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a new darkwood oc!
the witch, a very solitary pagan who used to live somewhere between the two villages in the swamp and the silent forest and who occasionally steals chicken and other livestock for blood sacrifices :) the witches pronouns are it/it's/itself, because why not.
the second time in a game that the stranger tries to go inside the chicken lady's house, the witch storms out with a chicken under it's arm, with the chicken lady screaming bloody murder after them. when the stranger comes to the swamp and closer to the heart of the forest, he might find the witch again, sitting in a circle of dead carcasses, resembling the savages that roam the forest, mumbling incoherently. In the evening, some savages come to the ritual site to add animal carcasses and otherwise bodyparts to the circle, the more human looking parts are more and more parts from replicas made by the Being. If the stranger steps into the circle and attacks the witch, it will only start screaming and when killed, the stranger can loot their body to find an "effigy of an old god", a little slightly humanoid looking figurine made of sticks and twine, covered in fungal growths.
some designs for the sillies + princess and player doodles
"But forever is not forever.
"I move and you react and both of us break the other. But broken is only a moment in time."
"You let me move and I slam the door, but that is not the end, and both of us must face our partner once again. The barbs twist deeper, but they do not have to."
"To change is to hold the potential to rise above. Would you limit yourself to what you are now, or would you like to see what you might become tomorrow?"
One of the ending monologues that stuck with me the most, the way the Witch and the Opportuntist are dancing around one another but stuck in place because they're more focused on being wary of the other instead of bettering themselves.
You actively have to go along with the dance in order to bring the Witch to Shifty, to play along and pretend, wary of each other but still going along with things until you can go out of your way to betray to one another. You have to trust in order to be betrayed, even if that trust is pretend. Attacking the Witch openly and directly, no lying or dragging it out, or even trying to abandon her and avoid the dance, smashes you into the Wild. Proving your sincerity even at the cost of your life brings you to the Thorn.
The Witch (like most Chapter II routes of course) is what happens when you don't learn from your mistakes and change the strategy. The Princess and the LQ decided that the endless revolving was what they wanted, nothing better, nothing worse.
And the way it all feeds back into the final confrontation where the Shifting Mound shows the Long Quiet the futility of revolving, because there are no victors if you choose to keep dancing in circles - the two of them absolutely CAN just keep spinning, but they'll always end up equally hurting one another and rejecting the paths of being straightforward or giving up. It's actively torturing themselves and choosing the self-destructive option to keep doing the dance, but I mean it's an option! All opinions are valid. It's just *chef's kiss*
What's ironic is that in all the ways you bring the Witch to Shifty, the two of you still have to face each other after the betrayal. Either you both broke your backs together on the stairs and have to stare each other down hoping the other is suffering just as much as you, or the LQ erases the cabin and the door she slammed in your face disappears too so oops this is awkward, no hard feelings right? :3 They always do face the consequences of being a prick even if they got the betrayal they wanted, "not sorry you did the bad thing, just sorry you got caught" style.
Witch and Opportuntist are such a funny duo, they're both such gremlins, they know what they're doing is selfish and sneaky and potentially the downfall of them both, and they're happy about it, they're vibing
"A trick behind your back, and a trick behind mine. We dance, revolving and revolving around each other, but forever stuck in place. We both move and yet we both don't, for each of us watches the other instead of ourselves."
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Anyone order the Witch? I've got quite a few old drawings of her, she is such a silly :]
All I ask in return is to please ignore how I used to draw the Long Quiet (pictures 2 & 4), I could not figure out how I wanted to draw him, and I also was (still am) bad at drawing birds/beaks 😭That's why I eventually gave up and joined the no-beak-TLQ crowd lol
[Throwback | Scheduled post | Drawings finished : January 25th - 26th, 2024]
[Find my Slay the Princess art here] [Princess art] [TLQ art] [Voices art]
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🎃ScreamQueens and Others Wallpaper:
🎥 Carrie (1976), Labyrinth (1986), Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), The Addams Family Values (1996), Hocus Pocus (1996), The Craft (1996), The Corpse Bride (2005), Jennifer's Body (2009), Coraline (2009), Paranorman (2012), The Witch (2015), The Love Witch (2016), The Neon Demon (2016), Last Night in Soho (2021), Pearl (2022).
📺 Gravity Falls (2012), Over The Garden Wall (2014).
📹 MovieClips (YouTube), AptemWamap...(YouTube), WarnerBros (YouTube), ThanhNhã...(YouTube), Ioop (YouTube), GeanFilmes (YouTube), W8ddLixFilmes (YouTube), JackCamilla (YouTube), RottenTomatoes (YouTube), Camilla (YouTube), A24 (YouTube), Nurpus (YouTube), ProjectPlay (YouTube).
🎶 Into The Unknown, Over The Garden Wall (Theme Song) x Empathy, Crystal Castles (S1lent Edit Audio).
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Earings by: ArtWorkByJennyShLemon
‘Black Phillip, Black Phillip, king of all.’
The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015) dir. Robert Eggers
[ID copied from ALT: a digital illustration of Arthur and John from part 43. Arthur is slumped again a stone wall, blood coming from his stomach wound and mouth. John is a shadow over his shoulder, angrily looking at someone offscreen. a partial crown has grown from his head. he holds his hand near Arthur's wound, trying and failing to stop the blood
2: a loose sketch showing John from part 43. John, shadowy but taking on more of his king aspects, takes on a pleading position over Arthur's unconscious body as he says 'ok wait hold on hear me out' to the witch, who stands mostly offscreen but holds a sharp dagger covered in bugs in full view.
3: a furious John manifests and erupts from Arthur's chest. he is large and monstrous, his masked face lifting to roar at the witch, showing off teeth and three tongues. Arthur's eyes are fully golden and tearful. threads still surround Arthur and John. the witch, an older women dressed in furs and a tattered dress, holds a bloody knife and looks up at John unimpressed.
4: a sketch of Arthur coming back to life. his back arches painfully off of a stone table as his eyes snap open, and he releases a long scream into the dark room. End ID.]
So you want to make the decisions for once. Good luck with that.
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The Good, the Bad, and Their Little Cat Too
is this for anyone? or just me lol
Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
Locker Room Talk Pt.9
Nova approaches Nora while she's getting dressed for her next training lesson.
Nova: Nora *whispering*
Nora: Yes?
Nova: Why is everyone staring at me?
Nora: Hm?
Nova: The whole locker room...They are staring at me.
Nora: You are very beautiful, who wouldn't?
Nova: No...I mean...they keep staring at my pants.
Nora: Why do they keep staring at you pan-
Nora glances down at Nova's pants and her eyes widen.
Nova: What?
Nora: You...you don't feel that?
Nova: Feel what?
Nora: The...the...
Nora breaks into giggling.
Nova: Why are you laughing at me? This isn't funny.
Nora: No...it's how you're wearing your pants...you might as well just be in your boxer shorts.
Nova: Please explain...
Nora silently takes Nova's hand and drags her to the nearest shower mirror.
Nora: Look.
While Nora is laughing to the point of tears, Nova figures out what it is.
Nova: Oh...
Nora: Yeah...*loud wheezing* Mhm...
Nova: Please breathe..