Hand in Unloveable Hand
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While relaxing in the Zen room, Stanley has a bit of a realization.
He and the Narrator have never actually introduced themselves to one another before, despite all the time they’ve been in the Parable together. When he points this out, more questions come to his mind, and it leaves him questioning how much he honestly knows about his place in the Parable, and who the Narrator even is.
After all, if they’ve never introduced themselves, do they even really know each other?
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stanley has an existential crisis/epiphany and for once he’s the one explaining what their story means. general warnings for existential thoughts and concepts, and for the reality of the characters in the story.
can be read as romantic or platonic, all of us know what these two bitches have isn’t normal
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- Part 1 of Hand in Unloveable Hand
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The Narrator, shaken by Stanley's new attitude/philosophy towards their game, struggles to grapple with the fact that his creation decided to be something without him. Faced with emotional insecurity and an unknown stance of where he's meant to fit into this new paradigm, the Narrator chooses to take back control of the Parable.
All he needs to do is convince Stanley that he's nothing without his Narrator.
And annoyingly, the only good means to do that is to feed into his delusion that he actually has the capability to care about the Narrator without his say-so.
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a very messy emotional fic where the narrator and stanley experience what it means to love each other and how that fits into the narrative the narrator is so convinced they must abide by. stanley gets his feelings toyed with, and the narrator realizes he actually has feelings
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- Part 2 of Hand in Unloveable Hand