S

S

The Greatest of the Creepypastas (Photograph by Lucius B. Truesdell)

The **S** is an infamous tulpa of the forest in the Creepypasta mythos.

## Overview

S is a creature born from the Unconscious and human fear, theorized to have been born from the fear of their children's parents talking to strangers. Despite theorizing about his connection to He Who Waits Behind the Wall, S is a terribly scary monster in his own right. There are several reports of children who often met a very tall man, said to have no face, but who was very gentlemanly and kind to them. There are pictures of S next to children, always standing out for his enormous size, looking like a kind of guardian.

However, as stated earlier, S is probably the very anthropomorphic embodiment of the old parental fear, "don't trust or hang out with strangers". Many children who were seen with S mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind only drawings, usually of them with their family, with a tall, faceless man at their side. S is a eater of children, a killer of adults and a monster that dwells in the shadows of human fear.

S probably devours children to feed on their fears and traumas, in order to acquire more power to no longer need to manifest in individual physical forms and to be able to withdraw their spirit from the spiritual plane.

## Appearance

S has no physical form, as he is born from the human unconscious in the World of Forms. Its true most powerful form will be described as a vast darkness, filled with bloodshot eyes, full of tentacles sticking out, the size of Earth itself.

When manifesting in physical form, S appears as a tall man, dressed in butler clothing, with a pale, white face lacking a mouth, eyes, or even a nose. However, when alone in his haste, he reveals his large, massive, and toothy mouth.

## History

### Origin

While the S appears an ancient anomaly, it is known that he is merely a tulpa, a creature created from the beliefs of humans. He was created from the fear of children, on long car rides home they would see the trees of forests outside of their car window, sometimes making out a tall figure staring at them from the woods. This made him an urban legend among children and their parents, giving him a form and eventually a name; Gorr' Rylaehotep, Der Ritter, and most famously the S.

His association with Zalgo came about as he recieved the title of "Thief of the Gods" or "Thief of Kuk". In Lower Egypt, 3100 BCE, a multi armed figure was seen stealing something from what was viewed as the Egyptian god Set by the Pharaoh Wazner. This multi-armed entity was conflated with S and Set was conflated with Zalgo, since Zalgo was being worshiped under the name Set at the time. While this action was most likely malicious on the entities part, this created the belief that Zalgo and S were related in some fashion. Couple that with both entities being heavily associated with users on the Something Awful forums, and people started believing that S was created by Zalgo.

Reality often follows belief, and so belief became reality.

### Creation

The S was the first creation of the chaos god Zalgo to act as his agent within the Human Realm. While the S was supposed to be an avatar for Zalgo, he accidentally gave the entity something that separated him from his creator, free will. The S was still willing to act as an emissary for He Who Waits Behind The Wall however, and was sent to Earth to indoctrinate people into unwillingly serving Zalgo. Despite this, Zalgo still believes that the S will betray him one day, and on that day everything from demons to angels will scream in agonizing pain.

## Myths and Legends

Slender Man is a a fictional character created by Eric Knudsen (often using the pseudonym Victor Surge) for the Internet forum *Something Awful*. It became extremely popular, resulting in this figure being used in *Marble Hornets* and most famously the video game *Slender: The Eight Pages*. Slender Man himself is a copyrighted character, though as of November 1st, 2023 it's unknown who owns him, which resulted in many ripoffs being made including S for the *Gods and Demons wiki*.