#i hate you aspids

[cobaltbluesu]

kingdom's edge

[malwarechips]

my hot hollow knight take is that primal aspids arent that bad . CRYSTAL HUNTERS are the bastards of hallownest . i HATE those fuckers

[deckof-dragons]

Am I the only one who despises the snails in Rain World? Like, why do I never see anyone else complaining about them? They are the single most annoying thing in the game. More annoying than going through a pipe and straight into the jaws of a lizard or whatever because at least that doesn't happen very often. Whereas every single time you go past a snail, you lose everything in your hands and sometimes they knock you and/or the baby you're trying to keep alive straight into death.

And why are they called snails? There's nothing snail like about them. I pretty much exclusively call them poppers because they tarnish the glorious name of snails.

[cupcakeshakesnake]

New stupid headcanon:

Pointing three fingers at mouth level at someone became a great insult in Hallownest that means "I hope a Primal Aspid spits on you".

A fairly newly-coined insult, as Primal Aspids were once thought to be extinct. Well, they came back and everyone immediately hated them.

[lilybug-02]

Have you met the community's number one criminal and bane of our existence, the Primal Aspid?

Yes and I now understand why everyone hates that little evil creature. It has better aim than the fricking Final Boss what is this

[cloudyswritings]

Yes… I am the silksong now!!

My thoughts and headcanons on Hornet. I’ll be real I’ve kinda been ignoring her because I’m terrified of having to tag silksong headcanons, I’ve seen the fucking Reddit. Anyway, enjoy my ramblings.

So I think that a Hornet qualifies as a pale being, she was born to one and has a pale mask of one. More than that she qualifies for being in godhome(a low bar ik, looking at you vengefly king).

She isn’t really a god per-se but definitely is a higher being on par or stronger than the great knights.

She obviously considers herself a spider but overall she inherited very little from Herrah.

Id say she only really got the fangs and dietary needs

Shes absolutely an obligate carnivore, so don’t expect her to be eating plant matter of any type. She does the whole inject her meal with venom to dissolve it and slurp it up deal

this is mostly because even though she’s got the full Wyrms arsenal of teeth and a Wyrms digestive tract her mouth is very small and she only has pedipalps and fangs externally. This means it’s very hard for her to eat any solid food/get it down to where her throat teeth can break it down

So interestingly her body color in combination with the vessels may actually tell us more about the pale kings- see both she and the vessels have black chitin suggesting it may be inherited from the king.

She also has both her fathers number of eyes and limbs, something that infuriates her deeply.

I don’t feel that the hornet we see in canon is her final molt, mostly because it seems like the sealing of THK functionally stopped time in Hallownest. I imagine once they’re free and the Radiance is dead she’ll probably undergo one last molt.

I think her missing limbs(she has 4 that we know of meaning she’d have 4 more as a spider) will actually end up growing into wings with said molt.

She also inherited her aptitude for mechanical stuff from the king. It seems like she makes all of her own stuff. Plus the crafting system and buzz saws in silksong support this.

She likes buzzsaws

I imagine if we could get a better look at the light she casts it’d be a lot like her fathers. She’d be a pale red light that falls far and deep but bears only a subtle influence on the world, like the strumming of gossamer threads.

Shes set down threads all over Hallownest, allowing her to keep track of a ton of things at once by feeling vibrations

She does have spineretes but uses soul to supplement and extend the amount of thread she can make.

She actually really likes the white lady, mostly because of good childhood memories from visiting the palace. She was the cool mom for a while. She’s more conflicted in regards to her towards the events of the game though.

Her favorite food is probably primal aspids, but she’s got a huge soft spot for honey because of her time in the hive. She also likes soups because they’re easier for her to eat(esp the ones Ghost makes)

She has very good eyesight from Herrah, but also has face blindness that she inherited from the king. She makes do, but mostly relies on clothing, scent, and body language to identify people.

As a grub she was the only one of her brood to survive, she was part of a large brood and likely spent her earliest days in a broodsack(that’s just how spiders do shit) but ate all of her potential siblings before hatching-she doesn’t know it but this is a wyrm instinct and her father did exactly the same thing.

She’d absolutely hate that if she found out.

She suspects but isn’t sure about why she’s territorial. Unsurprisingly it’s once again a wyrm thing

Her threads are far stronger and more durable than even those produced by the best weavers, in fact some of her silk may have been used for THKs seals- she probably doesn’t remember this cause she was too young.

Is mad she inherited the kings height. Honestly she’s mad about everything she inherited from him.

She doesn’t know it but she’s fairly resistant to void, especially for someone half mortal.

Sleeps in a giant mess of quilts, pilows, and silk. It’s held slightly off the ground. This is sorta a halfway point between a Wyrms nest and the silk hammocks of the weavers.

Shes a very fidgety and light sleeper, and realistically needs far less sleep than most beings.

Her venom is ridiculously potent, like to the point of being almost unanimously fatal to mortals and weaker higher beings. It would honestly still do a lot of damage to gods too. It’s a symptom of hybrid vigor, wherein the hybrid offspring of two species tends to be stronger, larger, and overall more genetically resilient than either parent.

Hybrids also tend to be sterile.

Hornet probably couldn’t have children if she wasn’t a higher being, even then I’m not really sure she could tbh.

Given enough time and soul she could pull a metamorphosis like her father did, though she doesn’t know how.

What she’d emerge as is unclear, but she’d likely either become a spider goddess in truth. Or even more likely she’d fully become a wyrm and abandon the mortal parts Herrah gave her.

For obvious reasons she won’t do this.

Her favorite color is a toss up between red and purple.

She weaves clothing for her siblings semi-regularly. Kinda gets frustrated at how often Ghost ruins their thought. They’re rough on clothing ig.

She didn’t inherit her fathers ability to burrow, but some of the instincts remain. She’s very frustrated at this.

She’s kinda bad at rembering names too, she gets embarrassed by this and it’s part of why she doesn’t stay anywhere long enough to get to know the bugs there.

Has a charm that was created from Herrahs regrets. It doesn’t do anything but give off the faint sense of a clawed hand on her shoulders and the faint whispers of the lullaby Herrah used to sing to her.

it’s still her single most prized possession

Her needles is a close second and was made of pale ore taken directly from the Pale Wyrms corpse. It’s the one thing her father gave her she loves.

he gave it to her as a gift for her being given a name. He likely used his foresight to figure out how large she’d be as an adult and made it in anticipation of that.

She can go an exceedingly long time without a meal. This was super helpful during the infection when uninflected prey was rare at best.

With age she is becoming more and more powerful as a higher being and will likely eventually become a goddess proper.

She has the lifespan of a Wyrm but doesn’t really know it yet and chalks her remarkable age up to the blurring of time during the infection. Despite this she’s still a child by wyrm standards and has many, many, many years left to live.

Most bugs are absolutely shocked to hear about her actual age.

Lace will be for sure, and she’ll probably live to regret threatening her.

Shes super fast, like almost impossible to track I’m combat at times, this is actually because of her use of both wind and soul magic along with the thread based spells of the weavers.

Her shell is covered with intricate and detailed carvings, this is essentially the weaver version of tattoos.

Im genuinely not too sure if her mask is actually her face like it is for the pale king or just a mask like for Herrah. I lean towards it being her face though.

The bell cult caught her while she was sleeping and that’s the only reseal they survived the encounter.

id say there’s probably a good chance of her ascending to godhood as a possible ending to silksong.

Doesnt really have a sense of humor but does find puns and dad jokes hilarious(they were the only jokes the pale king told when she was little)

Theorectically given enough prep time and motivation she could place webs all over the city of tears(or a similarly sized city) and pull all of the buildings down in one go.

She might also be able to do the whole puppeting corpses thing that happens in the beasts den.

She needs a certain amount of metal in her diet thanks to being part wyrm. It’s really hard for her to find in pieces small enough to fit into her mouth.

Some crack/non-serious headcanons

She’s absolutely a chain smoker on par with Grimm- you know why

When she says Shaw it’s because as a kid she couldn’t say saw, the king would be so damn proud.

She’d be so good at putting up Christmas lights. Like the best even.

secretly loves holidays, could pull of a mean Santa impression by just fucking hustling down peoples chimneys and stealing their cookies. She’d even have a big ass silk bag full of toys.

Maybe she does this for Hallownest once it’s built?

that’s it’s, this is how she ascends to godhood

Hornet is bug Santa.

[e-farmer]

So i figured now would be a good time to introduce you all to one of the more important individuals in the modern setting of the story of Undergrowth, that being the Main antagonist!

Introducing the Lord of the Great desert, Devourer of Bees and Spiders alike, the Great Cazador himself. Behold! I present to you with his majesty: Valdran Sa'vel Helvyst! His design was wonderfully brought to life by @letulthi, who as always went above and beyond.

While I'd love to go into the complete backstory of Valdran, i wouldn't want to throw out too many spoilers, since I'm keeping his history rather tight lipped atm, gotta treat the OG bad guy for my story with respect, y'know? But if you want some basic facts and whatnot about Valdran, here ya go.

1: Valdran is a Tarantula hawk wasp that originates from the great desert to the west of the kingdom of Undergrowth, and has conquered most of said great desert through brute force.

2: Valdran has a zero tolerance policy on bees, as in the world of Undergrowth, both bees and wasps have absolutely hated each other since the very beginning. (That is to say, Valdran is low-key a racist/wasp supremacist)

3: His crown is made of the remains of a juvenile ancient aspid, (y'know, that one really cool aspid boss mod!) and his armor is made from the shell of a Wyrm of legend that was said to embody darkness and domination.

4: Despite being a power hungry, genocidal dictator, Valdran can be rather merciful to those that don't pose a threat to his conquest. For example, Valdran won't just bulldoze a whole ass village for nothing. A king needs subjects afterall!

[izamationbroker]

Trick or treat! 🎃

Happy Halloween!

Listen, listen, hear me out. Y'all know the game Hollow Knight? I have no time nor skill to draw it myself, but I give to you, for the Izaya ASPD Truther Association's consideration, Izaya dressing up as one of these:

This is an Aspid! (Get it? Because he has ASPD and Wa-kun and I use Aspid for pwASPD?) They shoot little acid drops and the entire Hallow Knight gamerbase HATES THEM lmao.

So consider Izaya being an Aspid for Halloween and chasing Shizuo around pelting him with little orange balls lmfaoooo

[foxtriestobiteandmaimandkilland]

hk update !!!! ive done lots :) iiiiii killed broken vessel and got flukenest (before that bc i was intending to  use it but i dont like its short range I KNOWWW its overpowered i just like my gun) anddd then i got the errr palace grounds stag AND THEN GOT STAGNEST AND OEGUIRFHJKCJAHGF i love the stag soooooo much and then i found the likeee fungal core thingy and i also went to hollownest crown THREE TIMES because the first time i jumped off the second time i jumped off but more precisely bc i thought i did smth wrong and thats why the map didnt like connect where u fall to the crown then i cdashed off and that was cool going up 3 times andddddd i also got deep focus anddd. yeah. oh also earlier today i. er. did...stufff i dont rlly remem OH EYAH i went to oro and did the little secret area under his house yknow i also whacked the hell out of esmy and two big ASSHOLES spawned ive also decided that my 3 least favourite enemies are aspids (ofc) those big jumpy DICKS and the shooty flies in peaks THAT SHOOT CRYSTALS AT YOU AND BACK YOU INTOA  CORNER AND ARHGJFHAJF I HATE THEM SOOOOOO MUCH I WISH THEM ALLLLLL A VERY PAINFUL DEATH OHHHHH I HATE THEM SO MUCH U DO NOT UNDERSTAND THEY R THE BANESSSS OF MY EXISTENCE anddd yeah :) i feel like i did more buttttt i forgot if i did or not wait. OH YEAH i spent ages trying to do that pogo parkour in deepnest yknow the one where u get like a garpede or whatever theyre called and it goes along and u go along and its SOOOOo bad but i did it eventually andddd yeah. and also. i got 1 more mask and 1 more like. soul. container. circle. yeah. BUT. tomorrow i shall do more. anddd. i will. go to the hive now i have double jump. and also fight hornet in kingdoms edge. and then. i will get the kings brand and go to the thingy area and thennnnnn complete everything i cannnn think of. AND THEN i will get the true ending. oh. wait. im gonna have to fight radiance. ohhhh my god. the hollow knight on its own is bad. but like. radiance fuckign sucks. and i have to fight her. WELL THAT SA PROBLEM FOR NOT ME thats for future me anddd yeah this is a long post and i am sorry if u do see this bc its long ithink ive been in a long post mood today yeah ok bye love u.

[unfocused-angel]

I hate crystal hunters the most bc they leave crystals all over the ground, but primal aspids are second on my "oh you little shit!" list

basically all players fear

[sparrrorow]

can i get an F for my Steel Soul run

[hollownest-whore]

1-10, how terrible are crystal hunters?

100

[potassiumcyanides]

when you love someone, you tell them, and when you hate them, you make them fight greg prince zote, or you make them go through the path of pain, or you make them fight grimm, the list goes on and on there’s so many ways to make a bitch feel hopeless

When you love someone DON'T make a random child bring a flower that gets destroyed easily all the way across the map to their grave.

Just don't.

[ask-the-moths]

NGK. I never got to him because tmg speed runs “kill the vessel” but hearing the theme…

Kingdoms edge. Call me a masochist but aspids? Pushovers. What’s the anger about them anyway?(im gonna summon an entire fandom aren’t I)

None I can hate on in this beautiful game.

Path of pain. No context needed.

Quirrel my beloved

Sly. Fellow nailmaster

You all know shü and varokk.

Mosscreeps. Lil cute bois

Weaversong. Beautifully hid, and it’s genuinely useful for enemies with sheilds up.

Lurien. Always watching.

None.

Not sure.

Idk.

Ogrim. He wasn’t too hard or easy

Soul master. He whacked my ass more than he should have.

Embrace the void, because screw light, go to bed Hallownest. You really need it

Howling wraiths. Always wanted so scream my stress at foes.

Keys. Useful and simple. Pun intended

Hidden dreams

hive knight. BzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZAAAA

Hollow knight inspired questions

Favorite song in the OST 

Favorite location

Least favorite song in the OST

Least favorite location 

Favorite NPC?

Favorite Merchant? 

Have any OCs? If so what kind of bug are they?

Favorite enemy? 

Favorite charm?

Favorite Dreamer?  

Favorite precept of Zote? 

Cut content you wish had made it into the game?

Kickstarter goal you wish had been reached?

Favorite Boss

Least Favorite Boss 

Favorite ending? 

Favorite Spell? 

Favorite Item?

Favorite DLC?

Favorite DLC Character?

[mothpile]

flying enemies in hollow knight HAVE NO RIGHTS. if you are, or ever have been, a flying enemy in hollow knight you are not protected by the law and WILL die by my nail should you get anywhere near me

[foxstens]

i do not like ori2′s enemy design