#behindtheknight

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because those are fun. This is just one long masterpost of fun behind the scenes action for the hollow knight game.

Actors who are most like their characters: Grimm, Ogrim, Lemm, God Tamer, Breta  Actors who aren’t like their characters: Zote, Monomon, PK, Hollow

Lurien bullies his character. Actually asks out PK because “Why not?”

Grimm isn’t acting. Grimm is just being Grimm.

Zote is actually a sweetheart old man. Everyone is astounded by his level of acting because they all hate his character so goddamn much.

Sheo, Oro and Mato made a video of all of them together because people thought that they were just one actor. In this video they’re like “I’m the best brother” “No thats me” “No you’re wrong, its me.”

White Lady isn’t that big she’s actually quite small and her body is just a massive prop.

Quirrel wanders randomly onto scenes. Production had to hire a Quirrel spotter in the second season in case they missed him during recording to look through the pre-production scenes to edit him out. The first season he photobombed six scenes without anyone catching him before the episodes aired.

PK is a goofball. PK tests how much he can get away with before the producers get his ass.

Herrah is the rich actress™ who is too good to be here.

Monomon’s tentacles are just props. She loves slapping people with them.

“Why are they so wet!?” “Because it makes a better sound when I hit you- listen!” thWAP

Oro forgets his choreography 

so you’ve heard of dad Grimm but you have’nt heard of actor au dad Grimm. Take that dad and turn it up to 11. After the scene where Ghost recieves the Grimmchild and they cut Grimm is like

“Oh my stars! You were amazing!! Such talent! You are a natural my little bean!”

Grimmchild was just flying.

Ghost is 4.

Coffee break! everyone chilling in costume in the break room just chatting.

Quirrel breaks the most props accidentally. He somehow broke half of his mask off. The fandom found pictures of it and created a spin-off series. He also tripped and broke Monomon’s mask.

Originally, Hornet wasn’t planned to be on set, but after the director saw her and Ghost fighting they asked if she wanted to have a role because they’d been struggling to get Ghost to act genuinely aggressive.

PK trips a lot

Radiance is pissed at her role because its mostly voice acting and even that is just screaming into a mic.

Hollow broke into the prop cage one night and drew mouths on all of the masks. But actually it was Radiance but no one suspects her and Hollow is so bad under distress that even when they’re telling the truth they sounded like they were lying.

Even though he had a short role, Hive knight was super pumped to be on set.

The hivelings are just puppets

Ghost was in a jar being carried by the collector between sets as a fun joke and someone took a picture and captioned it “personal chauffeur.”

Bloopers where actors snuck into the jars before shooting so when they fell from the ceiling you’d get unusual spawns like Tiso and PK.

There was a coffee cup in one of the jars for the entire scene and they had to reshoot it all.

It was Quirrel’s cup.

Feral Vessel AU - (tagged as #shitlordAU)

The first AU I came up with. Initially it was a for shits and giggles scenario that grew into a whole angsty thing. The general idea is that Ghost went back in time to the moment where they try to exit the Abyss. They get out at the same time as the Pure Vessel and make it their singular goal to make PK’s life a living hell (through pranks)

However, the angsty part comes in when Ghost realized they don’t have access to their dream nail, so they can’t get to the Godseekers and ascend to fight Absolute Radiance. Time is ticking and they are quietly panicking.

Other little details: White Lady dotes on Ghost. Ghost and White Lady are also developing their own sign language from scratch. Ghost has lots of feelings.

Pale Jester AU - (tagged as #PaleJesterAU)

This one is based off of the Fae concept that if you give someone your name, they own it as if it were an item. Like when someone asks you “may I have your name” its because they want your name like an object instead of just wanting to know it. Thats what happened between Nightmare King Grimm and PK. NKG found PK’s lingering light about to be choked out silently from the void and offered an escape.

PK took it. Now he dances with the Grimm Troupe under the guise of Pale Jester with no memory or recollection of who he once was. Whenever faced with something familiar, he feels the emotional impact of the encounter but never understands how important it is as the Nightmare Heart keeps his old memories locked up tight.

Other little details: All the troupe members know who PJ was except for PJ. PJ still has his half of the kingsoul charm. This AU gives me lots of feelings

Dragon AU - (tagged as #HKDragonAU)

Interpreting the use of Wyrm as Dragon because I said so. This one is def the most indulgent for me cause I love medieval fantasy. It’s still a work in progress so not much is built up yet.

PK is a dragon so therefore the vessels are dragons hence Hornet is half dragon and so Herrah fucked a dragon. Grimm is a Seelie Fae and Radiance is an Unseelie Fae. WL is a goddess based off of Druantia. Myla is alive and shaped like a friend

Other little details: The vessels have tail spades that look like their ingame nails.

Pale Child AU - (tagged as #PaleChildAU)

Ever wondered what an offspring of root and wyrm would look like if they weren’t cursed by void? Wonder no more! Monomon stole a developing embryo from one of the royal eggs before they were cast into the abyss and whisked it away to Fog Canyon. There she placed it in a test tube and watched it grow and thrive.

Other little details: Quirrel is big bro, PK senses somethings up but is too busy dealing with the infection to investigate

Actor AU - (tagged as #BehindTheKnight)

Your average “characters in game are really played by actors” au where shenanigans are had in character and out of character.

Aliens and HK Crossover - (tagged as #HollowMorphsAU)

Hey so you know how PK did a fucked up thing in canon? Well in this crossover we take that fucked up thing and make it rated R. PK is one of the last Engineers. He came to Earth and promised enlightenment to bring humankind into a new era. Needless to say there aren’t a lot of governments left.

There are two timelines. 

Timeline W: where the White Lady is an Albino Xenomorph Queen to whom PK blatantly flirts with. WL is intrigued and wooed. 

Timeline R: where the Shadelord is the Xenomorph Queen and this timeline is closer to hollow knight lore where the Xenomorph vessels are born out of root, wyrm and void.

Other details: there is a rival hive called the Radiance Hive, they’re infected with xeno-rabies which destroys worlds, Weavers are Predators