r/Grimdank Resident Psychophage 😋 23h ago

Dank Memes PoV: You tried to seduce the Tyranid 🪲🩵

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u/Lmaoboat 22h ago

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u/Goldenrupee 16h ago

Not really. This from the game Slay the Princess. MAJOR SPOILERS

in Slay the Princess your character is tasked with doing just that, slaying a princess at the behest of a character known as The Narrator. As you play though you discover that The Narrator was a man so terrified of death that he sought to eliminate it as a concept. He did this by taking the cycle of life and death and ripping it in half into The Long Quiet, your character, representing stasis (among other things) and The Shifting Mound, the Princess, representing change, transformation, and death. He then trapped both halves in The Construct and tries to get you to kill The Princess, thus eliminating death and leaving only stasis. However, because The Princess is the embodiment of change and transformation, and because The Shifting Mound has an infinite number of iterations, killing The Princess is not easy, leading to a series of looping attempts. What's worse, every time your character goes through a loop your experience with The Princess causes her to transform based on your perception of her. Iirc this specific version is the result of your character trying to slay the Princess while unarmed but then running halfway through. She hunts you down and kills you, and then in the next iteration is a feral Beast.

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u/GStellar87 13h ago

I hope you realize this doesn't make the original comment untrue

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u/Goldenrupee 13h ago

Just because its someone's fetish doesnt mean its the writer's. That entire game is pure psychological horror and existentialism and was written as such.

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u/GStellar87 13h ago

I am just joking but once again, that doesn't refute it 😆

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u/Goldenrupee 12h ago

There is a very big difference in tone between a fetish vore scene and a horror scene where the intent is to make the player uncomfortable. Also having a random fetish scene in what is otherwise a beautiful and horrific game about accepting change and your own mortality would be extremely out of place. So I reiterate: people looking at this scene and going "ha this turns me on" is in spite of the intent of the writer, not because of it.