A vessel with no voice to cry, but have a will to survive and be free...
Song : Escapism by Rebecca Sugar
I forgot to add spoiler alert :0
Welp, I finally did an animation more than 1 minute :D
Thanks to those who sent me their ocs, it was fun drawing them.
The animation has bits of mistakes because I didnt get to fix them due to an undoable accident :')
Edit: I forgot to credit Deestracted's vessels: Sigil and Tour in the vid! Apologies
Pale King: time to die Vessels: but we have feelings Pale King: I know
Pale king: exactly
Pale king: that's why I'm doing it
:L
Vessels: I’m sad Pale king: I know
Pale King: hi whithe lady 7u7 XD
You know what's so depressing about the vessels? The perfect vessel was supposed to be completely hollow, without any type of thoughts and feelings, that means that every single vessel that was thrown into the abyss had thoughts and feelings in some capacity, not making them much different from actual children.
Well, The Ghost / Wanderer / Knight / Whathaveyou was originally down there as well. There's a pathway looping back to the start that you can go through via the Abyss. Considering that even they eventually fail (assuming they trap Radiance), I think what the intent is is that all life created for this purpose was guaranteed to fail. Since they all had emotion.
Well, it makes sense to think this, but you don't really *know* if they all had emotion. The HK could have been one of the only odd balls, for all we know.
@@reesesmemesandmore818 Well the rest were thrown out for being imperfect. And The Ghost certainly is, as he eventually falters just like The Hollow Knight. Since Hornet isn't a failure because she was meant to have emotion, it's safe to assume that most of the failures were thinking, feeling beings. No voice to cry suffering, yes. No will to break, maybe. No mind to think, certainly not. Add onto this the Radiance's infection of Lost Kin (a creature which dreams) and you've got a recipe for the genocide of lots of thinking 'failures'.
@@combatraptor4592 Implying I haven't. Just because some random bloke has a video about an idea doesn't lend any more credence to the claim. I stand by what I said, cause I think his video is full of mental gymnastics to make a point that's wrong. It's a shame people feel the need to point me towards his trite so regularly. EDIT: Sorry about coming off abrasively. But dear lord I hate it when people point me to a random person's video on an idea and laud it as fact because it's a video and that seems to add some weird validity to it. It's a pet peeve.
@@tennoskoom9282 the video shows lots and lots of evidence, that's why he wanted to show it to you.
I have decided it is impossible to make the Vessel characters NOT cute. Their design is so simple and adorable, you just can’t make it otherwise
1:02 the last Vessel in the top row has an interesting horn… lmao
@@lilmao4482 “My horns are spikey” “My horns are flat” *”HORN”*
I bet meatcanyon could
@@Disphora you know what? You're probably right there. That dude can exaggerate and manipulate ANYONE'S features to make them into the most grotesque images you will ever see. I would actually like to see how MC could possibly take the cute simplicity of the Vessel characters and make them disgustingly nightmare-inducing.
@@PhantoMace2012he’d prolly make them hyperrealistically bug-like in order to do so
1:31-1:43 This part of the video hit me the most: When the main vessel of this story notices their one of their siblings beside them silently hyperventilating, probably at the thought of being thrown into The Abyss, the first thing they did was to comfort them by placing their hand on their shoulder and offering their hand for them to take. These two simple acts of kindness could have possibly been the reason why they were thrown into The Abyss: The perfect vessel was suppose to be completely hollow, without any types of thoughts and feelings. The main vessel showed empathy, which immediately made him ‘imperfect’.
The main vessel in the video is lost kin fyi. I wasn't expecting the focus of the video to be lost kin but honestly it fits so well. Also I agree, that part was great, really showed how messed up the whole thing was.
@@chuckles2364 Are you sure? The horns are quite different. This vessel has a branching horn on its left that points upwards while Lost Kin has two separated crooked horns, as well as a short horn in the back instead of this one's quite tall secondary horn on its right side.
just liek the knight bro doesnt give fck abt anyone or anything thta isnt helping it
@Bewinged Turtle I'm pretty sure, both the Hollow Knight and Ghost are present in this video, and no other vessel looks anything like Lost Kin. I think it'd be weird to specifically make an oc that looks exactly like lost kin but actually isn't. I'm pretty sure they just didn't draw them exactly as they are in game.
@@chuckles2364 if they were accurate about the other two, why would they get Lost Kin so wrong
Vessel: *develops emotion* Pale king: Into the trash it goes
I remember Autodale---
Hippity hoppity get out of my property!
Ben Goecke *splish splash into the trash!*
It's A Piper toys the perfect item for your child. Autodale
PK: FINNA YEET
Vessel: *emotions appears* Pale King: “FETUS DELETUS, OUT OF THE WOMB AND INTO THE TOMB!”
fetus deletus, time to yeetus you into the pit
Lungs.exe have stopped working
*WHEEZE* I can't breathe-
haha buzzsaw go bzzzzzz
OUT OF THE EGG AND IN WITH THE DEAD
when you think about it you see approximately 2 vessels that got out aside from you which is -lost kin -greenpath vessel (1st hornet fight) meaning that you're not the only one to make it out of hallownest, for what we know, there could even be a good amount of vessels hidden in somewhere, alive and with emotions
There are also multiple vessels in the nosk fight room
I like this theory, and it also implies something else: That the Pale King likely had something to do with some of the vessels escaping/leaving the Abyss. Since he’s the only one who can open the Abyss door, thanks to being the King, he could have let them all out into the world, in the hope of having more possible Vessels to take over for the Hollow Knight if it should fail. This explains some of the White Lady’s dialogue, where she states that she had been expecting a new Vessel, or something like the Knight to arrive to get the half of the Kingsoul charm. It also explains the main player character, as they had somehow left the Abyss and made it out of Hallownest, into the wastelands. The main problem with this theory is that PK had already found the Hollow Knight, as shown in the birthplace cutscene, at which point he likely shut the door to the Abyss and wrote the lore tablet, meaning any more Vessels couldn’t have left the Abyss after he closed it up. However, considering the fact that the Hollow Knight failed, and that more possible vessels to extend the Radiance’s imprisonment could have been a good backup plan, the idea that the Pale King could have let out Vessels after the sealing of the Black Egg seems pretty legit.
@@datwitchyswordfan Makes sense. There don't seem to be any other exits or entrances to the Abyss
Zote
@@datwitchyswordfan wow, thats actually solid! we are probably one of the most pure vessels, and the ones that died are also most likely pure!
Man, I remember when I first made it into the abyss and I was so fucking scared. There isn't much down there, but then you look down and the floor is literally made out of vessels. Then, you go into the floor and get the void heart. That entire room is probably like a couple dozen feet deep. There must have been thousands. Actually, just looking at the abyss, maybe even millions. At first I was terrified. But now, I am very sad. Those poor vessels. Especially the lost kin. His fate was arguably worse.
What's an vessel
@@10_98L dude have you even played hollow knight lol
@Aarav Valaparla not really children, more like unborn corpses filled with void
@@michaeldemianiuk4358 Definitely children. Listen to the White Lady again, they were their offspring. Crafted to be less emotional, but still their literal flesh and blood or whatever higher beings have that made them able to withstand the void.
I have a headcanon that most of the vessels stayed in the Abyss instead of venturing out into Deepnest, because it was too dangerous, and only a few brave ones, like the player vessel, the Greenpath vessel, and the broken vessel, left together with the plan of traveling back around to the other side of the Abyss entrance, and finding a way to open it to free the other vessels. But things went wrong, Nosk killed most of them in Deepnest, and the survivors all got separated. The Knight abandoned Hallownest entirely and only the Broken Vessel made it to the Ancient Basin. It's so sad, thinking about how close BK got, only to die just short of the door, either to Hornet or something else. It's even possible that BK actually did reach the door, but without the King's brand, they couldn't open it, which is an even more sad possibility.
"I'd rather be free from here" *cuts to the hundreds of shattered vessels in the abyss* - my emotions have been stabbed
More like thousands
@@ianwest7625 those are rookie numbers
@@hollowtrappedinaelevator320 Hope she dose silksong Animatics, or plays it at least.
@@hollowtrappedinaelevator320 from 23K to 30K vessels. I hate the pale king
@@Iknowhowbadthisnameis8828 *it was necessary for the preservation of hallownest buzzsaws included*
Headcanon: many more vessels survived and are out there living life, and i'm not bawling over insects.
I wonder how normal bugs would react with a vessel living near them
@@felipecosta-kv2fx well, i teleported one from the abyss(do not ask how, they are the void queen's children now) to some valkyries(void queen says they are like insects to her) and the valkyries said they were cute so i hope this answers your question
the broken vessel is proof of that but I don’t know if that’s really the happiest example.
@@leahharden it better than everyone dying i guess
Hmm 🤔
I just realize at 1:02 there’s a vessel with the word “horn” for its horn
I can imagine Pale King seeing it precisely and saying "nope"
@@nahuelortega6200 man if i was him, that vessel would have been the one
Lmao
@@justwoosh yes
Its used for devistating blows
it’s really sad because most oft the vessels had emotions like fear, sadness and more but these poor things we’re cast out being left behind by the father that never loved them
That’s why he casted them out they had feelings
En realidad PK no es un no los amara Probablemente si lo hacía pero su obsesión con derrotar a The Radiance era más fuerte Realmente no pudo ser indiferente con THK aún que quisiera y esa fue la razón por la que él se terminó encariñando con su padre volviéndolo imperfecto.
Pale king - See vessels try to be happy and survive. Also Pale king - *s a w*
PK Mations they shall never escape
@@the_jingo *n o c o s t t o g r e a t*
One escaped YOU
@@jaymun_1331 a lot more escaped (the dead ones in thw Nosk arena and the one that you become the Broken Vessel/Lost Kin).
JAYMUN _13 what about broken vessel I mean he almost escaped
I love how he carries the younger one in the credits scene. Thats cute.
Ethan Kuhn until they all died
Yes, quite so.
🥺🥺🥺
I like to think that place is some kind of after life for the siblings
David Rangel me to
At 1:02 you can see the knight (13th at bottom row) and the pure vessel (16th at top row) and this attention to detail is what I love the most about this animation.
and H O R N
And broken vessel in the middle
Greenpath vessel is right next to the Knight
@@Kharci that’s not broken vessel, broken vessel looks similar but is not the main character
@@mparker123 explain
Can we just appreciate that this person took the time to draw an entire page of Vessels with unique features??? You can even see Broken Vessel and THK!
and the knight himself he’s on the bottom right side
And it was all done on one phone?!
@@marc3301themself* but yeah its so cool
I want a Hollow Knight game where every character is a vessel, like a little community of vessels with little houses, and you go on a quest as a vessel to save your vessel friend.
That sounds like a very good idea.
Maybe the Vessels could be divided into several groups like one group is based like a church and another is warlike.
@@kellymccormack8346 "Now let us give our thanks to t̶̝̩͘h̶̭̫͆e̴̻̓ ̵̣́͠v̴̡͚͌o̵̞͗i̸͚̓̚͜d̴͉́̌"
@@archdruidbookwalter951 Okay here's an idea for some Vessel NPCs in the Town of Voidvale. Elder Spirit. The oldest of the Vessels and the unofficial leader of the Vessels in Voidvale. Dreamer. A Vessel that dreams big. Priest Shade. A Vessel that makes a live by summoning the Shades of deceased Vessels. Wayfinder. A Vessel that sells maps and is usually found outside of Voidvale. Shield Master Stal. A Vessel that's a defensive type warrior and has trained several students to become warriors.
We must give thanks to the void
Me: The pale king wasn't so bad Everything he did Me: ok, nevermind
no cost too great
I know right,I thought of that too!
In some aspects I understand.
I pity him
@@Jack-mt3fw huh...ya know, that's a good way of looking at it...
"Yeetus yeetus, delete the fetus." ~The Pale King, a long time ago.
This is also me after playing the doll house in resident evil village
more like "Deletus the already born child"
Yeetus the fetus if it has emotion now it will be deletus
When you come to think about it, the vessel we play as ends up just like the hollow knight if we end up doing the side quests or doing anything that doesn't have to do with just opening the black egg temple and taking the hollow knight's place as a true vessel, doing as much as talking to Elder Bug ends up showing that the vessel we play as might have a semblance of emotion or thought and therefore will fail to hold the Radiance inside of them just like the Hollow Knight is failing right now. So the only "true" way to get the first ending where you take his place is by just doing what's necessary to open the black egg temple and *never* get out from the path, ignore all NPCs and just go straight to it, no thoughts or feelings, just an objective. On the other hand: if you embrace such feelings, thoughts and follow what Hornet says about how you might "bring a different ending to this" and get what you need for the "dream no more" ending, then you succeed on bringing peace to Hollownest and taking the Radiance down exactly because unlike the Hollow Knight you actually decided to embrace the thoughts and feelings and use that will to bring the Radiance down once and for all.
Очередная душа здесь. Знал бы, кто она, что она говорит? ...
@@user-hq3gz8jb5c Гугл транслятор в помощь! 🗿👍
So? Seedrunner with no charm, no mask, no spell, no soul container and no death is the canon ending? It will be helll
@@adhiprajna4127 I meant more of the sidequests you interact with NPCs, the charms and whatnot that you find around the world are fine to use, but I never said that ending would be the canon ending. Personally for me, the canon ending is the dream no more ending.
I know a year old comment and all but the knight does have emotion you might be hollow at the beginning but your character saves people, puts up with zote, enjoys hotsprings and willingly follow hornets advice things a pure hollow entity wouldn't do as none of it would serve its purpose also nosk chooses the for of loved ones and in his God home version he takes the form of hornet showing that the knight does care for hornet half sibling or not
“I have no mouth but I must scream”
Oh god not AM
i am going to use this ina comic thank you
Wrong game
Is this a Scythe reference (made bye Neal Shusterman.)
It's the name of a sci fi story.
Pale king: do u love me Vessel: yes Pale king: do u love this Shows the abyss Vessel: wait wat Thrown down into the abyss Pale king: NEXT!
Oml- can I make this a comic XD
Pale king: Do you love me? Hollow Knight: ... Pale king: You’re coming with me.
@@leedle2171 this comment deserves more attention
No cost to great...
Rootin Tootin Lee Hollow knight internally: “yes I love you despite everything” The radiance: “it’s free real estate”
I just started playing the game, I know a few details about the plot/lore but not a lot, I look forward to learning the context. Edit: I've learned the context. My pain is infinite and unending.
For all those unaware of the lore of Hollow Knight: the Pale King was trying to save Hallownest from an infection (the Radiance). He wanted to find something perfect that could take in the infection and keep it from spreading. This is what is referred to as the "Pure Vessel" or the "Hollow Knight". The knight had to be hollow of personality, ambition, etc to be a perfect vessel for the infection. To do this, the Pale King teamed up with the white lady to make tons of vessels. LARGE SPOILER INCOMING: you are one of these vessels, but just in case the name of the game fooled you, you are not the hollow knight; the hollow knight is the final boss and it's super tragic because in the middle of the boss fight he literally starts stabbing himself because he's so miserable. Anyway, as I was saying, you aren't the hollow knight, but you are one of the hundreds of thousands of vessels. The part that I'm getting to is what's portrayed in the animation. All of these vessels were thrown into an deep dark pit known as the abyss and the Pale King thinks that the one that makes it out is the true hollow knight. The lore is sort of hand wavey around that part because THK (using this to refer to the Hollow Knight from now on) wasn't the only vessel to make it out; clearly you made it out, the Broken Vessel (Lost Kin) made it out, the vessel that Hornet is next to at the start of her first fight made it out, and there's a few others. I think Zote and Elderbug are also vessels but idk. Anyway, it's super effed up. Beating up on THK whilst he's stabbing himself to try and end his life quicker just makes me sad. The any% ending ends with you taking in the infection and from the looks of it, taking THK's place temporarily. To get rid of the infection permanently, the true ending makes you defeat the Radiance who I think is the cause of the infection.
ok so you wrote all this but not a single thank you comment, not one?! well thank you
@@milimnava9375 awww :D No problem :p
@@trickytreyperfected1482 the abyss is the birthplace of the vessels isnt it? Its the birthplace of the knight.
@@trickytreyperfected1482 elderbug and zote are not vessels and a clear indication is that the pale kings children have no visible mouth. This includes Hornet who isn't a vessel.
they could have just worn masks smh my head 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Pure vessel: shows love for its father Pale king: aw, how sweet Other vessels: shows any sign of emotion Pale king: welp, into the pit you go
:(
Luigi says: IF THE VESSEL HAS EMOTION, THEN THE SLAP IS FULL MOTION.
@@HollowReality XD
@@HollowReality I haven't heard that one before
I mean, no.
At the credits only one of them has a nail like it's their protector. That is so cute
And sad
Yeah he kinda failed to do their job didn’t they?
If I could guess? That vessel was the only one that got over the PTSD. The others were probably too scared to even hold a nail.
@@linkmariokirby7373 im 14 and this is deep lol
Probably that’s what happened to quirrel’s nail after he disappeared, but hey just a theory 🤣
I'm so glad I joined the Hollow Knight fandom, because of stuff like this. This game is a fucking masterpiece
The vessel comforting the other vessel is so sad because the vessels might not have known to be empty and that being kind is what would kill them.
The one thing that breaks my heart. It is about how many vessels were thrown into the abyss. They never got to live a life. The pale king gave them life only to just take it away again. I respect his dedication to stop radiance but the amount of vessels lost was unneeded
Drew Blencowe The failed vessels could be infected, that’s why they were imperfect. Only a pure vessel, like the knight, was completely resistant to the Radiance. But yeah, could have made good soldiers
They could even replace the Knights in the White Palace
@@drewblencowe7457 they can get infected.
Getting the void heart charm showed the thousands, possibly millions of vessels there. Holy shit that's a lot of dead kids
Even more so imperfect vessels HAD Feelings witch is why they were thrown so they felt that Credit: @Matt l.
What's sadder is, if you look at the Pure Vessel's cut dream nail dialogue when you fight the pantheon, it says: "Do not think... Do not speak... Do not hope..." I think we can gather from this that, in a way, the Hollow Knight knew it was imperfect, but still tried to be hollow in order to contain the radiance. It wanted to contain the radiance so badly that it hollowed itself, but the fact that it wanted to contain the radiance and save the kingdom so desperately is why it was imperfect. it had a will.
:'( don't make cry
And there is a deleted dream nail dialogue when you fight him normally and it only says "...Father?" I think he had a will because he got attached with the pale king and he did all this for him
Why do you have to make me cry?
@@daverx__ Also the fact that in the path of Pain you see a cut scene where The Hollow Knight and pale king have a moment
Thinks: "Do not think... OH SHIT OH FUCK"
What makes this sadder is that the vessels weren't even trained. He just took the first one, and left the rest to die in the abyss.
It could be argued, actually, that the Pale King had been waiting for a while and that a handful of vessels had made it up to the top, only to be pushed back down when they expressed emotion. Of course, those falling vessels in the birthplace memory cutscene could’ve just fallen due to their own failures at platforming, but isn’t it much sadder to assume otherwise?
OverthinkIt nah failing that parkour is much sadder than being pushed off.
Truuuueee!!
@@wesleyward5901 I mean to be fair, the other vessels probably had to somehow make it to the top with kings pass gear, cause even though we have wings and all that for gameplays sake, there is no explanation in the lore why we would have that, so most likely the other vessels didn't even have claw or dash
@@GamerAtWorkrn honestly they probably tried to climb each other
Everyone gangsta till they realize this is the lost kin vessel
You mean the one infected by the radiance? I think that one has slightly differently curved horns
Actually it isn't, the horn arrangement is similar but different.
@@themockingdragon135 I DONT CARE ITS CANON NOW
@@themockingdragon135 I think the reason he calls this lost kin, because the horn arrangement is the same as lost kins, because this is their past I'm thinking. But im thinking how did our Knight get thrown out of the white palace, but no ended up a abyss
@@Sgmannie I don't know how much more I need to repeat it, but the horn arrangement is different. I suggest you do a side by side comparison of them.
What makes it worse is that the "pure vessel" that got picked wasn't really pure and if you dream nail him during the fight it shows that he is trying not to think for the sake of the kingdom
i like how everyone says this but no one actually realizes that you can't dream nail pure vessel, an these dialoges are only in the game files
Regreting live choices you can though. Just be Hella careful.
@@hirahiro2331 km, maybe got changed or something, i remember it not being possible doe.
@@regretinglifechoices5519 probably. They were some unfinished data within the game when it came out
@Mista Screaming you dreamnailed Pure Vessel? Goddamn..
anyone else go down to the abyss after getting the void heart to just hang out with the shades?
Yes, and stay there forever
Hangout with the shades in the shade.
Just like hey fam!
Sometimes if i dont know what to do ;-;
they just run away from me :(
At 1:02: The Hollow Knight is at the top row, 2nd from the right. The Player Knight is at the bottom row 5th from the right (At least I'm pretty sure that's them) Also, at 1:07, the Player Knight's shadow can be seen on the left.
So can Lost Kin’s, next to little ghost’s silhouette at 1:07
0:46 there’s the Knight too
Cool also hi other link
That's so sad, the other vessels have actual feelings so they would probably feel so scared trapped in the void forever.
Hollow Knight: Father? Pale King: Say sike right now
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@@user-wh3lv2sf7q now it’s got two
And three ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
Wrong it has four and then more congrats
Ur all wrong bruh it’s 5 -_-
Imagine us doing a whole journey, fighting our way all to the black egg, to find a giant gaping vessel with the word horn on its shell
Someone HAS to make a mod of it!
I don't understand what you're trying to say...
66
@@MATOGAST. ...GOD NO YOU MONSTER...
Well its 68 now
Rejected by the king, controlled by the light, saved by his brother
I'm not crying there just... Some void particals in the air
Vessel: "I feel-" Pale king: *Nø
So to trap the infection of the radiance to their body or the hollow knights body
"I think-" *Yeets child to abyss?* *Yes*
reminds me of the hollow knight cut dream nail dialogue about him saying "dont feel, dont think , dont ..." or something like that
1:01 HORN but seriously every single horn design is unique that's really cool
FormlessOedon holy shit and they’re all so cool too!
They actually set up a post on Tumblr asking for OCs! It's incredible that they managed to compile all these vessels and implement them :D
One of them is a keychain lol
But , i want all of them to be a keychain
You can even see the knight we play as too!
Wow, that scene when the vessels all lined up and the door opened with the pale king and a Kingsmould standing there, and then how it cut to them thrown into the abyss..... 1:45 *wow*
ello
Feels good knowing these vessels would go on to help Ghost and THK kill the Radiance
Pale king: *your free trial of living has ended*
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I hate you but I love you
Everybody gangsta, till the knight has a H O R N.
Everybody gangsta till' the knight (1 down 1 left) to the main one looks like D I S C O R D
Everybody gangsta til' we find out Pure wasn't completely Hollow.
Thank you Ms.Bunyan
@@itzquintle9479 everybody gangsta untill I tell everyone I have a vessel for a brother! **And It gets weirder with the rest of my siblings**
2:26 this is adorable
Honestly, I like 10:00
@@blazingfish8486 bruh there is no 10:00
@@blazingfish8486 eyo the fuck
@@blazingfish8486 same
I watched a 1 hour lore explanation video just to understand this piece of art
it was mossbag wasn’t it?
I'm crying, I never thought about the siblings like this, and you've portrayed this idea in such a way that it immediately puts me on board.
It's true the story of the Children of the King, including the main three, tell a morbid tale of children being born simply to be weapons and, when they failed to be perfect, killed... And the main three are just what happens when one manages to fit their fate as a weapon, when one is given a different fate, and when one manages to escape it all only to come back and see the ashes of his past brought back to life... None of them lead to a good ending... Which is why the Hollow Knight music is so sad, and why the moment the Knight meets up with all the souls of his siblings born of darkness, in battle, it sparks the true final end and the moment they all finally are given rest from their torment
HORN 1:02
@@Zarasvids That's nice, if you're talking about the main three as in Hornet, The knight, and hollow, hornet isn't a vessel, she's half spider and half pale king.
@@melichor7294 I kept that fully in mind whilst writing.. Hornet may be a half sibling but that doesn't make her not a part of the victims.. Even if she wasn't in it as one of the ghosts, she is freed (or bound) from her parent's choices by what happens at the end of the story.. My point is that it's child abuse and nobody got out of this unscathed
Imagine being born as one of thousands of test tube babies, and have to go through grueling tests to do which of you is the most physchopathic
You want to know something really sad? You can’t dream nail the pure vessel, but in the code it lets you see the dialogue “don’t hope” and “don’t think”. He knew he wasn’t hollow, but the only feeling he had was wanting to be.
I know... how would you act in a situation like this?
I’d be really sad to find someone thinking thoughts like that
@@shockwavethedog if they were a regular person it'd be sad sure, but for a different reason.
@@shockwavethedog Like Mr. Falcon Punch said, it would be sad but for a different reason. THK (the Hollow Knight) / the Pure Vessel is not supposed to have a personality or thoughts or pretty much anything. "Don't hope" and "don't think" imply he was not the Pure Vessel and was not in fact a completely hollow knight.
I get it. I understood the first time
Why does every single one of Rebecca Sugar's songs make me cry? Also beautiful animation, so lively and expressive
It's crazy to think that probably the best animator rn is an animator about my favorite game
I'm so close to crying but then there's this one vessel whose horns literally spell "horn" at 1:02
i saw that and laughed so hard for some reason
Lol
It took me a while to find but it’s really worth it
Top Right
Love, CEVG117 took me a while to spot it and now I see it and that is amazing
The story of the shades/failed vessels is so sad. They were imperfect, just for a second, and then they lose their life. They felt so alive that they felt emotion. They were just born. They didn’t chose to feel. They didn’t want to go out like this. And now, they’re at the bottom of some pit, damned to eternal sorrow, with their only comfort being their brothers and sisters right next to them who feel the same pain.
The vessels are actually genderless, the only one of the pale kings children to have a gender was Hornet, which is why the white lady refers to her as “the gendered one”. The way I see it that makes it even sadder because they didn’t have names, genders, identities, or even thoughts. In the abyss when they saw each other all they knew was that it was another creature like them, their kin. In the dark, alone together, suffering, trying not to feel.
@@ianwest7625 I say “brothers and sisters” as a way of describing unity
@@acedaybreaker2545 The only unity the vessels had was the Void, no matter how many "emotions" and "care" they had, they were all born from the Void. They are all abyssal in nature, all ways looking at the vital and efficient way to destroy and consume. It seems however the OC community dosen't like that fact.
@@GrievyRZ Their unity was before the void when they were just the children of the Pale King and White Lady, they then were killed and had the void invade their minds and bodies. So currently all the ones in the abyss are all made of void but they weren't always. And even so the void didn't strip them of their thoughts and feelings since the Hollow Knight actually still has emotions even after taking on the void.
@@GrievyRZ but wasn’t the reason why they were thrown out was because they had thoughts and were able to think?
hk lore is so in depth and intricate, and it hurts so bad when you play the game and put the pieces together. Specifically the vessel lore, and the HK fight, hurts so bad :(
I HOPE WHEN SILK SONG COMES OUT YOU WILL MAKE MORE OF THESE PLEASE
2:32 those poor vessels don’t know that by holding hands like that they’re already clearly showing the pale king they aren’t perfectly hollow like he wants :c
1:32 *
I think its good, what they have feelings.. all. All of them is created from void. Turns out.. even void, have feelings. Not all people have them....
All people have emotions. Some just don’t show them.
@@lemonplayz4032 yeah but vessels aren't supposed to. Pure Vessel had no emotions up until the big idiot that the Pale king is got attached to him. Man, killing millions of vessels to find the right one, only to corrupt that one yourself. Really sucks
Electro Shock Are you serious. You say it didn’t have emotions until it had them? That doesn’t make any sense. The great folly of the Pale King is that every Vessel was impure. You can’t just feel emotions if you can’t feel emotions. The Hollow Knight could always feel emotions, but it hid them and pushed them away to try and make the Pale King proud. What it didn’t realize was the feeling of wanting to not feel made it impure.
I hope we get to see more vessels that escaped from the abyss in silk song. It would also be cute it all of the escape vessels came together and made a little vessels village.
*Yes*
Unfortunately their all dead that we know of lol would be nice though
I have never wanted something so much in my entire life
@@rhettlolly7950 The broken Vessel got out, Ghost did too, I refuse to believe that ALL the rest died
YAS
LOOK AT HOW THEY GET FAMILIES BUT IM HERE STUCK IN FU**ING DEEPNEST!
I’ve found 2 nosks in this comment section now
@@HollowM0th **loud Nosk screeching**
That’s wat u get for scarring the hell outta me
Hollow Knight deserves a Samurai Jack-style TV show.
Wow... just wow
before the hunter gang... this gurl was already my hero 😳
I know right it’s so smooth so well timed EVERYTHING!
Ok
I’m surprised there are no people say omg I love ur gods or something like that
Remember this was animated on a phone
1:00 this particular shot gave me chills. I don't know much about the game but it shows in this scene how disposable these creatures are. All of them are in a neat line, no one out of place. And even though they all have their own unique horns to distinguish themselves from each other, they all wear the same cape, as if trying to smother their individuality. The music also hits deep. When the two fight, I can't help but think they're trying to get approval from someone, or to prove to themself that they're worth living. Edit: how could I forget when two of them hold hands. It's such a bittersweet moment. It shows such a sincere kindness to them, and I can't help but think that it's because of how they struggled with being noticed. No one should have to suffer alone
But did you see the vessel with the word horn on it's head?
The idea is there are millions of vessels and the pale king (their dad) wanted one, the hollow knight (hes next to the horn dude) to contain a infection, the sad thing is the hollow knight couldn’t do his job because he wanted to save the kingdom, he wanted his fathers aproval
Said infection could only be contained by a being with no thoughts and emotions, so the king threw any who did show emotions into a pit/The Abyss. The hollow knight(guy who sparred with the vessel this video is focused on) seemed to be void of emotions and thoughts, but they weren’t, which is why the plan failed. And yes, the lil horn guys are called vessels, which is really sad to me.
Yeah, whatever the heck those creatures are, they sure are disposable!
So in the game, a new god moves into an already inhabited area, and the old followers of the old gold all start worshipping the new god, and the new god becomes king. The old god gets pissy and starts infecting everyone through their dreams. The king gets worried that his great kingdom will fall to ruin, and so he and another god (that’s his ally) have a bunch of kids (they’re bugs, so they come out as eggs) and throw said eggs into the Abyss, which is literally just a big pit of darkness (void). The eggs get ‘corrupted’ by the void, and the king’s intentions are to have a being with a shell of god and insides of void, so that they alone could be a vessel for the infection (with no dreams to speak of, the old god supposedly wouldn’t have been able to do anything). So thousands of these children were created, and in the end, the king basically stood at the entrance to the abyss, and those thousands of vessels tried to climb up to reach him and his bright light. They all fell (there’s a scene in the actually game where you yourself make this climb and the bodies of the vessels are just falling down around you and it’s pretty nuts and depressing) and in the end, only one vessel made it out of the Abyss with the king: the Pure Vessel, otherwise known as the Hollow Knight. The Abyss was sealed off by the king, and it would never be opened again. (In game, the floor of the Abyss is *covered* in the bodies of the vessels, cracked shells lying every which way. The bodies make up the floor and walls of the birthplace. The shades of the vessels show up as flying entities, identical to the player’s shade, and attack you, but if you have the Void Heart [essentially meaning that you know that the player character is also a vessel] they just look at you and disappear) THK got ‘trained to pure form’ (even though they’re bigger than all of the other vessels they’re all roughly the same age) and was taught how to fight for some reason. They were then locked into the Black Egg Temple, where they were held by chains and a seal of binding that kept them and the Infection contained. Hallownest (the kingdom) continued on, eternally. Except it didn’t, cause THK wasn’t ‘pure’. None of the vessels were. They had thoughts and a mind. They knew what their purpose was, they wanted to save Hallownest, they loved their father. And so the Radiance (the old god) infected them too, and the Infection spread faster than ever throughout the kingdom. Hallownest fell. The game is set a time after the fall of the Eternal Kingdom, because as it turns out, there was a way out of the Abyss into Deepnest (another area of the game where you can find vessel corpses lying around in the background of a boss arena). The player character (who the fandom likes to call either Ghost or The Knight) is one of them. They traveled out into the wastelands beyond Hallownest and lost their memories, but came back for some unknown reason. The game has several endings, but they can really be placed into two catagories: the Knight becomes the new vessel for the infection, or the Knight just straight up murders the Radiance and kills the infection in its entirety.
Hollow knight is a beautiful game, and this song is beautiful. It's a mashup, a perfect mashup. It makes me cry hearing it, seeing the animation and thinking about how the vessels feel and what they're going through... It makes me cry.
This animation crashed every single one of my browsers
YO THE AMBIENCE, VIBE AND ATMOSPHERE IS SO WELL DONE
I swear the more i rewatched to understand i almost lowkey cried
AND ITS ON *F L I P P A C L I P*
AND A FUCKING *MOTH* CAUSED THIS SHITE
Sad too ofc :(
I needed a comment to write this on, This event video in a nutshell: *Execute Order 66..*
I love how you’re able to show emotion in some of the vessels through their Movement alone. And just how gosh darn solid everything looks to, there’s never a point in this video where things look flat or floaty truly wonderful.
Yes fucking why so cry damm Emotion Children Vessel dont wanna Chosen but Sadly King order Kill all Children Vessel or Throw in Abyss Pits!
jimboy de juan At least the Void kills the Pale King :/
the fact that they are so emotional and expressive was their death. no cost too great.
@@jimboydejuan7869 The Pale King was an @$$hole! He killed most his kids, forced one to become a vessel for all of eternity, and his only daughter (Hornet) he left alone with her mother who ate people!
@@lonebattledroid4474 Also don't forget the fact that Hornet's mother is essentially DEAD
I love this video and I love returning to it every now and then so here's a fun, very spoilery hollow knight thought: Many people consider the Hollow Knight or Sealed Siblings ending to be the "best endings because it implies the Radiance will successfully be sealed in the Ghost/MC in the black egg, however if you do the godhome pantheons you will inevitably face Nosk. However, this time, Nosk looks like Hornet instead of Ghost. Because of the Hunter's Journal we know that Nosk takes on the face of whoever its prey cares about. Together this means that Ghost cares about Hornet and, just like with the Hollow Knight, caring about someone makes the vessels no longer pure and empty, Ghost now has a will that can break and would not succeed if it took THK's place. Because of this and because of the fact nobody dies I consider the Embrace the Void ending to be the "Best" ending
I know this vid is sad and all but i just cant stop laughing at 1:01 you can see each knight has a unique horn and there is one knight in the top right corner thats horn is legit JUST THE WORD HORN OVER HIS HEAD MADE OF HORN how is no one talking about dis
Vessel: *Has thoughts and feelings.* Pale King motioning towards the abyss: "Ok get in."
Would they have feelings tho? They were born to be hollow.
@@blazingfish8486 They where but nearly none succeeded in actually being truly hollow. Even the chosen vessel The Hollow Knight was impure and unable to contain the Radiance indefinitely.
Hop in
@@aliaslan2028 yeah, only The Knight is hollow.
@@micahlehrke9 The Knight isn’t hollow either
1:38 Excuse me, is that a mind to think I see? INTO THE ABYSS YOU GO!
Yes so sadly King order Kill Children chosen or Throw in Abyss pits. SO want Cute Children chosen!
well to be fair, all of them except the Hollow Knight got dumped, so they just picked the best mindless one. Makes it so much better, I know
If its got a mind to think, into the abyss it will sink
THERES A KNIGHT WITH EARS AND ITS DEAD NOW
Pale King, you're fired.
your minecraft content is great but mann please make another hollow knight animation this was amazing i could only imagine what you can do now
Yes I agree
The story of the hollow knight is just as sad as the story of the abandoned ones. The hollow knight was selected as best only to feel something. Perhaps a glimmer of regret for the lost vessels, some genuine love for its father. It would realize that if it truly had thoughts and emotions, thousands of innocent vessels were abandoned and died. It would desperately try to suppress its thoughts, up until it sealed the radiance away. Only to awaken to find itself possessed by the radiance, a failure to its siblings, its kingdom, and its father. It found itself fighting the knight and in desperation tried to stop itself, destroying itself to make up for its failure. Imagine feeling the crippling weight of a lost kingdom on your back..
Fun fact: Every vessel in this animation has a name.
Wait what
@@sabrachaddock8097 if you look at the credits, it shows the names of the vessels along with who created them
My god,that's true. They really had the work to name every single vessel in this animation. That is dedication.
@@ordinarylittlebastard3248 if I’m not mistaken, a majority of the vessels are other people’s OCs.
@@onyxgaming5639 ;-; i wish my oc got into this
You know I wasn’t expecting to cry today
Chocoya, I wasn’t either
Me too
Same
Honestly, same.
Lol
this animation is sad, as a hollow knight player who has beat the game I love to see this. When I first saw it I didn't really get it but now after playing hollow knight and knowing about the lore this animation hits different
I don't know how to explain it, but this animation generates a mixture of calm, stress, sadness and nostalgia.
raise your masks if you've been with SAD-ist since the hamilton animations
*raises mask*
*Raises mask*
*Raises mask*
*raises ha- mask*
Raises mask
“My father threw out me, my brothers and sisters... yet I was the only one to survive, But then after my final battle I found out more survived. I do not wish to stay here any longer for my family is waiting for me...you can come if you want or stay but I am leaving, goodbye”
Dude *That sad* :'(
Is it a Zote speaks?
Ancient Buns wait, brother?
Good bye buddy
It's actually Canon That a few vessel manage to survive and climb out of the abyss like the knight or the broken vessel and there may or may not be others still alive outside of the kingdom. A small glimmer of hope in this depressing tale... PS: with silksong soon we may (not likely don't take my word at face value) see one of these escaped vessels in the new kingdom that we're gonna visit
WHEN THEY CARRY THE LITTLE ONE 😭
Props to the vessel whose horn is literally “HORN”. 100/10
That one was probably the first to be yeeted
I love how the "un"broken vessel was depicted here, it gives him a slightly calmer feel then the actual broken vessel, and not just with how broken vessel is infected
Vessels use they/ them pronouns.
Yes
He escaped though
I don’t think that’s Broken Vessel Edit: Broken Vessel’s horns are long, warped (pointing in the same direction), and on the left side of its head
@@nomercyroute Lmaoo I was about to comment on how 'he' is used as standard but then I saw your username. I respect it.
This is my headcanon now. Ogrim’s quote of ‘So there were others’ probably refers to Vessels that survived anyway, since it’s already mentioned that he was apalled by the Pale King’s actions, so he must have known what happened.
Exactly! Why’d the king have to throw the Vessels in the Abyss?! He could have let them live normal lives if they weren’t hollow! Edit: He probably didn’t want to show the people of Hallownest that their king could fail
Well they are part hollow and they are powerfull. He could use them in the army.
Mr Gold None of them are hollow.
@@lemonplayz4032 Still they are more resistant than normal bugs and they are powerfull. Use them for something.
Mr Gold They would probably get easily infected and turned against him.
This is so emotional, all they did wrong was having a heart :(
This is the most satisfying hollow knight animation ever! Wow sadist grew up so fast❤
1:02 can we just appreciate the effort of drawing that many characters
HORN
If you look closely you can see the player character
Yeah look at all those smol and cute vessels
@@dr.nostalgia526 wich row is it?there is so many
Man I found the Knight and the Hollow Knight :3
1:02 second row, last person to the right, his horn literally says "HORN"
Omg
HOw
@@baitornot4697 WE DISCOVERED THE LAZINESS OF THE ANIMATOR--
Beautiful
On the bottom row four from the right side is the ghost
Steven universe and hollow knight are two of my favorite thing this is what sad-ist should be known for
genuinely one of the best piece of animated media ive ever consumed its so beautiful ;0;
1:07 the little one looks away because he has empathy :(
@@Wobble202 yeetus deleetus
1:40 The Pale King: Yeah these things are definately going to the -ranch- abyss.
*Dr. Phil has entered the chat*
Yes Hello would you like bottomless fries with your bottomless void?
Rhett Lolly XD
Me escaping Revek after Dreamnailing a spirit:
0:55 I love the detail here that all 5 vessels in this scene have that shows they really do have emotions. The two on the left seem to be having a conversation, the one with the ram-like horns on the far right seems to either be trying to calm themself down or maybe hyping themself up? We see the one on the center-right is shaking out of fear before the Pale King arrives and the one in the center puts their hand on their shoulder and holds their hand, a show of compassion.
"... Father... " "Father?, No, I'm not your father, and you are not my child, you are just a tool. Farewell vessel" "... No... " "No, no, NO! " "Please, Father, don't leave me here... "
poor poor children all of them. I hate fathers
That's IT. I'm making a fanfic where all the vessels are happy and alive, even after the Dream No More ending.
@@coolfishron6668 You can go search this in Devianart.
@@arishkhan1055 I don't know if you're serious about that or not but don't hate fathers just because of that
Oh so that's why the other herrschers are talking about "recycling the void children"
First time seeing this: **cries like a fountain** Second time seeing this: okay I know what to expect, this time I won't- **cries like a fountain again** Thank you for this masterpiece :')
Why i cant cry with this?
@@jpiny4854 we're all different, maybe you're not too emotional or it doesn't make you sad enough to cry, not everyone has the same reaction to the same thing and that's totally fine :')
@@jpiny4854 You are a frozen eyes, like me ;-;
@@giada3598 like a fountain in the City of Tears?
I don't know who I am I didn’t even cry qwq it’s so sad I did get that gloomy feeling a bit.....poor children....they don’t even deserve to be dropped down into the void.......it’s just so sad to even think about it........PK what did they do just to deserve being down there... qwq
Fun fact: At 1:02 (you might have to pause) you can see the Hollow Knight next to the vessel with the word “horn” as it’s horns in the top right corner, and the knight (the character you play as) 5 from the right on the bottom row.
The thing that made this wholesome also results in it being sad. An idea instilled
OH NO THE LITTLE ONE WAS HAVING AN ANXIETY ATTACK I WANNA GIVE HIM A HUG OH NO-
Lol now they're all a united Lord of darkness and destruction. Reeking death and consuming Hallownest probably. They are of void, un-caring in nature.
@@someonewhohadadream8578 what's that got to do with any of this?
@@jennagarza2665 I already told you, because this comment is cringe, because×2 it's something that you can't do and hollow knight ain't for such things
@@someonewhohadadream8578 just let people think what they want, if they want to give a hug to a cute vessel in an animatic, it’s fine for them to express their feelings about that particular character in the comments, that’s what the comments are for, no need to get all angry.
@@alexstaro I wasn't angry or something, I just said what I thought about his comment, that's what replies to comments are for
1:41 that’s absolutely adorable. I’m not sure if they escaped the abyss, but at the credits they weren’t in the abyss
Well canonically one dies (they die tho)
Canonically, this isn’t canonical so they live and they escape Hallownest and live peaceful lives in a place we’re emotions aren’t sinful!
Actually, it’s possible for some of them to have escaped, for example if we look at the early on infected vessel (not the final boss) it was probably an escaped hollow knight, so there could be more out there!
They didn’t... you see him waking up there.
Lilia Checcone What?
I’d like to think that we would get a DLC, where Ghost, Hornet Quirrl, and the Hollow Knight go to the outskirts of the kingdom, and find a secret civilization of rogue vessels that made a life and themselves.
No mind to think No will to break No voice to cry suffering Born of god and void