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Doki Doki Pristine Club!

Up first we have: Skeptic, our club president!

Equal in brains and beauty, and with a steady head on his shoulders, he'll always be out of your reach! A sad side effect of being a tutorial character, I suppose...

Then we have: Smitten, our vice president!

Bubbly and ditzy, he's been friends with Opportunist since childhood! He's been acting kind of weird as of late... What could be troubling him?

Then we have our first club member: Cold!

Rather aloof at the best of times and with a reputation for being a freak, not many people tend to like Cold. But somewhere hidden behind his icy exterior is a warm heart—perhaps Opportunist will be the one who melts it!

Then we have our second club member: Stubborn!

The brutish cutesie type, Stubborn is well known in the school for being brash, intense, and passionate. But there are rumors that he has a softer, sweeter side, with a love for baking... A rumor that Opportunist may soon discover to be true!

And finally, our newest member: Opportunist!

Just as mischievous and cunning as ever, Opportunist has recently been dragged into this literature club by Smitten! He's not too sure about all this reading business, but these cute birds sure have caught his eye... The question is, which one will catch his heart?

designs by @everestgale

au collaborators - @phantasmatoucan @coldranger @pzysm @pink-november

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Statue for the Collector's Edition is finally ready... Shipping August 15th, along with the art book.

Pre-order: https://store.serenityforge.com/collections/slay-the-princess

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yin and yang, complementary and opposing forces

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The moon will sing a song for me, I loved you like the sun

Bore the shadows that you made with no light of my own

I shine only with the light you gave me

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06

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Smth smth the amount of times it was Scott & Tango as last greens and as soon as that's pointed out Tango starts losing his lives...

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Can't believe this isn't being talked about here

https://youtu.be/_K7vomnTV-s?si=bXsmYIty2fSDj9Wd

'Course, they couldn't really go through all the vessels so they decided to create their own kind of story from the basic concept, it's still pretty good though. Plus, they included all the voices

Here's my favorite moments:

And, the best mention of all:

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Feral Thorn / Thorn with Witch poses as requested by @neverpathia

Kibty.

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Every night we through this little soirée

I'm gonna turn her head until she's mine, all mine

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Are you FUCKING kidding me

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遥君……？

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thinking about the Narrator

thinking about how much he must have lost before finally deciding to create the construct

thinking about how he was prepared to do anything to keep anyone else from experiencing that kind of loss

thinking about how he died long before we could meet the real him

thinking about how we only ever meet a watered down version of him, who isn’t an actual person and only carries his ideals

thinking about how he’s villainized more than the Princess because his echo isn’t capable of connecting with you emotionally in the same way she does

thinking about how he might have even disagreed with some of the decisions his echo makes

just. thinking about him a lot

(also here’s one for the narrator-was-always-a-bird believers)

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Man I'm gonna sob

Circle back to Undercover

'Can you really judge them?'

At first it was about morals

Can we really judge these unknown people that we have so little information on?

In Trial 2, it was about our specific judgements - our choices and the consequences

Can we judge them, because Mahiru nearly died and Fuuta got injured because of our judgement?

Can we judge them, but we looked at the prisoner who did the same things that we are doing right now and said 'Not forgiven'?

In trial 3, it's becoming about the system

Can we judge them, ask the prisoners in the curtain call video - but it's only the ones that haven't died within Milgram

Can we judge them, when just us being able to do so directly led to Haruka's death?

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Mu isn't blaming us because we voted her unforgiven

(Spoilers for recent video from Milgram)

She started blaming us before she knew her verdict afterall. She's blaming us because her being unforgiven was a possibility in the first place - and she's right to

Haruka died because there was a chance we would not forgive Mu

Had we not been given that choice to forgive / not forgive at all - had that possibility not been possible, Haruka might still be alive

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actually one thing i like about hunted is how, despite his wariness, he's one of the least hostile voices to the narrator, especially regarding trust. the voices are generally wary of him at best and openly antagonistic at worst - exceptions being the contrarian, who sees him more as a fun rival to get under the skin of, and the opportunist, who's obviously buttering him up as a supposed authority figure. none of them particularly trust him, and for the most part the result is anywhere between dismissing his authority and telling him to fuck off

and comparatively, the hunted's honestly pretty chill about it all? he's wary, of course, but not blindly so. when the narrator stresses his ignorance of past loops and decisions etc, the hunted is the quickest to believe him

but this is especially apparent during the various mirror scenes. most of the voices either assume the narrator purposefully lies about not seeing it, further evidence that he can't be trusted, or they're too caught up in their own business to pay it much mind

from what i've seen, the hunted is the only one to, even right from the get-go, genuinely believe that he can't see it

especially in the den, because he's more attuned to the world and his senses perceiving it, he's the only one to Feel the oddity, the otherness, of the mirror. and he's the only one willing to believe the narrator enough to have these suspicions grow

while none of this means he trusts the narrator in general or finds him in good faith, i like that he's able to keep an open mind about it and not find it as reasons to pick fights or spiral into paranoia. for someone who's the embodiment of the prey animal survival instinct, he's very mellow

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