#pilflip

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February's zine! Each scene is a 4-page spread making up a 16-page booklet. Originally, I was just going to draw one bug per page, but I got more than 16 bugs, and I am fond of making scenes and telling stories anyway, so that's what I went with. :)

Bonus flat view of the zine below the cut

[ceffarts]

Day 19- Pilflip

[hollow-knight-fights]

[silksongeveryday]

Journal Entry 72: Pilflip

(Drawing Hornet everyday until Silksong comes out - Day 615)

onto waterways entries!

also sorry for the very late post, weekend was busy, as mentioned on yesterday’s post

[goodmode]

random hc ask: some ppl think of some of the enemies like pets. ex., hollow getting a pet tiktik (which i happen 2 love). got any sort of bug pet hk headcanon?

my thoughts go to god tamer first! she's like the only example of anyone canonically having a pet that i can think of so i'd springboard off there and say Alright Let's Talk Sapience First

[feel free to skip to the readmore if you already have a solid idea of what's sapient and what's not. i doubt i'm saying anything other people haven't already picked up on]

we know the dream nail picks up thoughts of things like tiktiks and they display as words even if they're not obviously an upright walking talking bug, so i'm voting anything with god tamer's beast's dream nail dialogue set:

is probably petworthy. as in, not Some Guy. animal tier intelligence i guess.

according to the wiki this exact dialogue set applies to:

Tiktiks, Vengeflies, Crawlids, Gruzzers, Goam, all Aspids, Mosscreeps, Mossflies, Moss Chargers, Squits, Obbles, Durandoo/Duranda, Aluba, Ambloom, Fungling, Fungoon, Pilflips, Belflies, certain Flukes, Crystal Crawlers/Hunters, Glimbacks, Dirtcarvers, Dirtcarver Hatchlings, Garpedes, Corpse Creepers, Deeplings, Deephunters, Lesser Mawleks, Mawlurks, Infected Balloons, Booflies, Primal Aspids, [...]

i can't continue this list it's going to take me all day. you get the gist. there are a Lot of enemies that share the "probably not a sapient person" dreamnail pool. will be leaning heavily on that for What Can Safely Be Written As A Pet Without It Getting Too Weird

we probably can't include Flukes even though they also share the dialogue pool, because they're implied to grow into Flukemon which have separate dialogue and an obviously-sapient NPC (Fluke Hermit) so disregard those. there are also likely other exceptions i haven't covered so please use your head and apply a liberal pinch of salt.

we CAN probably include Vengefly King, Gruz Mother, and Brooding Mawlek since while their DN dialogue is different to their children it still doesn't seem to imply any higher-functioning thought than basic instinct, just a Big Parent Of The Same Thing

ok so individual character/pet ideas behind the cut bc i think this is a rly funny and charming thing to look at

zote. sorry he's first he's the funniest

zote is not one of those guys who would get a Big Dog thinking it makes him look cool and intimidating. he is the guy who puts a collar on a fucking coyote and thinks it makes him look cool and intimidating until it bites him in the dick.

it doesn't happen often, but sometimes he drags something back to Dirtmouth that is foaming at the jaws and insists it's his new faithful pet/steed that obeys his every command and will tear his enemies to pieces. it starts with a vengefly that he boasts about while it is actively chewing on his arm. it escalates from there.

the one thing preventing these beasts from tearing him to pieces is hornet coming in to truss up/confiscate the damn things before they can do any damage to the town

myla.

myla is familiar with glimbacks! she's a miner by trade even if she didn't come from hallownest originally, and i think these things are used as pit ponies in a lot of places. they're big sturdy beasts of burden that can be made to drag carts and carry heavy tools and they're described as "docile and slow" - no sudden movements and take well to handling.

she's never owned one but a living post-infection myla could adopt one of the surviving glimbacks from crystal peak and just kind of keep it like one keeps a rescue horse. horsegirl novel starring myla

cornifer & iselda.

they're married and do not currently have any kids for whatever reason - totally valid, this says nothing about them. however i do think it would be cute they get a dog instead and that's their placeholder baby. they get a mossfly and iselda spoils it with treats and it keeps her company while cornifer is gone. cornifer sometimes takes it for LONG WALKS (doesn't come back for 3 days).

sometimes they have that awkward moment where they're walking it in dirtmouth and it pees on something and they just have to smile and wave like "what can you do haha" while elderbug looks in in supreme disapproval because he has never owned a pet in his life and can't they just stop it from peeing there :/

millibelle.

owner of a yappy dog type crawlid, full-on grandma style. it has a solid shell like she does isn't that cute! she babytalks it and calls it sugarplum or whatever and insists it could never do a thing wrong in its life. it will savage your hand if anyone else tries to pet it.

emilitia.

she does not give a shit about anything that she thinks she'll outlast. Which Is Everything. however, millibelle has a crawlid, and boasts about it, and emilitia can't have that. she gets a tiktik in retaliation and it is exactly like a handbag chihuahua. hornet may or may not have to confiscate this one for the tiktik's sake

hornet.

everything still alive in the kingdom is under her protection, even if it bites. she is ambivalent to their responses to her. (they like her. when she comes back from pharloom playing silk music they like her even more)

lemm.

anti-pet person. i'm so fucking sorry. you bring a single thing into his shop that could pee or chew or scratch or leave tracks and he is going to kick up such a fuss. that said: he would have liked to feed maskflies in the park like your typical old man feeds pigeons

[sergeantsporks]

oh wow saw that last Hallow Knight repost and thought it was about Gilded Family for a solid minuet since you know "Hunter" and "Ghost" Helps that I misread PilFlip as Phillip lmao

Oh, lol. Easy mistake to make, both involve attempting to murder your creations

[maddusstuffs]

Hop or skip?

067 - Pilflip

[percivalias]

when the knights are hollow etc etc

[motheline]

Hunter's Journal #75 <Pilflip>

"Odd creature that adapts to changing situations by flipping over and using the limbs on the other side of its body."

"Adaptability is an important survival skill. If a problem seems insurmountable, try approaching it from a different angle." - The Hunter

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random HK enemies with markers

[daily-new-vessel]

NO BUMPY IT'LL FLIP OVER

“Flip Over Bug”

It seem angry now...

I just notice that its name (Pilflip) is a palindrome. (read the same both forwards and backwards) XD

[hollow-knight-fights]

Round 1

[rmiraka]

25.) Royal Waterways

The damp, the smell, the dark, the UNHOLY NOISES... Deepnest is a cakewalk compared to this soggy hell. 

[fungal-wasted]

I'm having Colosseum of Fools thoughts now and I should be doing literally anything else. None of them connect to each other into coherent ideas so these are just stuff I've noticed and that I wanna rotate.

The fools are all infected, and every common fool besides God Tamer has Colosseum specific dream nail dialogue.

If the fools are infected are they being forced by someone else to fight? I kind of doubt it since their thoughts seem to imply they know they're fighting and see themselves as the strongest.

God Tamer has the same thoughts as any other infected husk though. Could it be that she didn't choose to be like this? Or perhaps it's just a detail Team Cherry didn't check for.

Who is putting all those cages in the arena? Does the Coloseeum have staff?

They seem to get bugs from far corners of the map including Queen's Gardens and Deepnest. No bees though, no Waterways creatures (flukes, pilflips) either.

Zote being in a cage implies they do capture some bugs to fight. Including "sentient" ones.

They have a bunch of sharp baldurs yet we never see adult ones, to the point where even the Hunter isn't aware if they're allowed to reach adulthood.

The public watching the arena

uses Geo

seems uninfected

Travels other areas of the kingdom like the Crossroads hotsprings

Comes from other lands (like Tiso)

Do you ever think about the Soul Scholars in the third trial? Did they ditch the Sanctum once they found it more motivating to join the arena? Were they taken away by others looking for recruits? The Volt Twisters imply willing training, even learning to use electricity in combat.

What about the mantises? Do they have a settlement? Would they be the same tribe that went to Queen's Gardens or is this a separate group? If they're different groups, which formed first?

Why can God Tamer be spared if her beast is killed before her? She definitely puts up a fight of her own to be considered dangerous, but she somehow maages to be spared if avoided. Why would the knight allow it? Why does the public do it as well?

Honestly just, Lord Food as a whole. Why is that corpse still there.

You ever think how this is the only place outside of the dream realm where we see a crowd? Maybe the kingdoms in the area are gone but there are definitely communities Still Doing Things.

Dude imagine a Colosseum vendor. You get charms from them or temporal upgrades for battle. Little Fool but Better.

Shade room. I mean, that one is probably there for game mechanics but could you imagine if they ever got any other void beings or even vessels to fight?

[hallownest-in-minecraft]

A list of mobs and their insectoid counterparts

And, happy fiftieth post. This is the collection that I have deliberated on in regards to what mobs will be made into what as I progress with the resource pack. One such example has already come to fruition, though it is up to you to determine which, until I have more to show for this.

As of yet, this list is incomplete, as it does not officially include the new mobs of 1.19. I will need to review the additions to 1.19 and see what other ideas evolve. Based on everything else, I may consider a lifeblood butterfly for the allay and heavy fool or somesuch for the warden. I don’t have ideas for frogs yet, and I don’t remember if there were other new mobs aside from those three. If there are other non-1.19 mobs that I am missing, please let me know.

I am open to suggestions and feedback on ALL OF THESE IDEAS! Especially the ones with question marks or multiple options. Or, if you have questions about my thought process, I would be more than happy to answer.

It means I am indecisive but am also not sure what else I could do. I’m confident about most of these, but there are also a number that I’ve simply pulled out of a hat. Otherwise, the mobs may or may not be exactly like their Hallownester counterparts, but rather inspired by their design. I can simply make more stuff up if it comes to it, but please allow me to pick your brains first before it reaches that point.

I apologize, as I did intend to add links to every mob and enemy together for quick reference, but Tumblr took issue with it. Please note the focus is on creatures that are in or were supposed to be in Hollow Knight and nothing from Silksong.

The full list is under the cut!

Axolotl -> ???

Bat -> Belfly

Bee -> Hiveling

Blaze -> Either Grimmkin Master or Grimmkin Nightmare, depending on the palette

Cat -> Grub

Cave spider -> Deepling or Deephunter

Chicken -> Grounded vengefly or grounded crystal hunter

Cod -> Flukemon lower half

Cow -> Boofly

Creeper -> Volatile mosskin, fungified husk, or violent husk, again depending on palette and unique features from the other mobs

Dolphin -> Pilflip?

Donkey -> Blundering Obelisk

Drowned -> Flukemon

Elder Guardian -> Uumuu

Enderman -> Void construct, soul twister, or soul warrior

Endermite -> Shadow creeper or Mistake

Evoker -> Volt Twister

Fox -> Tiktik or Crawlid

Ghast -> Fungoon

Glow squid -> Ooma

Goat -> Great Hopper

Guardian -> Charged lumaflies

Hoglin -> Moss charger or flukemunga

Horse -> Great Stag

Husk -> Entombed Husk

Llama -> Giraffe weevil

Magma cube -> Infected balloon

Mooshroom -> Fungified elder baldur

Mule -> Some kind of horned beetle that looks similar to Stag but isn’t Stag

Ocelot -> Grub mimic

Panda -> ???

Parrot -> Maskfly

Phantom -> Vengefly King? Aluba?

Pig -> Golden jewel scarab beetle

Piglin -> Generic godseeker (Meaning, not the character of Godseeker, but a godseeker)

Piglin Brute -> Void-touched generic godseeker

Pillager -> Sturdy fool

Polar Bear -> Glimback

Pufferfish -> Hwurmp

Rabbit -> Hopper

Ravager -> God tamer’s Beast

Salmon -> Flukemon upper half

Sheep -> Large mosscreep

Shulker -> Sporg

Silverfish -> Dirtcarver

Skeleton -> Leaping husk

Skeleton horse -> Void-touched Stag

Slime -> Lifeblood balloon

Spider -> Corpse creeper or little weaver

Squid -> Uoma

Stray -> Slobbering husk

Strider -> Durandoo

Trader Llama -> Grimmsteed

Tropical fish -> Flukefey

Turtle -> Bluggsac

Vex -> Aspid hunter

Villager -> Various NPC characters ie cartographer -> Cornifer etc

Vindicator -> Shielded fool

Wandering Trader -> Brumm

Witch -> Salubra, Seer, or Jiji

Wither Skeleton -> Siblings

Wolf -> ????

Zoglin -> Infected moss charger or flukemunga

Zombie -> Wandering Husk

Zombie Horse -> Infected Stag

Zombie Villager -> Infected NPCs (or infected elderbug if I can’t do variants. Sorry elderbug, I love you, but you Are the face of generic villager types, and basic husks are already in use elsewhere. :( )

Zombified Piglin -> Infected generic godseeker