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Feltorn
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 		It
A very short story.
It stirred.
It did not have a name, nor did it have a gender, it didn't even have a solid form, but it did have a mind, of sorts, in some ways it was a mind; a mind without a body or soul to hold it, a consciousness floating free. It had existed since the time when the earth was still nothing but particles of dust, slowly floating together. Of course, back then it was nothing more than a few random bits of energy, no sentience or thought. That had come with the first humans, the first people, when the first man and first woman stopped being whatever they were beforehand and started being people, it had also become it.

It had no name, although over the millennia it had been called many, many things. No name stuck for more than a couple hundred years, so it saw no purpose for one. It had simply been it, and really, that was all it needed. It was not alive; it had no concept of what being alive even was. It was not dead, either, because to be dead, something must first be alive. It was powered by something else; it was like life, in the same way that a painting of a house is like a house. But, it did need sustenance, and that sustenance was insanity.

Some people became insane without any trigger, and others were insane as soon as they could think – these people were of no use to it: their insanity was too ingrained in their minds, it couldn't harvest it. It could only harvest and feed on fresh insanity, insanity caused by something other than the person itself. So, it had done something that humanity did on a regular basis: It farmed. It planted paranoia into the minds of people, tended to it, kept it going, and eventually the paranoia blossomed into fresh, ripe insanity, which it harvested and fed on.

Sometimes its victims died, other times they became emotionless husks, but sometimes they recovered just fine – it had, on more than one occasion, harvested from the same person several times. Over the millennia, it had gained quite a reputation, but as many different things, and no one had ever been able to connect up the dots. It had a preferred shape, and preferred methods, but it had no definite name, and that was where the key to it all lay – nameless, it went from history to history, leaving no obvious connections along the way.

It could become solid, up to a point. Essentially it could become anything it wanted, but over the years it had adopted a kind of camouflage, it disguised itself as its prey: its forms usually being vaguely human. But it could never get proportions right, it always appeared too tall, too long, too thin, and it could never get the hang of a face...
However, this all helped its cause; being stalked by other humans was often not enough to push paranoia into madness, being stalked by a twisted, malformed and surreal entity that was only vaguely human could terrify even the most solid-minded person into sheer insanity.

When it became solid, however, it became part of the world, and because it didn't fit, the world tried to reject it: Electronic and magnetic devices in particular went haywire whenever it came near, and once again, this just helped drive the paranoia into insanity. When it was solid, it could interact with the world just like any living creature, it could even, and had in the past, killed people.

It was quite fond of children, their madness tasted best.

It stood in the alleyway, the man walking away from him; it had been working on this particular human for several weeks, the man had even caught it on camera several times – it liked cameras, they were a marvellous invention: Whenever someone tried to take a picture or a film of it, it always ended up being disrupted in some way by its very existence. The result was distorted, hazy imagery and terrifying, strange sounds. The humans, foolish creatures, then spread these images and sounds around, the fear spread, the paranoia mounted, and madness began to brew.

Needless to say, it seldom went hungry.

The man stopped at the end of the alleyway, and slowly turned, he caught a glimpse of it, screamed, and ran. If it had managed to give itself lips, it would have cracked a smile, it shouldn't be long now.
It vanished, becoming once more nothing but a free flowing sentience, and followed the fleeing man.

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 		You are attributing thoughts and emotions reminiscent of a sick little child to slenderman. I can't say I think it's original, or effective. The angle of slenderman is that from its prey, and never itself. The trick is to remove that perspective entirely from the story, and to focus on the prey. Nice try, though.
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punxtr wrote:
You are attributing thoughts and emotions reminiscent of a sick little child to slenderman. I can't say I think it's original, or effective. The angle of slenderman is that from its prey, and never itself. The trick is to remove that perspective entirely from the story, and to focus on the prey. Nice try, though.

Because children feast on insanity, become floating sentience, and kill people. I remember when I used to do that back in the day, twas fun.

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BoatWithAHoleInIt wrote:
punxtr wrote:
You are attributing thoughts and emotions reminiscent of a sick little child to slenderman. I can't say I think it's original, or effective. The angle of slenderman is that from its prey, and never itself. The trick is to remove that perspective entirely from the story, and to focus on the prey. Nice try, though.

Because children feast on insanity, become floating sentience, and kill people. I remember when I used to do that back in the day, twas fun.


When I was in 1st grade they said I feasted on insanity at a 5th grade level.

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BoatWithAHoleInIt wrote:
punxtr wrote:
You are attributing thoughts and emotions reminiscent of a sick little child to slenderman. I can't say I think it's original, or effective. The angle of slenderman is that from its prey, and never itself. The trick is to remove that perspective entirely from the story, and to focus on the prey. Nice try, though.

Because children feast on insanity, become floating sentience, and kill people. I remember when I used to do that back in the day, twas fun.


Sick little children, sick little children.
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punxtr wrote:
BoatWithAHoleInIt wrote:
punxtr wrote:
You are attributing thoughts and emotions reminiscent of a sick little child to slenderman. I can't say I think it's original, or effective. The angle of slenderman is that from its prey, and never itself. The trick is to remove that perspective entirely from the story, and to focus on the prey. Nice try, though.

Because children feast on insanity, become floating sentience, and kill people. I remember when I used to do that back in the day, twas fun.


Sick little children, sick little children.


I still don't get where being able to float around as a disimbodied sentience comes into this...

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 		Sees thread, thinks someone read Stephen Kings IT.

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AngryDeepground wrote:
Sees thread, thinks someone read Stephen Kings IT.


If that was the case, the title of this thread would read:

It
A very long story.

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Aurastys wrote:
AngryDeepground wrote:
Sees thread, thinks someone read Stephen Kings IT.


If that was the case, the title of this thread would read:

It
A very long story.


Needs more flashbacks.
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