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[Stevie D]

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[Stevie D]

[The Rogue Wolf]

Okay, gang, let's all step back for a moment and take a deep breath. No sense getting angry over all this.

To pull things a little more back on-track, I'd like to discuss something I haven't seen brought up yet- the design of Masky's mask. Considering that it's likely the mask was originally blank and had to be colored in to look the way it did, I wonder if there's a particular reason for it?

The mask's design seems to greatly exaggerate the eyes, and minimize other aspects of the human face. In certain lighting, when no light shines directly onto the wearer's face, the eyes appear to be nothing more than two huge black circles (reference 1:34 in Entry 19 for just how eerie this can look). One key thing it seems to link to, which also hasn't been explained, is the dark circles underneath J's eyes in Return. They look far too dark to be from lack of sleep- it's more likely he would've had to have been punched in both eyes to cause bruising of that magnitude- but J makes no mention of his eyes being dark later when he returns home. Could those circles have been an ad-hoc makeup job by totheark? And if so, why? Does an overlarge representation of eyes have some kind of effect on Slender Man?

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[guesstimate jones]

[Stevie D]

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[Dray]

I'm not sure if it's just that the lighting is pretty sketch, but it almost looks like the rest of his face is powdered paler than normal?

...o_o His eyes are pointing in different directions. *covers half his face, one eye is looking at the shadow falling across him, covers the other half of his face, the eye is looking up and off into nowhere... sort of* Gahhhh. XD That's so weird!

Also, he's looking off into nowhere at first but his head is turned towards Slendy in the first second after the camera pulls back. o_o His face seems to be tracking Slendy's progress as Slendy moves around the corner, so it's like he's fully aware that he's watching something.

If the idea that Slendy feeds off of reactions holds water (har har har, Slendy, water, see what I did thar?) then putting Jay into a trance could have been what helped our protagonist during his amnesiac adventure. Perhaps the camera holder was making faces or something to lure Slendy towards him?! I have no idea. XD

On the other hand, if Slendy is after Masky, painting Jay's face up to look like him could have been an attempt to get rid of him. Similarly the leaving of the mask on the doorknob in 23 could go either way: if the mask is a protective barrier, it could have been left there for Jay to nab before he went to the basement (in which case, whoops for not taking it. XD) if it was a lure for Slendy, it might've been good that he didn't actually put it on.

It could be as much of a 'Slendy doesn't recognize you as the same person and so does not chase you specifically' sort of thing, than especial protection. In that case, it'd have been a huge whoops-up on Jay's part not to cover his face when Slendy saw him, which could mean that he's being stalked right now as we blather because Slendy knows his face quite well now.

D: Poor Jay.

[blue5213]

[Renren]

[Spritey]

So blackness around the eyes is like a Slenderman repellent?

That's the only explanation I can think of for Slendy just walking past J in Return

[Renren]

Well it seems like Jay was nonresponsive at that point, so he could have just wanted to deal with the person with the camera first

[Dray]

Do you suppose that the camera was set up and that the person who'd been holding it went to hide in the closet, and that's why Slendy turned towards the closet right at the end?

[The Rogue Wolf]