#tsp rambles

the thought about the whole platonic ideal of divorce thing that davey wreden said in his stream with dougdoug, n im just thinking about how maybe instead of divorce meaning a marital divorce, its a divorce/seperation of the narrator with life

like, what if the narrator in all versions of the game is just a snapshot of a real life narrator that cant change.

ok, maybe not like a real life narrator, but like, with us playing the game and thus reactivating this snapshot of sorts, we are reviving the narrator as a character in an unchangable state. like, he cant exactly change, there can be variations in dialogue, but compared to stanley where there are many endings and we can move however we please and we ourselves can change, the narrator cant. and sure ultra deluxe added more content which the narrator did change in some ways as a result of, but the contents limited to the point where that too will run out just like the HD remaster. like the game in a sense divorces him from life in such a way where a person can change and grow, it's an immortal snapshot of the narrator at a certain time of being that makes him incapable of true change. maybe thats why any deviations from the freedom ending arent welcomed as thats the players input, thats change, and he is completely separated from change as a concept

In the Stanley Parable original mod we have the red and blue door option but in this one if you choose the red one instead of getting the Zending we get the ending we know today as the Apartment ending, Narrator tells us about how we are always told what to do and how it's going to lead us to eventually dying

but here's the interesting part about that, in the original version of the game do you know who else gets a door with the color red? You guessed it !

Stanley !

Well you can take this both ways (or more ! it's jus the interpretations I personally was able to get out of this)

Either as just a little smart callback to it

or

You can interpret it in a more deep sense of why Stanley has a red door, because just like Narrator told us we will always follow the orders by the end of the day, we might've gone trought the left door and pressed the elevator to go down we STILL went trough the red door and no matter what happens we will wake up in the morning and go to work

I had this idea yesterday when I was tired let me explain.

The epilogue is specifically very emotional to me but I couldnt catch exactly why of course you can say it's the stanley button its the years that went by with the narrator being alone but I disagree, and to explain i will come back to one of the first endings you'd probably get playing TSPUD, the museum ending, in that ending Curator tells us two important things:

*the game does not end, no matter what you choose what happens to Stanley will be meaningless always

*Stanley and Narrator wish to detroy each other, but most importantly they need each other

This is quite shocking at first, or at least I remeber I felt that way when I saw that ending for the first time back in 2019, it's supposed to tell something and it's VERY straightforward, but that idea is still pretty much shown, only that it's not being told to us, it's being shown instead.

They need each other for the scape pod to work, they need to be both there for the story to work, but, I dare say they need each other in a personal level as well, the epilogue happens after the skip button ending, we don't know exactly when it only says it's been many years, but Stanley, not us, not the player, Stanley, he walks trough the desert for days, we don't have a choice here, we can walk any direction we want Stanley will still get to a differet part of the desert, he's doing it because he wants to, when we finally see the memory zone, that's where he wanted to go, we can't go anywhere else, the door does not close behind us we want to be in there at that moment, then you find the buttons, and of course in your first time you think all of them say jim till you hit the last one, and it says Stanloey.

I wasn't reallt feeling that Stanley parable spirit as of late you know how it goes, BUT, I did found out how to fully restart the game so I did just that, and in my silly little runs in the original endings I went to to the scape pode one, no bucket tho, whoever I do wonder, what the fuck is this??

Honestly at first I thought it was maybe some sort of evil scheme as if to make the workers lose their sense of time given that techincally it could still be Stanleys original office, but then you go up the staris and BOOM next thing Stanley's office again, it can just BE his office again ykwim? I was just thinking WHY exactly they needed a replica of this exact office, in my guess it is definitely something that has to do with TK given they have a literal wormhole during the confusion ending which leads to hundreds if not thousands of reports on its behaviors during the experiments.

BUT, that wasn't even my main reason as to why I wanted to post this, but I decided to just post these two together bc to hell with it why not?

I think a LOT about Narrator's existence origin and how aware their are of what's actually around him, I do like to think he does haves his flaws that he cannot just, be aware of everything around the office and building, and that sign, this damn sign.

Well i guess if youve been here long enough you know what it says if not: scape pod, must have Narrator and player to work properly.