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some-pers0n · 12 days ago

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The issue with trying to sort out my thoughts on this game though is that I can rationalize and conceptualize stuff like the flaws in the ideology of the Shifting Mound and the metanarrative aspects that surrounds the HEA route...but that DAMN mirror keeps tripping me up

Actually sat down and played through STP fully again (this time not skipping 110% of the dialogue for achievement hunting) and god I just adore this game. Of course going through and doing all of your favourite routes will end up with a playthrough you really enjoy and love, but god this game is just so good

#WHAT ARE YOU??#It's non-physical object that we cannot interact with until we're back in the Long Quiet (which is also us)#I trust the Narrator when he says he cannot see the mirror since he does seem genuinely confused each and every time it's brought up #Mirrors represent reflection and obviously us being the Long Quiet (a fragmented god) is evident enough #But the thing with the mirror is that. why does it show up when we've already failed once?#Is it a result from the construct reforming itself so that it matches how we view the Princess?#If so then why does it become more of an obstacle we NEED to face in chapter III routes?#By the end of the routes we HAVE to face the mirror no matter what and over the course of the game we age #At least that's how I interpret it. Perhaps with Shifty coming more into being it's having an effect on our mortal body #We still have a body. sometimes. but when we look in the mirror we can see how we've changed #Our own hand looks normal but in the reflection it's grown/withered/rotted/gone #Could the mirror also represent how the Narrator refuses to reflect on himself? I would believe so #He refuses to see any other perspectives and it's only in HEA that he finally sees the flaws in his belief #He can't reflect on himself or his plan because he refuses to believe he's anything but correct in this situation #Waitwaitwaitttt I just remembered that one line too from the Narrator about what we PROBABLY look like #Does he just not know what we look like?? Like straight up?#Is the mirror to TLQ what hands are to the Princess? Is approaching it to silence the voices reflective of Shifty taking the Princess?#Is that what we are? Spectre calls the voices “shards of glass” so are we in a similar spot to Shifty?#We're collecting different voices and figuring more about ourselves and this world in a way that Shifty is #I suppose to use mirror imagery we're like the frame of a mirror without glass while Shifty is shards of glass with zero frame #But then what does the mirror represent when we see the Narrator finally in the reflection?#The Narrator is a part of us but not in the same way as the voices. He's an Echo after all #Sent to the farthest corners of our mind. He's gone before the Princess is and wayy before our own voices #He's all that remains still when we look into the mirror and there's nothing left #Is the mirror getting more in our face as the chapters go on representative of the construct breaking down? Is it TLQ's self-awareness?#Like in the first chapter the construct is perfect but it devolves more and more as time goes on and such #Could the Narrator not seeing it be a result from him not being a part of TLQ and some other force separate than us and the voices? Likely #What are yoouuuuuuuuuu ouhhh you dirty rotten mirror I wish I was able to smash you like Stubborn wants to do so badly

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