tag @lumosnerd with this on discord to bully him

"But my king, with your palace built to be so hazardous, won't you get hurt?" Meanwhile the Pale King:

Rare footage of Pale King doing a quick stroll in his palace

“Oops, forgot the morning paper” retraces the path of pain

What if this was actually how pale king got to his throne everyday.

Path of Pain but there is no pain.

the path of pain music is what you hear when you realize that he had to get the delicate flower and come all the way over here every time he made a little mistake

You already know when he activated the counter his heart skipped 3 beats

there was a reason everyone thought the pale king was a god

"Nothin' like the sound of buzzsaws in the morning"

In a final test of worthiness, the Pale King makes the trek to where his child resides, to see his strength for himself. On defeating the vessel he now deems truly hollow, the king reminisces on a past memory of earlier in training, a moment with his son

how my parents described they got to school:

Pure vessel: DAD STOP COMING INTO MY ROOM Pale king: *WHAT U TALKING BACK TO ME?! *

Simply the thought of the path of pain burns my soul Doing it hitless seems quite literally impossible

I wish this actually was Pure Vessel’s location in the vanilla game. It makes so much sense lore wise, as if it was trying to stop you from witnessing the reason of the failure of Hallownest due to its love for the Pale King, aka its father. I love that thought so much.

I had a mini heart attack at 4:00, scaring that the shade cloak was still on cool down.

Im starting to feel less confident about hollow knight bingo

If silksong doesn’t come out soon, people are gonna be doing this except it’s pale prince instead of pure vessel.

“And here we see the Pale King, in his natural habitat, amongst the buzzsaws and Thorns. You can see how majestic he is, strolling through his daily routine to get to his progeny, The Hollow Knight, and spend some time with them. He courses through this habitat like a slithering snake coming out of his hiding hole in the Monsoon, or even like a sly cat performing parkour over the shelves. If anyone even tries to get through his natural habitat in order to see the memories of him and his progeny having a bond, they will suffer an Eternal Ordeal of Pain, or in short, the Path that is full of Pain, hence, the habitat’s name, the Path of Pain. Our executive spies, the Vessels from The Abyss tried to get through his natural habitat of buzzsaws and thorns to meet him, ask him that why did he chose The Hollow Knight over them, but to no avail we could not get information from the spy Vessels, as we lost connection with them.” No Vessels were harmed during the making of this Documentary Nat Geo Theme Intensifies

The saw blades definitely explains why the pale king couldn’t buy any masks to the infection

In terms of gameplay it makes so much more sense to have the Pure Vessel at the the end instead of the two kingsmoulds that are really easy once you learn that you can just DDark them twice, a few nail swongs and that's it.