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update: i love this game.

#vonderful rambling #THEY HAVE AN ORGY GARDEN?? #i keep getting my shit rocked by crow man every bed save coin flip #bright side the guards no longer are a problem #no more graphic sa cut scenes for meee #fear and hunger

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#vonderful rambling #a realistic take with some proper coloring on my narrator design #the stanley parable #the stanley parable: ultra deluxe #tsp the narrator #tsp narrator #tsp stanley #tsp art #tspud art #tsp fanart #tsp #tspud

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y’all i did not know how many narrator and stanley designs there are. you guys are amazing.

#vonderful rambling #so many narrators #so many stanleys #so little time #and they all have unique names?? #y’all are so cool #the stanley parable #tsp #the stanley parable: ultra deluxe #tsp the narrator #tsp narrator #tsp stanley #tsp fandom

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i am about to take a step into depravity. pray for me.

(or don’t, you do you.)

#vonderful rambling #playing fear and hunger for the first time #i am going to explode #and cry #fear and hunger

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✨ THEM ✨

#vonderful rambling #put him in a blender #love these two #thinking about them #the stanley parable #stanley parable #the stanley parable: ultra deluxe #tsp #tspud #tsp the narrator #tsp narrator #tsp stanley #tsp fanart #tsp art #tspud art #fanart

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The Stanley Parable (2013) and The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe (2022)

#vonderful rambling #my designs for the og games! #the stanley parable #the stanley parable: ultra deluxe #stanley parable #tsp #tspud #tsp the narrator #tsp narrator #tsp stanley #tsp fanart #tspud art #tsp art

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STANLEY PARABLE AU

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AU: Religion AU

Description: The Cult of Narrative is a fictional cult which worships the God Diegesis. Stanley, a high priest of the cult, is the four hundred and twenty-seventh sacrifice given to the God. However, when Stanley is taken at the sacrificial alter to the inter-dimensional realm Diegesis uses to test the faith of sacrifices, Stanley finds himself face to face with the manifestation of his faith — and finds the God lacking.

Other Information: The AU primarily deals with the Narrator and Stanley’s relationship, which will eventually lead to romance between them — and a lot of hardship. However, other characters such as Mariella and the Curator will appear as secondary characters with their own side stories. The goal of the au is to explore the relationship between Stanley and the Narrator through a religious lens, discussing the complexities of human emotion and the existence of higher beings. And, of course, there will be smut!

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The Narrator | Diegesis

The Narrator is a god of the known universe, and the main recipient of the worship by the Cult of Narrative. He is a god who uses the name Diegesis, which is derived from the Greek word which means “to tell”. It is a word often used to describe stories which have an over-reliance on narration to tell their tales. Diegesis feels that it is important to tell a story, so that an audience — or the universe — may beat witness to the whole truth of the tales spun by fate. He is a petulant god, one who is arrogant about his craft and rather manipulative in telling it. As a result, he can often come across as narcissistic seeing as he has no need to concern himself with human emotions. However, he does crave a good story more than anything else — even if he believes the best stories have always sprung from his mind. Diegesis also craves validation for the things he enjoys and creates, often fishing for compliments or even overcompensating just to satisfy the desires of another person. He does not take criticism well. Diegesis has two forms — a human form and a spiritual form.

Stanley | High Priest of the Cult

Stanley is a High Priest of the Cult of Narrative, born and raised within the confines of the cult itself. He is mute, having never been able to articulate himself through verbal communication. Communicating entirely through sigh language and writing, Stanley was often considered a false priest for not being able to fully participate in the cults ritual practices. When he was picked to be sacrifices to Diegesis — as the 427 sacrifices, no less — he felt he could finally fulfill his purpose in the cult. Stanley feels he is a rather boring person, even if that is quite the opposite. He has a defiant personality, often making choices based off of disobedience or stubbornness. He is quick to anger, but also quick to please, often following his emotional response to problems when confronted with conflict. Stanley is always one to commit full heartedly to a cause no matter what it entails. He also quite loves taking care of others, even at the cost of himself.

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The Curator | Mimesis

The Curator now takes on the name Mimesis and acts as the primary counterpart to the Narrator, or Diegesis. She will likely be taking on an antagonistic role, who acts as a foil to how the Narrator looks at the world. Mimesis, coming from the Greek word meaning “show” rather than “tell”, is essentially the opposite of Diegesis. She would have a subplot involving attempting to recruit Mariella as her avatar, leading to their own relationship which mimics Stanley and the Narrators.

Mariella | High Priestess of the Cult

Mariella is a High Priestess of the Cult of Narrative, having been born into the cult and raised as a believer. However, an incident in her adult life lead to her developing deafness in both her ears. No longer having the ability to hear meant she was no longer able to follow her religious teachings. Isolated from her peers and family, she finds solace in Mimesis — the concept of “show, don’t tell”, and the Curator who teaches her the beauty in silent narratives.

The Timekeeper | Paratext

The Timekeeper represents a being outside of the narrative, which means they exist as an entity beyond the story. As a result, they are a god called Paratext, who deals with the elements of the universe which build its foundations for storytelling. Paratext comes from the literary interpretation of materials surrounding a text. This includes cover pages, forewords, footnotes, back matte, and other information not created originally by authors. Paratext, as an entity (and the name of this universe’s Timekeeper), does much the same. They have created the stars, the planes, the trees, and the vehicles of free will. Where Mimesis and Diegesis create and weave the fate of the world into a cohesive story, Paratext gives that world context. In a way, they are a being above Mimesis and Diegesis, as the two concepts would have no perceived meaning without Paratext.

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Authors Note: Please feel free to ask questions or comments about these characters! I am likely gonna expand the au some more as time goes on, but as of right now this is the most I’ve got. Hope you all enjoyed!

#vonderful rambling #alternate universe #tsp au #the stanley parable #tsp stanley #tsp narrator #tsp timekeeper #tsp mariella #tsp curator #tspud #tsp fanart #tsp

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• SPOILERS BELOW •

spoilers for the stanley parable: ultra deluxe, but i just finished the epilogue and i am so mentally ill about this game and its characters.

first of all, i fucking love the timekeeper!! they are playful and dynamic, and i am so incredibly happy to have the title screen change its numbers each time i open this game because i feel like my words and decisions mean something. i love how they interact with the player/stanley and how they feel about the concept of sanctity in games — mostly cause i hold very similar opinions! if you love something, continue to make it- always and forever. art is for the creator as much as it’s for the audience, and to forget that does a disservice to you and the media you create and consume.

secondly, and on a much more degenerate note, i tried all of the name buttons (that worked) in the epilogue leading up to the figley/stanlurines room and ONE OF THEM SAID THE WORD STANLEY INSTEAD OF JIM!!

like, you don’t understand- the narrator makes the buttons that say the name of the player who is playing the game, and it doesn’t work- but here, in the broken memory zone, one of them doesn’t say jim it says stanley! which means that the narrator, the one MAKING the buttons, must have made one for stanley to say his name and i’m-

sobbing, crying, screaming, throwing up over these stupid fictional gay men- i finished the figley/stanlurine ending too and the fact that it’s basically confirmed that the narrator is a god of creation that made stanley to play with him just makes my brain go brr-

the narrator created stanley because he craved companionship. stanley, who has gained a mind of his own, who even as he vexes and annoys the narrator, still makes the narrators life interesting by making decisions. their existences are so intertwined that they cannot truly be without one another, and the epilogue just proves that!

anyways, i absolutely love the stanley parable and will continue to play it until i die, go outside super achievement be damned.

#vonderful rambling #those tragic little gay men #i love them so much #the stanley parable #stanley parable #the stanley parable: ultra deluxe #tsp #tspud #tsp stanley #tsp narrator #tsp the narrator #tsp timekeeper

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CW: Choking

Their dynamic is a bit uh... complicated.

imagine having no consistency in posting haha couldn't be me

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i just can’t stop thinking about those tragic little gay men.

#vonderful rambling #though this can apply to a lot of ships i like #the stanley parable #tsp #tspud #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #hazbin hotel #helluva boss #stanley x narrator #enver gortash x dark urge #durgetash #vox x valentino #vox x alastor #alastor x lucifer #fizz x ozzie #stolas x blitz

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okay so i have been absolutely feral over the stanley parable the past week and-

stanley parable priest au with priest!stanley and god!narrator.

#vonderful rambling #the stanley parable #stanley parable #tsp narrator #tsp stanley #stanley x narrator #tsp au #i want both of these middle aged man carnally

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changing my stanley parable hazbin hotel idea a little bit since someone made a very good point but-

alastor as stanley, lucifer as the narrator, and lilith as the curator.

alastor would never listen to lucifer, because he just doesn’t like being told what to do, but he would also know of lilith (as the curator) while lucifer (as the narrator) is oblivious to her presence. lucifer as the narrator because he loves to create, to make and give others happiness through those creations, but has been beaten down by the world and lost that artistic luster. lilith as the curator because the museum ending of the stanley parable (where we see her) is sequestered away in an area that the narrator (lucifer, in this case) can’t access. it would be a replica of their separation in hazbin hotel canon.

other characters can pop in occasionally, found in different sections of the endings and through escape (or the true ending) but it would mostly just be these three characters- i think it would make a really fun one-shot.

#vonderful rambling #other missing employees could be other hazbin characters #the bucket is nifty #alastor carries her around with him as his emotional support pest control #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel lilith #the stanley parable

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it’s been a while since i posted about durgetash but durge gently holding a dead enver gortash’s face after the final battle with him, crying for reasons they still can’t identify as they hunch over his broken form, whispering the words “oh father, forgive me for i have sinned…”

#vonderful rambling #oh the angst #inspired by fanart #bg3 #durge #the dark urge #enver gortash #durgetash #enver gortash x dark urge

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"Forgive me Father, for I have sinned."

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guess whose playing the stanley parable again and-

alastor as the narrator au.

that’s all i’ve got.

#vonderful rambling #i think it would be funny #just to watch him degrade the player #no idea who would play the role of stanley though #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin alastor #alastor #the stanley parable

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i like certain ships with alastor in them, but not in the typical romantic or sexual type of way. while the canon has not expanded upon or talked about in detail alastor’s aroace identity, i personally head-canon him as sex-repulsed. like to him, he doesn’t even think about sex and when he does he always seems to think it would be beneath him.

but romantic relationships are a bit more complicated. personally, my head-canon is that alastor cannot feel romantic attraction. but he does crave companionship. a genuine connection with another person, who can keep him on his toes and who he can mess with without consequence. i love incorporating this into ships for him, cause i think it’s a respectful way to recognize his aroace identity and use it to create a relationship that is genuinely sweet.

anyways, as someone on the aroace spectrum, this is really important to me and i just would love to see more of it in this fandom.

#vonderful rambling #keep my boy aro ace please #not hating on anyone shipping what they want but #that’s just my take on it #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin alastor #radioapple #alastor x lucifer #alastor x vox #alastor #all of the alastor ships really