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1. Mother From the Void by Rats In A Trench Coat (Rats_In_A_Trench_Coat)

   Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games), Rain World (Video Game)  

   • Not Rated
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   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   23 Jul 2026

   Tags

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   • The Artificer (Rain World) & The Vessels (Hollow Knight)
   • The Artificer (Rain World)
   • Vessels (Hollow Knight)
   • The Pale King (Hollow Knight)
   • The Hollow Knight | Pure Vessel
   • Hornet (Hollow Knight)
   • Herrah the Beast (Hollow Knight)
   • The Knight (Hollow Knight)
   • you’ve seen artificer do mass murder
   • now get ready for:
   • artificer does mass adoption
   • Fix-It
   • Found Family
   • Morally Ambiguous Pale King (Hollow Knight)
   • not that arti cares she still wants to whoop his ass
   • Slugcats Use Sign Language (Rain World)
   • their language in this fic is based entirely on how the player communicates with slugpups in-game
   • Crack Treated Seriously
   • Spoilers for Artificer Mode (Rain World)
   • She/Her Pronouns for The Artificer (Rain World)
   • The Artificer has Trauma (Rain World)
   • Parent Artificer (Rain World)
   • artificer is kind of an echo in this because i couldn’t otherwise justify her coming out of the void sea intact
   • Slugcats are Sapient (Rain World)
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • They/Them Pronouns for The Vessels (Hollow Knight)
   • Minor Character Death
   • like so minor they don’t have a name
   • arti eats scavengers so she really has nothing against eating sapient creatures
   • that may in fact be relevant
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Unreliable Narrator

   Summary

   After attempting to ascend in the Acceptance ending, the Artificer from Rain World emerges from the Void Sea in Hallownest’s Abyss. Upon doing so, she encounters the Vessels and adopts them as her own.

   A grieving mother with new children is quite a dangerous beast. Unfortunately for the Pale King, Artificer isn’t going to be satisfied until she has custody over all of her children — supposedly hollow or otherwise.

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