4 them and thru that, grow and heal
i’ve sometimes compared hk to a classic fairytale/coming of age story bc of the implied age of the knight and how they’re going through the process of like...growing up throughout the game, forging their own path and breaking out of what their parents imposed on them and making peace with the family they loved and who loved them, that they were forcibly parted from, so like
this reading is super valid imo. sometimes funny gothic bug game says ‘actually fuck your parents, you dont have to do what they want and its better for you if you do, and you CAN be better than them and heal from what they did to you without having to be fair about it’
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