#stp mention

[lonely-moon-artist-blog]

Eheheheee

Stabby and Typegingi but eerrm WITH A TWIIIIST.

Yes i played Slay the princess and.. Guys.

HEAR ME OUT.

THE VOICE OF OPPORTUNIST IS SOOOO STABBY CODED FOR ME IM BEING FOR REAL WITH YOU HERE.

[bridge-arsonist]

Why The Voice Of The Cold Hates The Narrator

Replaying the Nightmare -> Wraith route and I'm realizing...

Jesus fucking christ, The Cold hates the narrator. Honestly, I think he might just give Smitten or Contrarian a run for their money.

He:

Doubts every word the narrator speaks

Insults the narrator whenever he gets the chance

Actively suggests killing the narrator, even stating that the princess could help do that

Not only suggests killing the narrator, but also suggests that—no—actually, death is too good for the guy. They should lock the narrator in a void just like the fake good ending. Mind you, this route doesn't even have the narrator do that!

Mocks the narrator when he finally gives up on trying to make you slay the princess

Seems happy that the narrator is gone, saying he had a feeling The Wraith could deal with him

I'm pretty sure Cold over here'd rather be playing Slay The Narrator.

Really though, upon further reflection, The Cold's hatred for The Narrator is also prevalent in The Spectre, where one of the few things he actually seems to have a firm stance on is "We should kill the Narrator". In the Greys, though he's arguably at his most nihilistic, he still seems to oppose the Narrator. He joins the Skeptic in his suspicions, and though he mostly just seems to be having a time provoking Smitten during the Burned Grey, he still does take the occasional second to spite the Narrator.

And honestly, come to think about it, it makes sense. After all, the Cold manifests not necessarily from slaying the Princess, but more specifically, from killing yourself. But not just from killing yourself, slaying yourself in The Tower at the hands of the Broken doesn't manifest him, but specifically by killing yourself to spite the narrator. I mean, other than Empty Cup and Moment of Clarity (Where we don't actually know how he manifested due to the timeskips), each iteration of Cold's manifestation checks out.

Spectre: You slay her, get the good ending, but then decide "fuck this and fuck your contruct", and stab yourself even as the narrator repeatedly urges you not to.

Burned Grey: You kill the Damsel, and in a fit of rage against both you and the narrator, the Smitten kills you, even as the narrator urges him not to. (Funnily enough, this means that, despite the Smitten's line of "you killed her, and so I killed you", it was the opposite, and the Smitten manifested the Cold)

Drowned Grey: You kill the Prisoner, and, just like in the Spectre's route, you kill yourself even as the Narrator urges you not to. If you refuse to kill yourself, Skeptic does it for you, seeming apologetic towards you, but definitely not towards The Narrator.

Wraith: You kill yourself as the Narrator urges you not to, and Paranoid also spends this route doubting the Narrator.

These routes involve various levels of emotion for the Princess, ranging from "My love! Still gonna kill you though" to "So scary! Still gonna kill you though", and an overall perception of the Princess as a corpse. But the Narrator? In all of the routes leading up to Cold's manifestation, the Narrator is met with hostility, usually leading to you killing yourself out of a mix of spite and suspicion.

So Cold's manifestation has two constants:

Some level of apathy towards the Princess, regardless of your previous interactions with her. Whether she's your perfect damsel or your worst nightmare, you don't care. You stab her.

Disregard for your own safety. You're just going to stab yourself, cool. It's better than this hell. Sometimes it's another voice fulfilling this requirement for you, like Smitten in the Damsel, or Skeptic in Prisoner depending on whether or not you willingly die.

Distaste towards the narrator. A conclusion that the Narrator is untrustworthy and distinctly not on your side. No matter how you manifest the Cold, it is clear that you do not like this pesky raven one bit. The Nightmater -> Wraith route shows this through Paranoid's constant suspicion of the Narrator. This distaste frequently, thought not always, occurs due to the Narrator attempting to force you to live out your life in the void, though it can also occur due to the Narrator attempting to make you live a life without the one thing you cherish (Damsel route).

Apathy towards most things, but one thing's for certain: You don't trust that Narrator guy. He tried to make you live out a crappy, boring life for eternity.

Cold's attitude makes sense when you look at how he was created. Just like Smitten was made by deciding the princess was an immediately trustworthy damsel in need of rescuing from the pesky narrator, or that the witch is a gorgeous woman whom you can save by giving your blade in spite of the narrator's wishes—Cold is made through deciding that neither your nor the princess's safety particularly matters, but fuck that narrator guy. He sucks. As apathetic as the Cold likes to act, he reacts to Smitten's threats and the Princess's murder attempts with "interesting", and reacts to the Narrator's explanation of the timeline with "we should kill him".

So, my point?

Well, I think that—not only does the Cold hate the Narrator—but hating the Narrator is part of him as a voice. He's cold, apathetic, and he hates the Narrator. It's been baked into his very being through the choices that you make. The princess doesn't matter, your physical well-being doesn't matter, but know that the Narrator is an untrustworthy little prick.

TLDR: Replaying Wraith made me realize that the Cold probably hates the Narrator very very much, and he does so because it is baked into his very being because of the choices you made to manifest him. You go, king. Let your inner hater run free.

[dr-awkkward]

Slay the Princess text posts, part 4

[part 3] [part 5]

[my-clematis]

The major problem with the narrator's plan:

The elimination of change can only result in the elimination of suffering if you assume that everyone is living in an ideal situation already.

What about the people living in abusive homes? The people dealing with illness, or injury? What about the people who are just plain unsatisfied and unhappy with their current circumstances? If change is eliminated from the universe, then you've doomed those people to exist in those situations *forever*, with no hope of things ever improving for them.

That's the fatal flaw with the narrator's plan, he's so afraid of death and loss that he completely ignores the fact that change is necessary for *improvement* as well.

[the-lost-lord]

heart. lungs. liver. nerves.

heart. lungs. liver. nerves.

heart. lungs. liver. nerves.

heart. lungs. liver. nerves.

[sorry-not-feeling-it-right-now]

Do you ever think about how Shifty, the embodiment of change, wants things to go back the way it was before the split, while TLQ, the embodiment of being static, is conflicted over going back to how it was before and becoming a god again since he had a taste of what it’s like to be mortal and be his own person? And that part of him wants to change that? I think about that sometimes

[itsnotjustgibberish]

Perhaps it’s since I’m not super deep into the fandom, but I’m somewhat surprised I haven’t seen much of this meme with The Tower before

[salty-an-disco]

Some low/no empathy headcanon regarding STP characters:

Cold (mi blorbo <3 just like me for real): has SOME capacity for empathy when he can relate to someone else's experience, but it's pretty rare even then. Mainly uses educated guesses to figure out why others are so upset

Damsel: overcompensating for her difficulty understanding others by trying to be as pleasant as possible. Instinctively thinks any displeased reactions from others is directed at her.

Skeptic: high compassion, but no empathy. Stress makes it even harder to relate to others, and he will just stop trying entirely to save energy.

Tower: the type no empathy person to assume everyone else feels/thinks the same way she does, and acts according to that.

Spectre: The type of low empathy to come off as incredibly empathetic 'cause she learned how to properly read others emotions, and has high compassion that comes off as empathy

Honestly, I think almost all characters in STP have some form of low empathy, but these are the ones I wanted to get into detail with. Some honorable mentions are: Razor, who's a lot like Tower; Prisoner, who's more like Cold; and Hero, who actually spends a lot of time just assuming others feel the same way he does, and is confused when they don't.

And for the high empathy token character, I think they are Smitten, Broken (those two have so much empathy, it can be overwhelming, and actually make it harder to fully connect to other's problems), and Hunted. Also think LQ has more empathy than Shifty, at least, while Shifty's the low empathy queen (just like me fr <3).

[sunflowers-and-scales]

ok so maybe i’m . considering drawing my own voices . me when i won’t give @itsonlypolite a break

guess who

(it’s smitten. obviously)

[beartitled]

Found your art through the STP Reddit and now I have a new TSPUD artist to enjoy!!! Your style is gorgeous :)

Reddit 🤨❔

I don’t have reddit

*sounds of paws tapping on the keyboard*

Aha repost with no permission I see? 🔍🐻‍❄️👓

This ask actually send me on a mini research lmao

I didn’t expect to see like 4 posts on Reddit with ppl posting my comics/sending a screenshot from ?Pinterest? and asking who the author is

That made me chuckle :'D

To be clear, I don’t really mind reposts if a person credits me

Always appreciate ppl askin permission 👍

For the reference: Reblog - a button that looks like this 🔄, shares a post on your page while showing the original author; Repost - when you screenshot/save someone’s art and post it on your page (ideally with credit, but if you’re a meanie you will just post images with no word about og author); Credit - a reference to the author «this art was made by [@author] on [this social media]». Sometimes see ppl mixing up terms 🫡

(Most of the time creators dislike reposts, bc it often leads to art theft)

Since we’re on the topic, specifically what I do have a problem with:

- Don’t use my art for AI training or for NFTs

- Don’t profit off my art (no merch is allowed without my approval, if you want to use my art for commercial purposes, this must be discussed with me in advance)

- Don't pass off my work as your own (here does reposting my art without credit, creating blogs/accounts impersonating me and so on)

- Don’t use my personal projects (this applies to my ocs, any original IPs/content I create: picture books, comics, artbooks, megadrawings etc. At some point in the future I may register a legal copyright for them btw.)

I’m more flexible and forgiving with fandom art, but still would appreciate ppl communicating with me. Fandom comic dubs - are welcomed, just be sure to credit me (tag me and share the final dub too man, I’m always interested). Fandom comic translations - ask permission first please.

This list is a pretty standard for any artist really, if you’re doubting something - feel free to ask 👍

If you see somebody breaking those/potentially breaking those - feel free to notify me 👍

I considered creating “blog rules” or “list of boundaries”, but I’m not sure if it’ll work on my blog 🤔 My header is pretty oversaturated as it is - portfolio, tags, navigation and so on; if I add rules to the pile, something tells me ppl won’t even look at it 💥 + I didn’t have specific issues with anyone yet (as far as I’m aware), I might create a list if something happens, but stayin hopeful for now

There’s certain things that do make me very uncomfortable/are triggering to me. But again didn’t have any specific issues where it was a huge problem + those stuff are highly personal to me to just put publicly. For now, I prefer to resolve issues personally, there wasn’t anything I couldn’t handle at this point 🫡 Mayhaps in the future it may change, we’ll see

Also some might have noticed that I don’t use any watermarks/signatures on my art, again considered that, but never ended up implementing that 🐻‍❄️ Some part of me just likes lookin at pictures in full HD quality with no watermark 😭 (I have an art signature, but I mostly use it in my mega drawings or if someone specifically asked for a commission lmao)

Sorry for a wall of text on such a sweet ask 💥 Just saw an opportunity to talk and took it lmao

Thank you, I really appreciate your words ❤️💕

Made a doödle of the narrator bois for the old time sake :D

Surprisingly there is a bunch of reposts of my art, with is a bit wild to me (you guys actually like my comics? 🤨 what? 🤨)

Especially never imagined my voices x princesses would get so popular 💥

Oh I see you went under read-more

Come closer

Closer

Just a smol step more

I forgot to draw Smitten’s brows in this specific frame

Now you will never unsee it 😈😈😈

*tiny mischievous bear giggling*

[stellarmoth01]

Since I’ve been slowly accumulating them lately.. here is a huge dump of Slay The Princess doodles, most of them post pristine cut!

Starting with a bunch of princesses! I’ll do another post for my masses of Quiets lmao

That last one being Happily Ever After with the feather shawl Abby recently mentioned! I really love that idea <3

[itsonlypolite]

Can't wait for when I can play the new update but for now have some art I made in the throes of excitement and insanity

[pixiefeatherkw3]

The Narrator is so MEAN to Hunted specifically in his routes.

that echo needs to sit the hell down and away from el animal de monte if he knows what's good for him(?

“Don't be a coward” he says after Hunted suggested they should find a little hole and rest there.

“It's too late to scramble for freedom now, little voice” he says and mocks him directly for even thinking he can get the princess out. Then proceeds to extend the whole description of starvation and lack of body movement when Hunted (the one moving the body fast enough with a single thought)is the one more panicked about having no way out.

Also Hunted's reaction to the way the Narrator says that you have to stab the Princess' heart from the inside and it doesn't matter what really happens to you. WE CAN HEAR HE FEELS TERRIBLE ABOUT IT TOO: "This is not about survival. This is spite." Hunted is not by any means the most confrontational against The Narrator. That can be applied to the other voices as well, because as we remember "The pack is better than the lone hunter" so he doesn't seem to have a real reason to bicker with them most of the time. The Narrator, whoever, doesn't apply to this, since he is an 'Other' as Hunted accurately calls him. But it seems that with his survival instinct being just focused on TLQ(and with enough trust, The Princess) it rattles the Narrator enough in the wrong way that your survival; and by consequense Hunted's whole existence; becomes a problem for him. So he pins Hunted in the same cruel dehumanizing way he does to the Princess, wich I see more uncalled for by comparison but makes total sense given the context.

Hunted wants you alive. The Narrator just wants the Princess dead.

[juliavisuals]

voices shenanigans!!!!

i used headcanon generator because it’s fun

this one isn’t really that in character but it was cute i think so yeah. also i don’t know who drawing the damsel was so hard for me this is literally the 5th try and it’s not even that good i think

[song-writer-melo-wrath]

[sighs]

[raises bat above hornet's nest]

[neuronmachine]

ok now kiss