The Fears Part 1

As promised, I will now do a post describing the Fears and what the do.


Slender Man

I've already talked about this guy here. I stand by everything I've said in that post. I still believe Slendy is the most powerful, but I agree that many if not all of the other Fears come close to equaling his power.

Also, Since I made that post, I've learned more about his Enhanced. They're a lot more limited than I originally believed. The process of becoming an Enhanced is painful and often ends in death. Those who survive the process and become Enhanced have short life spans, surviving an average of six months before their hearts explode inside their chest. If they push their bodies too far, they can accelerate their deaths.

Recently, my good friend O'Zalia made a deal with Jack Of All, which extended his own life while shortening the lives of every other Enhanced in the world.


The Archangel

The Archangel is the Fear of Religion. It essentially is the afterlife. Those who die become a part of it, and it can appear as anyone who has become one with it. Its true form is unknown, but Daniel might have seen a glimpse of one of its stronger forms. Its shape-shifting abilities aren't limited to humans either. It can become dead animals and monsters as well.

The Archangel has followers. A cult/ street gang calling themselves the Timberwolves. They don't have any special abilities like some servants do.

The Archangel's symbol is a pair of triangles overlapping each other. It kind of looks like a pair of hourglasses, but it's actually a modified star of David.

There have been instances of dead people becoming free of the Archangel. These people are called Indisen. They are rare, and I can only name one that I'm aware of. Justin Ferin. He's a bit of a special case. Daniel was somehow able to tear his soul away from the Archangel. Justin is now living inside Daniel's subconscious and seems to have kept a bit of the Archangel's power.

The Archangel has control over a black mist that it can use as a weapon. It can solidify this mist into anything it wants, such as guns and other weapons. It also likes to wear a gas mask which I assume is made of the same mist.

Its domain is Bliss, which sadly I don't know much about.

The Archangel likes to get its hands dirty, and is one of the most dangerous Fears.


The Plague Doctor

This guy. The Fear of disease. It appears as a hooded man wearing a bird faced mask, similar to what was wore by doctors during the plague era. It can spread disease wherever it goes, and often leave behind a trail of death. The Plague doctor is sometimes seen with snakes.

It has servants called Oathbreakers. They come in two categories; Night Surgeons and Mad Doctors. The Night Surgeons are back alley doctors who give unprofessional care to people, while secretly making the injuries or ailments even worse. Mad Doctors are actually doctors who spread disease from within the walls of hospitals. That is why hospitals are dangerous. I recommend eating an apple a day.

The Plague Doctor's symbol is a snake wrapped around a stick, appropriately named the stick and serpent. If you see this in your local hospital, get the hell out of there. Not joking.

Ren, the Thorned Prince also works for the Plague Doctor, but not as an Oathbreaker.

Plaguey's domain is the crumbling castle, a partially organic castle which seems to be eroding away, but never completely collapsing.

The Plague Doctor is an experimental bastard, and likes to test out different diseases on people. Stay the hell away from this guy.


The Wooden Girl

The Fear of being controlled. She is a living marionette, who uses her strings to take control of people.

She has two types of servants. The first are Puppets. They are unwilling servants, who are manipulated by her strings. They have had their free will taken and if you ever see one, it might be more merciful to kill them. And killing them isn't usually enough. The strings can still move the body after it dies, so destroying the body is the only way to be safe.

Willing Dolls are exactly what they sound like. They serve her willingly. Some Willing Dolls seem to be incapable of aging. They also have strings attached, and the Wooden Girl cam take control of them if she ever wants to.

Her domain is the Screaming Tower, which is a fucked up realm where she tortures people. It's also where Tower TV is filmed, which is a channel which plays some really messed up programs, and can only be viewed by certain people.


The Convocation

The Convocation is a hivemind of birds. They are the Fear of the sky and of being carried away. They can manipulate lightning, and in some stories I've heard they can actually become lightning.

They have servants called Nests, one of which I am travelling with right now. The Convocation somehow removes a bunch of a humans internal organs so that they can live inside of them. As long as the birds are there, the Nest won't need the organs that were removed, as the birds are somehow able to serve as substitutes. I don't really know how it works. How many birds can fit inside a Nest? More than is normally possible. Crow here has a hundred and one, from what he tells me.

Their domain is the Bleak Shore. It is a vast beach, where the sky is literally composed of birds. I've been there, and it freaked me out.


The Rake

Another Fear I've had the displeasure of meeting. Fortunately, we were on the same side at the time, so it wasn't hostile. Much. It is the Fear of animal brutality, and of animal intelligence.

It is known to sneak into peoples rooms late at night and whisper things to them. And if you wake up while it's doing so, it may attack you. Actually, it will almost definitely attack you.

It may seem to be a mindless, rabid animal, but don't let that fool you. That mother fucker is intelligent, and deadly.


The Blind Man

as you all know, I used to work for this guy. He is the Fear of growing old and forgetting. He is an old man, wearing glasses that conceal his eyes, or lack thereof. He carries a book, and if he writes your name in it, you will forget your childhood. Your childhood becomes sealed inside a book, and stashed inside the Blind Man's domain.

The Blind Man has followers called the Archive. The Archive is divided into multiple sections. The Collectors gather information for the Archive. The Brokers sell information to high payers. The Inquisitors deal with internal affairs and handle corruption from within. Analyst perform experiments and investigate data brought to them by the Collectors.Scribes record data that they are told to. Keepers are security guards and interrogators  And the Martyrs are the soldiers of the Archive.

Sometimes, the Blind Man will give a person who he's already taken from the memories of a different person. These people are called Gifted, and are respected by the Archive.

The Blind Man also seems to possess some level of telekinesis.

His domain is the Catacombs, a system of tunnels where he keeps all his books. His bone spiders also live there, producing the silk that is woven to make the pages in his books.


The Empty City

The Empty City is a living domain, split apart from the normal world. It is a shape-shifting world, usually taking the form of a city. If you ever see a door where it shouldn't be, don't enter it, because it probably leads to the City.

The City is the Fear of being lost, and it lures its victims into it, where they wander until the City eventually consumes them.

The City serves as a neutral meeting ground for the Fears, where they sometimes conduct Fear business, whatever that means.


The Intrusion

Like the Convocation, the Intrusion is a hivemind. Unlike the Convocation, the Intrusion is a hivemind of bugs. They burrow into peoples skin, and then reproduce inside their bodies. Then, the new born bug eat their way out of the body, killing the person in the process. They're sort of like the HIV virus, when you think about it (For those of you who don't get what that means, the HIV virus injects its RNA into white blood cells in order to produce more HIV viruses, which kills the blood cells). If you ever see bugs acting strangely, run. Those are not normal bugs.


The Choir

The Choir is the Fear of miscommunication. They are perceived as either grey shadow or grey mold. They can manipulate sound, making people hear things differently. They can also emit extremely loud noises that can make a persons head explode. they enjoy messing with people, convincing them that everyone is their enemy.

In their mold form, they can attach to a persons skin and turn them into Greyskins. If they do that, it's almost impossible to get away from them.


The Eye

The Eye is the Fear of judgement. It follows people who have guilt on their conscious, or have committed bad crimes in the past. It can appear anywhere, and forces people to remember their sins. Eventually, it takes control over someone, and forces them to kill its victim. The person controlled by the Eye is called Judgement. Judgement's body eventually burns up, and if it does so before the victim is dead, the Eye will possess a new Judgement.

I have a theory about why Judgement burns up. That theory is the God's Way. As you know, humans can't safely use the God's Way. I still feel pain whenever I use it, and I'm part Fear. I have no idea what would happen if a normal human passed through the God's Way. Judgement's whole "Burning up" thing might be because the Eye forces Judgement to use the God's Way. This is just a theory, and I have no way of testing it.


The Black Dog

The Black Dog is the Fear of lies and of having your secrets revealed. It hunts down secret keeper, marking them with tear-like scars beneath their eyes. It can be either passive or aggressive, and has been known to outright attack people. It usually brings people objects relating to their secrets.

The Black Dog can regenerate itself by merging with living or dead bodies, and can create miniature dogs that vanish after a few hours.

I am also aware of human servants called "Prowlers". How do I know about them? Crow told me. How does Crow know about them? The bird told him. There's some advantages to having a Nest on your side. Also, Ashen Phoenix, me and Crow both say hi. Forgot to say that earlier.

Prowlers have red eyes, the same as the dog, and can see peoples secrets. Prowlers aren't very common, and the dog doesn't really use them much, as it prefers to work alone.


The Cold Boy

The Fear of being cold and lonely. Those who it targets usually find safety in numbers, as it doesn't appear much unless its target is by themselves. He appears as a young boy with blue skin and hair, whose face is often blurry, as if seen through fogged glass. He likes to sing twisted nursery rhymes when stalking people, and he can control cold and ice.

He has servants called Cold Ones who have black eyes and chant "We are cold" a lot.

His domain is the Winter Court, a frozen land where his Cold Ones live.

If this dick is following you, make some friends. You'll never be safe from him if you're alone.


The Unnamed Child

This is a little girl, who appears beautiful to her victims, but seems a bit off to every one else. She comes into a persons life, becoming the center of their attention, until they abandon all else in order to care for her. She then leaves abruptly, leaving her victim with nothing. They usually become Wanderers, forever searching for her again. If they find her, She'll whisper something to them, supposedly her real name. They will then forget their name and all instances of it having been spoken. These are her servants, the Nameless Ones.

I haven't met her yet, and I hope I never do. She's the Fear of commitment and losing loved ones.


The Nightlanders

These are my current enemy, the Fear of the dark. They are living shadows, who have an obsession with perfection. The rearrange everything to their liking, sometimes going as far as rearranging a person's body or killing people who mess up their arrangements. Think of the most OCD person you know, and multiply it by a hundred.

Some believe the are servants or former victims of the Empty City, but I don't know.

Bill Dawson, my current adversary, is a human who seems to be part Nightlander. He can melt into the shadows like they can, and is able to produce weapons from pure darkness. I don't know if there's others like him, but I really hope not.


I'm gonna have to make this into a multi-parter. I'll post the other Fears later. For now, I need some rest. Peace out.