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Anyway- Hello, Jon

Doodles of our favourite archivist.

The Magnus Archives has had me in a choke hold for a while.

These two are my favourite, the many sassy faces of Mr. Sims.

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Working for a startup has taught me a lot about the tech industry and business as a whole... but more importantly that Corporate Drama is the pettiest and most vindictive of them all. Hell hath no fury like over-ambitious white men with buckets of money, wow.

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I keep rewatching this one, over and over, just- *chefs kiss* flawless.

hello jon

:)

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At Sunset, Alphonse Osbert

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Sirius, The Dog Star

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Frames,,

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Season 1 and 4 sketches :D

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but of course I had to draw Jon as big-lanky-insecure (but fiercely protective) eldritch monster

and Mr. Monster-Fucker Blackwood

also HELEN

(also monster!Martin)

(illustration monster!Jon)

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hello jon

:)

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pale lovers

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Hecuba Euripides — translated by Kardan and Street

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che is ze'mer, blade of ze'miquella, and che has never known defeat

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I watched Mossbag’s new video on the Pale Kng’s Biology and it made me realize something about Vessels.

They’re dead. More specifically they’re zombies.

As Mossbag points out, the eyes of Vessels are sunken, like the inside of their shells are hollow, just like the many corpses found in Hallownest.

Vessels are made by taking an egg from the Pale King and White Lady and sticking it in the void, where the void seems to literally fuse with the egg. Given how void reacts to basically every living being like some sort of fantasy radioactive material, slowly poisoning them from exposure until they die with void leaking out of their eyes, this no doubt kills the child in that egg.

But the egg still hatches, and out comes a walking corpse, an empty shell reanimated by primordial darkness.

It has no mind because it is dead.

It has no will because it is dead.

It has no voice because it is dead.

Ghost and the other vessels don’t appear to ever grow because they’re not alive. Their bodies are not capable of growing because their bodies are dead. That’s also why they don’t seem to need food or water (or sunlight honestly, as their mother is some sort of plant).

This even explains a thing about focusing.

When Hornet heals herself in the Silksong demos and trailers, she swiftly surrounds herself with silk and seems to quickly patch up all of her injuries, sewing wounds shut and healing damage, made easier by the soul, the lifeforce of a bug that keeps them alive, infused into her own silk.

It’s quick and it heals several masks, several injuries, at once.

But when a Vessel focuses:

The process is slow, drawn out and requires several seconds of focus from the vessel where they cannot move. Where Hornet’s healing is quick and seems to be a technique with her silk that was developed by her and practiced until it was good enough, Vessel focusing is slow and seemingly built into the Vessel as a base ability, with both Ghost and the Hollow Knight being capable of it.

But then consider what Vessels use to focus. Soul. The literal lifeforce of other bugs. Another thing worth pointing out is that out of every creature capable of using soul, only vessels can focus. None of the bugs in Soul Sanctum can. Hornet can’t. Only Vessels can focus.

Focusing isn’t just magical healing done through soul. It’s the Vessel, an undead creature, forcing the raw energy of life into its body, forcing its dead body not just to live and begin the natural healing process, but speeding that process up so even the largest wounds heal in a matter of seconds. Focusing is forcing life energy into an dead body to get it to briefly act like a live one. That’s why it takes several seconds of the Vessel standing perfectly still and focusing to just heal a single mask while Hornet can heal several while in a fraction of the time. Hornet preforms actual healing on herself, sewing up wounds with magical silk. A Vessel forces its own body to live and heal itself naturally in a fraction of the normal time.

And that’s not all. The only Vessel that’s actually grown by any amount is the Hollow Knight, who lived in the White Palace and was basically supercharged by the soul produced inside. Living inside the White Palace didn’t just give the Hollow Knight more power, it made the Hollow Knight’s corpse of a body alive again, giving it the ability to grow like a living creature.

Vessels are Zombies, and focusing is a surprisingly fucked up process.

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Finally had some time to paint a thing for Calamity, so had to start with the Champion of Asmodeus, Zerxus Ilerez, because Hell Yeah :)

Also, available as a print here: >>inprnt store<<

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lets overthrow mama

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