Stanley, I need you to be honest with me, now more then ever. Do you. . . Really get no bitches? None? Stanley I need you to be serious with me right now. Surely this is a joke-
It's. . . It's not? I- Stanley, I've given you story after story, adventure after adventure, and you still aren't getting any bitches? I gave you a wife Stanley, I gave you bitches! Are you just not appreciating my work for you?! Stanley, I'm starting to get seriously concerned for your health. If you still can't get any bitches after this I don't- I can't help you Stanley. Let's just- okay. Here, let's do something different this time. Okay? Okay.
I’ve probably rambled about this countless times but I’m in the mood again, and people are talking about The Narrator’s morality a lot at the moment.
I don’t think The Narrator’s evil. Hell, I don’t even think he’s that much of an asshole, comparatively. I picture his actions like a caged creature trying to keep itself entertained so it doesn’t start chewing on its own leg just to feel something.
Everytime I see people calling him evil, like as an example let’s say the Countdown Ending, I’m…really confused? Who’s in power here? You activated the controls. That’s a dick move. You know that would put everyone in the building under your control, and The Narrator’s a dick for trying to stop you? Really?
“He’s mean to Stanley,” you’re the person controlling Stanley, and he has no idea. To him, Stanley’s just being an asshole. The only time he’s ever aware that Stanley isn’t in control is in the Real Person Ending, and he’s fucking furious. And in that ending, he’s constantly talking about how much better Stanley would have been, and we see how nice he can be with Stanley when they’re working together in the Confusion Ending.
Oh, he told you to jump off the ledge? You can’t die. You can’t even feel pain. It means nothing.
But Stanley can feel pain. We see it in the Zending. He limps. But The Narrator isn’t the one telling him to repeatedly climb those stairs. You’re making him. You’re going down the paths that lead Stanley to his death, and you’re blaming The Narrator for the choices you made?
The Narrator isn’t the antagonist in The Stanley Parable; YOU are.