Talk:He Waits for You/@comment-39855345-20191002205527

One man's trash is another man's treasure. Sometimes, horror is relative.

For those who are lonely (especially socialy isolated women seeking men), this is not horror, it's a dream come true. For the price of a midnight drive and one night of a physically unpleasant bed companion, you will get a perfect lover/spouse. Someone who you want, who wants you in return, and will never leave you.

The true horror is that our lonely motel dweller has apparently been hurt by others for the "crime" of having a disgusting body, to the point that he simply lets it happen. Also what happened that this supernatural creature would need human intervention to escape a tormented existence?

Having been rescued, the creature either:

a) Creates a new body and identity, slavishly devoted to the person who rescued it. This creates rescue romance issues, where there can be no certainty the creature isn't just glomming onto the first person who was nice to it.

b) Shops around for a suitable person, then possesses him or her to give as a gift to said rescuer. Yeah, consent is a bit of an issue here.

Perhaps the rescuer might be faced with the problem that their new squeeze is just a facade, with the real entity/person not in love with them at all.