Little goofy stanley parable theories/headcanons I have (THIS IS SUPER LONG DUDE)
The narrator is neurodivergent in one way or another. My headcanon is that he has maladaptive daydreaming disorder and autism.
I've seen a lot of people theorize that the stanley parable is a game made by the narrator or something along those lines, I personally think that the stanley parable is a story inside of his head that he thinks about while working.
He actually has a job like Stanley, that he fucking hates, so in order to get through the day, he imagines his blorbo that also has his job going on the adventures he desperately wants to go on.
More on the whole ''it's a story inside of his head'' theory. For me, those moments where he like, goes on tangents, loses the plot, or just does whatever, REALLY remind me of myself when I'm trying to think of my story. When I write it down it makes sense, but while thinking about it, I very quickly go on thought tangents and stuff. Also the way he gets annoyed when the story doesn't go as he wants to, me too buddy
Also, remember that one part in the Stanley parable deluxe when he was looking at the steam reviews? I honestly like thinking that the steam reviews are actually comments of his loved ones telling him what they thought of his story. Notice how he harps on the negatives, this is SO relatable to me dude. He also ignores most of the positive ones, y'know, the ones you can see in the background that we never get to read. But he puts a few positive ones on a pedestal, most likely said by people he thinks highly of
Here's one thats more, shippy. My headcanon is that Stanley IS actually a real person. He's the narrator's coworker. And the narrator has a massive crush on him. Which is why he makes Stanley the main character of his little dumbass story (his name might not even be stanley irl, unless the narrator literally has no shame, which, iconic), and the narrator gets to like control him. Which is weird, but people think about weird things when they have a crush let him be weird.
And here's a thing that just really makes me think that the narrator has a crush on stanley. So you know like when you leave your office at the VERY beginning of the game and the narrator says some shit like ''all of his coworkers were gone, what could it mean?'', and that sometimes he says something else or he doesn't say anything at all. Well, there's also that one time where the phone rings and Stanley's so called wife leaves a voice mail telling him that she got the groceries or something, and the narrator is completely SILENT during this part, never mentions it or anything. When I was playing the stanley parable, and that came up, i was also planning on playing the route where we get to meet his wife, who turns out to be fake. So... here's my theory. The phone call was something that happened outside of the story, the narrator happened to hear it, and was like ''fuuuck this guy's got a wife'', and in a state of pure pettiness, decided to imagine stanley getting home and his wife being fake. TELL ME THIS ISNT THE FUNNIEST CONCEPT EVER
Also the whole bucket thing, might be the narrator trying to cope with that, imagining the bucket as stanley's wife (might make sense, probably won't)
Lastly, the way he just, talks to stanley. There are many instances of him like being a massive dick to him, and to me that's because I think stanley (the real one) is like a whole lot younger than the narrator, so it would make sense that he would sometimes get annoyed at this young dumbass. But I think that's as far as their real relationship goes, they're just coworkers at the end of the day, and the narrator is probably too socially awkward to genuinely form a bond. So he does so in his head, where it's safe, where he has all of the control, where stanley doesn't have a wife, where he can say whatever the hell he wants and stanley wont react negatively, wont react at all actually.
I'm not obsessed with this game btw...
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