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if stanley and the narrator arent psychic, then what are they in comparison to the psychonauts world? the narrator def feels more than human if he's trying to pretend to be an archetype. what brings them to the motherlobe? I am enamored by your au and would love to hear your thoughts
I'm honoured that you want to know more !! I didn't think many people would, considering it's Extremely Self-Indulgent and I am used to my interests being Niche (reason why the things that I’ve posted have little to no context hgjfkghdfg)
Okay, so, I think it's important to note that, in this AU, the things in The Stanley Parable happened and are real. Stanley was trapped in an eternal loop. Stanley had died a million times over. The Narrator is... still his witty omnipresent self. These things do not change.
I had thoughts about making twisting TSP to be more cohesive to the world of Psychonauts, but ultimately thought against it. I think they are funny silly as they are :] A guy and his voice against the world
Alright, let’s get to explaining this bad boy a little.
So. What happened? Why are they at the Motherlobe?
This is just a rough and vague thought but, after being free of the Parable (when the Escape Pod and/or Freedom Ending is real and is here), Stanley and the Narrator are met with the outside world. Something something, run into the funny Psychonauts. They think something is up with Stanley, that he is strange, but insists that he is Not psychic, they bring him to the Motherlobe. Stanley keeps insisting his non-psychicness, but the Narrator convince him to just “humour them anyway”. Insert funny shenanigans where the Narrator and Stanley work together to do “psychic abilities”. Again, Very rough and Very vague. ghfdkjgdf
But, looping around to that first question: If not psychic, what are Stanley and the Narrator?
Well, they still are your classic Stanley Parable duo. A simple office worker and, like, god or something. But actually, since we’re on this topic...
Let’s talk about how the Narrator works.
Starting off with communication. This one’s easy. Stanley uses ASL to talk people, but, when speaking to the Narrator, it can be through mind thoughts. In the same vein, the Narrator can only be heard by Stanley. He is inside his brain :] This does mean, however, if someone did some mind reading, I guess they’d meet the funny man. the funny loud man. british
Here’s a big one: the Narrator’s power. In the office, the Narrator controlled, well, everything, because they were His creation. The office and everything in it was the extent of his power, and boy is that a lot of power.
But the Narrator is no longer In the office, he’s not even in The Stanley Parable anymore. This is not something he’s created (The Narrator is aware that Psychonauts is fictional and a game btw). However, he still has Some Sort of power in this new world - this is how they are tricking the Psychonauts, after all. So where exactly does that power come from?
As his OC, the Narrator draws his power from Stanley to exert onto the external world - but that, in turn, takes energy from him. Not a lot, mind you, but I guess it rather depends on size, quantity, and distance from him. This means that what the Narrator is able to do is limited and he has to be considerate about Stanley’s health and wellbeing (Stanley sleeps, and eats and drinks now? Fucking nuts, bro...)
I think the other limitation is that the Narrator can’t... Remove stuff was already previously there - that was already part of the world. He can summon things in, sure, and, while they may not stay around for very long, they are there (You guys sure do love the Narrator as an archetype ghdfjghf), and, he can still interact with the world, like opening doors or flickering lights, but to Truly twist, and manipulate, and alter it... It’d take a Lot.
Aaaand... That’s it. Probably. I have some other thoughts rattling up in this head of mine but... I think that that’s all the basics :] If you read all of this, thank you?? I love to say things about my funny thoughts, and I know it’s not exactly Fun to read Just text, especially when it’s this long, and I, uh, don’t know how much sense it all makes, but thank you :,] i am very grateful
#askberg#groveofgreen#not art#long post#psychic parable au#tsp#the stanley parable#doodleberg#just a little one :]#oh another thing to note:#the office is Still there. they can return at Any Time#the narrator wants to sometimes. stanley doesn't#this is... a really long post. i really hope this makes sense hgdfkjgh#i feel bad if i tag the au as psychonauts because its very tsp-leaning :[#oh jesus this is much longer than expected i am. so sorry#textberg
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I'm involved in a Stanley Reblog Chain and put effort into these drawings so I'll post them here too.
[The other characters belong to insomniphic / beartitled / and marionette-j2x]
[Just me rambling underneath!] ↓
Tumblr has a tag limit and it grates my nerves to no end to know that I can't ramble as much as I'd like to...
Stanley and the bad bitch he pulled by being a loser. Imagine having a hot babe deform reality just to be together with you because he sensed you were feeling lonely without him. [WHEN IS IT MY TURN?!]
It's funny because with the general vibe of their AU, it would make sense for him to show up in the most flashy but also unnerving way possible. The Narrator's [Black's] arrival has to grab people's eyes since attention and views are what he's all about.
I wasn't sure what type of characterization they had so I just played it safe and [tried to] draw how my characters would respond instead of blindly guessing how the others would talk or act around each other. [My Stanley is antisocial and an anxiety-ridden freak.]
Also, I've been wondering what their height differences actually were when I saw my Stanley have to look up at Marionette's Narrator [since this guy is pretty damn tall] so I did a bit of digging and this was what I found.
I had a lot of fun making this by the way. It's been a while since I've participated in any Reblog Chains that involved character interactions and making comics, so it's a real throwback to when I first started posting TSP art in 2023.
Stanley here is an absolute social shutoff teehee, but he does talk back when talked to. His responses usually leave no openings to continue the conversation though. He's the type of guy to stay on the corner and watch everyone else.
As for the Narrator [Black] he's a bit strange. He's proper in public, but he doesn't think the other people are special [or not as special as he is at least]. He just doesn't care to be honest, he keeps to himself [along with Stanley] and that's it. It's a miracle for Stanley to have even pulled somebody like Black considering their personalities are the type to clash with one another. [They love each other though, genuinely. Despite how deranged they can be towards each other sometimes, that development took a long time to be nurtured into something healthier for those two.]
Also, 4th wall breaking in action!!!!!!!!!!!
Black didn't want to interrupt this comic since it was made for Stanley but after the other three came in he lost reservations and came in as well.
These two would probably just stay in their own spot [somewhere quiet and more alone]. This place is a bit too crowded for their liking. But I would be very happy to jump on any opportunity to make my guys interact with the others!!!!! Don't be afraid to throw a bone [prompt] for me to bite on, okay?
[Oh no, I just realized Black looks like he has boobs on the last picture. He DOES NOT have boobs!! Sorry man boob enjoyers, it's the lighting that made it look that way wuwuwu...]
[Copy and Pasting the tags of my other post because I am NOT re-writing all of this...]
#the stanley parable#the stanley parable ultra deluxe#tspud#tsp#tsp au#narrator tsp#tsp narrator#stanley tsp#tsp stanley#stanarator#stannarrator#stanarrator#stannarator#my drawing museum
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ASKING YOU ABOUT YOUR STANLEY PARABLE/HLVRAI CROSSOVER. ELABORATE PLEASE??
more under the cut :3
So the basic concept goeth thusly:
Post HLVRAI canon, Gordon ends up in the Parable somehow. Stanley immediately mentally adopts him, while the Narrator is like "Oh we can ABSOLUTELY NOT have GORDON FREEMAN here" (nod to tsp originally being a hl2 mod!) and basically tries to boot Gordon out the Parable. He resets, and now Benrey is here.
So already not fun for the Narrator (though much fun for stanley, who loves seeing the narrator distressed because stanley is a bastard). Wrangling Stanley is already a nightmare, and now he has two other guys, one of which is an alien who can just noclip, which is very frustrating.
However, there's another twist to this: the role of narrator keeps being shuffled around. Sometimes, the Narrator is not the narrator, it's instead Gordon. Sometimes it's Benrey. Sometimes Stanley. Sometimes there's one player and the other three are narrators, and sometimes two of them are narrators and the other two are players.
So basically: we have Gordon (argumentative as shit), Benrey (benrey), Stanley (very glad to be talking to someone aside from the british man), and the Narrator (his phucking story)
I'll explain the symbolism I put in their narrator designs. So:
The Narrator is Stanley's shadow. That shadow can stretch and grow, but at the end of the day, he's tied to Stanley. He literally cannot do anything without him- when Stanley stops moving (eg: not stanley ending), the Narrator can do nothing.
Stanley's narrator form is inspired by one of my favorite interpretations of Stanley- one where he didn't really use ASL or writing or anything, but instead communicated through drawings. So while Stanley has no visible form, he's present through little drawings.
Gordon's design is far simpler in my mind- his arc in this is realizing he's not fully human either, he's an AI who was completely shaped by the player. So when he's the narrator, his visible form is confined to screens. This also ties into a lot of themes of control.
Benrey's entire body shifts colors in accordance with his emotions, specifically Sweet Voice colors. The exception is the spot of pink on his chest, the hearts on his face, and his eyes. His chest glows pink always, as do the hearts on his face (showing that even though he is a fucking nightmare, at his core is love. Benrey loves, and he wants to be loved). His eyes don't shift color with his body, but they change with his emotions as well- blue when he's calmer/happier, yellow when he's stressed out. This is true even when he's not in Narrator form.
Benrey's narrator form is a very intentional parallel to the Narrator's. The Narrator is a shadow, and Benrey's literally glowing bright light. The Narrator's mouth can be seen, Benrey's can't. The Narrator is literally tied to Stanley, but Benrey's not tied to anyone. (To make the symbolism there blatant: the Narrator really wants to have control, which paradoxically leads him to have less control. Meanwhile Benrey doesn't care how much control he has, which paradoxically leads him to having more.)
Additionally: while everyone can be pulled out of their narrator forms into their normal forms, they can't do it on their own, it has to be their (for lack of a better term) game partner. Gordon is the only one who can get Benrey into his normal form. Stanley is the only one who can get the Narrator into his normal form. Vice versa.
So: that's the general stuff, and the Narrator designs. I have written down in Discord what I think their arcs would be, and how they all parallel each other. Gordon-Narrator and Stanley-Benrey are the biggest parallels, but Stanley and Gordon parallel each other as well (same with Benrey and the Narrator). I'll explain if asked and welcome ideas :3 But first I'm gonna pass the fuck out it's 18 FUCKING DEGREES FARENHEIT WHEN DID IT GET SO COLD
Anyway. Take this exchange I wrote when I first came up with the idea of this AU that's basically a script of how I thought I would write this (I didn't have it be post-canon beforehand, and I really should've had Gordon actually talk more, but I got enraptured by writing the Narrator he was so fun to write but also so anxiety inducing but also I am cringe yet I am free)
#asks#cassie draws#hlvrai#benrey#stanley tsp#tsp narrator#the stanley parable#gordon feetman#stanley parable au#hlvrai au#🛂can i see your passport? please [benrey freeman]#🔫I’M GOING FUCKING NUTS [gordon freeman]#hlvrai parable au
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Shina's TSP Out of Bounds Adventures - EMPLOYEE DATABASE COUNT
THIS POST BROKE 9 TIMES I AM CLOSE TO BEING DONE but tbh it was so silly, feeling like I have a thin foil hat with 'theory master' written on it
I have explored a bit of the game out of bounds and I know its been done before but I still want to share some stuff so
I want to focus on this particular screen I found in the normal ver of the Museum (I think it sometimes shows in other ones in Parable), focusing on the 'total employee in x' lines
MORE UNDER THE CUT
TOTAL EMPLOYEE IN OFFICE: [2]
We know the first one is Stanley
The other one has no number and no status. It is possible the system being off just cannot tell the mysterious employee, their data might be corrupted or sth else idk, I'm rewriting this for 9th time
My theories:
a) Narrator: makes the most sense, might not have a number associated with himself but has power over Parable, seems to have internet access (mentions of Steam, reviews, Twitter), his status being left unknown might be due to his computer working but not being connected to the system
b) Settings Person/TK/432: people yelled at me that it shouldn't be the case cus they got fired (look below) but:
- 432 sorta evaporated likewise
- as the Settings Person, being able to keep the game on rolling, they seem to have overall some control over the game
- they used to be an employee but since they now aren't human, it is possible the system deleted their files but still sees them
Other options: Curator, other Stanley, dead rat, Mariella
TOTAL EMPLOYEE IN DATABASE [604]
There are in total 599 numbered screens - since two are fired
Fired ones: 104 - view on 432's desk; 601 - view on 434's
There is also blackened ones, 097 and 098 but these might also just not work
There are also 4 whitened screens with no numbers (look above next to fired and here) - I do not know if I should coun them in anything since no "employee" is written on them.
However, meetings room and stairs often show up as diff employees so I do think they deserve a mention
we also have 2 special employees - Pirate and Clippy.
Pirate is just a view on 427's desk (we have a few diff camera views throughout this whole thing but I have no energy to show every one now)
Clippy, 104 - fired, and 234 all show 432's desk. It might repeat more times but I think that's quite good to mention
We also have a 000 employee that doesn't have a special screen
We also have two errors: 028 (which is sideways) and 528
So to summarise and try to make sense out of that:
Computer screen says there are 604 employees
The room, however, has 601 (603 if you include Pirate and Clippy) employee screens
595 normal employees;
2 fired - 104, 601;
2 errors - 028, 528;
2 blackened - 097, 098
3 special ones - Pirate, Clippy and 000
4 white screens without numbers
My suggestions:
a) 603 in total (601 with fired ones+ Pirate and Clippy) + 000 - prob the easiest
b) Delete 2 fired ones (599 left), add 4 whitened out and Pirate - since 432 is already fired, we shouldn't count back Clippy
c) 595 normal + 2 blackened + 3 specials + 4 whites
d) 594 ( since 432 is already fired), count Pirate, Clippy, 2 blackened, 2 errors and 4 whites
I'm so done
#tsp#theories#the stanley parable#ultra deluxe#tspud#theory#numbers#employee#employee 427#mind control facility#control room#employee count#out of bounds#someone pls notice#i literrally did this 9 times#i am#insane
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UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE C
Dean Winchester Propaganda:
Rewrote his own memory about his friend dying. I know this seems weak and unexpected but there actually a ton of stuff i just can't quote it.
This isn't even about The Winchesters its about him rewriting his memories of Cas staying in purgatory and of his own trauma (courtesy of his shitty dad). He's not obviously an unreliable narrator but he very much is one.
The Narrator Propaganda:
Just... Just listen to the "unfunny" clip, what's more to say, vote for the gay old guy
Depending on the ending, he can be
Spoilers I guess??? He's always trying to guide Stanley to the outcome HE wants, which is a very, very small chunk of the game where the player just obeys everything and doesn't experience anything else. Obeying Narrator to a T will win you the "Freedom" ending, where Stanley can finally leave the office building, and Narrator will wax on about how Stanley's "happy" and "finally free to live at last". ...exceeeept, on completion, Stanley will spawn right back in the building as though nothing happened, restarting the adventure all over again. The truth is that Stanley will never be free, regardless of what the Narrator says. Stanley is trapped in the building and will stay trapped no matter what. This truth can only be acknowledged if you're defiant, and even then, I may be mistaken but I'm pretty sure the Narrator never fully admits this??? The museum ending has a WHOLE DIFFERENT narrator explain their mutually fucked circumstances. The dishonest factors can increase in other ways from the player's input (for example, the Narrator might say "Stanley walked through the left door", but the player can use their input to defy this statement and go through the right one instead, therefore making the Narrator's statement inherently dishonest and the Narrator will get pissy about it, changing the outcome for that path). Sometimes he'll misdirect when he's petulant, especially if the player is directly defying his instructions, which makes the game feel like a game of tug-rope for control at points. I want to say there are times where he directly attempts to trick the player but admittedly I can't think of an exact instance. Plus you know, the Narrator has a large ego and always talks big about things like his importance and integrity and whatnot so who knows how much of that is even sincere and how much is a sad veneer, but that's getting into overanalysis territory and my fingers hurt so let's leave this here. I hope this was coherent.
he quite literally rewrites the story whenever he has issues with the direction stanley starts to go in, i do not know how to explain it better than that
He is literally the narrator, and he constantly tries to mislead and lie to Stanley through the narration to get him back on the story’s proper path
He constantly narrates what Stanley is feeling as if it is the truth, when it is not. He speaks as a authority, and while he is one, he is definitely not reliable.
#unreliable narrators#unreliable narrator battle#polls#side c#dean winchester#supernatural#the narrator#stanley parable
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what if
& hear me out
tsp headcannons since i am obsessed
no reader lol just general hcs
(edited because i wanted to add stuff :*3)
Stanley
() pookie fr
() he/him
() tbh i can't decide if he's twink cismale or transmasc, so either.
() pansexual
() has asd & is nonverbal
() but instead of sign, he uses communication cards.
() that's right
() not enough card hcs anywhere, so im making one fuck you >:*)
() he's more sensitive to visual sensory than others, but still hates loudness.
() he uses sign only when he has no cards or when he's with narrator because he's the only one that understands
() mainly uses bsl, but knows basic asl (brit*sh /hj)
() spare headphones, ofc
Norman
aka the narrator
(please note that i'm just gonna call him Narrator/Narry, Norman is for Post!ParableAU, Human!AU or just outside of the Parable :*) )
() norman is his human name.
() uses any pronouns, but refers to himself as he/him, they/them, it/its.
() GAYYYYYYYYY
() his real name is a language too complex for the feeble human mind to understand,
() he's god basically.
() but in post!parable or in a human!au, he's a human.
() a lil chubby & silly :*3
() the adventure line has been reduced to narrys tie :*C it's still pretty much sentient though.
() will make stanley go through things, but also will not try & overstimulate him.
() "stanley you gotta remember: i'm a VILLAIN, not a MONSTER."
() sometimes he'll even spawn in a bowl of ice cream for him as a symbol of love!! <333
() as a god, he doesn't really need to eat or sleep or do really any mortal necessities, though he enjoys it.
() also yeah, he can spawn in stuff.
() Narry did the writing, Narrating,(no shit sherlock)& he did the choices & coding for the parable.
() he scripted his lines for most of the endings.
() keyword: most.
() the ones he didn't script are: real person/not stanley ending(w/o bucket), zending(w/o bucket), escape pod ending(w/ & w/o bucket), confusion ending(w/ & w/o bucket), & skip button ending.
() him & the curator haven't interacted in over five years.
() not a word was uttered.
() (they got into a bad arguement)
() Narrator created Stanley, but he forgot he ever did
() he genuinely thinks Stanley is his own person.
() finds out he isn't in the Not Stanley/Real Person ending.
() Curator felt bad so she took the player away from stanley & reset the parable so he'd forget.
The Curator
() I haven't really decided on her human name...
() she/her
() bipoc. i like to think that at least... :'*)
() AroAce. Bitchless & proud.
() The Narrators older stepsister.
() Curator skimmed over the code & script for the Parable
() she wears glasses but she doesn't actually need them.
() in fact,
() they're just "es" because there's no glass.
() Narrator has a Love-Hate with Stanley; Whereas Curator is a teeny obsessive.
() as seen in the museum ending.
() Curator & Narrator used to be normal
() they used to be human, but they died & (somehow) reincarnated.
() their forms were kind of the same as their human ones, but things change.
() oh & their dad died.
if you want my designs for the goobers lmk <3
#tsp#the stanley parable#tsp narrator#tsp stanley#stannarrator#tsp stanarrator#tsp adventure line#adventure line#hey look the shithead got motivation to do something (art/writing tag)#tsp the curator#tsp curator
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for your borrower au! how is Stanley treated in general before the narrator realizes he is sentient? what's the worst thing the narrator might do to Stanley in this time period? what is the softest moment?
sorry for all the questions, I just love this idea a LOT. g/t stuff is SOOO compelling to me :3
Hey, no worries, I love questions! If you can't tell, I also love this idea a lot lol
It is important to me to make it clear that the narrator is not intentionally cruel. He still sees Stanley as a living being with needs and wants.
Stanley is fed well - mostly seeds and grains due to his mouse-like appearance. This isn't wrong, as mice are also omnivores, though it does get a little boring. So basics like food and water are always available.
Of course, he is kept in a cage.
In my head, it's more akin to the ones rabbits are kept in, rather than mice or rats, but that's mostly due to me being more familiar with rabbits. Also the mental image of metal bars is more compelling to me than the plastic tubs that mice are usually kept in.
Standard bedding situation. It's less comfortable than his pile of fabric scraps at home, but it's not unbearable by any means.
The Narrator has a habit of talking to himself, and this turns into a sort of half-talking to Stanley as well. When he does directly address stanley, though, it's usually because he's frustrated with something Stanley is or is not doing. Plus, as in the game, the man is not above petty insults.
I've thought a bit more on it and I think it might be more fair to say that, rather than not realizing, the narrator can't admit that Stanley is sentient.
Subconsciously, he knows. He can see how smart Stanley is. How Stanley responds to his words. But he can't bring that thought into his conscious mind. Because the man has already done some terribly dehumanizing things to this creature. And admitting that this thing is a person would mean that he's an absolute monster. And he's not! Haha really, guys, he wouldnt do that!
The worst thing he does, especially early on, is leave Stanley alone. At one time, the borrower would have jumped at the opportunity to have some time to himself, just not like this. The basement lab is dark and lonely. Being in this environment for long stretches of time takes a toll on the borrower's mental health.
As time goes on, the Narrator does realize something is wrong. Subject 427 used to have so much more energy. It hardly tries to escape and barely protests when handled. He semi-correctly guesses that 427 needs some kind of enrichment.
He has Stanley for a few months before the borrower manages to escape. Toward the end of that time, he starts bringing Stanley up out of the basement (always in a container of some kind) to show the borrower around and talk to him about his old escapades. (This is where we learn that the narrator is quite well-traveled, and that he no longer leaves the relative safety of his own home.) And there are some genuine moments of connection that happen.
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Much later on the narrator absolutely mortified by his own past behavior. The man never thought he was capable of causing harm like that, much less unthinkingly.
(He doesn't like to talk about it, a fact that Stanley uses to his advantage sometimes to get what he wants.)
The Narrator works hard to redeem himself as best as he can. He knows there's no way to fully make up for what he's done, but he tries anyway. Because underneath all his issues and traumas and poor coping mechanisms is a person who strives to be better. He wants it so badly. But for a long time it seemed like every time he tried, he just made it worse. So he stopped trying.
Being around another person, especially one who was absolutely not taking his bullshit, reawakened that part of himself that had been buried for so long.
#i love the narrator#hes such a compelling character#and can be taken in so many different directions#im always fascinated to see which parts people focus on when portraying him#sorry i dont have more specific instances of them interacting during this time#most of the stuff i have written is post-escape#this also got so long lmao#the narrator has the emotional intelligence of a rock i swear#and i love talking about it#the stanley parable#tsp#borrower au#asks
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Narrator x Reader whose start to act more curious outside of the narrator's storyline
Warning:Grammatical errors
"Reader,what are you doing? I don't think i mentioned that part,did i?" Narrator says with a bit of confusion,why are you touching things you weren't suppose to.
You started to explore a little bit outside of the normal "happy ending" path of your narrator which kinda upset him but at the same time he let you go and see what you're doing.
Narrator tries to pull a storyline quickly to not lose the script altogether,but everything you do is totally chaotic and disorganized. A little bit of a selfish thought,since the narrator barely keep things organized.
"Oh darling,i don't think you're suppose to go there- and you done it. Seriously. Darling,i don't want to be rude but that wasn't a really good choice" narrator is slowly losing his mind,step by step, at everything you do that can result in a very stressful ending.
He still got some memories from Stanley,mostly the unpleasant one tend to remain or leave a spot that will never go away. This is why he is acting a little bit protective or very anxious in certain situations.
Like,he sometimes tries to hide some path that can lead to the zending ending or the no "reader" ending. Just to protect him (and you) from a bad emontional impact on both of you.
"Darling!? Oh nonono! You're going to hurt yourself! You don't want that,do you!?" Narrator says in a panic voice after you clicked a button that can totally cause you to harm yourself,even a little bit,
"whatever your choice is,i won't allow it! The last thing i want is to see you in pain! Seriously! Think twice before you do something,luv!" He is fairly stressed but still love you regardless if you.. push him a little bit to cause a reaction.
Your curiosity can literally kill a cat and maybe the narrator in the progress. Even if he doesn't admit it,he love seeing you so curious about the other part of the office. But please! Wait for him to do a storyline about it and maybe,just maybe,he can rest in peace.
(Its short,sorry-)
#the stanley parable x reader#tsp x reader#the stanley parable#stanley parable ultra deluxe#stanley parable#the stanley parable narrator#narrator x reader
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Memory-zone. Part 3, the end. Jim the Narrator, Stanley.
(Memory-zone, part 1)
(Memory-zone, part 2)
[𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙥 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙]
[You hear a soft, slow exhale. Through this one subtle sound, you can hear all the disappointment and all the sadness that now engulfs the Narrator. How could you do this to your friend?]
[The light dissipates in front of your eyes. In front of you is a street, a sad gray place... It’s completely empty, lonely. Only tall buildings and inanimate objects that have absorbed human torment and regret; you are the only living soul here. This place seems familiar to you, but you can't remember why.]
«Stanley... Why can't you listen to me at least this once? It’s not difficult, just listen, just don’t come here, why... You know. It doesn't matter anymore... We're already here anyway.
...
Oh, Stanley... This place, this street, this alley... You probably won't remember this. Most likely, you don’t remember anything at all from what we saw, not even who I am in your life.. Am I right? I can see it in your face. This confusion... This silent question.
...
Your memories.. Your mind flew away from our window, and only a mortal shell, whose wings are too fragile to fly away, remained. And with it, I too, to preserve your bits, your...our memories.
...
I didn’t want you to see this place again, my little swallow.. I wouldn’t want to remember it all like that again.. This is the day when you completely disappeared from my life. The day when you stayed only in our good old office, in our little story...
...
[You hear a strange hum somewhere in the distance. You don't understand where it's coming from. But it is there and it irritates the ears.]
It's noisy here... Sorry about those sirens. (Let's try to think of something else...) What about the sound of the wind? Or rain? (Although you didn't like it..) Let's stop at light gusts of wind. Imagine how they envelop your skin, how they penetrate to the depths of your soul, imagine how this cold warms you by simply being here..!
...
(Sometimes, when I walk here, I keep wondering..)
[You don't hear the last words, they're too quiet to catch. But you hear a heavy sigh.]
Stanley, I respect your choice. But this time...please, let's not go further than this threshold. Or better let’s go back... That’s all I ask.»
[You go back. The door closes and you won’t bother it anymore. Perhaps it would be better this way. After all, you don’t have anyone else around, why not try to at least retain his trust?]
#jim narrator#stanley the stanley parable#the stanley parable narrator#tspud narrator#tsp narrator#tsp stanley#the stanley parable#tsp oc#tspud#tsp#writing
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Makima (Chainsaw Man)
"Spoilers for the Chainsaw Man manga.
Makima is the Control Devil (sometimes translated as Conquest), born from the fear of, well, being controlled. She has the ability to make (almost) anyone obey her simply by telling them what to do, but she generally prefers subtler manipulations, pushing people into situations in which they do exactly what she wants and then come out the other side grateful for her help. Outwardly kind, thoughtful, and supportive, she is beloved by her subordinates and seen as a catastrophic threat by her enemies. Her machinations are the key driving factor for most of the plot of Chainsaw Man, and the hero doesn’t even understand what's happening until it’s basically too late - but when he does, he is heartbroken and terrified by the realization that all of Makima's kindness, months and months of actions that made him happier than he had ever been, were all part of a plan to break his spirit so that she could finally take control of the Chainsaw Devil's power. Makima's ultimate goal is to reshape the world by taking advantage of the Chainsaw Devil's secret ability to retroactively erase things from reality; she claims she only wants to get rid of that which causes suffering to the world, but she eventually admits that she would also get rid of things she personally just doesn't like."
The Narrator (The Stanley Parable) "He literally controls the whole game, while the player is technically in control of Stanley, the narrator does have control of the world around him. He actively manipulates Stanley's feelings and surrounding to get what he wants. He makes a fake wife for Stanley to play with his emotions, he gets angry and spiteful when he clicks the button to turn on the mind-control facility so he blows it up while giving Stanley the illusion he can stop it just to play with him. He also wants to hear how he's the best and his game is the best in the game causing to him to suffer in the skip-button ending. While he's not fully connected to spiders there is a ending where he's connected to tape-recorders and makes it look like they are just him to play and manipulate Stanley more. There is also a bit of the dramatic irony that is the fact he's also trapped in the game which is funny."
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Cyrus doesn't know what triggered it, but all he knows is that Stanley seems to be having a fit of some sort. It doesn't look good, not good at all, and in fact, he doesn't like the way he's gasping for air, it reminds him a little bit too much of the way his own Stanley was acting right before he died, the way he was gasping, like he couldn't breathe.
Oh god...
Has the mist come back? Has it gotten into this Stanley too? Is he now suffering the same fate?
Cyrus goes from zero to sixty and launches out of his chair faster than he ever has in his life, calling out to Stanley as he goes.
"Stanley! Breathe, Stanley! Breathe!"
He has no idea that Stanley is having a flashback and doesn't know if he should or shouldn't be touching him. That doesn't even cross his mind. The only thing that crosses his mind is to try to offer him some comfort, help him through this, help him fight whatever is happening, and if it is the mist again, he'll help him. They defeated it once and they can do it again.
An arm goes around Stanley's back in an attempt to comfort and support him, and he keeps telling him to breathe, over and over, until hopefully he does start breathing again.
(For the flashback meme!)
@the-haunted-office
He had been on his own for a little, Doon was up to something, he wasn't sure, same for Thursday, and he didn't want to deal with Arthur and he had only met that Thisday guy once.
And he didn't want to bother Cyrus every time he was feeling a little lonely, that would be a lot to expect out Cyrus, that would be a lot to expect of anyone.
So he was by himself in one of the multi cubical office rooms sitting by a window, he was focused on a note pad, looking at it. It didn't look right, there wasn't a logo, there was a logo of a hand pointing or something-
There was a noise in his ear, a pattern of rain, he knew the sound well, sometimes when he dared to get close to the windows, there would be the sound of rain, hell sometimes Narrator would comment on it, one of the rare times he'd acknowledge the idea of what directly surrounded the office, his office-
There was no logo on the note pad, the pen was a different brand, no was no narration in his ear telling him what to do.
Just quiet rain, and wind, some distant wind and dripping water from some corner.
From a outsider looking at Stanley it would look like Stanley stared off into space near a window, then suddenly got up and started to wander, not randomly no no, it was a very set path straight to the 'choice' room, it was only in there that Stanley was really moving like himself again, his legs nearly tripping over each other instead of the almost automated way they were moving before, he stumbled and was on the ground, this is when the panicked breaths and holding his own throat kicked in.
He had tried to get to the broom closet, that's why he got up, he needed quiet, he needed to not be seen, he needed somewhere 'safe', not a ending room, not somewhere too off from the intended path, somewhere thorugh that was Stanley's choice to be in, the broom closet, Stanley might hate buckets but he would be totally down to marry a broom.
He obviously couldn't make it there, no no, his feet weren't right, they were moving all very wrong, like not him, like how he used to walk around, like someone real-
He hadn't meant to end up on the ground, but it was nice, nice to be kneeling over himself, lungs racing trying to choke him out by not holding in air more than it was forcing out, trying to not throw up stomach acid, holding his own hands tightly around his neck trying to keep air in (that totally was how it worked right? You could physically hold air in and it would help catch your breath.). All of that was nice.
A real person couldn't do that, he was Stanley.
Then he's hearing something, faintly somewhere 'Stanley!- Stanley-'
"Narrator?" A dazed and confused murmur came out of Stanley, that didn't make any sense did it? Where- When? Did some reset- No his was...
At first Stanley tensed when he was touched, holding his breath for a moment, before he quickly leaned into it, letting go of his throat, for a moment his arms dangled there by his knees as it was starting to reenter his mind, his arm hurt, the floor was different.
There was no logo, no voice in his ear, and he was not trapped in a room with a damned button.
He was somewhere else and... Cyrus, Cyrus was there saying something, 'Stanley- something- Stanley-'
Stanley turned around and was now hugging Cyrus, or more desperately holding onto Cyrus's lower body and trying to not vomit still, it was a very nice grounding thing, for there to be another person, someone to hold onto.
Stanley was making some noises, less words and more false starts, attempts to say something, anything but his throat felt tight, his mouth felt glued together so he just held on while he regathered himself.
Depending on how much attention to detail Cyrus was paying, he might notice that despite everything seeming physically fine with Stanley now, he wasn't breathing, there was no movement in his chest and no breath coming out, but he seemed to be physically fine.
#I Guess That's The Least That I Owe Ya To Be Normal In A Way I Couldn't Be; Stanley & Cyrus ☆The-Haunted-Office☆#Stanley ☆Main Verse☆#Stanley ☆IC☆#The-Haunted-Office#Panic attacks#vomit mention#Ask to tag#Unreality#Death#Choking
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I’m not sure if I ever asked you this question or not, but I’ve always wanted to: how do you come to the conclusions you do about the characters in Twilight and other works?
Actually I guess my question is how do I learn to do it myself lol
Is there a way I can train myself to? Is it just that you take a story and start digging? Did something just seem off about the characters and you took a bigger look at it?
I’m an aspiring writer, which is why I want to know; I feel like it would make me better in my own writing if I could do the things you do, because, well… you’re rather good authors, you and Vinelle I mean.
Frankly, Painting Red Madonnas is one of my favorite books ever.
Anyway… thank you lol
Look, @therealvinelle, praise!
It just seems to be the way I'm wired. I don't even realize it's heresy until I hear other people talking about the same thing and realize "well, shit, I can't talk about this at Christmas parties". There's a lot of, "Muffin, what did you think of X?" "... I thought generic normal things that wouldn't offend anyone's blorbo."
I guess I can give some pointers on how I end up in the bizarre places I do:
Completely Ignore the Existence of the Author
Much of the time it's obvious why Character X does Y in a piece of media and you can point fingers at the author. The author loves this trope, the producers wanted to draw in a certain audience, doing Z would be much too spicy for the viewership, etc.
In the @therealvinelle and Muffin world, that's not allowed. The work has to make internal sense with internal logic. Which means that if something doesn't seem right or doesn't match up, you have to find a reason for why it is what it is.
More, you can't take the author's word for what a character is supposed to be or what they're supposed to be doing and thinking.
As a rough example, JKR clearly tells us that Dumbledore is a good man and a firmly moral character. However, within the story, he does very questionable things all the time (I'm actually struggling to think of anything he did that is remotely moral).
So, you can't take the author's word for anything.
Characters Can and Do Lie
All narrators are on some level unreliable. They each have an agenda, their own biases, their own goals and desires that sometimes conflict with what's actually happening in the world. You view things through the narrator so always take what they say with a grain of salt.
Take Bella Swan, she tells us that Jessica Stanley is the worst. That Jessica is only interested in Bella to further her own ends and is, at the end of the day, a cheap friend who is envious of everything Bella has and is (such as Mike's attraction to Bella).
However, if we discount Bella for a moment and really take a look at Jessica. While the girl is chatty and does talk about things like the Cullens, her gossip is the normal amount I'd expect if someone looks incestuous in high school and she always makes an effort to be with Bella.
What Bella conveys to us, the readers, is a very skewed perception of Jessica framed entirely by Bella.
We hear only what the narrator wishes for us to hear.
Another is the Tom Riddle memories. We later learn why Dumbledore is doing this, he is dying and needs Harry to eventually kill himself so as to rid the world of Voldemort. To this end, the memories are very carefully selected and narrated to show Tom Riddle as the worst human being on the planet who is irredeemably evil and must be killed at all costs.
Harry doesn't ever question this, though, because he takes Dumbledore at face value and eagerly considers himself a Dumbledore loyalist. And so, if you don't think to question Harry, you'll never question just why Albus would ever do this.
Similarly, characters can be wrong and misinformed. They have access only to certain information, covered by bias, which means it's entirely possible they could be incorrect about something even if they firmly believe it.
Look at What the Characters Actually Say and Do
Ignore what you're supposed to think about the characters (either from other people, the author, or the characters themselves) and instead look at what they say and what they do to inform your opinion about them.
What does Edward actually say about his grand love with Bella Swan? What is it that actually seems to draw him to her from his own perspective and from what he tells to Bella?
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You don't have to agree with me on them loving each other, but you must be insane if you think Narrator doesn't care about Stanley with all his heart. I think he's in love with Stanley, like madly in love. He acts like he doesn't care sometimes but any sensible person can tell he does, pretty much all the endings show that.
•He wants to be with Stanley forever.
•He wants to constantly spend time with Stanley.
•He rambles to Stanley and shows Stanley all his favorite things or even does his favorite things with him.
•He tells Stanley of how much he cares for and adores him.
•He gets concerned and anxious when Stanley gets hurt or is about to be. When Stanley uses the skip button he goes insane without him
•He longs for the comfort of Stanley's presence and him listening to his words.
•He cares about Stanley's emotions and well-being, giving him space or time if needed.
And so many other examples. He even gets jealous when Stanley is spending too much time with a darn bucket, he made a bucket destroyer to get rid of it so he could get Stanley's full attention, and not have to share it with a literal bucket. I feel like even if it was a person he might have the same reaction , jealousy. He doesn't want to have to 'share' Stanley with anyone [or anything], he enjoys the time they spend together. I think their relationship is really cute and wholesome, rather it's platonic or romantic. I love it so much. (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡
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stanley parable? haha morew like stanley parallels am i righ-[GETS PUNCHED]
ok ok bad jokes aside TELL ME ABOUT THE PARALLELS IN THE FUNNY CROSSOVER AU MY EARS ARE WIDE THEFUCK OPEN !!! ! ! ! !!!
OKAY OKAY SO SO SO. The main parallels come down to the ARCS the characters go through, so let's discuss that first.
(General content warning for themes of the world being a game)
To put it very simply: the Narrator's character development is him learning he isn't as in control as he thought he is. He may have console commands, he may be the writer of the story, he may have some level of control over what the parable does, but he is no god. He is as bound to the code as anything else in the game.
Meanwhile, Gordon's character development is him realizing he's an AI- not just an AI, but one shaped by an outside force that sometimes controls his body, movements, and mind. It triggers an existential crisis in him, and also causes him to gain a deeper understanding of WHY Dr Coomer was so freaked out- the player knew why, but Gordon doesn't. But it also gives Gordon this different conflict- one of learning that his free will would regularly just get sucked away.
The Narrator and Gordon's arcs parallel each other in that they both realize they're not in full control. The Narrator has some, but not full control over the Parable, which infuriates him because he is shown to have this intense need for control- control over Stanley, control over his story, control over the building, control over his audience's perspective on his game, control over EVERYTHING. The Curator even pointed this out in the Museum End, about how Stanley and the Narrator wish to destroy and control each other.
And he keeps getting denied that control. Tries to control Stanley, that never fucking works. Tries to control his story, Stanley just refuses to go along with it. Tries to control the building, and it just shifts and warps around him, refusing to let him do anything. Tries to control his audience's perspective on the game... well, we know what happened there.
Gordon too has a need for control, but to a lesser extent. Gordon's (mostly) human, he knows he doesn't have full control over everything and never will, and is mostly chill with that (which translates to "never really thinking about it much," because how many of you think about the level of control you have over your life). And he does try to kinda control what the Science Team do, if "trying to get them to not die" counts.
However, he takes a level of comfort in the fact that at the very least, he has control over himself. He has control over his own body, his own mind, his own emotions. Sure, his temper is pretty quick to trigger, but he is the One Sane Man, and he can control himself.
AND THEN HE REALIZES HE LITERALLY CAN'T. His entire personality was shaped by a being beyond his comprehension, and all the control he thought he had over himself was an illusion. And at any second, all the control he CURRENTLY has could be completely sucked away, and his brain could be overwritten by something literally beyond their comprehension.
So tldr: the Narrator wants control over everything, and Gordon wants control over himself, and both learn that they've never really had that.
Now, Benrey and Stanley's parallels.
Benrey's character development is basically him slowwwly starting to have a complete mental breakdown. He's been hanging on okay for a while- he's hanging out with the Science Team, Gordon can be in the same room as him sometimes, he's not as much as a wreck as he was immediately post-Xen (though that's not saying much). But the strings that have been holding his mental state up are slowly but surely fraying, and he cannot hold on forever- especially if he keeps refusing to process the INCREDIBLY TRAUMATIC EVENTS THAT OCCURRED DURING THE RESCAS AND XEN.
Stanley's character development is... So, one of my favorite interpretations of Stanley back when I first got into TSP was that Stanley was so, so idiotically stubborn. And a facet of that stubbornness was he REFUSED to directly communicate with words, instead communicating through body language, actions, and drawings. I'm going with something similar, and his arc is being forced to fucking communicate sometimes. He eventually HAS to communicate not through drawings, but more through sign language, and he HATES having to use words to communicate.
Benrey and Stanley's arcs also parallel each other in terms of the fact that both of them need to overcome just how fucking stubborn they are. Stanley despises the Narrator while also caring for him deeply, but admitting he cares is giving the Narrator some level of power over him. And he refuses to ever give him any power. They are in an eternal game, and giving the Narrator power is giving him an advantage, a bigger chance for an ultimate victory, which Stanley will never give.
Meanwhile Benrey loves so deeply, so painfully, and desperately wants to help and be helped, love and be loved, but he would genuinely rather claw his heart out than EVER admit that. Because there's a part of him that's very aware that everyone would stop viewing him as the pure evil villain he "knows" he is if they knew how much pain he was in. He does not want to be loved or cared for in the slightest. After all, since when do bad guys deserve that?
(And also Benrey's a little asshole <333)
Tldr: Benrey's inability to communicate with Gordon is primarily driven by love and self-hatred, and Stanley's inability to communicate with the Narrator is primarily driven by rage and spite.
So the main parallels are between Gordon and the Narrator, and Benrey and Stanley. However, there are smaller scale parallels that are just as important and interesting.
Benrey and the Narrator are one of those smaller scale parallels. They're both beings beyond human who are aware of it's a game, who are far, far more powerful than their silly gay person they like tormenting affectionately. (Also they've both refused to process two unfathomably traumatic events- for the Narrator, it's the skip button end, for Benrey, it's Xen.)
But there's a crucial difference there- the Narrator has a deep need for control, while Benrey doesn't. The Narrator needs to control as much as he can, especially since he already has this much power, which tends to be addictive.
But Benrey doesn't really care that much- his mindset is far more akin to positive nihilism than the Narrator's. Benrey just explores his powers, has a little fun, acts a little silly.
(And ironically, this gives him far more control than the Narrator has. Being that obsessed with control and power doesn't let you accept that there are things you won't be able to control. Benrey's accepted that, the Narrator hasn't.)
Stanley and Gordon are far more obvious parallels. Both are player characters, both are somewhat controlled by the player (see: Not Stanley end), both have a lot of contradictory emotions of simultaneous love and hate towards their powerful obviously gay sillyboy.
But the main difference is that while Gordon reasonably freaks out about being the player character, Stanley doesn't have much reaction to it. Partially because he's been living in the parable for an eternity, and partially because he's kinda... shut off his ability to let himself feel anything about it. After all, if he starts feeling something about the fact that he's the player character, he'll have an existential crisis, and his whole house of cards is gonna come tumbling down.
Meanwhile Gordon straight-up can't shut off his emotions about it. Gordon feels everything- love, hate, anger, fear- and he feels it so much that it's painful. Stanley's completely disconnected from his emotions, but Gordon is painfully connected to them. He might TRY to push shit aside, he might TRY to not think about it, but he really can't avoid things as long as Stanley can. It's just in his nature- he's far more emotional than Stanley is.
PLEASE KEEP SENDING ME ASKS ABT THIS AU I HAVE NORMAL EMOTIONS ABOUT IT
#asks#🛂can i see your passport? please [benrey freeman]#🔫I’M GOING FUCKING NUTS [gordon freeman]#not maintagging bc i don't wanna clog stuff up#hlvrai parable au
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TUMBLR TAG TEAM TOURNAMENT!
HELLOOOOOO TUMBLR!
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What is the Tumblr Tag Team Tournament, you ask? Well, it takes a tumblr icon, whether it be a sexyman, woman, nonbiney swag or little meow meow, old or new face, and teams them up with another icon! Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't! It's all in good fun, so y'all, have some DAMN FUN!
If you want to do fanart of this and YOU want me to see it, use #tumblrtagteamtournament, tag me OR send it to me through submission
The official polling will start tomorrow at 9AM Atlantic Time/10AM EST!
HERE ARE OUR CONTESTANTS!
IN ORDER FROM UP TO DOWN:
NAGITO KOMAEDA and SANS (Dangaronpa and Undertale)
CECIL GERSHWIN PALMER and MARCELINE (WTNV and Adventure Time)
EDA CLAWTHORNE and REIGEN ARATAKA (The Owl House and Mob Psycho 100)
BILL CIPHER and GLaDOS (Gravity Falls and Portal)
HARRY DU BOIS and THE KNIGHT (Disco Elysium and Hollow Knight)
VRISKA SERKET and HATSUNE MIKU (Homestuck and Vocaloid)
DEATH and ENA (PIB: The Last Wish and Joel G)
LAPIS LAZULI and ZHONGLI (Steven Universe and Genshin Impact)
MORDECAI and TWILIGHT SPARKLE (Regular Show and My Little Pony)
LORD DOMINATOR and GABRIEL (Wander Over Yonder and Ultrakill)
HARUKO HARUHAWA and THE NARRATOR (FLCL and The Stanley Parable)
JOHN WARD and HEATHER MASON (Faith and Silent Hill)
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UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE C
*NOTE; Gideon Nav propaganda below Narrator's, as poll maker decided to cut some under Read More for post length
The Narrator Propaganda:
Just... Just listen to the "unfunny" clip, what's more to say, vote for the gay old guy
Depending on the ending, he can be
Spoilers I guess??? He's always trying to guide Stanley to the outcome HE wants, which is a very, very small chunk of the game where the player just obeys everything and doesn't experience anything else. Obeying Narrator to a T will win you the "Freedom" ending, where Stanley can finally leave the office building, and Narrator will wax on about how Stanley's "happy" and "finally free to live at last". ...exceeeept, on completion, Stanley will spawn right back in the building as though nothing happened, restarting the adventure all over again. The truth is that Stanley will never be free, regardless of what the Narrator says. Stanley is trapped in the building and will stay trapped no matter what. This truth can only be acknowledged if you're defiant, and even then, I may be mistaken but I'm pretty sure the Narrator never fully admits this??? The museum ending has a WHOLE DIFFERENT narrator explain their mutually fucked circumstances. The dishonest factors can increase in other ways from the player's input (for example, the Narrator might say "Stanley walked through the left door", but the player can use their input to defy this statement and go through the right one instead, therefore making the Narrator's statement inherently dishonest and the Narrator will get pissy about it, changing the outcome for that path). Sometimes he'll misdirect when he's petulant, especially if the player is directly defying his instructions, which makes the game feel like a game of tug-rope for control at points. I want to say there are times where he directly attempts to trick the player but admittedly I can't think of an exact instance. Plus you know, the Narrator has a large ego and always talks big about things like his importance and integrity and whatnot so who knows how much of that is even sincere and how much is a sad veneer, but that's getting into overanalysis territory and my fingers hurt so let's leave this here. I hope this was coherent.
he quite literally rewrites the story whenever he has issues with the direction stanley starts to go in, i do not know how to explain it better than that
He is literally the narrator, and he constantly tries to mislead and lie to Stanley through the narration to get him back on the story’s proper path
He constantly narrates what Stanley is feeling as if it is the truth, when it is not. He speaks as a authority, and while he is one, he is definitely not reliable.
Gideon Nav Propaganda:
(Spoilers for Ht9) She just. Fully ignores most of the magic plot happening around her in the first boom to be a dyke. In the second book it’s even less reliable and it’s fully fucking insane. It’s first person but she’s telling YOU (harrow) what is happening and it’s impossible to decipher. The appearance and personality of every character is fully morphed by Gideon’s mean dykishness.
MASSIVE spoilers. Like even mentioning that this is a thing is a huge fucking spoiler. I normally don’t care about spoilers that much but I legitimately feel awful for anyone with even a passing interest in reading these books who has this spoiled for them. Anyway. Yeah turns out the second-person narration is actually a first-person narration by the dead girl living in Harrow’s head whose death traumatized Harrow (and the entire fandom) so badly that she literally lobotomized herself to forget it and give Gideon a chance at not having her soul digested.
constantly adds her own commentary, does not pay attention to the interesting moving parts of the plot bc she's too busy looking at pretty girls, cannot be trusted to read her own intentions correctly never mind anyone else's. I love her dearly
she just doesn’t notice or doesn’t give a shit about a ton of plot-essential information. Harrow and Palamedes are talking about a necromantic theorem that would blow open the entire story if we could hear them? You can instantly feel Gideon’s eyes glaze over and her mind wander to the nearest available hot girl, and our attention goes with her. It’s handled so smoothly that you might not even notice it happening until a second or third read.
More Propaganda under cut!
Gideon Nav is all but useless as a narrator, and we love her for it. So first of all, she knows absolutely nothing. She grew up under a rock. Almost literally. When the plot is happening near her, she almost never tells us about it. Politics, history, and the magic system are boring. Let her know when there's something she can FIGHT. She also has very selective emphasis and focus that can change a scene completely without ever actually lying. She can tell the same story—to us, in her third-person narration as a factual recounting—and in one version the incident will be a schoolyard scuffle, while a later telling will reveal it to have been a near-homicide. She'll confidently interpret other character's motivations and emotions, only to later be proven wrong. But the thing that makes her REALLY unreliable? She lies to HERSELF constantly. She will tell us in her narration that she doesn't give a shit where someone disappeared to, and then spend the whole day searching for them. She'll say she hates someone, when. Well....
okay so i am actually going to do one segment about her own book and one about harrow’s so many apologies and also many spoilers ahead okay? okay so in gideon the ninth it’s a well known thing that she’s an unreliable narrator on two fronts: she lies to herself and therefore us about how she’s feeling and what she’s thinking, and also she isn’t paying attention to the plot at all. the only things she pays any attention to are hot girls, swords, and hot girls with swords. at one point she watches their only way out be sealed off and is so bored about it that she goes to sleep watching it happen, taking absolutely no note of “oh hey they’re trapping us here”. later someone asks IN FRONT OF HER “hey where did all our shuttles go” and shes like “😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌” and still does not make the connection. babygirl. but THEN!!!!! in HARROW the ninth (MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD) gideon is the narrator the ENTIRE TIME (except for the revised canaan house parts) and not only does she editorialize, she also straight up lies about events and motivations! partially justified by her being inside harrow’s head, but like. babygirl. beloved. the interjections of “holy fuck” and “pommel” and othersuch things is so important to my mental health and wellbeing. thank you. thank you for lying to us so so much.
#unreliable narrator battle#unreliable narrators#polls#side c#the narrator#the stanley parable#gideon nav#the locked tomb
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