#slp princess

[thornedwitch-art]

i'm in love i'm in love i'm in love

[vampirtulpe]

Chapter 3

[augustspisspoorblog]

shes finished 🩷

[iamlevil]

slay the princess fanart i made a while ago :D

[crimsonglow-art]

Doing a few sketches of the Long quiet, I wanna get a feel for what this character would feel like in this setting. I want to think that as she changes he changes in smaller ways. Slay the princess has a lot of interesting design elements.

[certified-silly-guy]

She slay on my the til I princess

[sillygoofyboii]

I am so silly! I am but a silly little guy- AY Don’t. What do you mean? There’s no knife behind my back I’m just a dude. Just a lil goober. Now can you turn around and look at that very distracting image so I can aggressively poke you with steel like the silly little man I am?

[cas-spirit]

Who the fuck let him be this fluffy?

/pos

Curd from @neverniko101 Slay The Princess au

Cross from Jakei

[lilcreaturethingfromthewoods]

Sooo I don't have the Slay the Princess game and I don't really know all the endings but

One version of the princess I'd like to see is a child. A child, who doesn't know why or how long they've been stuck here, unable to remember anything about herself other than the fact that she is a princess and that someone is coming to kill her.

She doesn't know if she's going to destroy the world. She doesn't know if she wants to. She doesn't know if a world exists beyond her prison, and she's scared and alone and so, so tired that she might not even try to save herself.

But what children have, untempered by maturity and adulthood, is a sense of the extreme absolute. Everything is black and white, no grey areas. If people are mean and cruel, they should be punished. If the hero wants to kill her, he must be evil. If the narrator wants her to die, he must be evil. If the whole world wanted her to be locked away forever and die quietly, they must all be evil and all deserve to die.

Things may be difficult to create, but they are laughably easy to destroy.

And at the end of the day, it's all just a game, isn't it?

[t4r0t]

I thought about a au I thought about for slay the princess that I kinda took inspiration from the them of dreams or something like that and I did long quiet first (Gary) which I thought it might be a good start!

Imma call this the stp dream au

[occatorcreator]

Have a question for STP fans, would you like to see a tournament bracket

My idea is to have all the voices (plus narrator to round it out), put them on a 3 round-question bracket to see which voice is the champion. I think I'll keep each match as a day poll.

What do you think? Should I host it?

[vampirtulpe]

Chapter 2

[illarian-rambling]

🪩 Disco Ball- What was an achievement that your OC felt worthy of celebrating? Was it a personal victory or a big impact on everyone around them?

For Avymere and Ivander? (I genuinely cannot imagine an example of something they might celebrate. Really curious about that lol)

Oh damn, I can't either lmao, but there is an answer

Ivander's biggest victory is his apartment. His feelings around leaving his family and working for the BAI are very complicated, so neither of those ever felt celebratory. His apartment, though... That was the first thing he got with his own money. It was the first space that actually belonged to him in any meaningful way. He could decorate it how he liked, let it get a little messy, put together accommodations to help manage his curse in a private place. Hell, just privacy itself was a huge step after growing up in the Montane family. So yeah, Ivander's biggest victory is his apartment, where he can hang all his stupid abstract paintings and walk around with no illusion all he wants. No matter how he feels about leaving his family, his apartment will always be a palpable symbol of freedom to him.

Avymere's biggest victory was helping to prevent an all-out war between Skysheer and Nabafyr. They had to do some cool shit as a spy before the events of MG2, right?

Anyways, rumors had been swirling of a Nabafyrian-backed faction preparing to make a vye for the throne of Skysheer on the grounds of a supposed bastard son of the crown prince having more claim to the throne than the Princess Amera Silverwind. Essentially, while the Crown Prince Ryonar was estranged, he hadn't technically been disinherited yet, even though everyone assumed Queen Naliella was going to appoint Princess Amera as heir once she decided to officially step down, as Princess Amera had been effectively running the country in her mother’s place for some time. Rumors abounded that this supposed bastard prince might make a play on Princess Amera's life, while others argued that no one would ever accept such a stranger as King. It was Avymere who, with some careful digging and a few choice kidnappings, discovered that there was no bastard prince. The rumors had been started by a group of rebels (not the SLP, but a sort of sister group in the capital city) hoping to drive the two nations to war after assassinating Princess Amera, letting them take control of Skysheer in the process. Avymere uncovered the plot in time to arrest many key players and make amends with the wrongly accused Nabafyrian government. This all happened about a century ago and was one of Avymere's soundest victories as a spy.

They aren't a very celebratory type, but some of their guards who'd been involved in the whole thing invited them out for drinks, sort of assuming they'd decline. Avymere did not decline, and though one might’ve thought they were wildly bored all night with their stiff posture and stuffy attitude, they were in fact ecstatic to be included for once - they just have no idea how to act outside of formal situations without a concrete social purpose in mind. Their victory was double: they succeeded as a spy and got some confirmation, in their mind, that the closest people they had to friends felt at least a little fond of them as well.

Yeah, both of these are pretty melancholy deep down, but even when everything else is dark, you take the victories where you can. Thanks for the ask!

[crimsonglow-art]

I found the right composition for this Slay the princess piece. I've been watching many @ssavaart videos lately and his inspiration from Art Noveau and thought this composition looked beautiful. However, I do think the subject is far from the piece.

[lunarian-anarchist]

Given that the three wolves represent Sybil, Wayne, and Tabitha; wouldn't the goat symbolize the player/MC?

Also while in SLP; The Long Quiet and The Princess start off as enemies, they eventually become "lovers" or along those lines.

Wayne and Tabby have a fundamentally hostile relationship and it may be a twist where instead of being lovers; "Wayne" possess an ex lover of Tabitha. Tabitha seems to know or at least suspect that Sam Wayne is being controlled by a non human being but whether or not she explicitly knows what that being is not clear.

It's hinted that she does know something because why else would Wayne torment and mock her for her breakup with the real Sam Wayne? And she explicitly calls "Wayne" an it.

Scarlet Hollow and Slay the Princess

Okay, brace yourself, we're going full strings-and-corkboard today. Also, there are SO MANY SPOILERS IN THIS POST FOR BOTH GAMES. DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED AT LEAST ONE PLAYTHROUGH OF BOTH.

Now that the disclaimer is out of the way...

It wasn't an accident that we got Slay the Princess when we did, right before the ramp up to Scarlet Hollow's climax begins. Slay the Princess isn't just it's own thing - it's an explicit explanation of the dynamics of Scarlet Hollow. It's a direct metaphor, and may be more than that.

"You are on a path in the woods. At the end of that path is a cabin. In the basement of that cabin is a Princess. You are here to slay her. If you don't, it will mean the end of the world."

There are three forces in both games. We can see that explicitly in Slay the Princess, with The Narrator, The Long Quiet, and The Princess. We can also see it in Scarlet Hollow, with Sybil, Wayne, and Tabitha. Episode 3's tablet spells this out explicitly:

Three wolves, the three forces of the town, surrounding a goat. A sacrifice. That's the Witch, the Entity, and the Scarlets in the context of the vision.

There is a controlling force who tries to convince and cajole and control if that fails, who is immediately suspicious, and while they seem to be against the Princess, they are actually against both forces in play. The force can and does affect the minds of others. It turns people against the other two forces in play. It's friendly, as long as you do what it tells you, but betrays you as well, in the end. The Narrator. Sybil.

A being who is fundamentally disturbing, but whose face is always shadowed and unclear, or outright covered. Despite that, we always see his glowing eyes. He rots slowly as we proceed with the story, eventually rotting away to show his true form, perhaps. He is a fundamentally eternal being, one who cannot be killed permanently. He is reborn into different bodies, over and over. He may represent a "new and unending dawn", eternity unchanging. He also has the most agency of this own, though. He is fundamentally connected to The Princess. There are multiple of him. The Long Quiet. Wayne... or whatever is controlling him.

Then there's a Princess. Feels trapped in a house at the top of a hill, unable to escape unless she is freed by outside forces. A monarch, but actually has the least agency in her situation. Not yet a queen. Despite all of this, she may have the greatest capacity to change, and to change the world around her. Her role changes based on how she's treated and perceived by others. When perceived as a friend deserving of sympathy, she softens into one. When perceived as a harsh being, she is one. She is disturbed by The Long Quiet's appearance, but is inextricably connected to him. The Princess. Tabitha.

Whether Slay the Princess is just a metaphor for what's going on in Scarlet Hollow, or whether these are actual forces that exist in the Scarlet Hollow universe being replicated on a miniature stage is hard to say.

I think, though, that it's hard for me to deny that there is a strong connection between the two games. Perhaps this is why we haven't seen the choice the Mystic can influence yet?

[bookshelf-blues]

I want to be good. I want to help people. I want to make my idols proud of me. I want them to smile at my work from heaven.