#vot contrarian

[sonjalikestodraw]

"Gender is a type of soup! Eat the rich!" - Contrarian, probably Design notes:

As a part of Slayer's psyche, represents Fun and, well, being contrarian.

Based on a cockatoo: chatty and mischievious parrots whose head crest looks like a punk mohawk.

Inspiration: medieval jesters (naturally), 80's punks (mohawk, scruffy beard) and fashion dolls (big poofy skirt and huge statement earrings)

A genderfuckery nonconforming girlie who uses any pronouns and is whatever gender is funniest in the moment.

Always in opposition to Narrator, she wears black on white to signify initial alliance with Slayer, while deep down sympathizing with the Princess in her home route.

Crest is felled up by default, as Contra is excited and looking for fun. It folds down when sad or in grave situations, like in Stranger's Heart.

Wears earrings of a silver checkmark and a cross, being a creature of big decisions with the tendency to flipflop. Their placement and whether they're two crosses (Contra angy!) or two checkmarks (Contra likey!) change with her mood. But if you ask, she'll insist they've always been like that.

In Apotheosis, he's interested in fleeing ("a third option nobody likes!"), seeking the truth, or getting back at the Princess. Meaning he wears no black/grey/white to signify alliance, but instead wears green (like the absolute reality) and red (like the blood from her eye).

Her Apotheosis earrings are now an axe for  ✔ and a sword for X, for needing the knife. All metal matches the pale gold sword in her sister Voice Paranoid's route.

In Wild, they're antsy and curious. Their jingling bells are replaced with soothing poppies and their light layers are green for truth-seeking.

In Fury, her surface alliance with Slayer (black) is quickly noped out of, not picking a side (mid-grey). The earrings are cartoon bones to look both gnarly and goofy, not taking Fury or Stubborn seriously. Trousers are red for the kill a successful Fury!Contrarian enables.

[billcyphersballsack]

Actually no joke I need to see more slay the monster (or whatever the reverse au is called) content.

I need to see the princesses perspectives translated into voices I need to hear how they think how they process. So much of (some of) the perspectives power comes from their control over their situations and I wanna know what they’d do with that partially taken away

I need to see the voices translated into perspectives I need to see how their forms are twisted and shaped by the princesses interactions with them.

I NEED to see how the narrator would respond to the shift. The entire reason the voice of the hero initially puts doubt in the player and hints that the narrators word might not be law is by pointing out the obvious tonal dissonance of a hero SLAYING a princess rather than SAVING her. But that doesn’t exist with slay the monster. The narrator wouldn’t need to work as hard to convince the player that they’re doing “the right thing” cuz it’s a monster! It’s chained up and dangerous and going to hurt a lot of people if you don’t kill it! The voice of the princess (my decided title for the VOT Hero in this au cuz obviously the actual Princess would be called the shifting mound the same way we’re the long quiet) would then have to take an angle of “we’re supposed to protect our subjects and our people. Monster or not, isn’t that what this creature is?” Which is still an appeal to the common trope as well as your morality. The narrator would play into your role as a princess like crazy going on about your duty to protect the world you rule over and to save innocent people who’s lives are in your hands, basically what he does to the long quiet but more

Mostly though I just think an inverse of their situations in the cabin would be fun. The chapter one princess is such an interesting character because she’s not the perfect victim. Her honey sweet voice and her doe eyes and her innocent scared demeanour aren’t necessarily fabricated just overplayed. She is genuinely scared, that’s the part that’s true, everything else is a desperate appeal to your humanity that you’ll let her go. It becomes somewhat real in the damsel rout when you free her and warn her and fight tooth and nail to save her, but for the most part it’s for show. If you come down there with a knife or decide mid convo you’re actually gonna kill her for real she drops it. She’s harsh and cold and keeps you at arms length, she acts bored and above it all when she speaks to you picking at her nails and glaring at you. GRANTED THAT COULD ALL BE WRONG! Maybe the harsh and cold personality is the fictitious one, a front built up to protect herself from danger, and really the frightened and desperate personality is the real one. MAYBE THEY’RE BOTH REAL! OR MAYBE THEY’RE BOTH MADE UP. It’s probably that last one but for the sake of my bit we’re going with the first one.

The point is the princess tries to appear put together and composed in both these versions of her personality, but deep down she’s like a caged wild animal and isn’t afraid to act like a caged wild animal if she has to

Now imagine the inverse of that, for The Monster

Outwardly a beast who smarls and claws at every surface trying to break free from its prison. If you bring the blade it slinks into the far corner of the room and hisses and spits while you trying and communicate with it but if you go unarmed it will lunge at you held back by its chains just barely. It’s frightening it’s threatening there is no attempt to appeal to any morality or present a domineering front to strong arm you into doing what it wants, it’s just pure violence and fear, a creature who wears its emotions on its sleeve. Depending on what you do it’s iterations become more or less beastly (I’d imagine guys like Stubborn or Broken or Hunted or Cold would get even more violent or reactive but guys like Paranoid or Opportunist or Cheated or Contrarian would have a more pensive and thoughtful approach, you can decide for the rest) but as you play and as you try and speak with it you discover actually there’s a lot more complex thought behind its eyes, and once the fear subsides there’s a person with throught and feelings hiding under all those feathers and teeth. Also not the perfect victim, they also bite the hand that feeds, but like a little to the left you know

Can you tell? Can you tell it’s like a worm digging into my frontal lobe and eating away at my brain? Huh? Can you tell???

[artificial-radiance]

sorry if this has been asked before but can you give a list of all the voices and the monster variations? been reading through the pttw tag and im a little confused on which voice and variation is based on who in the og game LOL (its easy to tell with most of them but still yk)

Sure! I will not be sharing the list of Ch 3 monsters since they're very much still subject to change, and the list will be under a read more.

Ch 2 Monsters (+ Ch 1's single)

The Monster (TLQ + Hero)

The Afflicted (Smitten)

The Charlatan (Opportunist)

The Conned (Cheated) -- May be renamed

The Discordant (Contrarian)

The Lashed (Broken)

The Paralyzed (Paranoid)

The Presence (Cold)

The Quarry (Hunted)

The Shackle (Skeptic)

The Spine (Stubborn)

Voices

Voice of the Accused (Prisoner)

Voice of the Cutthroat (Adversary)

Voice of the Dove (Damsel)

Voice of the Drifter (Spectre)

Voice of the Exalted (Tower)

Voice of the Faithful (Witch)

Voice of the Resonant (Stranger)

Voice of the Sleeve (Razor)

Voice of the Solace (Nightmare)

Voice of the Stray (Princess)

Voice of the Trapper (Beast)

Foils

The Monster -- VoT Stray

The Afflicted -- VoT Dove

The Charlatan -- VoT Faithful

The Conned -- VoT Sleeve

The Discordant -- VoT Resonant

The Lashed -- VoT Exalted

The Paralyzed -- VoT Solace

The Presence -- VoT Drifter

The Quarry -- VoT Trapper

The Shackle -- VoT Accused

The Spine -- VoT Cutthroat

[ztmachine]

I just finished slay the princess. I am literally shivering the ending just... It's so... I am speechless, it was so beautiful. I am on the verge of tears. I am fucking begging you to play this game it is so good. Johnathan Sims and Nicole goodnight did such a good VA work. Jesus. I don't know how it affected the ending but having the VOT contrarian there made it hit so much harder. Just... Play this game, I beg of you. It's only a few hours long and 100% worth the 20$.

I ship VOT stubborn / VOT broken. They could fix eachother.

Sidenote: this is one of the only games I've played without some sort of video / music in the background THAT is how much it enthralled me. It's just that atmospheric.

[miyuka1709]

- Intro/about me post

Nelly/Miyuka - She/her - High school girl

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I draw and rig and stuff!

Commissions open only with GoPay and Dana

--- Fandoms I've been in

- Undertale/UTMV/Deltarune

- Gacha Life/Club

- Doki Doki Literature Club

- Little Misfortune/Fran Bow

- OneShot

- FNaF (Gacha.. Aftons..)

- Danganronpa

- Mr.Hopps Playhouse

- House (Horror Game)

- Needy Streamer Overload

- Murder Drones

- Genshin Impact

- Class of 09

- Slay the Princess

--- Favorite characters

- Flowey (Undertale)

- Cross (UTMV/Underverse)

- Lancer (Deltarune)

- Circus Baby (FNaF)

- Serial Designation N (Murder Drones)

- Kazuha (Genshin Impact)

- Voice of the Hero, Voice of the Hunted (Slay the Princess)

- The Prisoner, The Wild (Slay the Princess)

--- "What do you use to draw/rig?"

Doodle : Paper from school + pencil/pen I found on the ground

Draw : Oppo phone + thumb + IbisPaint x

Rig : HP laptop + touchpad + Live2d cubism

--- OCs/Self inserts

+ fueled by boredom (Vot. Contrarian-core)

I have a separate blog for SHITverse.

This is her @shitverse-au

[neverpathia]

hello. it's me. I really want to kiss the voice of the paranoid. hello there. very nice to meet you all.

man it's kinda funny how like half the fandom is kissing and hugging and petting and simping for vot hero. meanwhile, here I am thirsting over his wife and seething over his husband. (respectively, paranoid and contrarian. oh, how I affectionately hate contrarian.)

Your the only other STP self shipper I know haha

Uhh I love Cold v much, which is probably a odd opinion and F/O

JKSJSJXNSBDJS i am happy to be in the voice lover brigade but i cannot deny how flustered i was upon receiving this ask lol ♡ i promise there's more of us!! if anyone sees this please be louder about wanting to kiss the voices i can't be the only clown in the tiny car!!!

and what are you talking about voice of the cold is super hot he was ROBBED in the voice attractive poll i'd break my bones for him to⸻ (*guards pile into the room and i am forcibly dragged off the stage kicking and shouting*)

[monkey-network]

You know, I smile even more knowing how that ended up being when my last conversation with a VoT fanboy ended with me being called a contrarian idiot for missing out on 'The pop culture icon if our generation'.

I’ll just say Game of Thrones is honestly Lord of the Rings for those type of people that demand for “more mature” entertainment, not caring about the effort that goes into it. Having a ‘generational pop culture icon’ is a superficial ceiling.

[strixcattus-reblog]

If the first reblog is talking about Razor, then stalling until she gets bored leads to Broken, same as approaching her. Him, Paranoid, and Stubborn are the only ones you can get from basement choices. (And Hunted and Contrarian from the blade choice.)

You shouldn't be able to avoid getting a new Voice in Witch -> Wild but I know there at least used to be a bug in Beast -> Wild where if you got eaten while fleeing you would get VOT Cheated, who is only supposed to be in Witch -> Wild, except he would only say one line near the end (don't know if it's been fixed or not; haven't checked since way back when I was trying to find Opportunist in there)

You should always get Stubborn if you kill yourself while eaten—unless you got eaten while playing dead! That usually if not always leads to Contrarian. (Haven't fully tested it—I recently got him instead of Opportunist, and I swear you can get him in place of Stubborn, but I don't know if he appears if you take Broken's choices as well.)

Somebody actually made something close to a full decision tree map for Slay the Princess.

1. Can't wait to see how much messier this gets in a week. This doesn't even include optional or exploratory dialogue! 2. See, this is why we didn't build a timeline for you to jump into.

LINK: https://app.excalidraw.com/l/84AW7yZQM7h/7HuAkd7c5K7