#nerdy historian and hopeless engineer at etch other throat

[gncbozo]

Old stone AU

Ok so I think I've just made a new hollow knight AU featuring two of my favorite caracteres in this game.

Tw : mention of dead body, scar and blood

Here's the lore :

One very mundane/normal day, the little Ghost of Hallownest brings yet another relic to Lemm, but the raggedy old thing that the small vessel is dragging behind them is the dead body of the pale king himself !!!

The specter is very VERY pushy about Lemm taking in the "relic"(... rotting body................ dead god) in exchange of an INSANE amount of geo, Ghost , how has just ascended as lord of shades, does not hesitate to pressure the shop keeper a LITTLE more.

And so Lemm accept and finds himself with a rotten wyrm on his conter, although this is a macabre situation, analyzing the king might be the answer to all of his questions (why did the king leave hallownest ? Was he sick like some journal depicted him to be ? Was he really made of pale Ore ?...) but the relic seeker is not a necromancer therefore he can not make the dead talk ,plus ,Lemm still has respect for the dead ( and he doesn't want his house to smell like death ) so he decides it would be for the best to bury the pale king.

The seeker puts the decading wyrm in a corner of his shop a sets off for the resting ground.

Once he found a nice spot to dig the grave he returns to his house only to find the body gone ,no sign of the king, no trace of the wyrm.

Lemm looks everywhere but he can not find his posession, at first he is convinced that Ghost has taken the body back for what ever reson (the little shit better not have, he paid good money to have this unwanted gift) but this accusation is quickly shooded off when he hears the sound of wobbly steps and faint scratches at his door...

When the relic seeker pokes his head out of his chambers, he is met with a vision of horror, the (should be dead) king of Hallownest is standing on shaky legs bleeding black blood (witch only exaggerate the massive crack on his mask ) on the floor of his shop.

The two stares at the other for a stupid amount of time, and it takes an even stupider amount of time for Lemm to tell the king that "it would be better if he sitted back down so he can patch up the terrible wounds on the god's body."

The King/Wyrm with nowhere to go, no will to live, and no purpose to serve, very silently, accept.

Now that the dead can talk ; Will Lemm really want to know ALL of this graveyard's history? Will the king tell NOTHING but the truth?

And more importantly, shall they ONLY talk about the past ?

I'm not sure if this Au is allready similar to others Au or if it allready exist, if yes please redirect me to them.