Slender Man (Creepypasta)

## Evil-Doer

* Mainstream
* Original Mythos
* Possible True Form

Influence people into becoming his proxies. (Both Ongoing; Sometimes Succeeded, Sometimes Failed)

### Hobby:

Kidnapping, tormenting, brainwashing, stalking, and murdering people.

### Crimes:

Mass Murder
Stalking
Brainwashing
Torture
(Physical & Psychological)
Kidnapping
Animal Cruelty
Mutilation
Enslavement
Psychological Abuse
Man-Eating
Theft
Homicide
Harassment
Assault & Battery

### Type of Villain:

Mind-Breaking Stalker

The **Slender Man** (alternatively spelled as **Slenderman**) is an Internet urban legend that debuted on the SomethingAwful forums in 2009, and since become the titular main antagonist of it's own mythos series.

He is an enigmatic creature resembling a faceless man in a black suit with tentacles which terrorizes, abducts and murders people, often children. In many versions of the legend, he will impale captured victims on tree branches, either symbolically or saving them for later skinning and consumption. The Slender Man is often interpreted as having an army of Proxies; humans who are being controlled by him and obey his commands.

He is widely recognized as a sort of pop culture icon and also a somewhat controversial figure, considered a prime example of a Creepypasta villain at its best, being featured in many fictional stories around the web. The Slender Man's motivations vary depending on the version, but the original has him as a monster that despises humanity and takes pleasure in sadistically torturing them before devouring them. A small group of people believe that he is real and have reported sightings from diverse locations.

## Appearance:

One of the fundamental issues facing Slender Man investigators is the fact his appearance is subjective, with reports varying from area to area. This often comes down to cultural bias, with the observer projecting his fears into the sighting and blurring his recollections.

However, the widely agreed upon appearance is of a pale, emaciated male figure, with a height of between seven and nine feet tall, and no facial features. Though some claim he can change his height and that his face is "ever-changing", difficult to focus on.

The figure is often described as wearing a black suit with black or red tie. The original mythos claim that is just his most recent look and that he always makes sure to look like a deformed version of the current elite class; in past, he was appearing as a knight, priest, etc. That said, this was once contradicted by a story claiming the Slender Man was wearing his suit and tie back in Martin Luther's times.

The original mythos portrayed the Slender Man as actually possessing a face, though an extremely decayed, unhuman one, like if made from clay mold. He actually had a mouth, which was often twisted into a smile, though he lacked eyes and any other facial features were nonexistent.

### Appendages

One of the more unusual aspects of the Slender Man's appearance is the description of other appendages or limbs in reported sightings. They are nigh-universally portrayed as tentacles, though the origin mythos claimed they are actually just bonus arms, though boneless, "snake-like" and with too many elbow joints, being compared to ropes in appearance. These appendages are only visible under certain conditions and the Slender Man can use them for mobility or as weapons.

## Powers & Skills:

The Slender Man has a highly varied arsenal of supernatural powers and abilities. He is immortal, having lived for at least eleven thousand years without end, and any wounds inflicted on him instantly heal.

Detrimental contaminants such as disease, pathogens, viruses, and bacteria are harmless to him, and he is also unaffected by poisons, toxins, venom, allergens, alcohol, drugs, and radiation. The Slender Man also seems to be immune to fire. Few, if any works in the mythos - and none in the original ones - have portrayed a definitive method of harming or defeating the Slender Man, and his victims usually survive by fleeing or psychologically conditioning themselves to ignore the Slender Man’s presence.

He can change and warp reality itself through various means, appearing to teleport matter. Although he sometimes crawls on his tendrils or far less commonly walks on his two legs, the Slender Man's primary means of movement is through teleportation – Slender Walking.

This technique involves altering quantum mechanics, making him omnipresent until locked in one place when someone sees him.

Looking at the Slender Man causes negative effects, such as pain, disease, nausea, and technological disruption, although this is inconsistent and has led to the belief that the Slender Man can choose not to affect certain victims. He can also move himself and others through time. Slender Man can apply a deadly disease to victims known as the Slender Sickness. Effects include nosebleeds, nausea, amnesia, mental/emotional instability, diarrhea, vomiting, and constant pain. Slender Man's aura can also apply insomnia and the effects of contaminants like alcohol, drugs, and venom.

Owing to his quantum and metaphysical nature, the Slender Man can create limitless manifestations, avatars, and copies of itself across existence. This allows him to track down multiple victims at once, tormenting a single victim or a group of adjacent victims. He can also appear on other worlds, timelines, and periods. Slender Man can also manipulate his perceptibility, only visible in certain conditions or only appearing to certain individuals. His mere presence can alter the temperature to his likeness, and he can emit radiation, usually Sigma radiation, for various effects.

Not even dreams are safe from the faceless boogeyman, as the Slender Man can freely enter and edit the dreams of others, as well as communicate with them telepathically. He can downright make victims his slaves through hypnosis, convince them of his goodwill through indoctrination and brainwashing, or make them do his bidding using mind control. He has shown the ability to adjust or wipe memories, controlling emotions and feelings, and create illusions, with physical illusions having the ability to interact with the real world, making others suffer hallucinations. He can additionally link his mind with people and have them witness his atrocities as if they were the ones comitting them.

The mythos usually refers to victims under the Slender Man's control or influence as Proxies. These usually receive special abilities by the Slender Man, enhanced physical characteristics and a regenerative healing factor. Most Proxies can also cast illusions.

The Slender Man can turn intangible to phase through surfaces. In addition to just his two arms, the Slender Man can generate himself far more appendages: including more arms but also tentacles, tendrils, legs, and petiole. These appendages are exceptionally strong and can function as spears that can stab through reinforced metal. They can even crack space-time itself. The entity can freely change his body and change form, shape, and size.

He can flawlessly mimic voices as well as receive the abilities of anything he turns into, and the memories of any individual he turns into. The Slender Man can also turn his into armor, and somehow even into a tree. A form the Slender Man has commonly used is a multi-armed skeleton.

In addition to himself, thr Slender Man can even transform others; he can turn people into the fog with but a gesture or mutate people or turn them into Proxies. The Slender Man's primary offensive abilities include pyrokinesis (normal, green, and blue flames), and immunity to it, electrokinesis, umbrakinesis, and green explosive energy blasts, streams of which can flood a town.

The Slender Man can create earthquakes and manipulate the weather, such as making it rain, snow, hail, or storm, and have lightning strike down or to conjure up gusts of wind. Slender Man can also use telekinesis to move objects with his mind alone and make others cough up blood. Using technopathy, Slender Man can take control of technology. He can also possess others. The Slender Man's "helpful" abilities include prolonging death, reducing pain, resurrecting the dead, applying morphine with his stare or a gesture, or just making you completely unable to age.

More complicated abilities of Slender Man include space and time manipulation, the ability to alter time perception by shunting others through a private dimension, probability manipulation, causality manipulation, and the ability to create and modify custom worlds of his own, including mirror worlds.

The Slender Man's single most powerful ability so far portrayed is to cause the Dimensional Bleeding – an event that leeches off universes and dimensions, distorting, disrupting, and potentially even destroying them.

The mythos has derived the above abilities from various works, sources, and authors – the fact that anyone can give their spin to the character makes the Slender Man a highly inconsistent character. Authors may give the Slender Man more abilities or leave powers out. It is overall extremely difficult to pinpoint a true, "canon" Slender Man, aside from the original mythos for obvious reasons. Therefore, the mythos uses a composite template for these abilities, drawing from various sources that fans cannot confirm nor debunk as part of the continuity.

## Trivia:

* Slender Man's online fame originally spread from the Something Awful Forums, in an entry to a Photo Manipulation contest by a man named Victor Surge. Ever since the contest, Victor Surge started to create mini stories based on the character in which would later be known as "The Slenderman". Lots of people have created similar stories, ARGs (Vlogs and Blogs), video games, and short movies.
* *Marble Hornets* is another major early source of the Slender Man's stardom on the internet. In 2009, *Marble Hornets* became the first Alternative Reality Game to feature the Slender Man along with establishing and creating Proxies. Although this is the first Slender Man Vlog as well as ARG series, Marble Hornets does not feature The Slender Man, but an entity similar in appearance and abilities known as "The Operator". After the rise and popularity of the series, Many other ARG series (E.g. TribeTwelve, EveryManHybrid, DarkHarvest00, MLAndersen0, and CaughtNotSleeping) have been spawned ever since, and the Slender Man is featured in almost all.
* Slender Man has also inspired the Endermen of the *Minecraft* series, having many similarities such as impressive height and lanky arms, as well as their name.
* Slender Man has many online games inspired and based around him - however, the most notable (and recent) one is known as *Slender*, which has become extremely popular and some gamers are claiming it is "the scariest game ever". That version of the Slender Man has its own page.
* On August 17, 2011, the American dubstep-producer known as Skrillex, released his video for his song First of the Year (Equinox). A lot of people suggest that the creature seen in the song is Slender Man appearing behind of the little girl
* A movie named *Entity* was in development but was cancelled.
* Slender Man also appears in a *Team Fortress 2* mod Freak Fortress monster known as Slender Mann.
* Slender Man was in the Rap Battle By Unwanted Guest in the ANIMEME RAP BATTLE.
* Creatures named the Gentlemen from *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* are a possible influence on the Slender Man mythos.
* The Thin Guy set and Slendermog from *AdventureQuest Worlds* are based on Slender Man.
* SCP-582, also known as Bundle of Stories, from the *SCP Foundation*, was also based on Slender Man.
* Carl, a minor enemy from the video-game *Karamari Hospital*, was also based on Slender Man.
* **Siren Head**, an infamous modern urban-legend created by Canadian artist Trevor Henderson was inspired by the Slender Man.
* In *Total Drama All-Stars*, the Slender Man is seen in the episode "*Moone Madness*". After Cameron calls for help due to a bunny turning vicious by the blue moon, the next scene with Chris announcing a short break shows Slender Man in the top left monitor
* He also makes an appearance in *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*, in the episode "Pinkie Apple Pie".
* A version of Slender Man - called the Slender - appears in the game *Simulator*.
* The 2012 horror film *The Tall Man* is loosely based on Slender Man.
* He appeared as an Easter in *Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare* in the of Zomboss Estate. After the Tactical Taco Party DLC update, he can be eaten by Chomper.
* In many stories, Slender Man has an older brother named Splendorman, a younger brother named Sexual Offenderman, and a cousin named Trenderman.
* Although Slender Man is stated to be a man-eater, *how* he really eats people is beyond anyone's guess, given that he doesn't have a mouth at all.
* Slender Man appearance would serve as an inspiration for the anti-hero Cashis from the Giantess Team Epic Youtube Series.

## Gallery:

The original picture from Something's Awful forums.Slender Man's monstrous transformation.A physical acting portrayal of Slender Man.An analog horror-themed style of the Slender Man.