Im back on the creepypasta mental illness grind
Creepy pasta au, that nobody asked for? Coming right up yo
(Warning' this will make no sense because its just my mental illness projection onto this dead in the ditch fandom)
BEFORE THE SLENDER RECRUITMENT:
- In my fuckass au, the Woods family was obsessed with religion.
- They take it to the point of psychosis almost, which is mostly supported by the boys' mother.
- Their mother is named Maria Petrova Woods, she is a second generation Ukrainian immigrant. Hell yea. She comes from a crazy strict orthodox family. Due to past experiences and genetic factor, she developed some mental issues.
- Jeff in turn, inherited the genetic factors, much to his obliviousness regarding the, later on, similarities between himself and his mom,.
- Liu, on the other hand, is much more sound of mind and can notice the oddities that both Jeff and their mother shared in terms of beliefs and personal codes.
- Their mother never went to a psychiatrist, as her family and general circle of people, drilled into her head the delusion that God will always show her the right path and, not some person that's "trying to lure you into the Devil's claw" (psychiatrist telling you to take your goddamn meds)
- The Woods family is seen as one of the nicest in town, most righteous and whatnot, though, nobody knows how much shit actually goes down behind closed doors.
- The boys' mother would be the instigator of verbal, even physical abuse at times, mostly aimed at Jeff, who never took too kindly of religion all together, unlike his older brother. Which their mother considered to be a "fair gentleman".
- I view Jeff as this stupid edgy teen, who thought he was soooo woke and cool for seeing through "the lies" of his family and overall community. Lies, referring to the blind faith put in God, while nonetheless being a horrible person when stepping out of the church.
- Liu has always been obedient and even as a hitman under Slenderman's order, he still holds dear to religion, as it is the only thing left to help him connect with the memories of their parents.
- As he got older, Liu started noticing how their mother isn't doing well mentally. Their father would later threaten to take her kids away, to which Liu would always side with their mother. Jeff wouldn't participate, at all. He never developed enough of a relationship with either of his parents. As at the time he was born, they were having fights all the time. Leaving him to seek closure with his older brother, sometimes. But in the end, choosing to isolate from everyone. Leading to further mental decline.
- Liu was raised with better parental care in comparison to Jeff, as their mother was more sound of mind during the older's early years. Meaning, he got to form a healthy relationship with both of his parents. Unfortunately, their father was always more on the colder side, which, left younger Liu to resent his own parent at times. Especially once growing into adolescence, and noticing how their father wasn't willing to support their mother through hardships.
- Blah blah blah, Jeff was the black sheep of a Christian family basically. Crawling in my skiiiiin.
- Liu thought of Jeff as "off putting" at times, but overall chose not to nitpick his behavior outloud, as, Jeff was his little sibling after all. And indirectly, Liu was the only stable and supporting parental figure that Jeff had. It would've been cruel to reject him, no matter what oddities lied in the corner of his mind. This sadly meant, Liu developed some helicopter parent instincts.
- Seeing as Jeff became more and more of a recluse, Liu tried getting to him, only for his attempts to fall on deaf ears. Sometimes he would even yell and berate Jeff for being so unwilling to open up about his troubles. Which were obviously getting worse as time went on. These slip ups of Liu's personal stress, led to a sort of ''guilty older sibling-emotionally stunted younger sibling'' dynamic. Which in turn, made Jeff turn to more violent coping mechanisms. Of course, these ''coping strategies'' happening due to his genetic background inherited from his mother's side, being triggered by years of bottled stress.
- Their father would later down the timeline, go out a lot. Which is never addressed but considered as him cheating. Liu and Jeff's mother would turn to drinking more often than not. Leaving Liu to take care of her, despite his underlying frustration with what kind of role she was imposing on Jeff.
FACTS ABOUT THE BROTHERS OVERALL:
- There is a 5 year age gap between Liu (23) and Jeff (18)
- Jeff's full name in this au is "Jeffrey Noah Woods"
- Liu's full name in this au is "Louis Andrew Woods"
- Jeff is actually insanely good at art, but once his mental health started spiraling. Instead of the usual nature and portraits, he started drawing violent imagery (way before his first physical attempts at harm). This habit was the first trigger for Liu to try to get his brother to open up, even a little bit.
- Jeff and his mother are naturally the blondest blondes out there. Like whitest of the whitest. Jeff uses black dye to do his hair after the accident. Ha. Emo.
- On that note, Jeft is basically a genderbent of his mother in terms of everything. Which later became a problem for him.
- The bullies accident did happen, but Jeff didn't get bleached. His bullies were drunk as hell and Jeff walked in their "area". Vodka bottles were laying around. One of them got pissed off by his "big talk" in response to their....suggestive comments. And basically thought "this oughta be lit yall, check this out" ok im sorry. But yea, they set blondie over here on fire. Fled the scene too, haha. Yea Jeff had a nice life!
- Both brothers were and ARE some breed of alternative.
- Jeff is leaning towards very early emo teen aesthetic. Though, he only got to dress as he pleased, after he killed his whole family, lol. He did have a somewhat emo haircut early on tho.
-Liu would've dressed grunge if his parents allowed to.
- Jeff's mental issues are never addressed but it would most likely be Schizoaffective disorder, while their mother has shown more preeminent signs of Borderpolar.
- Liu has developed OCD with time during late childhood.
AFTER SLENDER RECRUITMENT:
- Liu joined first and is a subcategory of proxies. Not as important as Masky, Hoodie or Toby, though, close to the ranks.
- With time, Liu has become respected in the whole mansion and most creepypastas consider him extremely level headed for his age. Though, he is known to not enjoy social interaction nor small talk.
- Jeff joined Slender's circle much later. As he was skittish and doubtful of its cult. haha religious ptsd, point and laugh at this loser.
- Jeff has little actual coherence. He can function, somewhat but his memory is shit. As well as self preservation and other things like that. He's good for killing tho.
- Jeff is closest with Ben, Nina and Toby. In that order, followed by Liu, Eyeless Jack and Hoodie. He views them as non threatening and less frustrating than the rest. One because half of those people barely talk, and two because the other half doesn't judge or piss him off.
- Smile Dog and Jeff do NOT get along in this au. If they cross paths they're just gonna hiss at each other and stare, (It maked sense in Smile's case, but don't ask why Jeff hisses back. He's doing his best. I think.)
- Toby and Ben don't understand most of the things Jeff talks about. They never even invite him to things, the guy just inserts himself in random convos, drops something with no context and will get upset if the people he's talking to ignore him.
- When Jeft first started working for Slender, this behavior used to make Ben feel awkward. Toby would just side eye him and gradually become irritated with the constant rambling. Over the years, they lowkey got used to him and are actually.....somewhat fond of the guy.
Not in a normal sense, obviously. Nobody would truly, TRULY care if Jeff just died one day or got caught by the police. Maybe just Liu, and even he would mourn for maybe like, a day at most. But Ben and Toby probably feel at least some sort of weird familiarity to the guy.
Similar to how stray dogs sometimes follow you home. At first its annoying, but with time, you kinda cant imagine a reality where they arent there.
- If ignored or otherwise feeling as if he's being made fun of, Jeff will literally keep asking the other person if they're belittling him. Sometimes that isn't even true though, and he just interrupts people's convos whenever he thinks it's about him. Haha I love my self indulgent alternate universes.
- Most creepypastas despise Jeff and think he's not stable or functional enough to be a recruit. Especially because he has times forgotten crucial instructions given from Slendermsn. Not to mention ignored or defied. Others think he gets special treatment, some sort or privilege. In reality, Jeff just does the killing part well. Slenderman doesn't give a damn what the guy does besides that.
- Jeff hates Slenderman, because the thing treats him as more of an animal than anything else. It doesn't talk to him as it does to other creepypastas, it uses this slow deliberate tone to give, basic orders and instructions. It makes Jeff feel belittled. Do you see a pattern yet.
- Oh and also Jeff has no idea how technology works, he can probably pick up a call, but he doesn't recognize people by voice at all. So, creepypastas either don't call him, or whenever they need to, they state who they are. Which usually needs to be a fairly descriptive passage, as Jeff also doesn't know people by name. Bear with my guy ok, he's doing his best. He's actually not but what can you really do.
- Ben talks in tiktok slang and somehow, Jeff picked up on how to use it. Maybe a little too often.
Hell yeah this is all schizophrenic rambling. I love having free will.
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