#squuote

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I know buttons are Stanley’s thing but am curious if you find enjoyment in them too..

I enjoy buttons in healthy moderation. :-)

[shinakazami1]

hope tsp is an option but stanley or mariella for the character ask thing !! dont know if i ever heard ur thoughts on mariella :-)

I'LL DO BOTH. SQUOOTE I LOVE YOUR WORK YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE GAME EVEN WHEN I'M NOT MUCH IN THE FANDOM WEEEE jumping around u

MARIELLA (ladies first)

How I feel about this character

This bestie is in just one ending and got the whole fandom do great yuri. Slay queen. Slay.

Serious though - the fact she's representing the need for normality. The way she's so caught up in judging Stanley instead of checking if he's okay. She just accepts he's dead. She CANT check. That would disturb her schedule. It would ruin the routine. She has to reinforce herself as The normal one.

She's the good one. She has the morale. Others don't understand life as much as she did. She is good. She's okay.

Doesn't that sound familiar?

Both her and Curator judge their counterpart because they need to be better. They need to be OK.

In the Bucket version, she projects her sanity onto the Bucket. It's representing order, control, good mindset. The backflip is just the way we sometimes feel when someone else's life seems worse. Yes, yours in comparisment looks better.

But the fact right before that, Stanley is stuck in a looping hallway, losing his mind, feels like that's what's happening with her, too. She has to be in control, otherwise, she spirals.

Search for order and normality.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

I said so before but - romance,,, eeeh. I like Curiella, don't get me wrong, but it's not an OTP.

In my Jester AU - each of the members has fake memories of their life. Mariella had ones about being Stanley's ex wife. I wanted to make it so that the search for normality is in the wife stereotype. She doesn't love Stanley, but she doesn't understand why he doesn't love him. What she has done wrong fitting the role she was supposed to play so well. She had an image of being so perfect and she can't confront stanley about it, as anytime he comes close, he dies.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

I like sometimes making her concious of 432 since she spends time with Curie. I also think her and Stanley's relation could be interesting.

My unpopular opinion about this character

Again, dunno what's unpopular. But here are some headcanons

- Mariella is stuck in a loop like others. Depending on my Aus, she either uses the time well for herself or spirals out of control outside of it.

- She knows she only resembles a human but isn't one. That's another 'normality' she searches for.

- she loves her outfit a lot. Feels proud of it.

- mentioned earlier but I headcanon she was the one who was supposed to play the role of wife, before she got scrapped to Insanity.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon

Again - I love the writing in the game, it's hard to even ask for something more. She plays her role well.

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STANLEY

How I feel about this character

Lort. A lot. Truly a lot and squoote , you're one of folks who made me respect him even more through your interpretations of him being his own. The trailers esp, bucket escape pod when he's in a cutscene, being himself. He is more than a vessel and yet, he's stuck with us. He has a mouth yet he can't scream.

Anyone having their Stanley see a version of themselves in him. I know two main ways of looking at him, either very silent bland guy, or very opposite to the Narrator.

I'm Team - inhumanity. You can see it in my writing often. I consider him as a model that knows he is not a human. That in a way, he accepts his fate. He's okay with playing his role, he lets you control him. And yet, there is a lot of anger. Resignment. Hatred. Sadness. Freedom.

I adore protagonists like him. Looking bland but having lots and lots to offer.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

NarratorxStanley and 432xStanley. But well, in my aus,,, love is an interesting thing.

With the Narrator - they are in the front. They're both seen. They both live the story the most.

With 432 - he talks to us but he used to be an employee. I like to write universes where player left and all that's left are them. I hope to write one more fic for them cus I been insinuating this relationship for a while and not long ago wrote an epilogue for a fic.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

BucketxStanley. Cus Bucket represents the Narrator. And objectum freaks. It's silly.

My unpopular opinion about this character

- he DOESN'T hate Narrator nor loves him. It fluctuates. They both do. They have to play a role, they're coworkers.

- He can form his thoughts but we can't hear them. He observes how we play as him.

- he roams around when we are not looking. It's his right to do so. People think of Not Stanley ending as the normal Stanley. I think of it as him playing his role. He is a vessel but, what happens in his mind, is his. And none of our business.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon

Nothing again. Davey Wreden wrote a wonderful story and I respect it.

[dreiiton]

sorry this is so random, I just hope ur having a good day today :-) or if not a good day, then a good week

🩷❤️🩷🩷💗💗🎉‼️

(I've had this ask tucked away in my box for a few days bcuz every time I think abt it, I just get so. So. SOOOOO!

thank you foster! I hope youre having a good day, too, and that the world treats you a little kinder these days :D )

[visualsine]

68 I want to eat space + miku ? :-o

[mythbits]

ohhmy god jack I just finished watching part 2 and ur posts are literally making me INSANE thinking about how tired both of them are and how in that moment they finally reach out to each other rather than trying to fight everyone and everything on their own just,,, god that ending is making me explode and WEEP /POS

bro i WILL start crying in the chili’s tonight dont test me-

idk what Exactly it is abt the concept/theme of a character just. breaking down, even if just for a moment, and being able to say ‘i’m tired. i’m just so tired’ that fuckin’ hits me like a baseball bat, but just hearing him saying that turned on stadium lights in my head ndskfosd

and even if the captain cant really say it, too (which is understandable) you can just Feel it, too. you can just feel how painfully, bone-deep tired they are, too.

and they could’ve chosen to let go. just let go and let it all sink into ruin.

but they didn’t!

and it just makes me go

[offscriptnarration]

drenching my figley in milk and slamming it against the office wall

Stop that! That’s a highly sought after collectible! You’ll break it—or worse, put at least a nasty dent in the drywall. Do you have any idea how much effort that takes to fix, Tumblr user “Squuote?” Admittedly not very much, but that’s not the point. I wasn’t aware the Figleys were made of a porous enough material to effectively drench, anyhow…

[dreiiton]

first its beasts, now there's creatures coming outta my sketchbook ⁉️❗❗❗

for @squuote! feat. a mini stanley and narrator!

[shinakazami1]

for the ask game if ur still doing it! maybe 12, 14, 17, and 18?

SQUOTE IN MY ASKS YIPPIE YIPPIE HOPE YOU'RE DOING GOOD

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

That's a hard one in Parable but Clippy the Employee 000, Employee 417 the Ladder One and Responsibility Plant,, they're all a bit quirky silly things, I know the part of fandom that loves employees isn't sleeping on them but most importantly, the plant feels like such an important part of the Skip Button. Yes I am biased as Fernator creator nsiuwhwga (Fern imo gets enough recognition sjuwuw)

14. that one thing you see in fics all the time

I feel horrible but I haven't read any fanfiction in ages. But I rememeber Narrator's first touch and Stanley getting mad at Narrator and doing things to him being an often motive. I think also

17 got answered in the last ask!

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

Narrator not being human!!! Literally! I feel we should explore not just the man in human body but him actually being a silly weird being we don't know much that might be in a diff plane of existence and take things silly! He has internet access but he might not know everything about humans!! Or he might! But I love trying to think about him being an alien trying to understand what the fuck we on about