By Your Side, Laughing

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• By Your Side, Laughing by aine_0

  Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games), Hollow Knight: Silksong  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/F
  • Complete Work

  08 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Hornet/Lace (Hollow Knight)
  • Hornet (Hollow Knight)
  • Lace (Hollow Knight)
  • Sherma (Hollow Knight)
  • Shakra (Hollow Knight)
  • Phantom (Hollow Knight)
  • Flick the Fixer (Hollow Knight)
  • Past Lace/Original Female Character
  • Post-Sister of the Void Ending (Hollow Knight: Silksong)
  • Canon Typical Violence
  • Self-Deprecation
  • Mommy Issues
  • (is anyone surprised?)
  • Injury
  • Vomiting
  • Claustrophobia
  • Passive Suicidality
  • Insomnia
  • POV Lace (Hollow Knight)
  • Lace Needs a Hug (Hollow Knight)
  • Lace is not a good person
  • but she gets better
  • Angst
  • Eventual Fluff
  • Slow Burn
  • Teasing
  • Suggestive Themes
  • Rated M just in case
  • Lace has a dirty mind but the actual action in this fic is as spicy as vanilla ice cream
  • Sharing a Bed
  • Hugging
  • Non-Sexual Nudity
  • Hornet is doing her best to support and care for Lace but Lace isn’t making it easy for her
  • Lace’s dependence on silk is a metaphor for chronic illness
  • Hornet is probably ace-spec
  • Hopeful Ending
  • I wrote this for myself but you can read it too
  • Who needs therapy when you have bug yuri?
  • 5+1 Things
  • Non-Sexual Intimacy
  • Eventual off-screen sex
  • hair combing
  • religious trauma
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Transphobia/misgendering in a flashback chapter but there will be additional warnings at the top of that chapter

  Summary

  Lace’s insides are a confusing, tangled mess of pleasantly, unpleasant knots. She doesn’t understand her silly little spider at all!

  Or, five times Hornet growled at Lace, and the one time Lace understood what was actually going on.

  Series

  • Part 1 of By Your Side, Laughing

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  44,371

  Chapters:

  7/7

  Comments:

  135

  Kudos:

  328

  Bookmarks:

  49

  Hits:

  4,621

• Always There by aine_0

  Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games), Hollow Knight: Silksong  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  04 Jul 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Lace & Phantom (Hollow Knight)
  • Lace (Hollow Knight)
  • Phantom (Hollow Knight)
  • Suicide Attempt
  • Gore
  • Body Horror
  • Lace Needs a Hug (Hollow Knight)
  • hurt/ some comfort
  • lack of personhood
  • Early Transition Phantom
  • they/them pronouns for Phantom
  • Narration uses deadname for Phantom
  • unsatisfying ending
  • Their relationship is one big tragedy
  • Pre-Silksong

  Summary

  Lace has an accident. Her sibling sews her back together.

  This is a bonus chapter for a larger work, but can be read as a standalone.

  Series

  • Part 2 of By Your Side, Laughing

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,780

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  8

  Kudos:

  31

  Bookmarks:

  2

  Hits:

  408