#lilybug-02

Very inspired by this! I think I really wanted to paint something. I get an itch and I just - BAM. tbh i'd be down for making prints of these- >:)))

Edit: I also made Dewi

Genuinely very very happy with how these turned out. Especially Ghost. I asked my mom what she thought of Ghost's eyes and she said making them rounder gave a softer look. I agreed :)

If you want to know how proud I am of these pieces I even have a timelapse below! I never do that! Everything here probably took about 4 hours of work.

Gather, grubs and imagos, and hear my story true

Know the day our kingdom deep did witness something new

Infection breached the Fading Town, the day we’d almost rue

If not for timely action from a higher being’s shoe

I saw it all, I say it now, with Amblypygid eyes

The Little Ghost and Princess did a monster civilise

They brought it here to Hallownest on eve of our demise

To sate inquirous appetite and leverage its size

To call this creature giant is to give mere truth a snub

It’s taller than the cliffside if you’re root-high to a shrub

But listen well, fair audience, for this here is the rub:

This towering colossus be itself nought but a grub!

With legs as thick as towers, they come stomping as a pair

A face that flows like rubber and with breath that heats the air

Its flesh softer than fungus and all forested with hair

Leaking brine and pungent oil, its stench beyond compare

A score of us could fill its maw, that gaping gash so gooey

Entrapped in its saliva there, so sticky, thick, and gluey

The Princess claimed it meant no harm, was surely talking hooey

But here the brute did kneel and bow, and call itself a “Dewi”.

How the spawn of Void and Wyrm could tame a beast so great

Is such a feat beyond compare, I could not explicate

This Dewi-thing so corpulent, no hunger could we sate

Yet followed royal orders as though instinct quite innate

The beast of flesh appeared to seek no prize beyond its sight

Content it was to sit and watch us tremble in our plight

It revelled not in misery, mere presence did delight

And struck a bond of friendship with our treasured Little Knight.

Yet grace and sense were not traits that this creature would imbibe

It scaled the crown of Hallownest where ancient ones inscribed

But footing lost, it broke the shrine of moths’ departed tribe

And cracked the ground and quaked the earth from surface to the Hive

Beneath the feet of Dewi-thing, locale inopportune

Within Forgotten Crossroads lay a great lost black cocoon

Imprisoning the Hollow Knight, a Vessel of Void-hewn

And riddled with infection, though it’s meant to be immune

Its seals released by Little Ghost, and shattered chains by quake

The Vessel, oozing orange goo, was shaken quite awake

It stumbled out of temple black, its prison did it break

Ascending through the Dirt Mouth well to spread infection’s ache

The Little Ghost engaged the Knight, as ever they outbraved

They held their elder sibling back to see the townsfolk saved

The Vessel battled rabidly, by vengeful god enslaved

And sighting shrine in titan’s fist, the plague within enraged

The Vessel made for Dewi-thing, to viciously reprove

Drive nail into giant's flesh and carve a staunchless groove

The flesh beast stood there motionless to spare us all its hooves

So Princess saved the child with her clever countermove

With needle flung into the air, the Knight it wrapped around

In demonstration of her skill, by silver silk was bound

A mighty tug stopped Vessel’s leap, it slammed into the ground

And tangled in her Weaver’s thread, the Hollow Knight was downed

By nail the strand was severed, and then angrily it stood

And made to charge the arrayed bugs, should really have stayed put

As in one brutal moment Hollow’s fight did end for good

When the Dewi-thing had crushed it under one titanic foot.

Then stamped, and stamped, and stamped again, in answer to this scare

The monster treated Hollow Knight to tenderising care

Left crippled by such injuries, the Vessel was yet spared

So brave and noble Little Ghost knew duty lay elsewhere.

They saw the Vessel’s blistered flesh, that pulsed and oozed agleam

They gazed upon its ruined mask, its cracked and riven seam

And knew at once the folly of the King’s pernicious scheme

Then vanished with a spectral flash, into the Realm of Dreams

Now what occurred within that place cannot be ascertained

We only know the purpose that the Hollow Knight was chained

There, purposely possessed, a higher being was restrained

By Vessel’s brutal wounding it no longer was contained

The cysts upon the Hollow Knight did then grotesquely swell

And thence emerged the Radiance from dreaming citadel

The God of Light in vengeance struck to see the Dewi felled

If not for Ghost’s eclipsing blow that sundered their own shell

With daring act of deicide the plague would extirpate

Yet in this shocking victory no soul could celebrate

A noble act of sacrifice we gravely venerate

As remnant shade of Little Ghost was soon to dissipate

Deliverance at such a price was not all as we feared

The Dewi-thing restored their mask before they disappeared

A godly ooze that glistered, end-long broken edge was smeared

And Little Ghost restored to life as two halves were adhered

See, chance would have behemoth bear within its storage space

A mask-restoring magic in the form of clinquant paste

So noting hapless Hollow Knight, its link to Light unlaced

It mended every fissure in a stunning act of grace

Such myth-surpassing fortune to this very day astounds

New hope beyond remembrance was bestowed upon this town

Though cheer was swiftly silenced by an awful screeching sound

And beast of flesh, in swift response, departed homeward bound

Though far beyond believing, all be truth I do avow

That tame and friendly giant does defer to us somehow

Requested right to visit, this the Princess did allow

The Dewi-thing will soon return- oh Wyrm, I hear him now

~~~

With apologies to @lilybug-02

Here's some fanart I made of @lilybug-02

Deltarune Chara and Asriels. Always wanted to draw these guys but never had the free time to do it(the last ones are mine, gave them a redesign cuz I’m thinkin of updating my au for the 3rd FUCKING TIME! Sometimes i just can’t make up my fucking mind)

Andromedia belongs to @huecycles

TR! belongs to @akanemnon

Dewi and his bug🐜 friends from hollownest try to recreat godzilla 🐲

And remember to check out lilybug-02 on Tumblr

Some context and process showcase stuff under the cut.

There is a lot of text.