The Figure

The creature known as the Figure is a shapeshifting entity from the Red Dimension. At some point, the Figure got into conflict with another entity, known by the inhabitants of Forest Lawn, as the Slenderman. Slenderman got killed during the confrontation and the Figure started to imitate the creature, by taking up its appearance. The Figure is known to act as a commander for the Vessels, which it recruits by utilising the radio tower. It operates within the Mine on Hills Grove, where it originally entered this reality through a black portal, known as a keyhole.

In 2010, the Figure wanted to lure Jack Evans back into Forest Lawn, so it could transform him into the host of the Eyeless Reaper, as it had intended two decades ago. When Jack's fiancée, Kate Moore, returned to be with her dying mother, it sensed a perfect opportunity to bring Evans back to his hometown. The Figure sent out the Vessels to commit various tasks, which lead to a wide range of police reports about masked assailants throughout Forest Lawn. The Figure’s actions wouldn’t go unnoticed, however. The shadow organisation known as the Men in Black, who believed it to be the Slenderman, were actively working to neutralize the Figure. They reached up to Anthony Wells, a childhood friend of Evans, and Moore to destroy the radio tower and the mine. The Figure killed Wells and took Moore under his control before they could finish their objective. When Jack arrived, he allied himself with Detective Kent and Seargent Norris to find Moore. Eventually, MIB representative C.R. would pass Well’s mission to the three. The party managed to destroy the mine, with Evans sacrificing himself in the process. However, Evans survived the explosion and was retrieved by the Figure, who finally bonded him with the mask of the Reaper.

In 2018 the Figure stalked and manipulated the troubled Tobias Adams, with the goal to gain his trust and loyalty. When the Figure revealed to Adams, that his sister was murdered by his stepfather, the boy proceeded to furiously murder both of his parents. Adams was committed to Pinehearst, but eventually managed to escape. The Figure now fully possessing Adam’s trust, disappeared with the boy into the woods.

## Appearance

The figure / Slenderman is a 30+ foot tall entity that has black serpent like limbs stretching out from within it's back along with a pale emotionless face, other than that the entity for all intents and purposes is a very bland looking entity due to it lacking any human features and or any colour in it's overall appearance with his skin being made up of white and black colours.

## Personality

Through out the morgue files the entity appears in very few scenes, due to this the we only have a broad / Basic understanding of is what it's personality is like, other than that whenever the figure is on screen he is seen as a very imposing figure due to it's height and its faceless image and it's silence, however what we can gather from jack is that the figure is or can be very dedicated to getting what he wants, such is a good example when jack moved from Nevada all the way to Michigan (1,953.2 Miles), the figure also has a militant esque personality as seen with his confrontation with Anthony wells which lead to the figure snapping the former's neck.

in his scenes with Toby the entity is shown to be manipulative, much like widemouth, often taking advantage of distressed people and recruiting them into "His" hivemind to further spread "His" influence.

### Charlie Matheson incident - C. 1990

Two decades prior to case #3, the figure in an attempt to spread "his" influence takes control of a young Jack Evans who he leads to the mine on hills grove where "The Reaper Mask" is however before the figure can make Jack put on the mask, During the figure's control over Jack he makes him Speak in both Latin (For a large majority of the phrase.) and Spanish (For llega), which Translates to: "The Hive Mind Arrives".

### The Twins investigate the rumours - Early 1990's

some time during the 90's the twins (Tim and Brian) go to the mine on hills grove to see if the rumors / stories they were told by jack Evans were true, they were confirmed to be true when the figure appeared out of the red portal and confronts the twins, Brian asks him "People Keep Disappearing in this place, where do you take them?", the figure replies "I'll show you."

### A Girl Named Sally - 2000

The figure's only appearance in case #4 is during Sally's nightmare where The Figure and The Slenderman are fighting which results in the demise of the Slenderman and The Figure being able to masquerade as him from then on.

### Anthony's Session With Dr. Wilson - April 17th, 2010

During the end of Anthony Wells' first session with Dr. Wilson, The Figure could be heard interfering with the tapes signals.

### The Mine On Hills Grove - 2010

During the first scene that we see him in, the figure can be heard telling jack to come back to him ("Return to me my child") over Kate's television, The next scene that he is in we see / hear the figure as well as Tim reeves (who had just "Sold" Anthony and Kate out to the figure) and during the end moments of the scene the figure snaps Anthony's neck and stages it as a suicide.

As Soon as the footage of Anthony's death ends the figure begins to interfere with the recording, stating to jack (And possibly Kent and Norris) that he / they should have stayed away and now that they have interfered with the coming of "him" they will bare the consequences and die.

in the final scenes of Case #3, Jack and The Figure barely escape the destruction of the mine and go to an unknown location where The Figure can bond the mask to Jack's face.

### The Blood Red Sky - November, 2018

During, this case the first time the figure makes appearance is when Tobias recounts his dream (Something to do with the Red), telling Wilson that he saw the silhouette of a man on a hill and that his black-serpent like limbs were stretching out towards him.

The next time we see or hear the figure get mentioned is when Tobias tells wilson that the figure was stalking him again from the woods, the figure is then mentioned again when Tobias has another nightmare where he realised that he was the one holding the blood covered hatchets.

After the scene of Tobias' nightmare, The Figure appears once more when Tobias is in the bathroom in the cinema, telling him "Come to me", again after this scene the figure appears after Tobias and Danny part way and the figure begins calling Danny's name to lure him to the mine on hills grove and his eventual demise, later the figure reappears when Tobias finds Danny's Body and quotes the figure as the following: "I saw the figure standing over him...watching me, even without eyes it's always watching...".

The figure appears again (Albeit within Tobias' Head) in the scene where Tobias is getting beat by JC, the figure tells him that he wants to help him and show him the truth, Tobias also notes that the figure doesn't move like normal people do rather glitching or phasing in and out of our reality (Due to jack blowing the mine up), he then goes on to show Tobias the truth that he promised (What happened to Millie), upon Tobias seeing and reliving the day of which millie died he doubts the authenticity of it which leads to the figure telling Tobias that he would never lie to him and that he deserved to know the truth.

By the time Tobias' mother gets home the figure tells him to do what must be done (Kill Evelyn), Tobias is then told to go kill Frank, after Jeff's attack on Wilson and Sean Tobias runs into the forest with the figure presumably going on to do the "More Work" that had to be done.

## Appearances

#### The Morgue Files:

* Case #1: The Blood Red Sky (S1: E1)
* Case #2: Jeff The Killer (S1: E2) (mentioned)
* Case #3: The Mine on Hills Grove (S1: E3)
* Case #4: A Girl Named Sally (S1: E4) (flashback; vision and mentioned)