How I feel about this character
in all seriousness though - i really think the pale king is a super fascinating character, i really like to sit and just think about him sometimes because i love him but if i ever met him i would not restrain myself from suplexing him into a fucking dumpster instantly
All the people I ship romantically with this character
the white lady i suppose, which is pretty much canon anyways and i mean, it’s clear that he definitely did love her (she has an entire fucking garden from him) but i’m not really sure of what their relationship would be like in a romantic sense based on how i view him - he clearly had ways of showing her he loved her, and she certainly loved him too, but i can’t really imagine they were very soft mushy lovey
My non-romantic OTP for this character
god i don’t even know, aside from the white lady i can’t imagine he really had like, friends or anything. like i’m sure he kept good relations with certain others (the dreamers, for example, and the mantis lords or vespa) but i don’t know if i really have a non-romantic OTP. we all know how he was as a father, and i think deep down he probably cared about the hollow knight (which i gather from the end of the path of pain mostly), but it’s not something he would have actively shown. i just think he was probably very odd about emotion in general (almost robotic i guess for lack of a better term), and he didn’t really try to maintain friendships or relationships further than “acquaintance” or “on good terms” with many bugs because he was more worried about keeping his kingdom alive (which is why he had to have good relations with certain buggos - but not friendships if i had to imagine)
My unpopular opinion about this character
i’m not sure if i have unpopular opinions about the pale king but uhhhhh i don’t think that he and the white lady did the fuckin do to make all those eggs and vessels happen, i think that there was definitely weird wyrm magic involved in that process. it’s very clear he was very into creating things based on his labs and all that, and i don’t think that having children in a completely biological sense would be efficient enough for him considering how desperate he was to seal the radiance (on top of just not really knowing how to be a normal person tbh). idk if that’s unpopular or not but from what i have seen, a lot of people go with “he and the white lady did the do” and i don’t think that’s what went down.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
i don’t think i have anything that i wish would have happened to him except idk maybe grimm shooting him into a garbage can like it’s a basketball hoop or something because that idea is funny to me - but on a serious note i would like to know if he’s for sure still alive since all we get is him/his corpse (probably just the shell) in memories. i like to think he’s still alive though and managed to slink his way out of there at some point.