#Tape Guy tsp

[egg-on-a-legg]

the biggest lineup ive ever made is finally done!! first image is pre-canon second image is characters that appear during canon

[chronicsheepdrawing]

The Narrator doesn't know why, but he knows he's petrified at the idea of returning to his old self.

Also a possible design for the dude on the tape.

[chaos-theoryyy]

Hey soo.. tsp nation. Hello again long time no see.

Have some Tape Guy traditional doodles (you know.. the guy we hear his voice rambling about the bucket in that one ending? Yeah him. His name's Chris. I made some lore for him.) (Art under the cut!!)

"Statement of TK "Jim" Timekeeper regarding whether or not he's conspiring with the other entities to keep us trapped in this hell hole."

"I'm literally trapped in here with you."

"you're dodging the question is what you're doing."

Timekeeper and Tape Guy (Jim and Chris) don't really like each other much.

[the-friendliest-freak]

Disclaimer: this isn’t set in stone - this is just how things are currently, lore-wise. Everything is open to change.

[cosmokrill]

What are you talking about, it's just your... Average Joe

Goodness gracious me I forgot to mention this Tape Guy fella belongs to Cym

@cym-k man I've just been pinging you non-stop all day sharing this art I hope you don't mind one more

[numberonesnarkfan]

I can't tell whether to be proud of or disappointed in this, BUT, here's a Tape piece.

[kai-sunflower]

can I just talk about how sweet and awesome the tsp fandom is

[just-another-colin-kinnie]

uhhhhh Bucky aka tape guy aka bucket

[miezmiau-animations]

The bucket/tape monster from The Final Parable (Fanfic)

Something is different, but I can't tell what it is

The bucket was beloved, admired and worshiped. A holy piece of metal, ruling over everything there was, since the universe started existing. But times changed. And with the world decaying and humanity extinguishing, the bucket changed as well.

It seems to hold a deep secret within itself. Because sometimes at night you can see how it changes form and turns into a beast. A beast with a tape recorded voice, cut off and mixed, searching for the last bit of humanity in the world. You could even think it acts like a real person.

Its body is made from metal. It appears to be thick and sturdy, even bullet proof. It seems to be a trait the bucket carries on.

The head is attached to a long neck. The tape-head itself is always split in half and spiked with several sharp teeth. Meanwhile the body is split as well, but held together most of the time.

Its claws and legs are very sharp. With them, it rips the skin of its prey open, to eat what's inside.

The most recognizable trait of the monster though, is its giant handle on its back. It appears to be a body part which always glows. So you better look out for that, before the monster spots you first.

->Read The Final Parable here!<-

Reminder: You'll need an Ao3 account to read the fanfiction! We're currently trying to keep bots away from us! We hope you understand. ^^

[light-everything-in-pink]

If you guys didn't know, ASDIBAU ("ASDIB" will be referred to the in-universe cartoon, ala-70's to 80's, and the one with "AU" refers to this universe) is an RCP AU where a few details are present:

All of Broomstown besides the Rescue Team (specifically the RTs' counterparts) are part of a cartoon show with some sort of plot beats like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood or smth, but is overall a mix of Amanda the Adventurer (missing people and someone in the shows' tapes; also involves the outside world), The Stanley Parable (Narrator shenanigans in ASDIB and things being derailed when the wrong actions are taken), and a bit of TADC (forgetting names and trapping thingy) and likely Welcome Home? But mostly ATA and TSP. Might add Andy's Apple Farm elements but ehh—

If this ever becomes a fic, it will be ASDIBAU!Helly's POV, aka Harley Robinson. Follow him as he tries to get his uncle (Mr. Robinson) out of the tapes the former shouldn't had tried opening, resulting in the ASDIB's Narrator finding someone fit to play the role of the host, "Poli". However, everybody plays by improv to finish the ending of the last episode and it "()never goes right!()"

However, newspapers detailing cases of incidents about ASDIB's production's working conditions, Narrator's treatment towards Mr. Robinson—now having to take on the alias of the role he was forced in—once you view it under his controlling attitude, the unusual codes around the attic and the ones flashing on the antique TVs, the details behind Harley's blocked memories of his parents' deaths, and what his mother's last words are.

@"Find the tapes, end its fate

The only way, to stop his rage

Broken bonds, from his tomb

Dont let time, tick like a bomb

May I cast, the story's last...

...So her demise will suffice."@

(Implied Royber (past), Polroy (eventually, once they are done being mad at each other), Harley/Shenanigans, and Poli/Coffee)

:)

[that-one-digi]

tsp/one au. it's called teaspoon

i still need to choose roles for the other characters but here's the current ones i have

liam is stanley, texty is bucket, airy is narrator, amelia's mariella, stone is tk and oscar is tapes guy (design is likely subject to change)

[skayafair]

Episode 44

In short, I am unwell 🥴 spoilers below.

First thought while listening: Omfg is this Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles all over again with "the price" of granting a wish resulting into "the wisher has to never stay in the same place and always continue the journey across the worlds"? WHO on the team is a CLAMP fan? I don't want Silas and Cass to be doomed by the narrative :')

But THEN congratulations, TSP team, you made a BIG fan of specifically clones, doubles and shapeshifters reeeeeally uncomfortable with them for the first time ever :D even DW's Flesh episodes failed to freak me out this much - I mean yeah the long neck Japanese horror inspired Jennifer was terrifying but part of me was still very sad for her.

These guys though... my mind is rooting for them because they are trying to do a good thing (by their words, anyway), but I can't trust them? It's just another group of people who are convinced the aim justifies any means, which I believe has already lead them into a bit of a wrong direction at the very least. And I didn't feel much for them before because we don't know enough to compile an image? Ok Finley is extra charming, but that's beside the point. But now I'm terrified of them and the idea of "oh gods, you can't trust anyone now".

This is a very interesting effect. It's not like I've never seen this trope playing out. It still didn't affect me - at most it made me more intrigued, never so unsettled. I was really rooting for the doppelgangers in The Flesh, clones were one of my favourite characters in Tsubasa and Tales of Abyss (and I like the question their nature raised there), I support the Echo's rights but more importantly the Echo's wrongs (despite her/them? being an antagonist) in The Sheridan Tapes, same as Ned's from the same podcast, and a shifter is basically what I'd like to be if I could be anything but a human. Oh, and I LOVE the Stranger in TMA.

But here? Ohhh boy. They are very likable characters on their own, but this demonstration of power was INTENSE. Podcasts have an interesting effect with horror on me: I'm not scared at all or at least not as much as I would of any movie because there are no visuals. But having only an audio as a source also amplifies the emotional effect if the acting is right, I suppose. I think Silas is just a very good choice for a viewpoint character. Any listener who's got to this point has to sympathize with him by now, so the listener feels the impact from his emotions. But there has to be another component, too.

Because the uneasiness is not about WHAT they are or their abilities, but the way they choose to use those. Say, in The Flesh the characters have just found out they are/have doppelgangers, so for one team the drastic measures were a matter of survival while for another it was fear of the unknown, and both teams acted on emotions because they didn't have much time to calm down and process everything properly. Extreme situations make people do things they wouldn't do in their sane mind, so there's no evil there. In ToA the clones were treated basically as expendable slaves or objects and suffered a lot, so while they participated in organized violent action, it was still easy enough to understand and sympathize with them. For Echo from TST it was a question of survival, too, and while I was uneasy at times about what she could do, most of her "crimes" stayed off the screen and we the listeners don't even know much about them. Were there any?.. Anyway, I couldn't bring myself not to have sympathy for her and was VERY pleased with her ending. And so on.

But Nico and the others had a looot of time to prepare for whatever. They don't tell what the danger is, exactly, which doesn't help trusting them at all. They act in cold blood. They attacked the base while getting the info about Alpha - could they just talk to Silas and co?The team could very well listen. Instead a lot of lives were lost, and they went specifically after Silas who wasn't even THAT thrilled with going down the Breaches in the first place and was already having second thoughts about this whole thing. So they seem very "rational" and bold but this, again, doesn't help their case.

So they hurt people who don't actually have to be hurt despite the fact that they have all the time to prepare. They don't care - or it seems so. And, again, they don't tell what exactly the danger of the final world is, so it's hard to judge if their actions are justified.

And the way they lead the demonstration. There wasn't even mocking, I think? Some sarcasm, sure, but it didn't feel like mocking. No one was supposed to laugh. It was a very casual and that's why all the more horrifying show of what they are not only capable of but actually do and will do. J was a low blow, but impersonating Silas to the point of "I become Silas Caldwell"? And Cass as the final and the most painful nail in the coffin? This isn't driving the point home, it's intentionally hurting another person for nothing. And part of why I felt so unsettled is because of how good they are at this. And how they just mercilessly shoved that into Silas' face. Like... The Echo in TST did that too, and it did feel a bit unsettling, but it was very different in every regard.

So doppelgangers/shifters? Great! Merciless other species who plan ahead and really just don't care who they hurt and use their abilities to a full potential? Honestly terrifying.

The remaining team Alpha seems to be in a very unfavorable position between three forces which don't see them as people, only the pawns.

I mean. Maybe Nico and co are going to be not only reluctant allies but actually value the team's lives and sanity. They seem to get along in present timeline, after all. I just don't see the point of psychologically torturing a person who has been complying with every word so far and showed to be nothing but willing to help, not faltering even when being held at the gunpoint. It seems to go overboard for just Nico freaking out because Cass made another deal.

All this is not a critique, by the way. I'm very impressed! It's so interesting!

[chronicsheepdrawing]

I don’t know if this is important but the way you draw tape guy looks like my dad. Also the way you draw the narrator is very cute!

Local father gets really obsessed with buckets and is accosted by a wizard.

[chaos-theoryyy]

Hey I told you my Tape Guy and Timekeeper have beef, didn't I? Here's a doodle!

The girls are fighting.

At some point I'll make a cohesive lore post I promise.

[the-friendliest-freak]

TSPUD Theory: Tape Guy is The Bucket.

Ok first things first credit to @willvlogman who suggested this in a comment on some art I did a couple months ago, that concept has since been haunting me so I decided to go through the game and find some evidence.

Second things second I am very tired and I just wanted to get all this out there so sorry if this is poorly written

Not once in Tape Guy’s log does he mention The Bucket talking to him. Not once. He mentions the comforting aura, but he does not mention The Bucket speaking to him.

We know for a fact that this Bucket just has comforting properties, The Curator says that this specific bucket is special, likely due to those properties. The fact that the Bucket can talk and the fact that it can comfort don’t seem to be connected.

Tape Guy knows who Gambhorra'ta is, and more importantly Gambhorra'ta knew where Tape Guy was. He only decided to monetise the bucket a few seconds before he was found, meaning Gambhorra'ta was likely looking for him before then - and the Bucket itself mentions that it had ended up in trouble with Gambhorra'ta due to stealing an amulet.

The accent The Narrator puts on when talking as The Bucket does occasionally sound a lot like Tape Guy’s, granted this is mostly because both of them are British, but Tape Guy has a distinct regional accent which The Narrator usually lacks, unless he’s speaking in the voice of The Bucket, in which the accent is noticeable in certain words

[agentravensong]

oh shit, it's the 1 year anniversary of tsp: ultra deluxe's release!

happy 1 year to:

the memory zone

the skip button ending

the "infinite" hole

the bucket

the Figleys/Stanlurines/Mini-Stans/Figlureanlurines/Stiggley-Wiggleys

the tape recorder guy(s)

Settings Person / Time Keeper (as the, for lack of a better term, evolution of Employee 432)

the epilogue

and all the other new endings and funny bits :)