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ThinSuit wrote:
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Okay allow me to explain why I don't like this crossover.

First thing, DH an TT shouldn't be in the same universe. Slendy in DH is some sort of ancient egyptian god. In TT he is a german legend.

Second thing this feels as useless as the EMH crossover (Yeah,remember when noah received a fucking letter from HABIT ? what's the point if adam doesn't make anything happen with this at all ?)


This really feels OOG as fuck.


I'm going to have to agree with you. It just doesn't really make sense. It makes any future explanation of slenderman's origin useless if it doesn't fit in with all 3 series.


You guys are so dense. Sure TT, EMH, and DH are three separate stories, but when these guys crossover with each other, they're only crossing over a small bit of information, be it Dr. Corenthal or The Order. The rest is suspension of disbelief, and for the most part there's nothing to be pissy about. So what if their Slender Men don't match, they're not supposed to because one it's not important to the crossover, Mary Asher and the cult are, and two, IT DOESN'T MATTER. Slender Man is not supposed to have a defined origin or explanation, that would ruin him, each series has its own take on his origin, but in the end, SLENDER MAN IS FUCKING SLENDER MAN. All that matters to the series with Slender Man in conjunction with one another is that he is there, that's it. Beyond that is up to them, but it all boils down to Slender Man's interpretation, because it is all relative. The crossover was great, you guys are just trying to tell them how to run their series and I think that's pretty damn disrespectful.


You should really calm the fuck down. You talk about disrespect when YOU call us dense ? Hypocrite.
I am not telling adam how to do his series. I am telling my opinion.
Also I think if the series gave slendy an origin,it shouldn't go like "whatever it's slendy".


I'm with Bartok on this one. You guys nitpicking the crossover because of the discrepancies with Slender Man really bugs me. I see him as a blank canvas to which series paint their image of who they think he is onto his character. None of their Slendy backstories need to be official or identical, it's actually better that they're different imho because if they were all the same it'd be really boring and flat. I highly enjoy this crossover so far, and to those who can't enjoy it due to some sort of false idea of core theory Slender Man, I feel sorry for you.
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Uniquename wrote:
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I am not telling adam how to do his series.


Shh, you cannot say his OOG name in this thread silly.


Dude,sometimes he even posts here. no one care apparently about OOG in this forum.


That's not true, not after he was talked to by CoA, If you were more active in this thread you would know.

I'll even help you out buddy. http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=34034


Oh,didn't know.
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 		Guys. GUISE SERIOUSLY. I don't see how in DH slenderman being an Egyptian god contradicts him being a German myth. Slenderman obviously wasn't one of the major gods like Horus and Ra, so nobody really knew about him that much. Then he starts showing up all over the place (mostly Germany looking for the journal) and he gets branded as a myth. I mean if an entity like that existed IRL then each country/region that sees him would put their own spin on him. Not that complicated...

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bgchaosdude wrote:
Guys. GUISE SERIOUSLY. I don't see how in DH slenderman being an Egyptian god contradicts him being a German myth. Slenderman obviously wasn't one of the major gods like Horus and Ra, so nobody really knew about him that much. Then he starts showing up all over the place (mostly Germany looking for the journal) and he gets branded as a myth. I mean if an entity like that existed IRL then each country/region that sees him would put their own spin on him. Not that complicated...


This is why I called the others out for being dense, because they partition their idea of Slender Man depending on individual series and not as one shared creature with multiple ambiguous backstories as most of the mythos identifies with. The reason the crossover works is because the Slender Man cannot be defined by either series, he is commonly an unexplainable being in both series and that is honestly all that really matters. Especially in terms of the crossovers.
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bgchaosdude wrote:
Guys. GUISE SERIOUSLY. I don't see how in DH slenderman being an Egyptian god contradicts him being a German myth. Slenderman obviously wasn't one of the major gods like Horus and Ra, so nobody really knew about him that much. Then he starts showing up all over the place (mostly Germany looking for the journal) and he gets branded as a myth. I mean if an entity like that existed IRL then each country/region that sees him would put their own spin on him. Not that complicated...


Yeah, I always saw him as being like one of the Old Ones from the Cthulhu mythos-multiple cults worshipping him as a different being. Even in the original SA thread they had photoshopped pictures of Egyptian glyphs, Aztec drawings, medieval woodcuts, etc.

IG Slendy does what he wants. Snap snap etc. XD

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bgchaosdude wrote:
Guys. GUISE SERIOUSLY. I don't see how in DH slenderman being an Egyptian god contradicts him being a German myth. Slenderman obviously wasn't one of the major gods like Horus and Ra, so nobody really knew about him that much. Then he starts showing up all over the place (mostly Germany looking for the journal) and he gets branded as a myth. I mean if an entity like that existed IRL then each country/region that sees him would put their own spin on him. Not that complicated...




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 		new tweet:
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Fuck. Sam is pretty angry at me for leaking the manifest the way I did and refuses to help me for the time being. Back to square one.


makes sense, since sam explicitly stated numerous times that he did not want anyone to know where noah got the manifest

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punxtr wrote:
bgchaosdude wrote:
Guys. GUISE SERIOUSLY. I don't see how in DH slenderman being an Egyptian god contradicts him being a German myth. Slenderman obviously wasn't one of the major gods like Horus and Ra, so nobody really knew about him that much. Then he starts showing up all over the place (mostly Germany looking for the journal) and he gets branded as a myth. I mean if an entity like that existed IRL then each country/region that sees him would put their own spin on him. Not that complicated...




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I think that sometimes in between all the "HOLY SHIT WTF WAS THAT" and the "IT HAS TENTACLES. KILL IT. KIIILLLLL ITTTTT" we forget to use logic sometimes...

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7brokenboundaries wrote:
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Fuck. Sam is pretty angry at me for leaking the manifest the way I did and refuses to help me for the time being. Back to square one.


makes sense, since sam explicitly stated numerous times that he did not want anyone to know where noah got the manifest


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Bartok wrote:

You guys are so dense. Sure TT, EMH, and DH are three separate stories, but when these guys crossover with each other, they're only crossing over a small bit of information, be it Dr. Corenthal or The Order. The rest is suspension of disbelief, and for the most part there's nothing to be pissy about. So what if their Slender Men don't match, they're not supposed to because one it's not important to the crossover, Mary Asher and the cult are, and two, IT DOESN'T MATTER. Slender Man is not supposed to have a defined origin or explanation, that would ruin him, each series has its own take on his origin, but in the end, SLENDER MAN IS FUCKING SLENDER MAN. All that matters to the series with Slender Man in conjunction with one another is that he is there, that's it. Beyond that is up to them, but it all boils down to Slender Man's interpretation, because it is all relative. The crossover was great, you guys are just trying to tell them how to run their series and I think that's pretty damn disrespectful.


I'm dense, thanks. I was (calmly, I might add) saying that it doesn't make sense to me. Saying "Slenderman is Slenderman" isn't really saying anything.
And yeah, I get that they each have an interpretation on him because he's such a broad character. But it's just weird to me to try to see them both existing in one universe. It's like having Twilight crossover with Dracula or something and some of the vampires burn in the sun and some of them don't. Bad example, but that's what it feels like.
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YouWillLeadUs wrote:
Bartok wrote:

You guys are so dense. Sure TT, EMH, and DH are three separate stories, but when these guys crossover with each other, they're only crossing over a small bit of information, be it Dr. Corenthal or The Order. The rest is suspension of disbelief, and for the most part there's nothing to be pissy about. So what if their Slender Men don't match, they're not supposed to because one it's not important to the crossover, Mary Asher and the cult are, and two, IT DOESN'T MATTER. Slender Man is not supposed to have a defined origin or explanation, that would ruin him, each series has its own take on his origin, but in the end, SLENDER MAN IS FUCKING SLENDER MAN. All that matters to the series with Slender Man in conjunction with one another is that he is there, that's it. Beyond that is up to them, but it all boils down to Slender Man's interpretation, because it is all relative. The crossover was great, you guys are just trying to tell them how to run their series and I think that's pretty damn disrespectful.


I'm dense, thanks. I was (calmly, I might add) saying that it doesn't make sense to me. Saying "Slenderman is Slenderman" isn't really saying anything.
And yeah, I get that they each have an interpretation on him because he's such a broad character. But it's just weird to me to try to see them both existing in one universe. It's like having Twilight crossover with Dracula or something and some of the vampires burn in the sun and some of them don't. Bad example, but that's what it feels like.


That's not just a bad example, it's a horrible one. Dracula, and most other classic iconic horror figures for that matter like the Wolfman, have defined backstories and relatively known properties. This is not applicable to the Slender Man, because nothing is known about him, except that he is here and following people. That makes him unique in the sense that anyone can say anything about him, and yet he can be the same character in each series. It's that ambiguity that makes it all work.
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 		Not really, there are a number of Dracula works that vastly contradict Bram Stoker's novel. Hopefully I'm not spoiling the cinematic masterpiece of Dracula 2000 for anyone, but in that film Dracula is revealed to actually be Judas Iscariot.

There's the generic subject matter of vampires, and if you're going to try to reconcile every separate work on the matter as part of one big universe, you're going to fail. A literary work from a few centuries ago and a TV show on the CW just aren't meant to meld together.

As it relates to Slenderman though, it is different, because it's relatively new subject matter building on social media, found footage, creepypasta, etc. At the end of the day, you have different works coming from different people with no Slenderman 'bible'.

There is quite a bit known about Slenderman actually, you can't really say he just 'follows' people. Some works emphasize certain aspects over the others, and some others have introduced new aspects entirely, but things such as camera distortion, the operator symbol, etc.

It's incongruent to say 'well he's just a guy following people so anything is ok'. Not true at all.

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Slendery wrote:
YouWillLeadUs wrote:
Bartok wrote:

You guys are so dense. Sure TT, EMH, and DH are three separate stories, but when these guys crossover with each other, they're only crossing over a small bit of information, be it Dr. Corenthal or The Order. The rest is suspension of disbelief, and for the most part there's nothing to be pissy about. So what if their Slender Men don't match, they're not supposed to because one it's not important to the crossover, Mary Asher and the cult are, and two, IT DOESN'T MATTER. Slender Man is not supposed to have a defined origin or explanation, that would ruin him, each series has its own take on his origin, but in the end, SLENDER MAN IS FUCKING SLENDER MAN. All that matters to the series with Slender Man in conjunction with one another is that he is there, that's it. Beyond that is up to them, but it all boils down to Slender Man's interpretation, because it is all relative. The crossover was great, you guys are just trying to tell them how to run their series and I think that's pretty damn disrespectful.


I'm dense, thanks. I was (calmly, I might add) saying that it doesn't make sense to me. Saying "Slenderman is Slenderman" isn't really saying anything.
And yeah, I get that they each have an interpretation on him because he's such a broad character. But it's just weird to me to try to see them both existing in one universe. It's like having Twilight crossover with Dracula or something and some of the vampires burn in the sun and some of them don't. Bad example, but that's what it feels like.


That's not just a bad example, it's a horrible one. Dracula, and most other classic iconic horror figures for that matter like the Wolfman, have defined backstories and relatively known properties. This is not applicable to the Slender Man, because nothing is known about him, except that he is here and following people. That makes him unique in the sense that anyone can say anything about him, and yet he can be the same character in each series. It's that ambiguity that makes it all work.


The only reason I'm siding with the "there's only one slenderman, different interpretations" is because if there are more than one then they have to be related. And I cannot bear the image of mama slender tucking her slender babies to sleep.

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bgchaosdude wrote:

The only reason I'm siding with the "there's only one slenderman, different interpretations" is because if there are more than one then they have to be related. And I cannot bear the image of mama slender tucking her slender babies to sleep.


And now I've got that image stuck in my head.

"Papa Slendy, will you read us a bedtime story?"

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bgchaosdude wrote:

The only reason I'm siding with the "there's only one slenderman, different interpretations" is because if there are more than one then they have to be related. And I cannot bear the image of mama slender tucking her slender babies to sleep.


Have you seen the Phantasm films? There is more then one "Tall Man" in those films, but it is not because he reproduces. It is because he is a multidimensional being that works as one. When one dies another from a different dimension hops over to continue his work where the last left off. So the Slender Family scenario can safely be put behind you if you wanted to change your perspective on multiple Slender Men.

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