Yes, this is news. You can bet your bottom it was news to me when I loaded up Nexus Mods for my daily look this morning and found that Hollow Knight: Silksong’s adult section had tripled in size overnight. It’s the sexy Hornet mods, they’ve broken containment, truth-telling hips and all.
Up until today, my searches for story-worthy Silksong mods had returned only the benign, including multiplayer and boss practice add-ons that you could comfortably show an elderly relative. No more. Last night saw a pair of sexy Hornet mods, the first to hit the Nexus to my knowledge, arrive.
Shot first was ‘Curvier Hornet’ from modder Sandinsoda. “It was bound to happen,” they wrote, pointing would-be sexy Skongers to requirements BepInEx 5 with Configuration Manager and Silksong Customizer. As you’d imagine, the mod makes the capeless version of Hornet you play as at one point in metroidvania a bit more, er, voluptuous in terms of figure.
Mere hours later, the chaser, a second mod. This time, ‘Curvy naked hornet’ by modder foureye5. Sandinsoda marched straight into its comments section, bellicosely bellowing “I wonder what prompted this”. Tension ensued for several hours, only to be broken by a third party, who replied: “Honestly it looks different enough to warrant it being a serious alternative. Like this one has better thighs. But yours has a better chest.”
“Fair enough,” responded Sandinsoda.
That’s the torrid tale of why if you pull up Silksong’s Nexus Mods page right now and filter so that only ones tagged adult show up, you’ll find three things. These two mods – the nude Hornet equivalent of Beavis and Butthead – and another mod that adds a swear to the text prompt for binding.
Are these curvy Hornet mods the first ever sexy Silksong works ever created? Almost certainly not, since it has a Loverslab page I refuse to verify my age in order to access, because I still have some shreds of dignity left. However, they are the first to emerge into what I’d deem the modding mainstream. Unrepentant. Insolent. Aimed a target audience of jokesters and probably at least one serious craver of Skong sexuality. Took them long enough, given they’ve even been preceded by a mod that makes Hornet disappear altogether.
What times in which we live.