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More like WHYSapp...

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The people of zine fest have spoken.

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Learning to animate...

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Good news: I have refocused my efforts into planning out the comic & away from AU diversions.

Bad news: This focus was spent on working out a near fully functional troll calendar system & modified date format fully implementing the joke 48 astrological signs.

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Killed each other platonically once.

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A couple comprised of two different flavors of unbearable writers. fun!

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You're here to slay her. Luckily, she wants to be killed. But only if you do it right.

I lost control & designed (probably) all of the Princesses for an IthaKsa Slay the Princess AU! Made some changes to the voices and added a couple new Princesses.

Left to Right: Ksakal (as The Long Quiet/"The Voice of the Villain"), The Sacrifice, The Succubus, The Mother, The Mage, The Mourned, The Huntress, The Savior, The Wight, The Effigy, The Prey, The Idol, The Devoured, The Demon, The Reborn, The Nameless)

More thoughts under cut:

FULL LIST OF VOICES:

• Voice of the Villain (default) • Voice of the Lustful • Voice of the Starved • Voice of the Devoted • Voice of the Morbid • Voice of the Tamed • Voice of the Rebel • Voice of the Cautious • Voice of the Fatalist • Voice of the Weary • Voice of the Fool

POSSIBLE PATHS:

• The Sacrifice (Fool) -> The Demon (Fool & Cautious) • The Succubus (Lustful) • The Savior (Devoted) -> The Idol (Devoted & Tamed) • The Devoured (Starved) • The Huntress (Cautious) -> The Prey (Cautious & Lustful) • The Mother (Tamed) • The Mage (Fatalist) -> The Effigy (Fatalist & Morbid) • The Mourned (Weary) -> The Wight (Weary & Starved) • The Nameless (Rebel) • The Reborn (Morbid)

No clear idea what choices cause which path/Princess to manifest beyond some obvious ones like The Devoured coming after you try to cannibalize her & The Succubus likely following trying to fuck her instead of kill her. One thing that became readily apparent as I developed the designs/concepts for these Princesses is that Ksakal & Ithaqu make the game significantly more horny even in the absence of the lustful, but such is the nature of their hate!

The baseline idea for this hate story is that of insatiable challenge & the desperate need for balance. The struggle to allow her to die permanently & thus be denied a mirror through which to see yourself with ugly clarity that more "wholesome" emotions like love denies you. To hate in this way is to know yourself & another all too well.

Different Princesses capture different facets of Ithaqu's personality/character hinging on the core idea of her suffering under the perceptions & aspirations of others as a symbol for her flock. While the Idol might not be my favorite design, I enjoy how the severed hand still having her cuff at the wrist indicating that she has either chosen to resign herself to her fate as a revered object or she has neglected to notice how easily she can escape.

I have many more thoughts but I can't afford to let myself get carried away & put off working on Mythoslain proper so I will stop myself here. Might do more with this AU in the future though!

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More IthaKsa Slay the Princess AU designs because I am diseased.

The Voice of the Villain, The Sacrifice, The Succubus, & The Mother.

All(?) Voices/Princess Concepts under cut:

VOICES:

Voice of the Villain (replacement for the Hero)

Voice of the Lustful

Voice of the Starved

Voice of the Devoted

Voice of the Morbid

Voice of the Tamed

Voice of the Rebel

Voice of the Cautious

Voice of the Fatalist

Voice of the Weary

Voice of the Fool

PRINCESSES:

The Sacrifice

The Mother

The Savior

The Huntress

The Devoured

The Mage

The Succubus

The Mourned

The Nameless

The Reborn

The Demon

The Idol

The Prey

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Why outline/do essential design work when you can draw indulgent AU art?

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Just two matesprits prematurely living an old lifestyle in death.

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Somehow, through the power of love, they make each other more boring. <3

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It was MY bad day I get to pick the coping art.

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Don't bring up what happened between them in the next life, it'll make their matespritship Really Awkward.

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The varied (& sometimes complicated) relationships of the Muvian & Ptmaky lines.

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Not in this lifetime.

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To remember you for all the nights we have left.

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Why don't you get a room (they've lived in the woods too long to know any better).