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[HunterEris]

 Adding to the Mythos

[Wolfloner]

Marble Hornets doesn't acknowledge other stuff because it was first, I think.

Anyway, I think it really depends on HOW it's done. I've seen things that have given Slender Man a mouth, but did it in a way that it didn't seem off.

There was talk early on (and I think also in more recent threads somewhere), about how maybe Slendy appears differently to different people. For example, the suit is part of his attempt to draw us in. We instinctively thing of men in suits as men in power, and generally that we can trust them. However, if Slendy was stalking someone who didn't trust in suited men (or in a culture that didn't have suits or held different concepts of suits), then him being in a different outfit wouldn't be out of place.

But to keep myself from rambling about this, I'll just iterate that it probably depends on how it's done. Changing just one thing, if done poorly, can translate as "one thing too many". On the other hand, not developing the mythos at all is also frowned upon. It's a balance.

I seem to have rambled anyway, sorry.

((on that note, I like the idea of Slendy at least attempting to communicate with us at a level we can understand. But I imagine that he is so vastly different than us that it might be difficult. *shrug*))

[SolDL]

How much is too much? Go search for the slenderblog Breaker sometime. But the thing about genres is, once a limit is established, interdictions are not far behind. The Mythos is always being added to and subverted.

[HunterEris]

Thanks for the advice here, I'm sure it will help.

Just read the first two posts of Breaker and my thoughts can be summed up as follows: O.o

EDIT: Just finished and I will not be going far enough as to say that Slendy is possible to kill. I like him untouchable. Also, I think the background of that blog has damaged my eyes...

[ZorakRamone]

The answer you're looking for is on this page:

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Slenderman