#to avoid determinism issues i'm gonna say that luke-as-a-character is more of a chronicler than a writer | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

duckapus · 1 year ago

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So this one might be a little too meta but...

The Hacker Arc. One of the Viewers noticed that the "Yiga Clan takes over Glitch Productions" segments of the IRL Arc were a little too well animated and acted, and realizes that the SMG4 characters, and possibly all characters, really are alive. They try for months to make the rest of the world see the truth, but without any tangible evidence they're written off as a crazy conspiracy theorist. So, desperate for proof, they hack into Luke's computer to "borrow" one of his characters.

They end up getting Tari, and put her into a copy of The Stanley Parable to wait for an interested party who are pretty much the only ones who've heard them out, and were the ones to provide them with the resources to codenap Tari in the first place. Unfortunately for both of them, said party is a shady organization who already knows about digital beings, and is far more interested in researching a live specimen for their own ends than revealing anything to anyone.

Meanwhile, everyone back in the Mushroom Kingdom and Glitch Productions is freaking out and desperately trying to figure out where Tari is and how to reach her.

#smg4 #tari gets codenapped au #the hacker arc #tari smg4 #glitch productions #the viewers #the stanley parable #figured that this would serve as a good reminder that for as much as the viewers seem like eldritch horror monsters when they show up #they're literally just us #to avoid determinism issues i'm gonna say that luke-as-a-character is more of a chronicler than a writer #even if he invented the characters (and the personalities of the preexisting characters)#he just lets them do their own thing and then makes videos about it #the exceptions are the sponsorship segments and the animated announcement videos and trailers #went with the stanley parable as tari's prison since narratively speaking it's canonically impossible for characters to escape #granted stanley and the narrator are normally the only characters in there so maybe tari can bring some outside-context perspective #i'll come up with names for the viewer/hacker and the spooky evil organization later

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