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[Slendery]

I definitely want to see more tentacles. EMH kinda unofficially was the first vlog to have them, but Tribe Twelve really made them visible and awesome. Slendy just standing there is cool, but Slendy standing there with tentacles flailing...THAT'S EPIC.

I made a gif for lulz.

[SkyLarkin]

Re: I could do this all day

[NoMoreGaems]

[ChildOfAtom]

[5_pak]

[Snippet]

Well, there are ways to "end" your Slenderstory without the character ending up dead/insane and/or "kill" Slendy. My first thought was: Why not let the character find some way to push Slendy back into his realm/dimension/whatev. This would make your character survive, and other stories can still use our Slender friend, because he just could have escaped from his realm/dimension/whatev.

I would really like to see a story end up like this or in a similar way.

The "Zombies/Vampires are killed an still there are stories about them" doesn't work for me, though, because Slender Man is kind of unique (again, for me), whereas there are many, many zombies, vampires, werewolfs and the like (because they can reproduce, which Slendy - hopefully - can't)
Apart from that, I just don't like the idea of multiple Slendys, thought that would make the "kill one, there are still some left to use in args/cf" possible

[ChildOfAtom]

[Aperion]

Good to see this is still going strong

[Aperion]

[Volcanic]

Re: I could do this all day

[Unwanted4Murder]

I disagree with the people saying that Slender Man shouldn't be killed... if he's killed, why wouldn't he be able to come back in another ARG? After all, in the universe of another ARG if the other ARG got mentioned at all it would probably be as a work of fiction... not the "real" Slender Man.

[TheAnswer42]

First time poster, recent lurker, and only recently got in to the mythos, so pardon any mistakes etc.

I like the idea of there being multiple slendermen both relating to the stories and on the meta level.

Within the stories, multiple slendermen could help explain things or add a whole new level of complexity to the character or even the story itself. Maybe he isn't teleporting, maybe he just has friends.

On the meta level, it adds a lot of leeway, I think, in the creation of the stories. I agree that killing off the monster is just as important as establishing his existence. While I don't think one should be killed in all, I just don't like the idea of some all encompassing invincible evil. Otherwise, every story is in sense futile, as we know Slendy will just win anyway.

I have a few ideas of something I want a do, and even read this thread just to see what would be good to do. I hate emulating stories, always have, so I want to do something different.

[RatheadSyndicate]

Disagree about the multiSlender thing. One of the most frightening things about him is his solitude. I don't want to know that he is one of a species, or a tribe, or a community, because that makes sense, and I don't want Slenderman to make sense. I don't want him to teleport or to be in multiple places at once or to time travel or to help people or to hurt people or to punish people because all of those things make sense. The most sense you can apply to Slenderman is that he is malevolent, dangerous, and FUCKING SCARY. Anything else muddies the water.

The analogy of Lovecraft's take on his mythos versus the take of Clark Ashton Smith and other second-wave Cthulhians is an apt one. Lovecraft introduced monsters, told you almost nothing about them, and then told you that you couldn't comprehend them, that they wanted to kill and/or drive people insane, and that they were coming for you. Smith and others invented elaborate mythology around these monsters that rationalized them and made them understandable, acceptable, sane. That's simply a bad idea.

[SolDL]

Kinda like what Rathead said...I don't really like the 'glimmer of hope' idea. I think that critically misunderstands what makes the Slendy stories so great. Slendy is more Nyarlathotep than Wolfman; part of the fear is that sense of complete, cosmic inevitability. It's the fear someone feels for a few seconds when they're skydiving and their parachute falls off in mid-air. That we are able to beat him, that we can even comprehend HOW to beat him, would ruin it for me. That's kinda why...What was that one where the kid carved a sword out of a Slenderman's bones? Well, that sucked, and this is one of the reasons why.

I think I'd like to see a Slenderman story that doesn't show Slenderman for a long, long time, which focuses more on the psychological aspect of it. Seeing Slenderman just kinda chilling in the background of every shot has lost a bit of its fear factor. I'd like to see Slendy only appear once the atmosphere has been established somehow, and I'd like his appearance to be more than just 'sup guys i'm here now.' Like, maybe a Wham episode where he finally comes out, tentacles flying.

I'd like to see more characters like Zeke, too. Very savvy, and able to dodge Slendy. I mean, Zeke's absolutely fucked, but I think the fact that he tries to fight it in his own way, just brings him so high in my eyes. The EMH guys have started it too, with Ashen Waste. "Gun it."

[NoMoreGaems]

You people seem to be forgetting that the chief strength of Slenderman is his adaptability and lack of origin. Since when is Slenderman a cosmic inevitability?
What if I say Slenderman is the spirit of a long dead cult leader, hence the interest he's had in kidnapping children? The fires are, after all, his method of recreating the circumstances of his death.
Or how about the fact that the so-called "slenderman" is in fact a manner of advanced recon scout produced by extra-terrestrial intelligences, designed based on the images they've found of our culture, sent out to learn more about humans, hence the dissecting victims and leaving their organs in bags inside them.
Hell, maybe Slenderman isn't any of that, maybe he's a powerful psychic, mutated Akira-style by his powers, who now follows others and leeches their memories off to support himself. Unfortunately, while he can erase memories of himself, he can't erase his image on video...
Slenderman isn't a character from a literary work, he's not a mythological figure with thousands of years of history, he's barely a few years old and based entirely around whatever the author thinks would be scariest or most interesting for their story. It's people like you who kill creativity in Slenderman stories, leading to concerns like ChildOfAtom's, that all he has in him is psychological cosmic horror stories. He really doesn't.