#Black tabby games

[artist-assassin]

[loud incorrect buzzer noise]

she heart lungs livers on your nerves until everything goes dark and you die

[veryagileglasofwater]

A terrifying and divine heart

[bbqsaucepackets]

[sorry-not-feeling-it-right-now]

Oppy, at his very core, is a character whose actions are purely driven by fear. As much as he pretends to be fearless, fear is the main driving force that pushes his actions—fear of being hurt, fear of lacking power, fear of loneliness, fear of vulnerability, etc.

It’s really telling if you look at how you get him with your actions in Chapter 1.

Imagine with me

You are Oppy. You were just given the task of killing the Princess. You thought to yourself, “Hey she’s just a princess she can’t be that dangerous right, maybe I could just talk things out with her first and figure out what’s going on. Maybe less stabbing work for me too”, and so you proceed down the basement without the knife. After talking to her she seems harmless enough. Maybe she really doesn’t want to end the world and that the Narrator is just talking bullsh!t. So you agreed to free her.

But when you were about to free her, she tears through her fu@king arm like an animal.

What? What??? Why is she doing that??? A primal fear courses through you. You have nothing to defend yourself with regarding this unexpected incident. If she is able to tear through her arm just to get herself out of here, does that mean she’s been lying to me about being harmless?? What would she do to me after all this? You feel vulnerable and small.

And when the Narrator gives you the blade, you took the opportunity to stab her. You can either wait a little until she’s completely off guard with her back against you, or just stab her right here, right now. It doesn’t really matter. She is a threat to your safety. As long as she’s dead, you’ll be safe again.

I’m a believer that the thought of stabbing the Princess in Thorn hadn’t occurred to him entirely until we’ve got the blade (aka our power) back in our hands, since this feels like a repeat of what had happened in Chapter 1. He fears getting hurt again, and therefore he suggests stabbing the Princess.

In PaTD, I see Oppy being in an antagonistic role as him fearing you and seeing you stabbing yourself as a betrayal, and therefore a threat. From his perspective you literally stabbed yourself and got out of your dying body, leaving the voices behind for the Princess. It doesn’t matter what your intentions are, but here we are anyway.

[daydreaming-voice]

I've said this before to someone, but I'm gonna post it here because it continues to microwave in my brain.

Now I love The Cage. I think it might be one of my favorite routes in the game. But their is one very small thing that, for some reason, continues to haunt me. Even though it's probably only important to me and nobody else.

I genuinely wish that Skeptic had apologized to Broken at the end.

Like granted, Skeptic did admit that Broken was right in the end, and that's good. But I feel like Broken deserves an apology for Skeptic blatantly dismissing his, and by extension, LQ's emotions.

Like, look, I understand where Skeptic is coming from. It's a very stressful situation, and he's dealing with it the only way he knows how.

But also... we just saw the Princess literally decapitate herself! And after that, we ourselves had to commit suicide to escape the endless 'happy' eternity!

You don't just tell a traumatized person to "toughen up" after something like that.

Broken has every right to feel terrified. To feel lost. To feel guilty. To want to make things right.

By invalidating Broken, he invalidates LQ as well. And that's not fair to any of them.

[adsurgitvagus]

Some hero you turned out to be

[kendrawells]

This is a love story. 🪞🐦‍⬛

@blacktabbygames commissioned me to commemorate The Pristine Cut release of Slay the Princess, massive congrats to Abby and Tony ❤️🗡️

(Bonus inspo ref)

[persephonaae]

Vague recollections. Empty tunnels without a mouth. I am sorry if I frightened you…

I was a part of a fantasy collaboration on Instagram, so I decided to pull together a cosplay of The Princess/Shifting Mound from Slay The Princess by @blacktabbygames !

[circusmantis]

Shifty🤍

[heartshapedemerald]

Slay the Princess: a summary

[lucidpeech]

the princess' love

[datgnarlywizard]

everything here, except Her, is You.

[veryagileglasofwater]

I guess we could do that.

[avalaryx]

this is a love story, but + the cage, HEA and princess and the dragon

[sorry-not-feeling-it-right-now]

All of the voices are basically just Hero if he went a different path if you think about it…

[magua-vida]

I like The Spectre.