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4	->''Oh Wanderer of Blazes, will you please pass me by?''
5	->''I am not worth your interest, so leave me here to die.''
6	->''As the flames close in and curl around this frigid winter night,''
7	->''I pray I will not see you coming, by the fire's light.'' - [[http://www.creepypasta.com/full-circle/ Full Circle]]
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9	A six story-arc creepypasta saga about the Slender Man written by one [[https://twitter.com/Star_Kindler Star Kindler]]. It starts with a single attack by the Slender Man on an unsuspecting young writer named Connor Russell and his friend Kurt Kent. From there it spirals out of control into a series of killings, during which things tend to go from FromBadToWorse.
10	This story harkens back to some of the earlier depictions of the Slender Man, including its association with children, fire, and its meta nature.
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12	The six stories in order are:
13	* [[http://www.creepypasta.com/by-the-fires-light/ By the Fire's Light]]- Main character Connor Russell
14	* [[http://www.creepypasta.com/the-wanderer-of-blazes/ The Wanderer of Blazes]] - Main character Dr. Ellen Kennedy
15	* [[http://www.creepypasta.com/the-nameless-one/ The Nameless One]] - Main characters Detective Carl Rourke and Mira Grolinsky
16	* [[http://www.creepypasta.com/the-curling-flames/ The Curling Flames]] - Main character Jared Holloway
17	* [[http://www.creepypasta.com/fighting-fate/ Fighting Fate]]- Main characters Detective Carl Rourke and Mira Grolinksy
18	* [[http://www.creepypasta.com/full-circle/ Full Circle]] - Main characters Detective Carl Rourke and Mira Grolinsky
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22	!!Tropes Associated with the By the Fire's Light series are:
23	!!Spoilers Below!
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25	* AndIMustScream: Slender Man traps his victims in a PocketDimension where they're constantly put through the pain of being burned alive, unable to die or escape.
26	* AnyoneCanDie: Anyone can. [[spoiler: And eventually, it's implied everyone pretty much does.]]
27	%% Should explain what the apocalypse entails * ApocalypseHow: In "Full Circle" [[spoiler:Scope: Planetary as a minimum Severity: Metaphysical Annihilation]]
28	%% Should explain the bad guy's goals and say that they were attained * TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: The Slender Man wins in the end.]]
29	* BatmanGambit:
30	** Detective Carl Rourke and Mira Grolinsky try to use Slender Man's meta nature against it. [[spoiler: This ends up blowing up in their faces ''spectacularly'', when they accidentally cause his powers to become stronger than ever.]]
31	** Slender Man plans one of these, menacing, but not killing, Connor Russel, because he knows that he's a writer, and expects him to utilize the trauma inflicted upon him as the basis for a book about Slender Man. It works, and Slendy [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness causes Connor's death afterwards]]. It's also subtly implied that Connor's death was a way for Slendy to help spread the word of the book via infamy, thus spreading his influence even wider.
32	%% Should explain that he causes the main conflict of the story * BigBad: The Slender Man is the main villain.
33	* TheBlank: The Slender Man, faceless as usual in stories it stars in.
34	* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Long before the events of the story, Slender Man was a creature without form or name, until it latches onto the identity of The Slender Man in order to affect events in the physical world. It's two-edged, however, because if people ''know'' Slender Man exists for real, they can use the force of belief to oppose it. [[spoiler: This ends up being how Detective Carl Rourke and Mira Grolinksy fight, and, eventually, lose to the Slender Man.]]
35	%% Should give examples of combat applications of the tentacles * CombatTentacles: Slender Man has tentacles and uses them aplenty.
36	* CosmicHorrorStory: The Slender Man is treated as an EldritchAbomination and hails from an EldritchLocation in story.
37	%% Should explain where he harkens from/what he's attempting to bring about* TheDarkTimes: Hinted to be where the Slender Man harkens from in "The Wanderer of Blazes"[[spoiler: and what it is attempting to bring about]]
38	* DecoyProtagonist: Connor Russell. Though he sets things in motion, the main protagonists end up being Mira Grolinsky and Detective Carl Rourke.
39	* DefiantToTheEnd:[[spoiler: Detective Carl Rourke and Mira Grolinsky go out telling Slender Man that they'll be the corner of light in the world of darkness he's trying to create.]]
40	%% Should explain what drove these characters to despair * DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Crossed by Jared Holloway in "Fighting Fate", where he [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself]]. Detective Carl Rouke and Mira Grolinksy teeter on the edge of it, but just manage not to cross it.]]
41	%% Should mention examples of them staying determined * {{Determinator}}: Detective Carl Rourke and Mira Grolinsky, two characters who team up in the last four stories to take down Slender Man. [[spoiler: They fail.]]
42	%% Should explain why that's a bad thing * DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Slender Man wins in the end.]]
43	* DrivenToSuicide: Several characters commit suicide, including Connor Russel, [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled who does so to rob Slendy of the satisfaction of taking him]], and [[spoiler:Jared Holloway, who takes his own life so that Slender Man can no longer use him as a pawn]].
44	%% Should explain his eldritch nature * EldritchAbomination: Slender Man, though somewhat uniquely he was like this long before he became what we recognize as Slender Man.
45	* EldritchLocation: A fiery dimension Slender Man hangs out in with its victims.
46	%% Should describe what the foreshadowing is and what is being foreshadowed exactly * {{Foreshadowing}}: Much of the endgame of the series is foreshadowed in "The Wanderer of Blazes" in the brief section that touches on the Slender Man's origins.
47	* FromBadToWorse: How the stories tend to arc. The series begins with Slender Man killing a teenage boy and ends [[spoiler:with the apocalypse]].
48	* GenreSavvy: Disturbingly, ''Slender Man'' shows a large amount of this. It runs off the belief of people who fear it, so [[spoiler:it kidnaps somewhere between hundreds to thousands of children and places them in a PocketDimension that they can't escape from, and makes them endure the agonizing pain of being burned alive perpetually]]. The main characters Detective Rourke and Mira Gorlinsky recognize that they can fight him through the power of belief, so they write a book where he has clearly defined weaknesses for them to exploit and gear up for a climactic showdown. [[spoiler:Slender Man realizes ''exactly'' what they're trying to do, and never shows up to fight them until he's so powerful that he no longer needs to feed off the power of belief, making all their preparations worthless and allowing him to start the end of the world.]]
49	%% Should explain what the revelation that makes Jared teeter on the edge is * GoMadFromTheRevelation: Surprisingly, no one really does this, though Jared Holloway teeters on the very edge.
50	* IHaveManyNames: The Slender Man, The Wanderer of Blazes, The Nameless One
51	%% Tries to invoke what? * IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Mira tries to invoke this with Jared in "Fighting Fate". [[spoiler: It doesn't work, or backfires outright, because Jared kills himself after it.]]
52	* ImNotAfraidOfYou: Dr. Ellen Kennedy tries this on Slender Man, insisting that Slender Man is a fictional ghost story that can't actually hurt her. Unfortunately, it only slows him down, since Slender Man is already too powerful to be stopped in this way.
53	* ImmuneToBullets: Rourke tries to shoot Slender Man, only to see to his horror that the bullets disappear when they make contact.
54	* ItCanThink: Slender Man successfully manipulates people into doing what it wants or thinking of ways to overcome their defenses.
55	%% What is his signature move? Also, would PlayingWithFire be a more fitting trope? * KillItWithFire: Slender Man's signature move in this series when it's not using its tendrils to slice people.
56	* LeanAndMean: It wouldn't be Slender Man if it wasn't tall, lean, and very mean.
57	* MindRape: Features heavily whenever Slender Man takes an interest in someone.
58	* MultipleChoicePast: The origin of Slender Man given in "The Wanderer of Blazes" might be true. Or it might only be retroactively true because people in-universe [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve believe in it.]]
59	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Mira and Rourke's efforts to create weaknesses to use against Slender Man causes them to accidentally lend more power to his usage of belief as an energy source, leading to Slender Man growing powerful enough to end the world. Despite this, Kurt Kent shows up just before the end to tell them that they likely only sped up the inevitable rather than outright causing it.]]
60	* OhCrap: Massive one in "The Curling Flames" towards the end when Jared Hollowed realizes he and Detective Carl Rourke have set themselves up for the Slender Man.
61	%% Who has those dreams and what happens in them? * PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Dreams feature as portents of things to come for several characters.
62	* {{Sadist}}: Slendy enjoys causing pain and torment to his victims. While he never says a word, body language and telepathic communication shows just how gleeful he is when causing harm.
63	* ShowWithinAShow: Two of them, which become plot points. Connor writes a book about Slender Man, which in turn gives him more power. Mira and Rourke end up writing another book about Slender Man in order to give him defined weaknesses to stop him with. [[spoiler:It ends up backfiring when they accidentally upgrade the power of belief he runs on.]]
64	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Several different variations on Slender Man's title, including slenderman and Slenderman, appear at some point during the story.
65	* TakingTheHeat: Slender Man tortures Jared into accepting the blame for Kurt Kent's murder.
66	%% Add context about the title drops, such as the relevant passage * TitleDrop: In "By the Fire's Light" and "Full Circle" receive normal title drops. "The Nameless One" gets a preemptive title drop in "The Wanderer of Blazes" and "The Wanderer of Blazes" gets one in "Full Circle".
67	* {{Tulpa}}: The Slender Man shares several aspects with one in this series. He started his life as a nameless and formless otherworldly monster, then took the name and form of the character we know as Slender Man using the power of belief and fear.
68	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
69	** The event that allows Slender Man to take shape in the first place is a brief, mediocre prank where Kurt throws a business suit at Connor. This is enough for a passing EldritchAbomination to latch onto and take Slender Man's name and likeness.
70	** Connor writes a book about Slender Man ten years after the initial attack. This only serves to give Slendy more power, spreading his name further than ever, and prompts him to re-emerge.
71	** Mira and Rourke write a book as well, this time inserting several discernable weaknesses that can be used to fight Slendy. [[spoiler:They inadvertently make the power of belief he runs on even stronger, which causes his power to boost so much that he becomes unstoppable.]]
72	* WouldHurtAChild: Slender Man targets children, naturally, though the method is especially notable [[spoiler:since they're permanently trapped in a world of his own making and are continuously put through the pain of being burned in a fire, with no way to die or get out.]]
73	%% Attempts to subvert what? * YouCantFightFate: The fifth story attempts to subvert this. It's even called "Fighting Fate"! [[spoiler: In the end though fate has its way.]]

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