The Radiance is a characters who often get demonized by her (aka the Hollow Knight) fandom. Which is understandable at first glance: she causes the dream-caused zombie apocalypse we see in the game & you need to kill her to end the game (not a joke! There isn't a canon ending which doesn't end in her death). There are sources in game that say her dream-zombie illness (aka The Infection) causes a lot of distress if not pain to everyone she infects, and The Infection affects most bugs (which replace mammals in this setting) in game! So why do I like her?

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TL:DR; because the pale king started it & never quit being a piece of shit.

Now you might think I think that The Knight/Little Ghost/The Player is wrong to stop Radi. But I don't think so. She is causing damage to a TON of people by doing what she's doing. But I like her to be allowed to be more complicated like canon implies her to be... And more "Radi Survives" fics where she gets to have a messy recovery.