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Absolutely love these! So many ways to interpret the story in your own way, it's an endless well of meanings to excavate. Love the theme of natural femeninity!

Been pretty blown away by the rich symbolisms in your voices' designs, which makes me wonder if you thought of any new princesses/fan scenarios that could fit right in with the official ones? Asked my friend to draw one of mine, very proud of how it turned out.

Aww, thank you kindly! I think it helped that let myself be self-indulgent, so my general interest in clothes/accessories shone through. And I'm glad you're proud of yours! This game really has endless room for fan-made routes, it's great.

I actually have a few fan princesses, but I haven't talked about them here before because they are part of smutty fanfics, lol. Anyway this fandom is chill, so I'm happy to share.

This is the Reconstructed Damsel from She Conducts this Rapture, a story I'm very proud of.

Intentionally over-detailed and with themes of the everyday horror of sexist expectations, she's what happens if you help the Deconstructed Damsel get herself back into shape by reaffirming her right to personhood and simple desire. I have a lot of strong feelings about Damsel and the fandom's perception of her, which came out in the fic itself.

And this is the Creature, from The Creature from the Grey Cabin.

She's a mixture of Beast and Tower with a swamp basement and a water lily motif. Inspired by Swedish huldras as well as various cryptids, with themes of sloth + lust. Her hair is so long that even if you let her out, the ends of it linger in the basement. She'd never say so, but she's lost hope of ever leaving the cabin, and chases vice so she has something to do while she stays forever. Ultimately, she just wants a friend to hold close.

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Best Served Cold ❄️

Cold in his Fury form ~ at his most confident, stepping out of the shadows, melding with and uplifted by the Long Quiet.

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Something I find fascinating about Slay the Princess is the way in which it's determined that a route is "complete" and Shifty can yoink the Princess. In theory, Miss Mound can see the vessels as soon as they step outside the construct, but that doesn't mean she will automatically grab them. Instead, she seems to wait until the thread you end the Princess wove together is complete.

In some cases, it's when you reach a mutually satisfactory conclusion (fight the Adversary or Eye of the Needle, leave the cabin with the Damsel or any permutation of the Spectre) or reach a stalemate (refuse to fight Eye of the Needle, fall forever with the Wraith, Witch locks you in the basement).

In other cases, she intervenes to avoid premature destruction of the construct that might result in her being forever incomplete (Apotheosis and Networked Wild).

Whatever the case, the truth of the situation goes far beyond the Narrator's simplistic understanding of "world ends when she leaves the construct." Does Shifty have insight into each vessel's perspective that allows her to know when to act or can she simply not see them, inside or outside the construct, until their threads are fully woven?

I like to believe it's the former and that when you leave the cabin with HEA, she decides to give the two of you a little extra time together to fulfill the Princess' wish for a starlit dance. She's waited uncountable eons after all; what's another few minutes?

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A breakdown of The Artist and The Muse fan-scenario, mostly wrote down for myself, but thought mightshould share in case someone wonders. The dynamic between Smitten and Broken could be very entertaining, kinda shame they never really talk to each-other in the main game. This is what happens when you get the 2 ultimate simp voices in the same chapter.

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"A captured moment in a captured moment in a captured moment. How long will inspiration elude you before you realize that passion cannot be conveyed in stillness?" "To believe in immortalizing past moments - is to give in to the deceit of nostalgia - is to forget what made those experiences special in the first place."

"Originality is the flowing blood of art. Will you dry all of it to a stain?"

- The Artist and The Muse

The art by my wonderful friend cara.app/azarias/all Unique StP scenario idea by me