A Hint of Serendipity

A Hint of Serendipity is a Web Original work.

Meet Zero. Former Sage in the battle against Slender Man and One of Us, as self-professed gamer and fan of the Mega Man series. You can start reading the blog here. Zero started his blog before he was ever haunted by Slender Man, but still was a true Agent Mulder about the situation from the very beginning. He eventually had the torch passed to him by Robert Sagal. Held a one man stand in his house while Slender Man and his hordes laid siege to him starting from late November to the Winter Solstice.

In this time, he engaged in frequent Foe Yay with the Ax Crazy Rika, an young, attractive female agent sent to kill him. This Entry contains a particularly humorous example.

He eventually, alongside the guys from Observe and Terminate and from various other blogs, made a Last Stand on the Winter Solstice in an attempt to fascilitate a Follow the Leader situation in which bloggers write how the story ends with Slender Man being injured and weakened. This was a massive Batman Gambit between himself and several others.

He's back,. His new blog can be found here: The Last Refuge of a Dangerous Man: http://fateworsethandeath.blogspot.com/


 * Agent Mulder: Before ever being haunted himself, Zero still believed the myth was true.
 * And I Must Scream: Zero at one point considers that Slender Man also infects the afterlife and that even the dead can't escape him.
 * Apocalyptic Log: The entire last entry is basically Zero's Last Will and Testament to the slendering community at large. Not marked as a spoiler, because this trope goes with the territory.
 * Ax Crazy: Rika. Full stop. Her expy was just as bad.
 * Badass: Zero. If you've read the above and The Determinator entires on this article, then you know why Zero is a undisputed badass almost on the same level as Seeking Truth's Zeke Strahm when it comes to dealing with Slender Man.
 * Back from the Dead:
 * The Blank: Yep.
 * Brainwashed and Crazy:
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: Zero was quite a light-hearted, quirky fellow who found humor and irony in a great many situations where others might have gone mad.
 * Possibly subverted since some of his antics were him stepford smiling to keep from curling up into a corner and crying.
 * Dead Person Impersonation:
 * Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life: The entire summary of both blogs.
 * The Determinator: Zero. Just Zero. The man plunged into the fight for survival head first and never looked back. He and some other bloggers came up with a plan and he fought tooth and nail to stay alive to that point and succeeded despite Slender Man deciding to get serious about killing Zero. Let that sink in for a while.]]
 * Downer Ending: It's the Slender Man mythos. You expected anything less? Only it's not his fault it ended badly this time. It's our fault for not wishing Slender Man to be defeated.
 * Subverted for a while, but as all things in the Mythos, it found its way back here.
 * Fallen Hero: Zero. Big time.
 * Gallows Humor: Zero's comments on other blogs as well as his own writing has a pretty high level of this, especially after his BSoDs.
 * Humanoid Abomination: Uh-huh.
 * Heroes Prefer Swords: Zero's trusty Katana. Crosses over with Katanas Are Just Better.
 * Heroic BSOD: Twice in late November
 * Heroic Sacrifice:
 * Horror Doesnt Wait For Simple Tuesday: The Solstice Gambit in particular, however most large events in his life occured on either an Equinox or a Solstice
 * Insane Troll Logic:
 * Knight Templar:
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia:
 * Left Hanging: Very debatable, but some people insist that since Zero's body was never found that he may still be alive out there and that it's not over for A Hint of Serendipity yet.
 * Eventually averted by the second blog, which picks up after a Missing Episode
 * Mood Whiplash: This post, which is mentioned as a Crowning Moment of Funny on The Slender Man Mythos main page, begins with Zero  Later whiplashes right back again in the comments section, as
 * My God, What Have I Done?:
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: One might say all this misfortune could've been averted if Greenlight had not picked him as a successor. His legacy issues may never have taken hold of him.
 * Not Quite the Right Thing:
 * Now What?: the question was asked in a different speech tense in this entry. The context is more like Then What, but that's a different trope altogether.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge:
 * Sanity Slippage: Heavily. The man was almost hallowed out and turned into a proxy twice during his heroic BSODs, but came back both times, subverting this, at first...
 * Then things got really trippy when he started hallucinating little green monsters.
 * Shout-Out: Among other things, he finishes up his last blogpost with the word "bang."
 * Also, the "Everything you ever..." post is a horrible example.
 * Shut UP, Hannibal: In this entry he does this to Rika at the end.
 * The Siege: The man boarded up his home and held off Slender Man, his minions, and the effects of being haunted for nearly a full month with the express purpose of surviving to the Solstice to enact his plan.
 * Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Zero stayed willfully on the optimistic side of things to the (very) bitter end. By the end, it was the only way for him to keep his sanity.
 * It's gone cynical more recently.
 * Spiritual Successor: For a while, when he still prescribed by Robert's Core Theory.
 * In fact, if a certain Alternate Character Interpretation about Robert is to be believed,, then perhaps Zero and Robert really aren't so different after all.
 * Split Personality:
 * Unreliable Narrator: His photobucket suggests that
 * That Man Is Dead:
 * Took a Level in Jerkass: Just take a look at the comments section of Stalked.
 * Wham! Episode: Late November. If you've read the main entry on The Slender Man Mythos and White Elephants, then you know Slender Man launched multiple and continuous attacks in light of the levels of optimism Robert's theories had brought to the blogs. Heroic sacrifices, deaths, insanity, heroic blue screens of death, face heel turns, heel face turns, and despair were happening everywhere (except on The Tutorial where M was oddly sparred) and Zero had his above mentioned breakdowns.
 * It was the arrival of redlight and the death of Nessa that were the things that got to him the most.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Invoked on a meta level. Had all the readers and other participants wished so, Zero's plan to weaken the Slender Man by having everyone willing him weakened would have worked. Alas, we're all just here for Slendy. We loves our paranoia-causing abomination! Yes, we do!
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: A recent entry talking about
 * Your Mind Makes It Real: Natch.
 * It was the arrival of redlight and the death of Nessa that were the things that got to him the most.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Invoked on a meta level. Had all the readers and other participants wished so, Zero's plan to weaken the Slender Man by having everyone willing him weakened would have worked. Alas, we're all just here for Slendy. We loves our paranoia-causing abomination! Yes, we do!
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: A recent entry talking about
 * Your Mind Makes It Real: Natch.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: A recent entry talking about
 * Your Mind Makes It Real: Natch.
 * Your Mind Makes It Real: Natch.