#beyond that he's the narrator

[reginrokkr]

Do you ever have something to say that would do well in your rules but it’s something that people tend to shy away from, so you don’t say it and instead apply it to your portrayal? That’s me with Dain, but I think that it’d be a good idea to at least make a small post about it. If you interact with him, he’s bound to know to some capacity about your muse. Regardless of whether you count what he says in the Travail trailer as canon (by this I mean besides what he says, which is becoming true) or not, it was confirmed that he counts with divination abilities at least in a middle-term way. If we’re to add the Travail trailer into the mix and how it’s been three canonical years in Genshin now, in view that we’re in Sumeru’s chapter, it’s safe to say that his divination capabilities go up to three years for now, always subject to increase in years until at least Snezhnaya’s chapter.

What I mean to say by this is that infomodding isn’t something generally liked and I tend to be careful with this, always keeping in mind the mun’s indications of what someone else can or can’t know about their muse depending on the circumstances they establish. So please keep this in mind!

#◟༺✦༻◞ What lays behind the mantle of faux stars ┊OOC.┊ #◟༺✦༻◞ Trust not the gods; nor overthrow them ┊PSA.┊ #if anyone's wondering why #as in an explanation #beyond that he's the narrator #he's glaringly connected to Irminsul #also known as the Tree of Time #which counts for the future too #so that's why #I swear I'm a bit nervous #posting this #but it's something I've been adding #into my portrayal #and interactions by extension #if anyone has any specifications #that would like me to keep in mind #by all means #feel free to let me know #and I'll act consequently #partly this is one of the reasons #why Dain is so hard to write #because I have to keep in mind #not only the lore #which by itself is so extended #but also the characters #because it's just something #that is in the realm of his knowledge #but I'd understand #if anyone were to not like this that much

[blackkatdraws2]

Stanley encounters them. [Blank Scripts AU]

#tsp blank scripts au #oooohhh worldbuilding #MAN ive always wanted to draw something like this #showing Stanley encountering things that he doesnt know and stuff and learning about things that are beyond his own realm of reality #this is related to the 2nd Stanley easter egg btw except the POV is now not on the Player but with the actual Stanley #he's watching us #tsp au #the stanley parable #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #tsp #tspud #tsp narrator #narrator tsp #stanley tsp #tsp stanley #my drawing museum

[salty-an-disco]

I disagree with Narrator in a very fundamental and philosophical level, but you know, even if I agreed 100% with his worldview and the reality he wants to bring about, I’d still think he’s wrong for taking matters into his own hands and changing THE VERY FABRIC OF REALITY affecting people in the entire universe, simply because HE thinks he knows what best for the world.

Like– that’s why I find him so fascinating, it’s not only the fear of death or disgust towards the very concept of change (tho that is very funny and interesting in its own right), but the utter arrogance to champion himself Savior of the World without EVER considering that maybe– just maybe, people might not agree with what he plans to do.

Like. Hubris indeed, and he even has the gall to say, “you can still do what you must and kill her” when we call him out on it. Like. Wow. I want to study this guy under a microscope.

#love how he’s like. a perfect example of a greek story protagonist #with a fatal flaw that cost his life in exchange for an outcome he won’t even *be there* to witness even if it works out #while I find what-ifs where Echo grows beyond his original conception and the person he originated from interesting enough to want to #explore it #I also very much LOVE his role as this tragic character whose fate was already decided before the game begins #slay the princess #stp narrator #the narrator #stp meta #sal rambles

[lamuliz]

"I've made some changes to the skip button, Narry."

I'm working on an angsty comic with him and the narrator so here's a concept i might use

#the stanley parable #stanley parable #stan #angst #hes so insane #beyond redemption <33 #men that are absolute lunatics <33 #narry is such a dumb nickname for the narrator #idk if ill actually have him call him that but its funny #your honor my client was being fnuuy #what if the button is just a fart noise #hey narry listen to this toot #boom

[parasocial-paradox]

Average reaction to Black's uncanny valley presence:

Ft. @blackkatdraws Black!!!

The only thing that can scare my sona is the unknown, and BOY has Black got a lot of unknown to share!

I keep on changing how I draw Black's hair but I might stay with this bc I like it

#i love forcing my sona to meet horrors beyond comprehension!!! #sona lore i never told anybody: Paradox is actually a shapeshifting alien in poor disguise bc being human is boring lmao #the stanley parable #tspud #tsp #the stanley parable narrator #tsp fanart #tsp narrator #blackkatdraws #blackkatdraws fanart #blackkatdraws narrator #i love black so much he's one of my favourite narrators #late night doodle

[jerichogender]

thinking about the time they actually gave joey dialogue in the new teen titans: games…

“He could be role-playing with us. Art represents civilization. Maybe he’s showing us his end game?”

this says sooo much about him: his deductive reasoning skills, his appreciation for art, his understanding of other people’s psychology. i need more stories where joey gets to play detective, especially in an art or music history context, and i NEED him to have proper dialogue

#imagining an art heist job with his mom in the searchers inc. comic that exists in my head #let him be thoughtful & have a personality beyond just the sweet helpful guy who’s a good listener #we see some of this skill as a tactician in ntt #(that issue where titans tower gets attacked by the hybrid comes to mind #plus the super inventive ways he uses his powers in general) #but there’s a level of characterization you get from dialogue that he’s almost never given in ntt #there are some narration boxes that kind of give insight into his thoughts #and then there’s that issue in late late ntt that has excerpts from a book he’s writing about the titans #but in general other characters vaguely paraphrase things he signs or we just see their response & what he even said is only implied #really it wouldn’t be hard to give him dialogue like at all they did it here with text boxes that have quotation marks #you could also use angle brackets like they do in american comics when a character’s speaking in a language other than english #just have a little ‘*translated from american sign language’ as an editor’s note & people will know what’s going on #joey wilson #the new teen titans: games #undescribed

[bookshelf-in-progress]

Daughter of the House of Dreams: A Fragment

Author's Note: This is the opening to a long-abandoned "Sleeping Beauty" retelling that I no longer plan to write, but I still like it as a piece of prose, and it sparked my enduring interest in second-person narration, so it feels relevant, and why should long-dead authors be the only ones who get to have their unfinished fragments published?

If you ever travel to Monetta City, be sure to visit Faraway Lane. Walk past the glittering new shops, and the shoppers in their bright silk dresses and top hats, and you'll find a cozy stone shop at the end of the street. This shop isn't grand and mighty like the other shops. It won't sniff and turn you away if your clothes aren't the latest fashion. It's a grandmotherly old shop that shakes its head at the prancing and preening of the younger shops, and invites you in instead. It holds no wares in its windows; it hardly has windows at all. But it has a warm and wide wooden door, with a shingle hanging above—Alessia Day, maker of dreams.

Don't ponder the sign's message too long—it means exactly what it says. Just slip inside, shut the door behind you, and look. Don't breathe too deeply, unless you want a week of crazy dreams, but allow yourself one gasp of astonishment. You won't be able to stop yourself. No living person has failed to feel awe toward the rows and rows of shelves, longer than streets and taller than palaces, filled to bursting with glass bottles in such bright colors that the dresses in the other shops' windows would weep in envy. Some bottles are the size of thumbnails. Most fit comfortably in the palm. Some are as large as breadboxes or steamer trunks or carriage horses, but the shelves manage to fit them all. And each bottle is filled to the brim with dreams.

If you don't understand, ask Alessia Day. You'll find her at a counter half a mile from the door, polishing bottles and humming a song you've heard but can't remember. She's an old woman now, and proud of it, but squint your eyes and start to daydream, and you'll see her as I remember her—a willow-wand girl with shining brown hair and eyes that sparkle with half-formed jokes.

Tell this girl how pretty she is (she'll laugh and call you crazy) and ask about her dreams. She'll tell you of her stock and sell you any dream you ask for—daydreams and pipe dreams, dreams of love, dreams of adventure, dreams of loved ones lost and loved ones found and people you've never met but wish you had. She'll show you dreams of lush and perfect islands, dreams where fishes fly through the air, and dreams where people swim the seas with fishes' tails. She'll pull down dreams that last a second but linger a lifetime, dreams that fill a month of stormy nights, dreams that fade on waking and dreams that drown out memories. If you let her, she'll talk of dreams until you drift off, and she'll bottle up your dream while you doze.

But if you're smart (I know you are) you'll step to the counter with a clear glass bottle, empty of everything but air, and ask for her story instead. She'd distill it in a dream for you, and be glad to do it—I once saw her whip it up in half a minute, and I'll bet she's even faster now. Buy the dream, but don't drink it right away. You won't be ready for it. Linger in the shop a while. Hear the story first from Alessia Day's lips, in that voice of hers that's sweeter than singing.

You won't believe half of it, but when you stagger from the shop and wander the empty, starlit streets, you'll ponder over passages until you stumble into bed at sunrise. And when you wake, the world will be different—you'll see tiny footprints on the windowsills, know things about the shadows on the walls, tip your hat to creatures in the corner of your eye, and realize there is another color no one else can see. You'll laugh and call it your imagination, but every second Tuesday, you'll start to wonder if the old woman was right, if the things she told you were true.

If you drink the dream she made, you'll know. I'll understand if you don't—some things are easier not to know. But if you do, and dream through her story, come to my house and ring the bell. My man will let you in—he'll know you by the wonder on your face. He'll bring you to my study, set you in my oldest, softest chair, and get us both settled with a steaming pot of tea. Then, once you've finished babbling, I'll close my eyes and tell you my part in the tale.

#the bookshelf progresses #i had completely forgotten the story that this was supposed to be the prologue to #then over the weekend i found the plot summary again #it was actually pretty cool #it was about this girl whose family served as the most prestigious dream-makers in the nation #because they provide dreams to the famed cursed and sleeping princess #and then she discovers that the princess could have been woken a bunch of times over the century #but her family prevented it because they didn't want to lose their cash cow #and then of course she has to find a way to break the curse #i don't know why i thought having this random dude as narrator was the way to go #(unless the story morphed a lot between initial idea and whatever story i intended to write with this prologue) #he was probably in the prince role #and would marry the princess while remaining friends with alessia #beyond that i have no clue what i was going for #(also i don't think i would do the 'he teams up with this girl and marries someone else' plot if i did it today #because i hate marian halcombe situations where the hero develops a strong dynamic with his adventure partner #only to for some inexplicable reason marry someone pretty and boring) #anyway today's a day where i want to write and don't really have time to #so i'm just posting this instead

[darcyolsson]

revisiting riverdale season 3 episode 4 "the midnight club" post-season 7 is insane because so many of the story elements that are constants in the different incarnations of the main cast (riverdale/50sdale) are also true for the parent characters. and they're portrayed by the same actors. do you understand? fred & hermione dated because archie & veronica did and alice & fp dated because betty & jughead did. in a sense they're just yet another alternate main cast, so even when portraying the parents these characters are still stuck in their own respective narratives because that's what riverdale is about

#riverdale #personal #it goes a lot beyond the ships but those were just the easiest examples to grab lol #like. fred stuggles with choosing between music and sports and cares deeply about his dad #alice's storyline is focused on being in control of her own sexuality + she's the one to discover the murder #hermione's having doubts about unintentionally being involved in hiram's crime/(career) #penelope is suffering at the hands of the blossoms/her abusive parents #sierra (mccoy) is a political activist who is trying to come into her 'voice' and make a career #and tom (keller)'s story is focused on his forbidden romance #and that leaves us with fp whose storyline is more reflective of jugheads s2 storyline except! it's subverted in most ways #because he's jughead and as a narrator he doesn't have to play by the same rules that everyone else does #it's so good i'm losing my mindddd

[drbtinglecannon]

How Belos remembers Caleb back in the human realm:

How Caleb actually was back in the human realm:

This is such a good addition to the ways the story has shown us over and over that Philip is an intentionally unreliable narrator.

Now, Luz is also an unreliable narrator as we've seen a few times, but with Luz it's clearly unintentional and a side effect of RSD, where she takes on more guilt than is warranted. Philip on the other hand, rewrites the story to make himself look better and be absolved of all guilt each time.

First we see it in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", when Philip is exposed for purposely fabricating the entries in his journal, which we were following since Luz discovered it back in "Through The Looking Glass Ruins". It was deliberate on his part to doctor his own personal journal that he later personally delivers to a library, all centuries before he ever became Belos. And it worked! Philip appeared much kinder and genuinely curious of the Boiling Isles, so much so both the audience and Luz had sympathy for him, yet it was all a lie on his journey of genocide. He set about fabricating sympathy for himself long before he had any power or chance of destroying the Isles, relaying how deeply manipulative he is.

Then we see it again in "Hollow Mind", with Belos having a fake mindscape full of fabricated propaganda of his reign that hid his real memories of his life and actions. His own subconscious greeted them in a purposely innocent persona to lower their guard, then revealed himself after he got what he wanted. The layers of manipulation and dishonesty it takes to create such cognitive dissonance just on the off change his mind is ever explored is something that cannot be understated. Even further than purposely fabricating his journal, he stripped away parts of his own memory and presented his Inner Belos as a child all to garner, again, more sympathy.

Now we see it again here, in "Thanks To Them", where the first time the show directly shows us Caleb in the human realm outside of Belos' memory of him, he looks miserable. He has heavy bags under his eyes, sunken in cheeks, and a truly despondent expression.

It's entirely possible Caleb hid his misery from Philip, being the older child and having to take on responsibility to protect his younger brother, and it's also possible Caleb did enjoy his childhood and was genuinely happy in those earlier memories. But as this new shot shows us, Caleb eventually stops appearing that way and grows depressed being in the human realm, yet conveniently there's no memory Philip has that shows this stage of Caleb.

We can even dig a little further into some of the mindscape memories to see more of the framework for this final reveal.

Here we have the last memory of Caleb before the Boiling Isles memories start:

This is also the first memory where Philip isn't smiling. Caleb is smiling though, and this is the most in the light Caleb has appeared in a memory since the one of him carving that mask. Caleb slowly turned further away from the lighting throughout Belos' early memories, being shrouded in more and more darkness in each one, but this memory when Philip looks unhappy for the first time is when Caleb's finally turning back towards the light, and it's most likely the memory of when Caleb left the human realm.

Then here we have the first memory Caleb's eyes become visible:

The moment they reunited is when Philip finally remembers Caleb's eyes. And boy does he look drastically different from the man in the mirror. He doesn't have eyebags, his cheeks are no longer sunken in, and he looks happy.

This moment is also when Philip decides to kill him.

Because he looked too happy here in this world Philip thinks is hell.

And he looked far happier there than he did back home.

So Philip wipes away those details from his memory. Like he does every other detail that makes him appear to be in the wrong.

And we finally have the proof of it. When Belos said "Out of all the grimwalkers, you looked the most like him" he meant it, even after he willingly rewrote his own memories of Caleb to reflect differently.

#toh #toh spoilers #toh meta #toh analysis #caleb wittebane #philip wittebane #emperor belos #hollow mind #thanks to them #elsewhere and elsewhen #through the looking glass ruins #i dont subscribe to the idea that someone was evil from birth. like philip was a child who grew up in a DEEPLY traumatizing environment #like the puritans were beyond fucked. however at this point (& at the point when he killed caleb) philip is an adult. hes ~400yrs old #hes caused immeasurable suffering & death to innocents over CENTURIES & gleefully manipulated & traumatized countless others #but i DO think that philip is consciously aware that caleb was unhappy back at home at some point & purposely pretends otherwise #bc if he acknowledges the truth openly then thats admitting he knows he was wrong. same w when gus played his memories to him #anyway i just think the fact that both the hero (luz) & the villain (belos) are unreliable narrators & tied together is fascinating #tc posts

[essektheylyss]

[banging my fists on the table]

WHERE'S OUR HONORED FRIEND?

WHERE'S OUR HONORED FRIEND?

WHERE'S OUR HONORED FRIEND?

#wbn spoilers #worlds beyond number #eursolon the wild one #it's been 84 years...... #[narrator voice: it had been about an hour and a half in recording time.] #but also. I miss lou. :( #every time he makes an ooc joke I'm like !!! there he is !!!

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

reasons why i just KNOW john richard papen is the pretty boi of the greek class and most probably all of hampden (spoilers, read at your own risk):

he's from california so he has that accent shut up.

he gets attention. now listen, we see him accompanying literally every single one of these nerds yet he's the one who gets recognized, every fucking time. he's literally been to a college party with camilla and judy but he was the one who got taken home while no one even tried to hit on judy and camilla (pretty sure because they were just getting all up and personal with each other so everyone kept their distance i'm allowed to dream shut up-).

he swoons over charles and francis too so... we've seen him call charles charming and he does end up with an older woman by the end of the book, BUT... he never got any attention from any one of their college friends, ik not appropriate but what in the living fuck is appropriate about this book anyway, he doesn't even get noticed by any girl at bunny's funeral... not even SOPHIE! but.. whatever i guess.

he's literally objectively prettier than bunny i don't need to justify that.

francis.. he's a redhead but that doesn't make him less pretty, actually that makes him prettier. people just find richard more objectively attractive. ik we all have this wrecked image of richard in our heads because that's how we decided to look at richard but just imagine richard's features being an absolutely stunning cross between achilles and remus lupin *sighs in gender envy*.

just the fact that he made it into the class.. hear me out. these nerds, including julian, are all about the aesthetic. and richard appearing outta nowhere could not be reason enough for them to just pull him in their "tight-knit circle" as we go about describing the greek class to be. the fact that richard's somewhat proficient at greek, is stupid AND pretty is reason enough? yeah (as i said, a cross between achilles and remus lupin).

julian calls him for dinner (i don't think i need to explain this i think we all know why he did that *ahem* *ahem* pulling the shit he must have pulled on henry to attract him *ahem* *ahem*) which is viable enough for my claims lmao.

i'm biased do what you will lol.

#raj shitposting #ik i'm dreaming but let me that's the only thing i've got for the ptsd this book has given me #ik this is all trash but i just.. couldn't with the way we treat him.. #like we just associated donna's features with him because his narration's from her pov but still #also.. donna's from i think boston so it makes absolutely no sense to think richard looks anything like her.. the aesthetics don't match #if he weren't pretty he wouldn't've ever ended up in the class anyway #and we all know all of them were pretty so it just makes sense he got in on such a short notice because he was determined and attractive #or should i say a little bit of a major thot as well? #so yeah.. lousy argument but i will stand by it till the day i die.. even beyond tbh #richard papen #henry winter #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #francis abernathy #julian morrow #tsh #the secret history #donna tartt #literati

[themochimadeoftaro]

Just a bunch of doodles of our fav duo :)

i'm sick so they might not be the best JDSNJSFDNSFD

at first i was so indecisive about keeping the tar eldritch design for the narrator but i ended up liking it too much

i can't resist him, he looks so cool like a bunch of black goo lmao

when i'm feeling better i wanna make some cool stuff :eyes:

[ reblogs are much more appreciated with tags!! ]

#tsp #tspud spoilers #the stanley parable #the narrator #stanley #tar #the narrator is a monster beyond our comprehension #is that how he knows everything? #doodle #stanarrator #early designs

[tai-janai]

ive said it before but stp is just choosing between a toxic familial relationship (with the narrator) and a toxic romantic relationship (with the princess) and the best ending is where nobody gets what they want, which is the truest compromise

#if you listen to the narrator #he will leave and everything will be gone #but everything will be good #if you listen to the princess #you will be with her forever #but you will mean nothing #if you do not take the knife but you also dont listen to the princess #it is something new and something beyond you #where neither of you win

[queenburd]

My good sir, you’re starting to act like Stanley when it comes to your sense of self preservation.

I’m not going anywhere with this idea but if it was an au of this fic idea it would be called Outer Science.

#tsp #the sparrow parable #I’ll put it there since it’s tangentially related but it doesn’t happen #but if it did the Narrator would have absolutely no fucks to give #what are they gonna do??? hurt him???? #he’s already lost his Stanley. it can’t get worse than that. #I WILL say don’t ask questions about this one I have no ideas for it beyond him repeatedly taunting them #if they miss their Stanley’s so much then they should have FUCKING treated them better #they just want to have someone to control and hurt again #sucks to suck! #anyway yeah like the only other thought I’d have is Leigh seeing his narrator #who keeps telling him to cmon let’s go. be good and follow me. #Leigh looks at him. stares. signs slowly. ‘you know. I could have really loved you.’ and walks away. #reset the actors on stage #Parable Actors

[hollowsart]

Narrator: I generally have trouble reading human emotions--

Me, rewinding to hear that again: .....................Human...?

#Ghostie mumbles #what does this imply. what does this entail. #the stanley parable #the narrator #listening to a random video I saw recommended/suggested to me rn and hm. HM. #either this narrator is not human or he is ND and I'd like to lean on the latter. more interesting I think. and relatable. #I too have trouble reading emotions of others beyond the basics.

[rchtzr]

wanting to listen to doctor sleep on audiobook because i just finished the shining only to see that the narrator is someone i do not like to listen to

#my dreams are crushed #the same guy narrates the mist and i had the HARDEST time getting into the story bc of him #he talks too fats without enough enunciation or with a bland cadence or smthn #idek how to describe it beyond it being so flat i end up zoning out and not taking in any of the story