Headcanon that TLQ speaks without a voice.
Like, what he says and how he says it is very much audible. His words, his tone, what he emphasizes and how much he emphasizes them. Even some of the normal qualities of how voices work are still there, like how it’s harder to make out what he’s saying if he’s behind a wall or far away.
But the voice itself just…isn’t there? No cadence, no pitch, everything that determines what a voice sounds like is missing.
It’s like…text that your brain registers directly as words. Dialogue from a character in a visual novel who hasn’t been granted a voice.
the shifting mound's thing about gifts is such bs to me . "gifts arent what someone tells you to bring them" yeah lady gifts also arent something you fucking steal. give me back my ghost girlfriend youre not using her anymore
Thinking about how the Narrator doesn't really know if the world stays saved when we die, and yet in some cases He tries to reassure/console us during our 'last moments'.
"You've paid a terrible price, but you've saved us all." He doesn't know that. Maybe He's just trying to describe it into existence, hoping that if you die with the thought, it'll become true? But in other times, He's sure that our death means doom for whatever world we've left behind. "The world doesn't stay saved if you die." Then why tell us that we've saved it?
I also think it's interesting how emotional Narrator gets by the end of each chapter 1. He treats us differently based on our actions and how we approach the situation.
If we try and save the Princess, he purposely makes our death as long and painful as he possibly can, presumably, out of pure spite. "It is agony. But you aren't dead yet." "She sinks the blade into your chest again, and again, and again... and you feel every inch of burning pain that slices itself into your body."
If we resist his instructions at first, but give in later, he seems genuinely apologetic. "This can't actually be how everything ends..!" "I'm sorry, but it is." or "As much as I'd preferred for things to have gone differently, I can't deny the reality of what has happened." He wants this to work, and he wants us to come out happy and content by the end of it.
He seems caught off guard in the Spectre route if we try to kill her while she's in our body. "Slay her would slay you. Are you sure you're willing to do that?" One would expect Him to immedietly be on board with whatever plan gets rid of Her, but the "heroic"(in His eyes) gesture immedietly makes Narrator develop a soft spot and start to worry for our well being. He doesn't like the idea of the hero being denied their happy ending.
He genuinely believes the Princess to be a manifestation of everything evil in the world and constantly denies her any personhood. It's not an active choice either, as Narrator is an Echo with a set amount of beliefs that cannot be changed. He never changes His mind about anything and one of His core beliefs is that He is right. He has to be, otherwise everything he'd done, everything he went through, it would all be for nothing.
That which was once a defensive thought, shaped by his own hurt and unwillingness to see another perspective, becomes a universal truth.
Cold and his Intrusive thought.
Hero to the rescue.
Rearranged AU
tw: blood, amputation(?)
Chapter II: The Prisoner
I have no idea how to figure out Prisoner in this AU(or even in canon) but all I got is unreliable victim/witness in a interrogator's case.
This is probably why I haven't answered that one ask about this route. But I'll have you know that Skeppy is trying.
Anyways, uhh... She asks you eventually a favor.
(just an excuse to not draw her head but also just carry her bridal style.)
Anyways, the funny below
At least you can talk to her to ease her anxiety and helplessness.
"I was sent here to slay you. I'm told you will end the world if I don't."
The Narrator:
Why are you telling her that!?
Voice of the Prince:
Okay, so, two very different points of view here.
The Narrator:
She is lying, she has never saved a world in her life. I told you she would lie, and this is a very obvious situation to do so in.
Voice of the Prince:
If someone told me I will end the world, I'd deny it, too.
The Narrator:
Exactly. Anything to save your skin and absolve you of blame. It is the same with her. She is not going to agree.
Voice of the Prince:
Right, she doesn't seem evil.
The Narrator:
It is not a matter of whether or not she wants to, because she always will, if you don't slay her. She could be the most heroic woman in the world and the task would still be here.
The Narrator:
But she is not. She is willing to damn the world, and everyone in it, to oblivion for no reason. You cannot let that happen.
🦾 for any of the voices you want to ramble about
oh, well, yes!
theres, of course, Team Can't Fly
Hunted, who's wings didn't fully develop and so he's never been able to fly
Contrarian, who flew too close to the walls and got some wings torn off as punishment
and Broken, who's muscles atrophied from lack of use and now have no bone mass even if he tried to rebuild his strength.
the most-so autistic, in my headcanons, are hunted, cheated, and hero. others are on the spectrum of adhd (conty stub and smit) and add (again cheated) as well. i always have my paranoid with anxiety and my opportunist with aspd/sociopathy. oppy and broken also have ocd in my mind, of varying degrees.
i don't go into it much but i think skeptic fidgets and tics sometimes? his hands need to be busy or they'll start acting up.
i also never cleared up cheated's eternal bandages, but those cause him a lot of pain and are under constant maintenance.
oppy's got scoliosis in my head. its just real to me. he probably has to wear one of those correctors and he doesnt even dislike it because it protects him from stabs in the back.
What was happening when you left him in the basement? Why was he screaming? 😰
well youre not really supposed to know.
but here's a clearer lead-up