#sv thoughts

[character-kai]

I want a slenderverse series where someone moves to the city in an attempt to get away from slenderman but then they start seeing him a utility poles and lamps instead of trees. He starts taking in the characteristics of the city, and the mc gets lost in back alleys like how one might get lost deep in the woods. I want undefineable buildings and unending hallways without windows. Cctv footage and blacked out apartments.

[skimmer-vode]

we really lost so much when "rights of the accused" became "rights of criminals" didn't we

[joycecarolnotes]

some feelings I'll probably regret articulating:

this is most likely a wildly unpopular take (as anything sympathetic toward richard generally is) but I really felt for him in the new episode! jared resigned without giving him a chance to negotiate or really any advance warning that he was unhappy with his position, and in the process hurt richard by treating him like a burden and "encumbrance" and then throwing away their friendship. and when richard did try to negotiate to get him back at the company, he refused to consider the offer because "loyalty" means being blindly faithful to whoever your latest boss is? (aside: the idea that jared's feelings toward gwart are the same as his feelings toward richard in season one doesn't make sense to me either; sure gwart is helpless and jared gravitates toward that but he didn't want to work with richard because he was helpless! he wanted to work with richard because watching richard turn down gavin's money was magical and inspirational! and then richard actually asked for his help because he was able to admit he didn't know enough to craft a business plan on his own.) I also don't understand the read that richard was being manipulative; the way he tried to nudge jared to go inside and just quit felt a little distasteful but otherwise it seemed like a pretty normal case of a friend asking for advice and an employer attempting to negotiate, offering jared what he wants and a chance to redefine his role (and when jared says "you let me go" after framing his resignation as such a done deal, that feels unfair to me)? I feel like people who see everything richard does as selfish and manipulative are the same people who think a friend should venmo request another friend for "emotional labor" after talking to them.

[character-kai]

Also something I've noticed is HABIT's general disregard for the health of his vessel. We see this mostly in Evan obviously, but also in the few times we see glimpses of his others. Compared to Evan, HABIT eats mainly junk food, if he eats at all. He also tends to prefer to tank attacks in favor of avoiding them (I mean what's really the point where you're semi? emortal)

Part of me wonders if this is just another way of torturing Evan. HABIT seems to enjoy certain kinds of pain, but I don't think he necessarily gets anything out of himself being harmed. I think he more so enjoys that he's hurting Evan, and "hurting" himself just so happens to be a consequence of that. One he is largely indifferent to.

[character-kai]

I’ve just re read the Marble Hornets comics and I wanted to give so thoughts.

One thing that is really interesting to me is the fact that Jessica (and others) now see the visual tearing and glitches as real life hallucinations. A scene that this particularly stands of me is the ending of issue 4 with Amy. Her face distorts in a similar way to how the footage did in Marble Hornets.

Further more, I have lots of thoughts regarding the Operator’s correlation with (for lack of a better term) facial blindness. Jessica says that after Rosswood, she began having issues with recognizing faces. This, combined with how Alex somehow mistook the man in the tunnel for Jay (despite seeing his face) leads me to believe that this may be one of the less documented symptoms of the slender sickness. Despite how relevant it seems to the comics.

As someone with facial blindness, when I look away from someone for even a moment I have absolutely no memory of their appearance other than a smear of color and collection of shapes (if I’m lucky.) Usually upon seeing someone again, I’ll recognize them. But if they say for example changed their hair, it’s not likely I would know who they are. If I go for long periods of time without seeing someone it becomes even more difficult. Now imagine all that, along with frequent memory loss.

This gets me thinking of the masks so many of the most infected tend to wear. Skully, Masky, Hoody. All easily recognizable. While Tim and Masky are almost entirely different people, Brian and Hoody seem to be (at least for the most part) the same person. For Tim the mask may be a way of separating his two identities. But for Brian it feels much more like a way for him to recognize himself through a haze of depersonalization.

As we begin to see Adam follow down a similar path to Alex I start to also see some reoccurring archetypes in the ‘cycle.’ Listed below.

The host - The origin and source of the virus. (Tim, Jessica)

The transmitter - The way in which the virus spreads. (Jay, Taylor)

The aggressor - The virus causes them to act aggressively towards their peers. Often to the point of extreme violence. Usually causes the start of the new cycle (Alex, Adam)

The Operator - Self explanatory

[character-kai]

Rosswood pt 4 thoughts

- Voice mimicking is much more relevant than it was in the og series

- Alex says "everything is gonna be fine" right before coughing and going to look for the source of the sound

- just like previous episodes, that low humm is still present

- Alex's obsessive filming has returned at full force, even prioritizing it over his and Jay's health

- Interesting parallel to the in universe marble hornets ie: nothing being the same after college and seeing all your friends move in with life, and Alex's character in rosswood

- Alex being largely unable to speak properly late in the episode, not unlike some other characters we know

[character-kai]

I don't think there's a single slenderverse character I genuinely dislike (out of the main 4 at least, a few others too.) When I was younger maybe, like 12 or 13 I went through the obligatory "Alex is terrible" and "Vinny is a bad person" phase. But I got out of that pretty quickly I feel. That's something I really enjoy about sv series, no one is really a good person. Even the protagonists do some downright deplorable shit, and i think that when you pretend your favorite character has done no wrong you loose so much of what makes them an actual good character.

[character-kai]

I don't know how to describe it but slenderverse has a music genre associated with it in my mind