A Red Sky Grimm I Made For @grollow For A Shitpost Originally, But He Got Too Fancy To Simply Be Used

Art for @grollow’s Red Sky At Morning’s chapter 31 (32 on ao3). Fae+Red Sky Fae design below to @aidaita

Like all tumblr art it seems, gotta click for the actual full version

No essence version, and the original sketch version (because Ashyr liked it) below

Soul of God, Form of Moth Chapter 14: Who's Boss

By BasilBread (that'd be me!)

Rating: T

Characters: The Radiance, Xero, minor original HK character, the Pale King (Hollow Knight)

Current Fic Word Count: 62,609

Chapter Summary: After settling into a new "safehouse", the former god of light finds herself in a demeaning position and at odds with the lady of the house.

Author's Notes: Reader's discretion is advised for extreme snootiness (and inherent classism) as well as bullying.

Although Radi is the protagonist, she's still not a nice person! It's a long way to go on the road to any sort of redemption.

(If you like villain protagonists and haven't seen this fic, following this POV might satisfy that craving!)

Got commissioned by @grollow to draw their hooligan variation of grimm, affectionately called grimmlin <3, go sEE HIM IN rED SKY AT MORNING (and also in White and Gray despite that not being his fic. hes just like that. pops up and smile smiles :>)

Since I was told once again that I don’t share enough shitposts…

…what? If they’re gonna be siblings, then let her poof out too.

Hollow Knight Ask Meme!

Ghost: Why did you decide to play Hollow Knight?

Shade: Did you make many mistakes in your first playthrough? Did you regret some of the choices you made?

Hornet: Favorite boss battle? Most difficult boss?

The Hollow Knight: What was the saddest part of the game for you? Which ending is the most sad to you?

Quirrel: What was your favorite thing to discover for the first time?

Elder Bug: Do you stop to talk to all the NPCs? Who is your favorite?

Iselda: Favorite shopkeeper?

Cornifer: Favorite area in Hallownest?

Bretta: Favorite Hollow Knight ship? Favorite fanfic?

Zote: Least favorite character? Or which unpopular character do you like?

Tiso: Which NPC would you most like to fight? Why?

The Last Stag: What area of the game do you visit the most?

Confessor Jiji: Do you think you die more or less often than the average player?

Steel Soul Jinn: Have you attempted Steel Soul Mode?

Salubra: Favorite charms or charm set?

Grub: Did you free all the grubs?

Grubfather: What did you think of the reward?

Myla: What’s your favorite song from the soundtrack?

Cloth: Which character would you fight to protect?

Seer: Favorite ghost in Hallownest? Did you harvest any of them for their Essence?

Snail Shaman: Favorite spell to use?

The Hunter: Favorite/least favorite enemy you encounter? What is your favorite journal entry?

The Grey Mourner: Who would you give a delicate flower to, if you could?

Mask Maker: Favorite character design in the game?

Relic Seeker Lemm: Favorite piece of lore? Favorite theory?

Sly: What’s the most Geo you’ve lost at once?

Nailmaster Mato: Which Nailmaster did you meet first? Do you have a favorite?

Nailmaster Oro: What’s you favorite Nail Art to use?

Nailmaster Sheo: Have you played a game like Hollow Knight before? Has this game inspired you in any way?

Nailsmith: Did you earn the Pure Nail? And then did you kill or spare the Nailsmith?

Vengefly King: Do you save or abandon Zote?

Gruz Mother: Were there bosses that you beat the first try?

False Knight: First enemy to you ever died to?

Uumuu: What makes a a boss battle fun for you? What makes it frustrating?

Mantis Lords: Which NPC would you like to fight with as a team?

Traitor Lord: Did you deliver the delicate flower to the grave of the Traitors’ Child?

Crystal Guardian: Favorite bench location? Which one was hardest to find?

Watcher Knights: What bosses stopped you from progressing the longest?

Soul Master: What part of the game do you find most dark or mysterious?

Flukemarm: Who’s the sexiest character in the game?

Dung Defender: Who is your favorite Great Knight?

Hive Knight: Are there any bosses you wish were friends instead of foes?

Broken Vessel: Which character would you bring back to life, if you could?

Nosk: What part of the game scared or shocked you the first time you experienced it? Anything surprise you?

God Tamer: Have you won the Colosseum of Fools? If not, which part is most difficult for you?

The Collector: How obsessed are you with this game?

Markoth: Favorite warrior dreamer battle?

Grey Prince Zote: Favorite boss variant?

The Dreamers: Who’s your favorite Dreamer? Why?

The Pale King: Do you think the Pale King was evil? Why or why not?

White Lady: Do you have any theories about the Higher Beings in Hallownest?

The Radiance: What memory from this game will stick with you the most?

Grimm: Do you like the Grimmchild charm? Use it often?

Brumm: Did you banish the Grimm Troupe? Why?

Divine: Did you get all the unbreakable charms?

Nightmare King Grimm: Which boss battle was the most intense for you? The most satisfying to defeat?

Pure Vessel: What game achievement are you most proud of?

Godseeker: How far have you made it in Godhome?

Lord of Shades: Have you earned all the endings? Which one do you think is the best?

Spoilers for It's Burned Into My Mind and White & Gray — A PK Crossover

A new, ever-present threat (baby-fication)

@dropout-ninja @grollow your crossovers are a sandbox and by god am I going to dig

Quirrel, Elderbug, Myla? :3

Quirrel: What was your favorite thing to discover for the first time?

Every new map, I swear. I feel like I actually really got a thrill out of entering Crystal Peaks for the first time, even though it proceeded to be my least favorite map platforming-wise until I got better at gameplay. Same goes for the City and for Kingdom’s Edge (my beloved? For some reason?)

Or maybe my favorite thing to discover for the first time was just the stag station in Deepnest so I could stop my new player sobbing trip down there.

Elderbug: Do you stop to talk to all the NPCs? Who is your favorite?

I do. I must. It simply would be illegal if I didn’t. Unless I’m doing a speedrun and then the brain has decided it is illegal for me to talk to Elderbug so he gets run past and left to make his sad noise. Guilt. 

Quirrel is a good dude, he let me sit on a bench with him. I love Cornifer so maybe it’s him. I was half convinced he was actually a higher being in my first playthrough because he was just so unstoppable, up until Deepnest. I’m tempted to say Divine just because she’s unhinged.

Myla: What’s your favorite song from the soundtrack?

NO

NO I CAN’T DO THIS ONE

(maniac who has gotten the sheet music now for every song in the soundtrack except for two so far)

I guess White Palace. I guess. If I had to pick. But agh. I’m also partial to Pale Court but after much time going back and forth on it, I think the og White Palace OST beats it. Combat music wise, Sealed Vessel is the song of all time, but Broken Vessel and Nightmare King are responsible for pushing me into buying the game.

We’ve concluded that Ibimm WL and W&G PK shouldn’t meet because they might elope

I wonder what would happen if the timelines of IBIMM and W&G collided and both pale famillies met

I have it on good authority that IBIMM PV would hero worship W&G Hollow. @dropout-ninja, opinions? lmao

oh boy I get to feel embarrassed about being incredibly transparent, not the mortifying ordeal of repeat themes being seen

uhhhh

Dialogue or introspection and nothing else- self explanatory XD I have a dialogue problem. Things are emotion driven, or thought driven, and then action is driven by interactions, and the rest is a walking simulator in nondescript anywhere-land. The only thing that could be added are action scenes, because I go from never describing anything environmental or tactile to taking pages on a fight like it’s a DBZ saga

Anger issues- I have a tendency to give my main protagonists anger problems that steer their plot or come up often in introspection, ho boy. Often if they have a foil antagonist, they’d be guilty of this too. I’ve got too many povs that are just angry hurt people with bad coping skills. There’ll be plots based out of the consequences of actions, but there’s also just the aspect of having some empathy for them; you don’t have to forgive them, but you can see where they’re coming from and see that they’re people too. (I also just have an easier time writing what I am familiar with, and I’m familiar with rejection, bitterness, lashing out, and other unpleasantries as an angry person myself lol)

Fall from grace/dethroned power figures/gods/etc- happens to protagonists and antagonists in my sandbox often and I'm sure they hate it

intense (homo)erotic enemies/rivals dynamics- listen…there’s no excuse Half of the time I don’t even intend to set out for this to happen but it does anyway. I blame being a Transformers fan. So many hate boners and murder soulmates and homoerotic enemies ahoy therein. Will they kill each other from being stuck in a box together too long? Will they decide to see their familiarities and improve as people together? Will they make out? Who knows

Weird sadomasochistic vibes going on in the POV (especially in fight scenes)- this comes up whenever the above theme comes up and I have no escape. Fight scenes and memories of all the reasons you hate a dude aren’t supposed to sound so horny, and yet. And yet. You know what, I'll blame transformers for this one too.

mercy/cruel mercy- I have this habit of preferring characters to live, because character death means I can’t play with them anymore outside of the instances where it serves to impact another character/the setting in important ways. Since I was a kid, I’ve liked seeing themes of what ramifications would/do come from a character being spared, and its twist side of cruel mercy, whether because it’s the best option out of all bad options (stares at you, Wakfu season 2 and what horrors you did to my little child brain) or it’s a protag/antag deciding sparing an antag/protag is the worse fate and they’re feeling vindictive. 

Nonhuman characters and inhuman povs- I feel like most of the fandoms I’ve ever been in have few to no humans, and either that influences how I want to see more aliens/constructs/monsters in og works or I gravitate to those fandoms first, but either way, chances are high there will be aliens, monsters, androids, artificial constructs, fantasy races, or eldritch creatures playing large roles in anything I make. I really love playing around with povs from these types of characters and just trying to keep inhuman povs inhuman but also explore how that would look. I’m not sure I’m really able to explain it but let’s just say I’m the type of writer to look at a one-off character like Armus in Star Trek TNG and then spend over a year of notetaking going ‘but what would that existence be like’. Happy to report that someone told me I managed to make a comprehensible but very non-human alien narrator (in a Godzilla fic lmao).

Becoming more than what you were built for- tied to my above use of constructs or nonhuman forces, because a lot of times their stories involve having been created to be a tool/weapon for a single purpose and then, after either rebelling against that or having the environment remove that purpose, the slow journey to figuring out who they are, what they believe, and how they’re more valuable than they’d originally be able to think. Also goes for 'human' characters becoming their own person outside of whatever destiny they've been told they're supposed to have.

Found family- I just Like It. Happens in almost any of my fics and (eventually) happens in my og stuff too (or if not, it happened and then broke apart and the theme is instead how the hurt of betrayal/broken found family is just as valid as its counterpart tropes)

IMMORTALITY AS A HORROR CONCEPT- haha my beloved, thank you again wakfu for cursing me with the horrors

I'll tag @inthegloomglow @void-rainbow @ganondorf--apologist @loveandscience @darksidekelz if any of you wanna play too

Thumbprint challenge

I was tagged by the lovely @willtheweaver

Rules: look back on your works, both past and present, finished and unfinished. What are five to ten narrative elements or tropes that continuously pop up in your work? Give a list of these things!

OMG this one his hard, but I'll try.

Self-worth issues: most of my characters have to realize their own worth throughout the story

Love doesn't fix your problems but it gives you the strength to fix them yourself - that's it, that's what my stories are about and always will be

Supportive characters - I don't like my heroes to exist in a vacuum, they are always surrounded by people that support them and that they care about

Lovers coming from different backgrounds - I have yet to find true enemies to lovers but my MCs always come from the opposite end of a scale

Dreams and nightmares - meaningful (prophetic?) dreams or nightmares occur in all my works. I don't have a rational reason for that, maybe it's my own messy relationship with sleep 😄

Gentle tag for: @astorichan, @ramwritblr, @sunset-a-story, @satohqbanana, @sarandipitywrites

Get me on the fanclub couch

I was encouraged to post this. This is a "Red Sky At Dawn" (by @ashyronfire /@grollow ) specific meme. I'm calling myself out as an Atlas fanclub member

Sorry Grimm, we love you and your main character POV, but Atlas has that moxie

(Atlas and Nightshade belong to arsonistmoth !)

Edit: I TAGGED THE WRONG PERSON BEFORE, MY BAD