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• Coils of time by Anonymous

  Fandoms: Rain World (Video Game), Hollow Knight (Video Games)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  26 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Five Pebbles (Rain World)
  • No Significant Harassment (Rain World)
  • Quirrel (Hollow Knight)
  • Monomon the Teacher (Hollow Knight)
  • Herrah the Beast (Hollow Knight)
  • Hornet (Hollow Knight)
  • The Pale King (Hollow Knight)
  • Original Characters
  • Looks to the Moon (Rain World)
  • Crossover
  • POV Alternating
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst
  • Fix-It
  • Time Travel Fix-It
  • but with a twist
  • Pre-Fall of Hallownest (Hollow Knight)
  • Morally Ambiguous The Pale King (Hollow Knight)
  • There will be plenty of background ocs because its pre-fall of hallownest and we don't have many characters there
  • Original Character(s)
  • Minor Original Character(s)
  • also one major one that shows up Once and then fucks off
  • Self-Harm
  • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Child Abuse
  • Canonical Child Abuse
  • Iterator Headcanons (Rain World)
  • Time Travel
  • Tags May Change
  • Five Pebbles-centric (Rain World)
  • Pebbles might end up interacting with the pale king a lot so tags apply to vessels unless I change my mind
  • but also look at whole "childhood" and life of an iterator that shits also abuse tbh
  • Five Pebbles gets to be tall for once
  • Iterators get superpowers
  • If you need an explanation for anything explain it with a massive time worm ok
  • The Infection (Hollow Knight)
  • The Infection can be cured

  Summary

  Time itself loops back around, back to a time before the cycle was ever a thing.
  Fortunately for a few iterators - it brings them along with itself, to a time ages ago.

  Now Five Pebbles has to deal with being in a world full of bugs, sometimes seeing things he remembered from his old archives - dated to hundreds of thousands of years in the past -placed out and about and used as if they were brand new. He also keeps finding pearls written by NSH, but said iterator? Is nowhere to be found.
  Hopefully he can figure out this strange place, and perhaps help heal this fallen kingdom.
  After all, it just so happens that the power he used to enlighten beings in the past is enough to cure the strange "infection" that the creatures of this place seem to suffer from.
  Well. It's just another task, is it not?

  (First chapter is the prologue, next ones will be Pebbles Centric and different. I simply wanted to set some lore down I otherwise couldn't.)

  Series

  • Part 7 of My rainworld fics

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