#the ring is Narrator Yellow™️

[crowzzznest]

"This is the story of a man named Stanley."

iiiiintroducing... fiend! he is one of my narrator designs! - he uses he/they/it pronouns and is nonbinary - he is a crow combined with a seraph?? sorta?? like a crow angel sorta - this is their more humane looking form but they do have a more inhumane and substantially larger form that is called "employee 002" in the files - younger sibling to the curator, aka saint - he is stanley's partner!! i haven't decided when they get together but they are together - @superaurora16's narrator is its cousin and they fucking Hate eachother - uses windows to help him access the code more in depth

other ref parts below!

okay, a lot to go over here! - his eyes are usually green with exclamation point pupils, but whenever they're actually coding, their eyes turn solid yellow and start to glow - using the windows doesn't necessarily do this until he actually starts changing and editing the code of the parable - his wings have black feathers on the outside but all of his inner wing is bright yellow with binary running across the wing like a pattern - the binary in full is just "This is the story of a man named Stanley." - as for the little gold ring that they wear, it's not a wedding ring or an engagement ring unfortunately </3 - it is a promise ring that both it and stanley wear as a sort of physical representation of a promise to never leave eachother that fiend made for them post-skip button ending :] - and since i have nothing to say about his hair, the last thing is his tail! - his tail is where the adventure line™️ comes from! when inactive, the line™️ isn't really alive and it's™️ just an oddly shaped tail feather. while active though, it™️ is fully sentient! - while fiend isn't really good at keeping the line™️ under control if he gives it™️ free reign, it™️ mostly listens to them anyways outside of the rare occasions when it™️ does get to free roam

and full body ref coming at... some point, whenever i get around to drawing one

[mon-cheri-stanley]

im a little scared to share this but this is a crack au inspired by the apartment ending. basically stan’s wife IS the narrator

i mean it was SUPPOSED to be a crack au but then it became angst very quickly 😭

basically stan and wifey got trapped in the parable together, only difference was stanley kept resetting whenever he triggered an ending and she was forced to remember everything. she gradually transformed into a cocky narrator over (several decades?) and stanley doesnt remember any of it.

and yes i suppose she uses any pronouns at this point. she doesnt rlly care. does she even have a name? i dunno. thats been forgotten too. she'd always been The Narrator, but The Narrator wasn't Stanley's love anymore. maybe someday he could tell stanley, because there's no one else that he loves more deeply.

time for details and headcanons :D

- she worked as a journalist, but was far more interested in being a creative writer but couldn’t find the time. she’s fluent in french and bakes for fun, but stanley does most of the cooking.

- i don’t know how they ended up in the parable, they worked together countless times to find a way out, but every time stanley managed to cross an area and trigger an "ending", he'd show up back in his office, completely forgetting everything that happened. it continues like this for many years. she developed a script because it was too exhausting to keep up with filling stanley in every time.

- her voice changes dramatically from years of speaking. in this omnipotent state, she could change so many things about herself, and she could let other things go, like her physical body. she'd adopted the deeper, signature Narrator voice to help her detach herself from what life used to be. because hoping hurts when every death, every escape, every end is meaningless. it was far easier to see herself as a narrator with a script, rather than trying to fight and hope for things to change.

- it's why she'd sometimes leave stanley in his office to push buttons for months. it's why killing him through the countdown sequence had become less stressful and more maddening, more sadistic, more satisfying. it's why they're so attached to stanley, but also roots for his demise. why they appreciate his choices, why they loathe his attitude and disobedience.

- sometimes, she still wants to tell stanley how much she still loves him. how much she wants to go back to the way things were. to confront him. tell him the truth. she couldn't do it on every run, because it hurts when stanley forgets. so whenever stanley chooses a specific route, the cargo lift, she tries to prepare herself to tell stanley the truth, just this once. she hoped that it would ease the pain and exhaustion, but she can never get the courage to. stanley is always so interested in reuniting with his wife when he gets on that cargo lift, but once theydo that, what happens then? the game was just going to restart, as much as she yearns for even just a minute of time with him, the way they used to be.

- she’d given up on that hope. the narrator mocks stanley. he no longer had a life partner, united through their rings and their vows. not in the conventional sense, anyway. now, they were divorced, but also united in a painfully twisted way, one unknowing and the other doomed to boil in futile hopes. besides, he’d grown to know a lot about stanley these past few decades. his predictable mannerisms, the way he reacts to being tricked, or threatened, or cornered. the things he does to survive. he wouldn't have been able to learn these things if it weren't for the limits he could push upon him, with the promise that he'll be completely fine in the end, another blank slate with which he could do whatever with.

- in the epilogue, when stanley had been set free, he never learns the truth. and maybe that’s a good thing

anyway heres a more lighthearted doodle i couldnt fit anywhere lol

au or not i figured i’d make a wife design and i knew without a doubt that she had to be a total girlboss