The Empty City, Choir, Archangel, Dying Man, Manufactured Newborn, Blind Man, Slender Man, Black Dog, Plague Doctor, Eye, EAT, Rake, Cold Boy, Wooden Girl, Convocation, Nightlanders. Drawn by Lizard Bite.
Fear them.
It started with the Slender Man. The tall, faceless businessman was terrifying in his own right, but then others appeared. They weren't members of the Slender Man's own race (if he had a race), but they were similar in what they inspired: fear.
The members of this new wave of abominations were based on fear. They were the embodiments of particular fears and sometimes targeted those who had those fears.
The Fear Mythos is a collaborative writing community project spanning dozens of blogs and featuring a good number of antagonists.The premise is simple: there are these monsters called "Fears," original creatures (with two exceptions taken from the public domain of creepypasta) that are, for lack of a better term, the embodiments of fears. Hence the name.The Fear Mythos deals with blogs, video logs, creepypasta, and whatever else there exists that regard to these disturbing beings. No canon or continuity required; writers get complete freedom.A current list of all current blogs can be found here and vlogs here, while a list of Fears (and descriptions) can be found on the characters page. A blog dedicated to Fear-based creepypasta can be found here. A Wiki has been made, and can be found here.For individual stories within the Mythos, see The Fear Mythos Stories.For the epic novel about the Fear Mythos during 2011's Rapture, see OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING.
Eye Scream: A common theme throughout the Mythos, from The Jeannette Experience where Jeanette's eye was burned out to Closest to the Sun where it's implied Achromatic Morality cut out her own eyes.
You mention Eye Scream in the Fear Mythos and not also mention Nathan's pencil-to-eye scenario from Jordan Eats Normally Now? ...it's also under the subfolder of Jordan Eats Normally Now.
Four is Death: Comes up a fair bit in the arc-numbers. Four-seventeen, in Eccentrically Bored. Three fours in Still Remains Within. Even lampshaded in brighter than a spoon when Tav hides something in PO Box 444.
In Out of the Spent and Unconsidered Earth, the word City is always in blue, just like a certain House.
Unreliable Narrator: The narrator to Out of the Spent and Unconsidered Earth certainly turns out to be.
Wham Episode: Oh, there have been plenty throughout the blogs so far.
Tropes for Eccentrically Bored / Hidden in the Trees
And I Must Scream: The ultimate fate of everyone is to be enslaved by the Archangel after death, trapped in a body that moves in accordance with another's will for all eternity. The Archangel is the afterlife after all...
Fantastic Drug: The mysterious pills that Joey took for a while in Eccentrically Bored
A Form You Are Comfortable With: The Archangel has no body of its own, and must interact with our world by using the bodies of the dead. Its favored form seems to be a man in a gas mask and hoodie.
Fridge Horror: In a mythos full of nasty monsters that can kill you in all sorts of interesting ways, the Blind Man seems rather tame. He doesn't even kill his victims, he just wanders around libraries, collecting childhoods... then the idea of losing your entire childhood sinks in...
Only Known by Their Nickname: The Archangel's messages seem to imply that this is the case for all the Fears, and that the names humans have given them are no their true names. For example, the Archangel only ever refers to Slender Man as "STRANGER."
Prophetic Name: Joey Steward. A Steward is a kind of household servant, and the blog ends with Joey becoming a proxy to Slender Man. To signify this change, he even drops his first name and just calls himself "Steward"
Villain Protagonist: Hidden in the Trees stars a character who underwent a particularly brutal Face Heel Turn in the previous blog: Steward from Eccentrically Bored.
Tropes for Jordan Eats Normally Now
Arc Words: Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. And No one runs faster than you eat.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Sam only calls Jordan"DJay." Justified in that she never learned his first name in the Progression Enhanced entries. Becomes possible Fridge Brilliance when you realize that EAT does know Jordan's name, yet for the sake of keeping a good disguise, made Sam pretend she didn't.
Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere: The basic premise is the main character, Martin, is stuck in one of these (though it has plenty of food and water and a working laptop).
Tomato in the Mirror: "Martin" was never really Martin. He was always a Nightlander.
Anachronic Order: The beginning of the blog is straightforward, but then it skips from January to June. Jeanette slowly gives the posts from what happened between those months while also providing information about what she's doing now.
Canon Immigrant: The blog started independent of the Fear Mythos, but has recently been integrated into the world.
Lemony Narrator: Jeanette occasionally makes fun of her younger self's writing (calling it "too teenagery"). Keep in mind that this is her younger self by half a year.
Tarot Motifs: Jeanette is referred to as the Queen of Swords more than once. There's also the Jack of Thorns. Also the Queen of Cups and all of Penny Balisong's entries.
Kill 'Em All: Happens in the show-within-a-show in Debasing the Beef Canoe.
Marionette Motion: In Debasing the Beef Canoe, this happens at the end of the show-within-a-show when the Wooden Girl kills everyone and controls their corpses like puppets.
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