Ori vs The Knight

Ori vs The Knight is the twenty-fourth episode of Fiction V. Fiction, featuring Ori from the ***Ori*** games, and The Knight from ***Hollow Knight***.

## Interlude

Fighters come in multiple different shapes and sizes in battles of dark and light. Left in worlds of ruin overtaken by deaths and infections, these two tiny combatants will rise to the challenge to save their worlds.

Ori

The surviving Spirit from the Spirit Tree

And

The Knight

The surviving Vessel from the Pale King

I'm Aipom, and today I'm here to determine who between these two characters could win a match of Fiction V. Fiction.

## Ori

(Cue: ORI AND THE WILL OF THE WISPS OST - Main Theme (Menu Music) [EXTENDED])

Our story begins in the forest of Nibel and the Spirit Tree. It was hit with a great storm, breaking a leaf from the Spirit Tree free and into the winds. This leaf would be found by one of the most huggable creatures, Naru, and be transformed into a small spirit guardian that she would take care of as her own and call Ori.

These two little cute creatures would live peacefully and happily for some time. However, the Spirit Tree would eventually call out to Ori. Over time, Nibel would be taken over by a darkness caused by Kuro taking the elements from the Spirit Tree. This darkness would slowly kill and decay the forest. Food became scarced, and Naru would sadly pass away from starvation.

Ori would go out to try finding the lights of the Spirit Tree, collapsing just outside of the Spirit Tree. But this wouldn't be the end of the small spirit cat, as the Spirit Tree would use what remained of its strength to resurrect Ori and leave them with a part of it's essence, called Sein.

Since Ori can't fight on their own, at least for the time being, Sein became their weapon. Sein can attack with the Spirit Flame, being able to attack from a distance and make large explosions. And as Ori would free the forest from the darkness, Ori would become more and more competent on their own, as well as ways to traverse the forest.

Ori can climb walls, launch themselves off of others or projectiles while sending them the opposite way, crash hard into the ground, dash long distances, glide through the air with a feather, and throw orbs of light. And if Ori were to ever die a second time, they can always come back with Soul Link. Meaning death isn't permanent, unless you're a masochist.

And during their journey to find the lights, Ori have had to escape the clutches of Kuro quite a few times. One of those times even caused a volcano to erupt, which Ori was also able to mostly outrun. This erupted even covered a large chunk of the forest, destroying a good amount of it in the process.

But after saving the elements of water, wind, and warm, Ori and Sein could restore the Spirit Tree. And thanks to Ori's kindness to others, adoptive nother Naru was back alive! And Sein would be reunited with the Spirit Tree, but not by Ori. But by Kuro herself after a change of heart. Because all along, the reason why Kuro was against the light is because the Spirit Tree had accidentally killed her young.

Except for one little owl, Ku. Becoming an adoptive sister to Ori, they would travel and get caught in another storm that crashed them into the Forest of Niwen. Storms really do just screw with Ori the most, huh?

But, just like in the Nibel, there was a Spirit Tree in this forest. This tree, instead of giving Ori a light to fight by their side, gave Ori the ability to fight on their own. Being able to use the light, Ori can manifest different weapons to defend themselves. Sword, hammer, spear, bow and arrow, throwing star, all sorts of possibilities. As well as energy that can drain those around it, create explosives from a far or around themselves, heal themselves, and create their own spirit orbs. Also use Kuro's feather to make gusts of wind. But some of these light attacks are limited to the amount of energy cells Ori has. They're limited on these, but can find plants capable of restoring energy.

And thanks to this giant frog, Ori was gifted a light spirit, Seir and was tasked with getting it's five wisps and needing to deal with Shriek, another giant owl that's MUCH more terrifying than the last and killing Ku.

And it should be noted that Sein and Seir are not the same. But, considering that they're both light spirits, it's likely they have the same abilities.

To restore Ku, and to recreate Seir's light, Ori has fought dozens of creatures much larger than themselves. They've defeated the likes of Howl, Mora, and the giant frog Kwolok after he was taken over by the Foul Presence. Ori's also has had to outrun floods and an avalanche.

Ori has been able to restore the memory, eyes, strength, and heart of the forest. Destroying the darkness that had corrupted several others. Ori was also even able to defeat Skriek.

However, that darkness wasn't fully gone, with the deacy killing the Spirit Tree that would house Seir. In order to end the decay, save the forest, and bring back Ku, Ori made a sacrifice. They fused together with Seir, ending their life for a new Spirit Tree to grow as them. Ending the decay for good, and bringing back the light. With a new Spirit Guardian being born, life will begin anew.

(Cue: Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition Clip)

## The Knight

(Cue: Hollow Knight OST - Sealed Vessel)

Welcome to Hallownest. A world full of bugs, jellyfish things, and weird mushroom people who operated their own individual societies. While each worked under their own system, they all would end up in ruin by an infection of light corrupting near all of the creatures within Hallownest. But on one faithful day, a mysterious lone wanderer would make their way into the Hallownest for unknown reasons. With no known name, this bug would be known as The Knight.

The Knight is a mystery. It's a silent, completely unreadable creature. Weilding a nail as a blade, this thing can act as a force to be wreckened with. With the nail, the Knight can bounce off of other's heads and be upgraded to the point from being a toy Power Sword to a Pure Nail.

But the Knight doesn't only just weaponize a nail, but as well as souls. For each strike with the nail, the Knight can essentially absorb parts of the enemy's soul for a variety of uses, most notably healing. But throughout Hallownest, they've learned multiple different spells utilizing SOUL. From the Vengeful Spirit for long distance, Howling Wraiths for anyone up above, and Desolate Dive for any unlucky bug underneath.

But the Knight's most useful tools within their arsenal are the charms, which not only is there a lot, but with all sorts of different abilities and uses. Dream Shield for rotating defense and Baldur Shell for when the Knight is forced to be a sitting duck, gain more SOUL and do more damage with spells with charms such as Soul Eater, Soul Catcher, and Shaman Stone.

The Knight can grant itself more health with Hiveblood and the numerous different lifeblood charms, draw in SOUL from the air with Deep Focus, can create smaller bugs to aid themselves with through Flukenest, Weaversong, and Glowing Womb. With Spell Twister, Knight can reduce the amount of SOUL used and keep a defensive cloud of BO around themselves with Defender's Crest. Gross.

But they have more in terms of defensive charms. Like Thorns of Agony, Spore Shroom, and if ever brought down to the brink of death, become stronger with Fury of the Fallen. And thanks to rescuing all these little Grubs from The Collector, the Knight gained Grubberfly's Elegy and Grubsong. Allowing the Knight to create white beams and gain SOUL every time they're hit.

And these charms would turn up useful when the Knight needed to fight the dozens of powerful insectoids within Hallownest. And not just those infected, but others that are there just to fight to git gud. Within Hallownest, the Knight has taken on champions of old such as Soul Master and Dung Defender, the horrors of Nosk, Flukemarm, and Broken Vessel, dodge the Crystal Guardian's lasers, and has challenged the likes of The Mantis Lords, fuck you, and Hornet. Twice.

And through these challenges, The Knight was able to reap the rewards with things such as the Mothwing Cloak, Mantis Claw, Monarch Wings, Isma's Tear for a nice acid bath, and the Crystal Heart to fly around at Mach 1 speeds.

And while you would think that the Knight's unreadable demeanor would make them come across as threatening to others, it's quite the opposite. The Knight has been seen as a hero, a friend, and the hope for Hallownest's future.

And one of these bugs who praised a long forgotten god known as the Radiance, Seer, would gift the Knight the Dream Nail . With this, the Night can not only peer into other's minds of both the living and deceased, but allow the Knight to travel into someone else's dreams , even if they're dead. This ability allowed The Knight to defeat the hardest boss in all of gaming. The invincible, fearless, sensual, mysterious, enchanting, vigorous, diligent, overwhelming, gorgeous, passionate, terrifying, beautiful, powerful, Grey Prince Zote! No, not that one. Yeah, this one. As well as Nightmare King Grimm, who both ultra fuck you and left Knight with the Grimmchild. The cutest little firebug out there.

But all these victories doesn't come without failure. Lots and lots of failures. But unlike other bugs, The Knight will always respawn at the last bench they've stopped at, with an entity called Shade. Which remains still until approached by the Knight.

As obvious is it seems, the Knight isn't your normal bug. Instead, it is a vessel created by the higher beings, the Pale King and White Lady. A vessel for what, exactly? Well, down in the depths of Hallownest lies the Abyss, filled with the substance known as Void. Being able to appear as solid, liquid, and gas, the Void is versatile in it's abilities for those capable of utilizing it. Such as in the Shade Cloak, Abyss Shriek, Shade Soul, Decending Dark, and Sharp Shadow. Not only acting as better versions of the Knight's older spells, but even being able to phase through and damage living beings.

But the Void is more than just these abilities. The void is not only alive, but a collective being. Attacking anything going near it with tendrils, and absolutely despising the light. Opppsing higher beings, but kept back by light.

And here is when we get into the lore of why the Knight came to be. Remember that forgotten god, Radiance? And that infection of light going around? Well guess what god of light got a little angry when a new higher being along and got popular? That new higher being, being the Pale King. So the Radiance used it's light to infect the dreams of Hallownest's citizens, all while she hid within the Dream Realm.

So the Pale King utilized the Void to try creating a pure vessel in order to seal away the Radiance. And how he did this was to have eggs made by the White Lady and leave them inside the Abyss so then they can be infused by the Void, and have best vessel to be his pure vessel. The one vessel to be selected out of the possible hundreds would be the one known as the Hollow Knight. And while the Pale King hid himself away behind a Path of Pain within the White Palace, the seal made from the Hollow Knight would work while as many vessels tried to escape Hallownest. But this plan would only work for so long and the Knight, as we know, would return.

So it was up to the Knight to defeat the Radiance once and for all. Which leads into the Knight to find the greatest charm, the Kingsoul which would ultimately become the Void Heart, which unifies the Void under their will. This power not only gives the Knight the power to match the Hollow Knight, but enter into their mind to fight the one behind it all from the very beginning, The Radiance!

And while the battle was tough, the Knight was able to not only defeat the Radiance, but fully fill the Dream World with Void, which exists beyond the physical world, fully becoming the Void Entity and ultimately giving their life to become a part of the Void. If not sealing the Radiance within itself. But thanks to the Knight, the Radiance will be gone for good, and hopefully one day Hallownest will be able to recover and become the land it had used to be.

(Cue: Hollow Knight - Intro Cutscene)

## Fight

(Cue: Hollow Knight OST (Extended) - Forgotten Crossroads)

(Down in the Forgotten Crossroads, Ori runs around the area while exploring, with Seir following them)

(Ori looks down a steep ledge, where a bench lies next to a lit lamp post)

(On the bench, the Knight rests with their Grimmchild curled up next to them)

(Ori hops down to the ground, a decent bit away from the bench)

(Their landing wakes the Knight, getting up off the bench as the Grimmchild awakens and begins to flutter around the Knight)

(Ori tilts their head, giving the Knight a puzzled look as they remain completely silent)

(Cue: Ori VS The Knight『Forest of the Forgotten』| TehGM Scores)

(The Knight charges up, crystals forming around them)

(Not long after, the Knight rockets towards Ori, surprising them)

FIGHT!

(Ori quickly ducks underneath as the Knight crashes into the wall behind them)

(The Knight leaps off the wall, swinging their nail towards Ori)

(But Ori focuses on the Knight, launching themselves the opposite way into the air away from the Knight)

(The force pushes the Knight into the ground as Ori is in the air)

(The Grimmchild hovers above the Knight, spitting out an ember towards Ori)

(Seir, from above Ori, swings a quick stream of light that goes straight through the fire, instantly putting it out)

(Ori lands onto the ground, attempting to keep their distance from the Knight)

(The Knight charges up their SOUL, before firing a shade soul at Ori)

(Ori's eyes widen with their ears shooting up before quickly jumping up above the soul projectile)

(The Knight fires off multiple more shade souls at Ori, who quickly jumps out of their direction)

(On one of the souls, Ori uses bash to launch themselves up into the air above the bench)

(The Knight quickly dashes towards the bench, leaping upwards towards it)

(Before Ori could react and launch themselves off of the Knight, the Knight slashes Ori across the chest)

(They're sent flying back against a pillar within Deep Nest as the Knight lands onto the ground)

(Ori holds up their hand with light glowing from it, quickly healing themselves as The Knight lunges towards them)

(Attempting to land another hit, Sein quickly intercepts and flies in front of the Knight)

(Sein explodes directly in front of the Knight, launching them back aways)

(Ori quickly creates burning light underneath them, linking their soul to the light before jumping from the flame)

(The Knight pierces the ground with their nail to catch themselves as the Grimmchild spits out small flames at Ori and Seir)

(Seir counters each flame with their light, but the Knight runs past them)

(Ori lands on the ground, creating a sword of light as the Knight swings their nail)

(They clash their blades together, particals of light flying off with each hit)

(The Knight pulls their blade back, with a light gleaming at the tip of the nail)

(Swiftly, the Knight begins to spin around like a propeller blade)

(But just as quickly, Ori uses Bash to propel themselves up into the air by using the Knight)

(Knight looks up as Ori is about to ground pound onto the Knight)

(Zooming into the hollowed eyes of the Knight, a screaming soul can be seen)

(As Ori propels downward, dark shadows screeching out bursts from above the Knight)

(The shrieking souls from the abyss hits Ori, knocking them up into the air)

(Ori falls back onto the ground, badly hurt from the shrieking abyss)

(The Knight charges towards Ori, nail in hand, ready to kill Ori)

(But Seir quickly fires multiple spirit flames at the Knight, keeping them at bay from Ori)

(Ori slowly tries to push themselves up and holds up their hand, with a light forming in their palm)

(The flames strike the Knight multiple times, but soon the Grimmchild comes up and spits an ember at Seir)

(Looking at Ori, the Knight quickly fires a shaded soul at them)

(Before Ori could heal, the soul stirkes Ori as they burst into light)

(Seir flies over to the flame of light Ori had placed down earlier)

(The Knight looks over at the flame as Grimmchild flutters near them)

(Right after, Ori is recreated out of the flame, jumping out from the fires of light and landing on the ground)

(The Knight's expression remains unchanged and unreadable, then they draw their nail)

(They fire a shade soul at Ori, but Ori quickly responds by creating a bow and arrow made of their light)

(Before the soul could hit Ori, they fire the arrow made up of light)

(The light pierces through the soul, dispersing it as it strikes the Knight in the head)

(The vessel that makes up the Knight's head begins to crack up from the arrow but doesn't break)

(Ori fires off more arrows, but the Knight starts to avoid the arrows by dashing around and through them)

(Grimmchild flies up above and spits an ember at Ori, but Seir fires back with their own lights)

(Grimmchild tries to avoid the lights fired by Seir as Ori keeps the Knight on the backburner with arrows made of light)

(Eventually, one of the arrows hits the Knight again through the torso)

(The Knight grabs the arrow as it dispurses, with Seir striking Grimmchild with light)

(Grimmchild falls onto the ground next to the Knight, who looks down to the Grimmchild)

(Taking the opportunity, Ori fires one more arrow, piercing through the Knight's head)

(The vessel cracks more and shatters, dark particals flying from the Knight before breaking)

(However, right in it's place, the Shade floats above and looks down at Ori)

(Grimmchild burns up into an ember and vanishes as Ori looks up at Shade, cautious of the new entity)

(The Shade fires a soul shade at Ori, which catches them off guard)

(Ori lunges out of the soul's way, but the Shade doesn't stop)

(They run along the left, avoiding each projectile as the Shade continues)

(Ori ends up getting to a ledge that leads deep down into the depths of the Forgotten Crossroads)

(Before the Shade could strike again, the Knight slices the Shade in half with their nail)

(After cutting the Shade in half, the Knight absorbs them back into the vessel)

(Ori looks at the Knight, slightly confused about what was happening)

(This confusion swift breaks however, with three small weavers running up from behind the Knight towards Ori and Seir)

(Crystals begin to charge up and form around the Knight)

(The weavers lunge onto Ori, with one jumping off onto Seir before they can use their light)

(Ori's bow breaks apart into light particles from the weavers jumping them)

(The Knight then launches themselves with the Crystal Heart, crashing into Ori)

(The two of them collide into each other and begin to fall down the edge, falling deeper into Forgotten Crossroads)

(As they fall, Ori and Seir shake off the weavers with them falling along with the two)

(Ori pulls out a feather, gliding in the air and slowing their decent downward)

(Using the monarch wings, the Knight jumps up in the air up above Ori)

(Ori looks up at the Knight, unable to attack due to the feather)

(Seir, however, firings small embers of light at the Knight)

(But the Knight's body is covered in darkness before they rocket downward with a Desolate Dive)

(The Knight crashes into Ori, ripping through the feather and making the two plummet downward into the City of Tears)

(Cue: Fleeing Kuro)

(They both crash into the ground, their collision unleashing a shockwave that knocks up dust around the area)

(A few surrounding lamp posts are taken out by the shockwave, with the knocked up dust covering a nearby bench behind the two)

(On top of Ori, the Knight holds their nail close to their head)

(With Ori being scared and unable to fight back, Seir quickly flies in and expands in size before unleashing the firey light right in front of the Knight)

(The explosion launches the Knight back, being sent flying into the bench)

(Ori pushes themselves up, creating a flame of light underneath themselves again before raising their hand up and healing)

(The Knight stands on the bench as Ori heals and steps out from the flames, and the weavers soon catch back up and fall onto the ground)

(The three weavers come close to the Knight, standing in front of them as a dream shield forms and begins to circle around the Knight)

(Ori looks at the rotation shield as the Knight then fires another shade soul at Ori)

(Making Ori get back into action, they bash off of the projectiled soul)

(Ori sends themselves flying up into the air towards the Knight)

(They form a huge mallet made up of light, swinging it downward onto the Knight)

(But the dream shield gets in the way, stopping the hit and knocking Ori back)

(The shield temporarily goes down as Ori lands, with the weavers all storming Ori)

(But Seir keeps the weavers back with small balls of light)

(The Knight darts towards Ori, using the shade cloak to dash through Seir's attacks)

(They attempt to strike Ori with the nail, but Ori is able to lean back enough to dodge)

(As they dodge, they reposition themselves with the hammer of light in their hands)

(Ori swiftly swings the massive hammer, the blunt object of light slams into the side of the Knight)

(The Knight is sent flying off into the side of one of the City of Tears' many mostly abandoned towers)

(They fall down onto the ground, their head showing cracks as they land)

(Ori dispurses the hammer of light as the Knight gets up, beginning to focus and heal the done damage with SOUL)

(Seir has been keeping the weavers back the whole time, so Ori holds up their hand and creating a burning flame within it)

(They throw the flame as the Knight is busy healing, the flame landing a bit above the Knight and explodes upon landing)

(The explosion interrupts the Knight as they heal, not letting them fully recover as the explosion launches them forward)

(The Knight falls onto the ground as Ori throws another small ball of fire at the Knight)

(But the Knight is quick to get up and dashes out of the way to the left, escaping the explosion)

(Ori throws another flame, with the Knight attempting to knock them back with the nail)

(The flame explodes, however, knocking the Knight back into the wall again)

(One more time, Ori throws a ball of fire at the Knight as the dream shield reforms)

(The fire hits the shield instead of the Knight, making an explosion that covers the Knight)

(The Knight dashes through the flames, quickly attempting to close the gap between them and Ori)

(Ori quickly recreates their bow of light, firing an arrow at the Knight)

(But the Knight evades the attack as they charge towards Ori)

(Getting up close with Ori, the Knight swings their nail and strikes them multiple times)

(Regaining SOUL with each hit, the Knight continues to strike Ori)

(Eventually, the Knight uses the SOUL gained to shoot Ori with a shade soul)

(The shade soul overtakes Ori, making them burst into particals of light)

(After killing Ori, the Knight looks over at Seir fighting the weavers and the flame)

(The Knight originally was going to go and take care of Seir, but Ori runs out of the flame of light towards the Knight)

(Ori creates a blade of light as they charge at the Knight, swinging the sword with the Knight swinging back)

(The blades clash, with Seir having enough of the weavers and dive bombing them before exploding with light)

(The light burns up the weavers as Ori and the Knight clash their blades together)

(Ori is able to overpower the Knight thanks to them not being fully healed, striking the Knight with the sword made of light)

(Cracks began to form on the Knight's head again after being struck by Ori)

(Ori tries to strike the Knight again, but the Knight swiftly dashes through Ori as they attack)

(They try to turn around before the Knight could attack, but the Knight swiftly slashes Ori with the nail across the chest)

(The Knight tries to quickly focus SOUL to heal, but Seir shoots them with light repeatedly)

(Taking the opportunity, Ori creates an aura of energy around themselves that covers the Knight)

(The energy begins to drain the Knight of their energy, making them fall to their knees)

(The Knight's helment ends up falling off their body as their energy is completely drained)

(After the Knight has fallen, the Shade reforms and floats up out of the force field's range)

(Ori looks up at the Shade, keeping out of their range with Seir beginning to fire light at the Shade)

(The Knight respawns on the bench, without the dream shield but now with orange gas surrounding their body)

(They look up at the Shade being attacked by the two creatures of light)

(So the Knight fires a beam of white energy from their nail at the Shade, breaking the Shade apart into particals of darkness)

(The darkness travel to the Knight, absorbing the Shade and regaining the SOUL from before)

(The energy around Ori vanishes as they look back at the Knight, who's standing in front of the bench)

(Ori looks around the area before deciding the best course of action is to run)

(Cue: Therewolf Media - "Spiritless Vessel" | Ori VS The Knight)

(They run off away from the Knight in the City of Tears, with the Knight chasing after them)

(Ori runs throughout the City of Tears, climbing up any walls they run into and making multiple different jumps as the Knight follows)

(Seir, following Ori, fires multiple shots of light at the Knight to try getting rid of them)

(The Knight would either jump out of the way or dash through every bit of light they could)

(Ori gets to a massive ledge looking over most of the city, not sure to jump or not now that the feather is gone)

(They look back at the Knight, who's quickly closing in on them)

(Taking the opportunity, the Knight charges up and fires a shade soul at Ori)

(Ori quickly leaps off of the the edge, avoiding the soul projectile but is falling down to the bottom)

(The Knight jumps up after Ori, not letting them escape from them)

(Unable to control their descending speeds, Ori looks back up at the Knight)

(Ori creates a bow and arrow made of light and aims it directly at the Knight before firing)

(The Knight quickly dashes out of the arrows way, looking past Ori and seeing a window on the ground seperating the City of Tears and Royale Waterways)

(Ori pulls back another arrow, but the Knight's body once again is surrounded by darkness)

(Before Ori could think of a way to avoid the oncoming attack, the Knight swiftly decends downwards, slamming into Ori on the way down)

(They hit Ori square on, plummeting downwards and through the glass into the sewers beneath the city)

(The impact through the glass and into the Royal Waterways is enough to knock out Ori)

(The two of them land in the sewers, Ori unconscious as the Knight looms over them)

(The Knight pulls out the Dream Nail, pulling it back as the tip of it shines)

(The noise of rushing water soon rapidly approaches from the sewers, with water coming in swiftly)

(Before being washed away, the Knight strikes Ori's head with the Dream Nail, sending them into Ori's dreams as the water washes Ori away)

(Within Ori's dreams, the Knight appears in the Forest of Nibel)

(There's blue lights scattered across Nibel, lighting up the night sky as the Knight looks up above)

(Looking around the forest, the Knight sees the Spirit Tree towering above the other trees within Nibel)

(Ori stands in front of the Spirit Tree, looking up at it before turning to face the Knight)

(The two stare down at each other, with lights from the Spirit Tree blowing past the two in the light wind)

(The Knight swiftly draw out their nail, darting towards Ori)

(Ori creates a blade of light, charging towards the Knight)

(Ori jumps off one of the Spirit Tree's roots, swinging the blade downward)

(The Knight blocks with their nail, swiftly making a counter attack)

(But before the Knight could hit Ori, Ori propels themselves off of the Knight with Bash)

(Launching themselves up into the air across from the Knight, Ori changes the sword into a bow)

(The Knight unleashes a shrieking abyss above themselves, but Ori was just out of it's reach)

(They fire an arrow of light at the Knight, making a direct hit against the vessel)

(Ori lands onto the ground, pulling back another arrow to fire at the Knight)

(But the Knight is quicker to act, turning back towards Ori and firing souls shrouded in darkness at Ori)

(Ori fires an arrow through the darkened soul, breaking it apart but not hitting the Knight)

(The Knight used the chance to jump above the fired soul, using the monarch wings to reach above them)

(Now directly above Ori, the Knight covers their body in darkness as they slam themselves directly down with great force)

(Ori jumps back out of the Knight's path, but the shockwave connects and knocks Ori back)

(Leaping from the darkness after crashing, the Knight lunges towards Ori)

(They swing their nail, but Ori is able to react just in time with their own blade of light)

(The two of them crash into the ground as their blades crash, tumbling a bit as they land)

(Ori is quicker to throw themselves back up onto their feet, creating throwing star out of light)

(As the Knight is able to get themselves back up, the throwing star is sent flying at them)

(They use their nail in an attempt to block the throwing star, the star grinding against the blade)

(Struggling a bit, the Knight is able to overpower the throwing star and sends it flying back at Ori)

(Ori catches the throwing star as the Knight dashes towards them)

(A light flashes on the tip of the nail as the Knight spins around with the nail as if they were a buzz saw)

(Ori tries leaping back to avoid the attack, just barely keeping out of the Knight's reach)

(The Knight loses momentum in the attack, Ori was just able to escape the blade's reach)

(With the Knight now open for an attack, Ori creates a hammer made up of light and swings it towards the Knight)

(They dash through the hammer, getting up close with Ori)

(Every time the Knight had gotten close, the orange cloud surrounding them had dwindled away at Ori)

(The slow damage is slowly down Ori, even within their own dream)

(The Knight turns with their nail, slashing Ori with their blade)

(The hammer dispurses into particals of light as Ori falls onto the ground)

(They look up at the Spirit Tree, reaching out to it as their vision is blurred)

(Before the Knight could strike down Ori within their dream, the Spirit Tree speaks to Ori)

Spirit Tree: Awaken, Ori.

(The words reach Ori, with bright yellow lights beginning to overflow Nibel and cover the entire forest)

(Waking up, Ori looks around as the rushing water from the Royal Waterways had pushed them out into the Abyss)

(Within the Abyss, Ori is surrounded by nothingness and darkness as they fall down, nothing around them besides Seir floating around them)

(Ori looks up, faintly seeing white before fully seeing the Knight coming down towards them)

(Siblings, creatures of void similar to the Shade, float within the darkness, their glowing white eyes only being seen)

(The Knight shrouds themselves in the abyss as they propel themselves downwards towards Ori)

(But Ori is quick enough to use bash to propel themselves up above the Knight as they continue to dive down)

(The Knight crashes into the ground, the surrounding Void filling the background)

(Ori lands onto the ground, getting up and looking at where the Knight landed)

(Ori's and Seir's light illuminates the small area surrounding them, allowing them to see where the Knight landed)

(All that lies is a broken vessel, with pitch black liquids pouring from the head)

(Ori sighs, looking up and seeing small platforms they can use to climb up)

(Ori starts to jump up them to get out of the Abyss, but soon the Void begins to fill up the ground beneath)

(Looking down, they see the darkness consume everything underneath them)

(Swiftly, Ori begins jumping up more to escape the Void within the Abyss)

(But as Ori runs and jumps up, they get half way up only for black tendrils to grab Ori's legs)

(Two more comes up and grabs their arms, pulling them back down into the air)

(As the Shade, the Knight floats up in front of Ori with black tendrils aggressively whipping around behind them)

(Right before the Knight could start attack Ori with the tendrils, but Seir quickly darts towards Ori for one last attack)

(Seir shoots out sparks of light at each tendril holding Ori, breaking their connection to the light spirit as Ori begins plummeting into the void)

(The Knight looks down at them and charges towards them)

(However, Seir is quicker to arrive to Ori for one last desperate attempt)

(Getting in close with Ori, Seir hugs them as they become one, embracing the light)

(A huge flash of light covers the Abyss, overtaking the Knight in the process)

(After the light vanishes, everything goes silent as there's nothing seen within the Abyss, not even Void)

(Slowly but surely, a small plant begins to grow from the ground, with a small light along with it)

(But this light doesn't last long as the Void creeps back, covering the Abyss)

(The flower is soon covered by Void, with the light slowly fading within)

(However, the light does grow in size, glowing within the Void)

(But then seven other lights of the same size and shape form)

(Rising from the Void, the Knight returns as the Void Entity)

(The light is no more, with everything being shrouded by darkness)

(Nothing is left as everything goes dark after the Void Entity is formed. With the last thing being heard is the Void Entity's roar)

## Results

(Cue: Hollow Knight - Credits)

K.O!

(Ori's light is gone without a trace of it left, as the Void reclaims the Abyss with the Void Entity in the middle of it all)

Weird, normally all of these stories end with the light beating out the darkness. Guess that isn't always the case.

This was difficult to put together, to say the least. Bash made it so Ori could use any of the Knight's own projectiles against them or even the Knight themselves, with the Knight not reay having any direct counters to this. Ori could also potentially resist the Void corrupting their mind like other bugs, considering they weren't corrupted by the darkness.

But considering that neither can die by traditional means, putting either one of them down for good would be a difficult task. However, it's not impossible for them to die, considering their in-game deaths.

Coincidentally enough, both had the means to put the other down for good. Going by the name, Ori links their soul to the light in order to come back to life, which the Knight can directly attack, with Ori having no means to counter this. While the Void can be held back by light. Even something like the Delicate Flower's light could cause the Void to vanish. However, that was when the Void was trapped within the Godseeker and was more conformed into one space. And while Ori could theoretically replicate the same set-up, Ori wouldn't have the knowledge to do so and would have to rely on the Knight staying inside their head with the Dream Nail.

Which isn't something the Knight uses in fights too frequently due to the target needing to be either dead or passed out to do. So for Ori to take down the Knight for good, they would need to get rid of the whole Void. Something easier said than done.

For starters, the Knight was already fairly faster. Sure, Ori could outrun an avalanche, but the Knight can dodge lasers. No need to bust out the calculator to know the Knight is faster here.

And while both can heal themselves, they're both running on limited sources of energy. However, while Ori lacks a reliable way to regain energy, the Knight regains SOUL with not just every hit they land, but every time they get hit thanks to Grubsong. So the Knight wouldn't be running out of SOUL anytime soon.

Even when ignoring the difference in speed, hitting the Knight would already be a problem with the Shade Cloak allowing the Knight to just phase through any attack thrown their way. Not to mention the amount of defensive charms the Knight has, as well as them having much more combat experience than Ori.

So in order for Ori to overtake the Void, then they'll need pure power. So let's look at when Ori became a Spirit Tree. The Spirit Tree Ori originally came from powered the entire forest of Nibel, so we can assume the same logic for Ori as a tree. While Nibel doesn't have a confirmed size, let's high ball it and say Nibel is as big as the largest known forest in real life, the Amazon Rain Forest. Which, in size, is comparable to a city.

But how large can the Void reach? Well, let's take a look at Godhome, which is the Godseeker's dream world. Inside Godhome exists a dream world for every boss in the game. That includes the Radiance and that own dream realm. After the Void had overflown the Radiance, it overtook and destroyed Godhome. Dream realm itself, according to the official manual, is "a plane beyond the physical world," much akin to a universe, and the Knight was able to destroy this with the Void.

Not to mention that Ori can only get this level of power once and never be able to do it again, while the Knight could stay fighting as the Void Lord. So even if Ori got to pull off this final light show, it wouldn't be able to completely get rid of the Void and there wouldn't be a second chance, leaving the Knight an open opportunity for the final kill.

Ori's bashing and power of light did put up a fight that kept the Knight in their toes. But the Knight was too fast and experienced, had the means to prolong the fight, and had an unweilding Void in their vessel to take vistory.

The will wasn't in the wisps for Ori this time around. Who knows, they knight have better luck next time.

The winner is The Knight!

## Trivia

* The connections are that they are both silent, genderless, small, modern and popular indie metroidvania game characters. Both of their games are known for their visuals, scores, and atmosphere. Both are drawn to their birthplace due to the injury of a relative, have god-like parents of their worlds, and are in a battle to save their lands against the dark and light (Ori is fighting the darkness, while The Knight is fighting the light) that is trying to kill their people and worlds.
	+ The matchup is also a rivalry, with both of their games often being compared due to their similar tones and close release dates
* This is the second episode to feature a genderless character, this time having two
	+ The first was Crona vs Shiro with Crona
* This episode was originally planned to be episode 15 of the season, but was recently moved up to the 4th episode
* This episode almost happened as an episode for season 10 of Death Battle, being a matchup people could vote for happening that season. However, it ended up losing to Bill vs Discord
	+ Funnily enough, Bill vs Discord was planned to be an episode of Fiction V. Fiction originally until being announced to be a season 10 episode of Death Battle
* There's a reference to one of the creator's streams of Hollow Knight, specifically when beating Nightmare King Grimm
* This is the second episode to not have a character speak
	+ The first was Ninja Brian vs Dr. McNinja with Ninja Brian
		- This is the first episode where neither combatant speaks
* This is the fifth episode to feature a track specifically made for the episode
	+ The first four were 2B vs Raiden, Eren Yeager vs Ken Kaneki, All Might vs Koro Sensei, and Cirno vs Jack Frost
		- This is the third time a TehGM Score was used, with the first two being 2B vs Raiden and All Might vs Koro Sensei
	+ This is the first episode to use two custom tracks
* This is the first episode to release in 2024
* This is the twentieth episode to be featured on the Death Battle Amino
	+ The first nineteen were Waluigi vs Papyrus, Star Butterfly vs Steven Universe, Mr. Fantastic vs Plastic Man, Yuno Gasai vs Genocide Jack, Izuku Midoriya vs Miles Morales, Monika vs Giffany, Crona vs Shiro, Clementine vs Ellie, Ninja Brian vs Dr. McNinja, Ban vs Deadpool, Travis Touchdown vs Scott Pilgrim, 2B vs Raiden, Fox McCloud vs Rocket Raccoon, Ruby Rose vs Maka Albarn, Eren Yeager vs Ken Kaneki, All Might vs Koro Sensei, Danny Sexbang vs Hatsune Miku, Meta Knight vs Beta Ray Bill, Peni Parker vs D.Va, and Cirno vs Jack Frost