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

2 ай бұрын

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

@thenson1Halo

2 ай бұрын

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

@Grimsly3736

2 ай бұрын

@@logancade342he’d definitely play darts 🎯

@samfish2550

2 ай бұрын

All those eggs gotta come from somewhere.

@Grimsly3736

2 ай бұрын

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

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

@CopeAndSeeth

2 ай бұрын

Ayo 🤣

@stingerjohnny9951

2 ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

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

@kanseidorifto2430

Ай бұрын

@@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

Ай бұрын

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

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

@IsCerealADinnerSnack

2 ай бұрын

True lol

@KlausRJBR

2 ай бұрын

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

@whoopsthatsasinisntit

2 ай бұрын

And later reincarnated as the giant crusher in Elden Ring

@apolloisnotashirt

2 ай бұрын

@@KlausRJBRit loves Patches.

@stingerjohnny9951

2 ай бұрын

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

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?

@Only2GendersExist

Ай бұрын

Omff

@suckassmork2972

Ай бұрын

holy moly

@benvowels5316

2 күн бұрын

Sisters, the merge has truly begun.

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

@randomarchive1671

2 ай бұрын

He does mention that in the video

@jeshegames

2 ай бұрын

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

@thenson1Halo

2 ай бұрын

I did it for the pyromancy and my sunbro.

@well_thats_fantastic

2 ай бұрын

​@@fission_mailed he's happier helping a friend

@maximillion322

Ай бұрын

@@fission_mailedwhat are you, insane? He’s not happier being mind controlled by a parasite. The good ending for him is to summon him against Gwyn so that he can truly have his own Sun

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@coleozaeta6344

2 ай бұрын

@@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

2 ай бұрын

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

@gorrack10281987

2 ай бұрын

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

@JojenReed

2 ай бұрын

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

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

@deadinside9565

2 ай бұрын

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

@well_thats_fantastic

2 ай бұрын

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

@NCRRanger7753

2 ай бұрын

Lol 🤣

@wisterian8619

2 ай бұрын

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

@kanseidorifto2430

Ай бұрын

@@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".

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@praiseit6848

2 ай бұрын

@@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

2 ай бұрын

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

@Capnsensible80

Ай бұрын

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

@FelixMBlume

24 күн бұрын

@@Capnsensible80 yeah it's easier seen with either binos or by just looking at the concept art

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

@susiepazoosie2401

2 күн бұрын

this is part of my personal story for kirk

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

@monroerobbins7551

2 ай бұрын

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

@jessiesewell4076

2 ай бұрын

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

@jessiesewell4076

2 ай бұрын

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

@well_thats_fantastic

2 ай бұрын

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

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

@Th0rn5555

27 күн бұрын

Did you say... feet? 👁... Miyazaki, probably

@McChickenJOI

27 күн бұрын

ok goon caved

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

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

As an old darkwraith I approve of this video

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

@GrimmWitchands

2 ай бұрын

I agree

@j.murphy4884

2 ай бұрын

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

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

Will never get tired of Dark Souls Lore

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

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@blizzardgaming7070

2 ай бұрын

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

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

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.

@NA1c158

6 күн бұрын

I love players like you. More for the plot than any trolling lmao

my headcanon to ds3 kirk is that kirk is resurrected to link the first flame, travels to his old mistress and finds that after ages, she had perished due to a severe lack of humanity. crestfallen, he serves rosaria as a means of exhausting himself until he succumbs to his despair and becomes a maggot, where he'll no longer be heartbroken by the demise of his lady

Thanks for my first invasion ever Kirk :)

@profounddestroyer5470

2 ай бұрын

:D

tbh the only reason I remember Kirk at all is because back in the days people loved to wear his armor for PVP, and it became a meme so big that I bet Miyazaki saw it and brought him back in DS3.

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.

Thanks to everyone who applied!

@adamtichy8008

2 ай бұрын

Hello, the link isn't working

@Hawkshaw

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for letting us know! It should be working now

@BDSMaestro

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

Bully? Pathetic.

@abdkayali9574

2 ай бұрын

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

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.

Recognized that Age of Mythology music 5 seconds into the video

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

@Timebomb_19

2 ай бұрын

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

@walter1383

2 ай бұрын

​@@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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Uh, Rosaria is not half insectoid. Nor is she half monster. She's holding one of those pupa, it isn't part of her.

This is so good. I NEED speculative lore man

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@JojenReed

2 ай бұрын

Reinstall YT? His videos show for me

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

yesssss new hawkshaw vid just drooooooopped

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

Love when u include aom music, great video

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.

Mmmh fresh Darks souls lore Thanks Hawkshaw

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

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

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.

"Kirk is a menace to end all menaces!" Me who parries him with ease: "Huh?"

Honestly, it seems to me, that even if it's assumed Kirk understood the Fair Lady, he simply found a point of fascination - someone to be obsessed with. It's honestly wildly disturbing, considering the real life parallel is of predatory, often sadistic people, which Kirk can easily be stated to be. If he had improved as of "falling for the Fair Lady", then surely he could have changed his weapons and armour to something less sadistic. He didn't. It's not a change, but an altered *why* for his *what* . An excuse at best.

Holy smokes a sinclaire lore reference!

Every once in a while i discover that theres an npc or something that i never had trouble with has a reputation of being difficult.

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

That Starfew Valley OST threw me for a loop when i first heard it in a Dark Souls vid.

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

Kirk is one of if not the most influential characters in the franchise for me, the man did what many would not, just to show a little kindness to the downtrodden, to save a man doomed to face a parasite. He's a good man going bad things for the ones he chooses to protect.

OH BOY A VIDEO

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.

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

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

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

My favourite character in Dark Souls 1

YES YES ANOTHER ONE. 🙌 HAWKSHAWS BACK 🎉🎉🎉

that was sooo soothing

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

@movieman6456

2 ай бұрын

Nor mine.

@Vigsor_yt

2 ай бұрын

Comment for traction, same

@christiandaugherty6339

2 ай бұрын

Me too

Imo his appearence in DS3 ruined the character, from an antihero devoted to a single maiden and ready to die for her to a simp who just changed mistress when the previous one died alone, comforted only by Quelana

@DingaLingu

23 күн бұрын

Hes a time traveler

Ah yes, Middlefinger Kirk

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

2 ай бұрын

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

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.

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

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.

@willischwabe1324

24 күн бұрын

Sadly I have seen enough people who you could sacrifice everything for and the second you outlived your usefulness they will take the last rest and throw you under the bus and even start making up stories and lie about you towards others, to justify their actions in their own minds and no they don't care about you, at all - never did, never will, they wouldn't even spit on you to safe you if you were burning alive in front of them.

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

He may have been a bad person, but he was still a Knight at heart.

that age of mythology music damn

Always loved him for his loyalty to Fair Lady and Rosaria

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

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

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

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

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

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 😅

Nice Age of Mythology reference!

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

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

Age of Mythology music, nice

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

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

He was like "it's Kirking time" and proceeded to Kirk all over the place.

Forlorn in ds2: HES JUST LIKE ME FR

This may be just a coincidence, but kirk's helmet always looked like some kind of cage to me

Kirk definitely watches some monster waifu stuff

Love the use of AoM music

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

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.

The idea of her faking dialogue to mislead us doesnt make sense if she is speaking in chaos language