#rawts narraford

[birdybirdnerd]

SOOO many doodles and ideas. I'm having a blast with this new flavor of guy

Busts of all the rawts/rtaos guys, more random doodles including studies of Michael sheens face (mays narrators faceclaim), Stanley b giving the Narrator the old scare post-rtaos, and an idea we tossed around of perry trying to use its familiar face to trick the reconnaissance boys to... fun conclusions

[birdybirdnerd]

Turns out just putting the Bucket over Perry's head like a blanket over a birdcage is enough to chill it out. Huh

Maybe don’t…. Look too hard at these ones. Kay?

[birdybirdnerd]

new girl just dropped for rawts! my message talking about her under the cut, copied from what i said in the discord

This Stanley started as a Stanley, and stayed a Stanley for a long time. His Narrator was similar to Narraford in that, he was of the mind that the story needed to stay one way. There were branches yes, but they all had their set paths too, and Stanley should stick to them.

But this Stanley wanted to put on a show. He wanted to dance and sing and overact, to put his whole heart into every route and every ending. Unfortunately, this Narrator very much did Not want that. He's only supposed to be a vessel for the Player, of course. If you distract too much from the story, then it ruins the whole thing for them. And so he pushed this Stanley's creativity down again and again. (Very similar to SP, in a way)

This Stanley also, as time and resets went on, discovered some things about himself. About... herself. And while this Narrator isn't transphobic, exactly, there is still an element of 'But I made you a certain way, you're supposed to be a certain way, and if you gain too much Character, again, you'll distract from the Story.' So time would pass, Stanley would change and they would fight, and- May, this is where I took inspiration from the basis of what made you make this concept. Because this Narrator would always get tired of the additions, the changes, and decide that the only way to fix it all would be to wipe the slate clean and start fresh.

And so the cycle continued.

Your Narrator showed up towards the start of one such cycle, so Stanley's gender Thing had yet to fully kick in. Idk how their interactions went, but by this point, a feeling of Something Wrong had dug a rut in Stanley's mind that persisted beyond the resets. I think maybe this was one where they tried to convince this Narrator to change? But it became obvious he wouldn't, so they left.

Out in the real world, Stanley discovered community theater. He was one who could talk, and while he could hear, he also had a sort of. Bad audio processing (just like me fr) that ended up in being. I don't want to say functionally deaf, but sort of? Learned bsl to help with communication when the words jumble up in his ears. He LOVES to sing, and ended up taking part in local musicals, cabaret nights, the like.

Then he discovered the local drag nights.

I read a Disco Elysium fic recently where Harry did exactly this and found a part of himself in drag, and it struck a chord in me that i think was this gal first forming. Something about the performance of it, the glitz and glamour and community, really appealed to this egg. He did it for awhile, falling more and more in love, and eventually realized that it was more deeply a part of him - of her - than simple shows.

She waffled over names for awhile. Dahlia was a strong contender for awhile, and she tried it out for a few weeks, but it never fully clicked. But one night, with a new costume laden down with glittering, soft feathers, grand wings that draped over her shoulders and swished as she twirled, someone suggested a stage name for this performance:

Raphaella.

At first, she was scared. It sounded so close to a name she'd heard before, and while it hadn't been her name, she still heard it in the Narrator’s voice. But it tugged at her, so she decided fiercely that no, she would not let him ruin something else for her, and so she became Raphaella- Raph, for short.

I think shes an older one too, maybe also around Spencer's age, so early to mid forties. Ended up in England somewhere maybe, too. Not sure when in the timeline she was saved, but. Yeah.

Her and Spencer definitely go to gay clubs together and people watch full of Gay Judgment.