#tsvr

So many people in this fandom are so smart lol. I guess a story like that of this game often demands it. Still, you all are picking up on so many things so much quicker than I was expecting you to (not a bad thing! a good thing. a great thing in fact!)

But yes, we are paralleling PK and Ghost a lot in their thought processes -- specifically the PK from Ghost's original timeline. PK from then and PK from now are technically the same person, and despite this Ghost is managing to take after the wrong dad. Poor kid.

For as long as Ghost continues to refuse to acknowledge that they did lose something and it is okay to mourn that thing, there is literally no way for them to get better. And even if they do acknowledge it, they need to be able to communicate their issues with people, and that is somehow an even harder ask.

I really love and enjoy your Hollow knight fic and try to leave a comment on every chapter. Your style is nothing if not a piece of art

Though I'm curious ‐- how do you feel about people misgendering vessels in the comments? It's just something a lot of people do in this fandom, and I'm not sure why lol. Is there any hint to it in the game?

/genuine

Short answer: It frustrates me. I don't like it.

Long answer: Within the game, the Vessels are only referred to using it/its pronouns, because they are viewed as objects that are not actually alive. So, technically, there isn't really an instance that can be pointed to where they/them is used.

However, the Vessels are genderless. Like, the Void hollowed them out and stole the gender as well. Hornet is literally referred to as the 'Gendered Child' because she is the only child of the Pale King to actually have a defined gender.

As a result, I suppose that technically you could define whatever gender you want for the Vessels and use whatever pronouns, including he/him or she/her or whatever.

I have always viewed the genderless thing as a non-binary thing, and therefore use they/them for them. It feels kinda... wrong to me, to use any other pronoun for them? Like genuinely wrong. But I'm not gonna police people on it.

On the other hand, when we are talking about TSVR specifically? Yeah, it actively frustrates me when people misgender them in the comments. Because if you aren't using they/them in the comments of that story, you are misgendering them I fear. It's literally like the seventh tag I listed.

It's right there!

We are around 43,000 words into this story, and more than 2,000 of those words have been "They/Them/Their," and I guarantee that most of those are in reference to the Vessels lol.

I don't know. I write Ghost and the rest of the Vessels with they/them pronouns. I don't really understand how one can read those words so many times and still refer to them with he/him in the comments. I don't get it.

Like I said, I'm not gonna really police people on it? I'm not gonna respond to comments correcting people that misgender them.

But you should know this: I read every comment that I get. In fact, I have a document for every fic I write where I copy-paste in my favorite comments so that I never forget or lose them when I clear out my inbox.

EXCITING!!!

I hope you enjoy it! And stick with it, because that game can be kind of hard at the beginning, especially if you are not used to the style of game that it is.