Talk:Closet Monster/@comment-26936390-20150914171134/@comment-26326346-20150914212354

I'm sorry that you didn't like the cliche I chose or the fact that it was killed before proof could be revealed. The monster was doomed to be a cliche no matter what, there was no getting around that. It could have been "the failed lab experiment which kills everyone and escapes cliche" or just simply unexplained, I went with the "it was aliens" because I found it humorous and unexpected, I also haven't actually seen that done much.

In regards to it being killed off without its existence being revealed, I usually try to leave a way for the story I tell to have been told (if there aren't any witnesses/survivors in the story, then the Creepypasta definitely didn't happen). I'm struggling to explain it, but basically I like to have someone survive so that they could potentially have passed along what they experienced and that's how it ends up on the internet.

I felt that there being no trace left of the beast was best for the sake of the story as it made the character that killed it lose even more than he had already lost, his sanity was questioned; it was more tragic.

Originally, the SWAT Team was going to kill the beast which originally wasn't made of shadow/pure darkness. I felt that it would be more compelling of a story to have Isaac overcome it in a really unexpected and luck based manner. Had I gone the SWAT team destroyed it route then the story would have been subjected to the "Government cover-up cliche".

Those are the reasons for why I chose what I did, but if you disagree with them that is okay :)

I'm glad that you liked my pasta overall. Thanks for commenting!