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shippingallthelegos · 2 years

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My personal Stanarrator headcanons/character building

The Narrator

True Name: Unknown

Age: Unknown, Adult - Middle aged?

Gender: Presents Male, but doesn't really care

Species: Not Human, even he isn't entirely sure what he is.

Physical Form: Whatever he decides to be at any given moment. He forgot what he started as. His personal favorites are a completely average human man with solid white eyes, and a two dimensional mess of lines in the vague shape of a person.

Trivia:

• The Adventure Line is an extension of himself, a literal representation of his words guiding Stanley (they act like tendrils).

• He isn't as powerful as he pretends to be. Certain storylines are written in stone and he cannot change them. Going down paths where he ends up being 'evil' are physically painful now that he legitimately cares for Stanley, but he can't break script in those instances. He feels guilt afterwards, and has started subtly nudging Stanley away from those endings.

• His favorite ending is the Zending, next to his original plot. Because it's just him and Stanley in a room with pretty lights (so long as Stanley stays put and doesn't hurt himself to reset).

• He is absolutely NOT jealous of The Reassurance Bucket, whyever would you think that???

Stanley

Full Name: He isn't sure, but he thinks he used to go by Stan. It must have buried negative connotations, because he always feels slightly uncomfortable if he thinks about it too long.

Age: Physically 32, but he doesn't know how long he's been alive in this neverending loop.

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Initially thought he was straight, but he fell in love with a dude's voice, so...

Species: Human

Trivia:

• He doesn't know if he's The Narrator's creation, or if he was his own person and randomly selected. He's decided not to ask.

• He's mute by choice. Talking is difficult and mostly uncomfortable unless he fully trusts whoever he's speaking to, and even then he sometimes decides not to. To combat this, he's learned sign language. He actually has full conversations with The Narrator, it's just not really demonstrated in-game.

• He doesn't try to purposely upset The Narrator, but you can only follow someone's instructions so many times before you get incredibly bored. They've worked through that and come to an understanding over the (many, many) years trapped together. Now he wanders around without it being an argument, but occasionally follows the written path just to make The Narrator happy.

• He's sworn off ever touching The Reassurance Bucket again. It only causes issues in his current relationship.

• His favorite place is the employee lounge. The Memory Zone was a close contender, but that leads to the Skip Button. No elaboration needed.

(Feel free to send asks about my thoughts or any questions, I'm in Stanley Parable brainrot hell and I'm shipping an office worker with a disembodied voice, I'm clearly unwell).

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everysongineverykey · 2 years

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the stanley parallels: insanity edition

or: the skip button ending and the mariella endings are telling the same story, and it changes slightly in the bucket version, after the skip button ending has already happened, and i'm going to explode. now, we all know the narrator's description of stanley's love for the bucket is at any given moment a reflection of the narrator's own feelings toward stanley. with that in mind, i present to you the slideshow that i finished last night at eleven thirty and which does a better job of explaining how insane this makes me than i ever could <3

#the stanley parable #pain. suffering even #anyway this is the slideshow i've been talking about. menthol iwwness innit <33333 they make me want to rip my hair out

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