Original Comic By Rasenth

CONTRARIAN!!!!!❤️🐦‍⬛❤️❤️🐦‍⬛❤️❤️❤️❤️🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛❤️🐦‍⬛❤️🐦‍⬛❤️❤️🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

Voice of the Contrarian doodle 👌

something i’m fascinated by creatively is the negative space of game design. how just the knowledge that a mechanic or story path exists can fundamentally change your relationship to the work even if you never experience it directly. bad endings that most people don’t get. characters in multiplayer games that dictate the meta despite never being played. a hundred secrets in a game where most players will only find five. games are the only medium where this kind of non-content can haunt and infect everything else and i love them for that

This is one of the reasons I LOVE stranger so much, the recontextualization of the situation. This is best shown when she talks about she being "The Stranger"

here she is accepting the undeniable fact that she will always be a stranger, but instead of fighting what happened to her she redefines what it means for her.

While something strange can mean something you aren't close with it can also mean something wonderful and new to discover and experience, thus by changing the meaning and not the fact she finds happines and meaning in what she is and has lived.

pd: I replayed an entire run(??) to take this screenshot and I've seen skeptic EOTN for the first time and I wanna comment some things about it

Thinking about how at the End of Everything, both the Soft and Harsh Princesses will express disinterest in being a god, and it is a declaration of their agency when they've largely been denied that agency in what they will become for the entire game. And so by not wanting to be a god, they are able to become their own person.

Thinking about how at the End of Everything, the Stranger says you shouldn't deny part of yourself if you say you dont want to be a god. And they were forced to become what is the most blatantly unpleasant [and likely painful] form of the Princess, but they do not resent you for it and instead have accepted their new condition and their godly nature as parts of them. Denial of the self does not negate it.

did someone say… CONTRARIAN REDRAW?!

Crickets…

…no? Alright I’ll take my leave 😔

Thank you Princess

She deserves her own wings, god I need a bird Princess wait hold on I CAN MAKE ONE

inspiration derived from @waokevale ‘s fanfiction !

He can take her

I had to and I'm not even sorry

They're both contra. prove me wrong

special defense

does this count as anything ???is this art

Slay the Princess: a summary

Ideas/ characteristics I like about the voices desing

If the title wasn't clear enough I wanna write about some of the desing elements that I've seen for the voices + ones that I came up with and think they would be cool

GENERAL :

I really like the idea of giving every voice their respective princesses' crown, not only because it fits pretty well most of them but also because it makes it easy to instantly recognize which voice are you looking at. This idea comes from @pixiefeatherkw3

PARA:

I like it when people give him very spiky feathers becuse it makes him look like he has goosebumps and gives him a very "jumpy" look. I also think it would be a really cool Idea to draw para with eyes on his wings (to clarify i've seen people draw hunted with eye-like marks on his wings but here I'm talking about seeing functioning eyes) mainly because of two reasons

He is often shown as very observant and vigilant so having a lot of eyes that he can wrap around him to see in a 360º angle makes a lot of sense to me.

It would be a paralel with nightmare

(i will be expanding more on this post on the future)