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Hewwo! I am firefly (she/her), and I am a strange bug that draws sometimes. It's been like... three years since I've updated my pinned post.

Current interests: Hollow Knight, Baldur's Gate 3

Past Interests: Undertale, Mob Psycho 100, Good Omens

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I just remembered something about Deepnest.

After you get the Weaversong Charm in the Weavers' Den, you stumble upon a weaver scuttling away before you leave.

Will that weaver ever be acknowledged in the comic?

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Boy oh gee oh boy, I wonder what sort of encounters may be had when we reach the Weaver's Den in two chapters ~

Preview for Chapter 10 of my Silksong Fancomic: Yet another homecoming.

Time for the Deepnest Fieldtrip! Honestly Midwife has very little actual relevance to this story, but I love her so much so she essentially gets an entire page to herself.

Additional panel previews will be available on Patreon as part of the $1 Tier, with sketches and full page previews as part of the $5 tier.

With all this Lace-y talk, I wanted to ask a small, non story related question I’ve had in the back of my mind for a bit: Who do you think is the oldest and youngest among the 3 (Hornet, Lace, Green Prince?) All I’ll say is that I personally believe Hornet to be the youngest of the three (with Lace being created after the Weavers fled Pharloom but before Hornet was born), then though between Lace and GP is a big mystery i’m too uncertain to even headcanon on. I will say that I do headcanon Green to be the youngest of the “Old Hearts.” The wiki believes Khann to be very last major opponent against the citadel due to his needolin dialogue “Now none to resist... But us... Alone... against the pale light...”. which is very possible, buuuut it could also be Khann just being extra dramatic and being particularly focused on his kingdom’s suffering against the Citadel. And even if he was the last to fall, I imagine his empire must’ve had a very, very long life before its fall. Then there’s Nyleth and Karmelita who I definitely don’t think it’s unpopular to believe are both quite older than Green at the very least as well.

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I don't have exact timelines worked out for most things, but for this story, the ages go:

  • Hollow/Ghost
  • Hornet
  • The Green Prince
  • Lace
  • Vise
  • Shakra

Hollow and Hornet aren't meaningfully different in age, because they're both so old. It only matters as a function of Sibling Rights.

The Green Prince is the last of a line of rulers that attempted to ally with the Citadel, in the vain hope that their hungry expansion could ever be satisfied and they would be spared. He and his partner had a charmed upbringing, but ultimately inherited an impossible and doomed situation from their predecessors. While he certainly is old af, he's younger than the other representatives. Rather than just his age, the "Old" of his Heart refers to being the last living memory of a long-lived culture that was eventually destroyed more completely than any of the lands and tribes that resisted. (The Leopards Ate Their Faces.) The fall of Verdania happened shortly before Silk began to wake.

Lace was created after Silk woke, which was was when the Citadel was already well into decline. Verdania was gone by that point, but its cultural memory was not yet, which is why she even knows who the Green Prince is.

Vise was born at the tail end of the Infection. (This also marked the end of the Pale King's lingering magical protections on Hallownest. Silk had already been hunting her lost daughters, but it took a while for the protections to fade and knowledge of Hornet's existence to make it back to Pharloom.)

Shakra meanwhile it's the baby of the group.

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Follow-up question: Is Shakra aware of any of this.

If it's something she could realistically have learned while traveling Pharloom, or put together from listening to others conversations, then probably.

Shakra's learning about Hallownest in real time; at present (Chapter 9), she knows that there was a terrible plague a very long time ago, which significantly affected both Hornet and Hollow. She knows Hollow is a god or demigod, based on their relation to Hornet and Lace's confrontation with them in Chapter 6, but cares very little for the affairs of gods. That aside, she's just slowly increasing her knowledge the way she always does: interacting with the locals and mapping the region. (Normally combat is a way she learns, but the Gardens are very peaceful these days.)

She probably saw the Green Prince in Sinner's Road, but even if she stopped to talk with him, but even if she'd talked to him there, she'd either have respected his desire to be left alone or be put off by his passivity altogether. She never would have learned of Verdania's existence, and based on her maps, never found her way into their ruins; however, she did listen to Lace taunting the Green Prince in Chapter 2, and she's familiar with both the Citadel's expansion and the Haunting.

So she's reasonably concluded that the Green Prince (based on his title) is the leader of a tribe that was destroyed by the Citadel, that he lost his partner in the process, and that he's struggling with survivor's guilt (though nobody present would use that specific term). She can tell by the way he moves (and his brief scuffle with Lace) that he has combat training.

However, she doesn't know about his age, the specifics of Verdania's destruction, or anything related to the Cogwork Dancers. She doesn't know why he wears the Pristine Core, but can tell that it's emotionally significant to him.

She has much less context on Lace, but in their limited time together she's observed both Lace's emotional turmoil and physical frailty. She can tell from the way Lace holds herself and her pin that she's a trained, skilled combatant. She did genuinely assume her to be a child until she was corrected in Chapter 8. That said, even if she acknowledges that Lace is older than her, that doesn't translate to respecting her seniority lmao...

Anyways, most of the details of Lace's life wouldn't matter to her or change her behavior towards her (i.e. that she's significantly older, and an artificial being created directly by a pale god). There's other aspects of Lace's backstory that she might be sympathetic to, though, but that's something that we'll be covering in-comic.

the thing is that this literally might as well be fanservice for me. i personally have been completely and utterly overjoyed at learning toby fox cat information

much appreciation for people who create ocs that are clearly derivative of The Character because even if the inspiration is clear, they had the self awareness that their headcanons had snowballed so far past character analysis into pure self indulgence that there was very little of source material left. and that’s beautiful. sometimes when you’re preoccupied playing touys it’s hard to take a step back and realize you’ve actually created something wonderful and new

the twisted bud/cursed questline is very memorable—it really got under my skin… it’s really stuck with me… (and other parasite puns) 🌱

and I love Yarnaby. A mad doctor is always fun, although Hornet would surely disagree.

With all this Lace-y talk, I wanted to ask a small, non story related question I’ve had in the back of my mind for a bit: Who do you think is the oldest and youngest among the 3 (Hornet, Lace, Green Prince?) All I’ll say is that I personally believe Hornet to be the youngest of the three (with Lace being created after the Weavers fled Pharloom but before Hornet was born), then though between Lace and GP is a big mystery i’m too uncertain to even headcanon on. I will say that I do headcanon Green to be the youngest of the “Old Hearts.” The wiki believes Khann to be very last major opponent against the citadel due to his needolin dialogue “Now none to resist... But us... Alone... against the pale light...”. which is very possible, buuuut it could also be Khann just being extra dramatic and being particularly focused on his kingdom’s suffering against the Citadel. And even if he was the last to fall, I imagine his empire must’ve had a very, very long life before its fall. Then there’s Nyleth and Karmelita who I definitely don’t think it’s unpopular to believe are both quite older than Green at the very least as well.

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I don't have exact timelines worked out for most things, but for this story, the ages go:

  • Hollow/Ghost
  • Hornet
  • The Green Prince
  • Lace
  • Vise
  • Shakra

Hollow and Hornet aren't meaningfully different in age, because they're both so old. It only matters as a function of Sibling Rights.

The Green Prince is the last of a line of rulers that attempted to ally with the Citadel, in the vain hope that their hungry expansion could ever be satisfied and they would be spared. He and his partner had a charmed upbringing, but ultimately inherited an impossible and doomed situation from their predecessors. While he certainly is old af, he's younger than the other representatives. Rather than just his age, the "Old" of his Heart refers to being the last living memory of a long-lived culture that was eventually destroyed more completely than any of the lands and tribes that resisted. (The Leopards Ate Their Faces.) The fall of Verdania happened shortly before Silk began to wake.

Lace was created after Silk woke, which was was when the Citadel was already well into decline. Verdania was gone by that point, but its cultural memory was not yet, which is why she even knows who the Green Prince is.

Vise was born at the tail end of the Infection. (This also marked the end of the Pale King's lingering magical protections on Hallownest. Silk had already been hunting her lost daughters, but it took a while for the protections to fade and knowledge of Hornet's existence to make it back to Pharloom.)

Shakra meanwhile it's the baby of the group.

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Follow-up question: Is Shakra aware of any of this.

If it's something she could realistically have learned while traveling Pharloom, or put together from listening to others conversations, then probably.

Shakra's learning about Hallownest in real time; at present (Chapter 9), she knows that there was a terrible plague a very long time ago, which significantly affected both Hornet and Hollow. She knows Hollow is a god or demigod, based on their relation to Hornet and Lace's confrontation with them in Chapter 6, but cares very little for the affairs of gods. That aside, she's just slowly increasing her knowledge the way she always does: interacting with the locals and mapping the region. (Normally combat is a way she learns, but the Gardens are very peaceful these days.)

She probably saw the Green Prince in Sinner's Road, but even if she stopped to talk with him, but even if she'd talked to him there, she'd either have respected his desire to be left alone or be put off by his passivity altogether. She never would have learned of Verdania's existence, and based on her maps, never found her way into their ruins; however, she did listen to Lace taunting the Green Prince in Chapter 2, and she's familiar with both the Citadel's expansion and the Haunting.

So she's reasonably concluded that the Green Prince (based on his title) is the leader of a tribe that was destroyed by the Citadel, that he lost his partner in the process, and that he's struggling with survivor's guilt (though nobody present would use that specific term). She can tell by the way he moves (and his brief scuffle with Lace) that he has combat training.

However, she doesn't know about his age, the specifics of Verdania's destruction, or anything related to the Cogwork Dancers. She doesn't know why he wears the Pristine Core, but can tell that it's emotionally significant to him.

She has much less context on Lace, but in their limited time together she's observed both Lace's emotional turmoil and physical frailty. She can tell from the way Lace holds herself and her pin that she's a trained, skilled combatant. She did genuinely assume her to be a child until she was corrected in Chapter 8. That said, even if she acknowledges that Lace is older than her, that doesn't translate to respecting her seniority lmao...

Anyways, most of the details of Lace's life wouldn't matter to her or change her behavior towards her (i.e. that she's significantly older, and an artificial being created directly by a pale god). There's other aspects of Lace's backstory that she might be sympathetic to, though, but that's something that we'll be covering in-comic.