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The Player (IMSCARED)

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Background

The Protagonist is the playable character and main figure in IMSCARED. Very little is known about them. They are believed to be attempting to escape White Face.

Appearance

This appearance is in reference to Chapter 2 of the Imscared Steam Edition Grave Section, where it's likely the Player is merely playing as White Face during this section as The Player can move around outside of White Face[1].

General Description: The Protagonist's appearance is revealed only once in the entire game, with the player first seeing them in the newly-released Steam Edition, after the events involving HER. Having the same look at White Face. In the original game, their appearance was never shown.

  • Distinctive Features:
    • The Protagonist is shown holding the gun used to shoot HER after her death.
    • Their overall appearance remains consistent with their normal form, except for a key difference: they lack a mouth, similar to HER.
    • The Protagonist also has a fully functional arm and hand, which are seen in this specific scene.
  • Notable Context:
    • This appearance is shown after the protagonist kills HER, and as they move, their lack of a mouth and the presence of their arm stand out, before the screen fades to black.

Personality

  • Silent Protagonist: The Protagonist never speaks and the game is in first person view, along with this, their in-game avatar is just another White Face.

Relationships

The Restorer

The Restorer seems to have a far less parasocial relationship to The Player then White Face, telling them how to access a secret of the Imscsared 2022 test build[2] and giving clues to The Player through .txt files[3]. She also tells The Player how much she's missed them, pretending to be White Face before tricking The Player and revealing that isn't her and she was merely doing White Face's imitation[4]. She also notes how much she wants to show The Player, but it is not ready yet[5]. She also seems to enjoy messing with the player as the Player first encountering her has her jumpscare them with an eyeless smiling face before she immediately reverts to her regular face and tells the player to press escape[6]. She explains in the shore text that she is a huge fan of IMSCARED and wishes to breach the canon, having the player go through a game of IMSCARED loneliness[7]. For players curios, she walks with them telling them how she feels this is such a wasted world and that the creator doesn't understand the potential it holds[8]. She explains to The Player that she plans to make IMSCARED popular and famous again by making console and phone ports of it, along with wanting to be the tour guide for IMSCARED, but she needs the Player's help to do so, wanting to fill the loneliness[9].

White Face

White Face merely wants to play a game of tag with The Player, messing with their computer along the way. They seem to like The Player as it decides to not let them escape the game[10]. White Face brings the player to their room, noting how it's dark and cold in there but they can stare at them[11]. Telling them that they cannot escape from the game and to just stay with them as they will always be there[12]. White Face reveals in one of its text files that they wanted to merely entertain the Player[13]. If the Player chooses to give White Face the flower it will tell the player how kind they are to it and tell them that they want to play forever and that they love them[14]. The only time White Face becomes directly villainous towards the player is when they choose to open the door over giving White Face the flower, having both of them ruin the game and White Face fearing its death[15].

General Information

Name: Varies (Depends on whoever is playing Imscared)

Other Names: You (By White Face, for some reason he capitalizes the y whenever referring to the player), Player

Origin: Imscared

First Appearance: Imscared

Creator: Ivan Zanotti

Gender: Varies on person playing

Sex: Varies on person playing

Sexuality: Varies on person playing

Pronouns: Varies on person playing

Handedness: Varies on person playing

Age: Varies on person playing

Birthday: Varies on person playing

Time Period: Likely 2012 (As this is the time period the game came out)

Timeline: Main Timeline

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Varies on person playing

Story Role: Protagonist, Real Entity

Legacy: Local Legacy (The Player has a profound impact on White Face)

Influence: Event Influence (Through the events of IMSCARED, The Player can eventually rid the game of the curse of White Face)

Language: Varies on person playing

Ethnicity: Varies on person playing

Religion: Varies on person playing

Classification: Player, "You"

Species: Human, Unknown in game

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology, Unknown Physiology in game

In-Universe Creator: Varies on interpretation

Occupation: Varies on person playing

Ranking: Varies on person playing

Affiliations: The Restorer

Enemies: White Face, HER

Height: Varies on person playing

Weight: Varies on person playing

Status: Alive

Alignment: Varies on person playing. Neutral Good in the context of the game (The Player is merely someone trying to get rid of White Face's curse), Chaotic Neutral once becoming partners with The Restorer (Restorer has no real care for anything outside of making IMSCARED in her image, with her willing to do anything to achieve that goal, even if it means cursing the console and mobile platforms with a sentient program that takes possession of one's device[21])

Potential

  • Type(s) of Potential: Varies on person playing
  • Level of Potential: Varies on person playing
  • Description: Varies on person playing
  • Limitations: Varies on person playing

Codex Statistics

Grade: S (In the context of the Imscared game)

Tier: Low 10-C

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: None

Attack Potency: Low Subhuman level (The Player serves as a mere player avatar of actual player, existing within the world of the game)

Durability: Low Subhuman level

Striking Strength: Low Subhuman Class

Lifting Strength: Below Average Human Class

Travel Speed: Below Average Human Speed

Attack Speed: At least Average Human Speeds

Reaction Speed: At least Average Human Reactions (Controlled by the real world player who would at least have reactions of this level)

Stamina: At least Average, Limitless for In-Game Avatar (No matter when the player dies in game, they are merely an in-game avatar[22] and will be loaded back in[23]. White Face no matter how many times it tries cannot truly kill the player[24] having it tell the player to "Just die already"[25])

Range: Below Standard Melee for In-Game Avatar, Standard Melee for The Player

Intelligence: Varies on person playing

Knowledge: Varies on person playing

Powers and Techniques

Weapon Usage (Firearm Usage; Uses a gun with six bullets to kill HER[26]), Resurrection (Pseudo, Self-Resurrection, Resurrection of the Deceased; No matter when the player dies in game, they are merely an in-game avatar[27] and will be loaded back in[28]. White Face no matter how many times it tries cannot truly kill the player[29] having it tell the player to "Just die already"[30])

Equipment

Gun

A gun given to The Player during the HER boss fight, initially there is no bullets in it but through The Player editing the files, they can give themselves six bullets on the gun.

Notable Techniques

ESC Close Here

Allows The Player to close the game whenever they're in an inescapable situation[31].

Reduce Window

The Player reduces the window of the Imscared screen to check the game folder for .txts and allowing them to do things like navigate mazes[32].

File Manipulation

The protagonist possesses the unique ability to alter the game’s universe by modifying information in the game’s files. This ability surpasses those of both White Face and HER, as they cannot react to or prevent these changes. By accessing and editing the game's .ini files, the protagonist can directly influence the game’s structure, revealing their control over the game's world, a power White Face cannot match.

Their file manipulation is shown to delete files allowing them to pass impassable puzzles[33]. They can affect puzzles by changing the time on their computer[34]. When White Face gave The Player a gun[35] with no bullets[36] they were able to alter the files to give themselves bullets[37].

The Player uses the drift file to be able to move to specific coordinates in the game[38]. Restorer acknowledges how the use of the drift file allows The Player to move to specific coordinates[39].

In-game Text File Revelation

A hidden text file, written by Ivan Zanotti, details the protagonist’s abilities and limitations, confirming that White Face cannot stop the protagonist from modifying the game’s files. While White Face can create entire worlds, it lacks the capability to prevent the protagonist from altering the game’s core elements. The developer humorously notes his inability to make White Face more capable of countering these file changes.

Other

Standard Tactics: The Player will simply play through the game of IMSCARED, their tactics changing per player, though they all must reach the same ultimate goal of reaching the ending of the game.

Weaknesses: Varies on person playing.

Trivia

  • In the grave level, White Face's arm is awkwardly shifted more ways upward than it would normally be. This is common in most first-person games where the characters can hold guns, where the model's arm is shifted upwards in order for the player to see the gun and arm better.
  • White Face missing a mouth could be a reference to how HER lacks one on multiple occasions. It could also be White Face expressing apathy or passivity on the situation.
  • Ivan Zanotti has said that you play as White Face in the Grave level because that whole level was White Face deciding it was time to get rid of HER, as she was stealing his spotlight. Which means that you only play as White Face in the Grave level.[40]
  • Depending on whether or not White Face and HER are seen as malevolent, one interpretation is that the Protagonist is actually the true villain of the game. Despite White Face and HER pursuing them throughout the game, their intentions are never to harm the player besides scaring them for their own amusement. White Face even shows throughout that he is affectionate to the Protagonist and doesn't want to die. But the Protagonist is the one who ultimately makes the decision to kill both characters through using their ability to edit the game's files to their advantage, something that White Face and HER can only do to an extent.
    • Another interpretation is that the Protagonist is actually the "god" of the game's universe. They have the ability to alter things in the game by doing what White Face and HER can't, which is to exist externally to change files. White Face only has the ability to communicate externally to the player. So even though White Face appears to have complete control over the game's universe, it is the Protagonist who has more power.

Codex Statistics Questions

Q: Shouldn't The Player be universal for having power superior to White Face who is capable of creating worlds?

A: Creation does not apply to tier under our system. Along with that, the worlds it creates are all within the digital space. White Face is directly noted as a byte entity observing us and studying our every move and fear[41].

Q: Shouldn't it be a higher tier under Pseudo Tiering System?

A: Pseudo Tiering System are for verses where the reality in question is treated as essentially an equivalent to reality. In Imscared however, the entire events is treated as the same of a Malware infecting the computer. It's directly noted that the reality of Imscared will never collide with the other one[42]. White Face is directly noted as a byte entity observing us and studying our every move and fear[43]. Thus Pseudo Tiering System would not work here as the series itself acknowledges this as just a powerful virus.

Battle Records

None.

References

  1. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Graves
  2. ↑ Imscared 2022 Test Remake Steam Edition !.txt
  3. ↑ Imscared 2022 Test Steam Edition shore.txt
  4. ↑ Imscared 2022 Test Remake Steam Edition
  5. ↑ Imscared 2022 Test Remake Steam Edition
  6. ↑ Imscared 2022 Test Remake Steam Edition
  7. ↑ Imscared 2022 Test Remake Steam Edition shore.txt
  8. ↑ Imscared 2022 Test Remake Steam Edition Loneliness
  9. ↑ Imscared 2022 Test Remake Steam Edition Loneliness Archive
  10. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition I'm sorry.txt
  11. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition House Door #7
  12. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition White Face's Room (2)
  13. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition layer.txt
  14. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Flower Ending
  15. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Final Begin
  16. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Parlor
  17. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Parlor
  18. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Parlor
  19. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Parlor
  20. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Cellar
  21. ↑ Imscared 2022 Test Remake Steam Edition Loneliness Archive
  22. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Grave
  23. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Grave
  24. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Final Begin
  25. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Final Begin
  26. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Grave
  27. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Grave
  28. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Grave
  29. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Final Begin
  30. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Final Begin
  31. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Parlor (Variation 3)
  32. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Labyrinth
  33. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Labyrinth
  34. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Metro
  35. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Grave
  36. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Grave
  37. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Grave
  38. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Grave
  39. ↑ Imscared 2022 Test Remake Steam Edition Loneliness
  40. ↑ https://i.imgur.com/NpMXBbI.png
  41. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Attention.txt
  42. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Todo list.txt
  43. ↑ Imscared Steam Edition Attention.txt
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