➸ PAIRING: Pure Vessel/The Hollow Knight x Ari
➸ FANDOM: Hollow Knight
➸ TRIGGER WARNINGS: N/A, may be subject to change!
➸ WORD COUNT: 2,717 [As of 7/16/20]
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"Here, take this. You must be cold..." Ari began, looking back up at them. Apparently they could see, as Ari noticed their head tilted downwards to look to them. Whispers began in the background, but Ari didn't care, paying no mind as they still tried to offer their umbrella to them. They didn't seem to quite understand, Ari mused.
"Lemme help." They hummed, gently taking one of the 'vessel's- still a cruel title in their opinion- hands, adjusting their fingers to wrap around the grip. The whole time, they simply stared with that empty stare of theirs, not even jolting or reacting to Ari shifting them. Even when they took their hand away, they did not let go of the umbrella, nor did they move at all. Ari laughed softly.
"Lift it above your head! Do you not know how to use an umbrella?"
"You're different from what I expected," she said softly.
"How so?" he asked, glancing at her.
"I don't know," she replied, searching for the right words. "You just... have this way of making people feel like they matter. Even here, in this... nightmare."
He was quiet for a moment before responding. "You matter, Y/n. Don't forget that."
OR
Y/n wakes up in the deadly Squid Game, surrounded by strangers and fighting to survive. What she doesn't know is that the mysterious Frontman is watching her every move through the cameras- and she's caught his attention.