“Okay, wait, how does the Mansion work in your Rewrite?”
Said nobody, but I’ll tell you anyway, here’s what I think the mansion looks like, none of the pictures are mine, found em off Pinterest.
Pastas are just people who need a place to stay and temporarily or loosely work for the Slender man, They stay in trailers, they don’t have a confirmed kill count to the public, therefore, they blend in as civilians, and they are usually tasked with retrieving groceries, medications, and other supplies for the mansion, they don’t sleep in the mansion unless they have partners who are Proxies.
Proxies are criminals to the public, because they’re decently good at killing, and they are protected by something eldritch, the U.S. government uses this to their advantage. Jane, who works at the CIA and has background with a good chunk of the population of the proxies is the one who runs communications between the Government and the Mansion.
Missions, or assassination trips range from a week to two weeks, the proxies, of course, need a place to stay during this duration, so, the government has also worked out NDA’s with multiple corporations, those corporations who refused were banned from being visited for the proxies (there’s a laminated list of banned corporate chains in each vehicle).
Why do these missions last so long? Well, for one, the proxies don’t necessarily want to be caught and if they don’t go about it quietly, they could attract more police attention than they’d want. Secondly, everyone has a routine, and if they can memorize it, the cleaner the job gets, the only weakness that this strategy has is if the routine is broken the day they decide to strike, she’s out on a ladies night after calling off sick this morning? He decided to eat at a restaurant tonight instead of at home? The inconsistency can be anything. Botched missions can be deadly, either way, botched missions don’t always end up how the government wants it to happen, that’s okay, the failure protocol is relatively simple, flee the state, don’t get caught, contact the mansion.
The mansion itself holds power, it can teleport on its own, on occasion, it goes places outside the U.S. that itself has its own protocol, which is more isolating considering the mansion only has contracts and agreements with the U.S.
There are a different class of people within the mansion, Ghosts and non-human creatures, ghosts, like Sally Williams or Cassidy, they do all the usual things ghosts do (to announce their presence, temperature changes, lights flickering, going through walls, etc). non-human creatures live in their own little worlds that exist within the mansion, if said non-human creature is a cartoon or game character, they’ll live inside a cassette or CD.
When proxies aren’t out on missions, they’re out in the woods, scouting around the mansion for anyone who might accidentally stumble upon a classified secret or…. You guessed it! Zalgo and his followers.
Sleeping arrangements are very fluid in the mansion, unless a proxy is married or has a significant other, they don’t really get a strict room, the night all proxies are home is called “Landfill day” because those who come home are absolutely exhausted, and because of the full house, proxies might need to sleep beside one another in groups of 3-4. The next day, another mission is assigned.
If a proxy dies, usually they are left without a proper burial, but, there is one grave that forever teleports with the mansion, ask Natalie, she would know about him.
When a older single proxy died, the next in line gets the room (seniority firstly gets ownership of rooms if not married), and because of all their stuff being either brought to the attic or used to create more fluid space for proxies to sleep on, the proxy that gets this room with have to entirely refurbish the room on any money they might get from missions.
Eating is weird too, Slenderman remembers a time when he would sit with his small, ever depleting family and eat together with them, and he tries to have those moments, but there isn’t a space big enough. Some stand, some sit, others take their food to their rooms.
Back to Zalgo, overall nuisance and pain in the ass, he feeds off corruption, and since Slender made the deal with the US government, he’s been getting stronger. Zalgo is a multitude of things, a demon, a shapeshifter, a sorcerer, so when his children come about, being half human, they aren’t quite… right, zalgos children are the reason humans have the uncanny valley.
Because of this, there is what could be considered an active war against Zalgo by the Slenderman.
When traveling throughout the forest, and not into civilization, they use golf carts and four wheelers to get around.
Some proxies have jobs that don’t put them in missions, for example, Eyeless Jack and Nurse Ann run a med bay in the basement, mentoring Cody. Wilson and Natalie run mechanics, having so many vehicles only highlights the importance of proper maintenance, these two will hijack your car if you are killed by a proxy in the woods.
BEN is his own thing entirely, the government viewed the malware as a national security threat, quickly developing tech that combined the malware and the soul of the dead 13 year old boy, then tethering it to a computer that can’t connect to the internet or WiFi.
If anyone needs to fix up the mansion, usually, it will be a corporation that has signed the NDA’s that the government has required them to sign, plumbers, roofers, contractors, etc are usually told to keep their mouths shut after working there.
Anyway, that’ll be all for my rant, I hope you liked it! And I’m alive I promise 😅, just not really feeling it.
