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Welcome to deep dive into the murderous Kirk! Is he a dark wraith? A demon lover? Or is he, like many Dark Souls characters, a more subtle character than we thought? Hope you enjoy this thorny episode, featuring the Fair Lady, Quelaag, Quelaana, Darkwraiths, Kaathe, and a lot of rolling!
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Aragami OST - House of the Raven
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Earthbound (Mother 2) OST - Sunrise & Onett Theme
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Dark Souls 3 OST - Secret Betrayal
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@capnnukasun810 Месяц назад

Kirk has another side. When he isn't splitting the skulls of hollows, he's a community leader. Basketball coach. Husband, and a father.

@logancade342 Месяц назад

Not volleyball? Spiking the ball seems like something he'd be into.

@thenson1Halo Месяц назад

He volunteers as a lifeguard on the weekends and saved my kid from drowning!

@Grimsly3736 Месяц назад

@@logancade342he’d definitely play darts 🎯

@samfish2550 Месяц назад

All those eggs gotta come from somewhere.

@Grimsly3736 Месяц назад

@@samfish2550 eggs are his adopted kids, no don’t ask me where he finds them

@AnarchyIsLove Месяц назад

When Kirk murders countless peers for the sake of 1 girl he's the antihero BUT WHEN I-

@CopeAndSeeth 28 дней назад

Ayo 🤣

@stingerjohnny9951 26 дней назад

Jesus raises the dead it’s a miracle, I do it and it’s “necromancy” and “a sin against the natural order” and I need to “leave the state” and “change my name.” Double standards bro smh.

@maximillion322 19 дней назад

@@stingerjohnny9951pretty sure its just the difference between getting the church’s permission first or not

@kanseidorifto2430 12 дней назад

@@stingerjohnny9951 Moreover certain because God should be able to do all things, and humans with a lesser scope of things, should not be able to be on par with God

@stingerjohnny9951 12 дней назад

@@maximillion322 The church didn’t exist until after Jesus’ death. Prior to that, it was just a hippie cult that liked doing community service.

@tythus654 Месяц назад

Honestly, what I find most impressive that after all that he still had time to be a hammer in Bloodborne

@IsCerealADinnerSnack Месяц назад

True lol

@KlausRJBR Месяц назад

Does this hammer like the semi spider patches? 😏😏😏

@whoopsthatsasinisntit Месяц назад

And later reincarnated as the giant crusher in Elden Ring

@apolloisnotashirt Месяц назад

@@KlausRJBRit loves Patches.

@stingerjohnny9951 26 дней назад

@@apolloisnotashirt Yeah, when I wield it, it just can’t stop kissing him over and over and over 🔨

@samjuan4899 Месяц назад

In my defense, my reason why I brought the Fair Lady humanities is not to save her but to save my sunbro Solaire.

@randomarchive1671 Месяц назад

He does mention that in the video

@fission_mailed Месяц назад

You monster. Solaire is happier with the bug

@jeshegames Месяц назад

No matter how tender or how exquisite, a lie will remain a lie.

@thenson1Halo Месяц назад

I did it for the pyromancy and my sunbro.

@well_thats_fantastic Месяц назад

@@fission_mailed he's happier helping a friend

@movieman6456 Месяц назад

Rosaria in DSIII isn’t half-insectoid. It’s an illusion, due to the man-grub on her bed. But that’s a common misconception.

@SkillfulCurve Месяц назад

How do you know? She has intercouse with the worm?

@praiseit6848 Месяц назад

@@SkillfulCurve what he meant with "illusion" is that it kinda looks like her lower body is worm like, but iur's simply the man- grub that's chilling on her lab.

@KainiusTheGreat Месяц назад

@@SkillfulCurve I mean, considering you can see her feet clear as day seems to confirm she's not half grub...

@Capnsensible80 18 дней назад

Oh shit...I never looked closely enough to notice that 🤯

@solus1378 Месяц назад

imo the fair lady probably would have been speaking in the common tongue if she was trying to garner pity. As it is, her speech is impossible to understand unless you wear the witch's ring, which very few undead would have.

@DiegoHernandez-ts8by Месяц назад

Also, didn't she save that pyromancer by sucking up poison? Is that's why she is so frail ?

@coleozaeta6344 Месяц назад

@@DiegoHernandez-ts8byShe did suck up a lot of the blight disease from a LONG time ago, and it helped keep things down there from getting as bad as quickly, but it really hurt her. That’s the big sacrifice she made, and just part of her inhuman purity and initial lack of dark humanity.

@minespatch Месяц назад

@@coleozaeta6344 I had to stop the video at that point. Hawkshaw's videos are fanfictions at this point. 😒

@gorrack10281987 29 дней назад

@minespatch has kirk ever been widely thought of as intimidating? I've never seen him as anything special.

@JojenReed 29 дней назад

@@minespatchthey often are. I enjoy the speculation but when you deep dive into obscurity it's inevitable

@yamadoyato6055 Месяц назад

"He invades us 3 times(!)" Laughs in forlorn

@deadinside9565 Месяц назад

Just in case you forgot you were playing Dark Souls 2.

@well_thats_fantastic Месяц назад

pretty sure I lorewise they are a group of warrior women so each forlorn are different (could be wrong)

@NCRRanger7753 Месяц назад

Lol 🤣

@wisterian8619 29 дней назад

@@well_thats_fantasticim pretty sure theres male forlorn that invade right outside The Rotten, but I may have gotten it wrong

@kanseidorifto2430 12 дней назад

@@well_thats_fantastic It's actually mentioned that they're experiments of Aldia that became wanderers. They're hollow yes, but more akin to a gloomier version of what the blacksmith is. They're hollow, but they're also aware and sentient, they're just... wanderers, like we are. It's even the name of the protagonist for DS2, "The Wanderer". Only difference is that we haven't "joined the crestfallen".

@disissid9060 Месяц назад

maybe he was just trying to save solaire by opening the izalith shortcut

@Zidandy Месяц назад

Kirk's helmet makes me think of the head of the amygdala from bloodborne

@monroerobbins7551 Месяц назад

Honestly, same! It made me wonder if he was smarter than I thought, due to the resemblance

@jessiesewell4076 Месяц назад

Huh considering his actions are out of fear of losing someone. This makes sense!

@jessiesewell4076 Месяц назад

Huh. His actions are motivated by the fear of loss. Maybe the idea was in Miyazaki earlier than we thought 🤷

@well_thats_fantastic Месяц назад

@@jessiesewell4076 the idea for Bloodborne (and I believe some development) was all being made during ds1

@Alexander-dg8sh Месяц назад

Hey guys, here is some trivia I've noticed. 1. Kirk, Knight of Thorns, and Shadow the Hedgehog both are spiky. 2. Kirk and Shadow both deeply cared for terminally ill women. 3. Both are edgelords. 4. Both started bad, but turned good by the power of love. 5. Throughout 2010s the English voice actor for Shadow had been... Kirk Thornton! Coincidence?

@AntiCensorshipGamer 3 дня назад

Omff

@GrannySoupLadle Месяц назад

There are two types of Dark Souls, those with Kirks and those with soup ladles.

@MEMEVOUS42069 Месяц назад

"This thorny bastard." Best thing I've heard.

@GoonCaved Месяц назад

Rosaria is just cuddling a worm thing. You can see her feet if you look a little closer

@nothingness217 Месяц назад

As an old darkwraith I approve of this video

@MercedesSLSJpak Месяц назад

Comment for the algorithm! This is exactly what I wanna see outta Hawkshaw - detailed, thought provoking and emotional videos on a minor character I only ever interacted with for like a minute and never finished the quest line for

@IsCerealADinnerSnack Месяц назад

I’ve always had this theory about Kirk. That he was the first Unkindled. To me this explains why he is still alive in ds3 despite it taking place several thousand years later (as he was resurrected by the bell of awakening). Of course, I don’t have a reason for Why Kirk would try and link the fire but I think this is a cool idea.

@blizzardgaming7070 Месяц назад

There might have been more, but I think one unkindled per Lord makes more sense. Especially given that 3/5 unkindled have a direct connection to a lord of cinder. Anri for Aldrich, Siegward for Yhorm, Hawkwood for the Abyss Watchers, with my thoughts being Freide for Lothric and us for Ludleth. Although he very much could have been part of the original five with the ashen one being resurrected after Friede left for the painting.

@jacobhoover1654 Месяц назад

@@blizzardgaming7070 What's the connection with Frieda and Lothric?

@blizzardgaming7070 Месяц назад

@@jacobhoover1654 no actual connection but they are both the strongest out of their groups

@ebrietasbiscuit Месяц назад

3:24 “and it’s a real cool club, and you’re not a part of it” Screeching Weasel on the Kirk fan club, probably

@byrdalexab Месяц назад

Will never get tired of Dark Souls Lore

@funkyfox7996 Месяц назад

"longfinger" could also be a nod to kirk's status as the rude extension of those he serves?

@GrimmWitchands Месяц назад

I agree

@j.murphy4884 Месяц назад

In Ireland to put something on the long finger is to delay it, usually with connotations of irresponsibly doing so.

@leoricsfall Месяц назад

Thanks for my first invasion ever Kirk :)

@profounddestroyer5470 Месяц назад

@XDWASDX Месяц назад

I spent $10 to change my name on Xbox to Maneater Max just convincingly fake NPC invasions. My build was OP but I’d typically let hosts win. It was all about providing an experience that expanded on Souls whimsy.

@Locaneo Месяц назад

I can gather why he'd keep coming back too, considering he gets Humanity for the Chaos, he likely gets them from her too so he can come back to life. Also in exchange I think he stayed dead because he took too much. Then came back as Ash in DS3 after it was all over.

@marcusgates5292 Месяц назад

Great so by rosarias logic if we become a finger we're either "Pinky finger unkindled one" Or just "Unkindled thumb"

@Timebomb_19 Месяц назад

Heysel is the pinky, and I like to think that Creighton is the thumb. That’d make us the index.

@walter1383 Месяц назад

@@Timebomb_19Echoing this. Heysel is characterized by her naivety according to Leonhard, indicating she is the youngest or weakest, yet she's tenacious all the same eager to attack or help, much like the little finger. Creighton is the wanderer and goes where and does what he pleases independent of the others, just like the thumb. With Kirk as the reliable long finger, and Leonhard as the beguiling and untrustworthy ring finger, that leaves us, the player as the pointer finger, the only one that has true direction and an actual goal to look towards.

@oup6009 Месяц назад

Recognized that Age of Mythology music 5 seconds into the video

@AnarchyIsLove Месяц назад

Longfinger is so perfect, it's like Zaki himself is flipping off the Kirk haters lol

@Calo1 Месяц назад

I didn’t knew I needed a documentary of god damn Kirk until now, very nice video, as always.

@DonutSwordsman Месяц назад

This is so good. I NEED speculative lore man

@natelancaster3624 Месяц назад

I just gotta say you make my favorite Dark Souls theory/lore vids. I would love a follow up to Havel and the plot against the gods. It seems to me ds3 confirms many of ur thoughts.

@harvesterofsubs5561 Месяц назад

Crazy how much detail they put into this one guy’s armour and character, who barely impacts the game

@RavishingPimp Месяц назад

You have the best voice for this, in my opinion. You're great.

@Hawkshaw Месяц назад

Thanks to everyone who applied!

@adamtichy8008 Месяц назад

Hello, the link isn't working

@Hawkshaw Месяц назад

Thanks for letting us know! It should be working now

@BDSMaestro Месяц назад

The age section is asking for an email rather than a number, not sure if that’s the issue the first poster was having

@YuckDuck-gn7nh Месяц назад

Bully? Pathetic.

@abdkayali9574 Месяц назад

Look for a script writers as well because this is dogshit and thats being polite.

@Faro-0x 11 дней назад

Dude I do not know your channel and I am just a couple of seconds in, but Dark Souls + AoM's OST was a combo I was not prepared for. Thank you.

@condor727me Месяц назад

I love that kirk comes back multiple times. I'd like him to visit a few more times but maybe is more ferocious in his attacks as he gets closer to hollowing...i'll see that in the true remake one day!

@ax2781 18 дней назад

I remember having buddies playing Dark Souls over a decade ago and here I am discovering the series in 2024 I love your content, this universe instantly hooked me up and GOD I adore your music choices

@Ik0As Час назад

I loved this video. I just wanted to share something that I recently noticed. On 11:27 you say a half insectoid woman, I used to think this myself but recently I was replaying DS3 and noticed that Rosaria is fully human, you can even see her legs in the footage you used. I feel like the insect like being is maybe one of her followers and she is comforting it. P.S. I haven't tried attacking or the insect like being beside her to see if they share damage, this may serve as evidence suggesting they are the same being but, in classic Dark Souls fashion, you could very well make an argument for why they share damage even when they are separate beings.

@bladeoflucatiel Месяц назад

Still better than the random forlorn invasions at the worst time possible

@DeHymenator Месяц назад

Kirk's armor does one more amazing thing in pvp. A well timed roll into your opponent after a missed swing will cancel their backstab attempt on you. It can be done consistently once you get the hang of it. Absolutely invaluable for sweaty bs fishers when using slower weapons.

@nobushidono9897 Месяц назад

Thank you for not just keeping the lore to Dark Souls 1. Great video.

@smoage Месяц назад

Excited to dig in to this. Kirk has long been my favorite character in the series.

@da-rj5cs Месяц назад

I love this channel thank you for continuing to make videos.

@oddmuch1379 Месяц назад

You referenced a childhood book of mine for dark souls? Never thought id see that. Youre a goat

@woozydew 15 дней назад

Love when u include aom music, great video

@praiseit6848 Месяц назад

I wanted to be like Kirk but I never understood how to efficiently roleplay and farm humanity for the Chaos covenant. To help other players didn't seem authentic for that covenant and most people will not summon you, if you use the red sign soapstone. You also have to be a Darkwraith to use the red eye orb or to buy cracked red eye orbs.

@reddie1705 Месяц назад

I've always loved the semblance between Kirk and the armor of Penance from Berserk, made me want a deeper look into what this guy could actually be and this is a saving grace! Excited to see where this goes and what I'm going to learn

@FookinIsh Месяц назад

Is Rosaria a half monster thing, actually? To me it looks like she's just comforting one of those slug boys.

@chasekeylime9717 Месяц назад

Hey just so you know, I did not get notified that this video was uploaded. I have all notifs turned on for your channel and would have completely missed this video if it wasn’t randomly in my recommended!

@Vigsor_yt Месяц назад

Same for me, and I had to go back and check, including this one 3 of his last 6 videos WILL NOT show up in my subscribed feed. I just posted my own comment, but let's try and get more comments to the top about this

@christiandaugherty6339 Месяц назад

Yeah same here. I noticed that with his previous video too.

@JojenReed 29 дней назад

Reinstall YT? His videos show for me

@lennyleanords9244 24 дня назад

"That's Kirkish Delight for you" will go down in history

@kallioli Месяц назад

yesssss new hawkshaw vid just drooooooopped

@TheBiggestCrook 22 дня назад

I had no idea I got his armor just playing nice upload !

@pritzi101 Месяц назад

Prostagma! Etimos! Love that age of mythology music lol.

@starvinmarvin2130 Месяц назад

Mmmh fresh Darks souls lore Thanks Hawkshaw

@supm8te751 Месяц назад

I love your lore videos, I hope you do some lore on Dark souls 2

@Vidy4. Месяц назад

My favourite character in Dark Souls 1

@samfish2550 Месяц назад

In ds3 I ended up using the helmet for one of my favorite looks. - Thorn helm. - Black dress. - Cornyxs arms and legs. - Keen spiked whip (main hand). - Keen morning star (off hand). My friends described it as "cenobite esc" and my intention was a mad torturer. So basically the tone got across, also a very fun well rounded weapon pairing.

@gergelymacsai3776 Месяц назад

Miyazaki often talked about loving the Fighting Fantasy Gamebook series. If you take a look at the illustrations of Trial of Champions, one of the classical gamebooks of the series, you will find a Chaos Champion who looks fairly familiar.

@aziki001 16 дней назад

Your voice is doing it's best to make me fall asleep.

@elijahford3696 Месяц назад

Kirk is representative of something very human. Pity for someone who would sacrifice for you. Even a cold, spiteful individual hardened by life can see when someone has it harder than them. Even if you've been beaten to the point of evil, there's a line. That light is too important to lose. Worth dieing for. You don't know that line until you see it, but finding it will rock a man to his core. He will turn on the spot, and fight for the light. Not all people will understand it. Maybe it's better they never do. But kindness paid today might be something someone hasn't received much of in their life. These people will die for you once their loyalty is earned. And you would be surprised at just how little it can take.

@mekacrab 2 дня назад

Ah yes, Middlefinger Kirk

@nickperri6571 Месяц назад

Dude I’ve subscribed for forever but you last few videos haven’t been showing up in my subscriptions page. That aside, great video as usual!

@Vigsor_yt Месяц назад

Same here! Make sure to like the comments mentioning it, and comment back for traction! These videos are being hidden from subscribers

@elliottvantonder5477 Месяц назад

I'm so lucky I found this while scrolling BC RU-vid did not put it in my subscription feed.

@movieman6456 Месяц назад

Nor mine.

@Vigsor_yt Месяц назад

Comment for traction, same

@christiandaugherty6339 Месяц назад

Me too

@milktenders6219 14 дней назад

Honestly I love him as a character. The undead aren’t the heroes of this story, neither is Kirk, he’s just out here trying to soothe the suffering of just one person in this horrible world, and it’s so interesting to see such a gentle side to such a vicious fighter

@undeadunluck Месяц назад

YES YES ANOTHER ONE. 🙌 HAWKSHAWS BACK 🎉🎉🎉

@f.g.5967 Месяц назад

“We have no choice but to show mercy” yeah i showed mercy. I stopped her suffering.

@leme3082 Месяц назад

Holy smokes a sinclaire lore reference!

@tonyzhao4060 Месяц назад

I went into NG+ immediately after completing the first run because I wanted his set so badly!

@karozoronah146 Месяц назад

I actually think Kirk is fond of the idea of "artificial" lifeforms. Both the Izalith witches and Rosaria are capable to create new unique lives. ....or he's just have a thing about creepy giant women, which is understandable.

@td_is_infinite667 Месяц назад

OH BOY A VIDEO

@8Robba Месяц назад

that was sooo soothing

@shtepanius 29 дней назад

Always loved him for his loyalty to Fair Lady and Rosaria

@taninrobertson2262 Месяц назад

I would guess he likes the fair lady and helps her survive because he is a sadist and likes seeing someone who lives in constant pain

@GeneralTheGuy Месяц назад

Kirk of thorns is my favorite surprisingly deep character right next to lautrec. I really love that dark souls uses an unreliable narrator in item descriptions. A narrator who themselves didn't quite know Kirk's nature fully. If only elden ring's nod to this armor didnt have the silly mask

@powerforcex6190 28 дней назад

That thumbnail kinda hurts to look, considering Kirk's thorny armor. Imagine giving a hug to a bloodied iron cactus.

@Zimtblut 29 дней назад

Funny thing is, I always attributed the "Longfinger" to his job of "stealing" things (tongues/humanity/etc). In German a Langfinger (= long finger) is a very old expression for a thief, "lange Finger haben / machen" (= have / make long fingers) means to steal. I doubt that this played a part in his naming but that's how I saw it 😅

@firelite906 Месяц назад

this video finna got me prayin' to zeus at the temple fr fr

@Astelki Месяц назад

Love the use of AoM music

@NGEvangeliman 28 дней назад

I dont remember ever having trouble with this guy. Infact i never knew there was a guy named kirk in any souls game... and ive played them all.

@stevenlaverty8044 9 дней назад

that age of mythology music damn

@absantos Месяц назад

Nice Age of Mythology reference!

@lottatore Месяц назад

I found out my cousin killed the Fair Lady, and I cried. I loved her so very much when i first played. Obviously she is pixels but in my early teens i was very passionate and especially for the Ailed and Sickly. I was a Lorehunter and since there was so much to get lost in, she was one of the many thing i became so empassioned by in this game. I became my own Kirk, for a couple weeks even roleplayed as Kirk in Izalith. Donated at least 200 humanity to her at first to see if i could heal her, some sort of special interaction and even i realized there was none, I continued to do so.

@MistaFahrenheit Месяц назад

The Thorn armor chest piece made me impossible to backstab in ds1 lol

@Atomic_Aegis45 Месяц назад

Anyone else get an ad shen he asked for a moment of silence for everyone who died to the mimic rumor

@Antierro 28 дней назад

Just wanna appreciate the use of Age of Mythology soundtrack. Miss that game

@ericsbuds Месяц назад

i thought my first npc invader was a pvp invader. i ran away lmao

@bahmot9501 3 дня назад

The greatest thing I learned from this video is that Kirk is, in a very [Roundabout] way, a JOJO reference.

@kalaveet2857 Месяц назад

The German word 'Langfinger' means 'thief'. I think this is a pretty good description for Kirk as he tries to steal our tongue.

@florianstuder3128 27 дней назад

longfinger is also the word for word translation of the german term "langfinger" which is someone who is a known thief

@GiraffeDGod Месяц назад

I read the thumbnail as “Kirk isn’t a Simp “

@firstnamelastname5612 Месяц назад

Kirk kinda reminds me of saverok the antagonist of the first baldurs gate. Its the shoulder pad

@varangianventure Месяц назад

Dark Souls + Hades OST fits like a glove.

@paytongagliardi8709 Месяц назад

Ive always kind of wondered if kirk was a darkwraith or just seemed like one and was called that. Both make sense to me

@philiphamel8504 Месяц назад

I just had a thought. Would Kirk's helmet be more like a static and stationary cage that his head could move freely inside of?

@chopsandtoots Месяц назад

I do believe the Fair Lady is as pitiful as she appears. From the wiki: Quelaag and her sister took an entourage of servants with them, who suffered from a parasitic disease. Out of pity, Quelaag's sister did her best to help against Quelaag's orders, weakening and blinding herself in the process. (She absorbed their "blightpuss") It would make sense the servants adore her so much, as she didn't have to do that. I also wonder if absorbing the blight affected her mind and she says Quelaag's name to remind herself so she doesn't forget.

@pearljaime2 Месяц назад

She should't be hugging that armor... oh, well. I guess it only activates on rolls.

@NCRRanger7753 Месяц назад

Lautrec's armor was the pain for me. I couldn't beat him and his thugs when I first played and used the orb. So in other playthroughs, I kicked him so I could get the fap rings. Never knowing that you had to end him in Anor Londo and then find it above the O&S room.

@AloneTheorist Месяц назад

Kirk really does look like if pinhead packed in being a demon and just went warrior.😂

@Witchblood Месяц назад

I fucking love the shoulders

@kurdtcoben 8 дней назад

16:14 Assuming the Fair Lady's hair isn't withered or bleached over time, it's also interesting that Quelaag has black hair and hers is pure white. Maybe underlining your point.