a brief respite, and an experiment
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D: "Wizard, are you alright?"
A: "I'm okay. Just tired. The past few days have been a lot, you know?"
D: "I understand."
D: "You have been in motion almost constantly. Living things need… rest. Hibernation? Sleep. And as far as I can recall, you have gotten very little in our time together."
A: "I've been busy! You needed help, and then the people here needed my help, then there was the whole thing with the Old One. I haven't had time to rest."
D: "I see…"
D: "You are trying to do good, right? To help everyone? Yes, I cannot find fault in such a motivation. I still think you should take a moment to recover your strength. Something tells me you will need it."
D: "But I will not question your lack of sleeping."
(He leans back against the wall.)
A: "Can I try something?"
D: "Try what?"
A: "Trust me?"
D: "I do."
D: "What-- What is--"
A: "I'm hugging you."
D: "…Oh."
A: "Wasn't entirely sure it would work. But I figured if the World Synth was making you real enough to be seen, and real enough to interact with things, maybe it'd make you real enough for this, too."
D: "A re-- reasonable assumption. This is nice. This is-- good."
A: "I'm glad it's not too much."
D: "Oh, no, I am completely overwhelmed. But it is worth it."
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[cws: drugging, SA and SA apologia, fantasy racism/ableism, forced institutionalization.]
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i know i never shut up about it but god i am still just. So Salty about how the show handles the dynamic between mayor jones and pericles for many reasons, and one of the biggest is that there are really strong overtones here of sexual assault.
a character who already brings to mind the Slimy, Shady Cis White Guy with Buried Allegations archetype:
takes advantage of the trust of someone who's doing something with him in secret--
(which will get that person in a disproportionate amount of trouble compared to him, if they're discovered)
--to catch him off guard so he can grab him, drug him, and do violent things to his body while he's unconscious; scars him for life in a way that is disabling and should cause a lot of ongoing suffering, which, like many other things that should have a strong negative impact on him physically or psychologically, the writers ignore; and dumps him there alone to discover what's been done to him when he wakes up.
specifically, he does this to someone from a marginalized group that's highly unlikely to be believed if they tell anyone what he did--and going by the fact that mayor jones never got in any trouble until present day, he wasn't.
goes out of the way to ruin the life of the victim and discredit him as thoroughly as possible, because he's a loose end and he needs to shut him up.
flees the scene and gets away scot free with this for twenty years, has a successful privileged career and is considered a pillar of the community in the meantime.
when his dirty secret, which he's been paranoid about finally facing consequences for after the victim has recently become a risk again, is discovered, it's a huge career-ending scandal.
is redeemed by the end, while his victim goes on to be the Monstrous Irredeemable Pure Evil Main Villain and also sexually abuse someone himself, which is played as horrific and traumatizing (as it should be).
more specifically, is portrayed as showing redeeming, heroic anti-villain qualities by backhanding the victim into a wall as hard as he can in present day.
me: hm. yeah fuck this
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The End. The Narrator (PLEASE read the desc for Narrator headcanons-)
The Narrator can form his physical body to anything he wants, whether that be just showing his ‘hands’, head, or a mix of both, or more. He can be existing and he can be non-existing to Stanley’s and the Players eyes.
Now, I want this to be almost as canon as possible, so the reason why you mostly can’t see The Narrator is because YOU apparently are the Player; using Stanley as a vessel so that you may be connected to the Parable, but are unable to fully see the Narrator because well, his purpose isn’t to be with you in person, it’s to Narrate.
STANLEY, on the other hand, can, and is most likely shocked by this. (Will go in depth with this but it’s The Narrator headcanons.)
The Narrator can fully form his physical body non-existant or not, but that doesn’t mean it goes smoothly, as he tends to fall astray with stronger emotions like anger, sadness or irritation, making him slightly visible, but he quickly notices and vanish. When fully depressed he wouldn’t even notice. Again, the Player can’t even see this in play, only Stanley can.
We all know that The Narrator is such a drama queen, sensitive to any critism, so I’m not gonna add anything for his personality, since it’s, it’s complicated as HELL. The man has mood swings! /j
It could be true that The Narrator could be just a highly intelligent AI mixed with being a drama queen (Probably is). Don’t want to be selfish, but where’s the spice in that? (no offense!) I still want to show atleast signs of life for the Narrator, so for me he IS AI, but then represses the thought of being fiction and existential dread, and that well, made him sort of get out of his Artificial like codings and become more optimistic, perhaps, it’s complicated.
His relationship towards Stanley is also indeed, complicated, but one thing’s clear; they seem to always want to try to be more in control than the other, Stanley planning cautiously about his choices to oppose The Narrator while The Narrator obviously shows that he attempts to completely control Stanley to his story by manipulating him. Of course, they never seem to go too far. Yes, each might have their victory but it’s never enough to satisfy them both truly enough. It hasn’t come to their minds that they NEED each other, they’ll see soon enough. I would say that their relationship is perhaps denial, like they don’t want to hear each other out, for now.
Time has and probably will make the two minds deteriorate slowly, but has that ever affected them? Who knows how long it’s been for the two, now having to change their perspectives on one another, and what would happen if they really could reach their end? Because here, the end is never
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