Pronouns: it/its, she/her, or fae/faer. It refers to itself in third person. That’s just how it be.
That’s exactly how I did it. A friend of mine got me interested in the premise, but I just couldn’t afford to buy it. So I pirated it… And the moment I had the spare funds, this was one of the games I pirated that I instantly bought among a few others like Dead Cells and Halls of Torment. The devs of Slay the Princess know they have something good enough to convince folks to buy it even when they have it for free, no strings attached. And they’re right.
Seconding this. There’s so much to do and so many ways to customize how you wanna play while still unlocking new things to play with. Great, we’ll designed little game that I’ve been playing for years.