Hollow Knight Animation: Kokoronashi

Kokoronashi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SkNrZnoK5w
Sou's Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KNPNJHrv9I
This took like 2-3 months. In the end I got so tired out that I couldn't be bothered to fix all the pacing problems and such in this.

So about the scene where the Hollow Knight is sealed, I had no idea how to properly portray it in so few scenes. So here's a little section from a fic I wrote some time ago that gets the gist of it a bit more (it was PK's POV but eh it doesn't matter. Here's the link if you find it interesting https://archiveofourown.org/works/24808105/chapters/59998993) :

The Dreamers in place, his Vessel in its prime, there was nothing else left to do than to finish the deed. Yet still, as he stood before the entrance to the Black Egg, the Hollow Knight stationed rigidly by his side, he hesitated.

He could see the place where it would be sealed. He could see where he would anchor the chains to the ground, and where the Hollow Knight would hang.

He stared.
His Hollow Knight stared.
The Dreamers were waiting. His people were dying. All he had to do was command his Hollow Knight to stand in place and then seal it away. But somehow, he could not bring himself to say anything.

After what felt like centuries, there came a rustle by his side. The Hollow Knight moved in slowly through the entrance, its footsteps silently tapping against the floor.

He still couldn't move.

It turned, stared at him blankly, then, slouching slightly, walked to the empty space between the chains. Turned. Stared at him from between the chains.
He had not given it any orders.
The scene on the balcony, his Vessel by his side.
“I am a terrible father.”
The unprompted glance.
An idea instilled.
“Father…?”
He opened his mouth.

“You are not hollow.”
The Hollow Knight bowed their head, but did not move from their spot.
It was tainted.
His Root in the nursery.
His Vessel in the crib.
“It is nothing but a tool.”
He could feel his hands shaking again. “It won't work if you aren't hollow.”

The Hollow Knight knelt.
His Vessel hugging their nail.
His Vessel clinging to his side.


“She’ll break you,” he stepped closer to them, the Void permeating the air in the Black Egg searing burns into his shell as it attacked his light. “You can’t have a mind, she’ll break you eventually, and this will all be for nothing.”
The Vessel in his hands.
The skulls in the Abyss.
The Hollow Knight slammed their nail deep into the ground and stared.
“You will suffer for having a mind,” he found himself pleading as he laid a hand on their mask. “We… I didn’t want-“
A Vessel in his hands.
Light light light light.
A Vessel falling down.
Inside their mind, he heard their voice.

Do not think.
Do not speak

Do not hope.


He did not know what to do.
“Please,” he heard his voice cracking. “I’ll find another way.”
The cold of Void in the room.
His Vessel always staring.
He did not know any other way.
Still, the Hollow Knight did not move.

Father.
In the end, he sealed them away.
He could hear their voiceless screaming in his head as the door shut.

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