I like how in this scene, the contrarian acts like a little kid, the hero voice is the teenage brother who's worried about everything, and the narrator is the tired adult that's babysitting them.
I like that the Voices just float around, being fragments of a god and all, while the Narrator, former mortal that he is, has to manually flap his wings.
@@dantevalehuntik28And also more combat viable.With the blade up you can do a quick thrust wich will hurt bit wont be that deadly or you can do a slash but that requiers a wind up opening you up With a downwards facing plade you can do a quick slash acros the chest (not really deadly but really painfull) and you end up with a blade at neck height ready to stab it, and your arm moves up covering you instead of away opening you up
I absolutely love the sass in every frame of Contrarian's movements. Really captures his "screw you" attitude toward basically everything. Contrasted against Hero's constant "Well. This is horrifying." vibe, it's even better.
This has been on my mind for a while. The Voice of the Contrarian doesn't just want to have fun, what is most important to him is having freedom. He always wants to defy the narrator because he thinks that the narrator is being bossy and letting him do that makes him feel that he isn't choosing. The reason why Contrarian gets upset when the Princess fractures too much is because: if you were going to get every answer from a question then the answer losses meaning, if the answer looses meaning then so does the question, and if the question has no meaning then the choice has no meaning. What is most important to Contrarian isn't fun, it's freedom. (EDIT: Yes, I have seen the therapist play the game, stop asking.)
There's a therapist playing Slay the Princess who's gotten onto the topic of choice theory and personal needs like fun in the second episode. If he ever gets to the Stranger route or something with the Contrarian, be sure to tell him about it in the comments
I love your analysis, I've never considered that before! It adds so much more to the Voice of the Contrarian, and I just love it >XD I've also been watching the therapist guy! Really hope he gets Stranger and Contrarian, but if not, it'll still be exciting to hear his analysis on the other voices and princesses he gets :D
Yeah, I've been watching him too, but I wished he got the cage instead of the patient's heart. It adds so much philosophical stuff, especially the part where you see through her eyes.
Watching the Narrator and Voices making complex facial expressions and body language then smash cut straight into LQ just standing there with a stupid vacant stare is hilarious every time.
@@redhand8836It's so funny! I absolutely LOVE that they made that conon. Even before the update, it was shown quite a few times that was happening. Nightmare straight up said once, "You've been staring blankly for a while now and I have to say my patience is running low." It's amazing lmaooo
@@CowMalicious9479I got that piece of dialogue in the nightmare chapter while I was playing the other day! I love that they confirmed that the LQ just stares into the void while the voices are talking
As much as I want to join the chorus of comments surrounding how adorable and funny everyone in this animation is, I want to take a moment to say how cool the shot at 0:53 is. The very abnormal perspective showing a part of the cabin we never see really helps to depict how warped this place is. You did great with this.
I love Contrarian. I love Contrarian's smile. :} I love Contrarian's dialogue. I love it when the blade gets thrown out of the window. I fucking love Contrarian :}
I'm fully convinced the Contrarian is the strongest voice in the Protagonists head. Dude just never lets anything get to him and always flips the table on others.
I don’t know how else to explain it but I ADORE how… delightfully uncanny Contrarian looks? His facial expressions feel so very human, but his body language in some parts feel very bird! He feels like a bit at both ends of man to bird spectrum instead of at the middle! I also just love his design! It feels kinda like the opposite of LQ’s/Hero’s design. With the longer ear feathers, cheek ruff, and smaller wings, it just adds that subtly mischievous touch that makes Contrarian Contrarian!
I love that when the Voices & Narrator turn to the player waiting for them to make a decision, the Contrarian’s head does a full 180 BEFORE their body turns around to match it 😂 very fitting for that gremlin of a voice
Random Headcanon: I feel like Long Quiet doesn't ACTUALLY speak. Every dialogue choice you pick is just him making bird noises and The Princess and Narrator just seem to understand him.
Actually this headcanon kinda disproven where turns out in the tower fury route once tower fury basically give us a chance to speak- we can actually hear what he sounds like and he sounds like one of the voices despite it being moist like it wouldn’t make sense if quiet/decider only does bird sounds if he sounds like one of the voices
@@latlequin1tho that doesn’t explain the tower fury route where once fury kinda heal us to speak we literally sound like one of the voices just moist like
@@QuickquestionSuxballsI think it only sounds that way because we're not using a proper vocal system. We probably sound however we want to sound. Still.... Voice of the Moist!
One word: YEET More Words: your attention to detail in these animations is just so amazing! The facial expressions, tail wag, and the fact LQ does not talk and yet you can tell what they are thinking through facial expression. That being said love how Contrarian stands out from the rest with how extra expressive he is. Has "the horrors persist and yet I remain silly" vibes
"What's the worst that could happen? The world ends? Been there. Done that." I LOVE that about Contrarian so much. also I'M SO HAPPY YOU POSTED MORE AHHH
That's exactly how I imagined The Contrarian - Little chaotic goofy goober. I can feel the amount of gremlin energy inside him just by looking at the video. I love it.
I love how much you did with their tails in this one! Especially Contrarian’s happy little waggles at 3:11, it’s so cute! (Oh, and Contrarian’s owl-head-spin at 2:16. Took a couple rewatches to spot that one.)
This game gets very, very _interesting_ if you entirely ignore the narrator on the second chapters and _only_ listen to whatever Voice you've got from your last go.
I love how in certain points in the story some voices show that they are the same person in the end like how in certain chapters broken keeps you grounded and helps you through tough times because he knows what that feels like, and the contrarion helps to ease your fear by making you laugh, I love him alot because he's kinda like that little brother who you might bicker with but at the end of the day you still care about each other, plus throwing the knife out the window is always funny even the princess throws it out the window at least once
Oh my god this is AMAZING! I love how expressive the Contrarian is. It suits his personality so well! And his design is so goofy and adorable I love it! And I _love_ that the ear things they have sometimes looking like devil horns. It's such a small yet really smart detail that adds a lot to him. Also poor Hero, give my boi a hug! I also love the little detail of Contrarian noticing how freaked out he is and trying to reassure him by telling him to go with the flow. Their dynamic is so adorable I love those two!
Now thanks to the Princess and the Dragon chapter we have our best view at what the Long Quiet looks like so I wonder if animators are gonna change how they draw it, problaby not which is totally reasonable as it is a complicated design And also the design you draw for each voice are already good and cute
Not sure how you would’ve animated it but there is a really cool detail in this route that when you throw the blade out the window, BOTH windows break. Because the place is all wrong, you kind of “throw the knife out of both windows.” But either way these animations are so fun, i love the amount of character you give with their movements, I hope you keep making these. I’d also like to recommend clicking through the dialogue since I feel like sometimes the auto doesn’t time the dialogue correctly and feels a bit too long at some points.
I'm pretty sure they said they use playthroughs with no commentary because they don't have the game themselves. So they can't really do much about that.
I really feel that the game missed out on having this kind of visual dynamic with the "angle(s) on your shoulder" aspect. Though the idea of just disembodied voices work well too.
"That's a sick joke universe. A sick, sick joke." You could really hear the regret in his voice so much during that scene. Goodness the Razor route is filled with so many good moments XD
@@CowMalicious9479I think there was more frustration than regret. Well, at least not as much regret as near the end of Stranger anyway. "If it isn't here, then maybe we never actually needed it." - Skeptic.
Absolutely amazing as always. I love how you always add more to the voices personality by giving them expressive body language, so keep up the good work! I would love it if you did the new Fury route with the Stubborn and Contrarian, as their interactions with each other and with the hero are some of my favorite recent additions.
0:55 I really REALLY like the camera angle here, this is the first time I say this in one of your video but in general I like EVERY camera angles even in the previois video You know to make look more Cinematic an animation
I like how in this scene, the contrarian acts like a little kid, the hero voice is the teenage brother who's worried about everything, and the narrator is the tired adult that's babysitting them.
Lmao that's hilarious! XD
This is literally over the garden wall
I like that the Voices just float around, being fragments of a god and all, while the Narrator, former mortal that he is, has to manually flap his wings.
I never noticed that, really cool detail.
groomer flag
@@reksapluss716 what?
@@Freezaggerignore the trolls
@@Freezagger It's just a transphobic, ignore it.
He’s right though. Holding the blade downwards does look much cooler.
Nice detail is that in game even you cursor changes to holding blade downwards.
It's also safer; the way the long quiet was holding it originally made it so that if he tripped he would be more likely to accidentally stab himself
Agreed, although it is the (almost completely) strictly worse way to hold it for stabbing purposes
@@dantevalehuntik28And also more combat viable.With the blade up you can do a quick thrust wich will hurt bit wont be that deadly or you can do a slash but that requiers a wind up opening you up
With a downwards facing plade you can do a quick slash acros the chest (not really deadly but really painfull) and you end up with a blade at neck height ready to stab it, and your arm moves up covering you instead of away opening you up
The Contrarian’s ear-feather-tufts-things becoming the shape of devil horns is a touch of pure genius.
He just looks like a little gremlin.
@@jonathangoodwin5609He is the ultimate little gremlin
Oh! He's like the devil on the shoulder trope!
I love how contrarian turns his head 180° and then turns his body (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧
He's such a silly guy
Little owl thing :3
I absolutely love the sass in every frame of Contrarian's movements. Really captures his "screw you" attitude toward basically everything. Contrasted against Hero's constant "Well. This is horrifying." vibe, it's even better.
This has been on my mind for a while.
The Voice of the Contrarian doesn't just want to have fun, what is most important to him is having freedom. He always wants to defy the narrator because he thinks that the narrator is being bossy and letting him do that makes him feel that he isn't choosing. The reason why Contrarian gets upset when the Princess fractures too much is because: if you were going to get every answer from a question then the answer losses meaning, if the answer looses meaning then so does the question, and if the question has no meaning then the choice has no meaning.
What is most important to Contrarian isn't fun, it's freedom.
(EDIT: Yes, I have seen the therapist play the game, stop asking.)
There's a therapist playing Slay the Princess who's gotten onto the topic of choice theory and personal needs like fun in the second episode. If he ever gets to the Stranger route or something with the Contrarian, be sure to tell him about it in the comments
I love your analysis, I've never considered that before! It adds so much more to the Voice of the Contrarian, and I just love it >XD
I've also been watching the therapist guy! Really hope he gets Stranger and Contrarian, but if not, it'll still be exciting to hear his analysis on the other voices and princesses he gets :D
Yeah, I've been watching him too, but I wished he got the cage instead of the patient's heart. It adds so much philosophical stuff, especially the part where you see through her eyes.
Yeah, I know about the therapist. In fact, this analyzation is based off of Choice Theory as described in his EP 2.
@@dangergames5113 The part where you see through her eyes? Pretty sure that's the Dragon one instead
Watching the Narrator and Voices making complex facial expressions and body language then smash cut straight into LQ just standing there with a stupid vacant stare is hilarious every time.
Spoilers:
what's funnier is: that's canonically what's happening with the LQ when he's having internal discussions.
@@redhand8836ikr right so rude
@@redhand8836It's so funny! I absolutely LOVE that they made that conon. Even before the update, it was shown quite a few times that was happening. Nightmare straight up said once, "You've been staring blankly for a while now and I have to say my patience is running low." It's amazing lmaooo
@@CowMalicious9479I got that piece of dialogue in the nightmare chapter while I was playing the other day! I love that they confirmed that the LQ just stares into the void while the voices are talking
Hero: Neutral Good
Narrator: Lawful Neutral
Contrarian: Chaotic Neutral
I think of the Narrator more as True Neutral
@@n0n4me77he’s more like lawful neutral I think. He means well but he’s not very good intended. He’s also a lot about keeping an order
I always thought the narrator as lawful evil. I really wouldn't describe him as 'good.'
@ maybe if it were a real princess it’d be lawful evil
have you played through the game? he's pretty lawful evil
or maybe lawful scared? lol
I adore the little arc contrarian makes at 0:24 as he playfully tosses himself across the room like a hackeysack
Contrarian doing an owlturn at 2:16 just fits so well into the whole madness
I love how the Contrarian can just. Snap his head backwards like an owl
As much as I want to join the chorus of comments surrounding how adorable and funny everyone in this animation is, I want to take a moment to say how cool the shot at 0:53 is. The very abnormal perspective showing a part of the cabin we never see really helps to depict how warped this place is. You did great with this.
Yeah, I loved that part! I thought the eyes were a really cool detail the first time I saw it. I love Nightmare!
I love Contrarian.
I love Contrarian's smile. :}
I love Contrarian's dialogue.
I love it when the blade gets thrown out of the window.
I fucking love Contrarian :}
Same lol
I think the Contrarian is just our intrusive and crazy thoughts 😅
This guy’s smitten with the contrarian
We all love Contrarian
I'm fully convinced the Contrarian is the strongest voice in the Protagonists head. Dude just never lets anything get to him and always flips the table on others.
0:48 has to be my favorite scene ever lol. The contrarian's face captures his entire personality 🤣
lol I never noticed that at first! I love how Contrarian’s face is just :P
i love contrarian in stranger hes so supportively rude
3:12 the little tail wag is sooooo cute! Fits him so well (not romantically)
idk you seem pretty smitten over it
@ haha. In like a little brother way. (Your comment got me laughing so much though XD)
I don’t know how else to explain it but I ADORE how… delightfully uncanny Contrarian looks? His facial expressions feel so very human, but his body language in some parts feel very bird! He feels like a bit at both ends of man to bird spectrum instead of at the middle!
I also just love his design! It feels kinda like the opposite of LQ’s/Hero’s design. With the longer ear feathers, cheek ruff, and smaller wings, it just adds that subtly mischievous touch that makes Contrarian Contrarian!
I love that when the Voices & Narrator turn to the player waiting for them to make a decision, the Contrarian’s head does a full 180 BEFORE their body turns around to match it 😂 very fitting for that gremlin of a voice
I love Contrarian's dinky little ears lmao
Random Headcanon: I feel like Long Quiet doesn't ACTUALLY speak. Every dialogue choice you pick is just him making bird noises and The Princess and Narrator just seem to understand him.
This would make sense if not for The Princess and The Dragon chapter
@@janitordel6296 It's only the Decider that makes bird noises, the rest of them speak normally
Actually this headcanon kinda disproven where turns out in the tower fury route once tower fury basically give us a chance to speak- we can actually hear what he sounds like and he sounds like one of the voices despite it being moist like it wouldn’t make sense if quiet/decider only does bird sounds if he sounds like one of the voices
@@latlequin1tho that doesn’t explain the tower fury route where once fury kinda heal us to speak we literally sound like one of the voices just moist like
@@QuickquestionSuxballsI think it only sounds that way because we're not using a proper vocal system. We probably sound however we want to sound. Still....
Voice of the Moist!
One word: YEET
More Words:
your attention to detail in these animations is just so amazing! The facial expressions, tail wag, and the fact LQ does not talk and yet you can tell what they are thinking through facial expression. That being said love how Contrarian stands out from the rest with how extra expressive he is. Has "the horrors persist and yet I remain silly" vibes
Having the contrarian look like a cat is peak design choice 👌
3:41 best line
contrarian: "We do a bit of trolling around here."
"What's the worst that could happen? The world ends? Been there. Done that." I LOVE that about Contrarian so much.
also I'M SO HAPPY YOU POSTED MORE AHHH
That's exactly how I imagined The Contrarian - Little chaotic goofy goober. I can feel the amount of gremlin energy inside him just by looking at the video. I love it.
I'm loving these My favorite part is when Contrarian turns his head around and casually forgets to turn his body for a moment.
I loved that part. He's such a silly goofy guy
I love how much you did with their tails in this one! Especially Contrarian’s happy little waggles at 3:11, it’s so cute!
(Oh, and Contrarian’s owl-head-spin at 2:16. Took a couple rewatches to spot that one.)
1:55-2:08 Perfect advice for this whole game, really.
Contrarian is such a gremlin lol
2:16 Dora the Explorer energy right here
And just like in the show, you can purposely shout the "wrong answer"
I fucking love these birds
CONTRARIAN IS SO EXPRESSIVE I LOVE HIM SO MUCH
The long quiet just awkwardly standing there while the voice in his head argue XD
You should do one on the specter possessing LQ, have the princess get in on the nonsense.
Or Wraith and Opportunist 😂
Long Quiet is always so silly in these animatics I love him sm
The contrarian is such a little mischievous guy I love them
✨🤍🖤✨
Contrarian doing a >:3 face is so cute. He's one of my favorite Voices.
This game gets very, very _interesting_ if you entirely ignore the narrator on the second chapters and _only_ listen to whatever Voice you've got from your last go.
The way you draw the Contrarian is *hilarious* and I must thank you for bringing him into the world.
i like it when they all just stare eerily at the camera waiting for LQ to make a choice like they're in a video game (which they are)
i love Contrarian’s constant shit-eating grin you portrayed him so well
Oh my god I _just_ noticed Contrarian looks/swivels his head like an Owl at 2:17 and its _SENDING_ me help.
It's so funny knowing that all of this is happening in real time
I love how in certain points in the story some voices show that they are the same person in the end like how in certain chapters broken keeps you grounded and helps you through tough times because he knows what that feels like, and the contrarion helps to ease your fear by making you laugh, I love him alot because he's kinda like that little brother who you might bicker with but at the end of the day you still care about each other, plus throwing the knife out the window is always funny even the princess throws it out the window at least once
Oh my god this is AMAZING! I love how expressive the Contrarian is. It suits his personality so well! And his design is so goofy and adorable I love it! And I _love_ that the ear things they have sometimes looking like devil horns. It's such a small yet really smart detail that adds a lot to him. Also poor Hero, give my boi a hug! I also love the little detail of Contrarian noticing how freaked out he is and trying to reassure him by telling him to go with the flow. Their dynamic is so adorable I love those two!
I am loving Contrarian's natural OuO face
I like how they switched knife grip positions just to make it easier to throw
The contrarian is such a fun voice every time he appears.
You really translated the dynamics of each character nicely into drawing!
Contrarian really said :}
Now thanks to the Princess and the Dragon chapter we have our best view at what the Long Quiet looks like so I wonder if animators are gonna change how they draw it, problaby not which is totally reasonable as it is a complicated design
And also the design you draw for each voice are already good and cute
I think they said no, but they've got something planned for the Dragon
Dude The Hero is STRESSING in every frame. Love that guy
god i love the contrarian, he is just like me fr fr
LQ's tail wagging is the height of cuteness
I love the Contrarian's facial expressions
Yet another reason Contrarian is my favorite
Not sure how you would’ve animated it but there is a really cool detail in this route that when you throw the blade out the window, BOTH windows break. Because the place is all wrong, you kind of “throw the knife out of both windows.”
But either way these animations are so fun, i love the amount of character you give with their movements, I hope you keep making these.
I’d also like to recommend clicking through the dialogue since I feel like sometimes the auto doesn’t time the dialogue correctly and feels a bit too long at some points.
I'm pretty sure they said they use playthroughs with no commentary because they don't have the game themselves. So they can't really do much about that.
Everyone’s talking about the animatic itself and not about the true star, the thumbnails
3:03
"Yeees!... This is so much better! 😁"
--Voice, Contrarian.
I really feel that the game missed out on having this kind of visual dynamic with the "angle(s) on your shoulder" aspect. Though the idea of just disembodied voices work well too.
I was playing that route and wish I had taken the blade so I could trow it trought the window too.
1:50 - 2:22
I absolutely LOVE how curious (and chaotic) Contrarian’s actions are, especially the head before body turn at the end
“Is throwing the blade the only thing weve done that’s permanent?!”
"That's a sick joke universe. A sick, sick joke."
You could really hear the regret in his voice so much during that scene. Goodness the Razor route is filled with so many good moments XD
@@CowMalicious9479I think there was more frustration than regret. Well, at least not as much regret as near the end of Stranger anyway.
"If it isn't here, then maybe we never actually needed it." - Skeptic.
@@reubensalter8125 Yeah, that's a much better way to describe it.
Putting THIS into my Favorites...!
The voice of the contrairions design reminds me of barnaby from billie bust up
The Nightmare eyes in the ceiling are a nice touch.
They really are
Absolutely amazing as always. I love how you always add more to the voices personality by giving them expressive body language, so keep up the good work!
I would love it if you did the new Fury route with the Stubborn and Contrarian, as their interactions with each other and with the hero are some of my favorite recent additions.
I like how they all have the head empty, no thoughts eyes
Poor Hero looks so concerned!
I Noticed That You Made Them Cuter Than Before, Specially The Narrator With His Bigger Eyes And Pupils
..the more I watch these, the more I think I would love the idea of a Slay the Princess show..
Anxious Hero is something I never knew I needed lol
Ahahaahahahaaaa I love the Narrator’s design
You made the Contrarian look really cute with the sassy gremlin kid vibe.
Mad props for pulling off the perspective at 0:55 and the hand movements at 3:01
2:16 Yo??!?! What a goober! I love this
They all have such long pauses between their turns to talk
2:17 just noticed Contrarian turning his head around, followed by his body, like a freaking owl!
its so cool seeing your drawings grow in expressiveness and use more fluid animation!!!!! i love watching ur work
When you play DnD but all of your crews are advising you:
I love how we can see the conversation between the voices is happening in real-time.
You illustrated this scene perfectly, bravo!
The title is TOO hysterically funny. Instant fav
ngl... why does this animation style remind me of invader zim?
Honey, wake up, JustCherryQwQ dropped yet another peak!
amazing work, i just saw the resto of the videos and suddenly a new one, trully a blessing
3:11 cute tail wiggle
I was hugely disappointed to find out this video was not a crow, throwing a knife
Contrarian my beloved
Contrarian seeing the Razors final form: You think we cant throw HER out of the window?
I love your animations of STP so much!!! Genuinely expresses the events in the exact way imagined them going down!
god. poor narrator. i _love_ your design
I love Contrarian's silly face
3:00 I know how hard that must have been to animate, and it still came out perfectly
You know the broken voice? I imagine him just like Himejima from demon slayer
A buff guy who is constantly crying
That would be hilarious! Though I think it would suit him better to be another smol boy. That's just what I think tho
lq's little tail❤
0:55 I really REALLY like the camera angle here, this is the first time I say this in one of your video but in general I like EVERY camera angles even in the previois video
You know to make look more Cinematic an animation