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1. Child for a God by Machine_Finch

   Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Other
   • Work in Progress

   29 Mar 2026

   Tags

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   • The Hollow Knight | Pure Vessel/Original Character(s)
   • The Hollow Knight | Pure Vessel & Hornet & The Knight
   • The Hollow Knight | Pure Vessel
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • Hornet (Hollow Knight)
   • The Knight (Hollow Knight)
   • Original Hollow Knight Character(s)
   • The Radiance (Hollow Knight)
   • The Pale King (Hollow Knight)
   • White Lady (Hollow Knight)
   • Arranged Marriage
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Two Lands AU
   • They/Them Pronouns for The Hollow Knight | Pure Vessel
   • It/Its and They/Them Pronouns for The Knight (Hollow Knight)
   • The Knight is Called Ghost (Hollow Knight)
   • Sign Language
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Trans Male Character
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Established Relationship
   • Introspection heavy
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Started Before Silksong Release

   Summary

   Updates every three weeks, unless it doesn't.

   (Spoilers for "Vessel for the Radiance" ahead)

   The sealing has ended. The sun rose once more. Now it’s time to face the broken world left behind.

   Hollow hadn't thought they would survive this. They had bargained with everything: with the story of their creation they were never supposed to share, with the life they were never supposed to have, with the love they were never supposed to feel... And lost.
   The fact that they lived through it seems the cruelest fate of them all. But they will try to bear it. For their sister. For their love.

   Noon is trying to piece together his fractured reality. He knows the truth about the infection now, just like everyone in Dawnbreak. He had faced his mother, his creator, his god for that truth, and there is no going back. Nothing will make the world right again.
   But he can’t fall apart now. His land needs him… Hollow needs him.

   Hornet just wants to go home. Even if she doesn't know where home is. Even if her father is missing and her mother... She won't think about her mother.
   It doesn't matter. She had gotten this far. She will finally bring her sibling home, and she will fix all of this.

   Series

   • Part 2 of Vessel for the Radiance Series

   Language:

   English

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