What would the slasher bois be like if they didn't meet Reader?
Not good!
Good thing for them because there is one! They wouldn't have broken up during their first year of college because there was no reader to make Soleil think twice! So they would have stayed together and have less turmoil in their relationship during college. They maybe would have made it longer before killing because reader wasn't around to help push Soleil's motive.
Bad thing for them! They would have been way more reckless about killing, and probably would have kept doing it way more than they should have. They probably would have been caught by now and would be in deep shit. I don't think they could have gotten out of it. At least with reader around, they were being much more careful than they probably would have liked. Sure they thought of what to do to make sure they were trying to be sneaky and not be caught, but with the way they were killing, it's kind of hard to ignore and not place suspicion that couldn't have been displaced by a reader somehow being involved. And reader wouldn't have ruined their fun during sprees! Those college students would have had much worse times with their killer personas!
They honestly would probably be a little colder. Lacey probably would have died in that first spree she was in despite being innocent. They probably wouldn't know of Steven at all. They would be stuck in their own little world of each other and being just the two of them forever. They wouldn't have let anyone else in. With Soleil not breaking up with Atlas, it wouldn't give him the chance to learn that other people need to be able to be in his life, so anyone that came too close to Soleil probably would have been a victim. Soleil wouldn't have learned he needed more than just Atlas all the time, (even if he is still stuck in just Atlas and the reader right now.) They'd be much more closed off and probably a lot more suspicious. I think they'd try less to cover their attitudes towards people.
Overall, just much much worse in general with everyone but each other. They'd be cruel and lost. They wouldn't get the wake up calls needed in their life when you come around that they need. The reader teaches them good lessons that they desperately need to keep going and get better. They would never get the chance to get better without the unknowing help from reader. It would be their death sentence.













