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   Kiss the Princess by Vickysaurus

   Fandom Slay the Princess (Visual Novel)

   • Mature, General Audiences, Teen And Up Audiences, Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply, Major Character Death
   • F/M, Multi, F/F, M/M
   • Series in Progress

   07 Jan 2026

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Major Character Death
   • The Long Quiet/The Princess (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Razor (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Princess (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Smitten/The Razor (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Razor (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Stubborn/The Razor (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Hero/The Razor (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Cheated/The Razor (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Witch (Slay the Princess)
   • The Witch/Voice of the Opportunist (Slay the Princess)
   • The Witch/Voice of the Hero (Slay the Princess
   • The Long Quiet/The Witch (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Wild (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Wounded Wild (Slay the Princess)
   • The Wounded Wild / Voice of the Hero (Slay the Princess)
   • The Wounded Wild / Voice of the Opportunist (Slay the Princess)
   • The Wounded Wild / Voice of the Stubborn (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Wild (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Wounded Wild (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Spectre (Slay the Princess)
   • The Spectre/Voice of the Hero (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Spectre (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Adversary (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Hero/The Adversary (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Stubborn/The Adversary (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Eye of the Needle (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Hero/The Eye of the Needle (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Stubborn/The Eye of the Needle (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Smitten/The Eye of the Needle
   • The Long Quiet/The Adversary (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Eye of the Needle (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Shifting Mound (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Shifting Mound (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Prisoner (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Prisoner (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Hero/The Prisoner (Slay the Princess)
   • The Prisoner/Voice of the Skeptic (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Nightmare (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Nightmare (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Smitten/The Nightmare (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Shifting Mound/The Thorn (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Shifting Mound/The Thorn (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Thorn (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Thorn (Slay the Princess)
   • The Shifting Mound/The Thorn (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Damsel (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Damsel (Slay the Princess)
   • The Damsel/Voice of the Smitten (Slay the Princess)
   • The Damsel/Voice of the Hero/Voice of the Smitten (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Tower (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Fury (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Tower (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Fury (Slay the Princess)
   • The Tower/Voice of the Broken (Slay the Princess)
   • voice of the hero & voice of the broken (slay the princess)
   • The Fury/Voice of the Broken (Slay The Princess)
   • The Fury/Voice of the Hero (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Moment of Clarity (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Moment of Clarity (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Cage (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Cage (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Skeptic/The Cage (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Burned Grey (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Burned Grey (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Smitten/The Burned Grey (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Cold/The Burned Grey (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Stranger (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Stranger (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Contrarian/Voice of the Hero (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Contrarian/The Stranger (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Contrarian/The Princess (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Contrarian/The Long Quiet (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Hero/The Princess (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Hero/The Stranger (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Hero/The Long Quiet
   • The Stranger/The Stranger (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/Voice of the Hero/Voice of the Contrarian (Slay the Princess)
   • The Beast/The Long Quiet (Slay the Princess)
   • The Beast/The Hero | The Slayer (Slay the Princess)
   • The Hero | The Slayer/The Princess (Slay the Princess)
   • The Den/The Long Quiet (Slay the Princess)
   • The Den/The Hero | The Slayer (Slay the Princess)
   • The Den/Voice of the Hunted (Slay the Princess)
   • The Beast/Voice of the Hunted (Slay the Princess)
   • The Beast/Voice of the Hero (Slay the Princess)
   • The Den/Voice of the Hero (Slay the Princess)
   • The Den/Voice of the Cheated (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet/The Wraith (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero/The Wraith (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Opportunist/The Wraith (Slay the Princess)
   • The Razor (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Smitten (Slay the Princess)
   • The Narrator (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Hero (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Cheated (Slay the Princess)
   • The Princess (Slay the Princess)
   • The Player | The Hero (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Stubborn (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Skeptic (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Contrarian (Slay the Princess)
   • The Witch (Slay the Princess)
   • The Long Quiet (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Opportunist (Slay the Princess)
   • The Wild (Slay the Princess)
   • The Wounded Wild (Slay the Princess)
   • The Spectre (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Cold (Slay the Princess)
   • The Adversary (Slay the Princess)
   • The Eye of the Needle (Slay the Princess)
   • The Shifting Mound (Slay the Princess)
   • The Prisoner (Slay the Princess)
   • The Nightmare (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Paranoid (Slay the Princess)
   • The Thorn (Slay the Princess)
   • The Moment of Clarity (Slay the Princess)
   • The Damsel (Slay the Princess)
   • The Deconstructed Damsel (Slay the Princess)
   • The Tower (Slay the Princess)
   • The Fury (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Broken (Slay the Princess)
   • The Cage (Slay the Princess)
   • The Burned Grey (Slay the Princess)
   • The Grey (Slay the Princess)
   • The Stranger (Slay the Princess)
   • The Beast (Slay the Princess)
   • The Den (Slay the Princess)
   • Voice of the Hunted (Slay the Princess)
   • The Wraith (Slay the Princess)
   • Razor-typical silliness
   • Razor-typical violence
   • Kissing
   • smitten has a plan
   • It works really well
   • for a little while
   • Don't worry about that graphic description of injury warning
   • this is probably gonna go great
   • Bit of femdom
   • Bit of bloodplay
   • Razor gets to have fun here okay
   • M-rating is mostly for chapter 3
   • All the voices appear in chapters 2 and 3
   • but half of them are pretty quiet so things don't get too crowded
   • Romantic swashbuckling
   • Razor's blade-based seduction techniques
   • Content warning for toxic relationships in chapter 3
   • Telling Razor to get creative is definitely a really good idea
   • Consensual yet extremely fucked up kisses
   • Making Out
   • Biting
   • Mutual Teasing
   • mutual distrust
   • Flirting
   • Basically imagine the fight when you try to slay Witch except it's a make-out session instead
   • Voice of the Hero tries to do right by the princess
   • Voice of the Opportunist is up for anything
   • Witch starts flirting to get the blade but is secretly into it
   • And the Narrator hates everything that happens
   • Humor
   • Romance
   • Sexual Tension
   • They are both very pent up and messy and have a ton of conflicting emotions
   • enemies to frenemies with benefits
   • is the best way to describe it
   • Enemies With Benefits
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • (but also still enemies)
   • They hate each other just right
   • Content warning for graphic description of injury in chapter 2
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Forgiveness
   • Romantic Angst
   • Manipulative Narrator
   • The Narrator knows how the Princess works and is not above using manipulation to achieve his goal
   • Shifty calls Wild a curious heart and I thought that'd be fun to incorporate in her characterisation
   • They both want to forgive and forget but they have three lifetimes of baggage
   • The Voices are all on board with saving her though Opportunist isn't very committed
   • lots of mentions of wild's heart that double as both metaphorical and literal
   • the kiss is hardly the focus of this one but on the other hand it does all kind of lead up to it
   • and this story is what I came up with when I asked myself what if you could kiss the Wild
   • so we're keeping the title
   • Wounded Wild has the most beautiful and heartwarming smile in the game
   • and that smile does show up a few times
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Teasing
   • Possession
   • Consensual Possession
   • Spectre explores TLQ's body and mind while possessing him
   • Spectre is a relentless tease
   • Spectre may be cute but she is far from innocent
   • Fewer Spectre and Narrator interactions than in-game
   • since the game already hit that out of the park so you don't need me to write it too
   • If I had a dime for every time I wrote one of these where the stair climbing was very hard and heavy
   • I'd have two dimes
   • which isn't a lot but I don't think I get to use that plot device again
   • Thanks to whoever commissioned Nichole to do that Spectre shitpost for some additional inspiration
   • Angst and Humor
   • Angst and Romance
   • Sexual Humor
   • Light Angst
   • ghost kisses
   • Possession can turn a little odd when you're being possessed by your murder victim/crush
   • To stop someone entering a guilt spiral just start teasing the hell out of them
   • Redemption
   • Competitive Romance
   • Fighting
   • Romance and Fighting
   • Temporary Character Death
   • Adversary-typical Violence
   • Adversary-typical bonding
   • Mutual violence as a love language
   • Some angst
   • Whoops! Turns out the big muscle lady has depression metaphors in her
   • No Smitten in chapter 1 yet but he'll show up for Needle
   • Get ready for Stubborn and Smitten to team up
   • Adversary may claim she hates dodging but when you do it to Needle and it works she doesn't mind
   • She was just upset it didn't work tbh
   • aggressive flirting
   • There might be a few double entendres here and there
   • Threats as an expression of love
   • Character Development
   • Compromise
   • Touching grass won't solve your depression
   • but it will make you feel better than sitting in a bare basement all day
   • Rivals to Lovers
   • Alternate Ending
   • Gods
   • Shifty and the minis share senses
   • Shifty might be a little touch starved
   • Climactic cosmic battle
   • Minis are part of Shifty
   • Minis are mindless chaos gremlins
   • Big philosphical dance debate (sexual tension edition)
   • Healing Powers
   • Small appearances by the Voices but they don't really warrant being tagged
   • The vessels are semi-autonomous and capable of having a full conversation
   • and that might include a little bit of flirting
   • Lots of mini shenanigans
   • Post-combat aftercare
   • Hand Kisses
   • Back kisses
   • Actually just lots and lots of different kinds of kisses in general
   • Some violence to minis
   • but they do get better
   • Trust
   • Massage
   • Self-Decapitation
   • Non-lethal decapitation
   • Prisoner knows TLQ wants to help but also that the Narrator can take over
   • The Voices have a bit of resentment for her cutting their throat in chapter 1 but want to help
   • And everyone tries to keep the Narrator in the dark
   • Narrator is ready to possess TLQ again
   • A bit of reading between the lines required
   • Trying to plot in full earshot of the guy you're plotting against
   • using memories of your previous life
   • Cheek Kisses
   • Second chapter is a completely fluffy and optional epilogue
   • tags for the EPILOGUE:
   • Romantic Fluff
   • Dullahan Prisoner
   • Decapitated Prisoner is a bit clumsy
   • Acts of Service as a Love Language
   • Service Submission
   • no narrator
   • Hero and Skeptic take turns narrating
   • Bathing
   • Headless cuddles
   • Knighting
   • Hero is a silly bashful goober
   • Skeptic is an old soul who's seen it all but loves being in love just as much as Hero
   • Prisoner's dry humour
   • Prisoner's flirting is very direct
   • Shifty is feeling patient today
   • Horror
   • Toxic Relationships
   • psychological abuse
   • Angst without a happy ending
   • Body Horror
   • Eye Trauma
   • Dancing
   • Ballroom Dancing
   • Set somewhere in the thousands of forgotten lives between Nightmare and MoC
   • Two people making each other extremely unhappy
   • Gets pretty horrific towards the end
   • All the Voices are here but half of them are assigned to the heart lungs liver nerves squad
   • to keep the chatter down
   • Kind of a prequel to Moment of Clarity
   • Sympathy for Nightmare's pain and loneliness
   • but not for her cruelty and abusiveness
   • TLQ gets pretty bad too
   • Basically everyone sucks here
   • The Voices are all a bit broken by this point
   • teeth horror
   • Manipulation
   • leg kisses
   • Self-Harm
   • Temporary character death (it's not that easy
   • he's still got Moment of Clarity to go through)
   • Leggy Nightmare
   • Shifting Mound's dormant form
   • AKA Sleeping Mound
   • AKA Handsy
   • Polyamory
   • Polyamory in which two of those involved are the same being
   • but one is a humanoid Princess and the other a divine cluster of hands
   • (Obviously)
   • Lots of other kisses too
   • Oblivion path
   • Moment of Clarity is not in the story directly much but her shadow very much hangs over it
   • Meant as a loose sequel to Kiss the Nightmare but readable without it
   • Minor appearance by Witch
   • Make-outs
   • Shifty doesn't have a name at this point so is always referred to as capital S She
   • Cuddles
   • naps
   • Lot of Hurt in the first half
   • Lot of Comfort in the second half
   • Shifty loves Her vessels
   • self-forgiveness
   • Rated T for Thorn titty
   • Threesome - F/F/M
   • Trauma
   • Drama & Romance
   • Reconstructed Damsel
   • Perception
   • Crying
   • Damsel has much more character depth than you think
   • The Voices are afraid they'll deconstruct Damsel even more
   • Damsel is traumatised by stabbing TLQ in chapter one
   • Self-Sacrifice
   • Doors keep getting in the way
   • But they find a way around that eventually
   • Don't make boob jokes when someone calls Deconstructed Damsel flat challenge (impossible)
   • No Pristine Cut spoilers in the first chapter
   • Domination
   • Size Difference
   • Self-Worth Issues
   • Possessed Narrator
   • Broken is finally happy worshipping his goddess
   • But Hero has a plan to save the world
   • Is it a good plan?
   • we'll see
   • Content warnings for toxic relationships and forced self-harm
   • (Just Tower things)
   • Capitalised pronouns for Tower
   • (but only when her believers are talking)
   • Careful what you wish for when you ask Tower to step on you
   • No healthy dom/sub dynamics here go read Kiss the Prisoner or Eye of the Needle for those
   • Toxic BDSM
   • Tags for Fury's chapter:
   • sad kisses
   • Hero and Broken are very angry at each other
   • Oppy and Skeptic are trying to keep the peace
   • Heart kisses
   • Fury is very normal about the powers of two
   • Self-Loathing
   • shared loneliness
   • Gothic Romance
   • Contains comfort of your gore character
   • Smut
   • Fluff
   • Fluffy Smut
   • smutty fluff
   • Thorn's POV
   • Shifty's dormant form
   • Epilogue to Kiss the Sleeping Mound
   • And therefore set in the Sleeping Mound after Thorn is taken away by Her
   • Shifty doesn't have a name yet so she's referred to as either capital S She or Ocean
   • Shifty loves her vessels a lot
   • Non-Human Genitalia
   • The Slayer has a cloaca
   • Monsterfucker
   • Cunnilingus
   • Fingering
   • Praise Kink
   • Femdom
   • Bit of bondage
   • Thorn gets to have fun here
   • (So do Slayer and Shifty)
   • Hairy Thorn
   • Shifty and Thorn share senses
   • Thorn is happy as part of the Shifting Mound
   • Happy Sex
   • soft fluff
   • Shifty's hands absolutely go to town on Thorn
   • saying goodbye
   • Exploration of what it's like to be a vessel
   • And how Thorn feels about becoming part of Shifty
   • Scissoring
   • Kiss the Thorn('s Lower Lips)
   • Shifty's POV
   • And therefore also the vessels' POV
   • Shifty and the minis and the vessels all share senses
   • Final Shifty battle
   • Ascension
   • Big philosophical dance debate (sexual tension edition)
   • Everyone gets to dance with Quiet
   • Fury has chronic pain
   • Self-loathing Fury (but she's getting better)
   • Damsel has trauma over stabbing Quiet (but she has forgiven herself)
   • Healed Thorn
   • Scarred Thorn
   • Rated T for Thorn Titty - never mind this one's M-rated
   • Loving Shifty
   • Shifty is doing her best to show divine dignity
   • Shifting perspective as Shifty's thoughts shift between Herself and Her vessels
   • Exploration of the relationship between Shifty and her vessels
   • Bit of Thorn/Shifty
   • Toxic exes Clarity and Quiet
   • Non-explicit divine sex
   • Let's discuss political theory with Prisoner
   • cosmic love
   • Mutual Decapitation
   • Voices pilot Quiet's body
   • Romance between both the bodies and the heads
   • Head-swapping shenanigans
   • The Princess's body is moody and horny and angry and lonely
   • because what body isn't?
   • The Voices communicate by signing
   • because if shards of gods know English they might as well know ASL too
   • the Princess's body can do it too but is mostly non-verbal
   • suppressed emotions
   • Headless kisses
   • There are other ways to break the pattern
   • little bit of bondage
   • Loneliness
   • Alternate title: Body Language
   • Today on Kiss the Princess we're sending a decapitated Princess and her head to therapy
   • to learn to communicate
   • Oblivious Cage
   • Getting to know each other by swapping heads
   • You know things are wrong when Quiet's the one arguing for change
   • Head-swapped kisses
   • Ghost love
   • ghost - Freeform
   • Fire
   • Burning together
   • dying kiss
   • Hero is afraid
   • Hero is the only voice with self-preservation
   • Smitten is completely on the Princess's side and self-destructive
   • Cold gets much more into it than he'd admit
   • More dialogue and a few extra scenes compared to canon
   • Content warnings:
   • Burning (and graphic descriptions of it)
   • Murder-Suicide
   • Toxic Relationship
   • (Just Burned Grey things)
   • Mutually self-destructive love between a ghost and the bird who killed her
   • Burned Grey deserves better but she'll take what she can get
   • Burned Grey is a little bit fucked up
   • Romantic Horror
   • Slayer tries to be manipulative
   • it doesn't work very well
   • Quiet isn't really showing his best sides in this one
   • and neither is Hero
   • Grey seems gentle and calm like Damsel but is actually a raging fire on the inside
   • Adventure up the stairs
   • Glitch dimension
   • Hero and Contrarian get heads of their own
   • They/them pronouns for the Stranger
   • They/Them Pronouns for the Long Quiet
   • But she/her for individual aspects
   • and he/him for the Voices and Quiet himself
   • Multiplicity/Plurality
   • polycule
   • Eight person polyamory
   • Love between aspects of the Stranger
   • Love between the Voices
   • Contrarian is a massive flirt
   • Contrarian feels a lot of guilt over what happened
   • Humour
   • Narrator tries to use the power of perception against them
   • absolute chaos
   • Names for the Stranger's aspects:
   • Cipher(neutral) Sunshine(gentle) Destructica(scary) Winona(sad) Her Royal Highness(grumpy)
   • Sillyness abounds
   • Self-Love
   • Contrarian/Destructica freak4freak
   • Underwater kisses
   • upside-down kisses
   • Construct-warping shenanigans
   • Fun in two dimensions
   • Non-Explicit Sex
   • Lots of flirting all around
   • Princess on Princess romance
   • Voice on Voice romance
   • Simultaneous kisses between multiple heads
   • This one's 31k words for a reason
   • A lot happens and there's a lot of characters sharing the same two bodies
   • Everyone's a bit of a freak here
   • Feral Behavior
   • Courtship Dance
   • Dom/sub
   • Claws
   • Scratching
   • Beast has a lion tongue
   • Misunderstandings
   • Mistrust
   • Light vorish themes but it doesn't fully go there
   • Beast and Den purr - yes I know lions can't do that
   • Somewhat Toxic Relationship
   • petting
   • Bit of edgeplay
   • Narrator is very dehumanising towards Den
   • rough lovemaking
   • Rough make-outs
   • Den can sort of tell what the voices are saying the same way Quiet can see her thoughts in her eyes
   • body merging
   • Embrace instinct route but what if they made up and then made out about it
   • Belligerent Sexual Tension
   • Toxic BDSM becoming less toxic over time
   • lots of pain
   • Skeleton kisses
   • Zombie kisses
   • Undead kisses
   • Constriction
   • Bondage
   • (Bondage using Wraith's own body)
   • Bitter exes Wraith and Quiet
   • Sycophantic Opportunist
   • Some of Wraith's insults inspired by miss Trunchbull
   • Dommy Wraith
   • Wraith enjoys Opportunist's sycophancy
   • but is also very very bitter about everything that happened before
   • Expansion to the route
   • (since Wraith is one of the shorter ones)
   • Nightmare!Wraith
   • Version where Wraith speaks in bold instead of all-caps included as the second chapter
   • Snake-like Wraith
   • Only half as long as it looks like - second chapter provided for accessibility

   Summary

   What if you could kiss Princesses other than Thorn? An anthology of Slay the Princess one-shots exploring the game's paths and characters by asking that question. They're typically written in the game's dialog only format, and I generally try to present them as plausible alternate options that might appear in-game. Feel free to read them in whatever order you want!

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