#is never

The Narrator can form his physical body to anything he wants, whether that be just showing his ‘hands’, head, or a mix of both, or more. He can be existing and he can be non-existing to Stanley’s and the Players eyes.

Now, I want this to be almost as canon as possible, so the reason why you mostly can’t see The Narrator is because YOU apparently are the Player; using Stanley as a vessel so that you may be connected to the Parable, but are unable to fully see the Narrator because well, his purpose isn’t to be with you in person, it’s to Narrate.

STANLEY, on the other hand, can, and is most likely shocked by this. (Will go in depth with this but it’s The Narrator headcanons.)

The Narrator can fully form his physical body non-existant or not, but that doesn’t mean it goes smoothly, as he tends to fall astray with stronger emotions like anger, sadness or irritation, making him slightly visible, but he quickly notices and vanish. When fully depressed he wouldn’t even notice. Again, the Player can’t even see this in play, only Stanley can.

We all know that The Narrator is such a drama queen, sensitive to any critism, so I’m not gonna add anything for his personality, since it’s, it’s complicated as HELL. The man has mood swings! /j

It could be true that The Narrator could be just a highly intelligent AI mixed with being a drama queen (Probably is). Don’t want to be selfish, but where’s the spice in that? (no offense!) I still want to show atleast signs of life for the Narrator, so for me he IS AI, but then represses the thought of being fiction and existential dread, and that well, made him sort of get out of his Artificial like codings and become more optimistic, perhaps, it’s complicated.

His relationship towards Stanley is also indeed, complicated, but one thing’s clear; they seem to always want to try to be more in control than the other, Stanley planning cautiously about his choices to oppose The Narrator while The Narrator obviously shows that he attempts to completely control Stanley to his story by manipulating him. Of course, they never seem to go too far. Yes, each might have their victory but it’s never enough to satisfy them both truly enough. It hasn’t come to their minds that they NEED each other, they’ll see soon enough. I would say that their relationship is perhaps denial, like they don’t want to hear each other out, for now.