#the voice of the broken

[flonejapassingby]

HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES. HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES.

[beartitled]

I love Female Long Quiet. She so precious. Since we also got the genderswap version of the Princess that is the Prince, wonder if we'll have him and Female Long Quiet get some cute moments together in the future.

Ah well you see

A few ppl asked about Prince x Female Long Quiet, but I don’t really like the idea of standard genderswap

It’s too cliche 😈 /silly

Nah I mean it’s could be a interesting dynamic to explore, but I just like the initial idea of just one counterpart changing gender

But it is fun to imagine them together 👀 (they would be besties for sure)

Next is just my ramblings on the topic, just my random thoughts don’t mind me 💥

(I need to practice writing English essays lmao)

Wanted to talk more about the genderswap

The thing I kinda noticed in the game (dunno if it was intentional or not)

That the princess is mostly always strong/in control

This may be just because we, as a player, always have a lingering suspicion of who the princess is (stranger danger ya know)

But like: razor, nightmare, adversary, tower, beast - we are completely dominated by our princes girlboss

In other routes the princess is not defenceless either

The only exception is damsel, which just loves you so much, she allows you to stab her (and even this played of as a joke)

The thing I’m getting at

Princess is a girlboss 👸

I like it a lot

And if we change the genders

Um.. erm..

It is a powerful man, which is kinda unsettling ???

It could just be totally me viewing it this way, again just my thoughts

But I just don’t like the idea of this gender change in this particular case

Because imagine for example nightmare route

(dialogue completely unchanged)

But it’s a female birb being killed and kinda bullied by a masked man

Beast route, voice of the Hunted, but it’s a scared female lead trying to not get devoured by a scary man in the shadows

To be fair the initial game routes are really tense, stressful and dark already

And under no circumstances am I saying that men are not subjected to abuse, absolutely not, abuse has no gender

Just wanted to say that for me personally doing the classic genderswap kinda makes the game a bit too dark (just because women abuse/harassment is more common)

So making them toxic yuri and toxic yaoi fits for me 😈

For the ppl reading hope all of that made sense 💥

I’m usually nervous to write my thoughts on complex topics like that, because ppl could misinterpret my words (or I can describe my thoughts not coherently enough so it gets misinterpreted)

If you see nothing wrong with classic genderswap, absolutely valid, that’s just my opinions please don’t kill me with a pristine blade nöooooo 🐻‍❄️🗡️

[boonsandwhatever]

kill the monarch

[spookyscarysckeleton]

I love the funny voices like the contarian and the cheated but. holy MOLY does the broken has a special place in my heart.

I mean I just kept saying "he's so real" because I, too, would submit to the tower.

but. i just completed the fury route.

goodness. doing things to my heart.

[cammythedummy]

Just another pathetic wet dog for my collection

[toast-com]

I am OBSESSED with the dynamic between the Broken and the Tower. I low-key ship them. I want her to put him on a leash. That's her little bird, her boytoy.

[theriverpointace]

also the voice of the paranoid is remindingly uncomfortably of the voice of the broken with his desolate "we can never beat her" moaning. there is a difference between "broken by" somebody and "paranoid of" somebody but it's disconcerting and i don't trust him

[a-lilac-lyric]

Slay the Princess in a Nutshell, Part 2

Slay the Princess in a Nutshell

[beaft]

i went to get my t-shot yesterday and it took me an hour and a half to get to the clinic and as soon as i got on the bed the nurse dropped my t-shot and it broke and now they're trying to make me pay for the replacement. i think the fuck not lmao

[bubblybloob]

I find it very funny that supposedly every time our voices bicker and argue, the princess is just left there, totally unaware.

She seemingly acknowledges this too! After a while of back and forth in our mind, she’ll pipe up because she’s noticed we’ve gotten lost in our thoughts. She must think we have trouble with zoning out. She’s not necessarily wrong, I guess.

[vaguely-concerned]

are. are you telling me that if the romanced mage warden dies and alistair is king, he deadass stares greagoir down over her dead body and grants the circle of ferelden its autonomy after ordering it rebuilt somewhere safer. first you have to deliberately leave him behind so he won't die for you and then he does that for you once you're gone, even when you're broken up??? absolute and literal king behaviour of the highest order????? the actions speak louder than words of it all??????? I think I hauve covid

[salmon-artist147]

Two more done and I decided to make it harder for myself because I was originally only doing 6 but now I'm doing a pair for all 11 of the voices.

These two are the Tower with the Broken and the Wounded Wild with the Hero. I'm not super happy with how the broken came out, but im hoping to alter it a bit when I draw the final large piece.

I plan to use the large final piece as my entry for the Slay the Princess submission contest. Also realized I never drew the Opportunists wings so ill go back and add them in the final piece.

First time drawing anything for Slay the Princess and these are just two small parts for a much bigger piece as I plan poses and shit before I make them digital for the final piece.

I apologize for the poor quality of the pictures but the first one shows the smitten with the Damsel and the second has The Witch with the Opportunist.

Also trying to figure out how I want to differentiate between the different voices of LQ.

Don't know if I'll share the rest of the WIPs as I go but if there's enough interest I probably will.

[cammythedummy]

I'm late to draw something like this but eh

[marcellachannn]

Part 2 i guess

My finger hurt bro😭

[theriverpointace]

me: hey broken let me see what you have the voice of the broken: a knife me: NO!!

[swampyswan]

There’s also something to be said about how much a Voice can override our own decisions and make choices for us. I think that has a hand in how “strong” a voice is, at least mentally. Because the reality of the Construct makes our perception and beliefs the currency of this world, it means that our character’s convictions affect the reality around them.

There’s a hierarchy of how much control over the narrative the Player and Voices have. In chapter 1s, we are almost always at the whim of the Narrator, chapter 2s give us an extra Voice that allows us have more power, and Chapter 3s almost always switch up the formula and force the Narrator to take a backseat. All of the Voices end up breaking the story in some way, but only a few manage to do it by themself.

Ironically, this puts Smitten at the very top in terms of power. The Damsel route is basically him railroading the plot in ways that are basically impossible (slipping the cuffs off of the Princess without having to cut her out and opening the door with his mind despite us not being able to do that before). And when you cross him, he ends up being able to overpower you and make you kill your self with NO room for argument. He’s so powered by his belief in love and romance that he single-handedly locks the story in a romantic route; even the Burning Grey still gives him an ending he’s satisfied with.

This actually puts Broken only second to Smitten in terms of power. He manages to override the Player’s decisions directly and tries to get us to kill ourself. That being said, I’d say that he was weaker than Smitten because, while Smitten was able to just DECIDE we were dead, Broken struggled to carry it through if we fight him on it. If a Player defies chapter 2 Smitten, they’ll die, but a Player can defy Broken and defeat the Tower.

Cheated is in third place, mainly because of his conviction of SPITE: he’s mad he was cheated out of a win and gets so fed up that he also alters the plot, including teleporting the Player directly to the cabin, staving off death, and locking us in a route that forces the others into the story.

look i know voice of the broken is a sad pathetic meow meow /affectionate but what if he's actually the second strongest voice physically?????