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1. Public Bookmark 12

   Famishing God by rad_roche

   Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   29 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Chronos & Melinoë (Hades Video Game)
   • Chronos (Hades Video Game)
   • Melinoë (Hades Video Game)
   • Verbal Abuse
   • Physical Abuse
   • Character Study
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • POV Third Person Limited
   • Tragedy
   • Adult Themes
   • Set Partway Through The Game

   Summary

   It occurs to him, as his blade splits her skull, that he has never had a family.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   8,763

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   14

   Kudos:

   46

   Bookmarks:

   12

   Hits:

   192

   Bookmarked by TheNightmareKing

   29 Oct 2025

2. Public Bookmark 85

   Lie Back and Think of Hallownest by Ri2

   Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Multi
   • Complete Work

   17 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • The Pale King/White Lady (Hollow Knight)
   • Herrah the Beast/The Pale King (Hollow Knight)
   • The Pale King/Monomon the Teacher
   • The Pale King/Lurien the Watcher
   • The Pale King/Hive Queen Vespa
   • The Pale King/Unn
   • The Pale King/Radiance
   • Herrah the Beast/White Lady (Hollow Knight)
   • The Pale King (Hollow Knight)
   • Herrah the Beast (Hollow Knight)
   • White Lady (Hollow Knight)
   • Monomon the Teacher (Hollow Knight)
   • Lurien the Watcher (Hollow Knight)
   • Hive Queen Vespa (Hollow Knight)
   • Soul Master | Soul Tyrant (Hollow Knight)
   • Unn (Hollow Knight)
   • Little Fool (Hollow Knight)
   • Lord Fool (Hollow Knight)
   • Hornet (Hollow Knight)
   • The Hollow Knight | Pure Vessel
   • The Radiance (Hollow Knight)
   • Crack
   • Crack Treated Seriously
   • Crack Relationships
   • No Cost Too Great
   • Political Marriage
   • Everyone Wants Babies
   • not smut
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Morally Ambiguous The Pale King (Hollow Knight)
   • The Pale King is Trying (Hollow Knight)
   • Primal Aspid Bashing (Hollow Knight)
   • Lurien is Such a Simp
   • Say No to Lifeblood Kids
   • Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
   • Silksong References
   • Light Bondage
   • Angst and Feels

   Summary

   In order to get Herrah the Beast to agree to become a Dreamer, the Pale King promised to give her a child of her own.

   He didn't expect the other Dreamers or leaders of Hallownest to start demanding children as well.

   Or, the Pale King accidentally saves Hallownest by becoming a man-whore.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   23,065

   Chapters:

   8/8

   Comments:

   301

   Kudos:

   438

   Bookmarks:

   85

   Hits:

   5,974

   Bookmarked by TheNightmareKing

   27 Oct 2025

3. Public Bookmark 26

   The Malice of the Creator by Kendrix

   Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games), Silksong  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M, Gen
   • Complete Work

   27 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Herrah the Beast & The Pale King (Hollow Knight)
   • Herrah the Beast & Lurien the Watcher & Monomon the Teacher (Hollow Knight)
   • Herrah the Beast & White Lady (Hollow Knight)
   • Herrah the Beast / King of Deepnest
   • Herrah the Beast/The Pale King (Hollow Knight)
   • Herrah the Beast (Hollow Knight)
   • White Lady (Hollow Knight)
   • The Pale King (Hollow Knight)
   • Monomon the Teacher (Hollow Knight)
   • Lurien the Watcher (Hollow Knight)
   • Grand Mother Silk (Hollow Knight)
   • Hornet (Hollow Knight)
   • Marmu (Hollow Knight)
   • The Hollow Knight | Pure Vessel
   • implied sexual content but no great detail
   • Our Holy Mother of Silk will not actually be appearing in person
   • but the narrative may have been greatly affected by The Haunting
   • I want you to know that the working title for this in my office document/file was “lie back and think of Deepnest”
   • enemies to comrades
   • pk contributed the mad scientist genes but Hornet's strong/tough side is all from mama

   Summary

   Herrah the Beast: “I never thought that I would ever be fighting side by side with a Pale Being.”

   Pale King & White Lady: “How about a friend?”

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   39,875

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   34

   Kudos:

   84

   Bookmarks:

   26

   Hits:

   621

   Bookmarked by TheNightmareKing

   27 Oct 2025

4. Public Bookmark 14

   The Witch at the End of Time by wikwalker

   Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Major Character Death
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   19 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Chronos & Melinoë (Hades Video Game)
   • Chronos (Hades Video Game)
   • Melinoë (Hades Video Game)
   • Angst and Tragedy
   • Chronos POV
   • Post-Canon
   • Alternate Timelines
   • Doomed Timelines
   • Grief/Mourning
   • some big swings re: chronos characterization post-redemption
   • a recognizable but slightly different melinoe

   Summary

   Endless possibilities mean that statistically, she must have killed him for good in one of them. Frankly, he should have seen this coming.

   Instead, he arrives unprepared at the scene of his own annihilation, to see the last person alive in the world.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   2,119

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   12

   Kudos:

   74

   Bookmarks:

   14

   Hits:

   414

   Bookmarked by TheNightmareKing

   19 Oct 2025

5. Public Bookmark 12

   For the First Time, Free by KC_R

   Fandoms: Hollow Knight: Silksong (Video Games)  

   • General Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   18 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Loam (Hollow Knight)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • POV Third Person Limited
   • Game: Hollow Knight: Silksong Spoilers
   • where the horse can go free

   Summary

   For almost all of Loam's life he has ran in this tiny, cramped, forgotten room. Something finally changes.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   628

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   9

   Kudos:

   93

   Bookmarks:

   12

   Hits:

   402

   Bookmarked by TheNightmareKing

   19 Oct 2025