#slay the Princess cheated

[swanpyart]

I realize that the Stranger and the Razor routes are the weirdest routes that don’t follow the patterns that any of the others do. Stranger only has a Chapter 2, with the only expansion on her being if you get her first, which leads to seeing her in the end and Contrarian in the Cabin. Razor has 4 Chapters, the most out of all of them (except Nightmare, but she functionally has 3 chapters, we just skip a bunch). And the big similarity between the two route is that they both are completely incapable of crossover with any other route.

But thematically, it makes sense why they are kind of opposites; Contrarian and Cheated sprout from opposite mindsets. Contrarian wants to have fun and mess around for the sake of messing with the Narrator and testing the bounds of where you are. Cheated, on the other hand, almost takes things too seriously; he wants to beat the Razor at any cost, and gets more and more intense as things go on.

This is why Stranger presents only one chapter; there is barely a vessel to begin with. She is a coagulation of fragmented ideas and endless possibilities, and therefore has little framework to go off of. We never get any impression of who she is as a person, so she is unable to form from our ideas other than the unfamiliarity we get from her. Stranger is full of so much stuff that Shifty takes her earlier. Contrarian seems to treat her as superfluous to the Player as everything else (of course, he realizes his mistake in the same chapter) but she noticeably doesn’t give him the satisfaction of a real conversation, or a personality to work off of. This is why Contrarian hates the basement she creates; if everything’s happening, then nothing’s happening. He’s eternally bored with no person to work from.

Razor on the other hand, is basically set up as an unwinnable fight. Unlike Stranger, Razor’s personality is incredibly simple and straightforward, and she will remain that way the entire chapter (unless you get the Empty Cup, but it happens so close to the end and Shifty doesn’t really note any difference). In this vein, Cheated gets the opposite problem Contrarian gets; instead of being bored out of his mind, he’s given a game he cannot win or even hope to win, like Sisyphus pushing the rock. He’s given a challenge he’ll never feel the victory of, as he eventually just gives up.

[misterbrick42-slaytheprincess]

i was thinking about how the game would go if the voices each had full control but then i realized some of them, like Broken and Cheated, are entirely reactionary. What the FUCK would cheated do, or even be, if he wasn't cheated in the past?

i need answers what is an uncheated cheated. what is an unbroken broken?

[a-lilac-lyric]

Slay the Princess in a Nutshell

[valleyyofsorrow]

you're on a path in the woods...

[sonjalikestodraw]

Razor stays winning

[bubblybloob]

Skeptic wants no part in this.

I don’t know if this meme has a name, but I felt like doing it with the voices. I think it’s funny how you can literally see how I draw them change slightly over the course of the drawings, the hands especially.

[fukurozchan]

Slay the Princess stuff. I'm so normal about these voices.

Fun Facts (down there)

All voices have scars of how Long Quiet died on first chapter. (well most of scar they could get), except Hero.

Broken's tears won't stop flowing.

Oppie always hide his death scars on his chest all the time with his arms. doesn't dare showing his weakness.

Smitten have his eyes close all the time. as in "blind" devotion.

Oppie and Cheated doesn't like hug, They are afraid of getting backstabs, but is comfy enough with Hero. (They need it.)

[itsonlypolite]

I keep looking at your design for cheated and just cooing over him like how you do with a cat i love him so much

Thank you so much!!! I hope you don't mind if I use this ask to point out some fun details in my Cheated's design :)

Drawings w/out the text over them + my first design for Cheated ever under the cut!

[lovelylittlewordsmith]

I don't think we can heart lungs liver nerves our way out of this one boys

[vickozone]

🐦‍⬛🔪👑

very rough draft of all of The Voices. their designs will eventually change somewhat.

I’m allowed to draw them as humans, right?

[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

[swanpyart]

Some designs for the Voices! Since the Long Quiet is a bird man, here's a bunch of bird men

[occatorcreator]

"Voice of the Dice" is a fun game where you just roll a d20 to make any and all decisions in Slay the Princess. I highly recommend it if you want a more silly play through

[toon-topaz]

Very rough outline for an animatic lol

[graynide]

because I'm a character design fanatic, here is my take on the voices! respectively: cheated, smitten, skeptic and oppertunist

took a lot of inspiration to get their designs that I was greatly proud of

first / second / third

[tai-janai]

the voice of the cheated is such a particular specimen to me. he seems so angry but its rarely at another voice. all the other voices will constantly bicker or just be angry or sad, but in the route of the razor, cheated does not want to be alone, he wants people with him. Comparing him to some of the angrier voices: Stubborn, Cold, even Paranoid; no others have brought them all together against their common enemy. No one else has relinquished control and "emptied the glass" for the sake of success. He cares so much about fairness and so little about power or superiority. He doesn't tell the others to be quiet, he tells them to do all they can against the Razor. Hurt people may hurt people but strong people heal people. He is so special but he feels so overlooked despite being the foil to such a beloved route.