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[Dust King]

I was thinking a bit about this recently and came up with an idea. Basically when people see slendy there are really only three paths they will go down.

1) Fight: Try and kill him, confront him directly and try and find out how to kill/banish him. Usually ends badly for the person who tries to fight.

2) Run: Try and avoid him, keep others safe from him. Will work but not really a long term solution.

3) Madness: Since slendy defies all logic it seems to be a valid solution to lose your own grip on reality. Seems like some have survived bad situations with him by losing it (seeking truth, dreams into darkness)

Basically either path you take you end up playing his game. I think it would be interesting of someone manages a fourth option, confront him.

I wonder what would happen if someone managed to stare him down. Stand in front of him unafraid without aggression or fear and see what he does. I don't think it would kill him, but I think it would be a good way to 'beat him' at his own game. Prove that no matter what he does you won't break.

That's just my opinion, I see it as more of a game or competition, when he makes the rules. If you play he'll most likely win, however if you refuse to play then that could be the best way for you to win.

Still I like the whole unbeatable thing about him.

[Rhiannon]

The more popular conceptions of Slenderman remind me of Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep character, which was more interested in causing madness than in killing anyone. Majority of Slendy's powers and actions aren't especially aggressive (unless someone attacks him directly), it's more about utterly screwing with someone's head. So maybe you "defeat" him by refusing to give in to the madness? Which is kinda hard, obviously, what with him warping reality around you and so on and so forth.

Another ending idea that I had (which maintains the bittersweet/Pyhrric requirements) is something in which the protagonists manage to make themselves safe from Slenderman-- but that just means he's going to go off and find new victims. It's their own personal safety/sanity at the expense of others. They know that someone else is going to suffer, go mad and maybe die, because they made the choice to protect themselves. It'll at least leave them with rather a lot of guilt, I'd think.

[Ryuujin Dracos]

That kind of sounds like your saying you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

[Lunasa]

[Ryuujin Dracos]

I kind of knew that already but my thoughts on it were more like if you can see Slender Man even if it's just one time you're already dead one way or another.

[StereotypicalName]

To kill the Slenderman, you must become one.

Wait, what?

[KamenZero]

and then we was slendermans

[evilblackbunny]

[Neoplayer2]

[Undertheark]

[Cougar Draven]

[Ryuujin Dracos]

Would that really be the end though? Or would he just be moving on to the next victim and repeating the same thing all over again?