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So, [[Cowboy Cop|Zeke Strahm.]] As the [[Pothole]] indicates, this guy's a police officer; he isn't the kind of guy to keep his blog. But his partner, Lizzie, is encouraging him to do it, so he does; he's recently been assigned to a case involving a young girl going missing, with his partner accompanying him. It's possibly a kidnapping, but there's nothing big about it--her mother's an alcoholic, the girl's probably run away from him for a bit, she'll come back.
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But then her mother starts talking about a notebook; the girl's ''really'' attached to it. Zeke ignores it, waving it off as something that young artists do. Then the mother's hangover kicks in, and Zeke goes upstairs with Lizzie behind him. And the girl's been drawing on the walls. Drawing pictures of someone [[The Slender Man Mythos|very familiar...]]
A side-story from [[The Slender Man Mythos]], detailing the story of Zeke Strahm, a detective in New England and his grapples with the [[Multi
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Lizzie had at least one.
* [[All Myths Are True]]: Nigh-on all of the Slender-blogs are said to be real.
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** Theorized by Dr. Cairo [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cfLxIhRypY here] that Fisk may be the one running the show from [http://openthedoorandyouwillfindme.blogspot.com/ Status Report] on and that the real Zeke Strahm is either insane, dead, or locked up.
* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: Subverted. While in the vein and format of other Slenderblogs in that it employs this trope, {{spoiler|Zeke [[Wild Mass Guessing|seemingly]] avoids much of the same breakdown other blog protagonists go through and is <s>strongly implied</s> undeniably confirmed to be alive and kicking after the events of ''Status Report''. He's been posting comments on other blogs; they vary between eerily cryptic and fairly coherent, so he might have a screw or two loose.}}
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: Quite a bit of it. A few characters taunt Zeke by bringing up text from the "Ezekiel" section.
* [[Badass]]: Zeke Strahm, all over.
* [[Badass Normal]]: See above. The unique feature of this blog is that the protagonist takes it upon himself to try and {{spoiler|''kill'' a horrifically powerful extradimensional entity/spirit/tulpa/god, as opposed to going batshit and letting him get you.}}
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: It's "home ''blend''," not "home ''brew''."
* [[The Blank]]: Slender Man, of course.
* [[The Call Knows Where You Live]]: Slendy walks straight into Zeke's house, taking a shotgun pellet to the stomach.
* [[Cluster F
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Albert Conaghan is a businessman who runs a small yet lucrative import/export firm, owns several warehouses, and can afford good enough lawyers to fend off various charges of rape and murder.
* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Zeke Strahm, once again. His interview with Albert Conaghan makes this obvious.
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* [[Determinator]]: Zeke is ''definitely'' one, emotionally and psychologically if not having the chance to prove himself phyiscally. {{spoiler|Your suspect is a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] who's escaped punishment for every crime he's commited so far by bending the legal system with the weight of his wallet? Zeke says, ''so fucking what?'' One of your only friends/acquaintances is kidnapped by Slender Man? ''Try and rescue him!'' Slender Man kills your girlfriend? ''Try and kill him!''}} Are we seeing a pattern here? Zeke is the sort of character who just headbutts your insurmountable odds.
* [[Do Not Go Gentle]]: ''Evening The Score''.
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Zeke's full name is [[As the Good Book Says...|Ezekiel]] Strahm. He got bullied in school for it, despite insisting that everyone should call him Zeke.
* [[Evil
* [[Fan Nickname]]: In-universe example; Zeke refers to the Slender Man by a lot of synonyms.
* [[Fan
** On the other hand, the authors ARE seeing each other in [[Real Life]]. Make of that as you will.
* [[Friends
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Zeke's seen [[Marble Hornets]], he's read [[Just Another Fool]]. He's sure that Slender Man's just a story. [[It Got Worse|And how wrong he is.]]
** Fortunately, when he realizes the error of his ways, he has his readers provide links to ''every single Slender Man-related blog they can find'' just to invoke this trope to the greatest possible extent.
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: Lizzie, a friendly, intelligent, level-headed woman in her early thirties, is partnered with the antisocial, temperamental and violent Zeke.
* [[Hero
* [[Implacable Man]]: Slender Man. He's implied to take a shotgun shot to the chest and it doesn't even slow him down. Earlier, Zeke shoots at him with a handgun; this also does nothing.
** Then again, {{spoiler|the shotgun apparently killed some other random person}}. Not that Slendy is any less implacable.
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** {{spoiler|And boy, the things he discovers. Not only does Zeke find hieroglyphics that may give clues to Slender Man's past, but his interactions with Kiera reveal that the entire town is full of cult members, the real Rick O'Connor disappeared a week before Damien did, someone else posted the ending to Damien's story in the comments of the last post, and, most importantly of all, seems to hint at the possibility that Damien may still be alive...}}
* [[Ironic Echo]]: {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|"Cold-hearted fucking bitch"]].}}
* [[
* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: Frustrated with the lack of progress, Zeke eventually breaks open a can of this on Conaghan during his interrogation.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Done extensively to the whole [[The Slender Man Mythos|mythos]]; one of the reasons it's liked so much in the fandom.
* [[The Law of Conservation of Detail]]: Messed with: sometimes, completely random things (e.g. Zeke's lifestyle) are given [[Wall of Text|long blog posts]]; invoked by the fans when Zeke mentions a door which he can't open in [[Wham! Episode|Inside the Labyrinth]], everyone began yelling at him to go back and break the door down. Why? Just look at the blog's URL; "Open the Door and You Will Find Me" indeed!
* [[Lovecraft Country]]
* [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]: Conaghan has been doing evil in a fancy suit since before he became devoted to Slendy.
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** [[Unreliable Narrator|Maybe]], [[Wild Mass Guessing|maybe]]...
* [[Morality Pet]]: Zeke is a self-confessed asshole to everyone except his partner, Lizzie, who encourages him to be more open about himself. It's in his interactions with her that some of the blog's more touching moments are found, and his level of care for her is our tenuous proof that Zeke is a good person.
* [[No
* [[Off the Wagon]]: Played with. In one post, Zeke gets totally smashed after encountering Slendy and makes a drunken blog post... but he even [[Painting the Fourth Wall|types drunk]]. Not with typos like one would expect, but actually slurring "s"s into "sh"s and the like as if he were speaking aloud.
* [[Oh Crap]]: When Zeke comes face-to-face with the Slender Man. {{spoiler|"Oh, ''fuck'' me."}}
* [[Old Friend]]: Recently, Zeke has encountered a character named Wren, a character with whom he seems to share some history with. Wren treats him as though they were old friends.
** Zeke's responses to audience questions seem to imply there is bitter history, however...
* [[One
* [[Rabid Cop]]: Zeke borders on this during his interrogation of Conaghan.
* [[Real After All]]: As mentioned under [[Genre Savvy]], Zeke thinks Slendy is an urban myth. He's wrong.
* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: The room of the first victim is covered in drawings of Slendy. {{spoiler|Lizzie starts doing likewise as she looks into the urban legends}}.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Zeke lives ''firmly'' on the cynical end of this scale, and the blog is very dark in tone through his perspective. However, it does turn out to be one of the more idealistic Slenderblogs, considering it's the one that raises the possibility that {{spoiler|Slendy could be killed for good.}}
* [[Shout
** Also, Zeke's surname, Strahm, and the blog's URL, are very likely references to a ''[[Saw]]'' movie, in which a Special Agent Strahm is involved and the URL is quoted word-for-word. He even references the film series in one blog entry.
** Possible one to TV Tropes in the second blog post. He refers to some of the more spider-like Slendy drawings as [[Demonic Spiders]], with both words capitalized just like that.
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** It's revealed in the Mary interviews that {{spoiler|the shotgun trap he rigged up was set off by his neighbor, not Slender Man.}}
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: [[Alternative Character Interpretation]] from ''Status Report'' causes {{spoiler|Zeke to step into this territory.}}
* [[Villain
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: Lampshaded. [[The Dragon|Conaghan]] keeps calling Slendy "[[The Bible|The Angel of Death]]"; Zeke points out that people will attach symbolism to ''anything''.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: ''[http://openthedoorandyouwillfindme.blogspot.com/2010/06/inside-labryinth.html Inside the Labyrinth]''.
** ''[http://openthedoorandyouwillfindme.blogspot.com/2010/07/status-report.html Status Report]''.
** ''{{spoiler|1=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0NkKoXB-PA The Mystic is Dead]}}''.
* [[Wife
* [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]: The {{spoiler|first part of the}} blog is based around a police detective dumping sensitive case information onto the internet for all to see. C'mon.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: As noted under [[Genre Savvy]], Zeke does not believe in Slendy due to exposure to [[Just Another Fool]] and [[Marble Hornets]]. He gets better at it, though.
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