Who is Hoodie? • Real Identity: Brian Thomas, a former amateur actor and friend of the series' creators. • Appearance: Wears a plain yellow/tan hoodie (sometimes depicted as black depending on fan art) and a dark or fabric mask. • Role: He acts as an anti-villain stalker and reluctant agent influenced by "The Operator" (the series' version of Slender Man).

• Backstory: In the main narrative, a teenager named Jeffrey Woods is severely burned and disfigured in a fight with bullies. The trauma shatters his sanity. He disfigures himself further, murders his family, and starts a violent killing spree. • Catchphrase: He whispers his signature line, "Go to sleep," to his victims before attacking.

Real Name: Timothy "Tim" Wright.

• The Tragedy: His beloved sister dies in a horrific car crash, causing his mental health to shatter. • The Abuse: Trapped in a home with a brutally abusive, alcoholic father, Toby begins experiencing severe hallucinations. • The Entity: The Slender Man begins stalking Toby, filling his head with static and driving him to madness. • The Break: Toby snaps, murders his father, and sets fire to his neighborhood to escape. • The Transformation: Slender Man rescues Toby from the fire, wipes his memory, and turns him into a mindless, hatchet-wielding "Proxy" (servant) who stalks the woods.

• Appearance: A grey-skinned humanoid wearing a black hoodie and a dark blue, mouthless mask. • The Eyes: His eye sockets are completely empty, hollow pits that constantly leak a black, tar-like fluid. • The Gimmick: A supernatural, highly stealthy serial killer who sneaks into bedrooms at night to surgically remove and eat human kidneys.

• The Origin: Originally created in 1800s London, he was a colorful, magical guardian angel toy for a lonely boy named Isaac. After being trapped in a box for 13 years, his colors faded to black and white, his mind snapped, and he became a monster. • The Look: He is a tall, monochrome (black-and-white) clown with a long spiraled cone nose, jagged teeth, and claw-like hands. • The Main Story: A mother realizes her son's "imaginary friend" is real after finding sinister candy, their dog slaughtered, and eventually her son mutilated. In the end, the clown tricks the mother into accidentally killing her own child, driving her insane.

• The Glitches: The game features backward music, broken dialogue, and textures that twist into horrific shapes. • The Statue: The player is relentlessly stalked by the eerie, lifeless Elegy of Emptiness statue of Link. • The Entity: The malevolent spirit eventually escapes the game cartridge to hijack the narrator's computer.

• Appearance: An abnormally tall, faceless man in a sharp black suit who can sprout black tentacles from his back. • Behavior: He stalks children and young adults in woods and suburbs, inducing extreme paranoia, memory loss, and a physical ailment known as "Slender Sickness." • Abilities: He uses teleportation, distorts electronic audio/video signals, and brainwashes humans to act as his servants, called "Proxies."