History Characters / SlayThePrincess

* CreepyMonotone: With a very few exceptions, he constantly talks in a cold, emotionless monotone, with at most a slight hint of amusmenet.

* LackOfEmpathy: He is extremely detached and uncaring of any harm or suffering inflicted on the Princess.

* AmazonChaser: He's ''very'' into the more physically imposing and combative Princesses.

* CombatSadomasochist: Every bit as much as the Adversary.

* WrongGenreSavvy: He's of the belief that there's a logical explanation for what's happening and he just needs more information to unravel it, like solving a puzzle. Unfortunately, he's in a CosmicHorrorStory and what's happening behind the scenes doesn't follow the rules of the world you think you're in. And while he's justified in his suspicion of the Narrator, it turns out the Narrator [[CassandraTruth does have valid reasons for acting as he does.]]

* BadLiar: He's very bad at pretending to be a loyal ally, although to be fair it's less due to a lack of skoll and more due to the fact he'll regularly change allegiance mid conversation and [[ImplausibleDeniability try to pretend he's been on his current side the whole time]].

-> '''Hero:''' ''That one's not the smooth talker he thinks he is.''

* BadLiar: He's very bad at pretending to be a loyal ally, although to be fair it's less due to a lack of skull and more due to the facthe'll reguarly change allegiance mid conversation and [[ImplausibleDeniability try to pretend he's been on his current side the whole time]].

* SmugSnake: He thinks of himself as a cunning ManipulativeBastard who's skillfully playing the Long Quiet, the Narrator, the Princess and the others Voices for his own gain. He might even have managed it if he was just able to hide it.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: If you let the Witch follow you up the stairs, and thus you get your back broken by her dragging the both of you down, the Voice of the Opportunist laments not walking up the stairs behind her, because he planned to use the Pristine Blade on her when they made it to the cabin. The Voice of the Hero points out that, since she was planning to betray you first, she would have also gotten to the blade first. Indeed, if you follow the Witch up the stairs, you don't even get the chance to use the blade, because the Witch locks the door in front of you.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: From the Voice of the Smitten's perspective, as in the romancing-the-Thorn route he agrees with the Narrator about killing the Princess, then agrees with his fellow voices about freeing her, then points out that she'd be really easy to backstab, and as the Thorn and the Player leave the cabin together he says he's been on their side the whole time. The Smitten forgives him with a bit of pompous drama.

* RealityWarper: With his narration he can change the Construct in clearly unnatural ways, doing things like taking control of your body, making objects appear and warping space. [[DownplayedTrope However]], it's implied that largely a bluff based on the perception-based nature of the Construct -- if the Player or Princess resist his changes, they can almost always do so.

* TheSlimeball: He's a manipulative, selfish, amoral voice who'll happily suck up to whoever's most powerful and immediately stab them in the back once he finds a better option. He's [[BadLiar very bad at hiding it though]], so most of the other Voices just treat him as a minor annoyance.

* ManipulativeBastard: The Narrator wants you to slay the princess, and he's willing to use any means necessary to ensure that you do so. Including [[LyingByOmission lies by omission]], giving you information that is only [[MetaphoricallyTrue metaphorically true]], and keeping you in the dark as best he can through {{gaslighting}}, guilt-tripping, flattery, snark and insults in equal measure. In the Chapter I scenarios where you free the Princess from ther chains and try to leave with her, he will even take control of your body to physically force you to kill her.

* NoNameGiven: He's subtitled "The Narrator" but doesn't exactly introduce himself. One of the Voices says "We've been calling him the narrator".

* TheUnfettered: By his own admission, there's no line he wouldn't cross to erase death from the universe -- not lying, not murder, not torture. Interestingly, in the Nightmare route, he's forced to experience what he did to the princess firsthand, and ''does'' have a MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction. Of course, that version of the Narrator soon ceases to exist, and the other incarnations keep their callousness.

* AmazonChaser: He's ''very'' into the more physically imposing and combative princess.

* AllForNothing: He wants the Long Quiet to kill the Shifting Mound, then remain alone in the Construct for eternity. This doesn't happen in any of the endings.

-> '''Stubbon''': ''[Chuckles] Good. Sounds like my kind of princess.''

** While the Princess doesn't mention your appearance often, different forms make passing remarks about it. The Tower and the Eye of the Needle both refer to you as "little bird" along with the Tower mentioning your beak, the Razor calls you a "silly little birdface", and the Prisoner tells you to "be a good bird."

* AnthropomorphicPersonificaiton: Delved into less then the Princess, but the Player is the embodiment of stability and stasis.

** '''Ignorance''': The Narrator is not omniscent, and many details are simply missed by him. He is unable to remember the previous loop, [[RippleEffectProofMemory unlike you]], he seems genuinely unaware of the mirror that appears in Chapter II and Chapter III, and doesn't seem to consider the basement becoming an endless void or the woods becoming a mass of meat to be out of the ordinary. The Narrator can flat-out give you an incorrect impression of what is happening and become blindsided by the Player or the Princess' actions. Despite his attempts to function as a guide, he can end up far less informed about what's going on than you become just by exploring various options.

* AnthropomorphicPersonificaiton: Delved into less then the Princess, but the Player the embodiment of stability and stasis.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: If he appears when you fight The Witch head on and get crushed and reborn with her as The Wild, he is as willing to let go of your past grievances as all the other voices. For a BloodKnight, this should be a sign there is merit to The Wild's words that you are both meant to be one. A bigger red flag is when the Narrator tries to make you recall your anger to get you to seperate. The Stubborn ''pushes back'' and tells you to ignore those thoughts. Following his advice allows you and The Wild to make a crack in the construct.

* BeastMan: You may have a humanoid shape, but you are nothing close to a human. Your arms bear some resemblance to bird legs, with feathers on the upper arm, scales on the lower arm and hand, and taloned fingers. The rest of you remains hidden and is completely obscured in shadow even when you look in a mirror, save for two white eyes. In flashes the Shifting Mound shows of you from the Princess's perspective, you also have the outlines of two ear-like feathery tufts.

* BirdPeople: The Player is one and at several points this is mentioned outright or subtly mentioned.
** During different portions of the game your hands and feet are shown to heavily resemble bird feet, most times you are wounded by the princess you are shown with feathers flying off your body, and when the Adversary [[LosingYourHead destroys your face and smears it across the walls]] you can see what appears to be part of a beak among the pieces.

* NoNameGiven: The Player is often referred to with SecondPersonNarration, Hero, or by the title of "The Long Quiet" or several nicknames the Princess gives. What your name is never comes up, but it's likely that based on [[DeityofMortalCreation the nature of what the Long Quiet is,]] you never had a name to begin with. In the new update to the game's "And? What happens next?" endings the soft Princess will call the Player "Quiet" and the cynical Princess will call the Player "Hero".

* NoNameGiven: The Player is often referred to with SecondPersonNarration, Hero, or by the title of "The Long Quiet" or several nicknames the Princess gives. What your name is never comes up, but it's likely that based on [[DeityofMortalCreation the nature of what the Long Quiet is,]] you never had a name to begin with.

* NotSoStoic: There will be times in the game when even the Voice of the Cold is flabbergasted by the bizarre situations the Player and Voices find themselves in, especially during the Moment of Clarity route. The Voice of the Cold also did not enjoy the Narrator trapping the Player in the Long Quiet as a "reward" and is [[TranquilFury coldly bitter]] towards the Narrator during the Spectre route.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He will use the Princess' lack of detail (like not giving you her name) as proof that she can't be trusted, even though he refuses to give you any details on why you would need to slay her in the first place.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Despite his own claim that he died, the fact that he still persists as an echo have shades of this trope. His MortalityPhobia was such that he found shattering himself into countless broken shard to torment the gods he had created for all eternity to be a better option than simply dying.