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girlie would be suspicious as hell about everything, from the situation to the narrator to the voice of the hero. but she wouldn't dip from this premise because she's taylor hebert (don't think I need to elaborate on that point).

she'd take the knife because better to have and not need and all, and would come face-to-face in that basement with a cynical manipulative bitch. the narrator's warning about the princess' scheming nature ironically enough ensured she'd be someone tay would never underestimate, since the blend of "pretty primadonna at the top of a hierarchy" and "prone to lying to get her way without a care for who gets hurt" obviously reminds her of emma.

the narrator is very happy that his protagonist refuses to trust the princess. the narrator is very unhappy that his protagonist believes the princess to be the most insidious kind of dangerous.

I think taylor would end up on the adversary route. she fully believes herself able to defeat the princess because tay knows she is ruthless and strong enough, but without her bugs or even armor her mortality is stark in her mind. so when she decides to kill the princess it ends up with both of them dead after an actual fight.

meanwhile lisa, and rachel, and a lot of characters probably, would end up on the stranger route by nopeing right the fuck outta the situation and continuing even after the narrator turns them back around towards the princess. lisa because she can tell it's making the narrator annoyed even as he tries to hide it, and rachel because she's plain stubborn. since you only need to turn around three times they wouldn't give up before going to the next chapter.

since the stranger is a railroaded path (the cheev you get from completing it literally references "the illusion of choice" lol) both of their following actions, while different, would still end up in the same place.

to see the tower you have to give up in a fight with the princess and I think colin would rather eat glass than do that honestly. but it would be very funny to hear him argue with voice of the broken trying to convince him to sell his soul.

thorn you have to give the witch your knife and I... genuinely cannot think of a worm character who would do that off the top of my head. naivety dies swiftly in that world.

and the fun thing about the razor is that going from purely the game mechanics a ton of people would get that ending checking the body, but in the story I'm pretty sure the key to it was the protag and hero actually arguing with the narrator and doubting her death. all the buildup of "should we check for a pulse?" was the clincher.

but someone who just automatically checks for a pulse, retrieves the weapon, maybe even goes for a cleaner more certain kill strike? they're not doing it out of fear, especially since she died so quickly. it's precaution as a habit. so I think that in the spirit of how the princess works they wouldn't trigger the razor route.

girlie would be suspicious as hell about everything, from the situation to the narrator to the voice of the hero. but she wouldn't dip from this premise because she's taylor hebert (don't think I need to elaborate on that point).

she'd take the knife because better to have and not need and all, and would come face-to-face in that basement with a cynical manipulative bitch. the narrator's warning about the princess' scheming nature ironically enough ensured she'd be someone tay would never underestimate, since the blend of "pretty primadonna at the top of a hierarchy" and "prone to lying to get her way without a care for who gets hurt" obviously reminds her of emma.

the narrator is very happy that his protagonist refuses to trust the princess. the narrator is very unhappy that his protagonist believes the princess to be the most insidious kind of dangerous.

I think taylor would end up on the adversary route. she fully believes herself able to defeat the princess because tay knows she is ruthless and strong enough, but without her bugs or even armor her mortality is stark in her mind. so when she decides to kill the princess it ends up with both of them dead after an actual fight.

meanwhile lisa, and rachel, and a lot of characters probably, would end up on the stranger route by nopeing right the fuck outta the situation and continuing even after the narrator turns them back around towards the princess. lisa because she can tell it's making the narrator annoyed even as he tries to hide it, and rachel because she's plain stubborn. since you only need to turn around three times they wouldn't give up before going to the next chapter.

since the stranger is a railroaded path (the cheev you get from completing it literally references "the illusion of choice" lol) both of their following actions, while different, would still end up in the same place.

to see the tower you have to give up in a fight with the princess and I think colin would rather eat glass than do that honestly. but it would be very funny to hear him argue with voice of the broken trying to convince him to sell his soul.

thorn you have to give the witch your knife and I... genuinely cannot think of a worm character who would do that off the top of my head. naivety dies swiftly in that world.

and the fun thing about the razor is that going from purely the game mechanics a ton of people would get that ending checking the body, but in the story I'm pretty sure the key to it was the protag and hero actually arguing with the narrator and doubting her death. all the buildup of "should we check for a pulse?" was the clincher.

but someone who just automatically checks for a pulse, retrieves the weapon, maybe even goes for a cleaner more certain kill strike? they're not doing it out of fear, especially since she died so quickly. it's precaution as a habit. so I think that in the spirit of how the princess works they wouldn't trigger the razor route.