#stp the shifting mound

[beartitled]

STP voices x princesses

Because I wanted a reason to draw them all >:D

Also lil bonus ✨

[circusmantis]

More princesses!

[ahandsawandadesperateplan]

I'm so fucking abnormal about my eldritch hand wife

[bubblybloob]

Well since your doing requests um….how about during the become as god’s ending Birdman god form is just him but incredibly fluffy like it’s just his face and a bunch a floof and the floof causes the construct to explode

Sorry if that’s too much

Was struggling a little on how to turn this ask into a drawing, so I put a spin on it. Something something studio ghibli hair floof something something.

If you think about it, technically canon.

Bonus:

Breaking news: local bird god can’t take an iota of love or affection without crumpling like wet paper.

[sir-dahlia]

slay the princess drawing that i don't have the energy to finish

i was going to call it "the end of the path" but y'know. it's "the end of my motivation"

[mrpristineblade]

Voice of the Smitten

Voice of the Contrarian

the Long Quiet to the Shifting Mound

the Narrator

the Witch

Voice of the Opportunist

the Prisoner

[waffleslashermaster]

The red means I love you

[artificial-radiance]

the runaway and the narrator

[mcsammehsomething]

Multitudes

Yippe yeee i finished it i finished it

If there are mistakes yes i have seen them but in the rendering phase it was tooo late so i just rolled along

Honestly i after finishing the art i just wanna tuck myself under the 37383838 bed sheets i have and have a nice and long sleep because damn my eyes hurt and my fingers ( not my wrist tho )

If you ever ask yourself hey why such a specific order dude?

It's for a cool reason okay trust me if you're curious figure it out

[beartitled]

Some silly Slay the princess stuff

[circusmantis]

🖤

[occatorcreator]

“This vessel is full of you. I need something empty I can crawl inside of. I need something shaped like me.”

[charismabee]

I like STP swap aus in theory but I find how I've seen people do them a little strange (not bad tho they're still cool n stuff and I like them very much)

Like they're just... making the princess bird shaped without actually examining what swapping the Shifting Mound and Long Quiet's role in the narrative would mean. (Not meant to be negative)

Let's take the Narrator for example. In Slay the Princess he wants to kill the Princess because he wants to stop death forever. But the Long Quiet isn't death, he's stillness, lack of change. This completely changes the Narrator's core motivation. It can work though. Maybe he's in a world that has stagnated, no change, no innovation. It feels like rot, so he decided he had to find a way to be rid of it. Or maybe some other explanation. This would change his core world view, what he might consider a good end, how he acts a bit, lots of things.

Speaking of the good end, that's definitely not going to be an eternity of stagnant bliss, we literally just killed the personanification of stagnation. You could think around that too. Remember I the stranger route when everything was happening at once and it was the same as nothing happening? Maybe that happens. Without stillness the Princess is met with a barrage of constant change and stimulation, everything happening at once. The Princess could realise it is Nothing as much as it is Everything and that gets her out of it.

The Long quiet would be interesting too, because he doesn't change, it isn't in his nature to. Instead, he fractures. Perhaps instead of finding his multitudes you are shattering him. Breaking off parts of him so he can see them from the outside and know them. Once enough pieces of him have been broken off he will shatter completely and finally be able to see all of him, would talons pick up his broken pieces, would wings made of textured nothingness wrap around them and embrace them tightly? Would he reside on a hill of squirming hands or bodies, lost in the centre of the shifting mound?

Perhaps without a need for agency, or someone to make a decision the Voices would just exist as their own thing. First one that claims to be a Hero, who claims to have agency in their story (a part of reflected in her, the Long Quiet does not need to shatter to be able to see him), quickly joined by a Paranoid and terrified victim, an Opportunist Scammer, a Stubborn opponent. Different, but not changed. Not the one person molded into another.

Even the construct itself would be changed by who it is created to kill. Perhaps when the Princess first arrives on the path in the woods it is autumn, a sign of the seasons changing, there is life and death and nature and cycles, but on that 3rd Chapter, it is summer. The leaves are green and waxy, everything is preserved in a completely silent stillness. Maybe there is a horror in that no matter how you get there those silent woods are always the same, unchanging.

Unlike the Long Quiet, the Shifting Mound does change. She is naturally malleable. She has no need for voices because whatever action you take becomes what she would have always done. Perhaps her body changes, giving her new advantages, the body of a vicious Beast stalks towards the cabin, hunger tinting your choices through a cabin twisted to suit her needs. A goddess glides towards her temple, willing it to be large enough to fit her. A dainty Princess hurries to find her Prince charming in a fairytale cabin. The land twists under her will, whether she realises that or not, only giving resistance when too close to the 'monster' kept down there. She is change, it is only natural she causes it.

Even stuff like how to get rid of him would change, because can you actually kill the absence of something? The natural state of things before they shift? The shifting mound is motion and for everything to be in motion all the time means nothing can ever really happen at all. There is no fulfilment in anything you do if your opinion on what to do changes every moment you exist. Perhaps to truly 'kill' him she needs to make him smaller, change what cannot be changed to make the stillness that will be broken, the things to be changed. Perhaps he will break them out of there and thank her. Perhaps without a way to know himself he slowly fades into a nothingness, trapped in an eternity of stagnation that change herself refused to save him from.

It is still a love story, he is naturally inclined to help her, she will always love him, but things have changed.

Anyway this is just a dumb little ramble because I was thinking and it's nearly 3am so this is probably nonsense anyway. I do really like swap ideas they're interesting and stuff <3

[bubblybloob]

You know since winter is winding down to close and art request are still open. How about the Shifting Mound and the Long Quiet sharing a hot bath together. But said “bath” is the surface of a Star. Of course as gods they’re pretty much invulnerable, and I hear hot plasma does remove stains and grime like nothing else. And gives feathers and infinite hair that unique shine. Though not sure what soaps would survive such a cleaning or at all.

Not entirely sure how I feel on this piece, though I do know the background was fun to make.

Her multitudes are already deep inside and are enjoying the jacuzzi, if you were wondering.

[justn0t]

currently trying to get all of the stp endings and oh god i feel so bad getting this one (spoilers for one of the endings below)

i feel horrible

[3zethe3zr]

God of nothing, bird of everything, let the cycle continue