Hollow Knights and Other Things
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Into One's Own Hands by BSplendens for dickprince (ruthlesslistener)
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
17 Oct 2022
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Herrah is fed up with watching Lurien pine after a wyrm too oblivious to realize how badly he's wanted, and fed up with Lurien being too repressed to even consider making his wants clear. A lucky opportunity gives her the chance to prompt the Pale King into action... by goading him into it.
She doesn't expect to get quite as involved as she does. Not that she's complaining about where things end up.
(Or: Herrah somewhat inadvertently winds up giving Lurien both the best time of his life, and the most embarrassing. Courtesy of a bottle of artificial pheromones, the White Lady's meddling, and one painfully oblivious king getting slapped in the face by something he should have noticed a long time ago.)
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- Part 1 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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Tenuous Bonds (Turned Tables) by BSplendens for dickprince (ruthlesslistener)
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
07 Feb 2024
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A traveling god of nightmares ensnares the Queen of Deepnest, intending to make himself a new toy, and finds that things do not at all go the way he anticipated.
(Except that they in fact do, because this was all discussed beforehand, likely over tea.)
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- Part 2 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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Staying, For A Moment (And Perhaps A Little Longer) by BSplendens
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
01 Aug 2023
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Quirrel does not particularly want to be in this hot spring. He doesn't particularly want to be anywhere, as exhausted as he is.
There is, however, something he needs to attend to. An injustice, a hurt, he desperately wants to soothe.
He did not mean to react the way he did. He is, evidently, far from the first. This cannot stand.
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- Part 1 of Reprieve from Burning Light
- Part 3 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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Against Inevitability (or: One Last Try) by BSplendens for sugarbloom
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
16 Jul 2023
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Oro, for some fucking reason, picks up a mostly-dead stray. This sort of thing never goes well, and he fully knows that isn't about to change, but somehow he tries to help regardless.
It goes less terribly than he expects. Which is saying very little.
Tiso has a very bad time, and then a not completely dreadful time. (But still a pretty lousy one.)
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- Part 2 of Reprieve from Burning Light
- Part 4 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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As her siblings wage a desperate battle in a realm she cannot reach, Hornet waits, and does not entirely manage to hope for anything but an end to a dying goddess' rage.
She is, at least, not entirely alone in waiting.
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- Part 3 of Reprieve from Burning Light
- Part 5 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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Drained of Light (Into the Welcoming Darkness) by BSplendens
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
26 Dec 2025
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Freeing the Hollow Knight from a mad god’s clutches is one thing; freeing them from their own self-imposed chains is entirely another. Particularly when they understand their rescue as no rescue at all, but simply another god taking those chains in hand.
Ghost did not request any of that.
Hornet, having spent the past few centuries desperately believing that all her siblings died in their eggshells, has learned the truth just in time to struggle with how to help a sibling who firmly believes that their own existence as a living thing is the most heinous of crimes.
Oro is not remotely pleased at having been pulled from his perfectly fine hut to help, and is most definitely not unusually invested here, thank you. No attachment whatsoever to someone who, despite being half-dead, still tries to make of themself a living shield. None at all.
(He’s also a bad liar.)
Friends and allies can only get you so far when someone’s greatest battle is against their own mind, and many things in this crumbling ruin of a kingdom are inclined to interfere in the matter. Not all that is dead is willing to stay dead, and the past is not content to remain in the past.
Nor are these the only Void-kin still alive.Series
- Part 4 of Reprieve from Burning Light
- Part 6 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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In the aftermath of the Black Egg Temple, once the dust has settled and the bleeding has stopped, Hornet finds herself with only one thing she can do for her wounded sibling; trying to clean away the rotting Infection still clinging to their shell. She does her best at this.
She also makes a discovery. It is not a pleasant one.
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- Part 5 of Reprieve from Burning Light
- Part 7 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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Local Ant Absolutely Not Enjoying Self, 100% Not Aroused, Updates at NEVER by BSplendens
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
23 Aug 2022
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Tiso
losesis cheated out of winning a bet, andis offered multiple outshas no choice but to pay up. He hates every bit of it. EVERY bit. Without question.(in case it wasn't clear from the title, tags, and summary: he's fine.)
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- Part 8 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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Scraps of Life (formerly Snippets and Explanations) by BSplendens
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
30 May 2023
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A collection of small stories. Tags, warnings, and so on to be updated as needed. Please check chapter notes for specific warnings.
Chapter one: Ghost meets a couple of bounty hunters. This goes better than it usually does.
Chapter two: Ghost considers several things about their own biology.
Chapter three: Self-explanatory title.
Chapter four: Menderbug loves his job! It's gotten a little riskier lately, but he loves his job, and everything is exactly as it always has been and always will be. He's sure. Mostly.
Chapter five: Sheo has a visitor, and is very normal about this. As far as his visitor is concerned, this is the strangest possible response.Series
- Part 6 of Reprieve from Burning Light
- Part 9 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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Herrah really should know better than to expect any joking suggestions she makes will stay jokes, where Monomon is involved. At least this makes for something very nice to walk in on, and to involve herself in.
(Tags sum it up. Half-joking AU unrelated to my other works.)
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- Part 10 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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Curious Touch (+ 100% Legit Use Of Desk Lamp) by BSplendens
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
07 Feb 2024
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Quirrel finds himself the subject of his partner's curiosity, and does his best to be educational. In trying to return the favor, he inadvertently prompts the discovery of an unexpected interest, and successfully helps in exploring that as well.
Hollow gets some practical experience in one particular (deeply confusing) thing that one's subconscious may do with old hurts when given a safe place in which to experiment.
(also known as Nobody Expected The Hollow Knight To Be Into This, Least Of All The Hollow Knight, But Apparently-)
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- Part 11 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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Parasite Removal (And Other Benefits Of Your Local Spiderwyrm) by BSplendens
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
10 Oct 2025
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Hornet encounters a friend with a problem they can't entirely seem to solve on their own, and offers to help. If they can tolerate what she'll need to do in the process.
It's possible she misjudges how much tolerance will be strictly required.
(She does realize eventually.)
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- Part 12 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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Unexpected Wish Outcomes (AKA Quest Completed) by BSplendens
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)
24 Oct 2025
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Hornet finds herself with a little shadow. Not one she would have expected to see again, and not one she can bring herself to simply walk away from.
A good thing there's a convenient pool of warm water nearby. The little shadow is in dire need of a bath.
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- Part 13 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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With their preferred source of assistance temporarily away, Pharloom's final Architect goes looking for anyone with some basic competence. Fortunately, they do find someone.
The someone should perhaps have thought this over just slightly more.
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- Part 14 of Hollow Knights and Other Things
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In the aftermath of Pharloom's functional collapse, a few remnants of the old kingdom linger. Some more hostile than others.
Hornet learns the hard way that the one responsible for her arrival in Pharloom was not the only one with a distinct interest in her, and that, though she has seen the breadth and depths of this kingdom's cruelty, having witnessed the remnants of that cruelty inflicted on others does not make her more resistant to its attention turning directly upon her.
Fortunately, she isn't alone in Pharloom. Unfortunately, her allies can do very little for her when they have no idea where she is, and being found by one does not necessarily mean being found by all- nor does one ally's presence make her escape complete.
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- Part 15 of Hollow Knights and Other Things