Talk:Hollow Knight/@comment-35991486-20180626041156

His last though nearly killed me. Since you (the Knight) now bear the King's mark, The Hollow Knight think you are in fact the Pale King, and calls you father. In the White Palace, after the Path of Pain, there is that second-long flashback of the King and the Hollow Knight together, and so many NPCs think The Knight resembles someone they met! That's because the King raised The Hollow Knight in the Palace, truly like a son, for god know how many years until it was tall like in the statue and truly became the Vessel, as we can see in the statue at the City of Tears.

I do believe The Hollow Knight was truly hollow in the beginning, that's probably why it saw the Knight and just ignored it, letting it be locked away in the Abyss for so many years instead of letting the King know there was another one who got there, another who could be ready. The King himself never saw the Knight, and we still don't know how it got out of the sealed Abyss. But then The Hollow Knight was raised in City of Tears and became part of the royalty, and the King's will to save his people was so great it even got to The Hollow Knight, who started to love and wish to protect the bugs as much as the one it saw as its father. That word alone proves how much it - who shouldn't be able to feel a thing - cared about the King. And its love for its father and for the people of Hallownest became its weak spot against The Radiance.

I also believe our Knight isn't hollow as well, because the Void Heart unifies the Void under the Knight's WILL, it has a will, it wishes to save those people. And by giving The Void - to which The Radiance refers as her "ancient enemy", dark and emptiness being the natural nemesis of her blazing light - the will to save Hallownest, the desire to defeat an ancient god and free the people, The Knight also united The Hollow Knight and all the forgotten siblings, giving them peace and purpose, and an identity as well. Giving The Void a will was the only way to defeat The Radiance, and now I'm freaking crying all over again WHY IS THIS GAME SO SAD.