Love! From pixels.
sketches of spectre princess and some skulls
I have been waiting all year to post this.
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.
Also a lot of people Talk about Cheated and Oppy, but to me It doesn't really seem like Cheated dislikes Oppy more than any of the voices do. In thorn he doesn't seem to despise Oppy any more than Hero and when anyone talks about him they say he's annoying at best. Like no one can even be genuinely angry at him because he so obviously bad at what he does that he isn't even a threat.
we don't talk enough about our voices beef headcanons. c'mon, no way these guys always get along, have you seen their interactions?
Cheated and Oppy absolutely despise each other. Cheated is too much of a righteous little prick, and worries a lot about fairness for someone who is willing to stab others in the back if she suspects any foul play, and Opportunist is Opportunist.
Contra is sure most of the other hates them, and makes no effort in really changing that or even giving others much grace when they're the ones who start annoying him.
Stubborn cannot fucking stand Skeptic. he's all just yap yap yap, and no action! Why do others listen to him and not Opportunist, if they all love a big talk so much?
Is there a difference between getting MAD or EC on the razor route or is it just random?
Also some people call her always the razor and some call her MAD/EC razor when she's in her final form but if we name each princess by their chapter's names this one is technically "The arms race"