trust her guys

I am just a Sweet, Innocent, Princess!

it continues to be May 28! This is my second piece for the @akeshuakeauzine <3

Slay the Princess! What a game. And, a lot of shuake vibes, from my heavily biased point of view. I've said it before, but I absolutely will be writing something for this AU at some point, mark my words (at some point... see, this is the problem with having longfics-)

This one was in volume 2! (and, I think someone else also did a Slay the Princess peice as well- go check out the zine! go look at everyone's stuff! it's all amazing <3 <3)

Something I've been curious about were you guys always going to plan the stranger having her own special ending before you got to the final stranger? Or was that something you decided after you finalize the stranger?

A lot of the narrative design work on Slay the Princess came from following things to what felt like their logical conclusions, and letting the pieces fall into place as they clicked. Given the looping nature of the game, it made sense for the "final" encounter to be with the "first" Princess, taking you right back to where you started and asking you to make the same choice you had to make at the very beginning of the game, but now with all of the context that comes with playing through the game. The Stranger stuck out like a sore thumb there, since if you do her route first, she's the first Princess you meet, rather than Chapter 1's Knife!Princess or NoKnife!Princess. So it only made sense to give her a special ending, which also balances out how short/linear her route is overall (even if, in terms of game logic, she had far and away the most complicated chapter to code.) The Unknown Together ending in general was another piece of the puzzle that just happened to fall into place near the end. In the earliest draft of that ending sequence (in my brain only) you would arrive at the final cabin knife-already-in-hand, since you'd only get there by resisting the Shifting Mound. But as we started actively working on that part of the script, it felt more compelling to set up that final situation as a more direct mirror of Chapter One.

And because we wanted it to be a reflection of the beginning of the game, it made sense that whether or not you take the blade with you downstairs should be a huge decision. Almost a little test for our players — did you realize by the end of your runs that the knife doesn't, like the Hero suggests, "always seem to give us more options than not?"

But needing to include that choice raised the question of, "well, what happens, metaphysically, if you don't bring the knife?" And the answer that was most compelling to us was "we don't know, and the fact that we don't know is what makes the choice so compelling." One of those bits where it's wild to think about how late an addition that ending was, since I think it's vitally important to the themes of the story. If the nature of death is a major thematic through-line of Slay the Princess, The Unknown Together is the only ending that truly confronts its terrifying mysteries, and it does so by abandoning fear on the floor of that final cabin.

hi bear!

i love your art! could you draw the spectre in a wedding dress?

thanks!!!!

Hello 👋 Aww thank u, glad you enjoy my stuff ❤️

Here’s the lady 🫱🫱👰‍♀️

Slay the princess with the plastic duck simulator ducks on your desktop is an experience.

All my fellas <3

Slay The Princess Voices!!

It's all traditional this time around because my apple pen stopped working 🤧

My newest hyperfixation! Usually I don't draw more than two art pieces at a time for a certain media, but I want to make a point out of drawing more art for STP.

I've hidden very small watermarks of my username on each photo, so let's make a game to see if we can find them all 😛

'Why are they all hunky boys' I'M JUST A GIRL UGHHH

Paranoid my love... 😼

She can smell you.

i feel like contrarian would fucking love these tjings

There's something about the fact that it's The Long Quiet that ultimately makes the decisions.

The Long Quiet, the Stagnant Reactor, is the one to change thing, move them along, progress them. The only true way for The Long Quiet to keep everything as it is, is for you the player to leave the game alone.

You kill the Princess, You kill change, and in that way, have changed Everything, and, unlike how The Narrator proposes should you meet him at the end of a full run, An unchanging world isn't one of Forgetfulness and rediscovery - No, that is a Cycle, a change in Position, a change in Disposition, a shift and return to form, but it's not unchanging. The Narrator doesn't understand what it means to be permanently Static. He was so deluded by his fear of Death, fear of Change, he never realized what it meant to stay the same.

If you Choose to go with Shifty, then you choose Change anyway, by allowing Shifty to Continue on. you forgo everything being stuck ,and you allow change to happen by returning it to it's place.

And if you choose to Flee Godhood, and join the Princess, then you've caused a change beyond your comprehension. What happens afterwards? Who knows? You don't.

But that doesn't quite matter now, does it?

Change is Inevitable, and the more things change, the more they stay the same.

The Narrator: "You take the blade from the table. It'd be rather difficult to slay the Princess and save the world without it."

Hehehe my pristine blade is done!! it feels really good to hold, and I'm really happy with the way it looks! tried my best to mimic @abby-howard's art style, though it is quite hard to translate 2D sketch lines to a 3D prop.

Working on putting together the Princess dress pattern, finishing the wig, figuring out the crown, and working on the chain. I've got bits of all of them started so we're getting there! (her entire costume is also gonna be b&w, but I'm not doing body paint at this time bc frankly it's a bit much to learn a new skill rn)

@blacktabbygames

"You actually meant it. You....rescued me"

My piece for the @akeshuakeauzine !!!

doodle i did while at school

i wouldve done a full body but i couldn't draw her grippers. 💀

What is the nightmare like in the cafe au?

her name is dolly and she's an absolute menace to both the customers and her coworkers.

despite the perpetual smile on her face, dolly is not known to be particularly friendly. she has a habit of throwing people off-guard with her brusque comments and neverending passive-aggressive (or sometimes outright aggressive) demeanor. her hobbies include consuming horror media, reading up on forensic science, and scaring small children. and birds. and people in general.

i imagine she's somewhat younger than most of the others. her employment is born of pure, unadultared nepotism from her aunt (the shifting mound, or just simply "princess" here) unfortunately, most people are very quick to judge. to be fair, she raises a lot of red flags but you can't ever judge a book by its cover.

it's not pictured here because i forgot but she has some scars running across her face. there was a time when she wasn't so terrifying, when she just needed a friend.

she still needs a friend now. who knows, maybe she'll find one.

bonus:

needed to do silly doodles, so pulled out a silly doodles chart