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[Staabula]

Slenderman is Pennywise?

[SickSlickMan]

We aaaaall float down here...and when you join us...you'll float too.

[sje46]

I was actually thinking about this. They do have strong simularities, although with important differences. The MO is a lot different. Pennywise is a lot more vocal and noticeable, purposely harrassing the kids everyway he can. Slendy simply stands there, stalking, which I think better reflects paranoia. Also, Pennywise started harrassing them when they came back to Derry as adults specifically to fight him.

Pennywise isn't really a clown, it turns out he is

[jdsherrer]

Interesting. I see SM as some sort of hunter but in order to take his prey he needs to weaken them. Thus the stalking and fear. I have also been wondering if there are not certain types of children He goes after.

I have had an odd thought that may fit into his motives:

[Not!Doctor]

I actually couldn't stop thinking that, too, since I read the book after I first discovered the Slender Man mythos. It makes sense if you consider that a lot of the newer blogs hold that Slendy is a tulpa of sorts, created from our own fear. You have to remember, though, that Pennywise (or, more properly, "It") wasn't always a clown. It changed its form depending on what would terrify its victim more. That's why it went after kids - kids are usually scared of concrete things like monsters, unlike adults, who develop different fears like losing a loved one and economic failure, etc. So if It is using a Slender Man form, it only makes sense that he would go after college kids - maybe they're more likely to be into the mythos than other groups. And why go after the ones willing to record their experiences? Others will discover it and get afraid themselves, of course. And the cycle continues. (Wasn't there something about a cycle in It? There was in The Stand, but maybe not It, I can't recall right now)

Wow, wall of text. Sorry. tl;dr it makes sense.

[Staabula]

[Not!Doctor]