Siblings: A Hollow Knight Fan Short

A reimagining of the second boss fight between the Knight and Hornet.

Totally inaccurate but just wanted to create something fun and frantic!

Thank you Team Cherry for creating an awesome game and lookin' forward to Silksong!

[dawsonglawe]

Hornet: Defeated. "Fine, you've won. Just finish me quick."
Knight: "I wonder where the next grub is."

[chezefromamerica]

i love how the knight is either a wholesome bean or an emotionless void

[coolranchdorito]

I like how the crystal dash was represented, it makes it seem more of an attack than a way to get around faster

[detectiveed.sciple]

Finally, an animation accurately showing how siblings feel when they fight.

[pillowmcnormalman]

I like regardless of anything that happens Ghost is just like:
“Ok.”

[Saiavinn]

I love how different their styles are.
Hornet flips and swerves in an acrobatic fashion (even using 3/4 spins in her normal attack combos) and readily twirls and flourishes her needle. Even her dodges of the Crystal Dash were smooth and graceful,
whereas the Knight is always straightforward and efficient, using Nail Arts, like at 2:05 only when useful and opportune. Like, they hardly even move as they use their spells.
Hornet even takes full advantage of the Knight's head-on fighting style to get them stuck in her trap, though their arsenal and sheer reaction time got them through in the end.

[immagical]

I love how The Knight doesn’t make any sort of body language at all, like their actually being controlled by the player.. really well done !!!!

[msk-qpfn]

The fact Knight didn't bother killing Hornet and was expressionless all the time....gives me chillssss....

[jacobcox]

I like the Knight's character. It's small and unassuming on the outside but there's some eldritch horror within that shell.

[gasterfire]

I love how you put the characters personalities into the way they fight.

Hornet is calm and precise, and the Knight is only doing what’s required.

[jon_franklin]

The characterization of the Knight in this scene is incredible. I love the fact that the knight is so emotionless throughout the whole thing because it doesn't have the same independent thoughts and feelings as Hornet. I like to think that at the end Hornet realises this when the Knight doesn't celebrate its victory and just carries on to the king's brand and that's why she let's it go.
Incredible animation, great job!

[CPhoenix]

I really appreciate that you didn’t make the Knight emote at all, not even a head tilt. He’s just cold and empty and adorable

[chocolebud]

I love how Hornet's eyes change shape to show her expressions while The Knight's remain the same the whole time. I found it funny. Anyways, this is an awesome piece and I enjoyed watching it during the entire time!

[ExpressStorm]

Now this is amazing, perfect use of abilities from both characters. It takes the dullness of slapping hornet with a nail 57 times and really adds more depth to the fight, I am impressed

[dumpsterDeity]

This might be the most beautiful HK fan animation that I've watched. I love how you animated Hornet using her spider abilities, and not just the stuff that she uses in the actual game battle. I also love how she narrows and widens her eyes, but the Knight's eyes stay perfectly round, as if they feel completely neutral about this.
A lot of details in this!

[firebrn]

Great job! This was really fun to watch.

[smallgator]

For Hornet this was the most difficult battle of her life. For the knight this was Tuesday.

[mkks]

Every time I watch this animation, I can't think about anything except how Ghost got Abyss Shriek before going to the Abyss.

[MoonPatch]

Alright so first thing's first, this looks INCREDIBLE, such a great interpretation of the in-game abilities.
But also, how much has the internet broken me that I expected this to be a 'sibling dance' animation?

[hzrd-rs]

The second Knight got tied up I though, "She's about to get abyss shrieked into the shadow realm" and I was right. Man that spell is awesome