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Ol'Slendy

Should victums in a Slender Vlog KNOW they SM is stalking?

**Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:26 pm

J.Fawkes · Veteran Joined: 06 Jan 2011 Posts: 147 Location: Earth

It depends on the story and how important it is to the plot that the victim knows or doesn't know that Slendy (or SOMETHING) is stalking them.

It's interesting to watch a character who tries to rationalize things, like "oh, it's just a bear in the forest", but it's just as equally interesting to watch a character who's like "I've seen marble hornets, but it's not real. This slenderman is real"

It all depends on how it's done.

**Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:46 pm

AfterHours

I agree with Fawkes. Although, if the prey knows they're being stalked by Slenderman, their reason shouldn't be , "I saw Marble Hornets so I know who it is". I'd like to to be either a reference to the original mythos, or something like that.

**Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:18 pm

Ouroborus · Unfictologist Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 1352

I'm sure it'd be amusing to have an uber genre savvy protaganist(I'm also sure that it probably already exists in blogform), but then it would just have to illustrate the point that no matter what they do, Slenderman operates by the rule of "You're fucked".

**Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:01 am

ArkyMcArkArk · Decorated Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 157

I'm personally bored with the "LOLZ GUYZ, WHO IS DIS GUY IN DER SUIT?"
It is completely unreasonable in today's day and age that someone who was actually being stalked/saw some faceless man in a suit wouldn't at least google it. (The Slenderman tv trope page is the first link that comes up). So for me, personally, it breaks immersion to a HUGE degree.

**Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:12 am

J.Fawkes · Veteran Joined: 06 Jan 2011 Posts: 147 Location: Earth

**Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:15 am

Montagg · Boot Joined: 25 Sep 2010 Posts: 63 Location: Chicago, IL

To me it's an artistic decision, plain and simple.

**Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:31 am

ectobandit · Veteran Joined: 11 Feb 2011 Posts: 74

For me it comes down to who the character or characters in question are. The guy from Origin of Simulation went about it in a really nice way that makes sense for the character. It would be hard for Marble Hornets to have Jay do research because of when it started and how much it contributed to the original mythos.

**Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:50 pm

rand_althor · Greenhorn Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 5

**Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:31 pm