Talk:Jeff the Killer 2015/@comment-4843510-20160721092231/@comment-5614678-20160724143520

You remember that Slenderman origin story where he was a Seaworld employee named Slenn D. R. Mann? And he kept getting random "feelings" to hurt people because he was so crazy? And all the other employees bullied him and his boss was a jerk? And he was jealous of the other employees kids because he never had a real family? And then one day one of the kids shoved him into an octopus tank and the octopus' ink melted his face off and turned his skin white and laid eggs in his back that turned into tentacles? And then Slenderman killed the kid and his dad and killed his mean boss and took his nice suit?

You don't remember that? That's because it didn't ever happen. The people who made up Slenderman knew that for a horror monster to really stick with readers, there has to be an air of mystery and intrigue to it. That's why a character like Jeff probably shouldn't start off with an origin story.

My version was an origin story too (because hey, contest rules. Can you argue with 'em?) but I still went out of my way to make Jeff seem supernatural instead of just a kid with a knife, and I made sure to add a ton of mystery to his origins and powers. Because it's always more fun and scary when you don't fully understand it.