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A screenshot from the opening of Hollow Knight: Silksong. Hornet lies face-down on the ground in Moss Grotto.



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    Hallownest's endlings lose everything, then pick up the pieces. A fix-it-then-break-it-then-fix-it-again AU.

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    Their lives are changed since the end of the Infection, and they're better. They're more than Hornet could've dreamed. How could she ever forgive herself, if it was by her inattention that they ended as soon as they began?

    After all, anything might be hidden in a thunderstorm.

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    19 Oct 2025

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    "Death is not permitted here."

    The Radiance perishes and Hallownest falls silent. The infection of light spares few in its wake, turning the kingdom into a tomb filled with the bodies of the formerly afflicted. After some time spent recovering in Dirtmouth, Hornet chooses to depart the only home she's ever known. She descends one final time in search of survivors who may also wish to leave, thinking nothing of her sacrificed siblings, though she carries a pair of mismatched horns underneath her cloak.

    But something else stirs beneath her feet, ancient and full of grief, and Hornet's task proves far more treacherous than she had believed, her path littered with old gods and new threats. As she delves into the darkest reaches of Hallownest, haunted with visions of the life spent there, the orphaned princess learns that she must reckon with all she has lost, before the kingdom and its secrets destroy whatever she has left.

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    14 Oct 2025

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    They're the last, and Hornet will not give them up without a fight.

    If anyone deserved the world they'd saved, it was those it had been the cruelest to.

     

    Or; I very slowly get around to giving Hornet nice things in the redemption fic nobody asked for.

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    There is a voice in Hallownest, but no one else can hear it.

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    Something is very wrong in Hallownest.

    The Hollow Knight wakes up outside the Temple of the Black Egg. Hornet feels a shift in the kingdom from all the way in Greenpath. Together, the two of them discover the sacrifices each has made—and the grief neither one of them was allowed to feel.

    Hollow survives the Hollow Knight ending, though severely wounded and close to death. Against her better judgement, Hornet takes them under her care. Along the way, Hollow begins to acknowledge their emotions, and Hornet slowly discovers she's been lied to about the true nature of Vessels.

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