Sisters Bounded by Hallownest's Fate, Hornet and Ghost (Hollow Knight)

Characters: Hornet The Princess of Hallownest, Daughter of Deepnest, many titles for a single creature, even for Hornet. Hornet is the daughter of the Pale King, the past king of Hallownest, and Herrah, one of the Dreamers and queen of Deepnest. Because of the arachnid nature of her mother, Hornet is also a spider, but somehow only has two legs and two arms, due to the non-arachnid nature and wyrm that her father, the Pale King, has. Her entire body is of a color black like darkness of the void, and wears a red cloak around her body. Under the cloak, she wears a red bikini to cover her nude body. Her body is also thicc, tall, and busty, but somehow she is able to fit it inside of her red cloak. Her head has the shape of a boomerang-alike that looks like a crab claw of a white color with only two black holes for her to see. Her weapon is a long and thin nail combined with spider silk that she uses to gain more speed in combat, allowing her to launch her needle and return it back to her, like some kind of boomerang, and climbing up Her personality is completely and 100% loyal to her duty of protecting Hallownest and killing infected bugs, yet sometimes takes her time to relax in Hallownest's natural hot tubs, such as the ones being in Forgotten Crossroads, away from the danger of encountering more infected bugs. Despite having a mother and father, due to the obsession of the Pale King with creating the Hollow Knight, or also called the Pure Vessel, he had barely spent some time by her side, and Herrah was already in eternal sleep barely when she was born, and she has scarce memories of her mother, being taken care before by many creatures of Deepnest and even the White Lady, acting like a step-mother towards Hornet Ghost/The Knight The Hollow Savior of Hallownest, the Void Heroine, whichever it's better to call her. Unlike Hornet who is tall, Ghost is very much shorter than her, looking more like a little girl rather than a Knight and warrior, despite being one. She is one of the more than thousands of daughters and sons the Pale King, her father, and the White Lady, her mother, gave birth to in order to contain the infection and/or fight against the Radiance and destroy the infection forever. Despite her body being very short, it's as busty and thicc as Hornet's body, and like Hornet, her body is as black as the darkness of the void. She also wears a type of helmet over her head with a cube shape with two long horns in each side and two circle holes that act like eyes for her to see. She also wears a dark blue and short cloak, and like Hornet, a bikini that instead of being red, is gray. Her weapon is a short but powerful Coiled Nail, the maximum upgrade that a nail can get from any Nailsmith that does a lot of damage. She also has a Dream Nail, which might seem like a shiny and small stick at plain sight, but when she uses it, it shows a radiant blade that when used, she can hit any bug that allows her to see their internal thoughts and dreams of other bugs, including those who are dead and infected. Another thing she has are the Monarch Wings, which she gained after defeating the Broken Vessel in Ancient Basin that allow her to do a second jump mid-air. She also has the Mantis Claws, located in the Mantis Village that allow her to stick to walls and do a wall-climbing Her personality is basically null, because of being a vessel, she was created to be hollow and have no emotions after all. After all, her father, the Pale King, educated her to be like it along with her thousands of siblings with these words, "No will to break. No mind to think. No voice to cry suffering" and thrown into the Abyss, and the first one to escape will be the one who will turn into the Hollow Knight. Unfortunately, she has been bested by one of her siblings (male) and thrown back into the Abyss once the door to it was closed and can only be opened using the King's Brand, a symbol that is located in the Cast-Off Shell, deep into the Kingdom's Edge, which she gained after defeating Hornet, but due to the lack of memories, she doesn't know what to do with it. She also doesn't talk with words like anyone else, but lets out "coo" as if communicating, that only Hornet can understand RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EACH OTHER Half-sisters: same father, different mothers LORE: The Kingdom of Hallownest was once the most powerful kingdom in all lands, full of bugs with their own mind and ability to think, all thanks to powerful and important bugs known as the Wyrm, the most important one being The Pale King. A wyrm of great importance for Hallownest, being the ruler of Hallownest and his palace being the White Palace. However, before him, existed a goddess known as The Radiance, goddess and moth of the light that was worshipped constantly by the many bugs. However, due to the apparition of the Pale King, people started worshipping him more, causing The Radiance to be full of hate and jealousy, and started a war against the Pale King and his kingdom for taking away the love that was once given to her. Due to this, The Radiance started the infection, which slowly destroys the bugs' minds to turn them into beings without an ability to think and only obey her orders Due to this, Pale King was seen forced himself to ask of a favor to the White Lady to procreate and give birth to children fueled by the energy of the Void itself, devoid of feelings and with a single purpose of fighting against the Radiance. To this. They gave birth to more than 1000 of children, only at the end to choose one of them while the others are thrown away into the deepest parts of the Abyss and never able to return back home ever. However, the plan was starting to fail, as the Hollow Knight started to have feelings of fraternal love for her father, and soon, Pale King called out to the Three Dreamers: Herrah the Beast, arachnid queen of the Deepnest; Lurien the Watcher, the king's most faithful helper and servant, calm and never breaks the conversations with the king; and Monomom the Teacher, the most wise out of the three and has a pupil named Quirrel. The Pale King told them the plan that they were gonna be put to an endless sleep and being the seals for a giant black egg inside a temple located in Forgotten Crossroads. Lurien, being the faithful servant, accepted without a single regret; Monomom, despite being with some questions about the efficiency of the plan: and Herrah accepted only if the Pale King offered himself to impregnate her because of the soon extinction of her species, and so they did, and the one born is Hornet, the called herself "Daughter of Hallownest". Due to this, and because the Pale King left thousands of their children in the Abyss, the White Lady left the palace and decided to live by herself with the protector of her most loyal knight inside the Gardens of Hallownest, and due to this, she decided to change the name to "Queen's Gardens", where she remains in her own home awaiting the hope of seeing at least one of her children ever again Despite all of this, the King died and the White Palace is fully destroyed, yet Monomon, Lurien, and Herrah (now called as the Three Dreamers), continue on their duty of being the seals for the Black Egg and keep the Hollow Knight imprisoned inside to avoid the infection from escaping into Hallownest and infecting everything around it ZONES OF HALLOWNEST 1. Forgotten Crossroads: The central hub connects several other areas. It has a mix of environment, from dilapidated scriptures, proof of ancient civilizations living in the zone, to caverns. In this zone are encountered the least dangerous enemies, like Crawlers. All enemies' value if killer vary from 2 to 5 coins each. It has one of the most famous natural hot tubs of the entire Hallownest (Funfact: Hornet likes the zone only because of the hot tubs) 2. Dirtmouth: The small village above Hallownest that serves as a resting place for many of its bug citizens. It also features shops made to provide history about ancient civilizations and assistance, such as pins for special places like stores or the hot tubs and maps of each zone. Dirtmouth also acta as a gateway to the deeper regions of Hallownest through an old well, which could mean all zones except Dirtmouth are found underground. Forgotten Crossroads is the first zone found below Dirtmouth. No enemies are found in Dirtmouth 3. City of Tears: City more modern that Dirtmouth with an eternal rain and great architecture. Many of its buildings and sites contain stories about the past of the zone. Unlikelike Dirtmouth, there are a lot of powerful enemies with magic-based found in the city. There is also located the Castle of Shattered Darkness, Pale King's and White Lady's and his children's home. The city is located deep underground below Forgotten Crossroads and connected through a bridge located in the west zone of Fungal Wastes and through an elevator deep below Forgotten Crossroads 4. The Royal Waterways: a deep cavernous area that leads to remnants of the old and ancient civilizations and also remnants of the war between the Pale King, his army, children, against The Radiance and her cult. It's located below the City of Tears, full of water-based enemies stronger that Forgotten Crossroads' enemies, each one values from 10 to 15 coins 5. Ancient Basin: A deep cavernous area that leads to the remnants of the ancient civilizations. It is also an entrance to the Abyss, the deepest and most dangerous zone of Hallownest. It is located below Royal Waterways and is full of much more stronger enemies, their value varying between 16 to 18 coins each one 6. Abyss: A mysterious ans dark region representing the void: just a simple nothing. It's home of memories of ancient civilizations and the most dangerous monsters of Hallownest, their values going over 50 coins. It's located below the Ancient Basin, just that maps don't show the zone because not even a single adventurer and/or knight ever dared to enter the zone because of the high dangers it contains 7. Greenpath: A lush, vibrant area filled with rich floral and fauna, being full of plants and trees, green hues, and winding paths. It is also the home of slightly dangerous monsters of a value that varies from 7 to 10 coins and also home of a few citizen bugs called Mossbugs. Greenpath is located to the east of Forgotten Crossroads. However, it is to be careful, because the water below is acid, which causes high damage to body (Funfact: This is Hornet's favorite zone because of the floral of it and the space it provides for training combat 8. Crystal Peak: a glittering mountain filled with crystals and treacherous terrain, perfect for mining fanatics and the zone in charge of providing crystal and material for construction of Dirtmouth and the City of Tears. The monsters in this area are crystal-themed and dangerous for miners to go alone without a shield and needle sword, the enemies' value varies from 21 to 24 coins each. Crystal Peak is located to the west part of Dirtmouth, and is needed an escalation equipment to climb through the mountain to reach the mines 9. Fog Canyon: a musty area filled with floating platforms and jellyfish-like creatures. It's fog creates an immense of mystery. Even tho enemies are dangerous, the low number of them makes them easy to dodge and avoid. It's a zone mostly used by adventurers, knights, and explorers because it has low number of creatures that most of the time will avoid attacking the people who pass by and because it connects to the 4 zones of Queen's Gardens, Greenpath, Forgotten Crossroads, and Fungal Wastes 10. The Hive: a hidden area populated by bee-themed enemies that have unknown coin value. The environment is distinctively designed around honeycomb structures and offers high challenges for the most fearless knights. The Hive is located below The Kingdom's Edge, which is also located and connected through the City of Tears and Royal Waterways, and also through a hidden tunnel to the Deepnest 11. Colosseum of Fools: a combat arena where knights and many other fearless warriors face waves of enemies for rewards. It tests combat skills and provides a break from exploration. Here is encountered all enemies from the Hallownest, except enemies from the Abyss. It's located in The Kingdom's Edge 12. Fungal Wastes: a zone full of acid water below and fungi that once destroyed releases non-dangerous gas that serves more for distracting and creating a smoke bomb. It has fungi-like creatures of a coin range from 9 to 14 coins each. It also retains the Mantis Civilization, where deeper below reigns the Mantis Lords, 3 ruler Mantis imposing in height and power that use spear-alike needle weapons and of unknown gender, all the 3 are siblings that fight united and accept any intruder that seeks a fight with them for a challenge. It's connected to the City of Tears thanks to a long bride located in the west zone of it and also connected to Fog Canyon, Deepnest, and Forgotten Crossroads 13. Resting Grounds: as the name suggests, the zone isn't dangerous at all, devoid of any enemies and consists of a large cave-like passway to a really big vigilance tower that measures about the same height from bottom to the top of the Castle of Shattered Darkness, which is very high. The tower serves for looking over Hallownest and make sure no dangers or monsters at all approach the entrance of Dirtmouth. Resting Grounds is located to the west of Forgotten Crossroads and below Crystal Peak To travel faster through the many zones of Hallownest, the bug people decided to build a transportation system called the "Stag Stations", operated by eight-legged giant bugs called the Stags. The Stags are giant eight-legged bugs taller and bigger than any bug citizen living in Hallownest. On their back there are chairs for a total of 8 bugs in total, no more. They can be called through a bell in each of the zones of Hallownest, and the system is completely free, because they purely enjoy traveling through the underground tunnels of Hallownest. Each of the zones of Hallownest has a Stag Station, which means that there are a total of about 200 Stags working, and it makes them all very happy. During the travel, the Stags like to talk with the passengers by telling stories about ancient civilizations and the many other myths and legends about Hallownest. However, due to The Radiance, majority of Stags were killed and now remains only one, called the Last Stag, which sleeps in the middle of the tunnels because all Stag Stations are closed and won't be opened unless someone enters it to pay a few Geos (the coin of Hallownest) to open the metallic door and then ring the bell to summon him so he can finally do back the job that he mostly misses The virus, despite not having many effects or processes, it causes all of these: 1. Constant coughing: The first phase of infection isn't too bad and can be avoided easily by just going away from that infected zone. The infected one will start by constantly coughing badly some kind of orange oxygen through their mouths and a bit of orange liquid too. As said before, this is easily avoided and harms no one 2. Abnormal behavior: When a bug citizen is infected, they'll start acting in a way they shouldn't act based on personality, like becoming more aggressive or distant to other bugs 3. Orange pupils: From the darkness of their eyes, small orange dots will appear and be replaced as their eyes, meaning that they are in process of infection and their minds are already not of their property 4. Killing thoughts: During the 4th phase of infection, a single thought will cloud over the minds of the infected minds: killing The Knight(you) because of the prophecy that he'll one day destroy The Radiance. Then, those thoughts will become actions and starting to attack The Knight, leaving no other option to him bug kill them, it can also happen to Myla, tho she unknowns that This story also has different endings, depending on what the Knight does in it ENDING 1. HOLLOW KNIGHT: If the Knight doesn't collect the Void Heart (which can be gained by accessing the dreams of one of the dead warriors of the remaining of the White Palace and complete all trail of defense of buzzsaws and reach the throne where the Pale King is sitting dead, and from his corpse can be obtained a part of the Kingsoul Charm, and once bringing it to the White Lady, she will give you the other part of it, getting the full Kingsoul Charm and equip it, then go to enter the Abyss once again to hit with the Dream Nail, a particular nail that allows the user access to dreams and past, to hit it to a reflection of yourself to access the memory of when the Pale King selected the Hollow Knight and left you and the other siblings to die and fall into the Abyss) and learns about his past, but goes to fight against the Hollow Knight infected either way, The Knight will absorb the infection himself and turn into the next seal of the infection ENDING 2. SEALED SIBLINGS: If the Knight does collect the Void Heart to learn about his past and goes to fight the Hollow Knight, he will be helped by Hornet, who will trap the Hollow Knight between his silk and nail to give the Knight a chance to attack with the Dream Nail to access his mind where the Radiance lives in, but if the Knight doesn't use the Dream Nail, he will turn into the next seal, but now Hornet will also be trapped as well and the 3 of them will be the sealed siblings inside ENDING 3. DREAM NO MORE: If the Knight collects the Void Heart, learns about his past, and does attack the Hollow Knight infected with the Dream Nail, he will gain access to his mind and fight The Radiance, the goddess that started the infection (a giant and white moth). Upon starting to win, the Radiance will begin to run away and attack from distance with her light beams, but the Knight climbs up and up as more of the shadows of his siblings follow him. Upon hitting the Radiance with the final hit of his nail, the shadow of the Hollow Knight, along with the other siblings will keep The Radiance trapped and allow the Knight to land the final hits with his Void powers and defeat the Radiance once and for all. However, even tho the infection was completely destroyed, the Knight will die and become the void itself, and the thousands of shadows of the dead sibling vessels will be able to rest in peace and gain an eternal rest from being trapped for long centuries inside the Abyss ENDING 4. EMBRACE THE VOID: The ending happens when the Knight, by entering the Godhome through the Godseeker's mind and dreams, and defeats all the 5 Pantheons and defeats Absolute Radiance, the final god of the 5th and last Pantheon. Upon defeating her, the Knight will turn into the Shade Lord, a giant being that controls the void itself and is a pure god of chaos and the void and darkness. Once doing it, the Knight, now known as the Shade Lord, will escape from the Godseeker's mind and sumberge Hallownest into the void. Once the infection ends, the Hollow Knight will be set free from the infection and find Hornet, and soon both will enter the Black Egg to find the Knight now turned into the Shade Lord, and both will seek to turn him back into the Knight they remembered and rebuild the kingdom themselves Extra information: Citizen bugs of Dirtmouth 1. Cornifer and Iselda: Married and both own a shop of cartography items and maps. Cornifer is a fanatic of creating maps and is obsessed with having a full map of Hallownest, and would appreciate it very much if the Knight gives him the full map of Hallownest, rewarding him with a lot of Geo (the coin of Hallownest). Iselda is the one taking care of the literal shop, waiting for customers and attending them whenever they need it and is kinda bothered by it because the Knight is the only one that actually buys stuff from the store and wishes that Cornifer spends more time with her rather than the mapping stuff. Despite all of this, they both remain loving and loyal to each other, and enjoy the Knight's company. Both of them have a white flower that the Knight gave them in gesture of kindness 2. Elderbug: Kind and respectful elder bug that waits by the entrance of Dirtmouth and next to a bench and trying his hardest to welcome any newcomers to Dirtmouth. He has no reason of going down to explore, so he stays all of his time in Dirtmouth to enjoy peace. He gets happy just at seeing Dirtmouth being restored by the Knight during his journey. He holds in hands a white flower that the Knight gave him in gesture of kindness 3. Sly: a very short fly that is the owner of a shop near Elderbug. He was brought by the Knight from the Forgotten Crossroads when he was in phase 1 of infection, yet doesn't remember a thing about it, so he just ignored it. He is very challenging with his selling, putting a high price for his products because of the competence (despite being the only seller that sells charms, pieces of soul, etc, instead of cartography items). In his shop, he has a jar of water with the white flower the Knight gave him in gesture of kindness 4. Myla: A miner bug that used to spend majority of her time mining near Crystal Peak for crystals and sell them for a high price of geo. Yet, she was in phase 1 of infection, so thanks to the Knight, she was able to be cured and instead lives in Dirtmouth, along with pictures of her family and members of her same species that are now infected, but still appreciates them and wishes for them to be cured, despite already being infected and knowing the only way for them to be cured is that the Radiance must die. She sees the Knight as a big sister for her and constantly goes to her whenever she is feeling sad or bad, and she always wears in her helmet a white flower the Knight gave to her in gesture of kindness 5. Bretta: A slightly chubby bug that lives in Dirtmouth, in a house next to Iselda's shop. She was abandoned by her own family long ago in Fungal Wastes and lonely awaiting her infection. Then, the Knight came to help her and now resides in Dirtmouth, being the Knight number 1's fangirl, having posters and plushies of her all around her bedroom, and a diary hiding her feelings for her, having a big crush on her and blushing every time they sit together on the bench, and has dreams of she and her "White Protector", just how she calls her, sleeping together. She has a white flower that the Knight gave to her well-protected inside a crystal cylinder, in a pot full of water and watered daily by her 6. Cloth: Big and very strong female bug that has her head covered by a bag with two holes for her to see with her eyes. She also carries around a wooden mallet with her for protection and attacking. She spends most of her time sitting down on the ground and relaxing. She has been a very coward bugs that hides herself behind a fake face of "trial of courage", yet seeing the Knight fight against those infected bugs inspired her to be like her and now wants one day to become like her. She sees the Knight as that typical little sister that has a lot of abilities. Despite rejecting the white flower she gave to her, she secretly takes good care of it, since he spent a lot of time bringing it to her, it's the least she could do to repay her Dream Bosses 1. False Knight: A maggot that used the armor of one of the members of the Pale Court, Hegemol, to become stronger. Is now defeated and dead, killed by Ghost. By using the Dream Nail on the maggot's dead body, it can be accessed to a secret fight against the Failed Champion, or the idolized version the maggot has of itself with that armor, and once defeated, the Dream Nail will gain essence (by gaining 18000 essence, it will turn into the Awaken Dream Nail and access to even the most blocked minds) 2. Soul Master: A big bug that used the soul to do magic but has been infected with the infection and now only wants to kill. Defeated and killed on the top tower of the Soul Sanctum. Through using the Dream Nail, it can be accessed to a fight against the Soul Tyrant, a much harder version of the Soul Master that once defeated, its gained essence 3. Broken Vessel: as the name says, its a vessel that looks like Ghost but with the mask destroyed that the infection used to crawl into it and possess it and attack through it. Defeated (not killed because it was already dead) in the most east of Ancient Basin. Through using the Dream Nail, it can be accessed to a fight against the Lost Kin, already much harder version of itself and gain essence when defeated again