#slay the princess the stranger

[ross-sluggo]

this got beamed into my head

[zombutterfly]

Did Did Did you you you do do do this this this ? ? ? Did did did we we we do do do this this this ? ? ?

[saffitaffi]

Honestly I kinda miss the first design of the stranger. The second was kinda goofy but the first was genuinely spooky… thinking of doing The Tower or The Witch next

[bodacious-zam]

Your art is lovely! I love how you draw the princess.

If you want a request, may I ask for a Razor drawing? She’s my pointy wife.

Day five of my stp drawing challenge!!

Thanks for the request!! You’re so real for that, she’s literally my pookie :33

Today I drew the Razor (my pookie), the Stranger, the Prisoner (also my pookie), and the Adversary!!

IF YOU HAVE ANY REQUESTS, FEEL FREE TO SEND ME THEM :33

[sleepy-hailey]

I got the Stranger Ending in Slay the Princess and I am an emotional wreck.

[strixcattus]

I finally found out how to reach the Stranger (pretty sure it's the last Chapter Two I needed to discover) and already I think this might be one of my favourite routes.

I mean, just in this screenshot we have:

A confusing patchwork of what I think might be every Chapter Two cabin, all stitched together in a parallax that makes it look even wronger than what you can see in a static image,

Apparently the mouse-pointer didn't show up in the screenshot, but the Contrarian gives you the option to switch your grip on the blade, changing the mouse so the knife points down instead of up,

The option to throw the blade out the window for no reason whatsoever.

I haven't even gotten past this point yet; I was too excited about the cabin and the new silly guy in the protagonist's head.

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Poor guy is not enjoying the staircase web. Or the mishmash Princess voice. Can't blame him.

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I like this plan!

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Someone's vying for the spot of my new favourite voice.

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???!!!!??

[flowerbloom-arts]

That one ending where the Stranger was your first Princess.

[circusmantis]

Even more princesses!!!!

[beartitled]

Full uncensored art (and more close ups) is under 👇 read more 👇

❗️Trigger warning : blood, gore, body horror

New megadrawing 🎉yuppie🎉

I attempted to draw every princess in the game (at this point of time) 👸

Most likely missed a few, but tried my best to catch them all™️

✨👀 @blacktabbygames

[sharoo]

Self-knowledge as a theme in STP messes me up so bad, bros.

This all starts with how little the Princess can tell you if you ask her about herself. How little you can say about yourself, more often than not. Most of the time Quiet doesn't even know what they look like!

The Narrator makes it a point to make the Princess' cluelessness, her lack of self-knowledge, into deception, but really, both the protagonists don't know themselves. How could they?

The concepts of bounds, of something that isn't you, the distinction of "self" and "other", "you" and "I", the concept of something being not like yourself... this is the first time this deity which is now two has ever experienced it.

The Shifting Mound and the Long Quiet did not exist until the Narrator tore a whole into parts.

Now, this deity in twain has to reorient. It has only begun existing, it's not yet known itself. A toddler has to develop a self-concept, and the concepts of others.

Now imagine, for the first time in your solitary existence, that there is something that you are not. Unknowable, foreign.

What are they like, you think? Are they a friend? Should I get to know them? Are they a foe? I do not know them, I cannot trust them... Or can I?

This brings to mind, of all things, Contrapoints' video on Twilight, where she speaks about the concepts of Union and Division in relation to love. And while she speaks of it in terms of eros, it can apply here just as easily, romantically and platonically.

Love is the union of two beings. We love because something outside of us allows us to be more than ourself. In others, many seek that which they lack. We seek out people so that we may develop through our similarities and contrasts with them, to change an be changed.

We seek out people because there can be no I without a You. To exist in a void is not a fulfilling experience.

We cannot discover ourself if he have nothing that allows us to compare ourself. The mirrors elude us throughout the game, always leading to the princess - she is the only way we may know ourselves, the mirrors tease as they disappear. And at the end of the route, only then, can you see yourself, now that you have a complete knowledge of yourself in a given scenario, with a given persona.

Was the princess someone you decided to trust? Or to betray? Was she a foe? A friend? A nightmare? A victim?

You both try to find out who you are through your relationship.

The princess assumes many faces and attitudes in response to you, you assume voices and attitudes in response to her. You're two batches of clay shaping each other at the same time. It's almost like knowing someone your entire life, seeing them go through different phases as they try to find out their identity in the world, their place. The 5 routes, whatever they be, are your "adolescence".

And growing means you will hurt each other, intentionally or not. There will be fights, disagreements, there will be heartache, and comfort and love.

And everything will pass.

Shifty, before she's complete, before she discovers her godhood, makes this point so clear.

How could she not be kind to you? You are the only thing in this place that is not her. What reason could she have to hate you? To make the only friend she could have into an enemy?

That's why, at the end of every route, all hurts are forgiven. All the heartache is acknowledged, understood, and then she moves on. So that you may continue being together, so that she may see what else you do.

Even godhood can become a phase. The Shifting Mound recognises what you both were, but it need not be you unless you accept it. Because self-knowledge is unending. You are always changing, and you can always change.

You can accept being a god, and that becomes you.

You can reject being a god, and that becomes you.

You are by that point an "adult". The figure trying to dictate who both of you are is gone, and you can decide for yourself.

I think this is partially why I love the Leave with Stranger ending the best of all the endings. You begin it by avoiding knowledge of yourself and of another. The self can only exist as far as it is not like the others.

And you meet the Stranger, this being who knows so little about herself, because she too has been deprived of another. The route is quick. It really cannot amount to much, because if you don't know yourself, it's so hard to build a relationship.

But at the end, they've matured. You gave each other time to become fuller beings. You met this person again and they seem so much happier with themself than they were in youth.

I love how they say "We're just a stranger.", and the voices point out how it needn't be sad that you don't know her, unless you make it out to be. You can get to know them, the real them, and they can do that with you.

The way the Stranger speaks if the position of a God only underlines how much the heart of the Shifting Mound can understand self-knowledge.

They speak of how they feel themself be pulled towards taking the position of godhood, of being everything, yet find it confining. Restricting.

"We want more. We want whatever might be on the other side of this door. Something new, that we'll experience together. With someone who exists outside of us. Someone who can see us in a way we can never see ourself."

Self-knowledge through relationships and reflection on how you impact other people.

[aquapede]

a bunch of princess eyes i did for eye practice...not all of her vessels but most of them!

[h0n3yk1tt3n]

The Stranger route in a nutshell

[futurechancer]

overly complicated slay the princess icons i made :3

feel free to use idrc about credit !!

[knockknockitsnickels]

"Sacrifice the Yourself" (title pending), the hip new slay the princess swap AU, in which you and the girlies must decide if you're gonna let a giant bird stab you (and maybe.... find love?!)

[false-savior]

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