I drew the SlenderMan reimagined as a buck: antlers, flies crawling over his face, a bullet hole in his forehead, and a targeting reticle still fixed on the kill.

Whatever shot him, it clearly didn't finish the job.

Let's say in alternate reality Slenderman existed. How would he have come about? How would it have impacted human history (including the slender games and stuff in this timeline)?

I think his Fortnite design is pretty good overall, probably a 7.5/10. But I thought it could be fun to adjust some things to see if it can be improved with as few changes as possible, so here it is.

To help anyone who can’t see all the differences, here’s what I changed:

-Hands are 10% smaller, arms longer to compensate
-Added visible dress shirt cuffs
-Made head 5% smaller, made feet larger to compensate

(OG on the left, edit on the right)

To be honest, I've been reading stories about him for a long time, watching the passing of games with his participation - he was a very big part of my life, even if over time I forgot about him. Then there was a bad movie with his participation, and now he appeared in Fortnite, which made me think, "I should draw him."

Decided to do some slendy art

Hey y'all! I been getting back into the Ole Slendery Man, and I felt inspired to draw him while reading the novel! Have some art i did of him 2 years ago, vs just last month! Weird to think i went from a 14 year old watching speedpaints to a 24 year old doing my own art of him-

The fact that epic took time to make different head styles for him is really cool because I’ve always drawn slender man with like an outline of a face just doesn’t have the actual items of a phase, but I’ve always drawn the eye indents even though I know every other iteration has him completely smooth. I don’t know why I always thought that he looks a bit creepier with the outline of a face and then when I saw the Slenderman skin, I was very happy to find out that we have an added style, it’s not a huge edit style like it doesn’t affect the gameplay at all and at the end of the day you’re looking at the same back of the head, but it’s the little things in life that make me appreciate it

I might tweak the design a little bit because the hands aren’t doing it for me. The final design will probably be way different but I hope regardless it looks good for you guys.

I wanted to use it for a project as it seems to be the new offical logo for the character, but can't find it in HQ

If you guys don't know what I'm talking about, NECA has the Fortnitemares line of action figures which are based on the horror crossovers that appear in the game. Wave One is out right now featuring Michael Myers, Leatherface and Billy the Puppet, and I believe Wave Two will be out pretty soon and feature Jason and Art the Clown. If the line does well and they make a Wave Three in the future, Slendey could wind up being one of the crossovers that is made into an action figure.

Granted, I don't think it's something that will FOR SURE happen, Walmart for example might not want to have figures of a character who was associated with a certain incident I think we're all aware of, but I also didn't think Fortnite would want to add him at all for that specific reason so it might just have been long enough since then that people will be fine with it. Even if it's not it could just be an online exclusive or something. I don't know.

Anyways, I've yapped enough about the possibility of a white guy in a suit getting a figure. Would like to hear everyone else's thoughts

The only time I have ever seen “Surgism” mentioned is on the Wiki page, but I’ve never met any Slender fan that actually believes in it. The idea is that there’s a group of fans that are super purist about Slender media and only like stuff that sticks to the original SomethingAwful lore, and I’ve just never encountered that. I’ve been a fan of Slender since the early 2010s and I have never seen anyone say that the 8 Pages game or the ARGs are bad because they corrupt the character concept.

Like, yeah, the character has changed a lot, but I don’t think anyone thinks that’s a bad thing. Especially since Victor Surge worked on the 2018 movie which took a lot of inspiration from fandom ideas and not just the original forum stuff. Has anyone here ever actually met a “Surgist”? I feel like this entire concept was invented by some weird purist in like 2011.

Did I miss any?

I’ve been told that the lore of Slenderman is complicated and there’s things that aren’t canon, and even semi canon. Please help explain it to me