#of its friendship with Sally who was a child back then (returning in the above scene having completed medical school)

[runawaycarouselhorse]

[spookybreadstick]

I’m curious about the moral code post, under what circumstances would Slender consider a child or elder as a big enough threat to be a target? Also is there ever any tension or conflict between the more ruthless/random killing pastas and the more anti-heroic/non-killing ones? For example BEN and Jeff are good friends and your version of BEN doesn’t kill however, Jeff does, particularly at random. Does that have an effect on their relationship?

ooo this is a great ask! thank you for bringing up these good points, it gave me a bit to think about :)

1) A Child or Elder As A Threat

A child could be considered a threat if they stumbled across, or came too close to, the mansion. As I've said before, in my version of things, Slender only has proxies that kill as a means of defense. They are his guard-dogs, so to speak, and their job is to protect his woods and his mansion. Slender is not only protecting himself and his little pasta-family, but he's also protecting the secrecy of his species, which depends on being unknown to the general human population. A child that stumbles across the mansion and all of its inhabitants could pose a security risk. However, as an alternative to killing the child, Slender could keep the child permanently at the mansion or he could take the risk of them returning home if he believed that the child's parents would think that their offspring's imagination was simply running wild. But both of those situations are complicated, because adults could come looking for the missing child, the child could escape from the mansion and blab to the adults, or if the child was allowed to return home, what if their parents do believe their child and go out poking around in the woods? In a lot of cases, it would be easier to 'dispose' of a person, then stage it in the woods where it is far away from the mansion and it looks like an animal attack.

An elderly person would be considered even more of a threat in this case, because while they would pose no physical risk, they could very easily blab to other, younger, adults who are capable of storming the woods and finding the mansion.

2) Tension/Conflict Between Kiling & Non-Killing Pastas

You ever heard of something like, "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?" Or, from the Green Mile, "what happens on the Mile stays on the Mile?" It's like that here. What happens outside of the mansion stays outside of the mansion. Talking about what you do on your "personal time" is not allowed, unless you're with a small group of like-minded pastas. But, if you know that a pasta in your company does not share in your, um, "beliefs" then it's considered against the rules of the mansion to discuss such matters. It would also be a forbidden topic at the dinner table, and NOTHING related to killing is ever allowed to be brought up when Sally is present. Slender is very strict about this, because he wants to preserve Sally's innocence.

3) BEN & Jeff's Friendship

Just as I mentioned above, Jeff & BEN's friendship adheres to the same policy of "what happens outside of the mansion stays outside of the mansion." They have discussed killing once or twice while they were alone together, with BEN asking why Jeff does it and what he gets out of it, and Jeff trying to speak about it honestly without scaring his best friend. But it's an awkward thing to talk about, and Jeff hates any kind of expressing his feelings, so they don't bring it up much. All they really need to know and all they really care about is that they trust the other person to have their back and they get along really well, so they're best friends. It's as simple as that to the both of them, and it works.

- breadstick 🥖