Talk:Hornet/@comment-35238866-20180702045116/@comment-33586098-20180714001943

As for the stuff about Zote, I have a theory which I posted on his page about his story, and it involves him being made from void. Basically, I think the King created Zote to be strong enough physically to beat the Radiance, but it didn’t work and Zote was banished from Hallownest. But the idea that he was created to be strong remained, so he came back to the kingdom to prove himself, pretending to himself that he was banished out of jealousy, and bullying the Knight because there’s still a sense of the other vessels being his inferior siblings. So yes he did come to the kingdom, and yes he is made of void (in my opinion.. at the moment). As for his wonderful personality, we don’t have many examples of living void constructs but I suppose it would be possible to make talking void constructs (and we know void constructs can make noise because of the original hollow boi, unless that’s just a side effect of the infection, idk) and as of this theory Zote (and by extension Hornet) weren’t made to be empty.

As for your point about Hornet bleeding white, I don’t really know what to think. Zote bleeds white in Bretta’s dream, but that’s Bretta’s dream, and still white in the colosseum, though it’s not confirmed he’s a void construct so still invalid evidence, Lost Kin is infected so it’s not a good point of reference, which pretty much leaves the Kingsmoulds and Wingsmoulds. Even if their armour is made of SOUL doesn’t that prove that what’s on the outside can block the void from leaking outwards? Which could be happening with Hornet. The Kingsmoulds explode into void when they die, but as far as I know Hornet hasn’t exploded yet so we can’t use that as evidence. Basically, my point is I don’t think Hornet’s white bleeding really proves anything, but I can’t use this to prove my ideas either so it’s kind of up in the air. Also as of lifeblood the Knight bleeds white as well so it could be her shell that’s emitting the white.

The White Lady’s dialogue, however, wasn’t something I noticed until now. If White Lady is correct that does pretty much prove that Hornet is the biological offspring of the Pale King. The “born of similar source” line gave me the impression that Hornet was made of Void (though, like you say, this line is ambiguous), and the fact that she’s called the “gendered child” makes little sense to me if she was made biological, but what White Lady says seems pretty conclusive.

So yeah, I now think Hornet probably isn’t a void construct, thanks for bringing White Lady’s gobbledygook to my attention. I still think Zote is made of void though. :^]