When the things go from bad to worse

An ask blog for all of my Hollow Knight AUs and OCS. 

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Wearing Daddy's Coat by lady-warrior on DeviantArt

Wearing Daddy's Coat by lady-warrior Hazbin hotel roric wearing Valentino’s coat. He works for the big moth pimp.

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Who were they if you want to say that publicly?

I can’t tell you. I don’t want anyone to bother them.

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Wait, are you going to delete your blog?

I don’t know what to do. I just wish I knew why this person has blocked me. I have never given an explanation. 

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I can’t do this anymore

The person that encouraged me to make this blog has blocked me from everything without an explanation. I don’t know what I did and she never told me. I just can’t deal with this anymore. I’m so sorry. 

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HH: Old Boyfriend by lady-warrior

AU for if roric were in the HH universe. He’d also be a porn star like Angel Dust and a rival and they would have history together.

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grimm, are you aware that you are spoiling the child?

“She is just so precious, I just feel like spoiling her rotten. I know Hornet wants me to stop doing it, but she is such a cutie!”

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Roric you could probably just remove the sign

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*Puts a Free Ice Cream sign on Roric's freezer and vanishes in a puff of hell fire and smoke*

“Why are you torturing me?! I spent a fortune on these delicious flavors! Go pick on someone else, you devil moth!”

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Nightmare Fire by lady-warrior

When Wasp reaches maturity, she gains full access to the Nightmare Hearts powers, being able to control all forms of the flame, However this is only due to the fact that her mask is an inhibitor and prevents the Heart from fully controlling her. If her mask were to be broken or removed the Heart would completely possess her body.

Luckily her parents Grimm and Hornet have managed to give her one that is very durable and unlikely to be broken.  

This will only remain a problem until she mates. Afterward the egg will become the next vessel for the heart and a new Grimmchild, allowing Wasp to become a normal bug and continuing the cycle of the Troupe and ritual. 

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The Failed Vessel and The Pale King

The failed vessel was the very first vessel ever created by the Pale King and White Lady. His birth is slightly different from the other vessels as he has a biological sex, male, and a bit less void than the others. At first he seemed to be just like any other vessel but his imperfections became more obviously when he grew up. Before he was replaced with the Pure Vessel the pale king raised him from infancy, believing he would be able to stop the infection and save everyone. The young vessel was treated in a similar fashion to the Pure Vessel and as he grew he became very attached and loving to the Pale King, believing the King loved him back.

Even after he was replaced and handed over to the Soul Master to be used for experiments he still loved his father, but wondered why he’d abandoned him to such a horrible fate. This also stirred a burning hatred for the Pure Vessel and other vessels afterward, leaving him to believe they all exist to replace him. 

His delusions have let him to kill any vessels he came across and ensuring the seal on the Black Egg was broken, proving to his father that he was the one who should have been used to seal the Radiance and not the others, as he believes he is the only pure one and the others are failures, not him.

If Ghost were to Dreamnail the Failed Vessel, he would find himself in a corrupted version of the White Palace, with a glowing form of the Radiance seen in the background clouds, entering the tower would take him into a short hall with the Pure Vessel hanging from thorns from the ceiling, and the main area where he would find the Pale King on his throne wrapped up in thorny vines. Each image symbolizing something in the Failed Vessel’s mind. 

Radiance being Freedom, Hung Pure Vessel being Revenge, and the imprisoned Pale King being Desire. 

It would seem strange that after all he’s been through he would still love his father but he does, in a slightly perverted sense of the word. He refuses to accept the King never really cared for him and will not tolerate anyone speaking badly about him. He just wants to prove himself to the Pale King, that he’s not a failure and wants him to be proud of him. 

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This is Echo, she is a Vessel who managed to climb out of the Abyss. She’s a kind but fearful  vessel. After climbing out of the abyss she ended up making her way to the forgotten crossroads where she hid herself. She was a tiny child and never grew very tall once she reached adulthood. She is very good at navigating through the tunnels and spends most of her time hidden in a small cave where she took up residence. Living her life secluded she taught herself skills with the nail, creating her own style. 

She hid herself in the tunnels due to the Failed Vessel wandering the kingdom, searching for any other vessels that might have climbed out of the abyss. If he sees one he will kill it, believing it is there to replace him like the Pure Vessel did. 

Echo cannot speak, neither from void speech or normal speech, though she can understand it. She communicates by writing down things she wants to say or sign language.  

She loves sounds though and if she finds one she likes she will try to replicate it, giving meaning to her name. When she was small she owned a music box but it broke at some point in her life, so she replaced it with a bell she wears around her neck. 

Echo is pretty friendly once she concludes someone is not a threat and will usually offer someone a flower as a sign of friendship. 

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Lovebugs GxH by lady-warrior

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More Contamination Info

So my idea for the Contamination AU came from a dream I had. In it Lurien was a scientist as well as the Watcher. He was trying to figure out a way to cure the infection but it drove him insane instead. In my dream some bugs came to visit him and he intentionally exposed them to the more potent version of the infection he’d created. The infection killed these bugs in a matter of seconds and the became zombies that the Watcher sent out to infect the general population.  

His butler saw it happen but he never told anybody because he was terrified. Bugs in the dream were easily infected except for Hornet and the Vessels. I got more ideas as I discussed the idea with other people on a Hollow Knight server. Some of the infected stormed the White Palace, infecting the bugs inside of it. Pure Vessel fought them to protect the King but in the end he could do nothing and the King told him to flee. He did so but only when the Pale King told him he’d be all right. Not too long after the Vessel fled the infected overwhelmed and captured the King. This has led the Vessel to wander around Deepnest wracked with guilt for being unable to protect his father. 

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Some info for Contamination

In the AU certain bugs cannot be infected at all, even by the more potent version created by Lurien. All vessels and Hornet are immune as well as the White Lady and Pale king.  This is due to the Pale King and White Lady being higher beings. Vessels are immune because they are the children of higher beings and Hornet is because her father is a higher being. Quirrel could have become infected but since he wears Monomon’s mask at all times the enchantment in it protects him from it. Unlike the main canon Monomon didn’t become a dreamer, but died from being attacked by the infected. She gave Quirrel her mask before she died of her wounds.  Most bugs in Hallownest aren’t immune to it but some outsiders are. Zote is immune due to the sole fact his ego is too big to allow him to be infected. Tiso is also immune, the same with the mantis tribe, who like before can only be infected if they allow it to happen. The God Tamer isn’t driven insane by the infection but she is a kind of “Typhoid Mary” meaning she doesn’t show symptoms herself but she can unintentionally infect others.  Those in the Grimm Troupe are also immune to infection because they are servants of the Nightmare Heart, the being in opposition of the Radiance, this is why Hornet lit the beacon to summon the Troupe because she knew their natural immunity would be useful. Another reason is Troupe Master Grimm’s Nightmare King self can traverse in dreams  and she and her siblings hope he will be able to find the place where the Pale King is being held prisoner. 

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Join Me In My Nightmare by lady-warrior

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