Hollow Knight OC tournament round 1
This is an old OC but I still love him dearly.
Musket is a leaf bug from a faraway kingdom, whose travels led him to Hallownest. He's heard rumors of dangerous creatures living below, and seeks to slay them. As a warrior, he will always strive to protect the lives of the innocent, especially younger folk. Unfortunately, this leads him to a terrible fate. The Radiance entrances him, leaving him to battle the infection. But he is not completely gone, he is able to fight it off for long periods of time. He cannot stand to live this way, but he has to keep going. He needs to continue his mission to help others.
I imagine him being an NPC in the game. The Knight first meets him in Greenpath before the infection reaches him. He hears of bugs who have lost their mind, and wants to protect them from the monsters of the moss. But as you progress the game, his consciousness seeps away, and you eventually have to battle him in Queen's Gardens as a miniboss... And kill him probably.
He uses a bow and arrow as a weapon. His bow is made of sticks and spider silk, and his arrows are pushpins.
Roseline and Zabava are a traveling moth-merchant and grasshopper-mercenary duo.
Roseline is a traveling silk trader and larvae shepherd. She is a Rosy Maple Moth, who was born faraway from Hallownest. However, she knew of that place through the stories her Granny told about it. She grew up hearing about a moth paradise, a place where it's always bright, where they are protected, where they have no need for anything. When Granny died, Roseline made it her goal to visit it one day.
Zabava is a traveling soldier-for-hire. She is a grasshopper who was raised by ants. Now she doesn't feel like she's both. She's neither. She's lost in the world without a people to call her own. So, she travels in hopes of finding a place for herself. It's an awkward process and the world is cruel, so she chooses to explore it by offering her combat skills to anyone in need.
Their paths have crossed many moons ago and they've been inseparable since.
Zabava will follow Roseline anywhere. She's willing to sacrifice many things, including her life, for Roseline's sake. She sees in Roseline the thing she's been looking for all her life. She wants to call the moth her home. But she's too afraid to admit it aloud.
Roseline finds solace in Zabava's presence. When the road is harsh and paved with death, when everyone warns her to turn back, when she finds the ruins of her Granny's dream in what's left of Hallownest... Roseline thinks she'll be fine as long as Zabava is with her. She cannot confess, though. She cannot risk Zabava leaving.
