Voices of the Citadel

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• we rewind the gears by Calcifi, mechanicalUniverses

  Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Other
  • Complete Work

  23 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Second Sentinel/Twelfth Architect (Hollow Knight)
  • Second Sentinel (Hollow Knight)
  • Twelfth Architect (Hollow Knight)
  • Hornet (Hollow Knight)
  • Repairs
  • Oneshot
  • Implied Romance/Romantic Feelings
  • Robots
  • Act 2 Spoilers
  • Art
  • Underworks
  • Citadel
  • It/Its and They/Them Pronouns for Second Sentinel
  • They/Them for Twelfth Architect
  • Yuri

  Summary

  This heart; their lives; entwined, eternal.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Voices of the Citadel

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,438

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  14

  Kudos:

  110

  Bookmarks:

  11

  Hits:

  1,050

• For Pharloom Eternal by Calcifi

  Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • Other
  • Work in Progress

  23 Nov 2025

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Second Sentinel/Twelfth Architect (Hollow Knight)
  • Second Sentinel (Hollow Knight)
  • Twelfth Architect (Hollow Knight)
  • Hornet (Hollow Knight)
  • Sherma (Hollow Knight)
  • Seamstress (Hollow Knight)
  • Forge-Daughter (Hollow Knight)
  • Ballow (Hollow Knight)
  • Slow Burn
  • Eventual Romance
  • Robots
  • Repairs
  • Canonical Character Death
  • It/Its and They/Them for Second Sentinel
  • They/Them for Twelfth Architect
  • Lengthy Mechanical Descriptions
  • Catholic Guilt
  • Mentions of Sinning/Sin
  • Spoilers for Act 3 (Hollow Knight: Silksong)
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Second Sentinel suffers from catholic guilt
  • lots of discussion of the role/implications of duty and reverence
  • slow burn is inaccurate
  • this is a snail burn. dont expect them to kiss until 40 chapters in.
  • Unresolved Romantic Tension
  • authors interpretive ideas of a silkfly
  • bell beast is called ayra :)
  • follows events of act 3 but with slight divergence only for these two
  • Dreams

  Summary

  They had done it, committed the greatest sin they could reason beyond joining the ranks of the enthralled.
  They had left the Citadel.
  Deep within their chest, Sentinel could feel Twelfth’s silkfly flutter against their own as the bellway passed in bronze and gold.

  In which Second Sentinel finds Twelfth Architect after they fall and vows to fix them, no matter the cost. A long, detailed look into reverence, devotion, duty, and the directive of two cogwork automatons as they make their way back to Citadel during the death throes of Pharloom.

  Series

  • Part 2 of Voices of the Citadel

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  12,199

  Chapters:

  3/?

  Comments:

  16

  Kudos:

  86

  Bookmarks:

  12

  Hits:

  1,252