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Slay the Princess in a Nutshell
#slay the princess#The Voice of the Smitten#The Voice of the Skeptic#The Voice of the Cheated#The Voice of the Opportunist#The Narrator#The Voice of the Hero
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It’s interesting how both the Smitten and the Skeptic kill you.
If you kill the Princess, they both visit the same fate upon you, overriding your input. However, their respective motivations are very different.
The Smitten does it out of distraught, furious bereavement; he kills us as much out of rage and revenge as he does grief. The Skeptic, meanwhile, kills us when the Narrator traps us (the way he does in the good ending). However, the Skeptic is not like the Hero; he does not let us decide when he recognizes the circumstances we have found ourselves in.
Both represent so overwhelming a force that they can make choices without your input, but from completely opposite angles. The Smitten out of passion, anger, and in-the-moment emotion. The Skeptic out of cold, practical logic that's focused on the long game. They are superficially different, but they end up pulling the same stunt; down at their cores, they're not as different as they might seem.
As for the pairs, one of the most generous ways to read the Smitten/Damsel relationship is that it represents the honeymoon phase. Smitten and Damsel have just met, think the world of each other, will do anything for each other, want to make each other happy, and dismiss each other's flaws when the Hero or the Narrator voices them. They are driven not by what they know but by their initial impressions and emotions.
This perspective leaves them both oblivious or apathetic to the Narrator’s machinations; they can ignore or overpower him. The shackle slips right off the Damsel's wrist. The locked door swings open. Even murdering the Damsel is not enough to dampen her love for you; all that does is turn it murderous again via the Burned Grey.
On the other hand, information drives the Skeptic and the Prisoner. They do not know each other. You took the blade when you went to meet her, and she killed you. These two can’t trust each other. Not completely. Because neither trusts without verifying first. And because, besides all that, there’s another factor in play: the Narrator.
Both the Skeptic and the Prisoner are aware of the Narrator. Both know that no matter what they want or do, something outside of them has the power to interfere. And their weapon of choice against him is information. The Prisoner plays dumb unless you “-give away the game,” and even then, she doesn’t reveal her plan. Not even to you. Instead, she hopes you take the hint and figure out what she wants you to do. Likewise, when you try to give her the knife to enact the plan, the Narrator tries to stop you as he did before, and the Skeptic thwarts him by pointing out how well that went the last time.
In contrast to the Damsel/Smitten pair, these two have one of the least emotionally charged dynamics of any Shifty/Quiet duo but have mutual respect and an understated sense of partnership that few other pairs start out with. Though the Drowned Grey’s motivation is not the explicit love of her counterpart, she’s still dressed like a widow to parallel the Burned Grey’s wedding dress.
And speaking of the Greys, they bring home the contrasting yet parallel dynamics between these Princesses and their Voices: one is fire, one is water. One has a passionate affect, the other a flat affect. One leaves behind only bones, the other a fleshy corpse. One is a bride, the other is a widow. Killing the Princess you defied the Narrator to save results in a Grey, a ghost dressed for marriage (future or past), that leads you to the basement of a dilapidated cabin that serves as your gruesome tomb.
The Damsel/Prisoner/Greys have many superficial differences that highlight how similar they are once you look beyond them. If played straight, the Damsel/Prisoner is a route where you continue to defy the narrator. The Damsel wants to leave? Pull off her chain and escort her out. The Prisoner wants to escape her chains? Give her the knife and take her head with you. Both are routes where you've established the best report with the Princess you could; you've literally died to protect her. Following this, you can take advantage of that goodwill and use it against the Narrator.
And in the case of the Greys, while the details are different (rain/desert, widow/bride, bones/corpse, drowning/burning) in both cases you're led to your doom by a betrayed ghost of a Princess in a neglected cabin.
Various Voices and Princesses serve as foils and mirrors to each other (Rivalry and Submission, Terror and Longing, etc.), but none more closely than the Damsel/Prisoner Smitten/Skeptic. It makes them especially interesting and I'm excited to see what their future third chapters have in store.
#slay the princess#the damsel#the prisoner#the voice of the smitten#the voice of the skeptic#the narrator#slay the princess meta#meta#I'm excited for the#pristine cut#nichole goodnight#jonathan sims#black tabby games#the greys#burned grey#drowned grey#stp#stp meta
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kill the monarch
#i made some very early versions of these when the game first came out#so i thought for once id make some final character designs#slay the princess#slay the princess fanart#the voice of the hero#the voice of the paranoid#the voice of the broken#the voice of the smitten#the voice of the stubborn#the voice of the cold#the voice of the cheated#the voice of the contrarian#the voice of the skeptic#the voice of the oppertunist#the voice of the hunted#christ that's alot of tags#my art
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Uhh stp art!! Been making some voice designs recently!!
Those are all the ones I finished!! But I might change cold and broken a little bit
Also— concepts :]
[the question marks are because I already made the contrarian and hero designs before I made those headshots LOL]
|| Edit: im honestly very surprised that this post is actually getting likes LMFAO— Glad you all like my designs!! ||
#art#digital art#artists on tumblr#slay the princess#stp the long quiet#the long quiet#the voice of the hero#the voice of the hunted#the voice of the cold#the voice of the cheated#the voice of the contrarian#the voice of the skeptic#the voice of the stubborn#god how many voices do I have to fucking tag holy shit#the voice of the opportunist
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the narrator: you're weirdly obsessed wuth finding meaning.
the skeptic: what did you mean by this.
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recurrent pattern of my favorite voices so far: the ones who keep asking questions and who are really suspicious of the narrator. the ones who aren't satisfied with the way things are (or the way the narrator wants them to be).
this is true of:
the voice of the hero ("this isn't right, we don't slay princesses, i don't like this," etc)
the voice of the cheated (the general fuck-the-narrator-i'm-the-main-character-now energy that i got from him)
the voice of the paranoid (literally "no yeah fuck that guy we can't trust him")
the voice of the skeptic ("are you really sure she's dead? why are you so insistent on things being the way you want them to be?")
#talk tag#ace slays the princess#slay the princess#the narrator#the voice of the hero#the voice of the cheated#the voice of the paranoid#the voice of the skeptic#<< skeptic. such an odd looking word#i want to spell it with a c for some reson#sceptic#the c and the k are equally aesthetically pleasing to me#anyways i like him so far
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My brain wouldn't shut up until I put Skeptic in purple
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transcription of my handwriting:
skeptic and stubborn: *arguing*
Opportunist: What are they arguing over this time?
Broken: who can say ...
...
Contrarian: ... Oh, did they just kiss?
Paranoid: why are they taking off their clothes-
#stp#MORE LIKE STOP#stp voices#the voice of the stubborn#the voice of the skeptic#theyre so angry#the voices
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I like to think the two of them lived their lives before witnessing the end of Narrator's world. Then they'd go back to their god selves and tell them about mortals.
Narrator was a misguided soul, but I believe his purpose had good intentions. It'd be nice if he still made a difference. Maybe the two gods decided to give mortals a bit of mercy after experiencing the true terror of death as actual mortals for the first time.
also, assorted sketches:
anyways, i oughta take a break. ive become addicted to slaying the princess...
#art#traditional art#fanart#orcatnip#slay the princess#stp#the long quiet#the shifting mound#the shifting quiet#stp spoilers#kind of#voice of the paranoid#voice of the stubborn#voice of the hero#voice of the opportunist#voice of the skeptic#beast princess#damsel princess#voice of the smitten#slay the princess spoilers#voice of the hunted
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3 couple :v
#slay the princess#the long quiet#the shifting mound#voice of the smitten#voice of the hero#voice of the skeptic#the advesary#the prisoner#the damsel
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07.28.24 Good Choices, Only ⛓️
#slay the princess#STP The Prisoner#stp the long quiet#Voice of the Skeptic#stp the princess#stp spoilers#fan art#I know canonically she never gets near you or looks at you after this#but you just KNOW she was just think ‘jfc this dumbass’#Skeptic over here like 'how could i do this to ME?'
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MY VOICE DESIGNS!
I WANTED TO GIVE THE DIFFERENT VOICES SOME DESIGNS FOR WHENEVER I DRAW THEM, IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO GET THEM ALL DOWN but i really care them all
MORE INFO UNDER CUT
WHEN I MADE EACH VOICE I HAD A DIFFERENT CONCEPT/BIRD IN MIND
HERO - KNIGHT/SPARROW [Literally the closest to look like a human knight since i had in mind that TLQ views him as something he wishes he was]
SMITTEN - PIGEON/BARD [The way he talks just makes me think of a bard and as for the pigeon part he reminds me of a Luzon bleeding heart which definetly goes with his heart motif]
SKEPTIC - OWL/INVESTOGATOR [I always pictured him as a detective holmes like owl whenever he went on his theories, the fact that hes kind of an asshole is a bonus]
COLD - VULTURE/REAPER [I associate him with death a lot so that went into his design, I know crows are more commonly associated with death but i wanted a more bigger predatory bird for his design since he doesn't mind killing if he needs to]
OPPORTUNIST - JAY/CONMAN [Hes specifically a Steller jay, I think the birdy just has his similar vibe of being tricky to deal with, as for the conman part is kind of obvious considering his personality lol]
HUNTED - HARE [I didn't have a specific bird in mind when making him, rather i usually pictured him as some type of rabbit like bird, more hare in this case, a prey animal but he can show his fangs when he needs to]
CHEATED - CROW/GAMBLER [Disheveled man in his 40s spending all his money in a casino and not winning for 13 hours type of gambler, hes the smallest of all the voices, the crow part is because i can only picture him as that one pic of a crow with a knife on its mouth]
BROKEN - PENGUIN/FOLLOWER [More of a religious followe, the penguin part is because of how i pictured him with ��� this shape in my mind , he black and white of them also fits him a lot]
PARANOID - FANTAIL/MAGE [The scrawniest fantail pigeon in existance, if he didn't over preen himself his tail would be much bigger, the mage part is for his chanting by keeping us alive, i think the way i view him is more a heal caster]
STUBBORN - MACAW/BRUTE [The biggest of the bunch if he standed up straight, i thought of a macaw because of their strong toes and how much he repeats himself (not a bad thing i think its cute), the brute part is self-explanatory)
CONTRARIAN - HUMMINGBIRD/JESTER [I'm not inmune to contrarian jester propaganda, he fits the bill of the common media jester, the hummingbird part was suggested by Mod Toucan and I think it fits him so well since he can be a little shit /lovingly]
#stp#slay the princess#stp voices#stp hero#stp stubborn#stp broken#stp cold#stp contrarian#stp paranoid#stp cheated#stp skeptic#stp smitten#stp opportunist#stp hunted#owlart#SO MANY TAGS.....
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The Heart and The Head
Had to pair them up together simply because of how similar yet different they are as characters
I’m not even sure if it’s possible to have a route with them together
(Small ramble underneath)
They’re both quite single-minded voices who would continue on with their pursuit of what they wanted—Smitten, a happy ending with the Princess, and Skeptic with his pursuit of the truth. They would probably be unstoppable considering both of their desires requires the Princess in some way, and would quite literally lose their minds if they weren’t able to get it
With whatever crumbs we’ve gotten of them during routes where all voices are there there, it feels like these two might be able to get along with each other quite well, considering Skeptic was one of the Voices that had comforted Smitten about losing the Princess during A New Dawn ending variation alongside Cheated.
Which makes me kind of surprised that I don’t see many art pieces of them interacting
Maybe it’s because they never interacted in canon? Hmmm
#character art#slay the princess#voice of the skeptic#stp voices#voice of the smitten#stppristinecut#stp#stp fanart#black tabby games
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Replayed the Drowned Grey Route recently and it always makes me laugh a bit at how long we stand in the pouring rain for that route
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Some designs for the Voices! Since the Long Quiet is a bird man, here's a bunch of bird men
#fanart#slay the princess voices#slay the princess#slay the princess game#the long quiet#voice of the paranoid#voice of the cold#voice of the hero#voice of the smitten#voice of the contrarian#voice of the hunted#voice of the stubborn#voice of the skeptic#voice of the opportunist#slay the princess the narrator#the narrator#voice of the cheated#headcanon design#voice designs
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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?
#yes the Narrator has multiple eyes cause I can’t be normal#slay the princess#stp#stp voices#the narrator stp#stp the narrator#the narrator#voice of the smitten#voice of the contrarian#voice of the skeptic#voice of the hunted#voice of the paranoid#voice of the cold#voice of the broken#voice of the hero#voice of the opportunist#voice of the stubborn#voice of the cheated#slay the princess fanart#stp fanart#slay the princess voices#erm yes this game is currently occupying my headspace actually
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