#hollow knight godmaster

[darnudarkaa]

[vellichorom]

( via @maryssecretblog )

cracks my knuckles so hard i break my hands; ohh beloved mary i've been sitting on a mountain of bitterness since i first picked up hollow knight in 2020, & i'm sure i've said a couple of these things on main before but i'm laying them out again Right Now

the hollow knight fandom is fucking HORRIBLE about godseeker & i will never not be upset about it;

for being the gateway manifest to the game's infamous boss rush DLC that feeds us a little extra lore, leads to the ending most favor & introduces THE SHADE LORD - everyone's FAVORITE manifestation of the void & evolution of the protagonist... she is so painfully overlooked,

& if she's not painfully overlooked, she is disgustingly sexualized; her glorification of abuse by the hands of a god bastardized & taken to paint her as a pervert ( WHICH IS ESPECIALLY ABHORRENT if you stand with the idea that the protagonist is likely Not an Adult & the shade lord is undoubtedly The Protagonist ), her role twisted & simplified to be the shade lord's / the knight's bitch or wife or someone it needs to avoid because she's some kind of predator;

& if she's not sexualized or used as ship fodder, then she is treated as a horrible BITCH who deserves her death & every bit OF abuse one can fling at her because she dared not be nice to The Protagonist - nevermind that plenty of other characters can do the same or straight up KILL THEM & they're seen as fandom favorites ( see; Tiso, The Pale King, Hornet, fucking Everyone in the game ) & nevermind the fact that The Protag also invaded her mind without permission & started fucking around ( not that i'm saying it deserves to be bashed for it but you know. it did walk into the ass kicking arena (( the godseeker / knight dynamic isn't a fault of anyone's, it's just a lot of ' you did this so now this happens ' )) )

& i'm so. sick. can we take off our jackass glasses for 5 seconds & look at her critically, i'm begging you. hollow knight fandom. i'm going to strangle someone

godseeker is a FASCINATING character, right up there with all the higher beings themselves; godseeker is a character that hails from a far off land, presumably forsaken by the gods of it to the point that it stands in perpetual ruin, having toiled & crawled her way to hallownest in search of the pale king's divine light only to be met with a KINGDOM of powerful gods. only to be MYSTERIOUSLY locked up before being able to attune until you, as the protagonist, free her. & that pretty much unleashes a domino effect that has a severe impact on what remains of the kingdom, that has a severe impact on EVERYONE'S fate including her own, depending on what you do.

you can choose to take on the remnants of the kingdom's gods, slay the one causing the plague that took them all out, & in your escape from her mind, punish & kill the one who perpetuated their legends, & EVEN end up in purgatory with her, where now YOU are the god of gods, at the cost of your freedom as well as her's - to live in glory forevermore.

but oh no, she's the whore bitch who was a little mean to you & wants daddy god to punish her.

get out of my sight you fucking worm you know nothing

[rithiathemoth]

how do I Markoth???

I have a dilemma: I'm on the last pantheon, but I have trouble with ascended Markoth, even in the Hallownest pantheon. I've fought him so many times already, he is literally one of the two gods on the board I have that are attuned anymore (everyone else is ascended and radiant except him and Abs Rad).

If anyone has any tips for me, plz let me know, I wanna finish Godmaster once and for all

[staticevent]

home of the Gods

[voldheart]

ghost LOVES fighting that idiot loves swinging its nail at things and bugs it has fun doing it. Trial of the fool, which is completely optional (only reward is the glory of being a fool and geo i guess), is canon to godhome lore, as its final boss is one of the requirements to open pantheon 3.

Godhome literally gives it the opportunity to fight all the bugs it wants over and over again with no repercussions .and even some FRIENDS!!! AND SIBLINGS!!!!! this is literal paradise to it

[lg-everything-else]

Hollow Knight Bugs 6

[oatsynalliums]

I hate colouring things so much, my pinky hurts😔

[interwovenwordsmith]

Poem about the 4 major updates: Hidden Dreams, The Grimm Troupe, Lifeblood, and Godmaster. I had a lot more freedom with this one, so it was pretty fun to make! Yet making the final stanza made me think about the Godseeker-prayer-like poems I used to make. Just a thought I had. Thanks for reading ♥️

[neokatt]

mmm hands hurt after this but woo

[stealerofthe2ndbraincell]

Is hollow knight currently my favourite game? Yes

Am I any good at it whatsoever? Fuck no.

[mistythemofth]

October 2nd: Bit of a doozy, eh?

[motheline]

Attempting Pantheon 5 every day until Silksong, day 5 and I finally got past floorless Markoth and beat Zote which is a new record! Made it to AbsRad and died because I got shaky and made a mistake but hey!

Zote and Markoth are the biggest threats to me right now- I can get through everyone else without a sweat but the moment I get to Markoth I find it so hard to concentrate and that continues to AbsRad. I can do NKG and PV perfectly fine so that's relieving but yeah.. I'm getting there!

[vellichorom]

i walk the pantheon of hell.

[errorid-mt7lt7k7unfr9ttfua5]

just beat radiance! onto the pantheons...

@dreamwishing

[mebis-art-dump]

According to official artwork, quirrel and hornet have black eyes, vessels have sunken eyes (potentially empty eyeholes) and the king has a third, more fucked up thing going on

A friend had already made an image like this some years ago, but I wanted to make my own version with more examples

From top to bottom:

- Pure Vessel in the Gods and Glory trailer, Hornet in one of silksong posters and the knight in one of godmaster posters

- The Hollow Knight, Quirrel and Hornet in the Quirrel prequel comic

- Pure Vessel, Quirrel, Hornet and the knight from the collector's edition card set

- my summary diagram depicting the three different types of eye, the Pale King as depicted in the Pale Court track poster (the official track from Gods and Nightmares soundtrack, not to confuse with the mod "pale court" (fanmade dlc)), Hornet in the cover for silksong soundtrack samples and the knight as depicted in the cover for the original game's soundtrack

[asp1diske-art]

Oh, clean eyes You're breaking my heart in all the right ways SYML - Clean Eyes

Godmaster ending, from the hollow knight's point of view

(lyrics under cut)

Picture yourself in a room full of broken glass

Blood on the pieces, the pieces you can't put back

A little white light in a sea gone black

My head is the room and the room's full of broken glass

You can't change me

Can you save me?

Oh, clean eyes

Breaking my heart in all the right ways and

No, I don't mind, clean eyes

Oh, clean eyes

Breaking my heart and breaking my chains and

I don't know why, clean eyes

I'm a cynic, I told you

I fear what I don't believe

I don't know what this is

but this is a different beast

I check the lock on the door three times

Can't put my faith in what I can't describe

I'm a cynic, I told you

I don't believe

So can you save me?

Oh, clean eyes

Breaking my heart in all the right ways and

No, I don't mind, clean eyes

Oh, Clean Eyes

Breaking my heart and breaking my chains and

I don't know why, clean eyes

Take me home when I lost myself

Love me better than I love myself

Take me home when I lost myself

Oh, clean eyes

You're breaking my heart in all the right ways and

No, I don't mind

Clean eyes

Oh, clean eyes

Breaking my heart and breaking my chains and

I don't know why, clean eyes

Yeah, clean eyes

Breaking my heart in all the right ways

No, I don't mind

Clean Eyes

Oh, Clean Eyes

Breaking my heart and breaking my chains

I don't know why, clean eyes