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She wears gloves to cover her scar.

There are multiple fires in my au that slowly eat away at Jeff and Jane Arkensaw. But they're not completely burned like the canon stories.

I already made a post about this (it was actually my first one), but I have gotten better at conveying what I'm trying to say here. I don’t know how many people will actually see this, but I hope some do because I think this is really important given how the fandom is going these days.

There is no canon to Creepypasta.

Did you really think the people who made Slenderman or Jeff the Killer planned for them to star in an AMV where they battle to the death with Fall Out Boy playing? Or that they’d be featured in cute ship animations and oWo storylines? Of course not. And the same goes for nearly every character in this space.

But people kept creating. We invented the idea of a shared universe. We gave it lore. We gave it depth. We gave it ships, AUs, Proxies, tragic backstories, and haunted mansions.

There. Is. No. Canon. There never was, and there never will be. And that’s a good thing.

We can do whatever we want with these characters. We already do.

Want a model for this? Look at the SCP Foundation. It’s got hundreds of characters, monsters, and stories and no true overarching timeline. Many of those stories contradict each other, and that’s the point. SCP works because it embraces creative freedom. Creepypasta can do that too.

In fact, calling things “headcanons” doesn’t even make sense when there’s no actual canon to begin with. If your “headcanon” changes a backstory, a relationship, or the emotional tone of the world, it’s an AU. And that’s not bad! AUs are where the most fun happens.

Jeff and Liu can be brothers or enemies. BEN Drowned can be a dead kid or whatever AI hivemind he was in the ARG. Slenderman can be a Lovecraftian nightmare or a weird neutral forest God. You can write horror, slice of life, romantic drama, or comedy.

We don’t need a Creepypasta wiki like SCP has, but if we had something like that? Something that gave space to all these alternate takes without arguing what’s “true”? It could help.

Because at the end of the day, we should feel free to tell whatever the Hell stories we want with these characters and the universe. IF ANY!

You can just have owo Yaoi, Yuri, and whatever a "straight" ship is! You want slice-of-life shenanigans in a mansion Slenderman owns for some reason? GO. FOR. IT. It’s valid.

There’s no canon. There’s only you, your weird brain, and the stories you want to tell.

While I stand by the idea that Creepypasta has no and shouldn't have a canon and should invite creative freedom, that doesn’t mean everything goes. We should absolutely be more careful with OCs, especially lesser-known ones, and with characters whose creators are still around, engaged, and haven’t crossed any lines (like, y'know… being actual creeps).

There are also certain core aspects that deserve to be preserved or respected, like Jane being a lesbian, or meaningful backstories that speak to deeper themes.

@oblivionlogs Doodles!

Drawn Oct 2023 for Day 19 of Slenderproxtober

The Grinner is owned by: IamRanya/Ranya_artwork (Deviantart/instagram)

Hey, new to tumblr, well had my account blank for a while now- Anyways wanted to expand from Deviantart and Instagram.

Here's my Slenderverse/Proxy oc Black Rose. She got her name by leaving black roses behind, she's in her early 20's and uses twin tomahawks as her weapons. She is an attack proxy for Slender. This post is her pseudo reference until I update her main one but this is her updated look I did of her recently ^^