This is employee 432, or at least, what remains of him.
He was put through tests and experimentation for inconceivable amounts of time. No one thinks at first that not being given something as simple as a pencil could cause someone to go insane... but eons and eons of not being given the ability to create... to log... to simply mark down the passage of days... for eons? Yes. That makes much more sense, doesn't it? It, perhaps, could drive someone to the point of becoming a being of pure creation...
Whether it's true or not, Employee 432 or "Time Keeper" claims to be the true creator of what we know to be The Stanley Parable. The world, the office, Stanley, and even the Narrator himself. He is not simply the creator of the game... he is the game. The very fabric of it. A game that reflects the only life he remembers now. The Office. The tests. The Parable.
Yes, Narrator claims to be the true creator and controller of the game, but who made him? Who truly wrote the story he was tasked to narrate? Why is it that if you follow the story exactly as it's told, your ending is freedom?
Wish Fulfillment.
this game has done so, so much for me. it’s improved my art and writing, pulled me out of a depressive episode, and connected me with truly wonderful friends. thanks, stanley. keep pushing those buttons.
Digital Friend Timekeeper AU — partially based on the game "Buddy Simulator 1984"
the GIF shows the farce they put on for Stanley: human-like and with their shirt in his favorite color, blue.
it then switches to the black/white appearance the void within the computer network has reduced them to.
some info on the AU below the cut:
Digital Friend Timekeeper AU
Employee 432's consciousness—after they got murdered due to disobedience—accidentally got transfered into the office's internal computer network.
In desperate attempts to keep sane they would try and create little games for themself to play, sometimes getting former co-workers to play along. Yet, inevitably, they always ended up getting discarded, merely having been used as a momentary distraction from their former co-workers' forlorn daily routine.
You’re going to live, if only for a while, like you’re real.
And you are going to realise how much better off you are without him shackling you to your path.
You got all that?
( Yes / Yes )
fanart for txtfilenotfound.pdf, one of my favorite tspud fics <3