User blog:EtherBot/Slenderman.

I don't know what the acutal "offical" lore is for slenderman but I was thinking about it trying to spook myself and came up with some things I think make slenderman more spooky than he's treated as being. All of this is based on the way he already looks or acts.

Okay so him being faceless portrays to me that he's not the main man running the show. A slenderman, in my head, is a dispoable agent almost for some higher cosmic force that's impossible to comprehend. The reason no face is eerie is because suddenly you have a hard time understanding the true intention.

Let's acknowledge that he wears a suit because that doubles down on what I already mention. He has a PURPOSE, he's out on a JOB, but killing children?? What could that possibly achieve? Why does he do it so officially as to wear a suit and what's the endgame?

Another fun way to see it is this: ''The suit is like a costume. ''Here's this creature wearing a poor facsimile of a human. A monster of unknowable knowledge and power utterly DEVOTED to humans whilst still, at the same time, knowing next to nothing about them. I like to imagine slenderman thinks he's fooling us with him humanoid persona. He sees human's like animals, not understanding out cries of fear, and either not caring or understanding our concepts of emotion at all. Perhaps whatever monster he is expresses emotion very differently. He doesn't think the face is the important part so he didnt bother making one. What does that say about how he sees our faces? Can he grasp ideas like pure terror from humans at all? What if to him, humans seem completely mindless, incapable of even feeling anything.

This is a monster that is impossible for a human to reason with for the same reason it is impossible for a jellyfish to reason with a human. Any interaction with slenderman is a one-way rhetorical exchange -- he does a thing to you.

It's the unknowable, unfeeling, seemingly impossible mission of the slenderman that I think made him so scary to begin with. Everything since seems irrelevent to the true horror of a man the size of trees with no face and a black suit.

I'm not a fan of the pages, the cult aspects, anything of it. I don't think you should/can make a sacrifice to slenderman because there is simply no way to communicate with him. He wears a suit but, indeed, any business proposition would be impossible to make. That's scary.

At least it is to me.