𖤐 ̊+ 𓌜 The Voices// Slay The Princess! ༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻

[The Narrator: an echo of the man he used to be before he killed himself, in order to make the Construct and the Long Quiet, and trap TLQ with the Shifting Mound in it. Currently he acts as an extra voice in TLQ's head describing everything in prose and insisting that TLQ slays the princess. He is haughty and self-assured, and gets very annoyed when TLQ refuses his instructions or any of the other voices argue with him. The reason is because he is terrified of the inevitable Death that the Shifting Mound brings, including the death of the world. He wants the Princess dead so everything will stay the same forever. He doesn't want to tell anyone this because he's afraid it will give TLQ a bias. HOWEVER, in the Happily Ever After route where Smitten controls the Princess, he sees that staying the same forever is absolutely miserable and has an existential crisis.]

[Voice of the Hero, or just Hero: Always accompanies TLQ no matter what loop he's in. The basic conscience of a voice in TLQ's head, wanting to figure things out and do the right thing. He prefers to talk things out, but he's loyal to TLQ and will support whatever decision is made. He tries to stop the other voices from fighting and calls them out when they're being needlessly violent or hypocritical. He's cautious, but more open hearted.]

[Voice of the Broken, or just Broken: His voice appears when a loop has gone wrong and TLQ dies in a gruesome torture. He wants the pain to stop and usually insists on letting the Princess go. If the Princess is in a powerful form, like the Tower or the Moment of Clarity, he'll act like he's worshiping them because he believes TLQ is hopeless to resist. Fighting is pointless to him. He just wants out.]

[Voice of the Cheated: doesn't appear as often. He comes up when TLQ dies just short of a victory and it feels unfair. His voice sounds like a grizzled gambler playing blackjack. He just wants a fair victory, preferably for him and TLQ, but if it's fair for the Princess to win, he'll go with that, too. Angry about any and all unfairness.]

[Voice of the Cold: He appears when TLQ either acts mercilessly or is currently going through torture and needs the apathy to get through it. Unlike Broken, he's not begging for mercy; he doesn't feel the pain. He says it's not real and that all the other voices should just calm down because the torture can't hurt if they don't feel it. He also says that adding emotional bias to decisions about the Princess will only lead to more pain. But, he also doesn't want to be bored and he usually is.]

[Voice of the Contrarian: comes out when TLQ does something unexpected. He wants to keep being unexpected, to catch everyone off guard to get the truth or a smarter victory, or just to spite them if they annoy him. He'll throw the dagger in the cabin away if he thinks that will get a new ending. Or, he'll turn around and walk away from the cabin. He also doesn't like being bored, like Cold.]

[Voice of the Hunted: His voice comes when TLQ fights the Princess and loses. He feels like prey and wants to turn the roles of predator and prey around, and avoid getting killed again. He talks softly and gives quick advice for fighting or running, or points out things the others are ignoring, such as if the Princess in her Den form is actually hurt and scared rather than just hungry. He feels kinship with a scared Princess that just wants to survive.]

[Voice of the Opportunist: This voice just wants to take advantage of every opportunity to get ahead. None of the other voices like him, except maybe the Narrator, because the Opportunist will gladly take the Narrator's side in killing the Princess if it gets him on top. He'll advise the most underhanded things, or even try to usurp TLQ as the main voice in his head, and if it doesn't work, he pretends he never wanted that in the first place. So much gaslighting.]

[Voice of the Paranoid: He comes when TLQ is caught off guard, and wants to keep TLQ safe so that doesn't happen again. He's constantly whispering about feeling watched, or if someone is plotting behind his back, or if doing something wrong will result in worse pain. He also has the most common sense besides Hero and the Hunted, and will enforce grounding techniques if TLQ is close to losing himself to a meltdown or panic attack. If he sees evidence that things aren't what they seem and reality is falling apart, he has a meltdown himself and insists that everything is real.]

[Voice of the Skeptic: He appears when TLQ wants to ask the Narrator or the Princess too many questions. He wants the truth and doesn't trust anyone to tell him the truth, especially not the Narrator. He doubts every plan the voices come up with and says there must be something bigger going on--which there is, since they're trapped in a Construct. Gets along with Paranoid.]

[Voice of the Smitten: This voice is absolutely head-over-heels in love with the Princess no matter what form she takes. He always wants to free her or woo her, whether as the Damsel or as the Razor covered in knives. He's the happiest in the ending where you free the Damsel. However, in the Happily Ever After route where he thinks the Princess is happier staying in the cabin, he becomes a voice in her ear instead, pressuring her to stay happy, only to break down when the Princess breaks down and says she's miserable. Hurting the Princess is his worst horror, and even the Narrator became tired of staying in this route, letting the Princess leave with TLQ.]

[Voice of the Stubborn: He just wants to fight. That's his joy in life. This voice tells TLQ to brawl and keep brawling. He doesn't necessarily want to kill the Princess, and he thinks she's hottest as a buff fighter, a pile of knives, or a cat witch with an attitude. Basically any time she has an attitude is great, because then he can fight her. He just wants to fight endlessly and be strong and tough. Punching her in the face and then getting punched in the face is his love language. Total masochist.]

All of the voices actually wear suits, respective to their colors, and have pitch black veils that cover their 'heads'. Their heads are not there, but rather just invisible. They can still kiss and completely mark someone in their bites, but they seem to have no mouth, no face, nor eyes, set they can function normally. It's simply just invisibility.

The veils that cover all their faces are black on the outside, but have colorful designs on the visible inside, which makes it easy to tell who is who.

These colors are on their wrist cuffs of the onyx black suit, their ties, and on the inside of the veils.

Voice of the Narrator has white on the inside of his veil, and as the color of his tie, but the white is paired with book-like writing, some in language used today, and others lost to time. His veil is also softly decorated with small paper machete spheres made like a pearl necklace, made out of long-forgotten books he probably could read off himself.

Voice of the Stubborn has a dark, blue-tinted red inner veil, on his tie, and cuffs, clashing lightly with the dark black of the suit he's also adorned with. it could remind someone of blood, if not for the fact it's just fabric. He has nothing looping around his head, but often there are rips in the veil and white sewing/stitching lines from all the arguments and fights he's had and the repairs.

Voice of the Cold is a bit different, because on the inside of his veil is a dark, ice-like texture. He has actual pearls adorning his head, unlike Narrator with paper balls, but it's also mixed with clear, icicle-like beads that he fumbles with: often due to his natural boredom.

Voice of the Smitten has dark pink, with roses as the pattern within the coloring. His veil actually is a bit lace-shaped, and he has a rose on the pocket of his suit. He often smells a lot like chocolate!

Voice of the Paranoid is a dark gray veil, but he has scribbles and abstract patterns on the inside of his veil.

Voice of the Skeptic is like Paranoid's veil, yet it has four-pointed stars and question marks, plus a darker gray background to house the scribbles and abstract patterns. Skeptic and Paranoid actually have matching bracelets, which are silver, thin chains with a wing charm on either.

Voice of the Hunted has a darkened, muted purple veil with dark white dots, but he has a crosshair clip on the side of his head.

Voice of the Broken has a light gray veil, but it has glass-like cracks. He also, ironically, has broken glass for the decoration on his veil that Cold and Narrator have.

Voice of the Cheated has a striking deep blue veil, with lighter blue that appears as swirls.

Voice of the Opportunist has a deep, orange-ish blue veil, with frigid lines that are like more intense lighting bolts. They are black in color, but reflect under light.

Voice of the Contrarian has a lot more colorful scheme than the other's veils, but his veil's colors are also spilt in half to be simply full black. The black side, however, has white four-pointed stars like Skeptic's veil.