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Narrator’s A+ parenting right there huh

love the dialogue you get in spectre where you can stand there calling yourself a big dumb stupid idiot and the narrator is like ‘my opinion is the only one that matters and i’ll never be disappointed in you. as long as you do what i say.’ like okay 👍👍👍 thanks Dad

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You’d think that Smitten is the least violent voice but no it’s Contrarian

His origin chapter is literally him running away from potential violence and therefore never meeting the Princess

Smitten is fine with violence as long as it has something to do with the Princess(or in his words, “in the name of love”). To get him in chapter 2 you literally need to get the Soft Princess to kill you without any of the betrayal stuff that comes with Oppy or Hunted

I’m pretty sure Contrarian is the only one aside from Hero who doesn’t want to kill us in the ending where everyone wants to kill you due to your past cruelties towards the voices. But instead he just finds the whole situation funny

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"I love you , I'm glad we're friends"

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*looks at that art of Amostia and Waiter* Amostia at the theatre... Waiter says he'll be the bus boy... They bond over missing their counterparts... Help Sparky the thoughts are brewing for bomb son

augh it'd be really cute though sad.. waiter missing her counterpart who's in a completely different plane of existence, amostia missing his counterpart who was never born to begin with...

i think they'd get along well besides this

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Aw I need more of Quiet and the Voices being pals :)

I love how canonically the Voices are excited or chill about the idea of experiencing eternity together. Like, at the end when we get outside with that big ball of fire, they talk, and it's just so funny how casual they are about things, even Smitten who says he's inconsolable sounds like he's not against being with the voices forever

idk i just found this fact funny bc i had missed it before i'd started writing my fic and i was so unsure on if it would feel canon enough to make the voices live together but like, canonically they're chill with it lol xP

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do you have a wip? have you worked on your wip? will you work on your wip? when will you work on your wip?

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Imagine if you did a path where you always lost one or two Voices per loop, in the final debate Quiet can start to lose. His. Shit over that. He's grieving.

In Fury he can lose Hero, Stubborn and maybe Broken.

In Apotheosis, Contrarian, Broken and Hero get burned away.

(If you care about it you can say the Narrator dips it before MoC) and all the others are shattered.

In Cage he can lose Skeptic and either Para, Broken or Cheated.

I'm forgetting a lot.

Shifty is change, and that change stole the only constant he had: having Voices.

She stole his Voices from him. She stole Hero from him.

And it wasn't quick.

And in the final debate, Quiet wouldn't know Hero is on his way. He would think he'd never hear any of them again. She has her Vessels, who She doesn't appreciate, doesn't seem able to treat them as people. And he has nothing.

Why wouldn't he lash out? Why wouldn't he demand She give his Voices, his friends back?

And then Hero returns.

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....what ideas?

A friend just said they always saw Smitten as an expy of Gaston

WHY IS THIS MAKING SO MUCH SENSE

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I got you man

Contrarian vs math compilation

This might be my favourite part of his character

It's really ironic that he is the only one who has only one personal chapter

He can count to three only to find the third way nobody likes

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A friend just said they always saw Smitten as an expy of Gaston

WHY IS THIS MAKING SO MUCH SENSE

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Hey wait a mo'

Broken breaking away from apotheosis is him realizing that following her has only caused him pain, and he exerts his free will trying to side with us

......I'm sorry shouldn't Connie be helping with this?

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If the Hero in the final cabin is basically all the of him, then this means he remembers Fury.

He remembers giving up and leaving Quiet to the wolves. The utter guilt he must feel. He's supposed to be always there for him. Do you reckon this is why he's all for staying behind in the final cabin, would he feel inadequate now that he remembers failing so many times?

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Honestly, I didn't find Broken that compelling except in Apotheosis, where the turnaround of his character felt way too quick. In Cage, like you said he's perfected therapy speak, and in Fury.... 'whatever she does, we shouldn't hate her' this is a terrible take Broken and it would tank your mental health. Broken can't except sainthood from me if I'm being flayed alive or being intentionally attacked, morality isn't important in that situation.

At least he didn't object when I abandoned Fury. Sometimes that needs to be done

it's funny, because I get it. I really do. For the longest time, I couldn't bring myself to criticize Cage, or anything in the pristince cut, really, because criticizing my special interest feels wrong and very bad. But I'm also a writer who cares a lot about narrative framings and especially character-driven storylines, and I just couldn't ignore the pricks in the back of my mind about how something just felt wrong about the character writing in Cage.

I'd justify it too, before getting the will to put it to words. How it does make sense for Skeptic to act that way (and honestly, it really does, I have very little problem with Skeptic's actual writing, it's how other characters react to it, and how the narrative frames it that puts me off); how it isn't all that weird for Broken to suddenly gain perfect therapy knowledge for this One Specific Route, and how Cheated's anger isn't being blown out of proportion way too much and maybe the situation itself is just that stressing, really……

And you can go on forever. Making all kinds of justifications for those writing choices that justify it within the confines of the story. But that ignores the fact that those choices were made by someone outside of that story's parameters, and who has their own biases and ideas. And that's honestly a disservice to a writer's role when crafting their own story. Disagreeing with how they handled a particular aspect of a story isn't a show of disdain or how you don't actually understand the story being told; I understand perfectly why Cage was written like that. I just don't like it and think it could've be handled much better as to fit with the narrative that was already established.

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it's funny, because I get it. I really do. For the longest time, I couldn't bring myself to criticize Cage, or anything in the pristince cut, really, because criticizing my special interest feels wrong and very bad. But I'm also a writer who cares a lot about narrative framings and especially character-driven storylines, and I just couldn't ignore the pricks in the back of my mind about how something just felt wrong about the character writing in Cage.

I'd justify it too, before getting the will to put it to words. How it does make sense for Skeptic to act that way (and honestly, it really does, I have very little problem with Skeptic's actual writing, it's how other characters react to it, and how the narrative frames it that puts me off); how it isn't all that weird for Broken to suddenly gain perfect therapy knowledge for this One Specific Route, and how Cheated's anger isn't being blown out of proportion way too much and maybe the situation itself is just that stressing, really……

And you can go on forever. Making all kinds of justifications for those writing choices that justify it within the confines of the story. But that ignores the fact that those choices were made by someone outside of that story's parameters, and who has their own biases and ideas. And that's honestly a disservice to a writer's role when crafting their own story. Disagreeing with how they handled a particular aspect of a story isn't a show of disdain or how you don't actually understand the story being told; I understand perfectly why Cage was written like that. I just don't like it and think it could've be handled much better as to fit with the narrative that was already established.

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I'm dying from the fact that considering each route they appear in, the Narrator’s favorite children/voices are Cold and Opportunist

Cold would HATE this realization. Oh my god