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[theroaringknightdeltarune]

Some traditional roaring knight sketches! I edited them a lil bit tho

Almost forgot this one oops

[colbys-creations]

Personal favorite way I’ve seen the Knight drawn. It’s more detailed than the sprite, but still ambiguous as to its real form, unlike most other fan art which makes them explicitly feminine/crystalline/skeletal/deer-like/etc. There’s hints of those more specific interpretations, but I like that you kept it to just hints.

[pincushionsoup]

i love her so fucking much

[colbys-creations]

I want to draw her and Kris eating sandy moss on the beach.

[demiboydemon]

[demiboydemon]

He does the autistic version of rolling his eyes, where he does them in a full circle instead of just looking up.

[demiboydemon]

[demiboydemon]

[suhasuhaoo]

[colbys-creations]

I absolutely love this interpretation of Dragon Zelda.

[the-final-sif]

I would like to propose to the Hollow Knight fandom: what if Hornet/Weavers AREN'T based on venomous spiders. I draw this mainly from the fact Hornet needs the Pollip Pouch to use venom. If she had venom of her own, you'd think she wouldn't need a distinct tool for it. Further, no aspect of the weavers that we know of references venom in any way. They aren't called venomous, and they all seem to explicitly have their faces/mouths covered from creation, which would be weird for a creature that benefits from biting.

Now, you may want to tell me that's less interesting, but I would like to clarify, non-venomous spiders are an extreme minority, there's only 2 known groups of spiders that lack venom glands (the second one is complicated). The family Uloboridae and maaaybbe the genus Heptathela (I've seen conflicting reports, and from what I am able to find, it's possible their venom glads might just be small, and the spiders themselves seem pretty understudied). I'm going to put aside Heptathela due to the lack of research accessible to me, and focus on Uloboridae.

Uloboridae spiders, also called cribellate orb weavers, are bizarre little guys, ranging from "yeah that looks like a spider I guess"

(Photo by Akio Tanikawa, Octonoba grandiprojecta)

To "I mean, I guess, but it looks a bit off"

(Photo by Lyn Roueche, of Uloborus campestratus)

To "Absolutely not no fucking way"

(Photo by Peter Webb, of a "Miagrammopes brevicaudus" which I refuse to believe is not just a stick).

As you can now clearly see, these spiders are Weirdos, and I would like to focus on a specific genus, Philoponella, and somewhat specifically Little humped spiders (Philoponella congregabilis), a name given to some really unique Australian spiders, which are not only venomous, but build communal webs! An extreme rarity among spiders. Let's take a look at one.

(Philoponella congregabilis, by Robert Whyte)

Not only that, but these spiders tend to build messy, sloping webs communal webs. Not unlike what we see in both Pharloom and Deepnest. Webs just sorta strewn about. Built layer by layer. Notably, these spiders also do not remove their old web when they make a new one, with some sources I could find suggesting they're incapable of ingesting their old silk. Further, from at least one observation I could find in Australia, spiderlings appear to both receive some level of maternal care (specifically built webs and some level of food sharing) and at least some appear to inherit their mother's web, building on the old webs left behind.

Interestingly, these spiders kill their prey via constriction using their silk. They wrap the prey so firmly, the exoskeleton is crushed and the prey is killed. Doesn't death by constriction sound familiar? It's how the First Sinner was killed. The only weaver we know of to have been sentenced to the Slab. How fitting that she would die the same way weaver's might've killed prey.

So my proposition is, what if Weavers are based on something like these guys? Communal web weavers, lacking venom, crushing prey to death with silk. Not ingesting their own silk, but leaving it literally everywhere instead. Taking care of their (rare) young, and leaving behind nests to be inherited. A weaver's bite isn't one to be feared, it's quite literally their weaving you ought to be afraid of.

[the-final-sif]

I would like to propose to the Hollow Knight fandom: what if Hornet/Weavers AREN'T based on venomous spiders. I draw this mainly from the fact Hornet needs the Pollip Pouch to use venom. If she had venom of her own, you'd think she wouldn't need a distinct tool for it. Further, no aspect of the weavers that we know of references venom in any way. They aren't called venomous, and they all seem to explicitly have their faces/mouths covered from creation, which would be weird for a creature that benefits from biting.

Now, you may want to tell me that's less interesting, but I would like to clarify, non-venomous spiders are an extreme minority, there's only 2 known groups of spiders that lack venom glands (the second one is complicated). The family Uloboridae and maaaybbe the genus Heptathela (I've seen conflicting reports, and from what I am able to find, it's possible their venom glads might just be small, and the spiders themselves seem pretty understudied). I'm going to put aside Heptathela due to the lack of research accessible to me, and focus on Uloboridae.

Uloboridae spiders, also called cribellate orb weavers, are bizarre little guys, ranging from "yeah that looks like a spider I guess"

(Photo by Akio Tanikawa, Octonoba grandiprojecta)

To "I mean, I guess, but it looks a bit off"

(Photo by Lyn Roueche, of Uloborus campestratus)

To "Absolutely not no fucking way"

(Photo by Peter Webb, of a "Miagrammopes brevicaudus" which I refuse to believe is not just a stick).

As you can now clearly see, these spiders are Weirdos, and I would like to focus on a specific genus, Philoponella, and somewhat specifically Little humped spiders (Philoponella congregabilis), a name given to some really unique Australian spiders, which are not only venomous, but build communal webs! An extreme rarity among spiders. Let's take a look at one.

(Philoponella congregabilis, by Robert Whyte)

Not only that, but these spiders tend to build messy, sloping webs communal webs. Not unlike what we see in both Pharloom and Deepnest. Webs just sorta strewn about. Built layer by layer. Notably, these spiders also do not remove their old web when they make a new one, with some sources I could find suggesting they're incapable of ingesting their old silk. Further, from at least one observation I could find in Australia, spiderlings appear to both receive some level of maternal care (specifically built webs and some level of food sharing) and at least some appear to inherit their mother's web, building on the old webs left behind.

Interestingly, these spiders kill their prey via constriction using their silk. They wrap the prey so firmly, the exoskeleton is crushed and the prey is killed. Doesn't death by constriction sound familiar? It's how the First Sinner was killed. The only weaver we know of to have been sentenced to the Slab. How fitting that she would die the same way weaver's might've killed prey.

So my proposition is, what if Weavers are based on something like these guys? Communal web weavers, lacking venom, crushing prey to death with silk. Not ingesting their own silk, but leaving it literally everywhere instead. Taking care of their (rare) young, and leaving behind nests to be inherited. A weaver's bite isn't one to be feared, it's quite literally their weaving you ought to be afraid of.

[the-final-sif]

I would like to propose to the Hollow Knight fandom: what if Hornet/Weavers AREN'T based on venomous spiders. I draw this mainly from the fact Hornet needs the Pollip Pouch to use venom. If she had venom of her own, you'd think she wouldn't need a distinct tool for it. Further, no aspect of the weavers that we know of references venom in any way. They aren't called venomous, and they all seem to explicitly have their faces/mouths covered from creation, which would be weird for a creature that benefits from biting.

Now, you may want to tell me that's less interesting, but I would like to clarify, non-venomous spiders are an extreme minority, there's only 2 known groups of spiders that lack venom glands (the second one is complicated). The family Uloboridae and maaaybbe the genus Heptathela (I've seen conflicting reports, and from what I am able to find, it's possible their venom glads might just be small, and the spiders themselves seem pretty understudied). I'm going to put aside Heptathela due to the lack of research accessible to me, and focus on Uloboridae.

Uloboridae spiders, also called cribellate orb weavers, are bizarre little guys, ranging from "yeah that looks like a spider I guess"

(Photo by Akio Tanikawa, Octonoba grandiprojecta)

To "I mean, I guess, but it looks a bit off"

(Photo by Lyn Roueche, of Uloborus campestratus)

To "Absolutely not no fucking way"

(Photo by Peter Webb, of a "Miagrammopes brevicaudus" which I refuse to believe is not just a stick).

As you can now clearly see, these spiders are Weirdos, and I would like to focus on a specific genus, Philoponella, and somewhat specifically Little humped spiders (Philoponella congregabilis), a name given to some really unique Australian spiders, which are not only venomous, but build communal webs! An extreme rarity among spiders. Let's take a look at one.

(Philoponella congregabilis, by Robert Whyte)

Not only that, but these spiders tend to build messy, sloping webs communal webs. Not unlike what we see in both Pharloom and Deepnest. Webs just sorta strewn about. Built layer by layer. Notably, these spiders also do not remove their old web when they make a new one, with some sources I could find suggesting they're incapable of ingesting their old silk. Further, from at least one observation I could find in Australia, spiderlings appear to both receive some level of maternal care (specifically built webs and some level of food sharing) and at least some appear to inherit their mother's web, building on the old webs left behind.

Interestingly, these spiders kill their prey via constriction using their silk. They wrap the prey so firmly, the exoskeleton is crushed and the prey is killed. Doesn't death by constriction sound familiar? It's how the First Sinner was killed. The only weaver we know of to have been sentenced to the Slab. How fitting that she would die the same way weaver's might've killed prey.

So my proposition is, what if Weavers are based on something like these guys? Communal web weavers, lacking venom, crushing prey to death with silk. Not ingesting their own silk, but leaving it literally everywhere instead. Taking care of their (rare) young, and leaving behind nests to be inherited. A weaver's bite isn't one to be feared, it's quite literally their weaving you ought to be afraid of.

[tenebris024]

珊瑚的羔羊

[colbys-creations]

I like how the Vessels in Hollow Knight are basically demigods, but not through being half god and half mortal, but rather through being being conceived as 100% god and then being imbued with Anti-God Substance while developing in the egg; their 100% divine nature and the Anti-God Substance effectively canceled each other out, leaving us with something that’s not quite mortal, not quite godly, and not quite anti-godly, but rather something in between all 3, or perhaps a new 4th thing.

Vessels: “Not bug, nor beast, nor god.”

[clannekrot]

Clan hunting characteristics

As frequent combatants against the undead hordes of Nagash, the Skaven of Clan Nekrot have evolved certain habits and characteristics when in battle:

-Most, from the lowly clanrat to the highest chieftain, are capable of remaining completely still - lacking the fidgeting and twitching of other clans. This is perhaps to mimic corpses, though of course no recorded history of theirs exists.

-They specialize in ambushes and trap laying, slowly picking apart undying hordes. They also are adept at earthworks, burying themselves in shallow pockets or tunnels before erupting forth beneath the enemy's feet.

-They take their war paint seriously. The white dye of their fur is a combination of ground up bone dust (often from their own dead) and pale mud, rolling around in it like chinchillas. The black ink is unknown, theorized to be either distilled corpse drippings or the ink from some species of mollusk. The higher the ranks, the more elaborate the paint. The Skaven feel that looking like a corpse will give them the bravery to fight the undead.

-When fighting they are mostly silent, except for a strange dialect of bastardized queekish consisting of mostly squeaks, trills or clicks as a form of coordination (as much as Skaven can do so) - taught to them by Deathmaster Charnull's mysterious clan ages ago when the two made first contact.

-Nekrot Skaven fight extra hard for their lives if cornered, due to a cultural deeper understanding of death, but otherwise can fall to typical Skaven cowardice if presented with a stronger foe. They also do not use sophisticated tactics like more Mors-like clans. Most big city Skaven consider them nothing more than 'deranged hillbillies'.

[colbys-creations]

I find this idea immensely interesting: a Skaven clan that formed from the remnants of when Skavendom united against Nagash, because these Skaven are still deathly afraid of Nagash. Logically, that fear wouldn’t just fade, so it’s logical that something like this would happen.

I imagine they would be relatively unified by Skaven standards, similar to Mors and Pestilens in that regard; it also distinguishes itself from the other two (mostly) unified Skaven clans, as while Mors is unified through practical benefits and loyalty, and Pestilens is unified through fanaticism and religion, this Clan is unified through the cowardice inherent to all Skaven and a greater knowledge of the consequences of death.

You’ve really got my creativity turning. I think I’ll use your idea as inspiration for my own OC Skaven clan.

[colbys-creations]

Silksong’s story translates really well into Rain World. So does the original Hollow Knight, but I’m focusing on Silksong here. Here’s my take on a Rain World AU for Silksong:

Grand Mother Silk is an Iterator, one of the last ones built. She worked very closely with the Ancients that lived on her, and viewed them with motherly affection. When the Ancients all went away, GMS felt bereft of purpose and also experienced no small amount of Empty Nest Syndrome; to solve this, she uplifted some local arachnids to create the Weavers: Purposed Beings designed to be Admins, intended to fill the emotional and functional void left by the Ancients, and to act as extensions of GMS’s will in places she could not easily influence. To do this, they were given the ability to produce and manipulate this AU’s equivalent of Silk: the red neural fibers seen in Five Pebble’s (and presumably other Iterator’s) Memory Conflux.

Of course, eventually the Weavers discover that they are not true children of GMS, nor even her intended Admins, but rather that they are just another modified animal; furthermore, they discover that GMS doesn’t really love them as individuals, but is just using them as a surrogate for her affection to her original inhabitants, the Ancients. Fed up with being treated as dolls that GMS uses to play pretend (as they interpret it), they slowly yet steadily sabotage GMS’s iterative experiments, gradually coaxing her into ideas that would require greater and greater amounts of Neural Fibers to compute. They use their power over Neural Fibers and Admin privileges to make subtle alterations to code and biology while GMS is distracted in the depths of her iterations, subtly influencing her decision making. Eventually, they isolate her conscious influence over the superstructure to a single room, her mind effectively comatose from running so many mental iterations at once.

From here, the Weavers revel in their now-uncontested control over the superstructure, remaking much of it to suit their whims and running experiments on whatever they please. However, GMS was not perfectly contained, and they realized that she would eventually take back control over the superstructure. So, the Weavers did some social engineering, and manipulated the local population of Scavengers into taking the role of Admins and keeping GMS inactive, all under the guise of religion. The Weavers then fled, scattering to wherever they thought both GMS and the rains couldn’t reach. The new Scavenger Admins would then make some more alterations to the superstructure and run some of their own experiments, but would eventually realize the danger the Weavers left them in, and spitefully erase positive records of them.

GMS would gradually become more cognizant, and would become furious at what her adoptive children had done to her, their betrayal stinging far more than the Ancient’s abandonment. Using the Neural Fibers the Scavengers had implanted in themselves in pursuit of immortality, she would puppeteer them to seek and capture the Weavers. She would bring the Weavers before her and strip them of their Admin privileges and power over Neural Fibers, adding to her processing power and restoring a little of her influence over the superstructure. Eventually, though, her Empty Nest Syndrome would kick in again; after being betrayed by the Weavers and abandoned by the Ancients, she couldn’t stand the thought of her next children doing something similar, and decided to purge all foreign influence from their design—her next children would be made of her own flesh and blood, literally. Using her own Iterator Puppet as a model (or at least, what her Iterator Puppet looked like before her extensive additions of Neural Fibers), she designed a new kind of being based upon scaled down versions of Iterator hardware, but with a purposeful flaw: their Neural Fibers would steadily burn out over time, and require replacement from external sources. GMS made the first of these beings (Phantom) early out of necessity, as she needed an Admin properly managing her heavily altered Steam Exhaust System ASAP. She took her time with the second one (Lace) though, and treated them as their new golden child.

This idea is still incomplete. I have no idea what I’m going to do with Hornet or the Pale King, and I’ve not given a lot of thought to any factions outside the Citadel, GMS, and the Weavers. I wanted to post this at least.

[colbys-creations]

Thank you @silly-soup-drinker and everyone who got me to 5 reblogs!

[snoozystarz]

siamo zero isnt actually zero: its basically evil kirby who's turned into dark matter/zero

I misread the last ask as just Zero so here

Siamo Zero except Kirby sized and can be tamed with food

[colbys-creations]

You know, the best part about this is that it’s actually plausible that Siamo Zero could be saved this way.

Siamo Zero is an alternate version of Kirby who never made any friends simply due to the circumstances that would lead to him making friends never occurring; eventually, after years of dealing with all the challenges and monsters and trials that the Kirby Games throw at him, loneliness corrupted his heart, and he fell to darkness, taking up the mantle that Zero once held; thus, becoming Siamo Zero.

All Siamo Zero wanted was friends, and his corruption and despair all stem from the loneliness of having to face challenges (both mundane and grand) all on his own. Someone actually willing to show him kindness, share their food with him, and be his friend would be the exact thing needed to save him from his corruption.

[colbys-creations]

Silksong’s story translates really well into Rain World. So does the original Hollow Knight, but I’m focusing on Silksong here. Here’s my take on a Rain World AU for Silksong:

Grand Mother Silk is an Iterator, one of the last ones built. She worked very closely with the Ancients that lived on her, and viewed them with motherly affection. When the Ancients all went away, GMS felt bereft of purpose and also experienced no small amount of Empty Nest Syndrome; to solve this, she uplifted some local arachnids to create the Weavers: Purposed Beings designed to be Admins, intended to fill the emotional and functional void left by the Ancients, and to act as extensions of GMS’s will in places she could not easily influence. To do this, they were given the ability to produce and manipulate this AU’s equivalent of Silk: the red neural fibers seen in Five Pebble’s (and presumably other Iterator’s) Memory Conflux.

Of course, eventually the Weavers discover that they are not true children of GMS, nor even her intended Admins, but rather that they are just another modified animal; furthermore, they discover that GMS doesn’t really love them as individuals, but is just using them as a surrogate for her affection to her original inhabitants, the Ancients. Fed up with being treated as dolls that GMS uses to play pretend (as they interpret it), they slowly yet steadily sabotage GMS’s iterative experiments, gradually coaxing her into ideas that would require greater and greater amounts of Neural Fibers to compute. They use their power over Neural Fibers and Admin privileges to make subtle alterations to code and biology while GMS is distracted in the depths of her iterations, subtly influencing her decision making. Eventually, they isolate her conscious influence over the superstructure to a single room, her mind effectively comatose from running so many mental iterations at once.

From here, the Weavers revel in their now-uncontested control over the superstructure, remaking much of it to suit their whims and running experiments on whatever they please. However, GMS was not perfectly contained, and they realized that she would eventually take back control over the superstructure. So, the Weavers did some social engineering, and manipulated the local population of Scavengers into taking the role of Admins and keeping GMS inactive, all under the guise of religion. The Weavers then fled, scattering to wherever they thought both GMS and the rains couldn’t reach. The new Scavenger Admins would then make some more alterations to the superstructure and run some of their own experiments, but would eventually realize the danger the Weavers left them in, and spitefully erase positive records of them.

GMS would gradually become more cognizant, and would become furious at what her adoptive children had done to her, their betrayal stinging far more than the Ancient’s abandonment. Using the Neural Fibers the Scavengers had implanted in themselves in pursuit of immortality, she would puppeteer them to seek and capture the Weavers. She would bring the Weavers before her and strip them of their Admin privileges and power over Neural Fibers, adding to her processing power and restoring a little of her influence over the superstructure. Eventually, though, her Empty Nest Syndrome would kick in again; after being betrayed by the Weavers and abandoned by the Ancients, she couldn’t stand the thought of her next children doing something similar, and decided to purge all foreign influence from their design—her next children would be made of her own flesh and blood, literally. Using her own Iterator Puppet as a model (or at least, what her Iterator Puppet looked like before her extensive additions of Neural Fibers), she designed a new kind of being based upon scaled down versions of Iterator hardware, but with a purposeful flaw: their Neural Fibers would steadily burn out over time, and require replacement from external sources. GMS made the first of these beings (Phantom) early out of necessity, as she needed an Admin properly managing her heavily altered Steam Exhaust System ASAP. She took her time with the second one (Lace) though, and treated them as their new golden child.

This idea is still incomplete. I have no idea what I’m going to do with Hornet or the Pale King, and I’ve not given a lot of thought to any factions outside the Citadel, GMS, and the Weavers. I wanted to post this at least.

[exhaust-organ]

hmm