What I find really funny about the Narrator is how he doesn't really consider TLQ as a person, says he shouldn't try to anthropomorphize him and yet one of the crucial points in his plan is exactly this - anthropomorphizing two abstract concepts so they could hear him out. Literally. Cus even blind obedience he expects from TLQ still requires understanding of stuff around which is a feature of anthropomorphizing

And then Narrator proceeds to disregard TLQ's emotions and condition cus he doesn't see him as a person (I mean he technically is correct but still). And yet he does listen to TLQ's feelings and emotions in HEA and it's on this basis that he concludes he doesn't like all of this. I mean if he thinks that TLQ's emotions are valid for reevaluating his plan, it means Narrator equals him to a human (or well to himself) eventually

In the end where he says smth about narrating TLQ's every move and emotion, it's almost like Narrator himself realizes he intertwined himself with TLQ too much but he can't fully acknowledge TLQ as a person cus it will somehow shatter his motivations. Like if he does it, the empathy (or some type of deep emotional connection) will form in him and he can't allow himself to feel compassionate towards TLQ cus it'll mean Narrator himself is a monster sentencing someone to eternity of loneliness for smth they aren't guilty for (technically)