#Stanley ☆hc & meta☆

[chaosmultiverse]

🚼

Okay here you go, let's see for Stanley and Doomy. x3

@the-haunted-office

send me a 🚼 and a ship I’ll use a doll-maker to design what I think a child between our two muses would look like

Hazel

Hazel is a wild child much like her mother and father, she is a very chipper punk who knows how to run her mouth. Growing up with a mother who could take her anywhere in the multiverse and a father with a love for nature and urban exploration has definitely led Hazel to be one to explore across the multiverse looking for cool and interesting things.

Due to the odd situation surrounding her birth, alongside the odd situations of her mother and father she has the ability to see souls and spirits, and is capable of forming a bound with a player like Stanley is but has avoided that entirely given uh... How much of a issue it was for her father.

As for intrests I can see her being into street racing and otherwise driving, alongside joining in with helping her mother with crimes for fun, in her spare time she would also probably enjoy investigating supernatural mysteries with her aunts and uncle.

[ruestheday]

i haven’t been sober since 10am for 4/20 here’s some weed fueled batfam hcs

• tim smokes weed. i think he deserves it. as a treat

• dick bit people (in and out of custom) until he was like 13

• damian also bites people no one knows when he’ll stop

• tim was devastated when dick ran off to blüdhaven bc how was he supposed to stalk him now????

• the only thing stopping steph from completely dying her hair purple is she’d have to hide her hair when she’s spoiler but she looks cunty asf running around w her hair loose

• duke is one of the 7% of americans who thought chocolate milk comes from brown cows. he didn’t really think about it critically enough

• jason relates too much to olivia rodrigo songs it’s kinda embarrassing for him. deja vu comes on and he has an out of body experience

• barbara has seen every episode of south park and can tell you the episode based on a single clip

• cass really fucking likes spongebob to the horror of bruce who really fucking hates spongebob

• bruce uses gen z slang horribly wrong but no one will tell him

• alfred has met god

• dick and jason get their own robin photos confused

• damian couldn’t spell eloquently on one of his fifth grade spelling tests and refuses to ever say the word again

• dick is a stanley girl he has 4 different colors (heather blue, mist green, the target valentine’s day one he almost lost his life over, and lilac purple)

• barbara knows if princess diana’s death was an accident or not and she’s not telling the rest of us

• tim beat candy crush and emailed them begging for more levels and they told him no

• jason will only drink cold water

• cass learned what the word cunty meant and hasn’t stopped using it since but she says it in the most serious tone everytime

• steph is always thinking about the roman empire

• duke forgets he has super powers all the time. someone calls him a meta and he’s like “who???? me?????”

• jason makes fun of dick for being a stanley girl but secretly has a red one to keep his water cold in bc like i said he only drinks cold water

[anistarrose]

gravity falls, redemption, and happy endings proportional to selflessness

Unlike many other modern cartoons of comparable acclaim, Gravity Falls doesn’t build up complex and nonlinear redemption arcs for its villains — but it does still tell a story about change and second chances, with nuances that are reflected outside of just Stan and Ford’s arcs alone.

The elder Pines twins set aside old grudges to save the world and their family, but that act rewards them with a happy ending and a chance to fulfill an old dream. Meanwhile, Gideon Gleeful turns against Bill because he knows that it’s what would make Mabel proud, and eventually, he decides to take his newfound chance at being just a regular little kid. 

Arguably, even Bill mirrors these arcs to an extent. After years of terrorizing the multiverse, he finally invokes the Axolotl’s rule — he expresses a willingness to change, and is granted a second chance in return — but because he’s Bill, and much more terrible than the aforementioned characters, he makes that decision for much more selfish reasons. 

[image description: a screenshot from gravity falls, showing bill cipher burning up in stan’s mindscape. end description]

Stan and Ford are at last compelled to change when it becomes the only way to save the world, and especially their loved ones, while Gideon changes because Dipper convinces him he should try to be worthy of loving. A hint of selfishness remains in Gideon’s behavior — he still wants to be Mabel’s hero, after all — but ultimately, he does change because it’s the right thing to do. He changes for Mabel, just as Stan and Ford change for their family.

But on the other hand, Bill only changes for himself. Even then, it’s only as a last resort — he only invokes the Axolotl, accepting the condition of “a different form, a different time” when he’s about to die, and all other routes of self-preservation have failed him. 

Bill isn’t choosing to reflect on his mistakes and mature past them, and certainly not choosing to do anything because it’s right or it’s selfless. So it’s only fair that though the narrative gives him a second chance, it does not reward him as much as it rewards characters who start making heroic choices instead. 

His second chance, however it may manifest, does not come on the terms he would’ve chosen — the Axolotl, implied to be Bill’s benevolent counterpart, will put him somewhere where he’ll have an opportunity to do good instead of evil, not somewhere where he’ll be able to keep torturing the Pines or restart Weirdmageddon.

And maybe someday, a new perspective or a clean slate will give Bill the push he needs to really start his redemption arc, to start making better choices and rejecting old bad ones — but as it stands, Stan and Ford and even Gideon have gotten happy endings, because they acknowledged they made mistakes, and chose to grow from it.

As far as we know, Bill hasn’t. Yet.

[trshmouth]

we are once again thinking about how the losers definitely got a lil tiny bit of the shine. thinking about if it sort of affected them differently?  i believe with richie it is mild but it must be his understanding empathically of the other losers, and his underlying sight and observation of how things connect  (i.e. 'seven, richie thought. that's the magic number. there has to be seven of us. that's the way it's supposed to be’)  but ultimately i think it is tied into a just slightly heightened empathy.

[dear-wormwoods]

since you did this with Eddie: what are some alternative career paths you'd choose for each loser? especially Mike since he didn't have a choice?

I mean, Mike did have a choice… sure he stayed in Derry, but he didn’t have to become the librarian, he did that because he wanted to, and he enjoyed the work. But if I were to pick an alternative career path for Mike, I think he’d be a good investigative journalist, or a detective… conducting interviews, solving cases, writing about it, etc. Just based on his interludes and the attention to detail he put into researching IT, he’d be good at that kind of job.

For Richie, especially in the movie timeline or a modern AU, I don’t see him as a radio DJ. I’ve always been partial to Richie starting out as a struggling standup comedian, then landing a role on SNL, and from there kind of branching out into writing for comedy series (like The Office or B99, workplace mockumentaries), and eventually having a late night talk show where he can have different sketches, live music, interview celebrities, and get political. I think he’d idolize people like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and want to follow in their footsteps. Alternatively, if being that famous is unrealistic for him (lol), I think he could also have a lot of success doing podcasts. Radio is dead, but podcasts are the new radio. 

I love Ben as an architect, so I’d hate to see him doing something else. But other careers where he could utilize his skills would be anything in like, the field of mechanical engineering, where he could still be building and designing things. Rather than buildings, he’d be designing and testing new technologies, like robotics, alternative energy resources, etc, which I think he’d get a lot of fulfillment out of. 

For Stan… I think accounting works for him because there isn’t a lot about it that is subjective, and it’s very methodical and strict like he is. But it’s also a super stereotypical career path for Jewish characters. I think he’d do best in a career where he’s not going to be a subordinate, and doesn’t have a lot of room for subjectivity, and also not very people-focused so there isn’t a lot of emotional labor. Data analysis, scientific research, law, computer engineering, etc. 

Bev has a sharp eye, but I always felt like the fashion industry was kind of shoehorned into her character because Stephen King was like “hmmm what do women like?? clothes!”. She grew up drawing with her dad and was very good at it, so I think she would be good in like… graphic design, advertising, animation, or even like cinematography or photography, anything where the little details matter and she can use her artistic skill. 

As for Bill…. he’s hard!! Because he’s Stephen King’s self insert so like?? What is he good at? Who knows!! I’m just thinking like, he has that natural charisma that makes people want to fall in line after him and listen to everything he says, so he’d make a great politician, haha. Hopefully he’d use his powers for good, though. He’d get elected over and over again as he made his way up the political ladder. The only issue would be his old stutter, so maybe he wouldn’t be the best at giving speeches, but even if it popped out once in a while I think that would just add to his charm. 

And just to round out the seven, I still stand by my answer for Eddie. 

[fordanoia]

your aro Stan tags are really good and deserve to be a post!

Oh bro thank you! I was gonna make a text post about aro stan pines somewhere down the line, but well- I guess this is a really good time for it.

I actually ended up rewatching the bits I remembered with Stan and dating/romance related bits. Which? Honestly? All Stan seems to really understand about dating are the pick up lines. Which don’t work.

All of Roadside Attraction he’s giving this advice to Dipper about dating, but none of it breaches very far. It all works for getting the numbers, but it’s only about that. Heck when Dipper asks if he’s suppose to call someone Stan tells him “No, no, no. You practice. The more girls you talk to, the better you get at it.”

He actually steers Dipper away from dates. Talking to girls isn’t about finding someone, but about getting ‘good at it.’

His admission at the end is really telling too.

“Alright, kid. I gotta admit something. I’m no expert on women. Truth is, I’ve been divorced once, and slapped more times than I can remember. Confidence can buy you a lot, but at the end of the day, pickup artists tend to get our heads bitten off. When it comes to women, I’m a failure.”

On that last line ‘when it comes to women i’m a failure’ he looks really genuinely downtrodden. He’s not saying that just to apologize. It’s pretty clear that he realizes his advice hasn’t been good and believes he’s not ‘good’ at this.

Then- oh man… the date with Lazy Susan in his memories. He is the picture of uncomfortable!

For all Stan seemed to genuinely like Lazy Susan and talking with her, once he’s in that romantic setting with her, it all went out the window. He’s trying there, but it is NOT working out for him.

I mean, just- we can hear his thoughts during that moment and he’s thinking about how awful this is and getting out. Then he literally can’t take the atmosphere anymore and makes some excuse as he escapes.

I really can’t emphasize how much that scene reads as an aro person having forced themselves on a date and bailing mid-dinner.

Then a small note, but the Carla flashback. Someone stole his girl and the immediate and most obvious explanation wasn’t typical romantic efforts like talking but literal hypnotic music. 

This is also one of the few times Stan admits to Dipper in his belief in something supernatural before the reveal.

Although, I’ll admit the bit around the Carla flashback could have been purely comedic effect of obliviousness, but hey.

His advice itself isn’t about actually dating. He panics when he winds up on a date with someone he interacts well with. He generally doesn’t seem to understand romance.

Overall, all his talk and everything with romance comes off as VERY performative to me. He cares more about how ‘well’ he’s doing than the actual romantic experiences and people.

And well, when everyone assumes you’re straight it can be hard to even think that there’s an actually possibility that you’re not - so my bets on him being aro and frankly never having realized that was… even a THING he could be honestly.

[i-just-like-games]

Here's my own hcs on how things work in the Stanley Parable and ud. There's probably some inconsistencies, but that's what tsp is all about, baybee

The Narrator is a higher being of some kind, omnipresent voice type deal. It made Stanley, the office, everything, both out of passion for storytelling and (as seen in the second memory zone visit) choice anxiety and loneliness. The Narrator can technically control everything there, but because he uses it as a coping mechanism, his own worries and stuff manifest and he lets things get out of hand. Also, he could technically force Stanley to do everything he says, but he wants Stanley to make choices for him, even if he doesn't like them in the moment.

The Curator is also a higher being of the same type and level as The Narrator. (I know there's a lot of evidence that she is higher up than he is, but I really like the idea of The Narrator being an all powerful DM over the office) They're friends, and while Stanley is usually under Narrator's guide, being its character, Curator can write their own stories with him, like fanfiction basically. I like to think that during the museum ending, she saw how stressed Narrator was and tried to show Stanley things so he could understand what was happening.

The Voices are to Stanley as we are to anything we write. But a plane of existence up. So Stanley can make choices, but his personality and situation were crafted by the Narrator. Kinda like a story that writes itself more or less.

Stanley has his own soul, which is the player's decisions. While all characters created by the Voices have a bit of their soul/free will left (maybe they all used to be people that were made into characters?), Stanley uses his more than average because the Narrator is pretty lax, leading to the Serious and Real Person endings.

Mariella was just a bystander that The Narrator made into his character for a brief moment. He didn't put her more into his story, so she went back to her usual life.

Employee 432 was a character once, that was abandoned but kept existing by the way their story left off. They can do meta things like adjust the settings and fix the achievement thanks to their soul, just like Stanley. 432 knows lots of things bc of their unique perspective but can't control everything like The Voices.

432 isn't the Narrator's character, but they're in the Parable, maybe because a piece some other Voice's notes got mixed in with his. That's why The Narrator didn't know about them and got anxious. 432 wants to keep the story going because they know if The Narrator fully moves on from the Parable, both they and Stanley will stop existing. (Luckily, that's very unlikely)

The adventure line(tm) is kinda like a pet to The Narrator. He can control it, but it can also misbehave.

[mythomagically-delicious]

The Pines Men

The Pines brothers all inherited something or other from their Pa, whether they realized it or not.

Shermie inherited Filbrick's way of not beating around the bush in a conversation. He said what he meant.

Stanford inherited Filbrick's lack of tact. Their father was a man known for saying the wrong thing, on purpose, but without fear of the consequences.

Stanley inherited Filbrick's ability to lie straight to anyone's face, and almost never be caught out.

But here is how the brothers differed from those inherited traits:

Shermie may be direct, but he wasn't cruel. He meant what he said, but he takes care to say what is appropriate, not crossing the line like Filbrick did relentlessly.

Ford often said the wrong thing, unintentionally, without thinking through the consequences. He could get caught up in his own head, and forget to think about others at times. Filbrick never once gave one care over what others would say, and plowed on with his opinions anyway. Ford could recognize when he'd mistepped.

Stanley mainly used it to keep alive, or for a goal. He sometimes allowed himself to show signs of a liar, letting others in on his life. Filbrick never let anyone in. He squared up and spouted lies so strong, you began to believe them, just for the hell of it. Stanley may have messed around with his lying in the past, but never to the cruel extent Filbrick lied, twisting peoples' perception of themselves in the process.

The Pines brothers all reluctantly inherited things from their father, but they did not let that define who they would turn into.

[chaosmultiverse]

@the-haunted-office tumblr lives eating your asks

Superstitious ☆

Before the office incident not really, like as a child he believed in things like fairies and Stana Claus but mostly because others told him they were real, namely his parents but once he was a adult he stopped believing in the supernatural, only to get smacked in the face by it once the incident started. Presently his former non-believeing ways are a distant memory and he is sure every possible thing exists, especially in a multi verse.

Movies ☆

I feel like he isn't the most into them but will watch things like yhe nightmare before Christmas or Caroline to get into the spirit of Halloween. Recently he hasn't gotten a chance to watch movies, he would probably like horors more now.

Investigations ☆

Honestly I could totally see him doing that now if he learns someone has the skills to help him with this, he wants to understand what the actual hell is going on in his office. But no ghodt hunting, ghosts are friends not prey

Classic Monster ☆

Frankensteinian Monster, Stanley may not have been literally put together with dead bodies but... In short he is the end result of a ego maniac trying to play god, he is someone's idea of copying 'god', he never asked to be like this, he had a past ripped from him & most notably Stanley is very alone, much like The Monster

[chaosmultiverse]

Are they more likely to notice the shapes of the clouds or the color of the sky?

Stanley

@the-haunted-office

Okay first and formost: when Stanley first got to actually sit and admire the sky again, he genuinely started weeping/crying and it took him awhile to get up and do other things, I know that's not the point of the question but the sky is such a important thing to Stanley.

In a sense for Stanley the sky is freedom or at least a sign of it, like dark clouds mean rain most of the time.

Now onto what he notices.

It does to a degree matter if it's cloudy or the season, after all summers blue sky and winters look different.

But overall Stanley focuses on the color of the sky, he loves how much depth there is to it, he loves watching it shift and change, in timeframes that actually make sense, he absolutely loves when the sky is different colors due to the sun going down or coming up or even how storms and weather shift the colors.

[chaosmultiverse]

How does Stanley react when he sees his worst enemy?

@the-haunted-office

There is a interesting problem with this, he cannot see his worst enemy, in a meta sense his worst enemy is his writer be it the writers of tsp or myself as mun. He is semi aware of both but not enough to see though the veil of his reality to see either, he cannot do anything against his writers.

That leaves himself as his worst enemy, sure sometimes he would like to inflict pain on The Narrator or make him suffer in some sense but... Really he understands that The Narrator isn't at fault for any of this, he is just as, if not moreso, trapped.

The game is named after him, he is used to sell it, it issupposedly his choices that make up the game, even the choice to not chose gets it's own little ending to add onto the monsterity of the 'game' he is stuck in.

It doesn't matter how much he makes himself a non-character, his very appeal and service in the game is to be something for the player to put themselves onto, who is doesn't matter.

But that doesn't stop him from blaming himself, he blames himself for his co-workers states, he blames himself for The Narrator being trapped, he blames himself for being trapped, he blames himself for the situation not being over.

He blames himself, hates himself, for the end never being the end.

[chaosmultiverse]

if your muse was made into an action figure, what would their five catchphrases be?

For Stanley! x3

@the-haunted-office

Easy! It'd be:

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

After all that's when he says as a commodity already.

But if we're talking Stanley (Stanley) then probably

"Push the button."

"I went thorugh the door on the right."

"I'm sorry-"

"I'm not a toy pl-"

"The end is never the end is never the end the-"

[chaosmultiverse]

3, 5, 8, and 11

for Stanley!

@the-haunted-office

3. the time they cried the hardest in their lives

It was during the epiloge, while Stanley was traveling across the dessert, he had set up camp for the night & was staring at the fire, it was then that it all just hit him, because he was alone, & feeling relaxed.

It hit him, everything he had been going through, his lack of control due to the player, how utterly alone he was, the fact he had died many times in a lot of violent ways.

It took him awhile to calm down enough to sleep and continue his journey in the morning.

5. an unpleasant memory from their childhood

Stanley's past is a haze to him, something that slipped his mind a long time ago but it's traces linger such as a need to make himself small & always, always follow orders without question.

8. a loss that effected them, whether person or possession

For Stanley it was the idea that he was wholly a person, after his coworkers disappeared he quickly found that he was a puppet of something he couldn't see, that at any moment he could lose control & now that he had been controled once, even if no one was using that control he wouldn't get it back.

This has left him with a lingering paranoia that one day he will just lose control & never regain it, leaving him still, rotting in place.

11. something they wish they could receive from others, but haven’t / can’t

Respect, Stanley often finds himself either having to fight tooth & nail for even basic acknowledgement of his needs or desires, even in his life before or finds himself being wholly discarded as a actual person & not either a cog in a company or a puppet for a player to use

[chaosmultiverse]

00.  the fool  :  what are your muse’s thoughts on new beginnings ? does it frighten them or  excite them ? (Stanley)

Both! On one hand he would love new things, a new 'story' to occupy and new things to explore. He isn't happy in the story of TSP, but...

He is able to make himself content, after the infinite sequels unlock he can make himself content that he has Narrator again instead of being alone, for as much as he loved the freedom and wild of... Wherever he was in the equiloge he was lonely, he missed having someone there.

And he is scared of change, he is scared of things going wrong, so far almost every change to The Office has caused him more and more harm, and he is scared to lose the little he has.

But at the same time, he is someone who highly values choice and the thing there is every choice does bring about change and one of the largest recurring choices in Stanley's life would be starting anew.

[chaosmultiverse]

🚼 (Narrator and Stanley)

send me a 🚼 and a ship I’ll use a doll-maker to design what I think a child between our two muses would look like

Musa ???/Player 2

Who knows how Musa came to be, no really no one quite remembers but at some point The Parable changed again, was updated again and new endings unlocked.

Musa takes turns spending time with her fathers, joining in with Narrator, primarily by providing a new soundtrack to TSP that offers it's own story if you listen closely

And then with Stanley she takes the role of a optional playable character that can join Stanley's adventure, unlocking a whole new lot of endings.

Musa herself is a quiet and observant person who is prone to letting others decide for her and speak over her, it's easy to happen growing up with two very highly vocal parents, this leaves it hard to discern what Musa actually wants, what she is actually like.

Both Stanley and Narrator are deeply troubled by this, by how little they can make their daughter open up, how she seems to only exist in The Office to share roles with her kin, none of her own and no real meaningful way of changing things, it is upsetting she is also a playable character like her father.

During endings she cannot be present for (zending, skip, 'freedom', probably others) she spends quiet time with Marie in The Museum.

[chaosmultiverse]

[JUSTICE] - What do they need to be held accountable for? What actions, if any, do they deny responsibility for?

[TEMPERANCE] - Do they tend to think in a polarized manner, or do they attempt to navigate the nuance of whatever troubles them?

[THE MOON] - What is one question they would do anything to get an answer to, no matter the cost?

For Stanley!

@the-haunted-office

[JUSTICE] - What do they need to be held accountable for? What actions, if any, do they deny responsibility for?

Really I would say the big thing is post-game not trying more to communicate with his Narrator and instead going back to basically doing things the same as always, Stanley is not one to break out of loops and cycles even if it hurts him or others.

And really Stanley has the opposite issue, he takes responsibility and ownership of actions he literally had 0% control over, if something possessed him he would own up to the ghosts actions.

[TEMPERANCE] - Do they tend to think in a polarized manner, or do they attempt to navigate the nuance of whatever troubles them?

Stanley does really try to approach things with nuance, he really does and he does have successes under his belt but it is hard for him and he is a little prone to compartmentalizing his thoughts on others into extremes if he can't get himself to think with nuance so for example:

Narrator, Stanley's, he goes between extreme amounts of fondness and affection for him to total losthing and spite depending on how things are going and both these extremes co-exist.

Him having bpd is definitely something that effects this, especially in relation to others, in fact his extremes in thinking of others is the main symptom that made me hc him having it.

[THE MOON] - What is one question they would do anything to get an answer to, no matter the cost?

Hm, Stanley is definitely curious about a lot of things, and there are questions he would do a lot for, but there's always limits, he has things to lose, his sense of comfort in the loop, his Narrator, his role, those are all things he'd rather not lose.

But a question he would give everything up for, all costs be damned?

"I don't know."

Yeah he doesn't have one. Stanley is decently comfortable not knowing things, there are things that he won't risk losing no matter the question.

Now perhaps this will change, but that's the answer right now.