Nightmare Fuel / MLAnderson0

This being a Slenderverse series, expect there to be some Nightmare Fuel.

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• #4. Michael's filming alone in his car at night, and says he needs to know that "other people can see this too" — and then turns the camera around, revealing our faceless star just a few hundred yards away.
  • And when Michael drives home, Slendy follows him home and waits outside his house. The video cuts out as Slendy seemingly rushes the car from the sides, and comes back to Michael sitting in his car as if nothing happened — talking about how he can "hear it" and "he's trying to talk to me" as the picture starts to distort.
• Video Journal #5 - Virus. Michael's description of his nightmare: he's in a park he used to visit with his family as a child, when suddenly the neighborhood kids vanish — but he can still hear them playing. And then something grabs him by his shirt and start dragging him across the playground. He starts clawing at the ground, to the point that his fingernails are ripping off. Suddenly, he's back in the alleyway, alone, with the grandfather clock in front of him, looking huge and misshapen. When Michael wakes up, he's writing a word on his hand: VIRUS.
  • Michael's flat, unemotional tone throughout the story doesn't help matters.
  • After Michael woke up from this dream, he went to the bathroom — and came back to find a red dreamcatcher on his pillow. Next to the Slender Man's red tie.
• The Truth. While nothing frightening happens in the video itself, the fact that both Eric and Shaun have watched Michael's videos and seem completely unable to see the Slender Man (dismissing it as a drug and mental illness-induced hallucination) is a bit unsettling. It leaves one wondering whether we, the audience, are being drawn into Michael's "delusion" -- and whether what we're seeing is really happening.
• While not much happens in Video Journal #6 action-wise, the episode helps to ratchet up the tension. Eric comes to visit Michael in the middle of the night; he hasn't seen Shaun since the last video went up two days ago, and the last time he heard from him, he was in a hysterical state. Eric and Michael argue back and forth, with Eric accusing Michael of being responsible for his brother's disappearance, going so far as to accuse him of kidnapping Shaun. Then, as Michael approaches the camera to pick it up, and the picture briefly tears and discolors, while audio distortion kicks in...
• Shaun. Michael discovered a video Shaun recorded for him on his camera. Said video reveals several very important things. For starters, Michael was lying about not knowing Shaun's whereabouts: Shaun deliberately left town to get away from him, because he's started seeing the Slender Man and having the same dreams as Michael (only he's unable to touch the clock); he believes that Michael is spreading his "sickness" through his videos...like a virus. Something apparently happened two nights earlier that convinced Shaun of this.
  • As if that all weren't bad enough, the video has intermittent visual tearing and audio static. At one point, a third of the way into the video, Shaun glances over to his left and the picture goes black — followed by a jump cut of the blindingly-lit front door. Through which something resembling a man in a suit and tie can be seen. And at the end of the video, Shaun glances to the side again, as the coloration distorts completely. Could this mean Slendy was inside the house?
• Eric/Documents. Eric searches for Michael in a seemingly empty house, while visual and audio distortion set in. After getting no response from Michael, he finally addresses him as his alter ego, Patrick. And then we're treated to the biggest Jump Scare in the series thus far.
  Patrick: (brandishing ax) That's more like it.
  • Surprisingly, Patrick doesn't kill Eric. Instead, he uses the blunt end of the axe to beat him unconscious before dragging him outside and dousing him in gasoline, as a warning of what will happen if he doesn't stay away. Even HABIT thought it was demented.
• Focus. Patrick visits Stormy — initially pretending to be Michael so she'll let him in. Patrick begins talking to Stormy about Shaun's departure, telling her everything that he's been experiencing lately. Stormy grows increasingly uncomfortable, and begins loudly washing the dishes to try to drown out the sound of his voice; when this doesn't work, she screams at him to "Shut the fuck up". Patrick doesn't take kindly to this, and drops the facade completely, cornering her in the apartment and shouting at her, calling her and Shaun "weak" and "pathetic" for not fighting back against the Slender Man. Even without any supernatural elements, it's disturbing — especially since we don't truly know what Patrick is capable of.
  • It gets worse when Stormy tries to locks herself in her bedroom to get away. Patrick forces the door open; we don't see or hear what happens next, but when Stormy next appears on camera, she's curled up in a ball, hugging her knees and audibly sobbing.
    Patrick: You just had to go and message him, didn't you?
• Clearing My Head. Yikes. For starters, Patrick's sudden appearance is prefaced by a barrage of audio and visual static, flashes of Slender Man...and two frames of a red-tinged, sweat-drenched, black-eyed, tearful Michael (or is it Patrick?) mouthing the word "Help".
  • Patrick's demeanor is rather unsettling, radiating Tranquil Fury. It doesn't help that he's constantly bleeding from the nose and coughing up blood (both of which he brushes off as "none of [Shaun's] concern").
    Patrick: You're starting to piss me off, Sha- ( coughs up blood as the picture freezes in place and catches)
• BROTHERLY LOVE. After having zero luck finding the clock hands in any of their old haunts on the East Coast, Shaun tells Michael to go off his meds so he can remember their location. Michael refuses, leading the brothers to have an altercation that turns physical — and ends with Shaun storming off, claiming he'll get help from another source. The nightmare fuel comes less the video itself (though it is unsettling to see Shaun whaling on his sobbing, emotionally broken brother) and more from the title: for those well-acquainted with the Mythos, a sarcastic title in ALL CAPS can only mean one thing — and it isn't good.
• "GOODBYE". Shaun wakes up, bound and gagged, on the floor of the attic where HABIT tortured Jeff. It only gets worse from there.
  • The feral, skittering, animalistic mannerisms from HABIT as he capers around Shaun, taunting him with the revelation of Michael/Patrick's real identity: he's an ancient, inhuman entity who routinely adopts a human persona and insinuates himself into the lives of humans, for no other reason than to surround himself with a "wall of meat" and momentarily shield himself from the Slender Man. He was responsible for the death of Stormy, the woman Shaun loved.
    HABIT: I'd call him a sociopath, but only humans can really be those...
  • Just in case you've forgotten what HABIT is known for, the end of the episode gives the viewers a little refresher:
    HABIT: This is what I wanted, most of all. I wanted to see you break. I wanted you to know that here, in this cold, hard attic, with walls of nails and air of ice, that you are alone and abandoned. That your life, full of torment, trouble and pain, full of loss and heartache...was all due to the one person that you loved. The one person that you thought you could count on. And that it was all...for nothin'.
    (Long pause.)
    HABIT: Vinny?
    Vincent: Yeah?
    HABIT: (grinning) Take the night off. This one's mine. (pulls attic door closed)
    (Cut to blackness and audio distortion as Shaun begins to scream in agony.)
• Some two weeks later, Severance dropped on the Tribe Twelve channel, showing (among other things) a bloody man in a white tee-shirt imprisoned in HABIT's bathroom. Viewers quickly identified him as Michael Andersen, based on his bracelet. This doesn't bode well.
• Video Journal #?? - Retrogression. Michael films a new video journal entry...reciting the exact same dialogue from the first video. This goes in for several minutes before he realizes that something is terribly wrong and stops. Visibly confused and frightened, he wonders where he is and calls out for Shaun. Getting no response, he turns and stares fearfully at the doorway, before slowly backing up against the wall and dropping into a chair, whispering, "Where am I?" The video ends there.
  • Some viewers noted that the sound of heavy metal music can be heard playing faintly in the distance.
• ----------------------------------------. An unseen figure approaches HABIT's safe house from the outside. After gazing through the curtains for a moment, it deposits a note with a number "0" on a chair. End of series.
  • As of December 2023, the above video has been removed, and an odd comment has been added to the channel's Community tab: "Antigonish?" As one commenter pointed out, "Antigonish" is the title of a poem about a man being literally haunted by his past. Patrick is alive.