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I love it when the princesses are slay
She asks that I tell you to remember her. You won't.
I wrote up some reflections on my first play-through of Slay the Princess. It got long and also took me longer than I expected, so I ended up putting them on Dreamwidth in multiple parts.
Part 1: The Apotheosis
Part 2: The Spectre
Part 3: The Damsel
Part 4: The Stranger
Part 5: The Prisoner
Part 6: An Echo
Part 7: Princess and Hero
Also a lot of people Talk about Cheated and Oppy, but to me It doesn't really seem like Cheated dislikes Oppy more than any of the voices do. In thorn he doesn't seem to despise Oppy any more than Hero and when anyone talks about him they say he's annoying at best. Like no one can even be genuinely angry at him because he so obviously bad at what he does that he isn't even a threat.
we don't talk enough about our voices beef headcanons. c'mon, no way these guys always get along, have you seen their interactions?
Cheated and Oppy absolutely despise each other. Cheated is too much of a righteous little prick, and worries a lot about fairness for someone who is willing to stab others in the back if she suspects any foul play, and Opportunist is Opportunist.
Contra is sure most of the other hates them, and makes no effort in really changing that or even giving others much grace when they're the ones who start annoying him.
Stubborn cannot fucking stand Skeptic. he's all just yap yap yap, and no action! Why do others listen to him and not Opportunist, if they all love a big talk so much?
You know what I think would be an interesting duo? Cold and Contrarian.
Think about it: They're basically different ends of the same spectrum. Neither are inclined to do what the Narrator said. Neither care about the consequences of your actions. Neither of them take the situation seriously. Neither of them get along with the other voices. The only difference is that Cold does it out of apathy, while Contrarian does in the name of resistance.
I wish we could've had a chapter where it's just them, because the dynamic would be great, and the Narrator would be driven up the wall.
If I may add a little, from what we see on MOC broken seems yo DESPISE cold. He's all about suffering and listening to the pain and then this guy comes and tells him to just "get over It" and "snuff out your heart"???
Which I think would make for an interesting conversation when any of the two find out that the other was the only one capable of empathizing with Fury. Cold would probably be intrigued by the fact that Broken could whitstand the torture while Broken would find It hard to belive that cold is even capable of empathizing.
we don't talk enough about our voices beef headcanons. c'mon, no way these guys always get along, have you seen their interactions?
Cheated and Oppy absolutely despise each other. Cheated is too much of a righteous little prick, and worries a lot about fairness for someone who is willing to stab others in the back if she suspects any foul play, and Opportunist is Opportunist.
Contra is sure most of the other hates them, and makes no effort in really changing that or even giving others much grace when they're the ones who start annoying him.
Stubborn cannot fucking stand Skeptic. he's all just yap yap yap, and no action! Why do others listen to him and not Opportunist, if they all love a big talk so much?
This is a dangerous train of thought to me mainly because of Two reasons:
1. "canon is only a suggestion" I get what he's trying to say here but if you are writing a character with an already established personality OF COURSE IT MAKES SENSE TO EXPECT THEM TO BEHAVE LIKE IN CANNON.
Obviously there is room for interpretation but there's a difference between interpretation and writing an entirely new character and claiming they are one from canon (for example imagine I make a stp fic where contra is super serious and follows every order he's given and thinks he's the best of the voices)
2. "You don’t get to stick your nose in their world and tell them “hey this is not to my liking therefore I think you’re doing it wrong” when you can simply leave quietly and move on to something else you may enjoy"
This is making some rather dangerous claims like saying that commenting on a piece of art that someone posted PUBLICALLY is "sticking your nose into their world".
That every disagreement or critique made towards a work of art is meant to be an attack to the objective value of the whole thing (assuming there's something such as "objectively good or bad things")
And that just because you can decide not to consume something you have no right to express any kind of criticsm towards it.
To me this whole post just reads as overly defensive and feeling like "overly attatched" to something you made to the point where every kind of criticsm towards it feels like a personal attack to you.
unless they specifically asked, you don’t get to tell a fanfic writer you think they mischaracterized the character by the way. because the second someone writes a fanfic about a character, that character becomes the writer’s own version of the character. canon is only a suggestion, but whether or not an author will follow it / how much of canon an author will take is entirely up to them. you don’t get to stick your nose in their world and tell them “hey this is not to my liking therefore I think you’re doing it wrong” when you can simply leave quietly and move on to something else you may enjoy
to me this is what slay the princess is really all about. not about grand concepts of life and death, not about some distant cosmic concepts, it's about a very specific thing about our lives and how we deal with them.
it's about the fear that the things that happened to you shaped you in a way that made you worse and you need to fix and undo them, the fear that if this bad thing didn't happen to you, you would be better, and how, no: there is no judgement to be made on your experiences or how they shaped you. your experience do not worsen or better you, they just change you, and that change is important and good because it makes you more complete and fleshed out as a person.
you can bring such a huge variety of difference princesses to the shifting mound, parts of her who have experienced a huge range of emotions and events, from tragedy and pain to happiness and love and everything in between, princesses with a huge range of personalities and character, and she sees value in every single one of them. no matter how dark, painful, horrible a chapter it is, no matter what awful things have happened to them, no matter what kind of princess it is or how cruel or horrible she is or what she's done, she can find value in them, because they add to her, and complete her.
she can find beauty and meaning and substance in the vicious razor, appreciate her joyfulness, she sees the vengeful and petty witch as righteous because her bitterness from the betrayal she experiences formed in her an idea of right and wrong, she describes the terrifying nightmare as tender because she sees her inner sadness and sensitivity, she describes the vicious and vengeful wraith as 'driven' because she sees her power of will and determination.
she does not make any moral judgements on either the 'good' or 'bad' princesses, she sees their experiences and the traits and understanding of the world they add to her.
the important thing to her is to have experiences and perspectives that flesh her out and add to her, they let her grow and gain substance and understanding. she has nothing bad to say about any of them, and the only 'bad' thing she has to say isnt a bad thing it all, it's not having much to say at all about a damsel who has little experiences and little to offer her, and it's not a sentiment she ever expresses on her own.
and i mean, it says it right here at the start of the game right, 'there are no wrong decisions, there are only fresh perspectives and new beginnings'. and then this line from the ending where you return to th stranger:
this applies to TLQ too. tlq is stillness so he doesnt change as the shifting mound does, but he also has parts of himself and his character as represented by the voices, and all of them serve their purpose. all of them have value. they are not bad or good, they are not better or worse, they just are.
and like, to me where this actively applies to real life isn't this that you should seek out negative or bad experiences, or that you should actively suffer to build character or anything so extreme. it's a way to understand the bad things that already did happen and the pain and trauma you did experience, and a way to understand the pain and trauma that sometimes is inevitable as just a part of any life experience, because the most important and valuable thing to a person is to have any kinds of life experiences, positive or negative. and in the case of the negative, you are shaped and changed by it, but you are not worsened, you just become more. it carve texture around your heart.
This is for everyone who correctly identified the STP inspiration in my No Will AU
Bonus:
Why does EVERY. SIGLE. FANDOM. I'm in has an overlap with the "In stars and time" fandom?! are they just everywhere? is this a conspiracy? ARE THEY THE ELITE THAT CONTROLS THE WORLD?!?!?
anyways the game looks cool but my broke ass can't afford it and even if it did I have other things I wanna play first (Scaret hollow, Deltarune when it comes out, Silksong IF it comes out...)
Who would you say is the most baby-like of the princesses (I need this for little "project" i'm doing)
Apotheosis laught > Heart Lungs Liver Nerves
I remember someone made a pretty long post about the problems they had with cage and I need it for something but I can't find it, does anyone a link or the username of the one who posted it?
Ideas/ characteristics I like about the voices desing
If the title wasn't clear enough I wanna write about some of the desing elements that I've seen for the voices + ones that I came up with and think they would be cool
GENERAL :
I really like the idea of giving every voice their respective princesses' crown, not only because it fits pretty well most of them but also because it makes it easy to instantly recognize which voice are you looking at. This idea comes from @pixiefeatherkw3
PARA:
I like it when people give him very spiky feathers becuse it makes him look like he has goosebumps and gives him a very "jumpy" look. I also think it would be a really cool Idea to draw para with eyes on his wings (to clarify i've seen people draw hunted with eye-like marks on his wings but here I'm talking about seeing functioning eyes) mainly because of two reasons
He is often shown as very observant and vigilant so having a lot of eyes that he can wrap around him to see in a 360º angle makes a lot of sense to me.
It would be a paralel with nightmare
(i will be expanding more on this post on the future)
sketches of spectre princess and some skulls
They're both contra. prove me wrong
special defense
does this count as anything ???is this art
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