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He eventually, alongside the guys from [[http://nightcrawler-observeandterminate.blogspot.com/ Observe and Terminate]] and from various other blogs, made a LastStand on the Winter Solstice in an attempt to fascilitate a FollowTheLeader situation in which bloggers write how the story ends with Slender Man being injured and weakened. This was a massive BatmanGambit between himself and several others. [[spoiler: It didn't work.]]
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Meet Zero. Former Sage in the battle against Slender Man and OneOfUs, as self-professed gamer and fan of the Franchise/MegaMan series. You can start reading [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/10/introduction.html the blog]] here. Zero started his blog before he was ever haunted by Slender Man, but still was a true AgentMulder about the situation from the very beginning. He eventually had [[PassingTheTorch the torch passed to him]] by [[Blog/WhiteElephants Robert Sagal]]. Held a one man stand in his house while Slender Man and his hordes [[TheSiege laid siege]] to him starting from late November to the Winter Solstice.
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Meet Zero. Former Sage in the battle against Slender Man and OneOfUs, JustForFun/OneOfUs, as self-professed gamer and fan of the Franchise/MegaMan series. You can start reading [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/10/introduction.html the blog]] here. Zero started his blog before he was ever haunted by Slender Man, but still was a true AgentMulder about the situation from the very beginning. He eventually had [[PassingTheTorch the torch passed to him]] by [[Blog/WhiteElephants Robert Sagal]]. Held a one man stand in his house while Slender Man and his hordes [[TheSiege laid siege]] to him starting from late November to the Winter Solstice.
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* MoodWhiplash: [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/11/conversations-with-ole-blankity-blank.html This post]], which is mentioned as a CrowningMomentOfFunny on Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos main page, begins with Zero [[spoiler: waking up staring at himself in a mirror and realizing that he has apparently ''tried to slit his wrists in his sleep.'']] Later whiplashes right back again in the comments section, as [[spoiler: Nessa is slowly hallowed.]]
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* MoodWhiplash: [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/11/conversations-with-ole-blankity-blank.html This post]], which is mentioned as a CrowningMomentOfFunny on Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos main page, post]] begins with Zero [[spoiler: waking up staring at himself in a mirror and realizing that he has apparently ''tried to slit his wrists in his sleep.'']] Later whiplashes right back again in the comments section, as [[spoiler: Nessa is slowly hallowed.]]
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He's back, [[spoiler: and now an AxCrazy KnightTemplar]]. His new second blog can be found here: The Last Refuge of a Dangerous Man: http://fateworsethandeath.blogspot.com/
...and his third here, Eight Years Later https://contritionamendmentandsatisfaction.blogspot.com/
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* MoodWhiplash: [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/11/conversations-with-ole-blankity-blank.html This post]], which is mentioned as a CrowningMomentOfFunny on TheSlendermanMythos main page, begins with Zero [[spoiler: waking up staring at himself in a mirror and realizing that he has apparently ''tried to slit his wrists in his sleep.'']] Later whiplashes right back again in the comments section, as [[spoiler: Nessa is slowly hallowed.]]
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* MoodWhiplash: [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/11/conversations-with-ole-blankity-blank.html This post]], which is mentioned as a CrowningMomentOfFunny on TheSlendermanMythos Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos main page, begins with Zero [[spoiler: waking up staring at himself in a mirror and realizing that he has apparently ''tried to slit his wrists in his sleep.'']] Later whiplashes right back again in the comments section, as [[spoiler: Nessa is slowly hallowed.]]
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* WhamEpisode: Late November. If you've read the main entry on TheSlenderManMythos and Blog/WhiteElephants, then you know Slender Man launched multiple and continuous attacks in light of the levels of optimism Robert's theories had brought to the blogs. [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic sacrifices]], deaths, insanity, [[HeroicBSOD heroic blue screens of death]], [[FaceHeelTurn face heel turns]], [[HeelFaceTurn heel face turns]], and [[DespairEventHorizon despair]] were happening everywhere (except on ''Blog/TheTutorial'' where M was oddly sparred) and Zero had his above mentioned [[HeroicBSOD breakdowns]].
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* WhamEpisode: Late November. If you've read the main entry on TheSlenderManMythos Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos and Blog/WhiteElephants, then you know Slender Man launched multiple and continuous attacks in light of the levels of optimism Robert's theories had brought to the blogs. [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic sacrifices]], deaths, insanity, [[HeroicBSOD heroic blue screens of death]], [[FaceHeelTurn face heel turns]], [[HeelFaceTurn heel face turns]], and [[DespairEventHorizon despair]] were happening everywhere (except on ''Blog/TheTutorial'' where M was oddly sparred) and Zero had his above mentioned [[HeroicBSOD breakdowns]].
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* '''{{Badass}}''': Zero. If you've read the above and ''TheDeterminator'' entires on this article, then you know why Zero is a undisputed badass almost on the same level as [[Blog/SeekingTruth Seeking Truth's]] Zeke Strahm when it comes to dealing with Slender Man.
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Meet Zero. Former Sage in the battle against Slender Man and OneOfUs, as self-professed gamer and fan of the VideoGame/MegaMan series. You can start reading [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/10/introduction.html the blog]] here. Zero started his blog before he was ever haunted by Slender Man, but still was a true AgentMulder about the situation from the very beginning. He eventually had [[PassingTheTorch the torch passed to him]] by [[Blog/WhiteElephants Robert Sagal]]. Held a one man stand in his house while Slender Man and his hordes [[TheSiege laid siege]] to him starting from late November to the Winter Solstice.
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Meet Zero. Former Sage in the battle against Slender Man and OneOfUs, as self-professed gamer and fan of the VideoGame/MegaMan Franchise/MegaMan series. You can start reading [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/10/introduction.html the blog]] here. Zero started his blog before he was ever haunted by Slender Man, but still was a true AgentMulder about the situation from the very beginning. He eventually had [[PassingTheTorch the torch passed to him]] by [[Blog/WhiteElephants Robert Sagal]]. Held a one man stand in his house while Slender Man and his hordes [[TheSiege laid siege]] to him starting from late November to the Winter Solstice.
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In this time, he engaged in frequent FoeYay with the AxCrazy Rika, an young, attractive female agent sent to kill him. [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/11/conversations-with-ole-blankity-blank.html This Entry]] contains a particularly humorous example.
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In this time, he engaged in frequent FoeYay FoeRomanceSubtext with the AxCrazy Rika, an young, attractive female agent sent to kill him. [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/11/conversations-with-ole-blankity-blank.html This Entry]] contains a particularly humorous example.
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* '''{{Badass}}''': Zero. If you've read the above and ''TheDeterminator'' entires on this article, then you know why Zero is a undisputed badass almost on the same level as [[SeekingTruth Seeking Truth's]] Zeke Strahm when it comes to dealing with Slender Man.
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Meet Zero. Former Sage in the battle against Slender Man and OneOfUs, as self-professed gamer and fan of the VideoGame/MegaMan series. You can start reading [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/10/introduction.html the blog]] here. Zero started his blog before he was ever haunted by Slender Man, but still was a true AgentMulder about the situation from the very beginning. He eventually had [[PassingTheTorch the torch passed to him]] by [[WhiteElephants Robert Sagal]]. Held a one man stand in his house while Slender Man and his hordes [[TheSiege laid siege]] to him starting from late November to the Winter Solstice.
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Meet Zero. Former Sage in the battle against Slender Man and OneOfUs, as self-professed gamer and fan of the VideoGame/MegaMan series. You can start reading [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/10/introduction.html the blog]] here. Zero started his blog before he was ever haunted by Slender Man, but still was a true AgentMulder about the situation from the very beginning. He eventually had [[PassingTheTorch the torch passed to him]] by [[WhiteElephants [[Blog/WhiteElephants Robert Sagal]]. Held a one man stand in his house while Slender Man and his hordes [[TheSiege laid siege]] to him starting from late November to the Winter Solstice.
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* WhamEpisode: Late November. If you've read the main entry on TheSlenderManMythos and WhiteElephants, Blog/WhiteElephants, then you know Slender Man launched multiple and continuous attacks in light of the levels of optimism Robert's theories had brought to the blogs. [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic sacrifices]], deaths, insanity, [[HeroicBSOD heroic blue screens of death]], [[FaceHeelTurn face heel turns]], [[HeelFaceTurn heel face turns]], and [[DespairEventHorizon despair]] were happening everywhere (except on ''Blog/TheTutorial'' where M was oddly sparred) and Zero had his above mentioned [[HeroicBSOD breakdowns]].
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Meet Zero. Former Sage in the battle against Slender Man and OneOfUs, as self-professed gamer and fan of the VideoGame/MegaMan series. You can start reading [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/10/introduction.html the blog]] here. Zero started his blog before he was ever haunted by Slender Man, but still was a true AgentMulder about the situation from the very beginning. He eventually had [[PassingTheTorch the torch passed to him]] by [[WhiteElephants Robert Sagal]]. Held a one man stand in his house while Slender Man and his hordes [[TheSiege laid siege]] to him starting from late November to the Winter Solstice.
In this time, he engaged in frequent FoeYay with the AxCrazy Rika, an young, attractive female agent sent to kill him. [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/11/conversations-with-ole-blankity-blank.html This Entry]] contains a particularly humorous example.
He eventually, alongside the guys from [[http://nightcrawler-observeandterminate.blogspot.com/ Observe and Terminate]] and from various other blogs, made a LastStand on the Winter Solstice in an attempt to fascilitate a FollowTheLeader situation in which bloggers write how the story ends with Slender Man being injured and weakened. This was a massive BatmanGambit between himself and several others. [[spoiler: It didn't work.]]
He's back, [[spoiler: and now an AxCrazy KnightTemplar]]. His new blog can be found here: The Last Refuge of a Dangerous Man: http://fateworsethandeath.blogspot.com/
!!Tropes Associated with ''A Hint of Serendipity'':
* AgentMulder: Before ever being haunted himself, Zero still believed the myth was true.
* AndIMustScream: Zero at one point considers that Slender Man also infects the afterlife and that even the dead can't escape him.
* ApocalypticLog: The entire last entry is basically Zero's ''Last Will and Testament'' to the slendering community at large. Not marked as a spoiler, because this trope goes with the territory.
* AxCrazy: Rika. Full stop. Her expy was just as bad.
** [[spoiler: Now, Zero as well. He's already promised to go on a killing spree against those he believed failed him.]]
** [[spoiler: It's worse than that. He thinks he can sacrifice Runners to create a weapon.]]
* '''{{Badass}}''': Zero. If you've read the above and ''TheDeterminator'' entires on this article, then you know why Zero is a undisputed badass almost on the same level as [[SeekingTruth Seeking Truth's]] Zeke Strahm when it comes to dealing with Slender Man.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Nessa. Though she had her own blog, her presence post-resurrection happened primarily on Zero's blog.]]
* TheBlank: Yep.
* BrainWashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Zero. He's been [[MindScrew mind screwed]] by Slender Man and something called The Bleeding Tree into thinking that he can create a weapon that can defeat Slendy if he sacrifices enough Runners to it.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Zero was quite a light-hearted, quirky fellow who found humor and irony in a great many situations where others might have gone mad.
** Possibly subverted since some of his antics were him [[StepfordSmiler stepford smiling]] to keep from curling up into a corner and crying.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler: Subverted in that it turned out to really be Nessa who was tormenting him after her resurrection, but the intention and effect were the same: to break Zero and the other bloggers.]]
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: The entire summary of both blogs.
* TheDeterminator: Zero. Just Zero. The man plunged into the fight for survival head first and never looked back. He and some other bloggers came up with a plan and he fought tooth and nail to stay alive to that point and succeeded despite Slender Man deciding to [[ThisMeansWar get serious]] about killing Zero. Let that sink in for a while.]]
* DownerEnding: It's the Slender Man mythos. You expected anything less? Only it's not his fault it ended badly this time. [[WhatTheHellHero It's our fault]] for not wishing Slender Man to be defeated.
** Subverted for a while, but as all things in the Mythos, it found its way back here.
* FallenHero: Zero. Big time.
* GallowsHumor: Zero's comments on other blogs as well as his own writing has a pretty high level of this, especially after his [[HeroicBSoD BSoDs]].
* HumanoidAbomination: Uh-huh.
* HeroesPreferSwords: Zero's trusty Katana. Crosses over with KatanasAreJustBetter.
* HeroicBSOD: Twice in late November [[spoiler: after [[NoFourthWall ''redlight'']] took over WhiteElephants and Nessa was hallowed and then killed.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Zero knew he would not survive the planned attack on the Solstice and made preparations for that fact. Then he still plunged unrelentingly ahead once he [[LetsGetDangerous got dangerous]] with the plan anyway for the purpose of giving his comrads everywhere else in the world a fighting chance.]]
* HorrorDoesntWaitForSimpleTuesday: The Solstice Gambit in particular, however most large events in his life occured on either an Equinox or a Solstice
* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler: Again, Zero. He's convinced that harvesting bones of Runners who have reached the end of their rope and are on the verge of being proxied is the answer to defeating Slender Man. The source of this "revelation"? A vision of a bleeding tree which he saw after the failed Solstice Assault while still deep in Slender Country while being [[MindScrew mind screwed]] by Slender Man.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: Zero. He's become convinced that he has to kill a certain number of people about to be proxied to forge a tool to defeat Slender Man. His current hit list is any poor soul at the end of their rope unfortunate enough to cross paths with him.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: When Nessa actually met with Zero, confirming that she had been resurrected, he gave her to Redlight to give her the same treatment he had given Robert.]]
* LeftHanging: Very debatable, but some people insist that since Zero's body was never found that he may still be alive out there and that it's not over for ''A Hint of Serendipity'' yet.
** Eventually averted by the second blog, which picks up after a MissingEpisode
* MoodWhiplash: [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/11/conversations-with-ole-blankity-blank.html This post]], which is mentioned as a CrowningMomentOfFunny on TheSlendermanMythos main page, begins with Zero [[spoiler: waking up staring at himself in a mirror and realizing that he has apparently ''tried to slit his wrists in his sleep.'']] Later whiplashes right back again in the comments section, as [[spoiler: Nessa is slowly hallowed.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: When Zero kills Slice, who admired him. That doesn't stop him from continuing his killing spree, of course.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: One might say all this misfortune could've been averted if Greenlight had not picked him as a successor. His [[IJustWantToBeSpecial legacy issues may never have taken hold of him.]]
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: [[spoiler: Zero has severe doubts that giving Nessa to Redlight was the right thing to do, but he considers it the only option he had.]]
* NowWhat: the question was asked in a different speech tense in [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/12/random-thought.html this entry.]] The context is more like ''Then What'', but that's a different trope altogether.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Zero's current setting. He believes that the bloggers have betrayed him.]]
* SanitySlippage: Heavily. The man was almost hallowed out and turned into a proxy twice during his [[HeroicBSOD heroic BSODs]], but came back both times, subverting this, at first...
** Then things got really trippy when he started hallucinating little green monsters.
*** [[spoiler: Now the SanitySlippage has progressed into a full-on split personality Zero is ''both Remnant and Zerosage'', and he's ready to hack and slash all the runners to get rid of Slender Man.]]
* ShoutOut: Among other things, he finishes up his last blogpost with the word "[[Anime/CowboyBebop bang]]."
** Also, the "Everything you ever..." post is a [[DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog horrible]] example.
* ShutUpHannibal: [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/12/flickering-light.html In this entry]] he does this to Rika at the end.
* TheSiege: The man boarded up his home and held off Slender Man, his minions, and the effects of being haunted for nearly a full month with the express purpose of surviving to the Solstice to enact his plan.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Zero stayed willfully on the optimistic side of things to the (very) bitter end. By the end, it was the only way for him to keep his sanity.
** It's gone cynical more recently.
* SpiritualSuccessor: For a while, when he still prescribed by Robert's Core Theory.
** In fact, if a certain AlternateCharacterInterpretation about Robert is to be believed, [[spoiler: that Robert lied to the slendercommunity about the knife to instill a sense of hope and positivity thus hopefully weakening Slender Man (a plot not dissimilar to Zero's own Solstice scheme)]], then perhaps Zero and Robert really aren't so different after all.
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler: It turns out remnant and Zerosage are both Zero...or what's left of him, though he insists they're just personas, and he's well aware of his mood swings]]
* UnreliableNarrator: [[http://s1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc501/zerombr/ His photobucket suggests that]] [[spoiler: he may have killed [[RoadtotheHeavens Amelia]].]]
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler: Yes, we would say that the Zero of ''A hint of serendipity'' is gone if Remnant and Zerosage are anything to go on.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Just take a look at the comments section of [[http://fateworsethandeath.blogspot.com/2011/04/stalked.html Stalked.]] [[spoiler: He called his fellow bloggers a ''joke'' and mocked their various attempts to get organized and defeat Slender Man despite having taken part in a failed attempted, himself. He also mocks them for taking exception to him murdering a girl who was about to be proxied but was still sane enough to beg for his help, saying that before they would have applauded him for doing that.]]
* WhamEpisode: Late November. If you've read the main entry on TheSlenderManMythos and WhiteElephants, then you know Slender Man launched multiple and continuous attacks in light of the levels of optimism Robert's theories had brought to the blogs. [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic sacrifices]], deaths, insanity, [[HeroicBSOD heroic blue screens of death]], [[FaceHeelTurn face heel turns]], [[HeelFaceTurn heel face turns]], and [[DespairEventHorizon despair]] were happening everywhere (except on ''Blog/TheTutorial'' where M was oddly sparred) and Zero had his above mentioned [[HeroicBSOD breakdowns]].
** It was the arrival of ''redlight'' and the death of Nessa that were the things that got to him the most.
*** [[spoiler: His return.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Invoked on a meta level. Had all the readers and other participants wished so, Zero's plan to weaken the Slender Man by having everyone willing him weakened would have worked. Alas, we're all [[JustHereForGodzilla just here for Slendy.]] We loves our paranoia-causing abomination! Yes, we do!
** [[spoiler: Now Zero has returned, called us on it, and wants our heads for it!]]
*** [[spoiler: More recently, bloggers have called him on his more recent actions right back.]]
* WoobieDestroyerofWorlds: A recent entry talking about [[spoiler: how much he misses Amelia was immediately met with proclamations of sympathy and hugs from the bloggers despite his recent murders and attempted murders of several different Slenderstalked.]]
* YourMindMakesItReal: Natch.
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In this time, he engaged in frequent FoeYay with the AxCrazy Rika, an young, attractive female agent sent to kill him. [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/11/conversations-with-ole-blankity-blank.html This Entry]] contains a particularly humorous example.
He eventually, alongside the guys from [[http://nightcrawler-observeandterminate.blogspot.com/ Observe and Terminate]] and from various other blogs, made a LastStand on the Winter Solstice in an attempt to fascilitate a FollowTheLeader situation in which bloggers write how the story ends with Slender Man being injured and weakened. This was a massive BatmanGambit between himself and several others. [[spoiler: It didn't work.]]
He's back, [[spoiler: and now an AxCrazy KnightTemplar]]. His new blog can be found here: The Last Refuge of a Dangerous Man: http://fateworsethandeath.blogspot.com/
!!Tropes Associated with ''A Hint of Serendipity'':
* AgentMulder: Before ever being haunted himself, Zero still believed the myth was true.
* AndIMustScream: Zero at one point considers that Slender Man also infects the afterlife and that even the dead can't escape him.
* ApocalypticLog: The entire last entry is basically Zero's ''Last Will and Testament'' to the slendering community at large. Not marked as a spoiler, because this trope goes with the territory.
* AxCrazy: Rika. Full stop. Her expy was just as bad.
** [[spoiler: Now, Zero as well. He's already promised to go on a killing spree against those he believed failed him.]]
** [[spoiler: It's worse than that. He thinks he can sacrifice Runners to create a weapon.]]
* '''{{Badass}}''': Zero. If you've read the above and ''TheDeterminator'' entires on this article, then you know why Zero is a undisputed badass almost on the same level as [[SeekingTruth Seeking Truth's]] Zeke Strahm when it comes to dealing with Slender Man.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Nessa. Though she had her own blog, her presence post-resurrection happened primarily on Zero's blog.]]
* TheBlank: Yep.
* BrainWashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Zero. He's been [[MindScrew mind screwed]] by Slender Man and something called The Bleeding Tree into thinking that he can create a weapon that can defeat Slendy if he sacrifices enough Runners to it.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Zero was quite a light-hearted, quirky fellow who found humor and irony in a great many situations where others might have gone mad.
** Possibly subverted since some of his antics were him [[StepfordSmiler stepford smiling]] to keep from curling up into a corner and crying.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler: Subverted in that it turned out to really be Nessa who was tormenting him after her resurrection, but the intention and effect were the same: to break Zero and the other bloggers.]]
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: The entire summary of both blogs.
* TheDeterminator: Zero. Just Zero. The man plunged into the fight for survival head first and never looked back. He and some other bloggers came up with a plan and he fought tooth and nail to stay alive to that point and succeeded despite Slender Man deciding to [[ThisMeansWar get serious]] about killing Zero. Let that sink in for a while.]]
* DownerEnding: It's the Slender Man mythos. You expected anything less? Only it's not his fault it ended badly this time. [[WhatTheHellHero It's our fault]] for not wishing Slender Man to be defeated.
** Subverted for a while, but as all things in the Mythos, it found its way back here.
* FallenHero: Zero. Big time.
* GallowsHumor: Zero's comments on other blogs as well as his own writing has a pretty high level of this, especially after his [[HeroicBSoD BSoDs]].
* HumanoidAbomination: Uh-huh.
* HeroesPreferSwords: Zero's trusty Katana. Crosses over with KatanasAreJustBetter.
* HeroicBSOD: Twice in late November [[spoiler: after [[NoFourthWall ''redlight'']] took over WhiteElephants and Nessa was hallowed and then killed.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Zero knew he would not survive the planned attack on the Solstice and made preparations for that fact. Then he still plunged unrelentingly ahead once he [[LetsGetDangerous got dangerous]] with the plan anyway for the purpose of giving his comrads everywhere else in the world a fighting chance.]]
* HorrorDoesntWaitForSimpleTuesday: The Solstice Gambit in particular, however most large events in his life occured on either an Equinox or a Solstice
* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler: Again, Zero. He's convinced that harvesting bones of Runners who have reached the end of their rope and are on the verge of being proxied is the answer to defeating Slender Man. The source of this "revelation"? A vision of a bleeding tree which he saw after the failed Solstice Assault while still deep in Slender Country while being [[MindScrew mind screwed]] by Slender Man.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: Zero. He's become convinced that he has to kill a certain number of people about to be proxied to forge a tool to defeat Slender Man. His current hit list is any poor soul at the end of their rope unfortunate enough to cross paths with him.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: When Nessa actually met with Zero, confirming that she had been resurrected, he gave her to Redlight to give her the same treatment he had given Robert.]]
* LeftHanging: Very debatable, but some people insist that since Zero's body was never found that he may still be alive out there and that it's not over for ''A Hint of Serendipity'' yet.
** Eventually averted by the second blog, which picks up after a MissingEpisode
* MoodWhiplash: [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/11/conversations-with-ole-blankity-blank.html This post]], which is mentioned as a CrowningMomentOfFunny on TheSlendermanMythos main page, begins with Zero [[spoiler: waking up staring at himself in a mirror and realizing that he has apparently ''tried to slit his wrists in his sleep.'']] Later whiplashes right back again in the comments section, as [[spoiler: Nessa is slowly hallowed.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: When Zero kills Slice, who admired him. That doesn't stop him from continuing his killing spree, of course.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: One might say all this misfortune could've been averted if Greenlight had not picked him as a successor. His [[IJustWantToBeSpecial legacy issues may never have taken hold of him.]]
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: [[spoiler: Zero has severe doubts that giving Nessa to Redlight was the right thing to do, but he considers it the only option he had.]]
* NowWhat: the question was asked in a different speech tense in [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/12/random-thought.html this entry.]] The context is more like ''Then What'', but that's a different trope altogether.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Zero's current setting. He believes that the bloggers have betrayed him.]]
* SanitySlippage: Heavily. The man was almost hallowed out and turned into a proxy twice during his [[HeroicBSOD heroic BSODs]], but came back both times, subverting this, at first...
** Then things got really trippy when he started hallucinating little green monsters.
*** [[spoiler: Now the SanitySlippage has progressed into a full-on split personality Zero is ''both Remnant and Zerosage'', and he's ready to hack and slash all the runners to get rid of Slender Man.]]
* ShoutOut: Among other things, he finishes up his last blogpost with the word "[[Anime/CowboyBebop bang]]."
** Also, the "Everything you ever..." post is a [[DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog horrible]] example.
* ShutUpHannibal: [[http://despairpalesbeforeme.blogspot.com/2010/12/flickering-light.html In this entry]] he does this to Rika at the end.
* TheSiege: The man boarded up his home and held off Slender Man, his minions, and the effects of being haunted for nearly a full month with the express purpose of surviving to the Solstice to enact his plan.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Zero stayed willfully on the optimistic side of things to the (very) bitter end. By the end, it was the only way for him to keep his sanity.
** It's gone cynical more recently.
* SpiritualSuccessor: For a while, when he still prescribed by Robert's Core Theory.
** In fact, if a certain AlternateCharacterInterpretation about Robert is to be believed, [[spoiler: that Robert lied to the slendercommunity about the knife to instill a sense of hope and positivity thus hopefully weakening Slender Man (a plot not dissimilar to Zero's own Solstice scheme)]], then perhaps Zero and Robert really aren't so different after all.
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler: It turns out remnant and Zerosage are both Zero...or what's left of him, though he insists they're just personas, and he's well aware of his mood swings]]
* UnreliableNarrator: [[http://s1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc501/zerombr/ His photobucket suggests that]] [[spoiler: he may have killed [[RoadtotheHeavens Amelia]].]]
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler: Yes, we would say that the Zero of ''A hint of serendipity'' is gone if Remnant and Zerosage are anything to go on.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Just take a look at the comments section of [[http://fateworsethandeath.blogspot.com/2011/04/stalked.html Stalked.]] [[spoiler: He called his fellow bloggers a ''joke'' and mocked their various attempts to get organized and defeat Slender Man despite having taken part in a failed attempted, himself. He also mocks them for taking exception to him murdering a girl who was about to be proxied but was still sane enough to beg for his help, saying that before they would have applauded him for doing that.]]
* WhamEpisode: Late November. If you've read the main entry on TheSlenderManMythos and WhiteElephants, then you know Slender Man launched multiple and continuous attacks in light of the levels of optimism Robert's theories had brought to the blogs. [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic sacrifices]], deaths, insanity, [[HeroicBSOD heroic blue screens of death]], [[FaceHeelTurn face heel turns]], [[HeelFaceTurn heel face turns]], and [[DespairEventHorizon despair]] were happening everywhere (except on ''Blog/TheTutorial'' where M was oddly sparred) and Zero had his above mentioned [[HeroicBSOD breakdowns]].
** It was the arrival of ''redlight'' and the death of Nessa that were the things that got to him the most.
*** [[spoiler: His return.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Invoked on a meta level. Had all the readers and other participants wished so, Zero's plan to weaken the Slender Man by having everyone willing him weakened would have worked. Alas, we're all [[JustHereForGodzilla just here for Slendy.]] We loves our paranoia-causing abomination! Yes, we do!
** [[spoiler: Now Zero has returned, called us on it, and wants our heads for it!]]
*** [[spoiler: More recently, bloggers have called him on his more recent actions right back.]]
* WoobieDestroyerofWorlds: A recent entry talking about [[spoiler: how much he misses Amelia was immediately met with proclamations of sympathy and hugs from the bloggers despite his recent murders and attempted murders of several different Slenderstalked.]]
* YourMindMakesItReal: Natch.
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