hollow knight voice testing

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Hollow Knight Voice Testing

Not doing any fancy editing for this. This post is created for people to voice test or seek castmates for PSLs. The only rules are the following:

1. Only Hollow Knight / Silksong characters may make top levels. If you have an original character so long as they are made for this setting, you are absolutely welcome to make a top level.
2. Characters from other fandoms are allowed to participate but only by replying to HK characters.
3. If things become NSFW either via dark topics, violence or smut please take it somewhere private as this is open to all and so there might be minors.
4. OOC thread is there for introductions/plotting but not necessary. Use the post as you wish!

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OOC Chatter / Plotting

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Please feel free to introduce yourself here and the characters you have to offer/seek/preferences.

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Hello there! My name is Coco. I've got three characters to offer, the strongest being Lace here. I've also got Hornet (silksentinel) and Monomon (monomon). I've also vaguely considered making a journal for Vespa but haven't thought hard on that.

I am so happy and excited to play with anyone both castmates and crossover. In particular I would love a Phantom to play sibling time and plot out backstory. In terms of crossovers in particular I'd like other spiders or people who are interested in constructs/golems/dolls or have magic to control fabric or string. In more positive ways she could really use some friends but they would need to be incredibly patient people since she can be an asshole lol.

I'm down for playing and expanding canon scenes, playing from any ending, and AUs!

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HELLO I am Jon and I play Relic Seeker Scrounge! Being an adult with money and no one to stop me, I decided to commission Rukafais for some icons of this lovely gremlin! Highly recommend commissioning them if you ever need drawn icons for an obscure character!

Anyway aside from Scrounge I also would love to make The Hollow Knight journal because I love it so much.

As for what I'm looking for, I'd love to play off of anyone! Currently enjoying a thread with Coco's wonderful Lace! But if I had to pick another, Hornet is always fun! And my absolute insane reach of a pick would be Relic Seeker Lemm.

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Hello hello! I’m Banquo, here to bring in Second Sentinel. It’s more or less the only one I’ve got. I do technically have a journal for the Knight/Ghost as well but it’s very dusty and needs a hell of a revamp.

I don’t know what in particular I’m looking for, but some crunchy things I’ve hit so far is how much the sentinels were probably not told about what was going on behind the scenes of the Citadel at all, being seen as things to give orders but not information. Anything that digs into what it means to be made, not born: given directives, literally constructed as part of a set, long-lived, shut down, all that fun construct angst… Senti has a lot of parallel with a surprising number of the cast of both games, especially the Vessels and especially THK. Would also love a Hornet, Phantom, or… man idk truly anyone.

I live for drama, but I’m not against some plain good fun either. c: Senti’s probably easy enough to get along with anyway. Definition of a good faith thinker and doesn’t really judge because its view of the habits of living bugs is so distant. “Sure, I guess they do that? Whatever.”

I’m down for expanding canon scenes, going off from different endings, AUs, crossovers, “don’t worry about how they got here,” whatever. All cool with me c:

I’m admittedly pretty slow at the moment, but still game to play.

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God I would love to see an interaction between Scrounge and Lemm people would need to take bets who would come out the victor in that exchange.

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Gonna be honest I never even conceived of these two interacting before you tagged me but I've really been enjoying their dynamic so far and it has kinda got me thinking of potential interactions that may have happened between the silk sib and the sentinels when the citadel was still functioning. Was curious if you had any thoughts.

Also you mentioning Second would not be judgmental of bugs put the funny image of Lace just elbowing them and pointing at some bugs doing some innocuous thing organic creatures do like eating and being all "check it out golden one, how revolting!"

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YES I never even thought about the parallels between Sentinel and the silk siblings before I tagged you, but what tasty ones they are! (They’ve even both got something of a death wish, depending on how you read the Sentinel fight.)

I would be so super down to poke at more threads, either while the Citadel was still functioning or even continuous after the one we currently have, or something else. (Seeing Bilewater? the Whiteward pit? other stuff?) :D I don’t have any specific thoughts at the moment though, just enthusiasm.

also LMAO, yeah. Senti’s got a solid Age of observing living bugs to have a good understanding of their cultures and ways, but it was definitely a long labor, and there’s always gonna be stuff it just can’t sympathize with. Like eating. Or spa baths… it’s just wet.

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Oh this is hilarious. HI SCROUNGE. Big walking living relic just woke up after a long age of silence and decline, what’s up, it’s clueless and could use your help.

If you’d like. :D

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It would be a battle to end all battles. A fierce debate of two passionate misanthropes that would make the battles against The Radiance and Grand Mother Silk look like a children's slap fight.

Glorious.

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GOD YES PLEASE.

It's funny to imagine that Second Sentinel would be the ONE PERSON Scrounge is actually fairly nice to. Since, you know, it's a literal living relic even beyond Lace herself.

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AND it's polite!!!

I'm veeery slow these days, but would so be down to start off with a basic intro thread of these two at Bellhart at some point, if that's good with you?

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Don't feel bad, I'm a bit slow when it comes to meme tags, too! In a game now and also taking care of other stuff. But I'd LOVE that!

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I place my bets on Scrounge that man is going to be without a shell.

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Both. Both is good.

I've got some vague pre-game ideas but I think a lot depends on the role you see as the sentinels having been given. I'm curious as to how you see the faith being played out, what they were told about Silk and the siblings, and how that was carried out by the pilgrims. With Second in particular did it any specific role or was it shared by all the sentinels?

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So much of the Pharloom faith is blatantly based off of Catholicism, so continuing in that vein and what we've been told in the game, I think Sentinel sees Silk as like, the all-granter of life, salvation, miracle, etc. etc. and the Silk-children are almost pretty much living proof of that. Maybe almost Christ-like in the sense that the existence of their life is an unorthodox miracle, and divine above the rest. Sentinel knows that the silk siblings are made things, inorganic, but doesn't see them as any less alive and feeling than organic bugs.

(Of course, Lace has recently poked some holes in its view of Silk. Oh well. Notably it's prioritizing the viewpoint and experiences of Lace in front of it rather than the ruling maker high above, even as an all-important deity... something only possible having seen the catastrophic failure of the Citadel as a whole, though. It trusts Lace and is also SO confused about what happened while it was gone.)

As for the Sentinels... The Twelfth Architect says this of them: A gleaming order, clockwork sentinels, so impressive-majestic in function they were charged-b-b-bound to the highest holy duty. Long before the c-c-creation of the core, the sentinels ventured, even beyond these walls, to see all bugs brought-forced safe to serve the Citadel.

It seems to me like they were originally created as a flex of skill to be as lifelike as possible (hence their very broad emotional capacity, among other things) before almost immediately being used as an elite task force used to escort pilgrims safely to the Citadel, during its early stages when the Weavers were trying to gather as many bugs as possible. Probably also used subjugate the lands that they decided to conquer. (oops.) Like a group of extremely chivalric Green Berets, I think that for the most part they were seen as and treated as a group and never really a solo entity. The sentinels think of themselves as such as well. For the purposes of most Citadel bugs it hardly ever mattered which one you were talking to in specific. I can see individual sentinels occasionally being pulled aside for miscellaneous tasks that require someone strong, fast, and pointy, though.

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Aaah Sentinel :< poor thing having to wake up to all this.

That all makes a lot of sense.

Running with that then they could conceivably have met before. I HC that GMS did not create Lace with the intention of being a fighter. Her Needolin dialogue seems to imply she takes pride in being a knight so I like to run with the idea that picking up the pin was one of the few things she was allowed to choose for herself (after a lot of asking).

She was stuck in the Cradle for the majority of her life before then so maybe we can do something where Phantom takes her down to see the rest of the citadel for the first time, but Lace wanders off and comes across Sentinel?

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That all makes sense to me! Maybe even Senti could show her a few moves.

Sounds perfect. c: I can start if you like, though you’ll be waiting on me for a while in that case.