Can the Slender Man talk?

The answer your looking for is, No.
At least not in a way we can understand. Be it physical or psychic.
Can he make you do things, horrible horrible things? Yes.
But if he is talking, we sure as hell can't understand it.

And that is my answer.
So there.

Crusergirl wrote:

No.

gg

Konaa, try to refrain from one word posts.

And uh, Crusergirl pretty much covered this in basic form. It'd be like giving Link or Gordon Freeman the ability to talk. It's just something you don't do.

To play devil's advocate, I can think of one instance I've heard Slendy talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm6PGh2fvTg&list=PL8EDE92C6120D402E&index=2

It starts at about 2:52. The video's a bit amateurish, and I doubt anyone takes this video seriously, but it shows that creators have had Slendy talk before. Usually though Slendy talking is really the exception to the rule.

Talk? His language is madness and his words are horrific death.

SlenderManFan wrote:

Wintermarch wrote:

Talk? His language is madness and his words are horrific death.

Who said? See we don't even know..However i like how you put your sentence.

Too much Lovecraft in my veins. I was going to write more, but I figured I'd keep it short.

But all of Mr. Surge's original stuff just said he was silent, and everyone's just kind of run with that. Making Slendy talk is a surefire way to get me to ignore whatever Slenderfiction you're writing.

He's so incomprehensibly ahead of us that we can't possibly understand him even if we tried.

I don't think he did, but I thought it seemed to fit Slendy rather well. If he talks then you learn more about what he wants or what he is, and that kind of kills the mystery. I like that it's impossible to know exactly what his motives are because he never says anything.

Leaves us poor victims confused and guessing.

I don't really care what Victor Surge said in regards to Slendy (woah, blasphemy), becuase, as awesome as Victor Surge is, and as close as he is to being Slendy's Origin; he didn't really create slendy. In the end, he was the launching point for the internet to create slendy. We all created slendy, and moreover, pretty much every series and story out there has a different Slendy. So I don't particularly care if a specific story goes off of Surge-canon and does something different



That aside, I don't like Slendy talking because for me it breaks a lot of the fear. It's similar to how I don't like seeing slendy move much. For me, he's creepiest when he's just a sort of tall, looming figure that moves very slowly and doesn't make a sound. It's this idea that a tall, looming, slow moving thing would still be capable of overtaking you and messing you up.



I've never really seen a 'slendy-talks' serious that I found wholly creepy. I perfer that he uses the proxies to speak for him. Unless of course we're talking comedy.

Can I be in your movie?

Well, SMF mentioned asking Victor, so that's why I brought it up.

And I agree, I haven't seen anyone do a talking Slendy that didn't irritate the hell out of me.

Zander wrote:

Konaa, try to refrain from one word posts.

you never let me get away with anything!

besides posting, I guess

also, uh, yes, Victor said that Slendy was silent

"We didn't want to go, we didn't want to kill them, but its persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time..."

I suppose I phrased that somewhat badly, it's not that I entirely don't care what Victor Surge initially started the character with, it just that for me, slender man wasn't really created by a single person. Victor Surge had the basic idea, but the entirety of what slenderman is was created by the people who took that idea and ran with it. In the end, now, there is no pure answer to what Slendy is or isn't, as an effect of how he was created. For some canon's he talks, and for others he doesn't.

A joke i made made you head numb all day? Awesome. i think there is three possible answers to this.

1. What i mentioned in the "What if you met slenderman" thread.

2. If he opens his mouth slit (if he has one) all that would come out is camera distortion sounds.

3. This...

Maybe he can, but he doesn't. We're just so far below him, he sees no point in trying to communicate. Do you speak to bugs?

What he's saying is that Slender Man views us as insignificant as an insect. He's playing with us, like a little kid burning ants with a magnifying glass. If you spoke to an ant, would it understand you? I don't think so. Therefore, why would he bother speaking to us?

It's kind of all a matter of opinion I suppose. Since different b/vlogs have different things surrounding him, it kind of depends on who you ask. I don't think he talks, he doesn't really need too.