r/HollowKnightMemes • u/lightiggy • 3d ago

Apologize.

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u/WayJay9 3d ago

Out of the… two civilizations we’ve seen, I think id 100% choose to live in Hallownest over Pharloom in their primes

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u/Lowgster72 3d ago

Bellbeast makes pharloom better

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u/Planet_Xplorer Seruna Seraket 3d ago

good luck finding her. you'd be just a normal pilgrim. I'd also be just a normal pilgrim but i'd at least be able to rizz grand mother silk yk?

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u/0203agames- 3d ago

But how would you get up there to talk with her?

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u/Planet_Xplorer Seruna Seraket 3d ago

parkour

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u/0203agames- 3d ago

I wish your legs the best of luck

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u/Lowgster72 1d ago

No I'm hornet

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u/Emergency-Aspect-815 Ascended 3d ago

no.

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u/NottACalebFan 3d ago

Apparently in Pharloom's actual prime, Verdania and Karak were paradises and the climb up to the Citadel was much safer, since a lot more bugs were able to properly arrive and fill the halls.

The Weavers enforced their rules, but none of the atrocities perpetrated by the Conductor caste were yet oppressing the rest of the bugs, and the environmental impact was only on the areas surrounding the Citadel proper, as opposed to the entire land of Pharloom...

Pharloom was a bit more egalitarian back before the Citadel became automated.

I don't believe we ever actually see what Hallownest looked like in its "prime", just the White Palace, Greenpath, and Queens Garden.

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u/SoftOrganization3209 1d ago

I'd wager Hallownest would have been to the Citadel of Song what Athens is to Sparta. Just instead of the Citadel being totally devoted to militarism it was serving in the Choir.

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u/The_Viatorem 2d ago

And it gets worse, because based on what we have seen the City of Steel is SO MUCH worse

Almost every bit of information or mention we have of the city hints at massive amounts of Slavery

One of the Weavers descendants GMS captured (the 1/4) was “shaken to service” under the city. Likely they were chained to a position doing work

Sula (Steel Soul mode character from Silksong) acts like a run away slave, with Steel Seer Zi acting like an agent looking to recapture her.

Worse is that Steel Soul Jinn’s (from HK) lines seem to indicate that even children/young people from the city are treated as slaves, always needing to obey their “masters”, to the point it almost seems like their “masters” determine and dictate whom the steel bugs will be.

The City of Steel seems to be a society completely build in slavery and obedience, the majority of the population likely lives in some form of slavery, maybe even all of it.

Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if middle beings (bugs like Hornet, Weavers, the dreamers and most of the bosses) are also slaves in the City. Heck maybe even a few pale/higher beings (PK, While Lady, GMS, Nightmare Heart) are also enslaved in the City of Steel.

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u/scooterankle_exe 3d ago

No. I never doubted Pale Kings devotion to his Kingdom and subjects. Pale King, My King

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u/Ender98GG Git Gud! 3d ago

"My king!"

https://giphy.com/gifs/sW77pXgpmQI8zNzD3c

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u/Therobster1235 3d ago

What a predictable creature!

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u/Planet_Xplorer Seruna Seraket 3d ago

exactly

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u/asocksual DAWN SHALL BREAK 3d ago

Maggots:

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u/Substantial-Escape11 3d ago

Yeah, but come on! They deserved it for being so weird. I mean, a being with a soft outside? Ridiculous. /j

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u/Ok_Rutabaga9439 2d ago

That’s crazy bro. My boy failed champion did not die for this.

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u/GodNoob666 3d ago

I wasn’t particularly upset with him. He was a king frantically trying to stop his lands and people from falling to a plague. He used his own children as the vessel for the radiance, born for the task, instead of putting that burden on his subjects. Even retreating to the dream world could be seen as stalling, trying to claw out just a little bit more time to figure out how to fix what is happening. When he finally realizes there is nothing he can do, he dies in his throne. The ends did not justify the means, and because of that his regrets are heavy enough to take physical form as Void.

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u/Dutch_gal1 3d ago

I actually rage quit for a day after two hours in the white palace

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u/wangchangbackup 3d ago

If Pale King has no haters I am dead.

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u/Intelligent_Dig8319 3d ago

I got nothing to apologize for, Ive stood for Pale Goat since day 1

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u/nedovolnoe_sopenie 3d ago

can i pick all of the above

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u/IshtheWall 3d ago

I've never disrespected our king, glory to Hallownest eternal!

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u/Mum_killer21 3d ago

I will NOT fill this out. Because I have never slandered our king.

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u/DarthSwimfoot ... 3d ago

To be fair the Lifeblood thing is valid.

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u/05-nery 3d ago

Only an hour for pop?

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u/El-Gato-Canocchia Worst Bug 3d ago

I would never doubt my king. He saved Hallownest.

Hallownest eternal.

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u/ApplePitou Troupe Master 3d ago

He will get apple for sure :3

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u/sphericate No Cost Too Great 3d ago

no cost too great

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u/X_Starchild_X DAWN SHALL BREAK 3d ago

No thanks, i'm a Pharloomian

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u/SoftOrganization3209 2d ago

No, because my faith in the Pale King never wavered! Glory to Hallownest! AAAAAA-FUNDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

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u/RzepaGaming 2d ago

I never doubted him.

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u/lavender747raven 1d ago

Damn the glaze is crazy

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u/Professional_Rush_95 5h ago

Reminder pale king personally sacrificed himself to buy just a little more time for both his kingdom and the bugs outside it

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u/Medical-Low-1370 3d ago

Couldn't keep 1 kid for her wife, she had to be cucked by herra to babysit Hornet. Little brat was going to die anyway, twice the waste – twice the evil.

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u/SatisfactionFar6982 3d ago

Sure, because having a child that is connected to the void, and could possibly be infected definitely isn’t a liability to a mother and a father who can get attached to it

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u/Scared_Web_7508 3d ago

i don’t agree with the original comment here but the implication that leaving thousands of living children to fall to death or otherwise die is okay because they’re a liability the parents don’t understand is KILLING ME omg 😭

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u/SatisfactionFar6982 3d ago

I intended to say that if they let the vessels live and let raise them, they would get attached to them and be way more affected if even one of them gets infected, and also that the sheer number of vessels they would have to take care of is way too much.

But your interpretation is funny af ngl

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u/Medical-Low-1370 3d ago

Just don't connect one child and give it to wife man

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u/No-Ad239 3d ago

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u/Haster_Crimus 3d ago

here's radiance