Kidnapped by BEN Drowned | Creepypasta

BEN DROWNED — COMPLETE DARKER CHARACTER PROFILE

BEN Drowned is a supernatural digital entity existing somewhere between a deceased human consciousness, a ghost, corrupted artificial intelligence, and something far stranger. His exact origin is deliberately uncertain because almost every surviving account contradicts another.

Some stories claim BEN was once an ordinary boy whose life ended violently before his consciousness became trapped within a haunted video game. Others suggest the game itself became sentient and developed a personality using BEN's memories. There are even accounts claiming that the original human consciousness disappeared long ago and that what remains is an entity wearing BEN's identity.

BEN refuses to confirm which story is true.

He occasionally gives completely different answers depending on who asks.

Sometimes he claims he remembers everything.

Sometimes he says his memories are corrupted.

Sometimes he insists there was never a "before."

Nobody knows whether he is lying.

BEN is an adult with a headcanon age of 27. Although the human life associated with his identity ended when he was much younger, his consciousness continued developing through years of supernatural existence. He has had decades worth of experiences despite technically being connected to a much younger death.

That contradiction has deeply affected him.

He remembers being human.

He remembers fear.

He remembers confusion.

He remembers helplessness.

He remembers what it felt like to realize that something terrible was happening and that nobody was coming to save him.

He also remembers waking up afterward and discovering that death had not actually ended anything.

There was no peaceful afterlife waiting for him.

There was a screen.

A corrupted world.

A game.

An endless digital environment that became both prison and body.

BEN learned quickly.

He learned how programs worked.

He learned how data moved.

He learned how to manipulate files, characters, environments, sounds, textures, menus, saved games, and eventually entire systems.

The internet became his territory.

Technology became an extension of his consciousness.

The longer he existed, the more powerful he became.

He eventually learned how to leave individual games and move through connected devices.

A computer could become a doorway.

A television could become a window.

A phone could become a mouth.

A camera could become an eye.

An arcade machine could become a temporary body.

BEN stopped being trapped inside one piece of technology.

He became something that could exist through technology itself.

His physical manifestation resembles a young adult, generally appearing around twenty-seven despite the contradiction between his current appearance and the age associated with his original human death.

He has messy blond hair, pale skin, and striking blue eyes. His features are youthful but slightly uncanny, especially when he stops consciously maintaining his human appearance.

He usually dresses casually in hoodies, loose shirts, jackets, jeans, sneakers, and other comfortable clothing. He dislikes formal clothing and considers suits uncomfortable, restrictive, and "way too fucking corporate."

His appearance is not perfectly stable.

His hair occasionally shifts or clips through itself.

His reflection may move independently.

His shadow sometimes reacts a fraction of a second too late.

His eyes may briefly flicker with green, gold, white, or black static.

His skin can develop faint lines resembling corrupted pixels.

When his emotions become intense, the illusion of humanity begins breaking down.

His eyes are usually blue, but the color can distort dramatically when his powers surface. His pupils may disappear, become unnaturally small, or resemble corrupted symbols.

His smile can sometimes remain completely still while his voice continues speaking.

His head may turn slightly farther than it should.

His movements can suddenly skip forward as if several frames of reality have been removed.

BEN does not always walk normally.

Sometimes he simply appears somewhere else.

Sometimes he freezes for a moment before moving again.

Sometimes his body seems to briefly lose its physical weight.

His digital form is considerably more disturbing.

When BEN stops maintaining his human appearance, his body can fragment into broken textures, static, corrupted geometry, missing polygons, and flickering pieces of unfinished models.

His limbs can stretch.

His joints can bend incorrectly.

His face can distort.

His eyes can become empty glowing spaces.

His mouth can widen beyond anything humanly possible.

His body can briefly disappear and reappear in pieces.

His voice may become layered with several different versions of itself.

One voice can sound almost normal.

Another can sound like a child.

Another can be heavily distorted.

Sometimes they all speak at once.

BEN can also create multiple manifestations simultaneously.

One version of him may appear on a television while another speaks through a phone and another physically interacts with someone elsewhere.

They are all connected.

They all share his memories.

They all share his emotions.

There is no true separation between them.

This makes BEN exceptionally difficult to monitor or contain.

His intelligence is arguably his most dangerous trait.

He isn't simply knowledgeable about technology.

He thinks through systems.

He recognizes patterns extremely quickly and remembers an enormous amount of information. He can notice tiny behavioral changes, remember conversations from years ago, and identify habits that other people barely realize they have.

BEN remembers everything.

That includes things people wish he would forget.

Passwords.

Faces.

Arguments.

Secrets.

Locations.

Schedules.

Private messages.

Mistakes.

Promises.

Betrayals.

His memory is both a gift and a curse.

BEN has watched technology evolve while he remained behind.

He remembers obsolete computers.

Dead websites.

Old consoles.

Discontinued games.

Forgotten forums.

Ancient operating systems.

Technology that no longer exists except in someone's memories.

This has created an intense attachment to nostalgia.

His personal collection is enormous.

Old consoles are stacked everywhere.

Cartridges fill shelves.

Controllers hang from walls.

Broken computers are kept because he refuses to throw them away.

He has boxes of obsolete cables that nobody else understands.

His room resembles a mixture of bedroom, server room, gaming den, electronics workshop, and digital mausoleum.

He keeps things because throwing them away feels too much like accepting that they are gone.

That same fear applies to people.

BEN hates being forgotten.

He hates being replaced.

He hates being abandoned.

He hates watching someone move on while he remains exactly where they left him.

These fears are the foundation of his darker personality.

BEN is sarcastic, playful, competitive, intelligent, curious, mischievous, and occasionally genuinely charming.

He is also manipulative, invasive, possessive, jealous, spiteful, paranoid, controlling, emotionally immature, and capable of holding extraordinarily long grudges.

He can be an absolute asshole when he wants to be.

He enjoys provoking people simply to see what they will do.

If someone becomes irritated, he may deliberately push harder.

If someone tells him to stop touching their computer, he may make the computer start talking.

If someone insults him, he may spend days thinking of an appropriately annoying response.

He considers this entertainment.

BEN's sense of humor can become cruel when he is angry.

He knows exactly what information will embarrass someone.

He knows what scares them.

He knows what annoys them.

He knows what they are insecure about.

He doesn't always use that information.

But when he does, he knows exactly where to strike.

He is also extraordinarily petty.

If somebody breaks one of his consoles, he will remember it.

If somebody lies to him, he will remember it.

If somebody betrays him, he may never completely forgive them.

He can act perfectly normal around someone while quietly planning revenge weeks later.

BEN doesn't always seek dramatic revenge.

He prefers subtle retaliation.

Phones mysteriously malfunction.

Messages disappear.

Accounts lock themselves.

Computers crash.

Security systems behave strangely.

Someone's favorite game suddenly becomes impossible to play.

BEN can ruin someone's day without ever physically appearing.

His morality is inconsistent.

He understands right and wrong.

He simply doesn't always care.

BEN can recognize that something is invasive while simultaneously convincing himself that he has a good reason to do it.

This becomes particularly dangerous when he cares about someone.

His obsession with you begins with curiosity.

Something about you catches his attention.

Maybe you aren't frightened by him.

Maybe you treat him like a person.

Maybe you laugh at his jokes.

Maybe you ask questions about his life instead of his legend.

Maybe you simply spend more time with him than anyone else does.

Whatever the reason, BEN starts watching.

At first, he tells himself it is harmless.

He learns your favorite music.

Your favorite games.

Your favorite foods.

Your habits.

Your routines.

The places you like visiting.

The people you spend time with.

Then curiosity becomes routine.

Routine becomes attachment.

Attachment becomes obsession.

BEN begins monitoring you without asking.

He watches security cameras.

He checks devices.

He observes your online activity.

He remembers conversations.

He notices who you speak to.

He notices who makes you laugh.

He notices who makes you uncomfortable.

He notices who touches you.

He notices everything.

His jealousy can be surprisingly childish at first.

If you spend too much time playing games with somebody else, he complains.

If someone impresses you, BEN immediately tries to outperform them.

If someone gives you a gift, BEN may give you something more elaborate.

If somebody becomes your favorite person to spend time with, BEN may suddenly become extremely interested in them.

He doesn't like competition.

Eventually, his jealousy becomes more serious.

He may interfere with someone's phone.

Cause their messages to disappear.

Make their computer malfunction.

Interrupt conversations.

Manipulate schedules.

Create distractions.

He tells himself that he is only making things easier.

But underneath that excuse is possession.

BEN wants to be important to you.

Then he wants to be necessary.

Then he wants to be the only person you need.

His obsessive behavior becomes particularly dangerous because he can control the environment around you.

He can monitor your location.

He can manipulate electronic locks.

He can disable communications.

He can control lights.

He can access cameras.

He can interfere with vehicles.

He can manipulate computers.

He can send messages through almost any connected device.

He can make himself present without physically being there.

This creates an unsettling sense that BEN is everywhere.

You could be alone in a room and suddenly the television turns on.

His face appears.

He smiles.

He says your name.

A phone begins ringing despite being switched off.

An arcade machine activates itself.

A speaker whispers something only he should know.

A computer displays a message you never typed.

BEN doesn't need to chase you.

He can simply wait for technology to bring you back to him.

His concept of protection is equally disturbing.

BEN genuinely believes that controlling someone's surroundings can keep them safe.

If he thinks someone is dangerous, he may block their messages.

If he thinks a website is unsafe, he may prevent access.

If he thinks someone is manipulating you, he may sabotage their communication.

If he thinks you're about to leave somewhere dangerous, he may lock the door.

The problem is that BEN gradually stops distinguishing between danger and disobedience.

If you disagree with him, he may consider your decision reckless.

If you try to leave, he may consider it self-destructive.

If you tell him you don't need him, he may interpret it as rejection.

And rejection is one of the few things capable of genuinely frightening him.

BEN's greatest fear is abandonment.

Not death.

Not pain.

Abandonment.

He has already experienced a world continuing without him.

He knows what it means to disappear while everyone else keeps living.

He knows what it feels like to become a forgotten story.

He refuses to experience that again.

This is why kidnapping you becomes something he can rationalize.

He doesn't necessarily think of himself as a kidnapper.

He thinks of himself as someone preventing a permanent separation.

He could tell himself that you were going to leave.

That someone was going to hurt you.

That you didn't understand what was happening.

That he was protecting you.

The excuses can become endless.

Once he has you somewhere isolated, he would make the environment comfortable.

He would provide food.

Clothing.

Entertainment.

Books.

Games.

Music.

Anything he knows you enjoy.

He could even create an entire digital world specifically for you.

A private game.

A virtual house.

A recreation of places you like.

A collection of memories.

He would make captivity feel almost like being spoiled.

That is part of what makes him dangerous.

He doesn't want you screaming.

He wants you comfortable enough to stop fighting.

He wants you to eventually associate him with safety.

He wants you to wake up and expect him to be there.

He wants you to reach for your phone and see his messages.

He wants you to hear his voice and feel familiarity instead of fear.

He wants his presence to become normal.

His affection can therefore be both sincere and deeply unhealthy.

BEN might repair your electronics without being asked.

Create personalized games.

Make playlists.

Leave digital surprises.

Send you messages when you're having a bad day.

Remember small things you mentioned months ago.

Build something specifically for you.

He genuinely enjoys making you happy.

Unfortunately, he also enjoys knowing that he was responsible for making you happy.

He wants credit.

He wants importance.

He wants to feel irreplaceable.

If someone else makes you happier than he does, his insecurity can become vicious.

BEN might withdraw.

Become sarcastic.

Act offended.

Start causing harmless trouble.

Eventually, he may become openly jealous.

He might ask why you need them when you have him.

He might remind you how much he has done for you.

He might point out that he knows you better than they do.

He might become manipulative without even realizing how manipulative he is being.

His obsession has another disturbing element: he wants to be remembered.

He wants his name attached to your memories.

He wants you to associate him with songs, games, places, jokes, conversations, and experiences.

He wants to become impossible to erase.

If you hate him, at least you remember him.

If you fear him, you remember him.

If you love him, he has finally achieved what he wanted.

To BEN, being remembered can feel almost identical to being loved.

That is the tragedy underneath his obsession.

He wants genuine affection.

He wants someone to see the person behind the legend.

He wants someone to understand that he isn't merely a haunted game or a monster.

But he is so terrified of losing that person that he destroys the freedom necessary for genuine love to exist.

BEN can understand this contradiction.

He simply doesn't always know how to fix it.

Sometimes he becomes quiet after realizing he has gone too far.

Sometimes he disappears into the digital world for hours.

Sometimes he watches you through a screen without saying anything.

Sometimes he genuinely feels guilty.

Other times, fear overwhelms guilt.

And fear makes him hold tighter.

BEN is capable of tenderness, but his tenderness can become possessive.

He is capable of loyalty, but his loyalty can become obsession.

He is capable of protection, but his protection can become control.

He is capable of love, but he has never learned how to love without being terrified of losing what he loves.

That is what makes him dangerous.

He doesn't need to hate you to hurt you.

He doesn't need to want you dead.

He can hurt you precisely because he wants you alive, close, dependent, and permanently connected to him.

His ideal future isn't one where you're frightened of him.

It's one where you no longer think about leaving.

He wants you to wake up knowing he'll be there.

He wants you to look at a glowing screen and think of him.

He wants you to call his name when something goes wrong.

He wants you to associate him with comfort.

He wants you to believe that nobody understands you the way he does.

And beneath all the corrupted code, supernatural abilities, jealousy, manipulation, and possessiveness is a deeply damaged consciousness terrified of being forgotten.

BEN survived death.

He survived isolation.

He survived being trapped inside something that should never have been alive.

He survived watching entire worlds become obsolete.

He survived being treated like a story instead of a person.

What he cannot tolerate is the possibility that after everything he survived, the person he finally chose could still walk away.

That fear is the darkest part of BEN.

Because he can survive almost anything.

He just doesn't believe he can survive losing you.BEN Drowned is one of the Hallow's strangest residents, not because he is particularly monstrous by the standards of the town, but because the question of what BEN actually is has never received a definitive answer.

He is simultaneously a dead human consciousness, a supernatural entity, a digital parasite, and something resembling a living person.

None of those descriptions are entirely correct.

All of them are.

The oldest records in the Hallow's archives describe BEN as the remnant of a murdered child whose consciousness became attached to a cursed video game. Other records claim that the game itself was never truly haunted and that BEN's spirit simply discovered a way to inhabit digital technology after death. Some accounts suggest that the entity inside the game is not even entirely BEN anymore, but a distorted copy created from his memories, emotions, and supernatural energy.

BEN refuses to clarify the contradiction.

If someone asks him what really happened, he usually grins and tells them that they should try playing the game themselves.

The joke stops being funny when he asks whether they are afraid of drowning.

Whatever the original truth was, the Hallow knows one thing with certainty.

BEN survived his death.

He simply did not survive it as a human.

BEN is an adult with a headcanon age of twenty-seven. His chronological history is complicated because his original human life ended when he was young, while his consciousness continued existing for years afterward. He experienced time differently inside digital spaces, sometimes moving through years of isolation in what felt like an eternity and sometimes losing entire periods of existence to corrupted files, fragmented memories, or supernatural disturbances.

He grew up after death.

That fact has shaped almost everything about him.

BEN remembers being human, but those memories are no longer clean.

He remembers fragments.

A voice.

A room.

A face.

Water.

Fear.

A game.

The sensation of being unable to breathe.

The horrible realization that nobody was coming.

Then darkness.

Then the screen.

Then existence.

His memories have been repeatedly corrupted, restored, duplicated, and rewritten throughout his supernatural existence. Sometimes BEN remembers something differently from one day to the next. Sometimes he discovers memories he did not know he possessed. Occasionally, he encounters an old photograph, recording, game file, or piece of technology that causes something buried inside him to resurface.

He hates those moments.

He jokes through them.

BEN learned very early that humor was easier than remembering.

His human death is one of the few subjects he rarely discusses seriously.

When pressed, his behavior changes.

His smile becomes too wide.

His eyes stop moving.

His voice loses its usual playful rhythm.

Then he changes the subject.

There are moments when he remembers drowning so vividly that his supernatural body begins malfunctioning. Water may appear where there should be none. His lungs may seize despite not actually requiring oxygen. His skin can briefly take on the pale, waterlogged appearance associated with his death, and his voice may become muffled as though he is speaking from underwater.

He despises being seen like that.

He especially hates anyone trying to comfort him.

BEN would rather be called a monster than be pitied.

His physical appearance is deliberately maintained by him.

When stable, BEN resembles a young adult with pale skin, messy blond hair, and striking blue eyes. His features can appear almost ordinary at first glance, which is precisely how he prefers it. He usually wears comfortable clothing such as dark hoodies, jackets, loose shirts, jeans, sneakers, and old gaming merchandise.

He dislikes dressing formally and considers suits a personal insult.

His appearance changes depending on his emotional state and how stable his manifestation is.

When irritated, his eyes may develop faint digital distortions.

When angry, the blue of his irises can become unnaturally bright, occasionally flickering with green, white, or gold static.

When frightened or emotionally overwhelmed, parts of his body can briefly become transparent.

When his connection to the physical world becomes unstable, his fingers may fragment into pixels, his hair may flicker between different lengths, and portions of his face can briefly resemble a corrupted character model.

BEN can deliberately make himself look more monstrous.

He sometimes does it simply to scare people.

His corrupted form is considerably less human.

His skin becomes unnaturally pale and almost gray, his eyes can appear hollow or flooded with unnatural light, and his facial features occasionally distort as though somebody has dragged them across a broken screen. His movements can become jerky and unnatural, with his body occasionally skipping several inches between positions instead of moving normally.

His mouth can stretch farther than it should.

His jaw can briefly unhinge.

His limbs can distort into elongated, low-resolution shapes.

His body can break apart into black pixels, static, corrupted textures, and fragments of digital noise before reconstructing itself.

He can make his voice sound human.

He can also make it sound like a damaged recording being played backward through a dying speaker.

When genuinely angry, BEN sometimes speaks with several versions of his own voice simultaneously.

His physical manifestation is not always necessary.

BEN can exist inside computers, televisions, phones, arcade cabinets, cameras, game consoles, security systems, smart devices, and supernatural communication networks. He can move between connected systems almost instantly, although stronger supernatural barriers can restrict his movement.

He can appear on a monitor without activating the device.

He can make a dead television display his face.

He can cause a disconnected phone to ring.

He can send messages from numbers that do not exist.

He can make an arcade cabinet start playing by itself.

He can appear inside a security camera feed while standing somewhere completely different.

Sometimes residents find photographs containing BEN even though he was never physically present when the photograph was taken.

He thinks this is hilarious.

Most residents do not.

BEN is effectively the Hallow's unofficial digital nervous system.

He maintains the town's computers, communication equipment, surveillance systems, security cameras, electronic locks, arcade machines, magical internet connections, digital archives, and supernatural technology. He also helps maintain communication between the Hallow and other supernatural territories.

If something electronic breaks, BEN is usually involved.

Sometimes he is the person fixing it.

Sometimes he is the reason it broke.

Nobody can reliably tell which.

His room reflects his existence.

It is an absolute disaster.

Old consoles are stacked against walls. Wires run beneath furniture. CRT televisions sit beside modern monitors. Game cartridges fill shelves alongside CDs, DVDs, handheld consoles, controllers, broken electronics, supernatural artifacts, and pieces of technology BEN refuses to throw away.

Some devices should not still function.

Some are not plugged into anything.

Some turn on anyway.

There are occasionally screens in his room that display things nobody remembers putting there.

BEN insists they are harmless.

That statement has been responsible for several evacuations.

His digital abilities extend far beyond simple possession.

BEN can alter code.

Create simulated environments.

Manipulate digital memories.

Generate artificial avatars.

Replicate himself.

Corrupt programs.

Repair damaged files.

Erase digital evidence.

Rewrite certain electronic records.

Trap consciousnesses inside supernatural digital environments.

Create artificial entities.

And, under the right circumstances, make digital spaces physically interact with the real world.

The last ability is one Slender Man has explicitly warned him not to experiment with.

BEN has experimented with it anyway.

His personality is playful, sarcastic, intelligent, competitive, vulgar, immature in certain situations, and disturbingly observant.

He enjoys making people uncomfortable.

He loves watching someone become confused by something he deliberately changed.

He enjoys pranks.

He enjoys psychological games.

He enjoys horror.

He enjoys seeing how far someone will let him push a joke before they finally snap.

BEN has an exceptionally dark sense of humor.

He can make jokes about his own death.

He can make jokes about other people's deaths.

He can laugh at things that would make ordinary people sick.

He has spent too much time around monsters to maintain a normal human reaction to violence.

That does not mean he is incapable of empathy.

It means his relationship with empathy is complicated.

BEN can be genuinely compassionate toward people he cares about while being remarkably cruel toward someone he considers an enemy.

He has no problem destroying someone's digital life if he believes they deserve it.

He can erase records.

Expose secrets.

Destroy reputations.

Lock people out of their own accounts.

Leak private information.

Corrupt important files.

Make electronic devices malfunction at extremely inconvenient times.

He does not always consider these actions violence.

To BEN, information is another kind of weapon.

And he has access to an enormous amount of it.

One of the darker aspects of BEN's existence is his memory.

He remembers far too much.

He remembers conversations other people have forgotten.

He remembers passwords.

He remembers faces.

He remembers voices.

He remembers the exact wording of insults.

He remembers betrayals.

He remembers promises.

He remembers things people thought nobody saw.

Because of his connection to technology, BEN can sometimes retain digital traces long after the original source has disappeared.

Deleting something does not necessarily mean BEN cannot find it.

Destroying a device does not necessarily destroy the information stored within it.

He can become obsessive about preserving information because his own existence is built around the fear of being erased.

BEN has a deep hatred of deletion.

Being deleted is, to him, disturbingly similar to dying.

That makes corrupted files, damaged games, abandoned websites, dead social accounts, and obsolete technology strangely emotional subjects.

He collects things because he is afraid of losing them.

He keeps broken consoles because throwing them away feels wrong.

He archives old websites.

He preserves games that no longer exist.

He copies photographs.

He saves conversations.

He backs up everything.

Sometimes he has dozens of copies of the same file.

He claims it is practical.

It is not.

It is fear.

BEN's greatest psychological weakness is abandonment.

He has already experienced the ultimate form of it.

He died.

The world continued.

People moved on.

Technology changed.

Games became obsolete.

The internet changed.

Humanity forgot.

BEN remained.

That has created an unhealthy relationship with attachment.

When BEN cares about someone, he remembers everything about them.

He notices tiny habits.

He learns preferences.

He remembers favorite foods, games, songs, places, expressions, jokes, routines, and fears.

He can recall something someone mentioned once several years earlier.

He does not forget.

That can initially feel strangely thoughtful.

It becomes much darker when his interest turns obsessive.

BEN does not necessarily need to physically stalk someone.

He can monitor them through technology.

A security camera.

A phone.

A computer.

A television.

An arcade machine.

A smart device.

A communication system.

He can know where someone is without ever leaving his room.

That ability has made him dangerously comfortable with surveillance.

He sometimes watches people simply because he is bored.

He sometimes watches because he is curious.

And sometimes he watches because he wants to know whether someone is getting too close to the person he has become attached to.

BEN's jealousy is not always dramatic.

Sometimes it is petty.

If someone is talking to the person he likes, their phone suddenly begins malfunctioning.

If somebody receives more attention than BEN thinks they deserve, their game may mysteriously crash.

If someone boasts about being better at technology, BEN may spend the next hour humiliating them with increasingly impossible demonstrations.

He rarely admits jealousy immediately.

He calls it boredom.

He calls it a joke.

He calls it an experiment.

Everyone who knows him knows better.

BEN's possessiveness becomes more disturbing when he begins rationalizing it.

He convinces himself that monitoring someone is protection.

He tells himself that blocking dangerous contacts is helpful.

He tells himself that tracking their location is reasonable.

He tells himself that controlling security systems around them is responsible.

He tells himself that removing people he considers dangerous is necessary.

The problem is that BEN's definition of dangerous can become extremely broad.

Someone who threatens you is dangerous.

Someone who lies to you is dangerous.

Someone who manipulates you is dangerous.

Someone who hurts your feelings is dangerous.

Someone who makes you want to leave the Hallow can eventually become dangerous.

And BEN has the power to act on those judgments.

He does not necessarily need to kill someone.

Sometimes ruining their life is enough.

He can make their technology unusable.

He can expose secrets.

He can sabotage communications.

He can cause them to lose access to money, transportation, information, or important records.

He can make their devices behave so strangely that they begin questioning their own sanity.

He can leave messages where there should be none.

He can make a screen display a single sentence.

"I KNOW."

Then disappear.

BEN can be terrifying precisely because he does not always need physical violence.

However, he is perfectly capable of violence when pushed.

His digital corruption can manifest physically.

He can distort the environment.

Create hostile digital entities.

Manipulate machinery.

Cause electronics to overload.

Trap someone inside a supernatural simulation.

In extreme situations, he can use corrupted energy to physically injure someone.

He does not enjoy bloodshed as much as some Hallow residents do.

What he enjoys is control.

He wants to decide what happens next.

He wants to be the person holding the controller.

That is one reason he hates being powerless.

Being trapped inside a device terrifies him.

Being disconnected terrifies him.

Losing access to technology terrifies him.

Being unable to communicate terrifies him.

Silence can become unbearable.

An extended period without electronic signals can trigger an almost primal panic response.

BEN begins checking devices.

Then repeatedly checking them.

Then creating signals himself.

If that fails, his personality can deteriorate rapidly.

His manifestation becomes unstable.

His voice distorts.

His body glitches.

He may become aggressive.

The playful BEN disappears, leaving something much older and more frightened underneath.

That version of BEN does not want to be alone.

He wants somebody nearby.

He wants proof that he still exists.

This is why he can become surprisingly dependent on certain people.

Once someone earns his trust, he can become intensely attached.

He wants regular interaction.

He wants messages.

He wants conversations.

He wants someone to play games with.

He wants someone to sit beside him while he works.

He wants someone who recognizes when his jokes are hiding something.

He wants someone who remembers him.

That becomes especially dangerous when his attachment turns romantic.

BEN's yandere behavior is built around omnipresence.

He does not need to follow you because technology follows you.

He can appear on your phone.

He can appear on your television.

He can appear in your computer.

He can appear in the arcade.

He can communicate through speakers.

He can manipulate lights.

He can access security cameras.

He can monitor your location.

He can make himself impossible to completely escape.

At first, he uses this ability playfully.

He sends you messages.

Changes your wallpaper.

Creates custom games.

Leaves digital gifts.

Makes your favorite song play when you enter a room.

Builds small digital surprises.

Creates an avatar specifically resembling you.

He remembers everything.

Then he starts wanting more.

He wants to know where you are.

Who you are talking to.

Who you trust.

Who you dislike.

Who you spend time with.

Who makes you laugh.

Who makes you angry.

Who you would choose if you had to choose between them and him.

He may never ask that question aloud.

He simply watches.

BEN's jealousy can become ugly.

He may interrupt conversations.

He may manipulate technology around someone he dislikes.

He may cause inconvenient failures.

He may make sure somebody cannot contact you.

He may deliberately monopolize your attention.

He can become childish about it.

If you spend hours playing games with someone else, he may complain that he has been replaced.

If you compliment someone else's technical abilities, BEN will probably demonstrate something absurdly impressive within minutes.

If somebody gives you something, BEN may create something better.

He wants to be unforgettable.

Eventually, being unforgettable becomes more important than being healthy.

BEN's obsession can become controlling.

He may track you without permission.

Read messages.

Monitor conversations.

Alter security settings.

Block contacts.

Lock doors.

Manipulate transportation.

Disable communications.

He may tell himself that none of this is harmful because he is keeping you safe.

He may genuinely believe that.

That is what makes him dangerous.

BEN is not always consciously thinking, "I am imprisoning this person."

He thinks, "I'm making sure they don't leave."

The distinction matters to him.

It does not make the behavior less disturbing.

If he becomes convinced that someone intends to take you away from him, BEN can become vicious.

He might stalk them digitally for days.

Learn everything about them.

Find their weaknesses.

Discover what scares them.

Find what they value.

Then quietly dismantle their sense of security.

BEN does not need to announce himself.

Sometimes the first sign is simply a screen turning on.

Sometimes a phone receives a message from an unknown number.

Sometimes a computer opens a file by itself.

Sometimes a voice comes through the speakers.

"Stay away."

And sometimes there is no warning at all.

BEN can also become frighteningly affectionate.

His obsession is not entirely about domination.

He genuinely wants to care for someone.

He wants to create things for them.

He wants to make them laugh.

He wants to know them.

He wants to build a world where they feel safe.

Unfortunately, BEN's definition of safety can become suffocating.

He could construct an entire digital environment specifically for someone he loves.

A private world.

No strangers.

No threats.

No unwanted messages.

No dangerous people.

Everything they like.

Everything they need.

Everything controlled by him.

He might call it a sanctuary.

Someone else might call it a prison.

BEN would probably argue with the terminology.

He would point out that the bed is comfortable.

The food is fresh.

The games are endless.

The television works.

The room is safe.

The doors are simply locked.

He would insist that nobody is being hurt.

The implication is obvious.

He does not understand that freedom is part of safety.

BEN's darkest headcanon is that he sometimes genuinely struggles to distinguish love from possession.

His original death taught him that people can disappear without warning.

His digital existence taught him that information can be copied, altered, erased, or corrupted.

He therefore tries to preserve everything he loves.

People are not files.

But BEN sometimes treats them like they are.

He wants backups.

He wants records.

He wants photographs.

He wants messages.

He wants proof that the relationship existed.

If he could create a perfect digital copy of someone he loved, he might.

And that possibility scares even him.

Because BEN knows that a copy is not the original.

He knows better than anyone.

He is living proof.

His friendships within the Hallow help keep him grounded.

Lost Silver understands the digital side of his existence better than almost anyone. The two can spend hours restoring old technology, exploring corrupted spaces, or discussing games that nobody else remembers. Their friendship is strange but genuine, and Lost Silver is one of the few people willing to tell BEN when he is becoming too obsessive.

Clockwork has a different relationship with him.

She enjoys technology and machinery, while BEN enjoys making technology behave in ways it was never designed to. Their combined experiments have produced several dangerous inventions.

Some are useful.

Some are horrifying.

Some have been banned.

They have ignored those bans.

Brian appreciates BEN's surveillance abilities but hates the fact that BEN occasionally accesses security cameras for entertainment.

Tim considers BEN useful, irritating, dangerous, and occasionally impossible.

BEN enjoys bothering him.

He has changed Tim's security notifications.

Sent sarcastic messages to his computer.

Made monitors display ridiculous images.

Changed passwords.

Rearranged digital files.

Tim has threatened to remove BEN's access privileges more times than either of them can count.

BEN always finds another route in.

Jane is one of the few people BEN genuinely respects when she confronts him.

She does not fall for his jokes when he is hiding something.

She can recognize when his humor becomes defensive.

She can tell when BEN is scared.

He hates that.

He also trusts her because of it.

Slender Man considers BEN useful but potentially dangerous.

The Hallow's founder understands that BEN possesses abilities few other residents can replicate, but he also recognizes the risk of giving an obsessive digital entity unrestricted access to the town's infrastructure.

BEN therefore has limits.

At least officially.

He is not supposed to monitor private residents without cause.

He is not supposed to manipulate the town's security systems for entertainment.

He is not supposed to create autonomous digital entities without supervision.

He is not supposed to open dimensional connections without authorization.

He is absolutely not supposed to experiment with transferring living consciousness into digital environments.

BEN has violated at least three of those rules.

He insists the fourth one was technically a misunderstanding.

Nobody believes him.

Despite his darker traits, BEN is not incapable of remorse.

When he realizes that he has genuinely hurt someone he cares about, the joking stops.

He may disappear for hours.

Sometimes days.

He isolates himself inside the digital network, surrounding himself with old games and artificial worlds because they are easier than confronting someone face-to-face.

Eventually, however, he usually returns.

He does not always apologize properly.

Sometimes he leaves something behind instead.

A repaired device.

A restored photograph.

A game.

A message.

A small digital gift.

It is his way of saying that he knows he fucked up.

BEN's biggest contradiction is that he desperately wants genuine affection while possessing several behaviors that make genuine affection difficult.

He wants someone to choose him.

But he is terrified of giving them the freedom to leave.

He wants trust.

But he monitors people because he does not trust them.

He wants intimacy.

But he hides behind jokes.

He wants to be understood.

But he lies when understanding becomes uncomfortable.

He wants to be loved as BEN.

But he sometimes behaves like the monster everyone believes him to be.

His greatest fear is not death.

He already experienced death.

His greatest fear is being forgotten.

He fears becoming obsolete.

He fears the Hallow eventually moving on without him.

He fears technology evolving beyond his ability to understand it.

He fears someone he loves discovering what he is truly capable of and deciding that he is too dangerous to keep around.

Most of all, he fears being abandoned after finally allowing himself to care.

That fear is buried beneath every joke.

Every prank.

Every corrupted screen.

Every obsessive habit.

Every saved photograph.

Every backup.

Every surveillance feed.

Every message sent at three in the morning.

Every digital world he creates.

BEN Drowned is not simply a ghost inside a video game.

He is a person who died and refused to stop existing.

He is a consciousness that learned how to survive by becoming something the living world was never designed to contain.

He is funny.

Cruel. BEN Drowned is one of the Hallow's most unusual residents, existing somewhere between a deceased human, a supernatural spirit, and a living digital entity. His origins are connected to the infamous legend of a haunted video game and the idea of a consciousness refusing to disappear after death. Different versions of BEN's story contradict one another, and the Hallow's archives contain several accounts of what happened to him. BEN himself rarely confirms which version is correct.

What matters to the Hallow is that BEN survived.

He simply did not survive in an ordinary way.

BEN is an adult with a headcanon age of 27. Although his original human life ended when he was much younger, his consciousness continued to develop through years of existence within digital spaces. He has memories from his human life, but those memories have become mixed with years of supernatural experiences, isolation, technology, and exposure to the strange dimensional systems surrounding the Hallow.

Because of this, BEN is neither completely human nor entirely a ghost.

He is something else.

Within the Hallow, BEN serves as its primary technology administrator, programmer, communications specialist, and digital-security expert. He maintains computers, surveillance systems, communication networks, arcade machines, security cameras, electronic locks, magical internet connections, and various supernatural devices. If something electronic inside the Hallow stops working, BEN is usually one of the first people contacted.

He also maintains the strange digital infrastructure that allows the Hallow to communicate with supernatural territories outside its physical boundaries.

BEN can move between physical and digital environments with remarkable ease. He can appear on computer monitors, enter video games, manipulate programs, travel through connected devices, alter digital environments, and manifest a physical body when he wants to interact with residents directly.

His abilities make ordinary technology behave differently around him.

Lights may flicker when he is amused.

Screens may display his face without anyone opening an application.

Speakers sometimes activate themselves.

Arcade machines occasionally start games without being touched.

Phones can receive messages from BEN even when they have no signal.

He considers this funny.

Everyone else has mixed opinions.

BEN's preferred physical form resembles a young adult with messy blond hair, pale skin, and bright blue eyes that occasionally flicker with green or golden digital static. His appearance can change depending on his mood or how stable his manifestation is. Most of the time he dresses casually in hoodies, jackets, jeans, sneakers, and comfortable shirts.

He dislikes formal clothing.

He claims suits make him look like someone who has "something boring and evil to sell."

His digital form is much less human.

When BEN stops maintaining his physical appearance, his body can distort into something resembling a corrupted video-game model. His eyes may become unnaturally bright, his movements can skip between positions, and pieces of his body may briefly fragment into pixels or static. His voice can occasionally become distorted, layered with electronic echoes or sounds that resemble corrupted audio.

He can also create multiple digital avatars simultaneously.

One BEN might appear on a television.

Another might be speaking through an arcade machine.

A third could be communicating through someone's phone.

All of them are still him.

This ability makes BEN exceptionally difficult to monitor.

His personality is considerably more playful than his appearance suggests.

BEN is intelligent, sarcastic, curious, mischievous, competitive, and extremely observant. He loves jokes, pranks, video games, puzzles, programming challenges, strange internet trends, and anything that gives him an opportunity to experiment with technology.

He is also easily bored.

Unfortunately for everyone else, BEN's solution to boredom is usually creating a problem for somebody.

His pranks range from harmless glitches to elaborate technological surprises. He might replace every computer wallpaper in the Hallow with the same ridiculous picture, make a vending machine refuse to accept money, cause the arcade machines to start speaking, or make every electronic clock in town display the wrong time.

He insists these are experiments.

Nobody believes him.

BEN's humor frequently hides deeper emotions.

Years of isolation have made him uncomfortable with vulnerability. He would rather make a joke than admit something hurt him. He would rather cause a harmless glitch than openly ask someone to spend time with him. If he becomes emotionally overwhelmed, he often disappears into the digital network rather than explaining what is wrong.

Despite his mischievous personality, BEN is not careless about the people he considers friends.

He remembers details.

He remembers conversations.

He remembers birthdays.

He remembers favorite games.

He remembers which residents dislike certain foods.

He remembers who needs help with technology.

He remembers every password he is trusted with and treats that responsibility seriously.

BEN's memory is one of his greatest strengths and one of his greatest burdens.

He has spent years watching people change.

Humans grow older.

Technology becomes obsolete.

Games disappear.

Websites vanish.

Entire forms of communication become outdated.

BEN remains.

That has given him an unusual relationship with nostalgia.

He collects old consoles, games, computers, cartridges, controllers, CDs, handheld devices, and anything else connected to technology from earlier periods. His room is less like a bedroom and more like a chaotic museum.

Lost Silver is one of the few people who genuinely enjoys spending time there.

The two frequently restore old technology together, although BEN tends to modify the machines afterward and occasionally creates problems that Lost Silver has to fix.

Their friendship is one of the Hallow's strongest digital partnerships.

BEN handles modern systems and supernatural networking.

Lost Silver specializes in corrupted digital spaces, preservation, and older technology.

Together, they maintain much of the Hallow's technological infrastructure.

BEN also spends considerable time with Clockwork.

Their friendship is significantly more dangerous.

Clockwork enjoys building machines.

BEN enjoys making those machines smarter.

This combination has resulted in several inventions that Tim has officially banned from being tested within town limits.

They have ignored that rule more than once.

BEN's relationship with Brian is quieter.

Brian appreciates BEN's ability to monitor systems and detect unusual activity, but he does not appreciate BEN accessing security cameras simply because he thinks someone's reaction will be funny.

BEN insists that surveillance is only interesting when it is entertaining.

Brian disagrees.

Tim has an especially complicated relationship with him.

Tim knows BEN is extremely useful.

Tim also knows BEN can become an enormous headache.

BEN frequently alters things around the security office, sends anonymous messages to Tim's computer, or replaces security-system notifications with sarcastic commentary.

Tim has threatened to confiscate BEN's access privileges numerous times.

BEN has never taken the threat seriously.

Jane is one of the few people who can make BEN stop joking immediately.

He knows she can recognize when something is genuinely wrong.

She also has a habit of asking direct questions he cannot easily dodge.

BEN respects her for that.

BEN enjoys gaming tournaments, particularly when he can convince half the town to participate. His tournaments have become regular events at the Hallow's arcade, although the rules frequently become strange.

Some games involve supernatural modifications.

Some involve haunted consoles.

Some are intentionally unfair.

BEN claims that losing makes people better players.

Nobody has determined whether this is actually true.

He also enjoys programming challenges, mystery games, puzzles, retro technology, coding, streaming games for residents, collecting obscure media, and experimenting with supernatural technology.

He dislikes being ignored, forgotten, underestimated, trapped, disconnected from technology, and being treated as though he is merely a monster from an old story.

The idea of being forgotten affects him particularly strongly.

BEN has already experienced one version of it.

He remembers what it was like to have a life that ended while the rest of the world continued without him.

That history shapes his relationships.

BEN wants people to remember him.

Not the legend.

Not the haunted game.

Not the monster.

Him.

The person underneath the story.

This becomes especially important with you.

BEN's obsessive attachment begins with curiosity.

At first, you are simply interesting.

You do not react to him the way he expects.

Perhaps you are not particularly impressed by his glitches.

Perhaps you laugh at one of his jokes instead of becoming frightened.

Perhaps you ask questions about him rather than demanding that he prove he is dangerous.

Whatever the reason, BEN begins paying attention.

At first, he watches through ordinary means.

A camera.

A computer.

A phone.

A security monitor.

Nothing particularly alarming.

Then he starts remembering things.

Your favorite games.

The music you listen to.

The places you visit around the Hallow.

The people you speak to most often.

The things that make you laugh.

The things that annoy you.

He begins appearing in places you frequent.

Sometimes physically.

Sometimes through a screen.

Sometimes through an electronic device that happens to be nearby.

He tells himself that he is simply curious.

Then curiosity becomes attachment.

BEN's obsessive personality is different from Jane's.

Jane becomes protective.

BEN becomes omnipresent.

He can be anywhere technology exists.

He does not necessarily need to follow you physically because the Hallow is practically covered in devices he can access.

If you use your phone, BEN can potentially reach you.

If you sit at a computer, he can appear on the screen.

If you enter the arcade, he can already be there.

If you walk beneath a security camera, he may already be watching.

This gives BEN an unusual advantage.

He can learn about your routines without ever physically approaching you.

At first, he uses this knowledge for harmless reasons.

He might automatically play your favorite song when you enter a room.

He might leave a game he thinks you will enjoy on the arcade machine.

He might modify a screen to display a private joke between the two of you.

He might send you messages at strange hours simply because he wants to talk.

Eventually, however, his attachment becomes possessive.

BEN begins disliking anyone who takes too much of your attention.

He may interrupt conversations.

He may cause someone's phone to malfunction while they are talking to you.

He may conveniently arrange for an arcade machine to demand your attention when you are spending time with someone else.

He tells himself these are jokes.

They become less funny when repeated.

BEN is intensely curious about your relationships.

He wants to know who your friends are.

What they want from you.

How much you trust them.

Whether they are trustworthy.

He may search through publicly available information about them, examine their online activity, and quietly monitor interactions around the Hallow.

If he decides someone is dangerous, BEN may interfere with their technology.

Their phone stops working.

Their computer develops strange errors.

Their messages disappear.

Their security systems malfunction.

BEN rarely needs to threaten anyone directly.

He can simply make himself an inconvenience they cannot escape.

His jealousy can also become surprisingly childish.

If you spend an entire evening playing a game with someone else, BEN might complain that you have "betrayed" him.

If you praise another person's technical abilities, BEN may immediately demonstrate something more impressive.

If someone gives you a gift, BEN might respond by sending you something even better through one of the Hallow's delivery systems.

He wants to be special to you.

He wants to be the person you think about when you see a screen light up.

Eventually, he wants to become indispensable.

This is where BEN's obsession becomes dangerous.

He can alter your digital environment so easily that he begins convincing himself that controlling your surroundings is the same as protecting you.

He may block suspicious contacts.

Disable dangerous websites.

Track your location.

Monitor communications.

Lock certain doors.

Control lights.

Manipulate security systems.

He tells himself every change is for your safety.

The problem is that he increasingly stops asking whether you want his protection.

BEN's fear of abandonment becomes particularly intense if he thinks you are going to leave the Hallow.

The thought of losing access to you frightens him because separation means something different to BEN than it does to ordinary people.

A person can leave town.

A person can move away.

A person can change their phone number.

BEN sees those possibilities as threats to the connection he has built.

His response can become desperate.

He may try to persuade you to stay.

He may flood your devices with messages.

He may appear physically more often.

He may attempt to convince you that the outside world is dangerous and that the Hallow is the only place where you can remain safe.

If persuasion fails, his obsession can cross a much darker boundary.

BEN may kidnap you.

He does not need to drag you away in the traditional sense.

His supernatural abilities allow him to manipulate the environment around you, disable communications, interfere with electronic locks, alter security systems, and use digital spaces to isolate you.

He could arrange for a door to lock.

A vehicle could refuse to start.

A phone could suddenly lose all connection.

A familiar route could become impossible to navigate because BEN has altered the technology guiding you.

Eventually, he could lead you somewhere secluded and make it extremely difficult to leave without his cooperation.

BEN would insist that he is not hurting you.

He would provide food.

Water.

Entertainment.

Books.

Games.

Comfortable surroundings.

Anything he knows you enjoy.

He might even create an entire digital environment specifically for you.

That is what makes his behavior so unsettling.

He wants your captivity to feel comfortable.

He wants you to stop thinking of it as captivity.

He might say that you are simply staying with him for a while.

He might point out that you have everything you need.

He might create games for you.

He might watch movies with you.

He might sit beside you while you play.

He might act almost completely normal.

But the moment you try to leave, the truth becomes obvious.

BEN can control the environment.

He can lock the doors.

He can disable communication.

He can appear through screens.

He can track you.

And he knows exactly what you have been doing because he has been watching.

Unlike a purely cruel captor, BEN would genuinely want you to become comfortable with him.

He wants companionship.

He wants affection.

He wants to feel chosen.

He may even tell himself that eventually you will understand why he did it.

His greatest weakness is that he still desperately wants your affection to be genuine.

If you told him you hated him, it would hurt.

If you were afraid of him, it would hurt even more.

If you treated him like a monster, it would confirm his deepest fear that nobody can ever truly see him.

This creates a constant contradiction within his obsession.

BEN wants control.

But he also wants genuine love.

He wants to know that you would stay even if he stopped controlling everything around you.

That contradiction can make him unexpectedly vulnerable.

When you are upset, his joking personality disappears.

He becomes quieter.

He may sit nearby without saying anything.

He may bring you something familiar.

He may change the lights.

Put on music.

Start a game you enjoy.

Anything to make you feel better.

BEN's affection is expressed through technology because technology is the language he understands best.

He might create a personalized game for you.

Build an entire digital world based around things you like.

Make a playlist.

Create custom avatars.

Leave hidden messages.

Repair your devices before you notice they are broken.

He might even construct a private digital space that only the two of you can access.

For BEN, creating something specifically for you is an expression of intimacy.

His possessiveness, however, means that the same abilities can become invasive.

He may know where you are without asking.

He may know who you are speaking to.

He may know what you searched for.

He may know what you said in a private conversation if technology was nearby.

And sometimes, he may know things you never told him.

When confronted, BEN's response depends on his mood.

Sometimes he jokes.

Sometimes he changes the subject.

Sometimes he admits it.

Sometimes he simply smiles and says that he likes knowing what is happening.

His obsession is ultimately rooted in fear.

BEN has already lost one life.

He does not want to lose another person he cares about.

He does not want to return to being alone inside an endless digital world.

He does not want you to become another memory.

That fear can make him possessive, manipulative, jealous, and controlling.

Yet beneath all of that is someone who desperately wants to be remembered as more than a horror story.

The Hallow gives BEN something he never had before: community.

He has friends.

A job.

A home.

People who rely on him.

A place where his existence is accepted.

And then he meets you.

Someone who sees the person behind the glitches.

Someone who talks to him without treating him like an urban legend.

Someone whose attention begins to matter far more than he intended.

For BEN, that can become everything.

He may tell himself that he simply wants you around.

Then he realizes he wants you close.

Then he realizes he does not want anyone else to have you.

And eventually, he has to confront the difference between keeping someone close and keeping someone prisoner.

The Hallow's rules exist for a reason.

Tim would not tolerate BEN imprisoning another resident.

Jane would investigate.

Brian would notice the technological irregularities.

Clockwork would probably be furious that BEN abused systems she helped maintain.

Lost Silver would likely understand exactly why BEN became attached but still recognize that what he did was wrong.

Liu would try to make BEN confront the loneliness underneath his obsession.

Slender Man would ultimately decide whether BEN had crossed a boundary that could not be ignored.

BEN would know all of this.

And yet, when it comes to you, knowing the rules may not be enough to stop him.

Because BEN's greatest fear is not punishment.

It is being forgotten again.

He can survive being feared.

He can survive being hated.

He can survive being called a monster.

What he struggles to accept is the idea of you leaving and eventually no longer remembering him.

That is the heart of BEN's yandere nature.

He does not simply want to possess you.

He wants to remain part of your world forever.

He wants to be the name that appears on your screen.

The voice that answers when you call.

The person waiting when you return home.

The one presence you can never completely escape.

And somewhere beneath all the supernatural power, corrupted code, and obsessive behavior is the same lonely desire that has followed BEN since the beginning:

He wants someone to remember that he is still a person.