I’m thinking abt my own versions of the creepypastas. So hear me out. What if EJ’s transformation happened slowly over the course of a few years instead of all at once?
Possible tw: body horror?, cannibalism (it’s Jack be fr rn), demonic shit, gore, slight self harm, slight religious themes?
After the “accident” he loses his eyes and gains the hunger for human flesh. Trying to survive w his morals intact. He isn’t able to see for a good while, relying on his other senses to lead him to food while in the woods. And while using these other senses they get stronger and stronger until they’re honed to be more sensitive than a dogs.
Year 1
He gains echolocation because his hearing gets so sensitive and during this time his ears grow pointed. The cartilage slowly growing and stretching over time, his ears bleeding as the tips poke through his skin and his healing gets quicker with every wound he gets during this time period. One of Jack’s few reprieves during this time is laying in the sun, even if he can no longer see the sunlight, he loves the feeling of the warm sun on his body. Somehow the changes to his body allow him to gain a sort of thermal vision. Jack tries to not think about the logistics of it as he’s just happy he runs into less inanimate objects with his thermal vision.
His normal human teeth falling/being pulled out while eating and a sharp shark like tooth would take its place instead. When they first started coming in, Jack was in fits of despair at losing what few links to his humanity he had left, he would begin to pull these sharp teeth out only for a new tooth to replace it a few hours later.
He finds an old abandoned cottage in the woods to hole up in sometime during this year.
Year 2
While hunting his nails grow long and hard similar to a large felines claws. The pain in his head would become unbearable as he continued to eat human flesh, the craving and pain getting worse the longer he went without eating. If he went too long without eating he would lose time and be forced into a feral sort of state going only by base instinct and the need to feed. This has happened three times as of the time he was taken in by the Slenderman, the first time it happened he woke up in the middle of a campground with multiple dead humans surrounding him in various stages of harm. Some with their stomachs open and the innards on display, faces mutilated with eyes plucked from their sockets, Jack’s hands covered in blood and the sweet taste of it coating his lips.
After a while he would begin to grow a tail from the small of his back this part made more sense to Jack as humans used to have tails but got rid of them through their evolution. But just because he understood it didn’t make it any less painful. At first the skin around the small of his back would grow soft and ache as bone started pushing its ways out of his body. The pain at this stage similar to a wisdom tooth poking through the gum. But when it finally ripped through his flesh Jack couldn’t move from the cave he made his home during these years. Curled up in a mess of mismatched cloth in a fetal position, the tar coming from his eyes flowing more freely as he cries in pain. It takes about a week of pain for his tail to fully form outside his body. What’s left is a sticky mess of black tar like blood and raw skin around the base. The next few days brown hair began to grow at the end of it, the same color as was atop his head.
Year 3
Judge Angel manages to track him down and begins ranting and raving about how evil and vile his mere existence is and how it is up to her “the chosen one” to rid this world of him. Jack tries to talk to her and explain he didn’t want this he just wanted to graduate Uni but she doesn’t listen to him. She attacks and he tries to defend himself, he doesn’t want to hurt this girl, she reminds him of his younger sister. He ends up getting harmed, his chest slashed by her sword and as he lays there in pain bleeding black blood he thinks to himself ‘maybe I should just let her kill me she’s not completely wrong, I’ve hurt too many people’. Before she can finish him off Slender intervenes and stops her.
He ends up being brought by the Slenderman and taken in into the UnderDark. He becomes the others doctor and had more freedom than the Proxies. He’s able to freely move between the UnderDark and Overworld for hunting. At first he’s very worried about being around humans especially when having to patch them up due to his hunger but gets used to it eventually.
It’s pretty cool that magic works without the threads now. Kinda like how money used to have actual worth when it was gold coins but now we trust paper to certify wealth or whatever money is?
Bronte says that mages somehow learned how to do the spells without the actual thread—though they can see the thread in their minds!
I also think the thread itself only has powers if a mage with matching speciality uses it. Like a True Mage could never use Shadow Thread to do any kind of magic, because shadow thread can only do shadow magic and only if a Shadow Mage is using it.
