Pronouns: He/him or it/its.
In a particular corner of my wider Slay the Princess post-canon 'verse, a Damsel, separated from her Voice of the Smitten, anxious and afraid under the smiling exterior, was almost attacked by a Beast. In a reflexive act of reality warping, she rendered the Beast a harmless-but-still-living plush toy. This condition has spread outward ever since, affecting even the landscape around her cabin.
The 'canonical' (used very, very loosely) set of plushified Voices is the Voice of the Hunted, the Voice of the Cheated, and the Voice of the Stubborn, although designs exist for several others. The convention for their nicknames is: compound words, food-related, and adorable.
Besides a universal devotion to their Damsel and removal of violent impulses, the plush Voices tend to have their original personalities twisted or outright inverted.
- Hushpuppy is no longer afraid of being eaten, prey drive replaced by curiosity and a mischievous drive to provoke reactions in others.
- Sourpuss struggles to remain upset about things; when he's on his own, he tries to maintain his old cynical outlook, often popping the stitches around his mouth when he frowns or speaks angrily, but the presence of the Damsel drives every complaint completely out of his mind as she gently stitches his beak back into a smile.
- Snugglemuffin is still competitive and enjoys using and showing off his physique, but strictly nonviolently. He'd be upset by the suggestion that he'd actually want to hurt anybody.
- A hypothetical plush Voice of the Paranoid (at this moment un-nicknamed) would be anxious but easy to calm down, believing anything he's told without question.
The plush Voices are capable of sliding along a spectrum to a larger and/or winged form the same way the normal Voices do; their large forms have big zippers down the front opening into a padded interior large enough to hold a person. Their wings are quilted and hang down like draped blankets when idle, but they do function. When the Voices shift from winged to unwinged (etc.) it's a disturbingly fluid transitional process that you can watch happen; when the plushies change forms, it happens while you're not looking, presumably instantly.
Q: Are all the plushies made from the same materials?
A: Largely yes; their covering is a soft faux-fur in areas where the original Voice has feathers, and mostly something like cotton everywhere else, in various patterns.
Q: Are the plushies particularly resistant to damage?
A: They regenerate over time in the same way the normal Voices do, with the additional advantages of having no bones to break and not feeling pain. If they are shredded to pieces, burned, dipped in acid, etcetera, whatever remains of the old body will disintegrate and a new plushie will eventually be found rolled up in the quilts around Damsel's cabin.
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