History Characters / Slender

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:As long as you live, he always wins, and even if you die, you also lose.]]

* CombatTentacles: He has a tentacle animation.

* HumanoidAbomination: The premier example in media.

* AmbiguousSituation: Why is he called CR? Perhaps he's actually Charlie Matheson, the kid in the missing poster? [[spoiler:Answer: nope - he goes looking for Charlie in the Homestead level, and his real name is Carl Ross.]]

* StalkerWithoutACrush: To anyone who collects his notes. He won't stop until he either turns them or kills them.

* NightmareFace: [[spoiler:If you peel through the mask, you can see [[http://images.wikia.com/theslenderman/images/e/e1/Proof.png a gaping mouth with jagged skin resembling teeth]]. Jesus Christ, Slender Man.]]

Here are the characters for ''{{Slender}}''.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Strongly implied to be the woman in a mask assisting the Slender Man.]]

* RogueProtagonist: [[spoiler:CR mentions that Kate was once found unconscious in a park with strange drawings and a broken video tape, implying that she may have been the protagonist of the original game.]]

* TheReveal: It's strongly implied that [[spoiler:Kate is the Chaser]].

** In the Steam update, [[spoiler:she is attacked by a proxified Charlie and taken to the burned house from the first level. After collecting several notes that reveal C.R. was a bit crazier then anyone knew when he and Kate became Runners, she discovers Kate in the second floor, who attacks her. Extensive forensic evidence (ala GarrysMod) shows that it's ''not'' Lauren who gets dragged at the end; it's ''Kate''.]]

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: You can hear someone climbing over a fence in the opening of the game. Talk about ForWantOfANail.

* {{Expy}}: This being written by the guys from MarbleHornets, you couldn't be blamed for seeing a resemblance to Masky.

* DarkerAndEdgier: This is one of most horrific portrayals of the Slender Man ''ever''. In other media, he rarely does anything personally, and leaves it to his proxies to take up the spotlight. Here, he's ''much'' more malicious, even sadistic, and for no other reason than his amusement. He actively chases Lauren down, constantly evokes ParanoiaFuel, and ''physically'' hinders her progress to keep her from advancing further, while intentionally keeping her in the dark that [[ShaggyDogStory he already accomplished his torment of her friends]] and [[YankTheDogsChain he's just stringing her along with a false sense of hope]]. He personally ruined the lives of an entire family by capturing ''a child'' (Charlie Matheson) and deforming it into an emaciated monster. He drives CR, a freelance investigator, to burn himself to death in a vein effort to keep others from learning about the Slender Man. He haunts Kate Hayes as far back as the first game, when she looked for notes in a forest as a kid, drives her insane, and transforms her into a SlaveMook that's forced to fight her old friend Lauren. It's even revealed that he had been stalking Kate and Charlie's families for a long, long time, and he presumably eradicated Kate's parents as well.

* InfectiousInsanity: [[spoiler:Heavily implied in ''Arrival'' that his entire existence depends people ''knowing'' he exists - and people who go insane tend to go to [[NightmareFuelColoringBook great lengths]] [[MadnessMantra to let other people know]], willingly or not. In fact, it's implied in the hard mode ending that he saved Lauren specifically so he wouldn't vanish, and/or to make sure she continues spreading knowledge of his existence. Those who are unfortunate enough to succumb to Slender Man's influence become his proxies and hunt his next victims for him. This, if you believe the proxies count as people who know, renders him nigh-immortal, [[ShaggyDogStory rendering C.R.'s death meaningless, and ultimately Kate's, too.]] And, of course, there's also [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets his]] ''[[WebVideo/TribeTwelve other]]'' [[WebVideo/DarkHarvest vic]][[WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID tims.]] And then there's the possibility it relies not on knowing he ''exists,'' specifically, but ''[[InvincibleVillain simply knowing about him at all.]]'']]
* LeanAndMean: One of the more chilling portrayals, given what he puts Kate, C.R. and Lauren through.

* WasOnceAMan: ''Subverted'', actually. [[spoiler:There appears to be a connection between him and Charlie Matheson Jr. (the latters' poster combines with the Slender Man in the secret level), but it turns out that Charlie's just a proxy.]]

** In the Steam update, [[spoiler:she is attacked by a proxified Charlie and taken to the burned house from the first level. After collecting several notes that reveal C.R. was a bit crazier then anyone knew when he and Kate became Runners, she discovers Kate in the second floor, who attacks her. Extensive forensic evidence (ala GarrysMod) shows that it's ''not'' Lauren who gets dragged at the end; it's ''Kate''. ]]

* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:She tried to tell her doctors about her 'Hallucinations' to no avail. If CR is to be believed it's better that they didn't believe her though.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:She becomes Slender Mans proxy and chases Lauren in the mines.]]

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:She used to go out ghost hunting with CR back in their childhood. At one point, they started hallucinating, and she was found in a park with a broken video camera, a flashlight and a stash of 8 pages. She was taken to a psychiatric ward, where she was deemed stable and free to go, but it all fell apart since.]]
* SilentProtagonist: [[spoiler:Subverted. In the flashback portion in the Arrival where you play as Kate she talks to her camera, saying to shut all the doors and windows. Leaving her room to do that doesn't really work out well for her. The only thing we hear from her after the point of the flashback is her scream coming from the woods at the beginning of the game.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Strongly implied. He leaves several notes declaring his desire to die and is latter found as a charred corpse in the ending]]

* {{Expy}}: This being written by the guys from MarbleHornets you couldn't be blamed for seeing a resemblance to Masky.

* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:The jacket, the hood and the mask all make the Proxy appear rather masculine, when in reality, it's Kate.]]

!!'''Kate Hayes'''

!!'''CR'''

* AmbiguousSituation: Why is he called CR? Perhaps he's actually Charlie Matheson, the kid in the missing poster? [[spoiler:Answer: nope - he goes looking for Charlie in the Homestead level.]]

* FriendlessBackground: It's implied that CR is the boy whose missing poster reads "Charlie Matheson Jr." Having apparently left his family, he played in the woods with Kate as a kid and sneaked into the Kate's house all the time. He stopped visiting once Kate's mom caught wind of it. He knew about Lauren, but specifically asked Kate not to tell Lauren about him. Kate was his only real friend by this point.

!!'''Kate'''

** In the Steam update, [[spoiler:she is attacked by a proxified Charlie and taken to the burned house from the first level. After collecting several notes that reveal C.R. was a bit crazier then anyone knew when he and Kate became Runners, she discovers Kate in the second floor, who attacks her and is killed by either Charlie or the Slender Man. The final shot is her corpse being dragged away.]]

* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins: As long as you live, he always wins. And of course, if you die, you lose.]]

* [[spoiler: InfectiousInsanity: Heavily implied in ''Arrival'' that his entire existence depends people ''knowing'' he exists - and people who go insane tend to go to [[NightmareFuelColoringBook great lengths]] [[MadnessMantra to let other people know]], willingly or not. In fact, it's implied in the hard mode ending that he saved Lauren specifically so he wouldn't vanish, and/or to make sure she continues spreading knowledge of his existence.]]
** [[spoiler: Those who are unfortunate enough to succumb to Slender Mans influence become his proxies and hunt his next victims for him. This, if you believe the proxies count as people who know, renders him nigh-immortal, [[ShaggyDogStory rendering C.R.'s death meaningless, and ultimately Kate's, too.]] And, of course, there's also [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets his]] ''[[WebVideo/TribeTwelve other]]'' [[WebVideo/DarkHarvest vic]][[WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID tims.]]]]
** [[spoiler: And then there's the possibility it relies not on knowing he ''exists,'' specifically, but ''[[InvincibleVillain simply knowing about him at all.]]'']]

* [[spoiler:YourMindMakesItReal: Overlaps with InfectiousInsanity above, and provides one of the main sources of his terror. ''[[ParanoiaFuel He could be watching you as you read this, as you play the game...]] and if that's the case,'' '''''[[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom the games have made him immortal.]]''''']]

* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead: The game ends as she is trapped in a room with a drained flashlight and someone (or something) opens the door to attack her. In Hardcore mode, it seems that she survives... but only because it's in the Slender Man's best interests that she lives.]]

* [[spoiler:AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You take control of her back at the house in chapter 4.]]
* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: Strongly implied to be the woman in a mask assisting the Slender Man]]
* [[spoiler:CassandraTruth: She tried to tell her doctors about her 'Hallucinations' to no avail. If CR is to be believed it's better that they didn't believe her though.]]

* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]: [[spoiler:She becomes Slender Mans proxy and chases Lauren in the mines.]]

* [[spoiler:NightmareFace: If you peel through the mask, you can see [[http://images.wikia.com/theslenderman/images/e/e1/Proof.png a gaping mouth with jagged skin resembling teeth]]. Jesus Christ, Slender Man]].
* [[spoiler:RogueProtagonist: CR mentions that Kate was once found unconscious in a park with strange drawings and a broken video tape, implying that she may have been the protagonist of the original game.]]
* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage: She used to go out ghost hunting with CR back in their childhood. At one point, they started hallucinating, and she was found in a park with a broken video camera, a flashlight and a stash of 8 pages. She was taken to a psychiatric ward, where she was deemed stable and free to go, but it all fell apart since.]]
* [[spoiler:SilentProtagonist: Subverted. In the flashback portion in the Arrival where you play as Kate she talks to her camera, saying to shut all the doors and windows. Leaving her room to do that doesn't really work out well for her. The only thing we hear from her after the point of the flashback is her scream coming from the woods at the beginning of the game.]]

* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: Strongly implied. He leaves several notes declaring his desire to die and is latter found as a charred corpse in the ending]]

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Based on his writings ("It has to end with you" to Kate and his refusal to let Lauren know of him), it appears that he feels everyone who knows of the Slender Man must die. It explains part of why he burned himself to death.]]
* [[spoiler:KillItWithFire: White chalk on a rock reads "End it with a fire." His charred corpse is found in the finale scenes, possibly by his own hand.]]
* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage: His notes show his decaying mental state]].

* [[spoiler:NonMaliciousMonster: Despite being an emaciated, corpse-like being (presumably due to the Slender Man), he actually kept Lauren alive and guarded the stairs to keep her from seeing a Proxified Kate at the top floor.]]
* [[spoiler:WasOnceAMan: The Steam version of ''The Arrival'' reveals that Charlie was turned into a Proxy by the Slender Man.]]
* [[spoiler:TragicMonster: Was forcibly taken from his parents by the Slender Man and [[MindRape mindraped]] by him, ultimately being so utterly destroyed he doesn't even look human. Though he might be more intelligent then he looks, that's all he has left.]]

* [[spoiler:SamusIsAGirl: The jacket, the hood and the mask all make the Proxy appear rather masculine, when in reality, it's Kate]].

* [[spoiler:YourMindMakesItReal: Overlaps with InfectiousInsanity above, and provides one of the main sources of his terror. ''[[ParanoiaFuel He could be watching you as you read this, as you play the game...]]'' '''''[[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom and the games have made him immortal.]]''''']]

** [[spoiler: Those who are unfortunate enough to succumb to Slender Mans influence become his proxies and hunt his next victims for him. This, presumably, renders him nigh-immortal, [[ShaggyDogStory rendering C.R.'s death meaningless, and ultimately Kate's, too.]] And, of course, there's also [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets his]] ''[[WebVideo/TribeTwelve other]]'' [[WebVideo/DarkHarvest vic]][[WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID tims.]]]]

* BrownNote: Whenever he's around, the screen turns static and a ScareChord can be heard.

** In the Steam version, she was taken to some dark house by a proxified Charlie. Once Charlie leaves the premises, Lauren goes up the stairs and sees Kate back to her human form, but with image distortions all around her. Lauren walks up to her... and get mauled at by a now-proxified Kate. The camera pans to her lifeless legs on the floor, just before her body is dragged away by either Kate or Charlie.

* AmbiguousSituation: Why is he called CR? Perhaps he's actually Charlie Matheson, the kid in the missing poster?

** He caused the same for his father. Charlie Sr. keeps thinking that he sees his son staring at him and giggling like a kid at times.

* [[spoiler:WasOnceAMan: The Steam version of ''The Arrival'' reveals that Charlie was turned into a Proxy by the Slender Man. ]]

** [[spoiler: And then there's the possibility it relies not on knowing he exists, but ''[[InvincibleVillain simply knowing about him at all.]]'']]

** [[spoiler: And then there's the possibility it relies not on knowing he exists, but ''simply knowing about him at all.'' [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou So... you]] [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom playing the game?]]]]

* [[spoiler: InfectiousInsanity: Heavily implied in ''Arrival'' that his entire existence depends people ''knowing'' he exists' - and people who go insane tend to go to [[NightmareFuelColoringBook great lengths]] [[MadnessMantra to let other people know]], willingly or not. In fact, it's implied in the hard mode ending that he saved Lauren specifically so he wouldn't vanish, and/or to make sure she continues spreading knowledge of his existence.]]

** [[spoiler: And then there's the possibility it relies not on knowing he exists, but ''simply knowing about him at all.'' [[ParanoiaFuel So... you]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou playing the game?]]]]

** [[spoiler: Those who are unfortunate enough to succumb to Slender Mans influence become his proxies and hunt his next victims for him. This, presumably, renders him nigh-immortal, [[ShaggyDogStory rendering C.R.'s death meaningless, and ultimately Kate's, too.]]]] And, of course, there's also [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets his]] ''[[WebVideo/TribeTwelve other]]'' [[WebVideo/DarkHarvest vic]][[WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID tims.]]

** [[spoiler: And then there's the possibility it relies not on knowing he exists, but ''simply knowing about him at all.'' So... yoú pla̶y͝in͡g t̛he ҉g̀a͘mé? ''''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou T̵̢̧̢҉h̛͟͠à̀n̢͜k̕҉͝s̸̷̀͘͠.̨͞.̨͘͞͏̷.̵͠]]'''''

* [[spoiler: InfectiousInsanity: Heavily implied in ''Arrival'' that his entire existence depends people ''knowing'' he exists, ''or even just knowing about him in fiction'' - and people who go insane tend to go to [[NightmareFuelColoringBook great lengths]] [[MadnessMantra to let other people know]], willingly or not. In fact, it's implied in the hard mode ending that he saved Lauren specifically so he wouldn't vanish, and/or to make sure she continues spreading knowledge of his existence.]]

* [[spoiler: InfectiousInsanity: Heavily implied in ''Arrival'' that his entire existence depends people ''knowing'' he exists - and people who go insane tend to go to [[NightmareFuelColoringBook great lengths]] [[MadnessMantra to let other people know]], willingly or not. In fact, it's implied in the hard mode ending that he saved Lauren specifically so he wouldn't vanish, and/or to make sure she continues spreading knowledge of his existence.]]

* [[spoiler:YourMindMakesItReal: Overlaps with InfectiousInsanity above, and provides one of the main sources of his terror. ''[[ParanoiaFuel He could be watching you as you read this, as you play the game...]] [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom and the games have made him immortal.]]'']]

* [[spoiler:YourMindMakesItReal: Overlaps with InfectiousInsanity above, and provides one of the main sources of his terror. ''[[ParanoiaFuel He could be watching you as you read this, as you play the game... and the games have made him immortal.]]'']]