Hollow Knight (and the endless wait for Silksong)

A thread for that funny little bug platformer! The perfect place to discuss gameplay and lore, and to suffer loudly and profusely while patiently waiting for Team Cherry to finish polishing up the sequel. I'll wait for the game to be finished, but I won't be happy about it!

As an icebreaker, here's a fun little question: What's something weird and/or funny that happened during your first playthrough?

I'll go first. The first time I encountered the Hunter, I walked all the way across the room, was stopped by his roar, thought "I don't want to do a boss right now," and immediately turned around and left. I don't think I came back until after I had the Mothwing Cloak, and that experience has made every time I see Hunter's first line claiming the Knight approaches fearless really, REALLY funny.

ooh, ooh, i have a funny thing! ) it took me 100 tries to beat hornet in her second fight! which i know bc my friend was watching me play and kept count ToT
another time while they were watching me play, since they'd already played the game they were giving me advice on what to do, so while i was on my way to fight the soul master, my friend had told me it was "just a straight shot left" to get his arena and i immediately went down and right LOL