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[http://whatyouareinthedark.blogspot.com/2010/11/forty-years.html Happy Birthday,] [[The Woobie|Reach]]. This [[The Slender Man Mythos|slenderblog]] is a peculiar gem even amongst the general [[Mind Screw|strangeness]] that makes up the slender-community at large. The central protagonist is an [[Anti
[[Was Once a Man|He wasn't always this way]], though. He was originally a young man called Raymond Shaughnessy from Ireland who became haunted by Slender Man, but was offered the chance to join him and thus protect his fianceé Ariana and their unborn child. So he agreed to Slim's terms and was thus [[Body Horror|twisted and morphed]] into a Revenant; an unaging, super-strong, hypersensitised [[Humanoid Abomination]]. [[Painful Transformation|He said it was very painful.]] From there, he did Slendy's bidding more and more willingly with each passing year for four decades, harrassing, attacking and killing Runners and Conduits (humans with the ability to channel the same energy that gives Slendy his power). One of his victims was Thage of [http://outsidepeeringin.blogspot.com/ Peering In From The Outside].
Sometime last year, when the Slenderblogs became a community, Slendy ordered his pawn to register at blogspot and keep tabs on the the Runners and such. This, however, backfired when conversing with the bloggers ([[
After narrowly escaping Slender Man and [[White Elephants|Redlight]] in Ireland, Reach was rendered human again and the two travelled to America to help [[White Elephants|Robert Sagel]] and [[The Eleventh Hour Trilogy|the Delmont Family]], which ultimately resulted in Reach caring for a comatose Ava at Thage's house for several weeks.
Then, the two-part ''[[Wham! Episode|Another Day, Another Lie]]'' and ''I Am Raymond Shaughnessy'' revealed that {{spoiler|the entire persona of Reach was created by Slender Man, so that Reach would "infect" the blogosphere with the concept of Revenants, causing [http://viveredisce-cogitamori.blogspot.com/2011/03/blame-it-on-clinical-depression-tome-2.html the Masquerade Effect] to take hold, making people believe in non-existent superpowers so that they'd spend all their time fighting shadows instead of working against Slender Man.}} The blog took a very different turn after that revelation, with the introduction of [[The Dragon|Slendy's new lieutenant]], [[Smug Snake|Eulogy]], and Reach becoming a pawn to not only the Slender Man, but two mysterious entities called Nocturne and the Hanging Man.
The blog ended when Reach and {{spoiler|a pregnant}} Ava journeyed to Egypt to try and find another weapon inside the Herakleopolis Magna. This led to a final confrontation between Eulogy and Reach culminating in {{spoiler|Reach's apparent death at the hands of Slender Man.}}
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* [[Achilles' Heel]]: See ''Super Senses''.
** Also Reach revealed that things of Slender Man's sphere of influence, such as wood, are harmful to him when defiled and turned against him i.e. a sealed room with a wooden door is like a separate universe and Slendy finds it very difficult to get inside them. However, most importantly, he revealed that certain humans called Conduits have the natural ability to channel the energy of the [[Dark World]] where Slendy lives, an ability that could potentially allow a Conduit to ''physically harm Slender Man''.
*** It's also implied that the secret of the quarry, which Reach used to guard, is something which can harm Slendy.
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* [[Altum Videtur]]: Spoken by The Hanging Man
** Reach himself is not all that incompetent at it.
* [[Anti
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: See his comment to Thage under [[Gallows Humour]].
* [[The Atoner]]: He seems to be playing this role as of January 25, 2011, wherein he provides a peek into how he feels about what he did while a Revenant as well as [http://whatyouareinthedark.blogspot.com/2011/01/broken-bird-and-man-who-cant-forget.html revealing part of Thage's backstory and how they know one another].
* [[Bad Boss]]: Slender Man
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* [[Call Back]]: The title of ''Attack, Defend, Destroy'' is a callback to a post he made during the late November attacks while under Slender Man's control.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: There were two ("R.I.P. Catherine Shaughnessy" and "Another Day, Another Lie"), both of which Reach overcame.
* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]]: At one point, Reach used himself as bait to lure Slender Man away from killing [[Vivere Disce|Jean and Kim]] because he knew his [[Bad Boss]] wouldn't pass up the chance to nab a traitor.
* [[The Dragon]]: The story has three (possibly four) examples; Reach himself, Slate and Eulogy all act as Slendy's liuetenant at various points in the story. The possible fourth is Hammer, Eulogy's Dragon, depending on whether you consider Eulogy to be a [[Big Bad]] in his own right.
* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: [[Oh Crap|"Omnes vidisse abeo venient." "All you have seen will come to pass."]]
* [[Dude, She's Like, in
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: He had some sympathy for the ultimate and [[Tear Jerker|tragic]] fates of various bloggers long before his change of alliances.
* [[Gallows Humour]]: Occasionally.
** ''"@Thage - You know, you really are quite amazing. I could fall for a woman like you, if I wasn't twenty-six years your mental elder, fourteen years your physical younger, an inhuman abomination and you weren't a lesbian."''
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: The revelation turns every Revenant into a [[The Woobie|woobie]] because not only did they go experience the physical pain of their "transformation" for nothing, but everything they've ever known was a lie constructed by Slender Man.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: When he first appeared as a commenter on blogs, he was very much loyal to Slender Man and under his control, but eventually by observing the community's struggles (in particular throughout the late November [[Wham! Episode|wham episodes]]) paired with his growning sympathy for them, he had a change of heart. He was trying to work out how to defect when the late November attacks happened and one of his fellow Revenants found out about his increasing sympathy towards the Runners and attacked him, essentially giving Reach the push he needed to get off Team Slender.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: To a certain extent, he sacrificed his humanity for his family, effectively killing Raymond Shaughnessy and becoming Reach instead.
** It seemed this way after he and [[The London Librarian|Ava]] raided the quarry, but he survived.
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** [[Body Horror|Considering]] [[Painful Transformation|what he went through to become]] [[Humanoid Abomination|a Revenant]], he must haved ''really'' loved Ariana.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: The name of the post where he kills Aria by throwing her into a frozen lake is called ''Stay Frosty''.
* [[Jerkass]]: Initially, but eventually he [[Character Development|developed]] into a [[Jerk
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Plenty. Reach spends a lot of time describing some of the darker deeds Slender Man forced on him. Slendy kicked Reach plenty of times, and Reach has kicked a bunch of dogs himself.
** Ariana's fate.
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* [[Painful Transformation]]: See ''Body Horror''. Yipe.
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: When {{spoiler|[[White Elephants|Redlight]] took over the blog}}, the commenters were given a choice between having Reach killed or having an innocent {{spoiler|who was actually his daughter, Catherine}} killed. Luckily, [[White Elephants|Robert]] thought of a way for them to [[Take a Third Option]].
* [[Shout
** ''Who Am I?'' features one to [[Les Misérables]].
** A bit of a stretch perhaps, but Reach, one of only two confirmed Irish Slenderbloggers, made a post called ''[[Once]]''.
** Reach's theory in ''Luring'' is quite reminiscent of how Hinzelmann from ''[[
** In ''[http://whatyouareinthedark.blogspot.com/2011/04/tell-me-why.html Tell Me Why]'', Reach quotes a line from [http://viveredisce-cogitamori.blogspot.com/2011/04/flow-my-tears-spider-said-tome-3.html this]{{Dead link}} [[Vivere Disce]] post.
** Each blog post during the final arc is the name of a song by [[The Beatles]].
* [[Super Senses]]: A blessing and a weakness for Reach and the other Revenants. On one hand, it gives them a edge when tracking down Runners, but they also have to be very careful about what they do, where they go, what they wear, and what they eat (Reach only eats salted crackers). Being tossed in a frozen-over lake killed one immediately from the shock.
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* [[Warrior Poet]]: [http://whatyouareinthedark.blogspot.com/2011/01/solistice.html Apparently].
** [http://whatyouareinthedark.blogspot.com/2011/03/million-miles.html And again.]
* [[Wham! Episode]]: {{spoiler|[http://whatyouareinthedark.blogspot.com/2011/03/another-day-another-lie.html Another Day, Another Lie]-- and not just for Reach.}}
* [[What Could Have Been]]: According to [[Word of God]], if not for {{spoiler|[[White Elephants|Robert]] [[Taking a Third Option]] and saving him and his mother Catherine from Redlight's [[Sadistic Choice]]}}, things would have gone one of two ways. First way: {{spoiler|Reach would have died and Catherine would have become the protagonist. She would have researched the Slender Man and started a tense partnership with Ava. At the end, Eulogy would have killed her family, she would have killed Eulogy, and then left the community, wandering alone for the rest of her life.}} Second way: {{spoiler|Reach would have survived but blamed the community for Catherine's death, hunted down the ones who had voted to let her die, and rejoined the Slender Man to get vengeance before ultimately being killed by Thage.}}
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: How he initially viewed the likes of Robert, Amelia and Zero before becoming [[Fire
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Reach's entire "life" was false memories created by Slender Man.
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