Thread:SenthaiOverlord/@comment-5010416-20170507015753/@comment-5010416-20170507152303

Don't get me wrong, I agree there is no evidence of him being a vessel, I'm not trying to make a case for that. I mean that there is no evidence that he isn't a vessel. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" and all that.

As for your points, I would like to point out that Hornet has a personality, can talk and both her dialogue and the ending achievement call her a sibling to both us and the sealed hollow knight. She and us share certain traits, such as a connection to the white king and/or having an origin in darkness. If I were to play devil's advocate:  Zote could be a failed attempt at a vessel who unintenionally ended up with a personality and serves as a comical parody of the player. Also, when you leave him to die, he also drops his "head" like both the player and the vessel puppet do after the fight with Nosk (which you can then bat around with your nail).

Regardless, neither theory can be backed up with proof without definitive word from the developers, and so we can't know for sure. So in summary: Isn't it true that since we don't know, like the entry about his parents "it is unclear" is more fitting?