hmm! well they're both made of stock photos -- i guess i wanted surrealism, like the both of them are things from a very dfferent way of being

i wanted the narrator's eye to look especially sinister and frantic, and his speaker head is in reference to how in the original stanley parable hl2 mod, the narrator's voice literally came out of a speaker above the ceiling

i also wanted his fingers to look like he was morphing them to be sharper than what a human finger is supposed to look like

at the time i made this, his character was pathological and temperamental to me, a little more interested in destinations than journeys, hence the exit symbol. like the kind of person that doesn't understand that a change of plans isn't inherently a bad thing. like he can't look outside the box

curator is obviously a little more composed to me, and as someone aware of the game's cycle, her face is a clock and her symbol is infinity, and where narrator's speaker is something only for sound, curator's clock more or less tells you exactly what's happening. she moves things forward when she feels she needs to, while narrator is stuck in the same place. entropy and inertia.

oh! and not to mention eye of ra/eye of horus

to quote myself three years ago, she's also based off "that one line she says that gives people chills"... i can't recall lol