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[darkautodraws]

Lua redesign + @chipper-smol​‘s Pleasant Beginnings AU.

[daily-wyrmmy]

Ok i tried to paint pale king with pearls colors. Im happy with the result! Oh, btw, this desing is by @chipper-smol :D go check her out <3

[bluwails]

"No one's supposed to cry at a circus."

Palejester au belongs to @chipper-smol

You're just pumping these out like liquid gold, aren't ya chipper?

Yes i know

PJ has alreday developed a canon(?) Personality. but!!! this shot out of my brain before that and I was too slow 🐌 and by time I got around to put stylus to board PJ was sad boi clown .

So here i am, after the curve, with a happy clown short boi and brewing ideas.

I dub him Pale Jovial jester( PJJ) !

My thoughts are as following:

This takes place many years after Hallownest's fall and its now in the bouts of a Renaissance. Thanks to Hornet, Hollow and Ghost, working together as a monarch trio with the help of the qhite lady, they have renewed Hallownest recreating the bustling utopia under a more managed rule.

Ghost now has an older body thanks to better care.

Hornet rules over Deepnest with a better relationship with the mantids after beating the lords.

Hollow, still making peace with what happened, still works hard as knight even with their missing arm. (Ogrim returns as well cause the dungy boi is so sweet. He helps create a new batch of knights along with Hollow.)

The white lady returns and a new palace is built over the rubble of the old one. ( many depiction of PK were removed or moved to the new palace or kept in place for historic matters.)

New bugs have moved to Hallownest, so not many know or remember PK and those that do only speak of him in passing when bringing up the history of hallownest.

Hornet Hollow WL and Ghost did try to hold a quiet memorial for PK only to discover his body was gone from the dream palace.

How they discover PK is PJJ is because on one of the troupes round trips to Hallownest ghost invites Grimm and the troupe to perform ( and show off their good work) in the new palace only for the opening performer to be a familiar tiny pale wyrm juggling for them.

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Like PJ,NKG completely revamped PK to better suit the troupes aesthetic. As well as wiping all memory of what happened in Hallownest along with the memory of those affected by his actions. Technically leaving PUJ with the bare honest minimum.

TMG, when introducing his new jester to the troupe, used a bit of power to keep their mouths shut about PJJ's past in Hallownest along with their memories of those he affected by his actions. ( even if they wanted to spill the beans to PJJ or an outsider their mouths would lock up tightly. The more one would try the more painful it became so they learned to make peace with the fact that the king of Hallownest was now a clown.)

Being a near complete blank slate , PJJ, through the long period of traveling through the wastes, managed to develop a personality completely opposite of his previous.

PJJ became, for the lack of better words, Jovial. They werent adverse to touches, they even welcomed them, allowing others to hold them and handle them as they pleased. Giving TMG MANY opportunities to carry Pjj around like a spoiled cat. PJJ, as his title suggests, was a master of calculated jokes, able to perform on their feet and Crack more tongue in cheek jokes for older audiences to the point he'dleave the lot cacklingand wheezing for breath. And finally, They honestly loved to perform to the point where they performed cheeky songs and numbers with Divine fitting the mocarbra circus theme.

Where the old PK seeps between the cracks is their mannerisms and perfectionism. They take great pride in their performance. Often practicing to exhaustion and finding fault in each retry (thou it is so seamless not a soul can tell if he truly messed up) . They still hold their interest in tinkering. creating props and equipment for others performances streamlining them. even managing to make a trapeze that could handle Divine and open up a new avenue for other performances. The way they walk and hold themselves is so similar to the point where even he cracks jokes about how uptight he must look.

( yes I headcanon that Divine can sing. Her trills are so pretty. As well as beinga possiblefortune teller you she can only see the misfortune. And giggles once she tells you. Lmfao)

(as a side I totally see them performing verbatim by mother mother together as divine uses a trapeze swing( kealoid stage stage style) and PJJ does slight of hand juggling.)

Meeting someone or seeing something they once knew is no problem. It would be like deja vu in a sense. But if pressed or up against someone that is able to clear the fog PJJ does suffer from great discomfort. Especially if they insist who they are (now) is not who they used to be. Causing them to have powerful headaches as they try to understand/remember ultimately giving into the pain and going to TMG to take it away.

Cause you can't ask for retribution from someone who honestly doesn't remember what they did and who they did it to.

(I imagine after meeting Hollow they would have such a headache that would incapacitate them with pain. Hollow's face being too familiar for them to handle. )

[wayfaring-cryptid]

https://iota404.tumblr.com/post/619113697079607296/basically-all-players-fear

[^Credit to the pic^]

Soft taps of chitin filled the quiet of the room

A young knight paced with fever of someone clearly troubled

Their pure white mask may show no emotion but a mental storm raged in their head

Young ghost had overcome many foes, much blood stained their hands and nail

But this one problem he couldnt fix with a fight just yet

Their end goal so far yet but their time runs short

Infection rates rise each day and the guilt is heavy on the soul

They can do something about it, they know how to fix it!

They just... cant

So every day they remain idle more bodies pile up leaking orange

They just need to dream right?

That thought makes them pause

They used a dream nail to reach her so surely they just need to dream to reach her!

It was worth a shot... but what would better their odds?

Another dream based god

Grimm.

Yes! Grimm could help! Surely a master of nightmares can help them dream!

A soft yet sharp clap bounced off the walls before the door was thrown open loudly

The sound of hurried running soon filled the halls of the white palace.

Ghost had a plan.

{Based on @chipper-smol 's shitlord or time travel au ghost as a few wanted a part 2. Aint much but its what i had thought up. Hope you enjoyed!}

The people who wanted more

[meatbunattack]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Grimm Troupe (Hollow Knight), The Nightmare’s Heart (Hollow Knight), Grimm (Hollow Knight), Original Hollow Knight Character(s), The Pale King (Hollow Knight) Every night I closed my eyes I would always plunge into that scarlet fog, plagued by constant nightmares. Sometimes I slept only a few hours. Sometimes I slept into the afternoon. Sometimes people worried if I would even wake up.
A curse had been placed upon me from my parents actions. I had lived through the infection. But what now when the infection has returned….?
What does it mean to give up my name? And why is that red bug asking for it? Chipper-smol is the one who inspired me to write this one. Their thoughts on the nightmare king Grimm and how he could be similar to a fae inspired me. So… I made this one shot in like a day or two, it was a lot of fun. 
Fae are known for binging people to themselves by owning someone’s name. I didn’t want to make a character for the story so I didn’t describe the main character in any way. Also, I had no clue what name to give them so I just went with a name that sounded kinda gender neutral. Cause yeh, I didn’t want this to be too large of a story thing, just a fun lil one shot.

[do-not-go-gently-42]

Hornet has never suffered fools gladly, even if this one is... strangely familiar...

Featuring @chipper-smol’s Pale Jester AU and my own Vessel OC, Az

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@chipper-smol​ is this your Three Hornets AU?