Cops and Robbers AU
The Narrator is a stage name for a great theif. He likes to narrate his heists over the police radios. His calling cards are written like opening scenes or are like written stories that the cops have to decipher to figure out when where and what hes gonna steal.
Like he writes about a woman with blue eyes having hope for her husband to return from war only for him never to come back. (He would write it in more detail of course) but the clue is the blue eyes woman and her hope. He wants to steal the hope diamond. As for when. Maybe the date her husband died (idk yall i aint that smart) or the night before something idk yall know hes gonna make em as elaborate as possible cause its The Narrator.
Cut to our main detective assigned to the case. Stanley. Hes the only one who could ever figure out what The Narrators messages ment. Not that anyone has ever caught or stopped The Narrator but Stanley is by far the closest. But it always feels like Stanley is one step behind. Like The Narrator is always watching him. (Spoiler alert The Narrator is during the heists)
Now we have the revival set up where The Narrator is constantly frustrated with Stanley either getting close or not getting it at all and Stanley enjoying his stories and hating that he loses.
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Hey dont hide your genius ideas in the notes @depraced ! This is class right here!!
Narrator really went and got himself a frog prince xD
TSP AU where when the Narrator took Stanley from his life before he wasnt actually human.
Like Stanley was a merman and now he has legs?? And breaths air?? Where the hell did his tail go?? Hes like freaking out during the first intro of the game. Takes several resets before he calms down enough to even play the Narrators game.
Imagine how the Narrator is gonna feel when he finds out his MC wasnt even human. Lmao
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An AU scenario for the Stanley Parable (with multiple ways it could end):
A powerful family that collects mythical and otherwise inhuman entities captures Stanley and the Narrator, then uses threats to Stanley’s life to force the Narrator to be their butler. The better and more compliant the Narrator is, the better Stanley is treated.
One the one hand, you have loads of angst, but on the other hand, you have the Narrator dressed as a butler being made to say, "Here's your tea, Sir," while setting down a tray with a cup and scones.
Stanley would be locked in a room and the Narrator would have to earn time spent with him. Sometimes Stanley is made to scrub the house, but the Narrator can't speak to him then because it isn't part of his earned time.
The Narrator also has dusting duties and it sometimes makes him sneeze. He makes sure to alwats do all his work perfectly, as it's Stanley who suffers if the Narrator messes up. Sometimes it's not allowing Stanley food, and other times hes beaten. The Narrator has learned never to make mistakes.
They've settled into their lives. The Narrator is a good butler and Stanley is no longer punished. Most weeks he gets an hour to spend with Stanley. When he's done exceptionally well, he gets two.
Stanley and the Narrator spent this time in Stanley’s small room. They spread Stanley’s sheet on the floor and share a small meal.
Both pretend it's a fancy picnic in a verdant field. The Narrator describes the feast they're having and how the outside looks. He talks about the breeze hitting their faces, the green grass dotted with wildflowers, the scent of jasmine and roses playing in the air. As they eat, he describes five layer cakes and prime rib sautéed in wine. Stanley can almost taste it.
This is the highlight of both their week, the only thing keeping them going.
The Narrator has stopped promising Stanley they'll get free from the house and now just focuses on their hour together.
Either they both live forever and this is their life now
or Stanley ages once outside the Parable and eventually the Narrator is left alone. Now that the family doesn't have a way to keep the Narrator in line, they make the effort to magical trap him and punish him for his own mistakes. The Narrator is now doomed to serve as a butler for generations of families.
The Narrator eventually gives up and tries to accept whatever punishment is meted out and attempts to will himself to die. But he can't die, so he never joins Stanley. He just drifts mindlessly, now a curiosity in a back room of the house. The only chance he has is if after countless years someone down the line in the family takes pity on him and allows him to die for real.
He fades away from this world once and for all and dreams of verdant fields and picnics, and a tall man in office attire smiling with his arms open wide. Is it real? That's for you to decide.
Or maybe it's worse. Maybe instead of finally dying, the family puts his mind into a false reality where he's with Stanley. They do this so the Narrator doesn't fall completely to despair. If he can no longer serve as a butler, they at least want him to look happy while he serves as yet another exotic pet for their home.
He'd immediately notice things aren't right and they'd constantly have to reset his memories. Over time, the wiped memories would spill out and he'd be left with a swirling mass of hope shattered and revealed to be a cruel illusion.
If Stanley ever finds a way to come back, the Narrator would refuse to accept that it's him.
In that scenario, Stanley manages to find a way to come back to life and takes the Narrator from the house. He uses powers he's gained while dead to destroy the house. If he's unlucky, the house explodes, killing him, the Narrator, and all other trapped entities.
If he's lucky, the family is vanquished and the prisoners freed. He brings the Narrator to a field where he has set up a picnic just like the one the Narrator used to describe.
Once the Narrator comes to, he assumes it's just another lie by the family. He pushes Stanley away and smashes his plate and the food on it to the ground.
"None of this is real! You aren't real!"
Stanley stares at him tearfully. 'I'm real.'
The Narrator shakes his head and destroys the picnic Stanley so lovingly prepared. "No, you're not! Stop torturing me!"
Stanley can only sit there and sob.
If the fates are ukind, it ends there with a Narrator who will never recover his senses and a destroyed reminder of what could have been.
If the universe's dice roll in their favor then seeing Stanley crying snaps the Narrator out of it and he realizes that it's really him. The Narrator stops what he's doing and slowly wraps his arms around Stanley, seeing the devastation he wrought.
"I... I didn't mean to... Stanley, I'm sorry." He realizes what he juat said. Stanley is really here. "It's you, it's really you. God, Stanley..."
Stanley holds him close, rubbing his back. He can always make another picnic, but there's only one Narrator. And he finally has him again.
"It's okay... Narry, it's okay," he says directly into the Narrator’s mind.
It feels like a dream. His arms are around the Narrator, holding something he'd lost far too long ago.
"How can it be okay?" the Narrator sobs. "I ruined everything."
Stanley bends down and kisses the top of his head. "Don't ever think that. You're more important than a picnic."
They stay like that for hours. Eventually, Stanley takes him back to the cabin he's made into his home. They plan and prepare the next picnic together, side by side as they make it exactly as the Narrator described all those years ago.
And they finally have their feast. This time the breeze really tousles their hair and the scent of flowers doesn't need to be described. And Stanley doesn't have to imagine the taste of the food. This time it isn't pretend. They're both really there, free and happy.
So many ways this could go. Which one is your favorite, which one do you think is the most likely? The answers will be different for everyone and none of them are wrong.
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A Swap!au where Stanley makes it so the Narrator cant finish the Freedom Ending.
The Narrator was so adamant about Stanley doing the Freedom ending that it made Stanley mad about it so now hes made it so the Narrator cant experience his story how he wanted it to be told.
Stanley is pretty smug about it till he realises that the Narrator never once took an ending away from Stanley, or blocked off anything other than the broom closet and even that came back after a while.
While the Narrator was an ass most of the time he never truly took away Stanleys choice of which endings he could do. Not even the Zending was closed off, and Stanley knew the Narrator had learned to hate that room in the end.
Stanley realised just how much control he really had now. How much more power he had over the Narrator. And how much power the Narrator always had over him, but never abused.
Or did he? Maybe blocking off paths was something new that only Stanley could do! Surely if the Narrator had this power he would have abused it too. Taken all the paths away and forced Stanley to always do the Freedom Ending. Over and over and over. Surely. Right?
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