#nightlight-dot-exe

[hornetposting]

the fact that bv is canonically taller than hornet has got to drive her nuts. even greenpath vessel is only a head shorter than her

by using ghost as a measuring stick, hornet is taller than bv. though thats not to say she is tall by any means 😔

[hollowknightheadcanons]

ghost responds to jumpscares by freezing (like they do in most of the boss entrances) for a split second and then reflexively using their nail. hornet probably just punches things on reflex (since she's spent enough time being around people as a kid that she's learned to punch first and then needle afterwards if necessary, since a fist is less deadly than a needle but does buy you a moment to grab said needle if the situation requires. she's also the kind of person who would work very hard to not lose her "do not automatically stab people" manners to years spent guarding husk filled Hallownest)

(ghost and hornet are "fight" response people in comparison to their sibling's "freeze" response)

YEAH! I had a headcanon about Ghost freezing because they’re scared or overstimulated. Quirrel responds to be startled by jumping probably. Maybe Tiso too. If you do actually manage to startle Tiso he’ll be gone in moments.

[datastate]

Hegemol thoughts? I know you headcanon him and Lurien as adopted family and that is Top Tier

THANK U i just. they’re both important figures in the city and it makes sense that they’d be close w each other imo?? (also this got long oops.)

okay! so! hegemol was the first “watcher” (technically) as the guardian of the heart! he was fine, at first, and really did try to maintain this position on his own from tpk’s request, but he just. simply does Not have the mind for all the social stuff (he gets sensory overload when there’s a lot of noise, esp targeted at him). because of this, he had set up the overseers like victor (soul master; he was already an important religious figure and supposedly an honest person who spoke for the citizens) and emilitia (which was a mistake, he realized, but she was already finding a strong hold there with nobles defending her because she represented their wants over those beneath them and he did Not want to bother tpk abt this w/o genuine reason for emilitia’s faults) and four other people who aren’t canon characters. anyway, when the overseers were established, hegemol was content with his position as helping protect the capital, it was what he was recognized for and good at. he was the one who set up defenses against the mantises when tpk had yet to find some peace with them, and also the reason the city didn’t completely fall to ‘the battle of the blackwyrm.’

speaking of that battle! that ended up bringing around some much needed change even if it was a fucked up event. lurien joined hallownest soon after this, was endorsed by tpk, and hegemol was like oh thank g-d. he disbanded the overseers and helped the city begin to find new roots. he wasn’t oblivious to the corruption (and other issues) w the people he’d given these positions to, but they ended up having more power in his city than he did (especially victor, who knew how to play both sides disturbingly well) due to both their reputation and just. the fact there were more of them and unless they outright tried to break him from the city there was no real reason to bring tpk into the mix.

when lurien was established as the watcher, hegemol was thankful to realize there was more equal ground. even though he still left most social issues up to lurien, he no longer felt completely closed out of what was happening in the city, which was his previous issue with the others among their general shitty selfishness. both lurien and hegemol had to report to a Literal God so that kind of helped keep them in check, along with the fact they were both raised in relatively poor conditions and weren’t spoiled like most of the overseers were, they knew (even vaguely) how to help improve living conditions all around and lurien helped create that for the capital. obviously it’s really difficult to undo everything the overseers put into place, but lurien steadily worked toward helping the capital as a whole heal and rise to its best self. this is what earns him his respect from his servants and other commonfolk, along with his just overall kind nature, similar to victor’s but a lot less concieted.

lurien and hegemol grow close, he’s sort of an honorary knight at this point with how close he is to tpk and how often he ends up meeting with a few of them in hegemol’s stead. hegemol is someone who is almost always, unless it’s by tpk or wl’s specific request, in the city. he’s a reliable source, and this is why when the knights usually meet, it’s either in hallownest’s heart or the palace, accommodating for hegemol. he doesn’t enjoy leaving the city because at this point he’s been there for like... centuries. he feels awful and nervous when he leaves it. of course he knows when to take breaks, and he knows he can trust the other guards placed around the capital to keep things safe, but it’s the idea of leaving it entirely that really knocks him off-guard? he needs to be there in the case of emergencies, he doesn’t feel right otherwise.

even though he was mourning lurien once the dreamers began, once again bearing the weight of the entire city alone, he really just. broke when the infection returned. he was overwhelmed. he returned the overseers that still lived and moved on to find the king first, only to be dismissed with some empty assumption the king would somehow fix things again even after this initial plan. hegemol was close enough to both ogrim and dryya to hear of their falling out, he knew ze’mer, ogrim, and isma were trying to stay in hallownest even as the infection rose again, but he ended up doing what ze’mer did and going to an outer area of the kingdom, away from the palace. he alternated between dirtmouth and the crossroads, just. monitoring the hell that went down and waiting for nothing.

hegemol’s been around the kingdom since its beginnings. even with the king’s blessing, he ages. he’s the oldest of the group and that’s including dryya, who was the first real ‘knight of hallownest’. tpk keeps ogrim for his endearing loyalty, but he placed hegemol in charge of keeping his Heart. hegemol, despite all he’s seen, has known the kingdom to bounce back from whatever disaster struck, whether it be a person like isma or lurien, or hallownest as a whole recovering from its losses. he’s never seen something like this ravage the kingdom so thoroughly, something even its rulers gave up on saving. he’s old and he’s tired. even before all this additional stress crashed on him, ever since lurien knew him, hegemol’s been one who needs a nap in the middle of the day to function. he wants an escape, and he needs to rest. it is in one of these moments that the maggot finds him and kills him.

or at least that’s how it goes down in my canon. i realize now this. probably wasn’t what you were looking for but this is what came to mind bghjmgsgj

here r some interactions w the others of four!:

hegemol’s the closest to ogrim! ogrim’s the one that finds the most time to get away out of the five and he ends up just helping hegemol communicate with the others despite staying in the city for the most part. hegemol enjoys ogrim’s presence and thinks his laugh is nice to hear, and just. overall his interactions with him are comforting and sweet. ogrim’s always so easily captured by such small fascinations and hegemol wishes he could return to that. he knows, rationally, that being older is no reason to lose the joy in small things (ogrim’s at Least half his age) but he gets really. self conscious about that? he feels it’s ridiculous. but ogrim really brightens his day.

both isma and lurien r the ones that encouraged hegemol to return to crafting things (that aren’t food)! lurien with painting and isma offered to teach him how to start sewing stuff together so he could work on that in his breaks. isma’s been really sweet and shares a lot of the qualities hegemol likes abt ogrim and he just! he thinks it’s sweet of them. he can also share some moments w isma about growing up in places that were basically carved into a home (hers was the hive and his was a. huge tree. he’s a cicada. this is canon (/j. in my canon he is tho)) with some sort of cultural meaning to it and that sort of... disconnect that comes from leaving it, even though for isma her home is still right there. they’re solidarity.

hegemol was probably the second one that ze’mer told about being in a relationship with her mantis lover, alongside ogrim. even though ze’mer brings her own tales and can clearly defend her perspective, she Does look to hegemol (and dryya) when she’s second-guessing herself. dryya tends to give a clear-cut answer while hegemol takes the time to understand her values and also weigh how hallownest’s people would usually react to the situation she deals with. ze’mer’s not only unfamiliar with hallownest even now, but she struggles with social cues in general! and bugs around here have several more courtesy rules (ze’mer is really close to dryya because of this. neither of them dance around subjects, even if ze’mer uses a bit more detail and is. just a little bit dramatic.)

hegemol and dryya have spent so long around each other they’re basically like. siblings? in a way? they’re sort of indifferent to each other, and yeah they don’t talk as much anymore, but when they get a conversation going they have fun with it and they generally enjoy just vibing in the same space with each other, even if they’re doing their own things. they know they have the other to rely on when it calls for it, even though they still prefer to go to others they chose to be close to for their issues rather than defaulting to the one they’re familiar with from years together. hegemol and ze’mer were the only ones who knew where dryya went after the infection’s return, though she was sure ogrim could guess where she went.

[heckmate]

bruh, lemon starbursts are the freakin' best

Yes they are!! Intelligent tastebuds squad

[teethcake]

borth,,, means 🎂

:0, :D, cake time!

[bamsara]

the Willows get along like a house on fire

Normal Willow would def try to convince Assistant Willow its okay to start lighting everything on fire and they probably eventually would lmao

[accuratenitw]

Bea's flying the plane, and she's contemplating flying it into the ocean

Bea: On one hand, I won’t have to go to work in the morning.

Bea: On the other hand, I’ll probably end up in hell

Bea: Which, for me, is just continuous work.

Bea: Decisions, decisions...

[datastate]

thoughts on Ze'mer?

ZE’MERRR [KISSES HER DIRECTLY ON THE FOREHEAD]

okay her flower quest SUCKS (i am biased.) but i do love her dramatic tragic story even if it really hurts me, a lesbian, to see the main sapphic couple that’s present is just. not allowed that happy ending. tho. you know. hk is really just about that loss in general. i think it’s interesting to see how closed off the mantises were to hallownest’s people and i have had fun figuring out how the mantises work thru these two and how they were initially able to meet despite this stuff set against them.

speaking of! i think, before hallownest’s fall, she was stationed with the archive (or the canyon in general actually)!!! she and monomon were fairly close, but monomon didn’t especially need someone to guard the archive bc there was no Real danger other than, possibly, the mantises. so ze’mer spent most of her time around [the fungal wastes] instead watching after this, with enough distance from the tribe to keep them from getting apprehensive thinking that tpk was purposefully monitoring them.

ze’mer’s very. aloof? in her own way. quiet and content with being on her own unless you get her started on something, or she sees some reason to add onto what another’s said or done. she’ll jump into conversations with something seemingly completely off topic only to somehow wrap around and make it relevant. she’s very. Wordy, especially with the other four who just let her go on as she pleases (especially when she’s talking abt her home! they think it’s interesting and she loves sharing stories abt it and showing some of her physical items from those lands, though she is very cautious abt who can see them and will almost never let another even touch them. (except for her cloak which is. bound to be touched and broken into w her being a knight and all.)

i’ve mentioned this before, but one of the main reasons she loves being with dryya is because they’re both really upfront people. even if ze’mer rambles on before getting to her point, she always does have a point to what she’s saying and doesn’t really Do mindless chatter unless it’s just to learn abt another person, but even then like.. that’s her task in talking to them, to Learn about them. she’s used to interactions being a very technical thing and doesn’t really get ‘common sense’ among the others in hallownest. also, bc i think it’s funny, hegemol has given up on asking her to knock when she comes to his house in the city by now. she just barges in like the “MOM HOLY FUCK” image whenever she wants to talk to him.

i would go into her relationships w the other knights but Sleeby. feel free to dm me later on discord tho bc hogh . Thoughts.

i will say that, even tho this can change depending on the situation, this is generally how close she is to each knight: dryya, hegemol, isma, ogrim