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Vice · Greenhorn Joined: 14 Feb 2011 Posts: 4

His Message

**Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:41 pm

HunterEris · Unfettered Joined: 10 Feb 2011 Posts: 600

Doesn't this basically undermine the entire concept of what Slender Man is?

**Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:58 pm

Punk V · Veteran Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Posts: 118

yep

**Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:02 pm

Vice · Greenhorn Joined: 14 Feb 2011 Posts: 4

Not exactly. Every myth has to have a point, or else it is pointless. Just wondering what the point of Slender Man is, if he has one. Is he just a spook that decides he wants to kill you or drive you insane, and is that just what he does?

**Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:05 pm

HunterEris · Unfettered Joined: 10 Feb 2011 Posts: 600

The mythos is an evolving construct used to scare people at their core. It doesn't need more reason than that.

I'm pretty sure that everyone who posts here enjoys the controlled fear and that is reason enough for people to make things about him.

**Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:09 pm

Mitaku · Boot Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 40

**Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:36 pm

HunterEris · Unfettered Joined: 10 Feb 2011 Posts: 600

I meant controlled as in "We choose to watch the videos and read the blogs" but since there is fear in my heart that I can't control I can only point at the source:

Entry 14 and Entry 19.

I do not much sleep anymore. Doors and windows locked.

**Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:42 pm

Ol'Slendy

Re: His Message

**Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:56 pm

TheDoc · Greenhorn Joined: 04 Feb 2011 Posts: 5

The point of a cosmic horror is that his motives are unknowable.

**Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:04 pm

ArkyMcArkArk · Decorated Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 157

**Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:33 am

Guest · Guest

**Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:56 pm

NoMoreGaems · Unfettered Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Posts: 627

Slenderman's point depends on who's writing him. The grand meta-point is to be scary, but beyond that is just various interpretations of him. Sometimes he's an alien vivisecting and researching humans, sometimes he's an evil forest spirit kidnapping children, and sometimes he's just Nyarlathotep. Asking what the point of Slenderman is shows a lack of understanding of the concept, since he's not one figure, he's multiple characters of similar type and identical name spread across numerous irreconcilable continuities. The point of Just Another Fool's Slenderman is to kill everyone who learns of him, the point of TribeTwelve's Slenderman is to punish naughty children, the point of EverymanHYBRID's Slenderman is to ???, etc.

**Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:59 pm

EsAllGoot · Guest

**Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:02 pm