#The Skin Taker

[ozzy-lot]

To grind your skin!

[uncannyencore]

The SkinTaker is one of my favorite creepypastas ngl. you can ask him if you want, I wanna draw him more anyway :3 SkinTaker supremacy.

also don’t mind the drawing at the bottom of the screen…My adhd was taking over.

[alicevandrusen]

Inktober Day 26 (1/2): The Moon

Upright: illusion, intuition, uncertainty, confusion, complexity, secrets, unconscious

Reversed: fear, deception, anxiety, misunderstanding, misinterpretation, clarity, understanding

The Moon is a card whose message and warning is your imagination is getting the best of you. Be forewarned that this goes as far as creating illusions that are hard to discern from reality. Even things as simple as a children’s show. Was it real? Were you?

Sorry about that, I do live a very clown shoes existence in real life. I love ‘‘‘surviving’’’ late stage capitalism.

Anyway, I don’t know how to sentence it yet. But I think I could potentially have a way to make Candle Cove a real show without ever explaining what it actually is. (And I mean, an actual adaptation of the real, legit show. Not the snippets of Channel Zero, which was really cool.)

Poor Janice, man.

[baxtervalentine]

cringetober #10: creepypasta

I decided to draw something with the characters from my all-time favorite creepypasta, candle cove! let's hope that wooden sword can help our young heroes...

[gracieblood]

watch me whip now watch me nae nae

[chaselocalyanderefan]

Drawing Internet Horror Characters for a Year

Day 77:

The Skintaker

[drheartfeltlover]

They’re going through some father-son bonding

[tfg5]

[harlowehearse]

I have 6 projects to finish 3 chapters to read and 2 exams to study for and this bastard won't let me do any of it Im unwell

[lazylittledragon]

!! QUICK PSA FOR TESTOSTERONE TAKERS !!

warning this is a bit gross so i'll put the photos under the cut but i think it's important because nobody told me about this before i started T

if you're taking testogel/any other T that you put on your skin, please for the love of god moisturise the skin you put it on

gel REALLY dries out your skin and as someone with dry skin anyway it caused my skin to flake and scab and break out more which has left a lot of scarring on my back/chest/shoulders

(yes, T causes acne anyway, but for me personally my skin didn't get that much worse after i started and it's improved since i've been moisturising more so that was the problem for me)

obviously there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with having acne or acne scarring or anything like that (it just makes me a bit insecure and means i have to put off getting tattoos there until it gets better), i just wish i'd started taking care of it earlier

also i would Never want to scare anyone off HRT if they want it because it's been a wonderful magical thing for me but there are some uncomfortable aspects of it and this is just one that i didn't know about

[tixuctoad]

Hello! For the Valentine's art thing, could I request Skin taker (candle cove) with flowers? (If not that's okay! )

I woke up late but WOOOOOOO

I need to revisit candle cove esp since I've been getting into older internet horror stuff lately

[ozzy-lot]

All 31 assorted Creepypastas

[uncannyencore]

Sally thoughts on Pirate Percy? You two are so precious OMG!

[chronicbeans]

Candle Cove Headcanons

Just a bunch of randomly assorted headcanons from a fella who, somehow, HAD NO IDEA THE WIKI EXISTED ALL THESE YEARS. So, these headcanons only really include Janice, Percy, the Laughingstock, Horace, and the Skintaker lol. So these are some of my thoughts during the last 12 years of only having the original Creepypasta and the Channel Zero show to work with.

TW: Skintaker doing his skinning thing, Paranoia, Good ol' Betrayal, Children in Distress

• Some people remember a pilot or prototype of a pilot, where instead of Janice, there was a unnamed boy. He was taller than basically every puppet, since it seemed like whatever studio or being that was making the show hadn't figured out perspective illusions to make him look shorter than them. The only puppet that was different was the Skintaker, since he was a life-sized Halloween skeleton prop tied to strings, in order to make him taller than the boy. The main storyline of that episode was Percy being frightened, thinking that due to the boy's size, he was in some way related to the Skintaker. During the episode, there'd be times where they'd stop acting and try to calm the boy down, because he kept breaking down from distress, scared that the people watching would think he's related to the Skintaker.

• Percy's voice is actually a bit deeper to medium in pitch. The creators tried a higher pitched tone, but found it too grating to listen to, and were scared kids or their parents would find the protagonist insufferable. So, they gave the high pitch tone to Horace the Horrible, because he's a villain, and gave Percy a more soothing voice to listen to. The Skintaker has a very, very deep voice to try to indicate that he's a villain, which was made by using some voice effects on top of an already naturally deep voice actor. Janice just uses actress's her normal voice, since she's already a child and probably wouldn't be good at keeping a fake voice on for long.

• The Laughingstock crew consists of Percy, the Laughingstock, and Janice. After the first three episodes, however, there's always a "guest" on the ship that only appears during that episode and leaves at the end. Percy does often talk about "his previous crew", claiming they betrayed him, so he started his line pirating career. However, whenever Janice tries to ask more about them, he refuses to answer.

• The Skintaker is after Percy, specifically. Sure, if he can get somebody else and knows he can't get Percy, he'll go after them. However, if he thinks he can get to Percy, he'll ignore everyone else and go after him. Percy is well aware of this, and that's a large part of why he's so cowardly.

• The Studio making Candle Cove had tried to make an excuse for Percy being made of multiple different, clearly not meant to be put together, doll parts. They did so by saying Percy is made of different parts of different people. They also said this is why the Skintaker goes after him so often, since the Skintaker sees it as being like skinning multiple people at once. This was never clarified, so the audience just has to live with the knowledge that, for whatever reason, Percy is made of multiple people. It's also why some people mistake him for being the villain, as the Skintaker skinning people could be mistaken for Percy's... Whatever Percy has going on.

• Janice tends to stay safe from actual sword fighting in the show. Usually, Percy fights for her because she's very young and is still learning how to fight. However, she's always present during sword fights, and does get involved in other types of fighting, like fist fights and whatever else the show can come up with. The only person in the show she's never fought is the Skintaker, since he doesn't want to skin her at the moment.

• The Laughingstock only talks to Percy. Janice doesn't seem to hear it talking. Neither does Horace, or the Skintaker. The other characters even show confusion whenever Percy starts talking to the Laughingstock. There was even a gag where Percy would even break the fourth wall and ask the audience if they could hear it, and when he'd turn and tell the others we hear the Laughingstock talking, they'd just look even more confused and ask who he's talking to. This is in spite of the fact every character breaks the fourth wall at least once during the show.

• The Skintaker doesn't want to skin Janice. This isn't out of the kindness of his nonexistent heart. He just wants to wait until she's older and has thicker skin so it'd be easier to grind, which seems to be a nod to the fact that the skin of children is actually a bit thinner than adults.

• Horace shows up more often than the Skintaker in the show. He also never calls Percy or Janice by their real names, besides his last ever time talking to Percy, when he finally does. He calls Janice "Brat" and Percy "Coward".

• Percy, Horace, and the Skintaker are shown to drink root beer often. However, Percy is always shown to drink to most root beer, with Horace even commenting that he might have a problem. The Skintaker claims that he has technically never drank root beer, because it goes right through him, but he likes the taste.

• Throughout the show, Percy grows more and more cowardly, to the point his fear just turns into a full-blown paranoia. This is another reason why some people remember Percy being the villain, since in the last episode, he grows so paranoid that Janice might betray him that he turns on her by attacking her at a cave.

• That was also the episode where Horace finally refers to Percy by his name, with most people who do remember this episode remembering Horace confronting Percy by saying "Again, Percy? Really?" The line seemingly implies that Percy has done such a thing before, possibly to his last crew. Horace then went to tell the Skintaker that the Coward had done it again, only for the Skintaker to laugh for a minute straight.

• The show ended on a cliffhanger. We don't know if Janice survived or not, but considering the episode ended with a "To be continued...?" screen, she was most likely intended to. That, or the studio chose to leave it up to interpretation in case they were not renewed, which ended up being the case, as no more episodes of Candle Cove aired.

• The Screaming Episode randomly aired off and on again. Nobody knows where it would've gone in the timeline, if anywhere at all.

• The episodes always ended with Percy and Janice going to sleep. Percy would call asleep at his desk, in the Captain's Quarters, and Janice would like down in a hammock below the deck. During episodes that included Horace or the Skintaker, it'd show them going to bed, where Horace would curl up in a sleeping bag and the Skintaker would just kind of... stare at the screen for a minute or two. Then, after everybody went to bed, there was footage of a live action candle being blown out. The only episodes that didn't end this way were The Screaming Episode, which cut off abruptly, and the final episode, which has Percy sitting on the Laughingstock alone before the "To be continued...?" screen popped up.

[sadpuppetsworld]

Anyone elses mentalhealt so bad they turn to theri confort character, but your confort character is a tall ass crazy skeleton sadistic killer yet you still wanna spend more time with him rather the be in this bitch?

No? Just me?

Okay..

[thefoalcemetary]

gonna give grid adopts a shot so might as well start strong with some creepypastas

if you need help identifying the spooky spaghettis here they are:

A. Jeff the Killer

B. Zalgo

C. Smile.Dog

D. Ben Drowned

E. Slenderman

F. Skin Taker

They'll be $5

you can either pay with points or cashapp/venmo/paypal when the time comes. 

rules:

1. please don't resell characters 2. changing stuff like colors is fine but i'd prefer if the basic concept of the character remains intact 3. don't purchase if you have no intention of actually using the character 4. put the word tooth in your comment so i know you read the rules

5. you only need to credit me the first time you use/make art of this character, after that you don't have to!

6. if there's something specific you want to see (species, hairstyle, etc) lemme know and i'll do my best