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1. 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

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