Hornet (Hollow Knight)

{{For|the playable [[Hollow Knight: Silksong|Silksong]] protagonist|Hornet (Silksong)}}

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{{HK Infobox NPC
|image1 = <gallery>
Hornet_Idle.png|Idle
Hornet Beast's Den.png| In Beast's Den
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|area = [[Greenpath]]<br/>
[[Fungal Wastes]]<br/>
[[City of Tears]]<br/>
[[Kingdom's Edge]]<br/>
[[The Abyss (Hollow Knight)|The Abyss]]<br/>
[[Beast's Den]]<br/>
[[Temple of the Black Egg]]<br/>
{{HK CP Icon Mini|Godmaster}} [[Godhome]]
|gender = Female<ref>Hornet [[Hunter's Journal (Hollow Knight)|Hunter's Journal]] entry: <i>"I have seen this nimble little creature. I thought her prey and pounced at her, but with a flash she stabbed me with her flying stinger and darted away."</i></ref>
|va = Makoto Koji<ref>[https://twitter.com/teamcherrygames/status/835701787541692419?lang=en Tweet] by Team Cherry [[:File:Reference_Hornet_Voice.jpg|(Archive)]]</ref>
|title1=Hornet
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{{Quote
|Skilled protector of Hallownest's ruins. Wields a needle and thread.<hr/>
I have seen this nimble little creature. I thought her prey and pounced at her, but with a flash she stabbed me with her flying stinger and darted away. Could she be... a Hunter?
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<ref>[https://www.fangamer.com/collections/hollow-knight/products/hollow-knight-switch-ps4-pc-collectors-edition-game Official manual]</ref>

{{HK CP Icon Mini|Godmaster}}

<ref>[[White Lady]]: <i>"It faced the Gendered Child? She's a fierce foe, strong in mind and body, striking reflection of her mother, though the two were permitted little time together. I never begrudged the Wyrm's dalliance as bargain. In fact, I feel some affection for the creature birthed."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Herrah]]: <i>"...Bound... For brood... For child..." "...Fair bargain made..."</i></ref>

<ref>Hornet to [[the Knight]]: <i>"Would you supplant our birth-cursed sibling, or would you transcend it?"</i></ref>

<ref>[http://teamcherry.com.au/hk-physical-late-anniversary-celebration-silksong-mini-update/ Team Cherry blog post] referring to the Knight, [[the Hollow Knight]], and Hornet as siblings.</ref>

[[File:Hornet Quirrel comic.png|thumb|Hornet fighting Quirrel|left|200px]]

<ref>[[Midwife]]: <i>"Pale gift to the Nest and the Beast, and fair trade for sacrifice made. Long she's been distant. It'd do our spirits well were she to grace us a visit home..."</i></ref>

<ref>Midwife: <i>"You wear that bright mark of relationship. Then you've met her perhaps? Her who'd guard the mark, the Gendered Child."</i></ref>

<ref><i>Hollow Knight</i> Comic's First Chapter: Quirrel</ref>

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[[File:Screenshot HK Hornet 08.png|Hornet's first appearance|thumb|200px]]

[[File:Screenshot HK Hornet 01.png|Hornet in Kingdom's Edge|thumb|200px]]

[[File:Screenshot HK Hornet 05.png|Hornet by Herrah's bed|thumb|left|200px]]

[[File:Screenshot HK Hornet 09.png|Hornet holding the Hollow Knight down|thumb|200px]]

{{HK CP Header|Godmaster}}

[[File:Ending H.png|thumb|left|Hornet in the Embrace the Void endings|200px]]

{{TabbedDialogue
|Title1 = General
|Title1_Event1 = Greenpath, before the fight
|Title1_Dialogue1 = Come no closer, ghost.<br/>
I've seen you, creeping through the undergrowth, stalking me.<br/>
This old kingdom... A terrible thing awakens. I can smell it in the air...<br/>
I know what you are. I know what you'd try to do. I can't allow it.
|Title1_Event2 = Dream Nailed
|Title1_Dialogue2 = During the fight:
* Too weak, little ghost...
* No shadow will haunt me...
* Only pity for your cursed kind.
|Title1_Event3 = At the Fountain Memorial of City of Tears
|Title1_Dialogue3 = Again we meet little ghost.<br/>
I'm normally quite perceptive. You I underestimated, though I've since guessed the truth.<br/>
You've seen beyond this kingdom's bounds. Yours is resilience born of two voids.<br/>
It's no surprise then you've managed to reach the heart of this world. In so doing, you shall know the sacrifice that keeps it standing.<br/>
If, knowing that truth, you'd still attempt a role in Hallownest's perpetuation, seek the Grave in Ash and the mark it would grant to one like you.<br/>
|Title1_Event4 = Before the fight in Kingdom's Edge
|Title1_Dialogue4 = So you'd pursue the deeper truth? It isn't one the weak could bear.<br/><br/>
Prove yourself ready to face it. I'll not hold back. My needle is lethal and I'd feel no sadness in a weakling's demise.<br/>
Show me you can accept this Kingdom's past and claim responsibility for its future.
|Title1_Event5 = After the fight
|Title1_Dialogue5 = ...So strong...<br/>
You could do it, if you had the will.<br/>
But could you raise your nail once knowing its tragic conception? And knowing yourself?...<br/>
Then do it, Ghost of Hallownest! Head onward. Burn that mark upon your shell and claim yourself as King.
|Title1_Event6 = Dream Nailed
|Title1_Dialogue6 = Throughout the encounter:
* From where does it draw this strength?
* Could this one succeed?
* Is it strong enough?
|Title1_Event7 = Listening after acquiring the Shade Cloak in the Abyss
|Title1_Dialogue7 = Ghost. I see you've faced the place of your birth, and now drape yourself in the substance of its shadow.<br/>
Though our strength is born of similar source, that part of you, that crucial emptiness, I do not share.<br/>
Funny then, that such darkness gives me hope. Within it, I see the chance of change.<br/>
A difficult journey you would face, but a choice it can create. Prolong our world's stasis or face the heart of its infection.
|Title1_Event8 = Exhausted dialogue
|Title1_Dialogue8 = I'd urge you to take that harder path, but what end may come, the decision rests with you.
|Title1_Event9 = Dream Nailed
|Title1_Dialogue9 = ...It faced the void, and ascends unscathed... Could it unite such vast darkness?..
|Title1_Event10 = Listening after defeating Herrah
|Title1_Dialogue10 = So you've slain the Beast... and you head towards that fated goal.<br/>
I'd not have obstructed this happening, but it caused me some pain to knowingly stand idle.<br/>
...What? You might think me stern but I'm not completely cold.<br/>
We do not choose our mothers, or the circumstance into which we are born. Despite all the ills of this world, I'm thankful for the life she granted me.<br/>
It's quite a debt I owed. Only in allowing her to pass, and taking the burden of the future in her stead, can I begin to repay it.
|Title1_Event11 = Exhausted dialogue
|Title1_Dialogue11 = Leave me now, ghost. Allow me a moment alone before this bedchamber becomes forever a shrine.
|Title1_Event12 = Dream Nailed
|Title1_Dialogue12 = ...Mother... Forgive my inaction... but another path may be possible...
|Title1_Event13 = Listening outside the sealed Black Egg, exhausted dialogue
|Title1_Dialogue13 = I'm impressed little ghost. You've burdened yourself with the fate of this world, yet you still stand strong.<br/>
To break the Dreamer's seals would alone be considered an impossible task, but to accept that void inside yourself, that casts you as something rather exceptional.
|Title1_Event14 = Listening outside the unsealed Black Egg
|Title1_Dialogue14 = The path is opened. One way or another an end awaits inside.<br/>
I won't be joining you in this. That space is built to sustain your likes. Its bindings would drain me were I to join.<br/>
Don't be surprised. I'll not risk my own life in your attempt, though if the moment presents I'll aid as I'm able.
|Title1_Event15 = Exhausted dialogue
|Title1_Dialogue15 = Ghost of Hallownest, you possess the strength to enact an end of your choosing. Would you supplant our birth-cursed sibling, or would you transcend it?
|Title1_Event16 = Dream Nailed
|Title1_Dialogue16 = ...Could it achieve that impossible thing? Should it?
|Title1_Event17 = Dream Nailed in Godhome
|Title1_Dialogue17 = {{HK CP Icon Mini|Godmaster}} In any of her fights:
* ...Do they watch us struggle?..
* Do you haunt my dreams... Or I yours?
* Little Ghost... What dreams we share...
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{{Gallery
|Image1 = Mapshot HK Mothwing Cloak 01.png!Greenpath
|Image2 = Mapshot HK Hornet 02.png!City of Tears
|Image3 = Mapshot HK Hornet Sentinel 01.png!Kingdom's Edge
|Image4 = Mapshot HK Hornet 01.png!The Abyss
|Image5 = Mapshot HK Hornet 04.png!Deepnest
|Image6 = Mapshot HK Hornet 03.png!Forgotten Crossroads
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{{Gallery
|Title = Gallery
|Image1 = Screenshot HK Hornet 02.png!Hornet before her boss battle in Greenpath
|Image2 = Screenshot HK Hornet 07.png!Hornet appears briefly in the Fungal Wastes
|Image3 = Screenshot HK Hornet 03.png!Hornet in Fountain Square in the City of Tears
|Image4 = Screenshot HK Hornet 04.png!Hornet in the Abyss
|Image5 = Screenshot HK Hornet 06.png!Hornet outside of the Black Egg
|Image6 = B Hornet.png!Promotional art
|Image7 = Boss hornet 02.png!Promotional art
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{{Achievements|Test of Resolve|Proof of Resolve|Sealed Siblings}}

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<ref>[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/11662585/hollow-knight/posts/1078719 Kickstarter update] of December 9th, 2014.</ref>

<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/6rvds8/we_are_team_cherry_the_developers_of_hollow/dl83dzk/ Reddit AMA comment] regarding Hornet.</ref>

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<ref>[[Red Memory]]</ref>

<ref>[https://apwot.com/issue-2 A Profound Waste Of Time Issue 2], p. 121.</ref>

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<ref>[[Widow]]: <i>"Ohhhh! She is here! The rare birthling! Precious child of Wyrm and Weaver!"</i></ref>

<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/6rvds8/we_are_team_cherry_the_developers_of_hollow/dl84v7l/ Reddit AMA comment] regarding Hornet's needle.</ref>

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<ref>[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1030300/Hollow_Knight_Silksong/ Silksong Steam page] [[:File:Hornet Reference 01.png|(Archive)]]</ref>

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