#stp the stubborn

[verylazypillow]

been thinking about the adversary route today.

[lipstickchainsaw]

Also what do you think of the adversary? I like her a lot she’s super fun

The Adversary is such a fun route. I think she's legitimately one of the most satisfying Chapter 2 resolutions (alongside the Prisoner and the Spectre), because fighting her is just two souls meeting one another in the thing they enjoy doing the very most: fighting to the death for all eternity.

And giving her and the Stubborn that is just... so much fun? Like, why wouldn't you? Fully denying her that (and turning her into the Fury) just seems incredibly cruel, and trying to be clever about it, or running away (and turning her into the Eye of the Needle), forces things to come to a conclusion, and takes away from the glory of this eternal conflict.

Because of all Chapter 2 scenarios, the Adversary and the Stubborn fully understand one another, they are on the same wavelength in a way that allows both to get exactly what they want (as opposed to the Witch and Opportunist, where their desires get in one another's way), and the resulting, never-ending carnage is simply beautiful.

It is also very funny in the grander scheme of thing, because I think this way of approaching the Adversary provides a resolution for the conflict between Shifting Mound and Long Quiet, because it is an endless cycle of death and violence. Death that doesn't stick, and violence that doesn't transform. And yet, it is a thing of utter beauty, and delight, and, with it, meaning.

If any route makes the Creator's point about excising death not ending meaning, it's this one, but the Narrator hates it because you're not actually slaying the Princess. I just think that's funny.

Also, the violence is sex. The Adversary and the Stubborn are totally getting off on this, and it's fantastic.

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

i love the hunted/stubborn dynamic so much. i think they fistfight and the hunted wins and the stubborn is SO fucking mad about it

[undercityrezident]

The Dungeon Meshi anime fandom right now.

[sonjalikestodraw]

BEHOLD! @evenworsefreak and I collabed to bring you Damsel and Adversary at the gym!

They drew Damsel, Smitten and the shading, and I drew Advy, Stubborn and the background ~

[aquapede]

the voices in some god's head

[dobodleaday]

07.24.24 Big Hater and the Littlest Hater

[dr-awkkward]

Slay the Princess text posts, part 15 (in celebration of the Pristine Cut's release!)

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[itsonlypolite]

Very excited for Stubborn, your designs are so cool mate, hope you have a tremendous week 🔥

Thank you so much!! And it's finally time :D

Prev Designs: Cheated/Hunted/Cold/Contrarian/Paranoid/Smitten/Opportunist/Skeptic

Voice of the Stubborn!

And of course we can't forget showing off his design's special feature!

Look at those gorgeous eyes!! What a guy. I'm actually pretty happy with how his design turned out, which is great because I'll be drawing him more in the future! Under the cut are images without text + the first time I ever drew him

The first time I ever drew him was middway through a first playthrough, I didnt know how just how off the rails this guy could get yet + and I was still annoyed at Broken (I've since seen the light, he's done nothing wrong ever actually <3)

[olegianote]

I love your stp narrator! And I'm 100% sure you already know this, but secretary birds are also called killer queen! So does this mean the narrator gets called the killer king/queen sometimes by the other voices to annoy the narrator? :]

OH THAT WOULD BE SOOO FUN! I like when Narrator gets annoyed! Which is why this ask inspired me to do this little comic:

[lovelylittlewordsmith]

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

[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.)

[frogatz]

my axe is my buddy

and a still frame . so i can get less ill abt tumblr inevitably killing my gif

[electronicdelusionstarlight]

I'd like to point out that, in The Wild, if you have the Stubborn with you (Which you can get during The Witch if you try to fight her openly in the cabin), THE STUBBORN, and I can't stress this enough, THE STUBBORN, the voice who will relish at the thought of eternal mutually assured destruction with the Adversary, who will call the Razor, responsible for your countless deaths, the perfect woman, who will rejoice at the thought of slaying a god...

Will say "No, fuck this, no hatred, push that fucking thought down, don't listen to these idiots, your willpower is stronger than this, our union won't be destroyed by a traitorous thought."

THE STUBBORN.

The Opportunist and the Hero? They will listen to the siren song of the traitorous thought of you being Two, of being separate, not the same, of hatred, mutual hatred, keeping you apart, they will be goaded by the narrator to listen to it, but the FUCKING STUBBORN.

Again, the "I'd die a thousand deaths just so we could kill each other one thousand and one more" guy, will see that same traitorous thought, planted and encouraged by the narrator, trying to lead you back to, again, mutual hatred and conflict and violence, and he will PUT. HIS FOOT. DOWN.

THE STUBBORN.

I am sorry this is so wild to me like... He really is one of the voices who loves her the most isn't he?

So much so that, once removed from the eternal conflict forms of the princesses involving him usually crave... He just wants to be with her, one, united...

And has enough willpower to demand you to stay as one.

Because it was never about the fighting or the challenge for him, his very being was, ultimately, shaped by his desire to be with her, and once removed from that cycle of violence, he's perfectly content to just- exist, with her, forever.

This is a Love Story indeed.

[vickozone]

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

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