#the Parable

[mini-joy]

Sketching The Narrator

Since I keep seeing a human version of The Narrator... I made my design!

[a-game-of-beginnings]

Happy 2025 TK Tournamenting everyone (and thanks @cosmokrill for creating and hosting this)!

And don't mind that last part in the image, haha, he's just kidding! Weeell, I mean, Owen is his Settings buddy from a neighboring TSP universe, so it can't hurt to throw some votes their way when it's their turn, right? Riiight! Cough, cough.

No, really now. Good luck, everyone!

[paper-possum-party-pal]

Meet The Narrator!

And it appears that there are two other characters to unlock in this lineup!

I’ll give you all the lore for main tsp AU once I reveal the design for the final character, but for now you get to learn about my Narrator!

The Narrator is a being known as an Informis Voxumis that has spent years observing humanity. The Narrator and other beings like him do not have natural physical forms, they’re just a voice/consciousness stretched across planes of dimensions and reality. This existence intersecting these planes can allow them to build physical forms for themselves, but it’s incredibly difficult to do so considering the matter that needs to be pieced together in a functional manner. It’s a miracle that The Narrator would eventually manage to pull it off. Informis Voxumis, or ‘Voices’ for something simpler, existed across the galaxy since near the beginning of time, but their numbers have dwindled to the point that The Narrator and his two cohorts have only interacted with each other, and while there’s still probably more out there, it’s unli they’ll ever meet. There are two more Entities similar to the Informis Voxumis that are also watching over Earth and the three Voices, but that’s a story for another day.

The Narrator’s Bio!

(The Narrators fear and disdain for humanity is completely warranted. Not only are living things, to him, gross meat things that do awful gross stuff, but intelligent mortal beings are fully capable of killing or controlling the Informis Voxumis. How? Oh I definitely totally remember how and am certainly not stalling to tell you when I figure it out)

After spending years watching humanity The Narrator begins to grow bored, and while he’s weary about interacting with any aspect of Earth, he’s become insatiably curious. The Narrator gets the clever idea (in his opinion) to create a human and place it in a little sandbox he’s created to study the idiosyncrasies of humanity.

This is the start of The Parable.

Unfortunately for The Narrator, he doesn’t really know what he’s doing and while he thinks he’s making a completely original human, he’s actually plucked the recently deceased soul of one Stanley and has begun fiddling around with it. The original Stanley is mostly lost in this process, and beyond the few remanents left of Stanley, he is nothing more than a shell of what he once was, so at first he doesn’t really do much. The Narrator then has to tweak Stanley until he can move around, understand orders, etc. This creates a new Stanley with no memories of the past beyond what the Narrator has shoved into him for his character. This new Stanley starts out curious and optimistic, but you know how the story goes by now. He loses that optimism, starts doing everything he can to go against and irritate The Narrator, and they start butting heads. This begins their on again off again friendship and rivalry.

I’m still deciding when in the timeline it happens exactly, but The Narrator eventually makes his human form, partly to prove that he’s better than humanity and that he’d make a great human. Another repressed part of him did it because he was curious and lonely, and the most repressed part of him did it because he noticed how lonely, depressed, and touch starved Stanley was becoming. He doesn’t use it for a long time after making it, he hides it and doesn’t tell Stanley, but eventually he’s given the push he needed to try it out and finally greet Stanley in person.

He is immediately punched in the face.

Stanley doesn’t apologize, which is warranted, but that’s the moment they really start over and try to get along better.

That’s one(ish?) part done. Sorry if I’ve rambled on too much or if it’s disjointed. I’m honestly not used to writing things down like this and I needed to put what I had in my head out into the world. I’ll probably write a more comprehensive document or something, maybe answer questions, idk. It probably doesn’t help that there are certain aspects of this AU that I’m still trying to develop. I’ll need to make a separate things so I can make it clear exactly what’s going on with Stanley.

One final note, my Narrator does share a human name with one of @shinakazami1 Narrator’s from her lovely Ao3 fic “Destiny Surely Likes to Play Tricks” that she made with Taking_L’s. I wanted to make sure they got proper credit, and if you haven’t read it already, you really should! I’ll be posting a link to the fic separately since this post is already long enough.

Congrats if you managed to wade through my idea speghetti, good job! And thanks for all your lovely words in my last posts, it really makes my day!

The first image but without the character shadows

[little-silly]

Я думаю, что тут комментарии излишни.

[pyroxymania]

Ahahsg The Narrator redrawn in my style from S@DIST's Clock 0ut animation on youtube!!

[notokbutthriving]

Parable Eclipse & Narra

[eviethenut]

ok, actually Jim parable Au code design now

I based it a bit off my timekeeper design, with the separated limbs and stuff

I considered giving it a tail

I might go back and add a tail

[employee052]

i got spirit city: lofi sessions bc baby procrastinates on so much but i made narry look at him

idk, i think its cute aksjhdkjh

[thebionicnarrator]

[mini-joy]

Swap au Stanley parable...

I gave Stanley a mic so that he will be able to speak... Though with the obsession in pressing buttons, he types when narrating. He never actually used the mic... He just put it in his office as display even though no one will actually see it.

Employee 427 is just a grumpy old man who just wanted to finish Stanley's story so he could rest... ( Stanley's story is endless ofc )

The time keeper's design is kind of my favorite that I didn't even change it in the swap au haha...

[a-game-of-beginnings]

Heeeeey, it's been a while! Slam-dunking this fella in last minute. He has no idea what's going on, sorry.

Godspeed, little guy. Go make 'em proud.

Speaking of "If you want to help revive The Stanley Parable tumblr scene, go do something about it"...

So uhh... yeah. Drop your Timekeepers/Settings People/Employee 432s in the reblogs if you want me- I mean Atlas to pit them up against each other in the polls!

[a-game-of-beginnings]

Seasonal Greetings

Cheers!

[oxytocinatrocities]

A comic I drew about leaving the Mormon church.

Can also apply to other things. Ex. constitutional originalism in the US

[aintnopartylikeaprideparty]

please be what i think it is please be what i think it is please be what i think it is please be what i think it is please be what i think it is ple

FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[leox-un]

this is the story of a man named stanley 🔄