#radi fkin dies au

[featherlouise]

Figured it's time to make a post explaining my AUs bc some of them are AUs of AUs of AUs and nobody's boutta read thru everything lmao

SO!!

Early Infection AU

Most of my AUs are variants of this

Hollow is infected by the Radiance as a teenager, with her slowly creeping into their mind over the course of a few months.

Eventually she takes over and ends up trying to kill the Pale King, they manage to wrestle back control and stab themselves, which throws them into the dream realm where they fight the Radiance and win.

The rest of the AU is just family fluff and drama as Hollow recovers

Hollow Fkin Dies AU

Variant of Early Infection!! Exactly what it says on the tin!! Instead of winning the Radiance fight, they're killed and everything bad that can happen does happen in the following years.

Mostly focuses on PK's grief and how EVERYTHING just gets worse and worse in Hallownest, the Knights get infected, the dreamers are infected, WL goes insane, Hornet is killed, the infection runs rampant (even more so than in canon)

By the time Ghost arrives in Hallownest, the entire kingdom is p much like infected crossroads from the get go

Radi Fkin Dies AU

Hollow loses the battle with the Radiance but manages to escape by the skin of their teeth, hiding in the dream realm and slowly killing Radi via void poisoning.

They wake up after killing her, years after their ‘death’ to a very scared and confused PK, an insane mother, and an (almost) adult baby sister

What follows is basically the aftermath of Early Infection but there’s a lot more to fix

Radi Fkin Dies Speedrun

After their death, PK goes over the top with their funeral, introducing them to the Kingdom as his child who died to save his life, and makes sure the funeral is one befitting a prince. (This is true for all hfd variants)

Meanwhile, Hollow figures out a far less subtle (and slow) way to kill Radi off, using a combo of void poisoning and stabbing to get the job done.

They wake up as they’re being paraded down the streets of the city, causing quite a scene.

PK in his paranoia, spends the next few years coddling Hollow to the point where they start a flaming row with him and decide to head to Deepnest to cool off. PK sends every available person in the palace to look for them, which leaves him vulnerable to an assassination attempt. Hollow arrives in the nick of time, but PK is gravely injured and they have to take over as Prince Regent while he recovers.

Radi Fkin Dies Speedrun: Bad End (rfds bad end)

U get what I mean about the AUs of AUs of AUs thing now right?? Lmfao

Variant of RFDS!!

PK doesn’t survive the attack, instead dying in Hollow’s arms before they can apologise for anything they said during the argument.

PK has a funeral befitting the first god king and creator of Hallownest, and is buried in a tomb in Queen’s Gardens, where WL soon follows

(Long story short, PK and WL decided they didn’t want to live without the other so when PK dies, WL decides she wants to “root herself down” as close to his burial site as possible

When a root “roots themselves down” it’s basically them entering their last stage of life and they eventually just fade away and become a tree)

Hollow is crowned King and rules Hallownest for the foreseeable future

Eventually they meet an oc bf and have kids with him, the eldest of which dies young

There’s also an afterlife in this AU, so anyone who dies spends their time watching over Hollow and their loved ones :)

Shades of Memory AU

Hollow is found out to not be hollow VERY early on, so PK removes all memories of their voidness and raises them as a normal kid

They get a good childhood, but once they turn 18 they find out about their origins in. The worst way possible.

Root of Evil AU

Evil WL au!!! She gets sick of her husband’s shit and, after finding out the Pure Vessel isn’t hollow, leaves and takes the kids (the divorce is implied abdbfn). She also takes Hornet with her bc her child needs a playmate godsdamnit!!

Most of this au takes place during Hollow’s teenage years where, after being raised believing that mortals are worth no more than the dirt under their feet, they find out that mortals are actually pretty cool sometimes!! PK is a wet rat here, what else is new, and bby Hornet gets to commit arson!! What more could you want?

ALSO ALSO EVIL WIVES!! (the Radiance x WL)

[featherlouise]

THE WAY I AUDIBLY GASPED HOLY FUCKING SHIT

I'm just gonna. Stare at this now

@featherlouise I love parallels :]] And also these two being in pain

[featherlouise]

Somebody please get White Lady a therapist, Jesus Christ

Dwdw she gets therapy when all the panic’s died down

They need to get her outta that fkin tomb of a room first tho cuz she’s NOT going to get better in the room where she literally just stared at her dead child for YEARS

[featherlouise]

am i the only one confused on how they didnt rot?? thats a whole ahh corpse being left out for years if not centuries

UHHHH something something soul magic preserved their body something something

[featherlouise]

What if when PK felt the Radiance die he ran to go check on PV’s shrine, just in case, because he knows that they must have had something to do with it. The infection didn’t begin dying off until after their death, maybe they’re still around somehow, they have to be—

PV can either wake up then and there with Acquired Godhood and spook PK, or PK gets his hopes crushed only to be jumpscared by them a few days later

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Hmmmmm I honestly don't think he'd let himself hope that they might have something to do with it??? Like when he visits their shrine it's more of a reminder of all his regrets, so he'd probably be on his way to visit and when he gets there, they're just. Gone.

Which would put him in immediate panic mode, he'd be frantically looking around, even going so far as to ask WL what's happened, and she just goes,

"oh isn't it wonderful dear?? They woke up just earlier today!! I hope they had a good rest :)"

And that makes him panic EVEN MORE bc holy shit someone probably stole their body, and he's about to put the palace in lockdown when he turns around and they're just standing in the doorway, completely unharmed and not a trace of Her light in their eyes.

Aaaand then they bow. Bc that's how the Pure Vessel is supposed to greet the king.

[featherlouise]

Get this vessel some WD-40

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Embarasseddddd

[featherlouise]

pk's the embodiment of all or nothing atp lmao

n like. they understand that he's scared, they really do but they're a trained knight that has killed a goddess older than the pale king is, they can take care of a few measly assassins if that ever happens - 👹

MHM exactly!!!

[featherlouise]

OUGH yeah. They're like 17 atp iirc, not a baby, despite the fact tpk still seems to view them as such (or that might just be because he's grown very overprotective) - 👹

Mhm, I think they can manage to walk from the throne room to their bedroom without an entourage of guards and retainers lmao

It'd take them A WHILE to actually start to get annoyed at the doting and then even longer to gather up the courage to confront PK about it so ngl they're probably closer to 21 than 17 by the time the confrontation happens

[featherlouise]

Imagine Hollow starts to notice it, but just brushes it off out of fear, because father's a god, it couldn't possibly affect a god - 👹

MHM

He's been working with void for decades, there's no way he'd be THAT careless. They've seen him in his workshop, he's ALWAYS careful, sometimes he even puts his gloves and mask on BEFORE he enters the room.

ALSO

PK's lab safety also means that, regardless of which early infection branch we're in, the stains on PK's hands will always be a reminder of his child's death/ near death

[featherlouise]

PV comes back to a kingdom that is scarred, but *alive*

Plus once their role in finally ending it came out, it would certainly be a morale boost for the kingdom

Additionally, TPK would have absolutely *freaked* once PV’s body vanished, and then is treated to the jumpscare of the century when he walks out of the workshop and PV is right there, alive, staring at him

And then the kingdom has the chance to heal, and maybe they all get to heal and bury their dead and learn how to live again, maybe as a family this time

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THIS ALL OF THIS

I have nothing to add tbh this is perfect

[featherlouise]

Butting in here,

How did the funeral go in Radi Fucking Dies? Was there one?

Imagine Hollow waking up and there’s a statue of them in the middle of the City of Tears, and the new soul totems are modeled after them

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It went p much the exact same as hfd, since the funeral happens p soon after their death

Sooo basically huge procession, mournful music, crowds lining the streets, etc etc

(Think something like queen Liz's funeral if you've seen any clips of it)

But yea that'd be wiiild lmao. Imagine from the remaining citizens' points of view n all, like "AREN'T YOU DEAD"

[featherlouise]

Pale King DOES tackle her and then cut to the two of them in a hospital room

"...So I might have overreacted-"

AKSJDDKXN SRY I PASSED OUT

They had to put a curtain between their beds in case PK attacks again as soon as he sees her

[featherlouise]

Headcanon drop: PK growls

En he's sounding like a damn engine as his wife's scruffing him

AFHBNEBE ALL I CAN IMAGINE ARE MY CATS GROWLING LMFAO

[featherlouise]

NDBDJDDBDB "Hold on, gonna have to pause my death, my Idiot Husband senses are tingling"

EXACTLY u get it!!

[featherlouise]

esp if it's a dad who already lost their child once - 👹

MHM yoinking Spooky’s protective Wyrm parent headcannon, AND THEN considering he thought they were dead for however many years and JUST got them back, Herrah’s in for teeny tiny bit of a shock

On top of that, PK’s been a p pathetic puddle of a man for a while so Herrah’s NEVER seen him this pissed

[featherlouise]

herrah busting thru the white palace window to take hollow to deepnest - 👹

SHE WOULD THOUGH

Gotta be super stealthy if u wanna kidnap the 7ft tall teenager and NOT get immediately nerfed by their dad