Maybe Some Opportunist And Paraniod Stuff? Two Of The Most Untrusting Voices Together Could Either Be

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.

what I find very interesting about the narrator's choice of reward - ie. an eternity of supposed bliss inside the cabin - is that while it seems on its surface just another instance of him projecting his desires onto you, it actually isn't. he himself probably thinks that he would desire an unchanging eternity like the one in the cabin, but...

when he is talking about his reasons for wanting to remove death from the world, his focus is almost entirely on connections to others. he talks about the greater good, having loved ones, wanting better for them. it's those connections that drive him to submit to death in the hope of defeating it. he is definitely selfish, but if he was totally selfish, he wouldn't have been able to do that. he believes his own death is a worthy sacrifice for the continued existence of his world. his vision of an ideal eternity, as he describes to you, is one where connections are endlessly and joyfully rediscovered.

in his ideal ending, you've killed off the only being you could ever meaningfully connect to. and this is one of the main reasons his plan dooms itself. who could bear the weight of an eternity alone? not him, certainly.

so many thoughts. needing flirty conty

thoughts regarding little voices that are Not Canon

🦾 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.

You: Broken isn't attractive

Broken in your recent cold x broken art:

who said i dont think hes attractive?

hero likes birds because lq is bird and shifty likes lq and hero is shifty

They're all so fluffy!

Slay the Princess stuff. I'm so normal about these voices.

Fun Facts (down there)

All voices have scars of how Long Quiet died on first chapter. (well most of scar they could get), except Hero.

Broken's tears won't stop flowing.

Oppie always hide his death scars on his chest all the time with his arms. doesn't dare showing his weakness.

Smitten have his eyes close all the time. as in "blind" devotion.

Oppie and Cheated doesn't like hug, They are afraid of getting backstabs, but is comfy enough with Hero. (They need it.)

need people to stop calling long quiet/shifting mound toxic. guys you are missing the point. this is not a toxic relationship. the only reason the horrible things happened was because the narrator took something that was never supposed to be separated and ripped it apart and the two halves clawed their way back to each other. its not toxic murder partners its not theyre obsessed with the cycle of violence. the point is BREAKING the cycle of violence. the point is that the love is there, its not always strong enough to stop the hurting but its always there. its about loving people even when theyre messy. its about conflict making people stronger and helping them understand every piece of each other. its about inextricable connections between people, souls, concepts. the relationship between them alone goes so far beyond "toxic cycle of violence lovers" and it drives me CRAZY to see people saying thats what the game is about because even JUST the relationship is not about that and the game in its entirety is about so much more. stop calling it toxic love. thats not what it is. you are missing the point.

- tlq

Whole-heartedly BEGGING writers to unlearn everything schools taught you about how long a paragraph is. If theres a new subject, INCLUDING ACTIONS, theres a new paragraph. A paragraph can be a single word too btw stop making things unreadable

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.