#all of them but the contrarian

[phantasmatoucan]

SOME BIRDIES IN DRESSES

[tapestryundone]

hands these to you

[cathartic-tomfoolery]

HALF THE VOICE DESIGNS!! Not completely happy with all of them, (*COUGH*stubborn and cold*COUGH*) but whatever! I'll probably change alot of them in the future tho..idk

[itsonlypolite]

Spoilers for the Pristine Cuts new Fury chapter:

Contrarian in the Adversary!Fury chapter:

[coldranger]

I've finally done them all, I can now sit in the void forever in peace. Well, the void and all these concept sketches lying around

[nordicfiord]

say hello to the whole flock!

I think I did a pretty good job designing everyone exactly like I pictured them! gotta say, Contrarian's and Paranoid's are still my favourite designes. but I love them all! cute babies ✨

[gegnabean]

My design for every single voices in Slay the Princess!

I wanted to just do a few of them but before I knew it I was doing everyone. I think I might redo a few of these or tweak them in the future (especially my man smitten), but it was really fun drawing all the bird men (and it was a challenge fitting them all on one page lmao)

I may do full body designs for a few of them as well like what their wings look like ect, but these are all hypothetical.

[starscream-is-my-wife]

A way too serious reading on Fire in the Sky focusing on Skyfire

The first impression we have of Skyfire is Starscreams vision of him. He says they were close friends before the war. Skyfire is portrayed as a representation of innocence, he is the last cybertronian to know what life was like before the war, and untouched by the horrors of it. When the actual Skyfire is revived, he is in the future in the middle of a war, where for him, he was just a while ago he was a civilian scientist. He knows that this isn’t Cybertron, subconsciously or not, he is essentially trapped with the Decepticons, and with Starscream, who despite saying they are close friends, Skyfire treats Starscream more like an acquaintance. However, Starscream is the only thing that he has left from his old life, so he would naturally stick with him

 It doesn’t take long for Starscream to establish control over Skyfire. Starscream who not only has a ranking superiority over Skyfire, but in life experience. He is 5 million years older, most of which was spent as a warrior, and as the second in command. He tells him that he will make Skyfire his second in command once he takes over. Skyfire thanks him, telling him that he will give Starscream credit. It makes you wonder if this is what their relationship was like before the war, if Starscream believes that being close friends means that someone is willing to be subservient to you.

Then his first encounter with the Autobots. This is where Skyfire is alone, and you can see his actual personality, albeit still under the manipulations of the Decepticons. They engage in combat but stop when Spike and Sparkplug are in danger. When Skyfire goes over to help them, he speaks very softly for the first time since his reactivation. A gentleness for organisms that shows his true calling as a scientist. He then tells them the lies that he was told, showing he does genuinely believe in what Megatron and Starscream told him, like he looks up to his superiors.

So, when Skyfire raises a protest to the treatment of the humans, Megatron warns him that he’s stepping out of line, but it was Starscream who tightens his leash. not hesitating to shoot his hand as a punishment. Starscream should know how Skyfire should love organics, but maybe he saw this as an opportunity to taint Skyfire even more. Skyfire was shocked but not to Starscream shooting him, but to why they wanted to harm the humans. He does not question being shot by Starscream at all, filling in a picture of them before the war even more. Skyfire had also said that these humans were his friends, despite most of their very brief meetings being the humans terrified of him. This also makes you think if Skyfire before had any real friends other then Starscream.

When cornering a group of Autobots, Starscream said that the years under the ice had diminished his loyalty coefficient. And once again you wonder, ‘how did Starscream treat Skyfire before??’

Even after acknowledging their old friendship, the moment Skyfire refuses Starscream, he once again, does not hesitate to shoot Skyfire for being ‘wrong’, the Autobots look on in horror for Skyfire, Ratchet and Hound even saying something about it before getting destroyed -in Skyfires eyes- by Starscream, who steps on him before walking off. Another display of establishing his control. In the very short time that he’s been reactivated, Starscream has already shot Skyfire twice for miniscule ‘mistakes’ and Skyfire doesn’t even question why he was punished so harshly by being shot, only thinking of others.

Ratchet fixes up Skyfire the best he can after revealing that they are functioning they get interrupted by Starscream who orders his trine to fire at will at the Autobots, not caring that they were fixing up Skyfire. Ratchet doesn’t leave Skyfires side, tugging at his hand and saying ‘I won’t leave you here’ before getting shot. Skyfire stirs, this is probably the kindest anyone has been to him after being frozen and losing everything he knows.

Skyfire does join the battle, on the side of the Autobots, finally seeing a way out from the Decepticon grasp, and literally throws Megatron away. He ends up fighting Starscream, who only a little while ago had such a positive view of Skyfire, is now willing to kill him permanently. It’s almost like he would rather have Skyfire dead then have a Skyfire who is alive, but does not fit the loyal subservient imaginary image he has of him in his mind.

Starscream has far more experience in battle and although they both crash, Starscream will show up next episode, totally fine. However for Skyfire, in his final moments, fires a blast to bury the crystals, and himself to save his new friends. Perhaps that’s all he knows, instead of landing safely, he did everything he could to be useful to the very end. But in doing this he found freedom from Starscream, in death.

(until he gets revived)

[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…

[rook2ii]

Random headcanon, I think the Voice of the Cold would be like. Really weirdly good at Just Dance. Nobody knew this until Opportunist and Contrarian pushed him into playing it.

I think Contrarian would also be really good at it. Stubborn and Smitten too, but they'd probably be way pickier about the songs they play. Opportunist is okay at it, but he doesn't like it very much, so the only time he plays is if it's to one-up someone in some way.

After Contrarian got into it, he'd always bug Cold to play, who usually agrees if he doesn't have anything better to do, and it became their little bonding thing. Contrarian also started pushing Hero to try it, but Hero didn't have enough stamina to keep up the whole way through most of the songs and he kept bumping into people.

Cheated and Opportunist would probably do some sort of Just Dance competition at some point. Cheated, despite his poor luck and lack of dancing experience, somehow won. Fighting Razor so many times probably upped his reaction time and coordination.

Hunted would also be pretty good at it. I could see him using it as a way to keep himself moving with purpose now that there wasn't anything to run from.

Paranoid would probably refuse to play unless Hero, Hunted, or Broken convinced him to, but if he did, he'd probably end up trying to copy everything the dancer on screen was doing.

Skeptic probably wouldn't want to play, seeing it as a waste of time. He could probably be convinced with enough prodding and the argument that they have nothing but time (assuming this is in "A New and Unending Dawn"). He'd probably be okay at it, not great, but okay. I don't think he'd be that big a fan of it.

Broken probably wouldn't ever play unless Hero really wanted him to (not super likely given that Hero doesn't like it all that much), but he probably wouldn't be great at it. I imagine he likely has a much slower reaction time and moves much more lethargically. He'd probably end up accidentally getting stepped on by someone else.

[phantasmatoucan]

VARIOUS DOODLES OF DIFFERENT VOICES lol

[wintergrofyuri]

guys shut up. we have to think about cold and contrarian right now. all of us. everyone. we must all give up every cubic meter of brain space to thinking about contrarian and cold interacting. it has to happen. We have To

[spider-with-a-stylus]

so glad i waited until after the pristine cut to redesign the voices (previous post here) bc i have much clearer visions for them now. narrator didn’t get redesigned bc he’s perfect tbh.

(click for better quality)

[itsonlypolite]

Why do most of your voice designs have all their faces obscured? Also, could you draw what their faces look like?

This is a fun question! The real answer is a mix between:

- when designing them I wanted the voices to have the same "do they have a beak? Is it just a flat face?" deal that The Long Quiet has

- I wanted to keep the designs halfway between "bird monster" and "humanoid" (this resulted in a lot of them landing in furry territory)

- I can't draw beak mouths so that option was out but I didn't want to draw humans

Likewise, the actual answer to "what would they look like without their masks?" is just, a flat face without a nose. Which is kinda boring even if that's simply how I treat their faces when drawing them! So instead, I interpreted your question as, what would they have looked like if I went the full human route?

Ta-daaaaa! Honestly as interesting as this challenge was, the result is too unnatural for me! Where are my boys?? Who are these guys!?!????

[stuffed-x-arts]

HEY GUYS GRINS. IVE BEEN SO OBSESSED WITH SLAY THE PRINCESS THE PAST FEW DAYS IM GONNA FUCKING EXPLODE !!!!! :D

anyways take this.

I don't see them as romantic but they are still so fun. love story !! u can interpret it all how u like though lol i enjoy it all the same and just hope u have fun <3

also below the read more im gonna dump some doodles and sketches of me tryna figure out how to draw the voices and stuff smh. none of it is set in stone also maybe some spoilers idk smh go play the game !!!

HIIII here. hands u this. silly birds.

the cold is one of my faves smh but they are AAAAALL good smh. contrarian. paranoid. hunted. broken. NARRATOR holy fuck i love timeloops and tragedies and horror and narrator characters and AAAAAARGH go play slay the princess RIGHT now smh ive mostly been watching playthroughs but trust me i need to buy it soon and play it a million times over smh

[xcarg0t]

I uploaded this on twt but i forgot to post it here, oops