#failed vessel

[the-sanctified-matriarch]

Mother, how do you feel about Moreau’s obsession with you and your affection? Were you ever really affectionate with him? Is this something planned, were you affectionate with him while the experiment took place to test how it would cause obsessive tendencies, like Stockholm syndrome?

If kindness breeds devotion, is that manipulation or revelation?

Love, when offered to the broken, always curdles into obsession. Affection is a tool, my child. To some, it inspires loyalty. To others, it becomes a crutch. Moreau chose how deeply he leaned.

[starsinstasis]

Fully grown cailen!! 0

[hoennstarter]

[snozzlesnes]

Say hello to this little bug named Igans!

Who needs nails when you got dual hammers??? So I finished Hollow Knight (except godhome) about a week ago and made an oc.. Woohoo , failed vessel hours! I also made a DnD version of them for a one shot i had with friends. Fun times.The little wings on their back helps them hover a little in the air.. Not much though. Once they grow up, they can actually have an extra jump, kinda like the moth wings! They’re also mute.

[contaminate-fallen-failure]

Some random doodles with failed vessel interacting with other hollow knight characters.  When FV was a little vessel he followed the Pale King around a lot. Back then he didn’t understand fully what his intended purpose was, he just knew he wanted to be everywhere his father was.  Failed Vessel was very attached to Hornet when she was a little baby and always kept the little spider/wyrm out of mischief. Now that they’re both adults he won’t harm her, even being infected doesn’t change this. Of course because him and the Radiance are lovers, the infection doesn’t affect him the way it does other bugs and he can still think rationally.  If the Failed Vessel were to ever meet Lace he would instantly try to kill her. The creature has made attempts to harm his beloved little sister and he will not allow anyone who has hurt her to live.  Pure Vessel and Failed Vessel will never be friends. The Pure Vessel replaced him and he will never forgive him for it. 

[archetypal-archivist]

My Hollow Knight oc, and one of the (many) failed vessels: meet The Mason.

There were thousands of vessels made in an attempt to make a perfect one, so it makes sense that out of all those vessels, some of them came out to be abject failures.

Was marching with the other vessels only to trip and fall, and their siblings began marching over her body in their hurry. This is how her mask got cracked.

She dug downwards to escape the pounding feet, down into the corpses of her fallen brethren, and hid there until their siblings had all left.

Beneath the soil, her body was under pressure from all sides instead of the pressure being focused onto a sigle point at a time, which was how she survived.

She was stuck there for hours, and during that time she learned what it was like to fear for her life, as well as how to gain comfort from the constant pressure of being underground.

Once she emerged from the soil, she was too emotional to be a good vessel and was just cognizant enough to know that, but that urge to save the kingdom was still burning strong.

She snuck down the well in Dirtmouth, stole some tools, and began to fix the kingdom physically, patching up walls and cutting away the overgrowth.

She gets around via the tunnel systems left behind by the larger worm-like creatures and does her best to stay out of sight.

[contaminate-fallen-failure]

As a specimen for Soul Master’s experiments the Failed Vessel was put through all kinds of torture, from mental to physical. The scientist didn’t treat him like a living creature, but an object with no thoughts or feelings of his own. Even when he would try to escape and did things that something with an actual mind would do the bug refused to think of him as anything more than a mindless thing.  It didn’t help that the Pale King seemed to believe the same things about vessels, thinking of them as shells animated by the void.  Any indications otherwise were always explained away. Those showing attitudes that contradicted this belief were written off as flawed dolls. This belief, of course, was echoed by most bugs in the kingdom, with the White Lady being the exception. However, not even she could prevent what was happening to the Failed Vessel in the Soul Sanctum. and he was left there for years, used and abused by the scientists that worked there. It wasn’t until the Pure Vessel had become an adult and was close to being prepared to seal the Radiance that he managed to escape, leaving the corpses of his tormentors scattered all over the laboratory.  Present times he avoids the place completely, as it will trigger his PTSD and send him into uncontrollable panic attacks. It’s the one place in Hallownest that Ghost could access without the Failed Vessel making any attempts to stop him. 

[contaminate-fallen-failure]

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.