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[Tyran]

[chaos]

[Fenrirwulf]

I like the idea that he's a "fairy", more specifically, an unseelie(sp?) fae.

[Tyran]

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3150591&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=44

Decided to post this for the sake of posterity.

Look around the earlier pages, Slendermans VERY FIRST appearence is over there. Guy named "Victor Surge" was the first to make him, I think aroung pages 4 to 6.

The whole thread eventually turned into one giant Slenderman fest.

[morscata12]

Although it would give us a lot more material to work with, I agree with the idea that we should leave other Slenderman interpretations out of our work with Marble Hornets. Several of the SA stories are contradictory in how they treat SM, and as someone pointed out, SM was never explicitly named as such in MH. Still, there's no harm in us calling him Slenderman. It simplifies things, as we have some connection to the concept of SM anyway.

Here are some attributes we can agree on: supernatural entity, has a knack for stalking/following,extremely quiet when he moves, can move both quickly and slowly, and is very tall/lanky.

My guess is that he is like It, where his body is the avatar of some interdimensional being who needs something (such as fear) from humans. His face is an undistinguishable blur because it is his window into our dimension, and what we are seeing when we view that face is his true form.

[El_Smacko]

As I said before, I believe Slenderman is an entity that feeds off of or at least has a profound affect on psychic energies. Those who are exposed to him or in his presence suffer from illness, memory loss, and uncontrollable anxiety. I also believe that Slenderman may "feed" of off fear or psychic/psychological disturbance he causes, or at least that causing this disturbance is in someway pleasing to him or intentional. That said, supernatural beings of this nature or often ineffable in their aims or goals. Slenderman is not human, and we should not assume much about him.

I also believe the obsessiveness, madness, and mental disturbance experienced by his "victims" is not mind control. At least not in the sense of possession or puppetry. As evidenced by his affect on electronic equipment, Slenderman is a creature who's presence has a profound effect on the world around him, specifically electromagnetic and psychic fields and energies. As such, I believe the bizarre behaviour seen in Masky, Alex, et al is a result of madness induced by this disturbance.

However, I do not believe Slenderman is one to directly control people, or amass armies or servants. Again, he is an inhuman thing, with no conceivable need or desire for complex plans, schemes, servants or ceremonies. We should not apply such inherently human desires to him.

As I said in my other post, I believe Slenderman is not entirely unlike the creatures and things seen in the works of HP Lovecraft, whom I highly recommend.

[chaos]

[Six]

[TheAtroxious]

Lovecraft for the win. Yeah, I like that idea too, mainly because Lovecraft's creatures were all just doing their own thing. They weren't villains as it were, because they did not exactly intend harm upon humans (well, most of them). They just existed on another level, and disregarded other beings, just as we disregard things such as insects.

But I still think the fairy idea is awesome. Mostly because I just love to write horror/fantasy stories centered around the fey. I actually got into the slender man thing looking to cure a bout of writer's block. So wouldn't that be entertaining?

See, this is exactly why I tell myself I should watch Fringe. Unfortunately for me, I just do not like watching television most of the time.

[chaos]

[Didz]

Apparently somewhere on the SA forum (I think maybe in the source code for the SM thread) there's a message that mentions that SM is more likely to occur when you search for him, this disturbs him or something along those lines. I'll try and find it, I found it on another forum.

[Didz]

FOUND IT!!!!

Says it was posted in the SA IRC:

<Followed> Is there anyone active in this channel?
<Followed> I can only hope that someone finds this and relays it to the rest of you. I no longer have any illusions about how regularly I am able to do anything any more.
<Followed> Someone I have been in contact with regularly about this issue told me about what you were doing here, and I don't think you understand at all what that is.
<Followed> Please, take this seriously, this is of the gravest importance to you all.
<Followed> The man pictured in these videos is not a man at all, as you have surely suspected.
<Followed> He has taken almost two years of my life now, and I do not see myself having much more time. I cannot go on this way much longer.
<Followed> One of the response videos called him Slenderman, but he has been called by another name for many years now, the earliest we have found was from the 17th century.
<Followed> Th
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<Followed> ake
<Followed> You MUST know: This will not end well, if you continue to discuss him, even thinking about him can put you in harms way.
<Followed> HE COMES WHEN HE IS CALLED.
<Followed> In the name of anything you hold sacred at all, STOP NOW. He CAN hear you.
<Followed> He does not want anything from you. He will not harm an adult. But every adult we know of who has seen him once ends up hurting themself.
<Followed> All of us seem destined to that end sooner or later. The process is progressive, and cannot be reversed. In rare cases, it can be arrested for periods of time, but never permanently.
<Followed> The human mind simply will not let the idea of something like this go, and this obsession is what calls to him.
<Followed> Our best theories are that being called disturbs him, and children, having the most active imaginations, cause the most distress.
<Followed> People who hear of him, look for him. People who look for him, find evidence of him. People who find evidence of him eventually see him. People who see him, see him again and again, closer and closer. Some of us have heard him.
<Followed> We don't know at what point this process can be stopped, how far someone goes before they are certain to be followed for the rest of their lives.
<Followed> All of us try sooner or later to forget about him, with varying success. Maybe some are able to do it forever. That's our hope for those we stop hearing from. Naive as it may seem, the alternative as an absolute is too demoralizing a thought.
<Followed> I will almost certainly be visited tonight when I try to sleep. After this much time, he hears me too clearly now for me to delude myself otherwise. But if I have convinced any of you, maybe my soul can rest easier knowing that I have spared you this torture.
<Followed> One last time: PLEASE, for your own sake, and ESPECIALLY IF ANY OF YOU ARE PARENTS- Discontinue the search for the "Slender Man." You will not find him, but he will absolutely find you if you persist.
<Followed> May God bless you all.

http://aaspforum.com/showthread.php?tid=7572&page=1

1st page about 6 posts down.

[TheAtroxious]

Damn it, how does one access the IRC channel, anyhow? I've been trying for a while, but I get nothing. Just an empty room.

I'm inclined to call gamejack. Just because of the mention of the Rake. The story of the Rake seemed to be more akin to a Pickman's Model takeoff, and was an inspiration for SM, not the original.

[El_Smacko]

[Didz]

I did read the Rake creepy pasta and agree with you about the Gamejack. It does mention it on the thread I found it on. I thought I'd put it up incase it was found to be useful