Line #10 WebVideo/KeratinGarden


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:I don't think he was invited.]]
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4	->''Every night I close and lock this door, and every morning this week it's been open. I have two deadbolts. [...] [[DamselOutOfDistress I have to figure out what's going on]]''.
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6	[[HeroWithAUniqueName Story Parker]] is kind of new to the Website/YouTube beauty guru scene, but her passion for cool and quirkily-painted nails leads her to create a manicure channel nonetheless. Her first view videos go over quite well, until she starts receiving gory trinkets in the mail, losing periods of time, and repeatedly seeing [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos a tall, thin someone out of the corner of her eye]]....
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8	As she records and investigates the increasingly unsettling occurrences that seem to be following her, Story finds herself embroiled in [[TheConspiracy the elaborate workings of]] [[FrontOrganization a pharmaceutical company called]] [[ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming Ajax]], whose pill "Vivirten" is ''supposed'' to prevent patients from seeing the Slender Man, [[GoneHorriblyWrong but which sometimes has]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the entirely opposite effect]].
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10	''Keratin Garden'' was another addition to the Slenderverse, and notable for being [[ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet one of the few 'Verse contributions to feature a primarily-female cast]]. Unfortunately, after an extended hiatus (beginning in 2015), the series was officially ended by its creator.
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12	!! This show provides examples of:
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14	* ArcWords: References to Literature/TheIliad appear ''everywhere'', from its ISBN number being used as part of a code to a note on Story's refrigerator to "[[{{Foreshadowing}} call Ajax Pharmaceuticals]]".
15	** The security guards at Ajax make reference to [[ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming someone]] [[MeaningfulName named]] [[TheCassandra Cassandra]], and the founder's son [[spoiler:(who seems to have been one of Slender's victims way back in ''1902'')]] was named Hector.
16	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: In ''No. 22: Sleepwalking'' [[spoiler:the Black Dog claws Story's face pretty badly]], but aside from wearing a pair of band-aids in the next episode, the wounds are never mentioned or even visible again.
17	* {{Crossover}}: With WebVideo/WhisperedFaith in episodes 27 through 30.
18	* DeadpanSnarker: Story has her moments, especially in the comments.
19	--> "'''[=Viva9626=]'''": [[FridgeLogic Why did you film in the shower???]]
20	--> '''Story''': did it for the vine
21	* DistaffCounterpart: Could be viewed as this to WebVideo/MarbleHornets, but has a unique enough concept to stand on its own.
22	* DontAskJustRun: [[WebVideo/WhisperedFaith Lee]] to Story in episode 27, right before [[spoiler:she's attacked by the Rake]].
23	* FreezeFrameBonus: Slendy shows up very briefly in both the mirror in ''No. 8: Power Outage'' and in Lailah's backseat ([[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments with his head jammed sideways against the ceiling]]) in ''No. 10: Lailah''.
24	** The Black Dog is back as of ''No. 42 - The Colorado River''.
25	* GoryDiscretionShot: When Story wakes up after her [[spoiler:first run in with Ajax]], her camera lens is covered in blood. She follows the trail to the source and the screen blacks out for a second while she retches at whatever it was.
26	* {{Hellhound}}: The Black Dog.
27	* HeroWithAUniqueName: [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Who names their kid ''Story'']]?
28	* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Par for the course in the 'Verse.
29	* ItsAllMyFault: Story blames herself for [[spoiler:causing the death of the Ajax security guards]].
30	* ItsProbablyNothing: The girls assume that the creepy tall dude peering through their window is one of their brothers playing pranks.
31	* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Word-for-word in ''No. 30 - Exegesis''.
32	* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Pretty much a requirement given the subject matter.
33	* {{Reincarnation}}: Towards the end of the series, Story discovers that she is the most recent incarnation of a woman who has been reborn throughout time -- and that all of her past selves ''also'' had trouble with the Slender Man.
34	* SanitySlippage: ''No. 15''.
35	* ShoutOut:
36	** In ''No. 6: Sleepover'', Lailah wears a T-Shirt that reads "''[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Grey Wind & Lady & Nymeria & Summer & Shaggydog & Ghost]]''."
37	*** Might also double as {{Foreshadowing}} to the Black Dog that starts appearing as of Episode 22 (''Smoke Alarms'').
38	** Nikki has Film/HarryPotter cutouts all over her walls and listens to Music/MumfordAndSons.
39	* TeamPet: Darwin.
40	* TeleportationSickness: Story [[BloodFromTheMouth vomits blood]] after [[spoiler:being teleported back to Texas by the Slender Man]].
41	* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in ''No. 18: Back Home'' when Story says she spent a month at a mental health retreat and spoke to some professionals about what happened in ''No. 15''.
42	* VillainousRescue:
43	** Slender shows up just in time [[spoiler:to save Story, Lee, and Mo from the Rake and its cultists]].

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