"This is a story about Huntokar", said a voice on the radio. A voice you had never heard before, though she has been speaking to you your whole life.
This is a story about Huntokar.
Tropes present in A Story About Huntokar include:
- All-Loving Hero: Although all the other gods seemed to enjoy maniuplating or torturing humanity, Huntokar loved humanity and helped nurture and care for Night Vale, who she even now refers to as her children.
- Apocalypse How: Earth ravaged by nuclear war on November 7, 1983.Huntokar: I could see it as it was about to happen. I could see the flash and the tower of fire, the heat that transforms a body into only its shadow. The slow sickness and the drying of crops, I could see starvation in a winter that would not end. I could see all of this, as though it had already happened.
- Arc Words: For all the things revealed in this episode, The Dark Planet Lit By No Sun makes an appearance and even Huntokar doesn't seem to know what it is, but it does compel her to act and save Night Vale from the end of the world.
- Mind Screwdriver: This episode explains all the reasons why Night Vale is so weird. The Dark Planet Lit By No Sun is still a mystery, though.
- My God, What Have I Done?: All Huntokar wanted was to save Night Vale, but in trying to save something, she destroyed everything.Huntokar: You should not forgive me just because I had love in my heart. Intentions never matter.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Huntokar was the god of Night Vale. One day she saw the end of the world coming and made an attempt to save Night Vale by moving it somewhere else, but accidentally shattering the multiverse in the process, making Night Vale (all possible versions of it) the weird place it is.
- Spiritual Successor: Although the episode is not as readily similar as the similarly named "A Story About You" and "A Story About Them", it still shares similar themes, as all three stories feature someone experiencing visions of a Dark Planet, lit by no sun and in the end it appears so close to these indivuals that they feel they could reach out and touch it.
- The Reveal: So many it's practically a Wham Episode because of it and features a disclaimer advising that this is not an episode you should be listening to first.
- Time Abyss: Huntokar is a being that predates the existence of time and space itself, she even recalls waiting in the singulatity of nothingness known as the Mudwomb with the other gods, such as The Distant Prince and the Glow Cloud for existence to begin.
- Weirdness Magnet: The shatterered reality on which Night Vale exists is considered to be something of a cosmic wonder by other gods, and thus Huntokar allows them to visit provided they don't do anything to upset the balance, explaining why so many strange beings seem to show up.
"Today’s proverb: Less is more. Simplification is the way to happiness. You are not your things. Anyway, thanks for your wallet, byeee!"
