#and sphinx was so fucking cool

[lunneus]

sighing loudly that sphinx and the cursed mummy wasn't more successful, left a lasting impression on a lot of people, and made enough money to have a sequel/remake with the cut content

Siiiiiiiiiigh

[froggymug]

"IT'S!! TV!! TIME!!!"

Naturally, I am hopelessly bewitched by the Deltarune CRT............. I need him so bad-

Ahem. Yearning aside, wanted to doodle my own take on his design! If I draw him again, will definitely go for something simpler, but this was fun!

(Bonus variations include a "base" nekkid design and a Sphinx Tenna! He so kitty cat :3)

[clumsypuppy]

meow

[sphinxtaughtmehowtoread]

Finally got around to doodling him again, i think i got down the shape of his headpiece(at least from the front the fucking thing), i tried to get that feline vibe with the poses but they tend to come off a bit to feminine for my taste (as you can see on the left where i scribbled) for sphinx, so yeah

[leighsartworks216]

Hark! Cool ass moth be upon ye!! (Virginia Creeper Sphinx)

[theevilbrainman]

Please get piercings please get piercings please get piercings PLEASE GET PIERCINGS PLEASE GET

[vveirdvvitch]

@accidentalslayer my beautiful queen

a tiny sphinx

[backpackingspace]

Perspective my beloathed

[monsterfuckerconfessions]

Mannnn we need more ‘dominant human’ content in the monsterfucker space like. Dominant monsters are cool and all but there are so many possibilities to work with here that don’t get explored as often. A small monster hunter trapping a much larger creature using technology that monster isn’t familiar with. A monster being so desperately in love with a tiny human they get on their knees at any opportunity. Smaller/weaker monsters being scared of humans and slowly warming up to one, or not being able to let their curiosity go and getting got. Monsters with a human kink that fantasize about being tied up and fucked by one. A human researcher using a monster as their little test subject…

Also I love love love content where interspecies cultural and biological differences are explored especially when it comes to monsters being freaked out or inadvertently turned on because human things. Imagine going in for a handshake not knowing that alien’s society views that as equivalent to violently making out. Imagine going to get a twig out of a beast’s fur and accidentally brush against their ears, causing them to let out the most sudden, desperate moan you’ve ever heard. Imagine doing a riddle in front of a sphinx and they start literally shaking. Werewolves wanting to wrestle and play tag and playfully nip each other as foreplay??? Sirens who braid together seashells to place around your neck and draw ancient patterns into your skin??? Monsters who live in tribes with fertility festivals and altars??? MATING RITUALS people can someone please consider the MATING RITUALS

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[tritoch]

i've seen a lot of people complain about the dawntrail final dungeon for being a thing that we have basically already done and i understand and in many ways agree with that complaint but i do think it varies from the usual in ways that are actually pretty compelling.

spoilers for dawntrail follow, natch.

like okay in amaurot and the dead ends and the lunar subterrane (okay this is definitely a well CBU3 has gone to too many times), the premise is the fights you're engaging in are all kind of historical. behold, the dooms of amaurot. tremble before ra-la, a real sphinx that actually existed once somewhere. face durante, just as golbez faced him in real life.

and accordingly, because all the fighting is supposed to match the energy of the dungeons, these are moments of panic and peril. the world is ending. the worlds are ending. the kingdom is on fire. there's a solemn villain voiceover to really drive the point home (we just wanted to play...on da amaurotine playground...). amaurot is falling and look how sad it is. every world died and look how painful it was. my best buddy golbez died and it was really sad. everything is Fucked Up.

what's really fun about alexandria by contrast, particularly in the first part, is that things are fine, actually! sphene's here (well, "heah"), and we love her, and she smiles because we smile and we smile for her :). oh no alexandria is falling and it's so sad and noble because of everyone's chivalric sacrifices :( oh yay we're rebuilding from the ashes :)

it's a beautiful, tragic, noble story. and the whole time no one's talking to you, not like normal. sphene's kind of reciting the lyrics to memory from cats listlessly but everyone in her memories is talking to each other, not to you. none of them are interacting with you. you're not fighting alongside her against her enemies or taking down conjured horrors from the past.

no, the whole time you're being reminded of one very specific fact.

You're foreign. You're not from here. This is not for you. This is not yours. This peace was not yours and never will be. This grief, this hope. You chose otherwise. You were offered the chance to be Alexandrian. You rejected it. Stay over there. Stay out. You are not wanted here.

in what i personally choose to interpret as a bit of dark comedy, when things start breaking down, it's literally one of the only words you still understand.

ultimately what distinguishes alexandria from amaurot or the dead ends (intentional "this is why i'm sad" slideshows made specifically for the warrior of light to experience) or the lunar subterrane (accidental memory recreation) is that you are choosing to invade sphene's memories. you are doing a cool little backdoor heist at the luxor casino by causing chaos all over the strip before you crawl through the vents to get to the mainframe or whatever.

but in the context of dawntrail, alexandria is the invading power, the rapacious techno-dystopia that intends to carry out forever wars so it can use the literal souls of its enemies to power its treat machines and which not so coincidentally spawned in north america. and alexandria has literally invaded both tuliyollal and yyasulani at this point. so the conceit of the memory guardians helps make clear the hegemonic logic at play. you are a foreign entity. you are not a subject of the state. your life has no value. you must be removed.

or, if removal proves impossible, exterminated.

[commanderfreddy]

started thinking about the grandma-granddaughter reading of Hank and Hunter in Pomp and Circuitry again and it turned into a whole essay

okay beginning with an overarching framework that Hunter is trying to scare Hank away so that 1) he leaves immediately but also 2) does not try to interfere with SPHINX ever again, we get some interesting stuff about both of them, specifically regarding Hunter's thoughts on Hank being part of The Game (of cat and also cat):

Firstly Hunter is just trying to get Hank out of her hair so she can get back to work but its clear she doesn't want Hank "in the game" AT ALL - SPHINX under her command requires recruits be 18 and have a high school diploma, she's definitely learned from The Billy Incident that child soldiers are a bad idea (noteworthy: she uses the phrase "Junior G-Man" to refer to both freshly-recruited Billy in TIHoF AND Hank trying to join SPHINX) - personally i think the fact that she ever thought that would work says a LOT about HER upbringing (Very Bad).

She doesn't just want Hank out of the way for practical reasons, she's trying to protect him.

Which brings us to Two: i read both Hunter and Hank as transfem (Hunter as a woman and Hank as genderfluid, including-but-not-limited-to being a woman) which makes the fact that Hunter's FIRST IDEA to scare Hank off is to shave his head Very Noteworthy, especially since we know her baldness is a point of dysphoria for her, especially in contrast with how Shoreleave thinks of it. He and Hank are both just having fun doing hairstyle bullshit meanwhile I think Hunter is trying to introduce to Hank how much being part of a (para)military is constant humiliation rituals centred on enforcing masculinity and highlighting when people fail to live up to it.

When Hank first proves that 1) he's not frightened by any of this shit and 2) he has the skills to actually participate in it, I feel like what happens is that Hunter starts escalating her attempts to scare him off and in the process becomes legitimately impressed by what Hank is capable of bc 1) that shit is legit impressive and 2) at the end of the day, this world IS her life. I think it's too simplistic to make a call on whether she "enjoys" it or not, but this is the world in which she lives, these are the standards by which she is judged and she judges people by, and these are the things she takes pride in. I think it probably brought back a lot of memories of training Brock and Shoreleave too, especially considering the fact that she knows the reason Hank is like this is because he was in turn raised by Brock. If she is "like a mother to" Brock, that's her fucking granddaughter.

I think Hank and Hunter have so much in common and I think for the duration of this episode Hunter allowed herself to enjoy that, but then at the end of the day it was over, and the reality of what it means to be a Secret Agent beyond the scorpions and the explosions and the cool car chases come back, and once again Hunter is running a covert operation that she had to detransition in order to establish, because, again, looping around, she exists In This World where power is enforced through masculinity and if she wants to be A Leader in this world she cannot allow herself to also be A Woman. And not even just because Power = Men in this world, but because being a woman is something she enjoys and wants, and so much of the secret agent stuff in this series is about sacrificing your identity to The Cause. Frankly I think you can do a similar reading to Hunter having to give up her gender presentation to Brock having to give up his connection to Being Native in order to be a spy. The [person] you knew and were is dead. Happy Birthday Frankenstein.

so when this day Hunter has spent with Shoreleave - her flamboyantly gay protege who took a DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE UNDER DONT ASK DONT TELL RATHER THAN STAY IN THE CLOSET - and Hank - "DONT PUT YOUR HETERONORMATIVE GENDER BIASED HANG-UPS ON ME" DESTINY VENTURE - comes to an end, she puts Hank in the fucking washing machine, erases his memory and sends him away, BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT WANT THIS LIFE FOR HANK NO MATTER HOW MUCH SHE ENJOYS LIVING IT WITH HIM.

Of course, the catch is, it doesn't work. Hank doesn't forget. She can't protect Hank from this life. It belongs to him as much as it does to her.

AUGH. THEY MAKE ME SO FUCKIN EMOTIONAL.

[clumsypuppy]

werepuppy!!

[ottpopfic]

“Its because your dad wants to babysit” Will informs him after a long bitch fest “he did the same thing before you figured out family dinners, remember”

Nico pauses, thinks it over, and then puts his face in his hands to groan “Fuck your right”

“Im always right”

“Don't start” Nico does not whine

“Just add him to the pick up drop off list” his husband laughs “then he can go have Grandpa time and we can get a date night”

“Are you sure?” Nico checks “he can be a lot”

“Lay down some rules first” Will shrugs, like a primordial force in the Kiss and Ride is no big deal “Just like you did last time”

Nico’s husband is so smart, he loves him so much. Nico makes a point to call his dad the next day to set things in motion

And his dad looks so guilty at the accusation, the same way he was when Nico called him out about the same thing before. It's comical in a way, the King of Hell looking a little like a puppy getting scolded after chewing a shoe under the indictment of his mortal son. Who says the gods can't be humbled

“Look, we're not saying you can't spend time with Katie, in fact we're saying the opposite. You just can't be pulling me off on jobs right and left so you can babysit, I'm exhausted and it's not good for Piccolina to spend so much time downstairs” Nico explains not unlikely “Also Jason is about to start trying to pick her up from you himself, I think he's going into kid withdrawal”

“The blond Valdez is banished from my kingdom until it is time for a permanent death” his father snaps “the two of them are on thin ice”

“Yeah well keep in mind that if you kill her uncles Katie will never forgive you,” Nico reminds “I think she loves Leo more than us sometimes”

“I will, refrain, from balancing the scales in regards to the Valdez's” Hades says only a little through his teeth, sounding more worried about his granddaughter's ire than killing two dudes who his son considers family “but they will not be allowed to ‘pick up’ from the palace, I can only bend things so far”

“Cool, works for us” Nico says “were planning on adding you to the pickup drop-off list”

“the pickup drop-off list?”

“Yeah, so you will be allowed to collect her after school”

“I do not need to be added to a list” Hades scoffs “I can just go in and get her”

“Uh no you can not” Nico tells him “The school secretary is a sphinx and I do not need to do the bureaucratic circus tricks she makes people do when they fuck around with her kids, there's a reason Leo got taken off the list”

The reason is Leo kept landing Festus on the roof and then entering the school through the roof access instead of the front door like visitors are supposed to. And while Miss. Tina is a lovely woman who cares very deeply about her work, she does not take kindly to little Latin twinks who think they can find a ‘secret entrance’ to what and who she is guarding.

Miss.Tina is one of the main reasons Katie is in the school she is, along with the three whole saitors who work there; especially Miss. Holly Fields the school nurse who specialises in getting kids diagnosed with an array of neurodivergentcies. It's part of a growing network of schools that The Program has been helping to not only get monsters and other mythological creatures jobs, but find young demigods faster. The earlier a kid is spotted the better, and well-staffed schools help protect the halflings that are not year-rounders

Its the reason they went with public school over the private schools they could have easily gotten Katie into, its safe there. There are two other demigod students in the building and they haven't had an successful monster atack in years, the magical employees make sure of that

[slick-temptation]

zᶻ ૮˶- ﻌ -˶ა⌒)ᦱ

was @/hot-slick-temptations, staff is mean :[

I don't buy or sell zoo/cp content and I don't know where to find it, please stop asking me. I will block you if you ask about it. Warning: Hard, sometimes untagged kinks that include k9/beast, watersports/pissplay, cnc/rapeplay, and more. Proceed with caution and follow your own dni!!! Cold ass takes so you can block me: 𖥔 Incest is cool as long as everyone is an adult and consenting 𖥔 Necrophilia is also cool as long as there's consent before death 𖥔 You're not a bad person for having attraction, even zoo/pedo/necro 𖥔 Thoughtcrime isn't real and you're a puritan or adjacent for pushing any beliefs like that 𖥔 It's all fucking fine as long as you don't sexually touch or involve children/animals/other nonconsenting parties in anyway that would affect them [ie molestation/sexting/porn/ect] 𖥔 The point above does not include consenting transage/regressors/ect and therian/otherhearted/alterkin/ect

hi !!! this is my k9/auto-zoo sideblog where i write about being a doggie, roleplay and fuck people, other doggies, kitties, whoever's willing !

i'm a borzoi, please treat me as such !!! licks u <3 i talk a lot about my knot/knotting/fucking others, but you can refer to me with whatever genitals, idm :3

dms & asks are open, send me ideas to write with, rp with me, or even just talk, i <3 making friends !!! For clarity's sake, I'd like to state I don't really actually jerk off bc it's really fucking hard for me to cum, I'm not asexual, just having trouble. Please don't ask for mutual jerk off sessions, rp and swapping nudes/lewds are cool though <3 alts: @taxidermy-of-your-god [main] @i-wont-tell-mom [incest sb] @prey-of-your-dreams [prey domtop/auto-zoo sb] my beloved anons: emoji anons: 💜,🤍,💚,🐇,⭕️,💋,🧡,🦮,🐶,🦴,💕,🌠 other anons: ฅ^>⩊<^ ฅ, taxidermist anon <3

Info: .𖥔 ݁ ˖ 18 .𖥔 ݁ ˖ it/its + any neopronouns you wanna apply .𖥔 ݁ ˖ he/him/she/her allowed only with my explicit permission [kink] .𖥔 ݁ ˖ no they/them at all, i will ignore you and possibly block .𖥔 ݁ ˖ self centered narc and bpd afflicted if you care .𖥔 ݁ ˖ mostly looking for erotic roleplay !!! hmu !!! .𖥔 ݁ ˖ angel, mimic[god], sphinx, borzoi, selkie, hare .𖥔 ݁ ˖ entirely inhuman, don't refer to me as a person/people .𖥔 ݁ ˖ pansexual fagdyke + poly + aromantic .𖥔 ݁ ˖ obsessive, possessive, jealous, but with self control .𖥔 ݁ ˖ switch/verse, lean towards service domtop .𖥔 ݁ ˖ you can top me if you beat me in a fight .𖥔 ݁ ˖ and you can dom me if you break me

Soft Limits: [you can put out your idea, but i might decline] ☐ longterm/permanent chastity towards me [others in chastity is really hot though <3] ☐ xenophilia/raceplay towards others from me Hard Limits: ☒ actual non-consenting parties in any shape or form [cnc is fine, beings who are able to voice their consent including animals/kids/littles like myself are fine.]

kink list below cut, it doesn't have everything ever, but anything outside of my limits is very welcome. I'm willing to try new things a few times <3 also, no judgement for the stuff in my soft limits, just not for me <3

Kinks: [in no particular order including the marked ones] [some might be missing, will add as I go] [the ones with crosshairs [ ⌖ ] will be the main ones on this blog] ♡ dom breaking ⌖ ♡ fighting ⌖ ♡ auto-zoo/zoophilia ⌖ ♡ size difference ⌖ ♡ rapeplay [esp mutual non-con and unexpected non-con] ⌖ ♡ role reversal ⌖ ♡ watersports ⌖ [piss marking, drinking, pissing inside, ect] ♡ taxidermy [taxidermydreams] ♡ wings ♡ object insertion ♡ monsterfucking ♡ plushies [being one, fucking them, tf, anything related to them] ♡ gore/blood ♡ snuff ♡ bimbo/himbo-ification ♡ incest/fauxcest ♡ necrophilia ♡ auto-pedo ♡ shota/loli-dom ♡ objectophilia [guns, older computers, server rooms, a lot more] ♡ gunplay ♡ probably more, i'll add when i remember i'm willing to try anything not in my hard limits at least a few times [just to make sure it's not just a new thing scaring me], so please don't be scared to bring it up for rp or for writing :3 [though you maybe have to teach me what it is/give me time to research] also, feel free to just send a few kinks you want me to write with, or a specific scenario for me to write with, or whatever !!! i love writing, i just sometimes have nothing in my little brain :']

[taxidermy-of-your-god]

𓆩ꨄ𓆪

ᴺᵒʷ ˡᶦˢᵗᵉⁿᶦⁿᵍ ᵗᵒ: Jᴇsᴜs Pɪᴇᴄᴇ - BɪɢKʟɪᴛ

Warning: Dark themes/kinks ahead, including gore, snuff, and s/h. No trigger tagging unless you ask me specifically, so please proceed with caution. Follow your own dni, stay safe <3 kisses <3 Cold ass takes so you can block me: - Incest is cool as long as everyone is an adult and consenting - Necrophilia is also cool as long as there's consent before death - You're not a bad person for having attraction, even zoo/pedo/necro - Thoughtcrime isn't real and you're a puritan or adjacent for pushing any beliefs like that - It's all fucking fine as long as you don't sexually touch or involve children/animals/other nonconsenting parties in anyway that would affect them [ie molestation/sexting/porn/ect] - The point above does not include consenting transage/regressors/ect and therian/otherhearted/alterkin/ect No dni, I cater my own experience, but nazis and bug haters [yes, including flies/mosquitoes/'useless bugs'/ect], will be blocked on sight. Kill the hate in your heart or I'll do it for you myself.

Mostly here for writing and erotic roleplay, so hmu if you like anything I post or have any ideas and wanna rp it !!! I also take requests :3c Sexting is allowed technically, but I'm kinda bad at it, as well as domming over the internet, so I might limit it to swapping pictures and erotic roleplay involving ourselves, we'll see. [Please feel very free to send pics/nudes unsolicited, especially if you're queer <3 I'll probably gush over you and beg to give you head] For clarity's sake, I'd like to state I don't really actually jerk off bc it's really fucking hard for me to cum, I'm not asexual, just having trouble. Please don't ask for mutual jerk off sessions, rp and swapping nudes/lewds are cool though <3 Send me fantasies, secrets, pictures of yourself, whatever you like, and I will reciprocate tenfold <3 Carve my name, my symbols, and I will be utterly enchanted with you <3 Dms, and asks are more than open <3

Old blogs: @/taxidermy-of-an-angel, @/ill-be-nice-i-swear [sb], @/hot-slick-temptation [sb] Current sideblogs: @i-wont-tell-mom [incest/fauxcest sideblog] @slick-temptation [auto-zoo/k9/borzoi kin sideblog] @prey-of-your-dreams [prey domtop/hare kin sideblog]

Info: .𖥔 ݁ ˖ 18 .𖥔 ݁ ˖ it/its + any neopronouns you wanna apply .𖥔 ݁ ˖ he/him/she/her allowed only with my explicit permission [kink] .𖥔 ݁ ˖ no they/them at all, i will ignore you and possibly block .𖥔 ݁ ˖ bishop, malaise, AM, laika, vern, the name collectorrrr .𖥔 ݁ ˖ mostly looking for erotic roleplay !!! hmu !!! .𖥔 ݁ ˖ angel, mimic[god], sphinx, borzoi, selkie, hare .𖥔 ݁ ˖ autotheist [if ur a god, u could probably turn me <3] .𖥔 ݁ ˖ entirely inhuman, don't refer to me as a person/people .𖥔 ݁ ˖ pansexual fagdyke + poly + aromantic [technically dates] .𖥔 ݁ ˖ obsessive, possessive, jealous, but with self control .𖥔 ݁ ˖ switch/verse, lean towards service domverse .𖥔 ݁ ˖ you can top me if you beat me in a fight .𖥔 ݁ ˖ and you can dom me if you break me

Kinks: [in no particular order] [some might be missing, will add as I go] ♡ taxidermy [taxidermydreams] ♡ hatefucking ♡ dom breaking ♡ wings ♡ object insertion ♡ monsterfucking ♡ plushies [being one, fucking them, tf, anything related to them] ♡ fighting ♡ gore/blood ♡ snuff ♡ bimbo/himbo-ification ♡ incest/fauxcest ♡ auto-zoo/zoophilia ♡ necrophilia ♡ auto-pedo ♡ shota/loli-dom ♡ size difference ♡ rapeplay [esp mutual non-con and unexpected non-con] ♡ role reversal ♡ objectophilia [guns, older computers, server rooms, a lot more] ♡ gunplay ♡ probably more, i'll add when i remember i'm willing to try anything not in my hard limits at least a few times [just to make sure it's not just a new thing scaring me], so please don't be scared to bring it up for rp or for writing :3 [though you maybe have to teach me what it is/give me time to research] also, feel free to just send a few kinks you want me to write with, or a specific scenario for me to write with, or whatever !!! i love writing, i just sometimes have nothing in my little brain :']

Soft Limits: [you can put out your idea, but i might decline] ☐ longterm/permanent chastity towards me [others in chastity is really hot though <3] ☐ xenophilia/raceplay towards others from me Hard Limits: ☒ actual non-consenting parties in any shape or form [cnc is fine, beings who are able to voice their consent including animals and kids/littles are fine.]

Tags: yourfavoriteconcept -> textposts that aren't quite full stories [NSFT] yourfavoriteporno -> actual stories [NSFT] rambles -> textposts that are kinda just random taxidermydreams -> stuff about my taxidermy fetish ill probably have more at a different time, but rn, that's what i got. i don't trigger tag unless asked, i'm lazy as fuck, though i do put a warning on any animal gore. that's it though.

okayyy... if u got this far, u should buy me a monster and pet me lots, ill love u forever if u do. otherwise ill press my cold wet doggy nose into the back of ur knee and u dont want that. now, go send me an ask or something, ily <3

[tyrantisterror]

Slay the Princess Soft Sculptures Round...4? Let's Say Round 4.

Out of impulsivity (and because I had a whole extra day this weekend to fuck around and a bunch of relevant material left over), I ended up making six more princesses from Slay the Princess. This was not in my original plan - I was going to stop at five! I'd made my top five and that was going to be it! I was going to stop at a sane, reasonable place to end this project!

But, like I said, I had free time, and leftover materials, and an itch to make some more tiny little dolls... and, well, it's safe to say this visual novel has taken a major place of residence in my heart.

So, to keep this sane and avoid, heheh, making ALL of the princesses in the game (that'd be... that'd be crazy, is what that would be...), I settled on making six new princesses. The way I rationalized it is that my previous five princesses were all more or less five of the game's ten major branches that you get in its second chapters. The ten second chapter princesses are: The Damsel, the Prisoner, The Witch, The Beast, The Adversary, The Tower, The Spectre, The Nightmare, The Razor, and The Stranger. My core five were all from different branches of those Chapter Two's - The Apotheosis is essentially the Tower 2, The Eye of the Needle is The Adversary 2, Happily Ever After is Damsel 2, Thorn is Witch 2, and Spectre is, uh, Spectre 1.

That means I had five of the ten main branches covered in one way or another, so, just for fairness, I should cover the five remaining branches, and do one member of the Nightmare, Beast, Prisoner, Razor, and Stranger branches.

...and then also the Fury, who's the DNA digivolution of The Tower and the Adversary, for reasons I'll articulate when we get to her.

And I'm just doing these six! No, I'm not making Long Quiets for them, I've already made enough of the birdy boy. They're just going to hang out as, like... spare princesses. Surplus to requirements princesses.

The Beast

The Beast is much more in line with my overall experience with Soft Sculpture - I've made a LOT of monsters in the past - and I was pretty excited to add her to the lineup. I was split on whether to make her or the Den as my representative of this route, but ended up settling on the Beast because 1. her more humanoid face makes her design read as sphinx-like to me rather than as a monstrous lion, and sphinxes are hot super cool, 2. the Den has, like, 10 limbs I think? She has at least two pairs of arms, wings, and I think maybe more than two hind legs, and that's just... a lot. Also the Den is bigger, and space for these ladies is already in short supply.

I took a few liberties with her design - I mean, that's true for all of them I suppose, but I feel they're a little more noticeable here. Her wings should be behind her dress, first of all, rather than in front of it, but her chest fluff came out really cut and I didn't want to cover it up. Her neck and torso also probably should have been longer, but I like how she came out as is, and the Beast's design was intended to be kind of malleable anyway (which is taken further when she turns into the Den, who mutates and shifts on screen).

The Prisoner

On the most part this model was pretty easy - anatomically she's a very basic princess, and after making so many of these I've gotten pretty decent at making a basic princess. The chains were the hard part, of course, although less in a "how do I do this?" way and more in a "aw fuck how much patience do I have with the very repetitive task of making all these individual chain links" way. Her face came out a bit thinner than I intended, but I actually think that works - she looks very gaunt and underfed, which, given that I like to think of this as the Prisoner specifically during the ending where you and her literally wait for your prison to decay around you until you're free, feels very fitting. It also makes for a nice contrast between her and her counterpart, Happily Ever after, who ended up looking more full figured than intended. The difference between a dungeon and a gilded cage, you could say!

The Nightmare

So, like... the Nightmare is one of the hottest princesses, right? It's not just me? Her route's not one of my favorites because it's one of the ones where you hurt each other a LOT with very little reconciliation, but just in terms of character design, she's a baddie. Or maybe that's just my childhood crush on Hexadecimal talking...

Anyway, not a terribly hard princess to figure out, since she was basically a palette swap of the Spectre in terms of construction and materials used. Her mask was a bit tricky, and I kinda regret that I couldn't make her mouth smaller (canon Nightmare has a really tiny, adorable little mouth with the most cutely sinister smirk to it), but overally I'm pretty satisfied with how she turned out.

The Razor

The biggest hurdle with this princess was figuring out her titular razor blades. I had to use the gardening wire I used in the bigger princess's skeletons for her - the other small princesses just used pipecleaners because the gardening wire is a lot harder to bend into shape by comparison, but the pros of it is that it's a lot sturdier and, since it's not covered in fuzzy fluff, thinner and easier to disguise. The blades were made out of a shiny poster board I found that was glued onto both sides of a piece of craft foam that was cut into shape, and then I glued the thin edge of the longest side onto the underside of the gardening wire. Boom, razor arms that won't bend out of shape and are poseable!

The Stranger

It took me a while to figure out how to approach this princess - I considered making five separate models and gluing them together, but while that would have made parts of the build easier (namely the heads, making the heads was a pain in the ass), it would have resulted in a lot of structural instability. It made more sense to make her in one solid piece and just sort of struggle through making her heads with very little clearance between them. I also initially considered only giving her three heads, because in most shots that's all you can see - but there are a few moments where you can see there's five princesses fused together here, and it makes sense, because in a playthrough of the game you encounter five different routes/princesses, so yeah, of course the Stranger is five of them fused together.

(this also means that, if I were insane and decided to make the Shifting Mount, her main body would ALSO have to have five heads).

It's less clear how many arms she has in the game, but after looking at every pic I could find online and in my own gallery from the playthroughs I've done, I think she has six? That's the best I could tell, anyway. I tried to make sure they matched where they were arranged in the screenshots, and then, because I guess I'm a little deranged, I gave her an equal number of legs to match, even though they're hidden by her dress. On the plus side, it means she's one of the few princesses that can stand on her own.

The Fury

So, somewhere between finishing the last batch of princesses and starting this one, I did a playthrough of the game and got the Fury route, and found out it had an ending I hadn't been aware of before - one where, after she puts you through absolute hell, she breaks down herself after realizing that hurting you hasn't ended her own pain, and you get the option to offer her some forgiveness and grace and help her get out of the cabin with you. And, you know... damn, I actually like that better than the endings of the Eye of the Needle Route. The Fury might be tying with Eye of the Needle for the spot of my fifth favorite princess. Huh.

So, despite her not meeting my sanity criteria, I decided to make her anyway - it helped that I had a lot of red fabric leftover from making Karlach, too. The grisly details of her body, like the fact that a lot of her skin is all bunched up and baggy because it's not actually attaching to her muscles well anymore, and of course that stylized open chest cavity, all presented fun challenges. Her expression is made specifically to fit that one particular ending of her route, which is why it's not the more expected, well, look of fury. They're my princess sculptures, after all - they don't have to represent the princesses as a whole, but specifically what they mean to me.

So that's it! That's the true, final end of me making Slay the Princess soft sculptures! Because if I made more than this... well, I'd end up making all of them! All of them! And that'd be either seventeen or eighteen different princesses, depending on how you count it - the o.g. basic Princess, the Witch, the Damsel, the Cage, the Den, the Tower, the Adversary, the Moment of Clarity, the Princess and the Dragon princess (one-handed lying on hill version AND weird negative photo/chalk drawing version), the Razor II, the Wild (both the one that's a face made of tree branches and the one that's a woman who's fused with a tree), the Grey (both the drowned and burned versions), the Shifting Mound, and, for completion's sake, the Clown Princess that the game's creators made for April Fool's. That's more than twice the princesses I have now, and some of them are pretty big.

And, like, some of those princesses would be very difficult to figure out! The Razor II is literally made of razor blades - how would I keep her structural integrity in tact? The Moment of Clarity's arms aren't attached to her body, instead just floating in the air - how would that work? The Shifting Mound would be an utterly enormous project unto herself, with dozens of tiny princesses crawling around her, all of which have their own heads of hair... she'd need a much wide shelf than the one I have these girls on, too. These are all big conundrums, big ol' hard to figure out and extremely interesting creative puzzles to solve, so, like, obviously I can't do that. It'd be too difficult and challenging and fun! No, wait, strike that last part. But it'd definitely be too much! Where would I even put them all, anyway?

...I do have one more idea, admittedly, that might not be too hard to pull off. I'd like to make some very tiny crows to represent the eleven voices in the Long Quiet's head, and also a mirror with a crow's face in it to represent the Narrator. Those wouldn't be too big of a project or too hard to pull off. I could do those, no problem.

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...kinda want to make the Witch though. A lot of the other princesses feel redundant with the ones I have - the Adversary and the Eye of the Needle are the same in personality for the most part, the Eye of the Needle is just a lot beefier and dragon-y-er and hotter. But the Witch's personality feels really distinct from the Thorn's, and it kinda feels like we're missing a fun piece without the Witch present.

...but can I make her without also feeling compelled to make the rest... hmm....