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• remnants of ritual by sleepisforthebeak

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

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  04 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Five Pebbles (Rain World)
  • Original Characters
  • The Pale King (Hollow Knight)
  • Quirrel (Hollow Knight)
  • Monomon the Teacher (Hollow Knight)
  • calculator with anger issues gets caught dying in 4k
  • is pebbles an alien? news just in says yes
  • canon typical suicidal ideation
  • Worms Off The String | Iterators Can Leave Their Cans (Rain World)
  • beta read by grammarly
  • quirrel will be in this fic eventually and while he may suffer by god he will not die
  • Nonsexual Nudity
  • ? kind of? none of them r human or have bits but still
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Everyone here will blatantly lie to you
  • specifically pebbles
  • Five Pebbles Needs a Hug (Rain World)
  • Stag station layovers
  • Fog Canyon
  • The Archives
  • fp gets adopted by everyone in a 7 mile raduis
  • They put two and two together and got five
  • There Was Only One Bed
  • Except they're strangers and there is absolutely no romantic tones at all
  • plot is like salad
  • unfortunately i only like croutons
  • the cultural anthropology nerd in me is having the time of their life tbh
  • Five pebbles is in a cult now ig
  • Quirrel: yeah i can probably write my thesis on that
  • Pre-Fall of Hallownest (Hollow Knight)
  • Quirrel Needs A Caffeine Pill (Hollow Knight)
  • rating changed to T because oh wait right there is a scene where FP contemplates suicide pretty in-depth
  • Five Pebbles-centric (Rain World)
  • bro high-key hates himself

  Summary

  Five Pebbles dies, and then wakes again.

  Bugs that walk and talk with god-given sapience, and an orange rot that’s spread throughout the entire facility grounds. What iterator could be so irresponsible as to let such an experiment waste away? On who’s grounds has he landed?

  He is no bug, and this is no maze. Oh, what is a machine to do?

  (in the meanwhile, the bugs look at this creature- pink, long, with too-rigid antennas and no mandibles to speak with yet so many things to say, and they see a remnant of their king. They do not realize that perhaps his kind are closer to vessels than to gods.)

   

  TL;DR: angry calculator god in a world of bugs. Assumptions are made.

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