#lheki

[rosesvioletshardy]

LHEKY HAT TRICK

[mrs-mikko-rantanen]

LHEKY I LOVE YA

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four of them now!

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[image description: a four panel meme featuring the four vessel siblings. Lheki is in the top left, Orchid is in the top right, Glimmer is in the bottom right, and Ghost is in the bottom left. None of them have any shading. Lheki has their arms crossed over their chest, and is looking directly at the camera. The text above their head reads “it’s ok to ask for help.” Orchid has their arms raised above their head in a joyful pose. The text above their head reads “you’re not a burden.” Glimmer is facing slightly off to the left of the camera, but is still looking at it. Their right hand is raised shyly next to their face, and the stump of their left arm shores up their cloak. The burn scars on their torso are visible. Above their head is the text “your feelings matter.” Ghost is standing extremely close to the camera, staring deeply into it. The space between their eyes is shaded lightly. Above their head is the text “murder is okay.” end image description] 

i have a degree in drawing memes

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[image description: my new profile picture, a drawing of Lost Kin from Hollow Knight overlaid on the aromantic flag. Their back is to the camera, and they are looking back at it. Their left arm is raised, shoring up their cloak. There is a faint glow from their shell. end image description]

i did not account for how blue they would look when put on something that’s pure black but its fine, no one’s going to notice when its as small as profile pictures are lmao

i sketched the base last night and finished it today, spanning only like 3 hours, so good news is im getting faster at doing this stuff i guess. the idea’s been bouncing around inside my head for a long ass time and i finally executed it hdshahjsjg

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hmm, how about 45 with Lost Kin, please?

Isma has her back to them. Shuffling the clumsily wrapped gift in their hands around, they patter up to her and tug on one of her leaves.

She looks at them over her shoulder, her eyes crinkling into a smile. “I’m just about done. What do you have there?”

They hold it up to her, and she takes it, peering at it curiously. “A gift,” they sign as she unwraps it. “I made it.”

She lets out a little gasp as she pulls out the wax plant figurine. “Oh, this is lovely.” She pats their head tenderly. “Thank you, Lheki!” 

[send me a number?] [link to my ask box]

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*gives Iheki a stick*

[image description: two drawings of lost kin, drawn side by side in the style of a short comic. in the first drawing they are holding up a stick and staring at it wordlessly. in the second, they are staring at the camera while signing ‘do’ in ASL (text next to their hands indicates that they are ‘shaking from side to side.’) end id]

“What am I supposed to do with this?”

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Lheki with a nice heavy blanket and a mug of hot chocolate?

[image description: a sketch of Lost Kin, or Lheki, sitting on the floor with a blanket wrapped around them and a cup in their hands. There are flowers doodled all over the blanket. The drink in their cup is steaming gently, and their head is tipped slightly down, as if they were looking at the cup. end image description]

decided not to go the cursed route and poke another straw through their eye sfgjhjks

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it’s Lheki, with an l skjahskjd i can see how people get confused about that since l and I look similar rip

i mean the tldr of my au is that what if Everything, and i mean E v e r y t h i n g, that happened was the pale king’s fault, directly or indirectly. ripple effects and all. the moths got heavily reworked, unn and her greenkin got heavily reworked, deepnest is now called arcleome, the magic system got revamped, etc. there’s a ton of stuff

dreamless isn’t like. fuck canon, these characters are mine, though it is to an Extent. it’s more like taking a character who had a perfectly nice life and going ‘hey what if they grew up in a really shitty environment instead?’ sometimes it winds up completely recharacterizing canon characters (*cough* markoth), sometimes it just gives them more depth, at least in my opinion (hornet). the vessels also get developed a hell of a lot more because i love them and also there needs to be more content about greenpath vessel, please and thank you. the vessels are a quartet now, and with hornet become the sibling quintet. i love the classic sibling trio to bits, but the quintet is where it’s at and you will not change my mind

anyway. ocs. these two are both from hallownest just because there’s less context to give there sgkskjsd they’re intended to be a couple, but the main story doesn’t focus on that a lot. it’s more an exploration of a relationship dynamic where both people are into each other, romantically or sexually or platonically or what have you, but they’re not as intimate as they may otherwise want to be due to external circumstances. there’s Lyzi, a white mantis who is a former teacher at the Gilded University, and there’s Solice, a butterfly who is an ex-member of the hallownest guard force. lyzi’s more reserved, more serious, quite a bit jaded, and typically stressed over one thing or another, whereas solice is very much the happy-go-lucky person of the group, a ray of sunshine if you will if that sentence didn’t have Connotations in the world of hollow knight. they’re both very competent in battle, lyzi with soul magic and solice with their nail, but neither like to fight much these days. with each other, solice is the flirt demon who keeps making lyzi flustered, but they’s also generally chaotic and horny and flirt a little bit with everyone. they just likes lyzi best lmao

i have other ocs, i just like thinking about these two the most because their dynamic is really interesting to me. it’s also extra interesting because solice is technically polyamorous, though they really only has their sights set on lyzi romantically. they has four hands and they Will use them sfkjghjk

(as an aside, lyzi uses she/her pronouns and is trans, while solice uses singular they/them.)

i keep seeing people send you ocs and i want to participate, but also my hollow knight au is so far removed from canon in terms of like. context that essentially every canon character is now an oc and also none of my ocs make any sense without giving about 3 pages of context rip

fjfjdhdjshdjsjs you can be kinda vague/squish it down if you want about the context if you think that'd work! and I'd like to hear about iheki(?) so I wouldn't mind hearing about ur au too c:

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Lost Kin relaxing in a hot spring?

[image description: a sketch of Lost Kin from Hollow Knight, or Lheki, sitting in a hot spring. The rim of the pool they are in is adorned with rocks of varying sizes and shapes, and behind them are three of the statues behind certain hot springs in the game, with three different sets of horns. Lheki themself is sitting in the pool with their legs drawn to their chest, staring off at some indeterminate object slightly to their right. end image description]

what is this relaxing you speak of. no, you plop your ass down and stare into the void

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[image description: a picture of three doodles of the vessel siblings. lost kin and ghost are roughly facing each other, but are standing at an angle. greenpath vessel is sitting on the floor below them. ghost has their nail strapped to their back. end id]

theres also these space filling doodles i did lmao. orchid Sitt. its also just delightful to give them little paws, even if i kind of fuck it up lmao

i havent fully decided on how i want their cloaks to behave yet. i kind of like the idea of it being one long strip instead of several discrete strips, but hm. leaf. idk yet, we’ll see

also, for slightly more spoilery art:

[image description: a picture a full body sketch of Teoda, a ladybug. he is significantly bigger and wider than Lyzi and Solice; his body type is akin to a fat person. he has a ‘very generic mask’ as denoted by text above it, with an arrow pointing to it, but there are three small imprints on his forehead, which are ‘not eyes; just markings.’ next to his mask is a sketch of his face under it, which is nearly identical except for the lack of forehead markings and the presence of mandibles. his hans are clasped together, and a cloak, with a hallownest seal clipping it together, is sketched over his body. he is an ‘adept caster.’ end id{

i finally sketched teoda. i hesitated calling him fat because its like. this is just the beetle body type? i need to check how fat storage in bugs works too, so like a fat mantis will look Pretty different from a fat beetle. thats my main point here; teoda’s body shape is like the default for ladybugs. or maybe not, once i do some research. we’ll see lol. i just wanted him to be taller than aulen and kitsa and also chunkier

ive also loosely decided on what beetle species im basing them off of, but i dont remember the name off the top of my head. it was something like long legged or long nosed water beetle for aulen and kitsa, idk. teoda’s just a generic ladybug. but yeah! ideas :)

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[image description: four pictures of dry erase marker drawings. included are:

- a very rough sketch of ghost’s general proportions, done in circles and boxes, with two curved lines representing their horns. they have two dots, haphazardly applied, for eyes, and next to their face is the letter ‘A.’

- ghost, properly drawn, with their nail sheath’s strap around them.

- lost kin standing next to ghost. their chin is level with the tips of ghost’s horns.

- two doodles of greenpath vessel. the one on the left is a rather squished drawing of their head (helpfully denoted by the word ‘squoosh’ next to it). the one on the right is a sketch of them sitting down and staring at the camera. the way they’re drawn gives them a rather empty expression, and their horns vaguely resemble some sort of flower. next to them is the word ‘help.’

- a full body sketch of greenpath vessel in the same style as ghost and lost kin.

- a full body drawing of holly with no cloak on. their left arm ends in a shredded stump halfway between their shoulder and their elbow, and the crack in their shell goes through their right eye. on their chest, spanning all three sections of their torso, is a scribble representing the scarring from the infection pustules.

- ghost, fully grown, standing next to holly. the tips of their horns are roughly level with the top of holly’s head, where their horns start. their stature is also notably more slender than holly’s.

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if i hadnt started doodling in class i probably would have fallen asleep

in person the scribble on holly’s chest looked like shit tbh, but in a picture it actually kinda looks decent. also its intentional that it spans all three torso plates; as per my interpretation of the after effects of the infection, the scarring left behind after they recover fuses the plates together, meaning they cant really bend over without experiencing severe pain. chronic illness metaphor go brrrrr

i dont think i quite captured ‘their proportions are awkward’ in this though. im hesitant to make them even longer because past a certain point it just gets ridiculous, but also thats kind of the point? idk. their proportions look fine to me, maybe someone else with more experience will think it looks weird. its supposed to look a little odd, so. yeet

also!! why the Fuck is orchid so hard to draw!!! inevitably their head looks really squished and i dont know Why. the red one there i actually sketched it a ghost’s head first, then erased their horns. Why TM

i didnt include hornet here because there wasnt enough space, but i think she’s about as tall as lheki is. shes on the shorter side for bugs tbh; most bugs are slightly taller than lheki here. some get as tall as the vessels’ second molts, but once theyre fully grown all of them tower over regular bugs. because theyre just built different <3

anyway yeet. i’s artiste

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[image description: four pictures of another set of in class doodles. the top left image features two drawings of lurien. in the left drawing is his canonical appearance, mask and cloak donned; in the right he has both off, and is holding them in his lower set of arms (the cloak is indicated with text and an arrow pointing to it). his upper set of arms are crossed across his chest. he is supposed to be a butterfly. between the two drawings is the text: “Lurien (idk how to design his wings).”

in the top right image are two drawings of monomon. in the left is her canonical appearance; in the right her mask and cloak are off. she has a rather elongated and kind of bowling pin-esque bell. on the top part of it where her face is, there is a mess of scribbles (a few nubby looking things and a mass behind it). a few more nubs, labelled ‘vestibular organs,’ are on the sides and top of her bell. between the two drawings is the text “Monomon.”

in the bottom right image are four drawings. the top left features quirrel, holding his nail in his right hand with his left hand on his hip. to his right is a doodle of the seer, who has the text “seer???” next to her. in the bottom left is a doodle of the greenpath vessel sitting down, and the text “sitt” is next to them. in the bottom right is a drawing of my interpretation of ghost’s final molt; their horns have three prongs, two of which look like their familiar child molt, and a third on the external side, making their horns look like branches. there is a nail, which looks similar to quirrel’s, strapped to their back, and they have their arms crossed. a very small doodle of quirrel’s head is next to them, with the text “tol” next to him.

in the bottom right image, ghost (in their child molt) and sly are at the top, standing next to each other. sly is slightly shorter than ghost. next to sly is the text “he so smol.” in the bottom left is lost kin in their final molt. they are holding a test tube that is slightly bubbling in their right hand, and an uoma floats to their left (with six tentacles). in the bottom right is the greenpath vessel’s shell, in their final molt. the top set of their horns grow up, while the other grows backwards, like a lateral version of their top set of horns. they have a flower crown around the top set of their horns, and a small vine is wrapped around their right top horn. there is an arrow pointing to the flower crown, and the text below it says “flower crown from Unn.”

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i used pencil so it was less daunting, but i didnt erase anything except for greenpath vessel’s horns cause i struggle with drawing them without drawing their face first hcndbdj

its nice tbh, practicing not tweaking every little detail and erasing every mistake i make. though it does make some of these look a little awkward. lurien’s arms are too low down on his torso, but he doesnt even look like a butterfly CHFHSJSH

i also kind of butchered the seer,, i just cant draw the winged characters i guess

i Am really happy about how ghost’s shell came out though! but they look like a reindeer???

anyway yeet

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[image description: a picture of three drawings of lost kin’s shell. at the top is them facing the right. their longest horn coils up like a root, with a little offshoot poking out on the far side. the horn on the other side of their face coils backwards. the horn on the front of their face, now the shortest, curves slightly forward at the tip. next to it is the text ‘from the left.’

in the lower left corner is lost kin facing the front. their longest horn is significantly shorter than in the top drawing, the reasoning for which is marked with an arrow and the text ‘ran out of space,’ with a smiley next to the text. this drawing is also marked as ‘final molt,’ and an arrow points from the text to the first drawing.

in the lower right corner is lost kin facing the front, but at an earlier stage of their life; the text next to them marks it as ‘after first molt.’ their horns are a lot shorter and thinner, the shortest horn being the one on the left side of their face. their face is also rounder than that of their final molt, as are their eyes.

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redesign for lheki’s horns kept flapping around in my head while i was trying to read classwork, so i sketched it out really quick. i misjudged how much space id need for the front facing version askjdfgjks

also wow! a not terrible sketch of lheki facing the right! because i actually drafted their head shape this time asdfkjdgs not so much like an egg now lmfao

ill probably work with this from here on out, but im not going to develop the idea until later. we’ll see i guess sdjfkgjks

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Iheki has been handed a notebook. What do they do? I'm totally not procrastinating on my homework by sending you random asks not at allll

sdfkjghkj im gonna answer this one first because the food question is actually Extremely complicated, and i have to scrounge up my worldbuilding about cuisine for it. bear with me on that

in any case. theyre probably scribbling notes on the recent experiments theyve been doing with monomon and quirrel, maybe some personal thoughts about the oomas and uomas that keep wandering into the lab somehow. there's probably also a few sketches of said oomas and uomas, but its primarily writing about science stuff. maybe a shopping list (trade list?) for stuff they're running low on in the lab that they're going to pick up when they next run errands

(slight spoilers under the cut, but nothing huge)

theyre probably the most meticulous of the vessels, so they do stuff like this a lot. they're constantly making notes of Everything, which makes them a very good scientist lmao. theyre generally in the archives a lot helping monomon, so any notebooks they receive as a gift are just going to get turned into record keeping books like all the rest. of course the archive has its own information storage system, but lheki likes writing this stuff down, and its useful to have a second copy of the data in a different medium anyhow. its probably also a way for them to practice their handwriting, once quirrel has taught them how to write.

alternatively, they might use one of these notebooks to help orchid write. lheki's also the best in penmanship, and orchid is the worst because of their tremors, so they'd help out there too.

tldr theyd use it for record keeping or for helping orchid with handwriting kjsdfjkgjks

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some minor spoilers for dreamless, so this page of sketches goes under a cut

[image description: a page mostly full of sketches of various dreamless characters. at the top are some sketches of lost kin, with my design of how their horns look in their final molt; their rightmost horn is much thicker than their other horns, twisting up like a root, with a small offshoot hear the top. there is a big sketch of them facing the front, and a small sketch of them facing the left. next to the big sketch is a very small doodle of lost kin before their first molt, with tiny horns and a round face. below them and off to the right is a rough sketch of their thickest horn, with lines sketched on it to show topography.

below the sketches of lost kin are mask designs for three characters: Aulen, Kitsa, and Solice. aulen and kitsa are beetles, drawn much like how bretta looks. aulen’s mask has three horns, designed in a way that makes him and cer antennae look like a flower. kitsa’s mask has four horns; two short ones growing out from either side of her mask, and two growing up from the top. the left top horn bends slightly to the left as it goes up, while the right top horn curls in and down on itself. both beetles have their hands clasped, though kitsa looks more like she’s crossing her arms, and she is scowling. next to kitsa is a range of different expressions for her. with all three of her eyes open is her ‘neutral’ expression; with the top eye squinting and the bottom two slanting up is her ‘angry/annoyed’ expression; with the top eye squished into a bean shape and the bottom two slanting down is her ‘sad/tired’ expression; with the top eye squinting and her bottom two open normally is her ‘mocking’ expression; and with her top eye and one of the lower eyes squinting while her remaining eye is open normally is her ‘confused/quizzical’ expression. text between kitsa and aulen marks them as ‘(type one?) beetles’ and ‘soul magic casters.’

below the two of them is a full body sketch of solice, who is wearing a cloak with a hood. they have two pairs of arms; their top pair is crossed, and their left arm of their lower pair is crossed over their abdomen, while their lower right arm holds a nail. solice’s mask has two short horns, both pointing up without bending. their mask has three eyes, all of them oval shaped. next to their head is a sketch of their face without their mask or hood, which shows their compound eyes, their thin antennae, and a small smile. text next to them indicates that they are a butterfly, and are a ‘non-caster; adept in nail combat.’ an arrow pointing to their hood marks it as such, ‘to hide head.’

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this is a really messy image description but idk how to even begin to describe the details in here l o l

lheki’s leftmost horn needs to be thicker than that tbh, these sketches are still pretty rough. i was mostly focused on the rightmost horn since that’s the most complicated. i have No Idea if anyone can make sense of my attempt to do a 3d render(? is that the right word?) of their horn, but uhhhhhh i tried lmao

im Really beginning to like solice. help. i dont even know how much of a role they play yet, let alone aulen and kitsa, but here i am designing their masks. i am also working out what hallownest’s general population looks like; teoda is a beetle as well, but a different type of beetle. what sort, idk yet. i have a lot of designing to do :’) lyzi is currently a mantis, but i havent drawn her yet because i dont even know where to start with that. so. welp

its funny cause i decided solice was the mantis and lyzi was the butterfly, but i started sketching solice and made them a butterfly so i was like. welp. changing that note then

idk what’s going on with kitsa’s mask or why she chose it. i just. idfk. dont ask. it may be pending some changes later, but the three eyes are a definite

but yeah. some design stuff