Rearranged AU

don't know if I'll get to draw anything for pride, but here's something I need to put out there:

Slay the Princess is probably the most aromantic love story I ever seen

from the way it's told, to how the characters go about it, there's just smth inherently aromantic about the love story between Shifty and Quiet. Smth about how attraction is rarely brought up, how even the most straightforward romantic routes go about it in an unconventional way, the way the characters themselves describe their care and love for each other– it's just so. so very queer in many ways. And as an aromantic person who almost never feels any form of attraction and relates to loveless aros, there's just smth really comforting about a love story that goes about it in the most unconventional ways possible.

Does anyone know of any Slay the Princess fanfics that The Narrator somehow survives and has to face The Long Quiet and The Shifting Mound? The idea has been in my head all day and I need to know if it exists.

I'm sorry to bother you, but can we get more little drawings of your avatar. Everytime I see them on my dash my day gets a little brighter.

Oh you’re not bothering lil ol’ me! Have some Bloob doodles, they’re fresh outta the oven!

🦾 for any of the voices you want to ramble about

oh, well, yes!

theres, of course, Team Can't Fly

Hunted, who's wings didn't fully develop and so he's never been able to fly

Contrarian, who flew too close to the walls and got some wings torn off as punishment

and Broken, who's muscles atrophied from lack of use and now have no bone mass even if he tried to rebuild his strength.

the most-so autistic, in my headcanons, are hunted, cheated, and hero. others are on the spectrum of adhd (conty stub and smit) and add (again cheated) as well. i always have my paranoid with anxiety and my opportunist with aspd/sociopathy. oppy and broken also have ocd in my mind, of varying degrees.

i don't go into it much but i think skeptic fidgets and tics sometimes? his hands need to be busy or they'll start acting up.

i also never cleared up cheated's eternal bandages, but those cause him a lot of pain and are under constant maintenance.

oppy's got scoliosis in my head. its just real to me. he probably has to wear one of those correctors and he doesnt even dislike it because it protects him from stabs in the back.

i am of the opinion gender doesnt exist to any creature in the construct (except for the narrator). the princesses are only shaped like women. they have no use for gender. the voices even less so, considering they dont have bodies.

"oh but they use he/him" "oh but they use she/her" and? that doesnt mean shit. its the same as using she/her for a boat.

one of the princesses even said herself, in plain emglish, they dont need labels. theyre not human. theyre not mortal. this shit is just whatever to them. if not for the narrator im not even sure they'd Use pronouns.

now, femininity and masculinity are Still big parts of the metanarrative, but besides like. how it affects people and media, i dont think gender itself matters at all. the princess is more the Idea of a woman. and the long quiet is the Idea of a man.

i actually have a lot to say about this but 1) im tired and 2) this post aint about that. point is: they're all trans and gay. use whatever pronouns you want. call them whatever you want. none of it matters, positively.

"Sacrifice the Yourself" (title pending), the hip new slay the princess swap AU, in which you and the girlies must decide if you're gonna let a giant bird stab you (and maybe.... find love?!)

I always forget that a lot of creators have their narilamb ship have that harsh dip in trust when narinder wants to sacrifice the lamb. I love it, it's a great dynamic, especially if there's and up before, I just forget sometimes that would be a natural progression of those characters

I thought since the start of the game that it would end with the lamb dead, even before it was revealed. You're always called a vessel, so I honestly thought the conclusion would be fight or you get possessed and they take the cult in your body. so i figured the lamb thought the same and either wanted to die since they were all alone, or were planning to fight all along. Honestly, before i found out narinder was a cat, i thought he was a dog, like an Anubis type, and it was a big "wolf in sheep's clothing" metaphor >_>; I'm kind of disappointed that didn't happen, honestly.

because of that thought process i had while playing, I designed Ewen from the beginning to want to die. only agreeing to be alive to get revenge on for indignity they suffered for their execution. I eventually expanded on the how's and whys, but that was always the starting point. Their attachment to narinder, along with the self worth that comes from being needed (even as a tool) was the only thing that gave them a drive to keep living, and the only reason they refused to give up the crown. If u wanna get all narrative fancy, I try to tie that back around to when they rescue their siblings, despite the fact that they think they'll take narinder away from them. That's the point when their completely selfish need for them becomes less "I'm going to do whatever it costs to keep him here to make me happy" to "I'm going to do whatever it costs to make him happy, even if it might take him away from me" love. which, of course, is terrifying lol. and then brings it back around to "his selfish need to do whatever it costs to keep me with him has to make me acknowledge I am worth love and he won't leave me" in a double fucked up way.

“I don’t know what my goals are, no. Thanks for asking.”

dealing with the worst case scenario

your condom breaks

you feel a lump on your breast

your friends are ignoring you

you’re stranded on an island 

you got rejected by a crush

you get into a car accident

you got stung by a bee/wasp

you got fired from your job

you’re in an earthquake

your tattoo gets infected

your house is on fire

you’re lost in the woods

you get arrested abroad

you get robbed

your partner cheated on you

you’re on a ship that’s sinking

you fall into ice

you’re stuck in an elevator

you hit a deer with your car

you have food poisoning

your pet passed away

you fall off of a horse

you or your friend has alcohol poisoning

you have toxic shock syndrome

your house has a gas leak

There's not a single Voice that actually seems to like Broken... Cheated is the only one who says anything remotely nice to him and even then it's a one-off thing... Opportunist and Contrarian outright call him the worst one... Hero is more upset with him in Tower and Tower->Fury than he is with maybe any other Voice in their own chapter...