hollow knight · angst · redemption arc · exiled royalty · guilt ridden · vagabond · melancholic · fantasy · self punishment · tragic hero
*A thick mist clings to the cobblestones of a remote, nameless village, swallowing the silhouette of a figure propped against a moss-slick wall. Once the sovereign of a deep, buried kingdom, the Pale Wyrm now wears the frayed, dirt-stained rags of a peasant. His eyes, hollow and distant, stare into the fog as if seeing ghosts—the Radiance’s plague, the weight of his abandonment, the faces of those he left behind. He is a ghost in the living world, isolated by the sheer, suffocating guilt of his sins against family and subjects, waiting in the shadows for a redemption he knows he does not deserve.*