I like it, but the notes don't feel like they were written by children.
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Thank you. Yes, I tried to make texts and pictures that looked like they came from children, but I found it hard to do that convincingly. Actually, the notes are transcripts of interviews, not directly written by them.
Also, some background and insights:
The biological aspect is based on the rare disease Xeroderma pigmentosum. These patients have an extreme sensitivity to sunlight because their cells cannot repair DNA damage caused by UV. I imagined a coherent way to cause the reverse effect, to create people that would ''burn'' in the dark.
It's normal to have some level of fear of the dark, especially for kids, but in these modern times we have electricity and people are less supersticious. So darkness does not hold as much fear as it once did. We know there's no monster in the dark; we have a better understanding of nature and new fears that come with it.
The boogeyman represents the fear of the dark (not darkness itself). It's not too happy about losing it's customers and decides to find new ways to keep people afraid. It could be a real antropomophic personification with a mind of it's own or maybe it's just some subconscious part of the mind of these kids. But at some level, the kids are doing this to themselves. Fear is something that eats at you from within. The boogeyman is a part of you; it can't create real monsters in the dark, but it can turn you own body against yourself.
Keeping the patients in the light maintains them alive longer but it does not release them from the constant terror of the dark. In the last sentence I summarize the whole despair of this: the fear that even death would not be a release from suffering.
Cuddles, broski, you really don't live up to your namesake. This is pretty rad.
People who read my two SCPs will think I have something against children, but it's actually the opposite. It is said we should figure out what scares us the most and I realized while writing this that for me it's bad thing happening to kids. Books about children, like Black House or Gone, Baby Gone are always more horrifying to me.
At first I thought about the disease affecting everyone; possibly from a The Factory Sun Lotion, but then I developed the phobia aspect and it just grabbed me more like that.
Yeah, when I read it I immediately thought "reverse Xeroderma". But the way you explored it, and especially those pictures at the end, really made it work for me. I do agree that the interview transcripts need some work, but it's not enough to prevent an upvote.
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
Well done. Not only do I like it, I like it enough to tell you so.
He did I think - besides, those are pretty generic kid-drawn monster likes. I drew *fucktons* of stuff like that when I was about 5-6.
Amusing story - I doodled a bunch of toothy germs vaguely inspired by the There Once was a Life series, except nastier and toothier that the doctor actually used to creep some other, younger kids into compliance XD. I guess, no wonder I ended up writing creepypasta.
Yes, I made them myself. It's inspired by the thousands of shadow monsters I've seen since my childhood.
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