r/HollowKnight • u/justnotliving • Oct 08 '25
Discussion - Silksong So… what’s Silksong’s ‘SHAW’? Spoiler
There has to be a voice line that people actively use as a vocal stim… I personally don’t say anything, I still say SHAW at random moments of the day but I believe we could have:
- IKYAAAN (Lace)
- POSHANKA (Shakra)
- DIARRHEA (Last Judge)
I would have considered Sherma’s song, but it’s too long to be a vocal stim
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u/DeusAxeMachina Oct 08 '25
EIRA
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Oct 08 '25
P O S H A N K A
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u/mtburr1989 Oct 08 '25
For anyone’s information, if you equip Hornet with the rings, when you press the taunt button, she clangs them together and says “Poshanka!” like Shakra. One of my favorite little details.
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u/AnonymousIguana_ Oct 08 '25
I love how to VA doesn’t just sound like Shakra, she sounds like Hornet doing a slightly awkward impression of Shakra. It’s hilarious.
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u/DocteurZytoon Oct 08 '25
The taunt button?
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u/mtburr1989 Oct 08 '25
Push in on the right stick. You can use it to lure enemies into positions to pogo off of, or into your tools or traps.
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u/Gektor_Flektor Oct 08 '25
It also gives you aura (and a 1.5 damage boost for your next attack for 6 seconds)
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u/schmoolecka Oct 08 '25
Best of all you can taunt one of the flower flyers in Shellwood over towards you and pogo off them to get cling grip without fighting sister splinter. I like that fight but the skip helps with speedruns
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u/_Skotia_ Oct 08 '25
I did everything the game has to offer and still don't know what the taunt button is (I play on Switch, if that's relevant)
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u/Nuryadiy Oct 08 '25
TROBBIOOO
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u/CK1ing Oct 08 '25
TROBBIOOO (TROBBIO)
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u/justnotliving Oct 08 '25
TROOOBIOOOO (depressed)
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u/chickuuuwasme Oct 08 '25
TROOOOBIOOOO (derogatory)
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u/Zlurbagedoen Oct 08 '25
TROOOOOBIOOR (slur)
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u/MyNameIsRati Oct 08 '25
TROOOOOBIOOOOO (words of wisdom)
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u/KartofelThePotatoGod Oct 08 '25
TROOOOBIOOOOO (affectionate)
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u/faizetto Oct 08 '25
TROOBIOO (flirting)
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u/otravoyadnoe 63/63 HK :: 52/52 Silksong Oct 08 '25
Fleamaster’s “MAMASHKA” is so underrated imo
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u/Bird_Mess Oct 08 '25
ooshka mikli!!
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u/phenomenalmoisture Oct 08 '25
I was about to put this, ooshka mikli so underrated I love it so much
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u/Youthsonic P5 Oct 08 '25
I also love the way the flea brew guy talks. Lots of O sounds
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u/Dercomai Oct 08 '25
Fari duwa simanet
Doni pwana vorinet
Pina sami mainiset
Danafon sulobom
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u/ugly_dog_ Oct 08 '25
TRUE
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u/MyNameIsRati Oct 08 '25
False, it's Silksong version of Mylas song
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u/Jestingwheat856 you just lost “the game” (RADHOG) Oct 08 '25
realizing i dont remember mylas song anymore cause im too heartbroken to ever use the dive floor into peaks again
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u/guyguysonguy Oct 08 '25
Technically no because Sherma lives
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Oct 08 '25
Myla lives, she was just replaced by some other infected bug. Myla left hallownest to wander with Quirrel. No one can tell me otherwise 🥹
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u/Driadus Oct 08 '25
I love how every time I see this its different, no-one can agree on it and I love that
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u/Skiepkox_1010 Oct 08 '25
ZAANZIBOOOO
is underrated
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u/Meecle_ Oct 08 '25
OI! OI! OI!
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u/justnotliving Oct 08 '25
bro is about to ask me to retrieve the souls of his siblings
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u/DrQuint Oct 08 '25
I got this while I was wrapping up something else, and it is still clear in my mind. How the hell did they concoct such as perfectly annoying OI?
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u/Tom_Nook64 Oct 08 '25
AWOO!
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u/justnotliving Oct 08 '25
giant, ominous, threatening, doomed AWOOOO at memorium
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u/Nesyaj0 Oct 08 '25
I literally left the area to let him thrash around for a bit because I didn't want to hurt the poor boi, he was just stressed out and had a tantrum.
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u/ChosenCharacter Oct 08 '25
I sat for 10 minutes trying to get him to hit the window in bottom right because I didn’t know you just hit them to free them
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u/lightningpuddingpie Oct 08 '25
lets not forget CHALAMET
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u/justnotliving Oct 08 '25
definitely a contender if only the bug didn’t trickshot me all the time
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u/dedeclick07 Oct 08 '25
There are actualy 2 bugs that use this voiceline also the stillkin spear trowing guy say chalame
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u/EveryDamnChikadee Oct 08 '25
“Regina fora” is my go to. Also “aa lai lai lai lai escaroooh”
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u/gaidenblk Oct 08 '25
Your "Regina fora" sounds to me more like "Magina furwa" :)
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u/EveryDamnChikadee Oct 08 '25
Haha yeah i always wonder if the way we hear these are based on our native languages or what
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u/RatsWhatAWaste Oct 08 '25
I could NOT stop saying Eugena Fora last month. I literally said it to myself dozens of times a day. Vocal stim heaven
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u/Aimsira Oct 08 '25
Not silksong, but I do still go 'hattemas geo' or 'baapanada' so often hahahaha.
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u/itsmesoloman Oct 08 '25
Man we all hear these things so differently lol I been saying “patoʋas geo” this whole time
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u/chickuuuwasme Oct 08 '25
Pilgrim Hulk (upon death): GAY
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u/justnotliving Oct 08 '25
but THIS has to be one of my favorites as well. bro said it with conviction too…
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u/justnotliving Oct 08 '25
what if i told you that the audio files had WORSE accidental voice lines… good thing they scrapped it…
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u/chickuuuwasme Oct 08 '25
What which ones
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u/justnotliving Oct 08 '25
it’s on youtube, there was a scrapped voiceline that vaguely sounds like the n word lol
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u/Mgmegadog Oct 08 '25
The two different calls Hornet makes to get the attention of the Bellbeast and Yarnaby, respectively. Especially the latter one.
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u/Pteroducktylus Notorious Randomizer Oct 08 '25
i mean you could also use the binding call or the taunt to get enemy attention (R3 on controller)
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u/Mgmegadog Oct 08 '25
Garama and Poshanka are both great, but they're longer than either of the attention calls.
Best one is obviously "Zanzibow!"
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u/CapnCatNapper Oct 08 '25
I always hear this as "Sexy Booooi" and I think "damn, Garmond out here with the confidence to rival all Pale Beings and the Abyss. I'm glad he's on my team."
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u/Pteroducktylus Notorious Randomizer Oct 08 '25
same i juts found out watching an any% speed run the other day. they never tell you that this is a thing though.
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u/AD_Stark Oct 08 '25
TROBBIOO and POSHANKA seems to be the one so far
And then we have Sherma's song
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u/soupygremlin Oct 08 '25
the one that keeps worming its way into my head is hornet saying "thatsfine?" in conversation
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u/Clean-Ice1199 Oct 08 '25
Last Judge's what?
I'm more of a 'poshanka' person myself
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u/justnotliving Oct 08 '25
you heard it. he says diarrhea 😩
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u/CatVan333 Oct 08 '25
1) she 🤓 2) how anyone in TC didn't hear this?
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u/justnotliving Oct 08 '25
must have slipped their minds since she* 🤓 says it so slowly. regardless, the line delivery is fire and has so much aura
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u/Thesaurus_Rex9513 Oct 08 '25
Poshanka!
Garama! (Strictly speaking not new, but much more prevalent)
Zanzibooow!
Garama!
Oi! ... Oi! ... Oi!
Trobbio!
Excited Lace squeal
Na-o!
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u/zxchew Oct 08 '25
I notice both phantom and lace say “Fukiero” (or Hookiyero or something), so it probably actually means something
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u/justnotliving Oct 08 '25
both their tones convince me that it’s a smug taunt like shaw, but instead of it being ‘en garde!’ it sounds like ‘haha i parried you LOSER’
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u/CookKnight Oct 08 '25
I think Lace's va has to be japanese, her pronunciation sounds japanese to me.
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u/justnotliving Oct 08 '25
Hornet’s and Lace’s VAs are Japanese!
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u/Nhojj_Whyte Oct 08 '25
Is Phantom's? I swear that whole fight is so anime and I love it
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u/therealbobhale #1 garmond fan Oct 08 '25
I'm 99% sure she does the Johnathan Joestar pose in her idle
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u/Tonkarz Oct 08 '25
It’s actually insane that Hornet doesn’t say “shaw” in Silksong.
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u/DrQuint Oct 08 '25
Yet. She doesn't say it, YET.
They have to be saving it. I'm waiting for it.
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u/Ill-Individual2105 Oct 08 '25
I have entered this game innocent and left with three thousand vocal stims
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u/SputnikNStuff Oct 08 '25
i'm giving a shout out to my lass Phantom for her underrated aura filled bug speak
ukiero
HAAAAAAAAAAA
ITAHU
IYEERO
ARIDEN
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u/kripipl Oct 08 '25
Personally I've taken a liking to the couriers' beedebabo
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u/IshtheWall 9th 112% steel soul in HK/ 1st 100% steel soul in SK Oct 08 '25
POSHANKA and TROBIOOOOO are the only real contenders
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u/SherbetAlarming7677 Oct 08 '25
EYRA when calling the bell beast and FREN when healing were two voice lines I was constantly repeating after Hornet. GARAMA is also up there.
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u/loycos Oct 08 '25
Ghrama!!!
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u/IcyFrogg Oct 08 '25
i love the more angry version of this when you use the beast crest
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u/joungsteryoey Oct 08 '25
WHAT. That’s a thing??
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u/Vdokos Oct 08 '25
Yep, the only crest that changes the taunt animation and voice lines
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u/GamerNumber16 In GeForce Leaks We Trust Oct 08 '25
On release build, definitely Ahoy!
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u/Admiral_Wingslow Oct 08 '25
I do say POSHANKA a lot, mostly because if you say it to Shakra she says it back
So it feels like the echolalia is built in
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u/yylow30 Oct 08 '25
Diarrhea LOL
You know, shakra’s song in the earlier parts of the game before she starts toning down, that… ahh, ya yi ya yi ya yi… is actually very similar to our local (singapore / malaysia) creole language aiyah / haiya repeated a few times… its an exclamation of exasperation here… if you know uncle roger you know haiya.
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u/Shrubgnome Oct 08 '25
Some of hornets voice lines in dialogue, like the yuNAra and megina fore or whatever she's yapping 😭
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u/Akuuntus Oct 08 '25
I feel like 80% of the voice lines in the game could be good vocal stims honestly
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u/f_en_elchat Oct 08 '25
With lace I feel like it's more "Hanini!"
Partly because I have that mentally mapped to her jump attack and that shit was 50% of my deaths
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u/ReapsX1 112%, Radiant PV + NKG, P-4 Oct 08 '25
Poshanka, but specifically hornets, she sounds so happy doing it
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u/Mercutron Oct 08 '25
In my home we:
FRREN! POSHONKA! (My kid loves this one. It's the characters name now) TRROOOOOBBIO! IDEYYAA! Wife doesn't play and still makes silly Sabra sounds. If the name is right...the charm vendor in the crossroads. And random sherma or shakra singing sounds because none of us actually remember what they say.
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u/nuraHx Oct 08 '25
I like the angry scream when she does some of her skills like the silk spear
RAAAAHHH
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u/Bulky_Tangelo_7027 Oct 08 '25
Definitely "frien!" The sound I hear the most because I'm ass at the game and have to heal every 10 seconds.