HI HELLO HI GUESS WHO MEANT TO REPLY TO THIS BUT KEPT FORGETTING TO DO THAT FOR, LIKE, 2 WEEKS PLUS CHANGE LOL,
i actually extra love the idea that hollow's magic is based on their dad's aesthetic and then radi cribbed it from them, considering how much of tpk's aesthetic is shit he cribbed from radi in the first place. even his personal crest, the wings & crown, is based on the shorthand the moths used for her!!!
like theres this whole sidebar i could have here abt how i think its likely tpk deliberately designed hollow's adult face (& maybe also hornet's teen/young adult face) to resemble the native bug headdresses that we see w/herrah & the mantis lords/traitor lord's followers' war gear. like that this was a specific choice to evoke ancestral memory/reverence. we know tpk destroyed as much of the moths' religious art as he could but it probably made it easier when he had the first group of brainwashed moths, if he could pass any lingering abstracted imagery of radi off as Actually Thats Me. Dont Think About It Too Hard
but since thats one of tpk's implied Established Patterns TM it makes me laugh to think of radi being like. Well, Turnabouts Fair Play (adapts hollows magic in a transformative way so bug copyright law couldnt complain about it if that like. were a thing that existed)
additionally v happy to spread the Sad About Marmu around as thats a beloved pastime of mine. she is just baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she is just out there doing her best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (every moth in hollow knight is Just Baby Doing Their Best tbh)
valid tbh also hi there!
i actually extra love the idea that hollow's magic is based on their dad's aesthetic and then radi cribbed it from them, considering how much of tpk's aesthetic is shit he cribbed from radi in the first place. even his personal crest, the wings & crown, is based on the shorthand the moths used for her!!!
like theres this whole sidebar i could have here abt how i think its likely tpk deliberately designed hollow's adult face (& maybe also hornet's teen/young adult face) to resemble the native bug headdresses that we see w/herrah & the mantis lords/traitor lord's followers' war gear. like that this was a specific choice to evoke ancestral memory/reverence. we know tpk destroyed as much of the moths' religious art as he could but it probably made it easier when he had the first group of brainwashed moths, if he could pass any lingering abstracted imagery of radi off as Actually Thats Me. Dont Think About It Too Hard
but since thats one of tpk's implied Established Patterns TM it makes me laugh to think of radi being like. Well, Turnabouts Fair Play (adapts hollows magic in a transformative way so bug copyright law couldnt complain about it if that like. were a thing that existed)
additionally v happy to spread the Sad About Marmu around as thats a beloved pastime of mine. she is just baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she is just out there doing her best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (every moth in hollow knight is Just Baby Doing Their Best tbh)