Slender Man

* Default form
* True form

### Goals

* Use human perspectives to help further his goals by having them research him and spread his influence (ongoing).
* Grow his power and influence by allying with the Phantom Reapers (succeeded).

## Characteristics

### Species

* Tulpa
* Personification of Evil

### Powers / Abilities

* Evil embodiment
* Fear embodiment
* Death empowerment
* Fear empowerment
* Immortality
* Invulnerability
* Genius-level intellect
* Leadership
* Virokinesis
* Stealth mastery
* Camouflage
* Shapeshifting
* Megethoskinesis
* Tentacle appendages
* Teleportation
* Telepathic speaking
* Selective visibility
* Mentokinesis
* Pyrokinesis
* Voice mimicry
* Electronic distortion
* Nightmare inducement
* Hallucination inducement
* Fear inducement
* Manipulation
* Intimidation
* Psychological torturing skills
* Omnilingualism

## Professional status

### Occupation

* Embodiment of Fear and Death
* Urban legend
* Leader of the Proxies
* "Benefactor" of the Phantom Reapers

## Relationships

### Family

* Cain (indirect creator)
* Humanity (indirect creators)

### Minions

* Proxies

	+ Masky
	+ Hoodie
	+ The Chaser
	+ Charlie Matheson Jr.

### Others

	+ Herobrine
	+ Israphel
	+ Sonic.exe
	+ Pinkamena Diane Pie
	+ Rainbow Factory Dash
	+ Lil Miss Rarity
	+ Rogue
	+ Jeff the Killer
	+ Ticci-Toby
	+ Eyeless Jack
	+ Bloody Painter
	+ BEN
	+ Nina the Killer
	+ Laughing Jack
	+ Clockwork
	+ Sally Williams
	+ Jane the Killer
	+ Judge Angels
	+ Lazari
	+ Lulu
	+ Smile Dog
	+ Zero
	+ Puppeteer
	+ Suicide Sadie
	+ Nurse Ann
	+ Seed Eater
	+ The Rake
	+ Kagekao
	+ Dr. Smiley

## Other

### Headcanon voice actor

David Near

"*Don't look... or it takes you.*"
— A common phrase associated with Slender Man, as well as the writing on one of his infamous pages.

"*Very well. I shall hereby declare this alliance official. You will provide me with the adequate dread and mortal quietus I desire to strengthen me and weave my influence further into reality, and in turn, I will provide you with fresh faces to add to your... collection.* However*, if you end up becoming a loose end to tie up and become of no standing purpose to me... **then you most certainly will*** **die***.*"
— Slender Man establishing an alliance with the Phantom Reapers.

The **Slender Man** is a recurring antagonist in the *Universal Rift* series.

He is an infamous urban legend and folkloric paranormal figure throughout recorded history, the leader of a group of deranged, cult-like followers and killers known as the Proxies and the "benefactor" of the Phantom Reapers.

Originating from thousands of years ago, Slender Man is a manifestation of the mark of Cain after the human of the same name was marked by God for the sin of killing his brother. As the decades past, Slender Man would begin to manifest as a glitch in the universe through the mark of Cain and the evil in Cain's heart, simultaneously manifesting from him and running on a tulpatic existence through humanity's belief in him. With his status as a figure embodying the fear of the unknown established, Slender Man's legend would spread throughout history and into the modern era, striving to spread his influence in a selfish bid to learn the secrets of his origins so he can rest.

## Roles

Slender Man serves as the overarching antagonist of *The Creepy Files* and a supporting protagonist in *Spawn*.

## Personality

"*♪Slender Man, Slender Man,
All the children try to run.
Slender Man, Slender Man,
To him it's part of the fun.♪*"
— An excerpt from the iconic Slender Man song.

Mysterious, silent and calculatingly sadistic, Slender Man is an enigma to most who are aware of him - his presence being enough to instil terror in the hearts of mortals. By all accounts from those who have been stalked by him and have lived to tell the tale, as well as the fact that he is the manifestation of fear, death and the evil of a murderous human's heart, Slender Man is cruel, malevolent, cutthroat and extremely dangerous, conducting the slaughter of humans since his creation and taking pleasure in watching them slowly suffer emotionally before they lose themselves to either death or their own madness. During the course of his existence, Slender Man has adapted to different behavioural patterns to maximise efficiency of furthering his goals.

Slender Man's behaviour flip-flops between acting extremely aggressively and in a completely inhuman manner by impaling his victims on trees and removing their organs for all to see or act in a more passive-aggressive manner, relying on inducing mental stress, paranoia and sickness as his victims go mad, although either tactic works for him as they both serve his overarching goal in different ways. Slender Man will stalk his victims for a varying period of time, lasting days, weeks, months, years or even decades. Even when he isn't primarily attacking his victims' minds, he still deals great psychological damage and induces paranoia in his victims simply by watching and chasing them. Slender Man is a highly skilled hunter, preferring to strike when his victims are sitting comfortably in and without anticipation of his arrival.

Slender Man possesses no empathy or compassion for anyone, not even his own followers. While he doesn't hate them, he views humans as mere puppets to use in the pursuit of his own selfish goals to discover where he came from and has no problem with traumatising millions with his image and displaying the carnage he's wrought upon the earth, possessing a significant detachment from the emotions of humanity, nor can he be swayed by people, even his followers acting emotional to get a response out of him. Even when "comforting" other creatures like him such as Lazari, Slender Man remains unemotional and unempathetic to a T.

Owing to his intelligence, Slender Man is highly manipulative, fostering alliances through brainwashed pawns by preying on their weakened mental states after emotionally wearing them down to their lowest point and subsequently taking advantage of them for his own gain. He requires little in terms of needing to intimidate or threaten his proxies to keep them in line, only needing to rely on his deceptive tactics to ensnare them into being held in his possessive grasp. Any proxies that aspire to leave the group are met with threats and further mind manipulation from the Faceless King and, if they keep pushing for departure, death.

For all his malice, what Slender Man seeks is not death or despair, but rather knowledge on his own existence, having shown the willingness to sift through all of creation just to find out how he came to be. While cementing itself as an understandable motivation, Slender Man's goals are rooted in a self-centred selfishness due to his disregard for everyone else around him and the amount of pain he is willing to inflict on thousands of innocent human beings just to grow stronger and expand his influence to further research into his origins.

Not withstanding his cruel, calculating and malevolent nature, Slender Man is capable of forming alliances with other beings, whether they be mortals or mystical entities, such as his alliance with the Phantom Reapers by himself to the death they cause and the fear they generate to grow his power and influence. Despite allying with them, he possesses no true care for them and despite not acting as a superior towards the leaders of the group, he will still talk down to them and if he feels the need to, sternly, if he is displeased. The only people he can appreciate are his proxies for their undying loyalty towards him.

Slender Man has rarely displayed a softer, more peaceful side to his personality that admires the fleeting beauty of nature; a factor that contributes to his desire to mimic trees and shift into encompassing more tree-like features and textures.

## Appearance

"*ALWAYS WATCHES. NO EYES.*"
— One of Slender Man's infamous pages summarizing his face.

Slender Man is an ever-changing entity who is capable of taking many different forms that he's used throughout his thousands of years of life, mimicking the environment around him to find a suitable form he can use to mask his true appearance and get away with slinking around locations to stalk, abduct and kill people by adapting to his surroundings. Slender Man's primary form taken in the modern day and starting around the mid/late 19th century appears as an impossibly tall, thin, male-looking humanoid standing at heights ranging between 7 to 15 feet with chalk white skin and wearing a black suit, white shirt, black tie, pants and shoes. In some cases, Slender Man's appearance shifts into adapting to become more tree-like, with his clothes looking like bark and seemingly merging into his skin.

Slender Man's true form appears similarly structured to his "faceless pale man in a suit" persona, materialising as a tall, thin humanoid figure with a blank face, but completely black in colour and possessing a shadowy, ink-like body with stringy, wispy tentacles sprouting from his back, with similar fingers on his hands in addition to being long, thin and almost bony. He also lacks feet and the end of his legs appear to merge into the ground.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Tulpa physiology**: Slender Man is an entity known as a "tulpa"; a thought-form-esque being born from the collective consciousness of humanity. As such, Slender Man is an entity that runs on a tulpatic existence through humanity's collective belief in him stemming from their fear of Cain as an avatar of death, first manifesting through the evil in his heart as what can only be described as a glitch in the universe, being the first ever tulpa to come into existence and paving the way for future tulpas to manifest.
	+ **Electronic distortion**: Slender Man has a bizarre effect on technology. Because of his otherworldly nature and supernatural presence, any technology within a close proximity of the Faceless King is subjected to varying degrees of distortion and corruption, often resulting in image and video files becoming heavily corrupted or electronic equipment flat-out malfunctioning and refusing to work. Slender Man is still able to be caught on camera as long as the photographer is far away enough for the device to not start glitching out.
	+ **Evil/fear embodiment**: As the manifestation of a curse placed on a human for the act of murder and beginning his manifestation through the fear people had of Cain as the first murderer, Slender Man embodies absolute evil and fear, and can exert control and influence over all that is evil.
		- **Death/fear empowerment**: Subsequently due to his nature as a being embodying fear and death, Slender Man becomes more powerful through acts of evil such as murder and being feared, and is even able to link himself to people who commit murders and generate fear, allowing him to further spread his influence. This was the entire reason he allied himself with the Phantom Reapers, as by linking himself with the group, he strengthens himself through the fear and death the group's members generate, almost akin to that of a parasitic connection.
	+ **Fear inducement**: Slender Man's mere presence is already enough to induce fear into people naturally, but the Faceless King can also induce fear into those who aren't too scared of him in the first place as long as they feel even someone unnerved by him, elevating their fear level until they're petrified of him.
	+ **Hallucination inducement**: Slender Man can inflict hallucinations on people to torment them and mentally break them down. The contents of Slender Man's hallucinations vary on both what the victim fears and what Slender Man chooses for them to see, such as his torment of Toby Rogers, making him hallucinate his dead sister Lyra to further his spiral into insanity and making him susceptible to listening to Slender Man's whispers to kill his father.
	+ **Immortality**: Slender Man is immortal and is able to exist indefinitely, possessing an infinite lifespan as a result of having been created thousands of years ago as a tulpatic personification of evil and thus, is completely unable to die through any means unless humanity stops believing in him, which would cause him to cease existing.
		- **Invulnerability**: As a manifestation of evil itself, Slender Man is blessed with complete and total invulnerability from all forms of damage. He cannot be injured through mortal means such as being stabbed, shot, poisoned or fatal temperatures, and even similarly powerful beings are incapable of landing a scratch on the Faceless King.
	+ **Mentokinesis**: Slender Man can manipulate and infiltrate peoples' minds in order to supernaturally sway them into being under his control. He is able to induce titanic amounts of mental pain in his victims just by tapping into their minds before assuming control over them, or simply to empower himself through his victims' fear. His manipulation of peoples' minds is how he's able to keep Masky and Hoodie specifically on his side, as their human/non-proxy sides are far more fearful and hateful towards the Faceless King.
		- **Virokinesis**: A subpower of his mind manipulation is his ability to induce a virus-like disease dubbed "Slender Sickness". Slender sickness is a term referring to those who suffer from harmful side effects after coming into contact with Slender Man. Common side effects include nosebleeds, extensive coughing, coughing up blood, nausea, vomiting, varying degrees of amnesia, radiation poisoning and sudden bursts of physical pain such as increasingly frequent muscle spasms. Slender Man utilises this sickness to further corrupt his victims' minds and send them further off the deep end until their mental state is vulnerable and fresh for the taking to be infiltrated.
	+ **Nightmare inducement**: Slender Man can induce nightmares in his victims to ensure that not even their dreams are safe from him. When he tormented Toby Rogers in order to mould him into a killer, he subjected the teenager to horrific nightmares displaying the ghostly visage of his deceased sister in a corpse-like state and incomprehensibly whispering to him.
	+ **Pyrokinesis**: Slender Man possesses a strong connection to fire, having used it countless times in the past to destroy buildings that he frequented to abduct children, such as nurseries, schools and churches. When in an enraged state, Slender Man will frequently summon fire to burn the surrounding area in order to make it more difficult for his victims to escape his clutches.
	+ **Selective visibility**: Slender Man has the ability to only appear to certain individuals, making himself invisible to most people aside from those he targets. This is how Slender Man is able to abduct children easily by appearing to them only and preventing adults from seeing him so they won't notice and draw attention to him. Despite this, Slender Man is able to still be visible by those who cannot see him when in this state through being photographed, as photographs are still capable of capturing his image. It is speculated that animals are also capable of detecting him in his selectively invisible state.
	+ **Shapeshifting**: Slender Man primarily shapeshifts into different physical forms when roaming the earth, preferring to take the form of a faceless, tall, chalk white-skinned humanoid in a black suit. Despite being able to shapeshift into as many forms as he wants, Slender Man only takes a handful of forms he genuinely enjoys using, such as a similarly tall, pale humanoid in tattered clothing for his form as "Der Großmann".
		- **Megethoskinesis**: Slender Man can alter his size at will, although most, if not all of his forms/incarnations are abnormally tall and thin. Slender Man himself typically appears to be around 7 to 15 feet tall and never seems to go any shorter.
	+ **Telepathic speaking**: Slender Man can audibly communicate telepathically through speaking to people through their minds. Slender Man typically talks to his victims through telepathically communicating with them, especially if they're in a public place. His telepathic communication is how he gets into his victims head and not already using his mind manipulating powers to mess with them, choosing this method to directly speak with them and make them more susceptible to his influence and manipulation. Slender Man can also telepathically speak to multiple people at once, typically doing the latter to groups of children before abducting them.
	+ **Teleportation**: One of Slender Man's most well-known abilities is the power of teleportation. Slender Man can instantly transport himself to another location within at impossibly quick speeds, with some noting that this level of teleportation even makes him capable of briefly appearing in more than one place at the same time. Slender Man uses teleportation as his main method of transportation as he rarely ever walks or physically moves his body to reach a destination. His unique ability to teleport in a way that lacks any indication of teleportation has since been dubbed "Slender Walking".
	+ **Tentacle appendages**: By far Slender Man's most iconic power is his ability to sprout sharp black tentacles from his back and grab his victims or move/tear down objects in his path, using them as extra appendages. Slender Man is even able of using his tentacles to physically move from place to place by hoisting his body up and letting his tentacles carry him, walking, climbing or balancing himself akin to that of a spider. It's unknown how many tentacles Slender Man is able to spawn at a given time, but the number of tentacles is able to reach the tens and he usually generates around four to six.
	+ **Voice mimicry**: Slender Man can flawlessly mimic the voices of humans to lure in victims by using the voices of people they're close to or by pretending to be a trustworthy individual, such as a police officer or 911 operator over the phone.

### Abilities

* **Genius-level intellect**: As an entity that's existed since the age of Adam and Eve, Slender Man is a supremely intelligent and highly knowledgeable being. He retains a vast amount of knowledge of Earth's culture and the culture of the humans that reside on the planet. Meticulous, conscientious and diligent to a scary degree, Slender Man is a remarkably cunning and intelligent who knows how to strike into the hearts of his prey, often manifesting during moments of comfort to gain the upper hand and catch them off-guard to instil fear in them, elevating his strength and influence. Slender Man's intellect ties into his goals of desiring to uncover how he came into existence. Believing that human beings would have an intelligent perspective, he induced mass paranoia, fear and insanity in small populations of people and allowed their fear and paranoia to fester until it began to spread to other communities and eventually across the world, strengthening his influence. Slender Man knows when a dead end has been reached when it comes to humans looking into his background via research and is careful when it comes to disposing them, making it appear as though they've vanished without a trace.
* **Leadership**: Slender Man is the leader of a group known as "the Proxies"; a community of cult-like worshippers of the Faceless King who aid him in his goals. Slender Man utilises his deceptive mind-altering tactics to exert control over his proxies and lead them into aiding him with his goals and carrying out tasks.
* **Manipulation**: Slender Man relies on psychological manipulation when converting a human into a proxy. On the morning that Toby Rogers murdered his father, Slender Man's influence on the boy lead to the manifestation of whispers that demanded him to kill his father, which he went through after enough persuasion.
* **Intimidation**: Slender Man is an incredibly imposing and intimidating figure, able to scare and frighten anyone without having to do anything other than stand still and glare at people. In relation to his own underlings, Slender Man relies on directly instilling fear and intimidating his proxies into servitude to keep them in line, especially towards ones who only do his work on account of the manifestation of alter-egos, such as Masky and Hoodie, keeping their true human selves locked away through intimidation and threats. He also subtly threatened the leaders of the Phantom Reapers by implying he would murder them if they didn't satiate his craving for power.
* **Psychological torturing skills**: Even when he doesn't directly use his mind manipulating powers, Slender Man is a formidable foe in the realm of psychological torture. Slender Man will directly infiltrate the minds of his victims and communicate with them, mentally breaking them down by convincing them of their worthlessness and how the only way they will find meaning in life is by lifelong servitude to him, making them susceptible for his mind manipulation to easier gain control of their mentality. Even simply stalking someone is enough to induce paranoia and make them spiral into madness.
* **Omnilingualism**: Slender Man is fluent in every single language that has ever and will ever exist.
* **Stealth mastery**: As a stalker, Slender Man is a master of stealth and sneaking around even the most heavily crowded of areas. Having existed for hundreds of thousands of years, Slender Man has had plenty of time to master the art of stalking unsuspecting prey and going completely undetected until it's too late for the victim. Slender Man's stalking behaviour is wildly unpredictable - He can appear from around corners and vanish as soon as his victims look at him, blend in with the trees if he's stalking his victims in a forest, blend into the darkness due to his appearance and can even not be recognised as anything but a simple tree even when within a close proximity of his victims.
	+ **Camouflage**: Due to his thin appearance, proclivity for stalking people in forests and dark appearance, Slender Man is excellent at camouflaging himself within heavily wooded areas or dark places. This is partially due to his dark image of wearing a black suit and blending into dark areas, as well as being able to manipulate his shape and take different variations of his primary form that are more tree-like, such as being seemingly made of bark.

### Weaknesses

* **Belief**: As a tulpa, Slender Man (unbeknownst to him) sustains his existence through human belief and was manifested as the first tulpa to exist, essentially acting as a universal glitch due to humanity's fear of Cain, the first murderer. Therefor, if all of humanity were to collectively stop believing in Slender Man, he would cease to exist and be erased from existence.

## Relationships

### Allies

#### Proxies

Slender Man has a complicated relationship with his proxies. His proxies are human beings who, either through corruption, manipulation or Slender Man-induced insanity, are loyal subordinates of the Faceless King and revere him for his vast power and influence, seeing their existence as belonging to the Slender Man and their only function to serve his every whim in order to help him accomplish his goals. Slender Man views his proxies as little more than pawns, being completely emotionless when transforming them into brainwashed slaves to serve him. Slender Man doesn't treat certain proxies as being better than others, nor does he treat any of them as being lesser than others, seeing them as all the same; pawns that have been repurposed into slaves shackled by the Faceless King's influence over their mental state. Despite viewing them as mere underlings to puppeteer, Slender Man is greatly upset whenever they become of no use to him due to exterior factors such as fatal illnesses or being killed. However, this anguish Slender Man feels towards his fallen proxies is not out of care, but because to him, losing a proxy is losing one less asset to his cause.

Despite his lack of care and dismissive attitude towards his proxies, Slender Man is appreciative of their loyalty towards him and does congratulate them for completing especially gruelling tasks.

### Other

#### Phantom Reapers

The Phantom Reapers are an organisation of killers and supernatural entities that only exist to spread death and terror. Slender Man first came into contact with them when it was just the first three members, Herobrine, Israphel and Sonic.exe. Seeing them consolidate their power and desire to spread fear and death across the universe intrigued the Faceless King and lead to him offering a deal; In exchange of linking himself to the fear and death the Reapers generate, Slender Man will bring them new members, to which the three entities accepted. Even though the group hasn't seen an increase in members in years, they still appreciate Slender Man's assistance enough to allow him to keep feeding off the death and fear.

Slender Man has mixed feelings surrounding the Phantom Reapers' leaders; Herobrine, Israphel and Sonic.exe. He views Herobrine as inferior and a pale imitation of himself due to his similar stalking habits and psychologically abusive nature he exhibits towards his victims. He views Israphel as the most respectable of the three due to his sophisticated attitude and for being the most reasonable of the three. And finally, he views Sonic.exe through a very distasteful lens, seeing him as little more that a pouty, loud and entitled child with too much power on his hands. Nonetheless, Slender Man can respect his acquaintances when the death they cause and the fear they generate is satisfactory.

## Quotes

### Quotes said about Slender Man

"*♪Slender Man, Slender Man,
All the children try to run.
Slender Man, Slender Man,
To him it's part of the fun.

Slender Man, Slender Man,
Dressed in darkest suit and tie.
Slender Man, Slender Man,

You most certainly will die.

Slender Man, Slender Man,
His branching arms are for collecting.
Slender Man, Slender Man,
His face is empty of expressing.

Slender Man, Slender Man,
He won't let you say goodbye.
Slender Man, Slender Man,
You most certainly will die.

Slender Man, Slender Man,
Sometimes hums a lowly drone.
Slender Man, Slender Man,
He will wander 'round your home.

Slender Man, Slender Man,
Blends in well within the trees.
Slender Man, Slender Man,
In the fog he's hard to see.

Slender Man, Slender Man,
Dressed in darkest suit and tie.
Slender Man, Slender Man,
You most certainly will die.♪*"
— The lyrics of the iconic Slender Man song.

## Trivia

* The symbol of Slender Man is a hastily-drawn circle with a large "X" on it. This symbol is not only a warning of Slender Man's presence, but also the symbol of the mark of Cain, tying into Slender Man's background.
* Slender Man greatly dislikes being called "Slendy", finding the nickname to be insulting to his status and childish.
* Slender Man claims to have no friends or enemies, only acquaintances.
* Slender Man's shapeshifting prowess allow him to conjure a mouth, but he simply chooses not to as he believes him being faceless invokes more terror than if he were to possess facial features, however distorted they may be.
* Prior to the 19th century, Slender Man spent most of his time in Germany due to first manifesting there.
* Despite manifesting from the evil in his heart and the mark imposed onto him, Slender Man has no mental or spiritual connection to Cain.
* Slender Man has traditionally always bore masculine forms despite being genderless and not identifying as male.
* While he doesn't necessarily hate humanity, there are a list of things humans do that Slender Man either strongly dislikes or is genuinely confused over why they do it:
	+ Painting him as a benign entity.
	+ Thirsting and crushing over him.
	+ Actively seeking him out over fanaticism.
	+ Writing characters into his mythos such as fan-made siblings, parents, children and other family members.
	+ Attempting to sacrifice themselves to him.
	+ Portraying him in a comedic manner.

## Infobox Art Credits

* Credit to: Andrei Străliciuc.
* Credit to: Yassine Laouini.