Heads up any and all of this is subject to change as I grow the idea and fledge it out but this is what it is for now. Y’all are welcome to ask abt it!
Everyone but Sally is over 18 (if I did the math right but that’s the intention) no ship war discourse under this pls and thank you💕
(1/21/25 edit) gonna have ticciwork be end game and ticcijeff just be a fling.
Hopefully I got everyone lol it’s a lot I feel fucking insane rn looking at this
Friends:
Ej & Liu
Ej & Toby
Liu & Jane
Liu & Helen
Nina & Ben
Lulu & Kate
Cody & Ben
Cody & Nat
Cody & Helen
Toby & Kate & Brain & Tim
One sided Ann towards Kate
Bffs:
Ann & Lulu
Jeff & Ben
Nina & Nat & Toby
Tim & Brian
Complicated:
Sally has complicated feelings about all the others as a ghost stuck at 10 but is technically one of the oldest.
Liu has mixed and very complicated feelings toward his brother
EJ’s feelings toward Dina is because she reminds him of his sister but she keeps trying to kill him
What if all the creeps were connected somehow? Even by coincidence
They’d all be connected through the same few towns/cities/the woods.
Jeff Jane Nina are easiest to connect.
Jeff and Jane went to the same school we can easily retcon Nina to have been a grade or two under them in the same school. (Jeff and Liu lived there for like a year before everything went down)
Jack is originally from the same town as them before he went to college and even passed by the kids during winter break while visiting home. (My version of Jack doesn’t age so brother is like stuck at mid 20’s until something kills him). And maybe Liu had a kid crush on him (16 vs 20, his gay awakening lol).
Jane working a summer at a summer camp where she meets clockwork before becoming clockwork and before Jeff hurt Jane.
Helen being bullied by the same kids that bullied Toby. Escaping into local woods to catch a fucking break. Maybe he’s on a small cliff and sees the Toby and Lyra accident happen. (He’d be in the same school as them but Toby and Lyra would be too focused on their own issues to worry abt rumors of a dude stealing a watch).
Ben drowns in the woods Helen likes to escape to. Funnily enough the lake Helen likes to sketch the most bc it’s peaceful is the lake Ben drowned in.
Perhaps his cartridge is bought by the Woods brothers at a garage sale before he starts driving people to die, they never get to play it because of what happened so it gets sold in a estate sale.
Tim comes from the same town as Toby. It’s his hometown and he avoids it like the plague. Having been put into the psych ward as a young kid.
This is the same psych ward Liu get put into after Jeff kills their family and tries to kill Liu, and Liu develops DID? Idk but bros going through it.
Brian and Tim meet at college (before Jack is in college) and Marble Hornets happens. I want to specify Jack and them would go to different colleges bc Tim tries to completely leave his past behind when he moves to Alabama.
In the city Jack goes to college there are 2 prominent cults. The one that sacrifices him to Chernobog. And the one that see’s Dina as the reincarnation/vessel for Belobog. These two are counterparts Chernobog of darkness and chaos and Belogo of light and goodness. One vessel forced to lose his humanity and struggling with the new life he has and the other raised and accepting of her role becoming the god she believes herself to be. These two do not get along Jack tries to understand her and her motivations in his anguish but she tries to kill him seeing him as an enemy and a stain.
Maybe Kate is also from the same town as Tim and Toby. Something about sourcing all his proxies from the same specific town… I think they need to have something overlapping though. Maybe they all explored the woods at young ages to escape their respective issues. Toby avoiding his step dad and bullies the woods being the only safe space he has that isn’t his sister. Tim stumbling upon Slender’s “resting” site he accidentally sets him free and that’s why Slender starts going after him first. Kate exploring the woods and mines getting slender sick from prolonged time out there.
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.
So I might change Toby’s end game ship in binding threads bc I’ve been thinking abt it. I’m not super into ticcijeff outside of a “I wanna watch them beat eachother up and then make out w blood in their mouths” type of thing so I think I’m gonna swap his end game to be w clockwork as I enjoy ticciwork more than ticcijeff
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