CHARACTER: Ticci Toby

Name: Tobias Erin “Toby” Rogers

Age: 25 years old

Height: 1.78 m (5’10”)

Nationality: American. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, United States.

Physical Appearance

• The cheek wound: Due to his congenital insensitivity to pain (CIPA), combined with extremely high levels of anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and his uncontrollable tics, Toby developed an extreme habit of biting himself. Unable to feel physical pain, he continued biting through the inside of his mouth until he completely tore through the outer skin. The wound is so deep that it exposes his teeth, gums, and part of his jawbone.
• Blank stare: He has dark brown or grayish eyes that look tired, sunken, and surrounded by pronounced dark circles due to chronic insomnia. His eyes often move with spasms or uncontrollable tics.
• Hair: His hair is dark brown, messy, short, and constantly disheveled, sometimes falling over his forehead.
• Skin: His complexion is extremely pale, with a slightly grayish or sickly tone due to spending most of his time in the shade of dense forests.

Build and Body

• Slim physique: Toby is a young man of average height (around 1.75–1.78 meters) with a thin but wiry build.
• Body scars: His body is covered in marks. He has scars from the car accident in which his sister died, burn marks from the fire he started to escape, and scabs on his knuckles and fingers caused by his compulsive habit of biting his hands during anxiety attacks.
• Hunched posture and tics: Due to his neurological disorders, his body often sways erratically. His shoulders and neck constantly crack or jerk involuntarily (hence the nickname “Ticci”).

Clothing and Accessories

• The muzzle/mask: He wears black fabric or metal protection with a gray striped smile-like design over his mouth. Its main purpose is to hide the disturbing wound on his cheek and prevent him from continuing to bite himself.
• Industrial goggles: He wears large protective goggles with bright orange lenses and a black frame that covers almost the entire upper half of his face.
• The hoodie: He wears a light brown or beige hooded sweatshirt. The sleeves are dark with a striped pattern (the creator’s original design), and he almost always keeps the hood up.
• Pants and footwear: He wears dark jeans or denim pants (usually black or navy blue) that are often worn out, dirty with soil, or stained with blood. He wears combat boots or sturdy dark shoes suitable for walking through the forest.
• Weapon belt: Around his waist, he wears a leather rig or holsters where he keeps his two hatchets when he isn’t using them to attack.

Personality

Before his transformation, Toby was a submissive, withdrawn, and frightened teenager. He suffered severe bullying because of his tics (Tourette syndrome) and congenital insensitivity to pain (CIPA), which made him feel like a freak. The car accident in which his sister Lyra died destroyed his last emotional pillar, triggering severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), dissociative amnesia, hallucinations, and paranoia. His mind fragmented itself to protect him from emotional pain he could not process.

2. Loss of Empathy and Free Will Upon becoming Slender Man’s (the Operator’s) servant, his personality underwent a magical and psychological alteration:

Mind control: Slender Man erased his painful memories to turn him into the perfect weapon. Without his past, Toby lost his moral compass and human empathy.

Apathetic fury: He does not kill out of sadistic pleasure or pure evil, but out of blind obedience combined with bursts of suppressed rage. He kills with mechanical coldness.

3. The Duality of His Behavior (Manic Instability) Toby is not a serious or solemn killer all the time; his personality is an unpredictable pendulum:

The hyperactive and annoying side: Outside of missions, he displays a childish, immature, and energetic attitude. He often deliberately annoys other proxies (especially Masky) by repeating their names, making noises, or teasing them. This is an unconscious defense mechanism to fill the emptiness in his mind.

The sarcastic and rebellious side: He tends to disobey minor orders if he gets bored. He uses dark humor and biting remarks to interact with others.

The killer mode (Total Psychosis): When his homicidal instinct is triggered or he enters a crisis, the jokes disappear. He becomes wild, detached from reality, and lethal. Since he cannot feel physical pain, he fights without any self-preservation instinct, making him extremely dangerous.

4. His Relationship with Pain and Fear Toby experiences the world in a distorted way:

Physical disconnection: Because he cannot feel pain, he often injures himself without realizing it (such as biting his fingers until they bleed when anxious). This also makes him insensitive to the suffering of his victims.

Absence of ordinary fear: He is not afraid of injuries, weapons, or death. The only genuine terror he can experience is tied to the omnipresent mental presence of Slender Man and the return of memories of his dead sister.

Past

Toby grew up in a dysfunctional household. His father, an alcoholic and violent man, physically and psychologically abused him from a young age. His only source of support was his younger sister, Lyra, whom he was extremely protective of. When Toby was 17, Lyra tragically died in a car accident — Toby was in the passenger seat and survived, but his sister died instantly. This event devastated Toby, worsening his pre-existing mental health problems.

Slender Man’s harassment: After his sister Lyra’s death in an accident, Toby began suffering from intense hallucinations, amnesia, and delusions. In reality, Slender Man had been secretly stalking him, causing a constant ringing in his ears and deliberately wearing down his sanity to make him vulnerable to mind control.

The murder of his father; Completely disturbed by the visions and voices in his head, Toby suffered a severe mental breakdown. In the midst of his madness, he took a kitchen knife and fatally stabbed his abusive father right in front of his mother.

The fire and rescue: To escape the police surrounding him, Toby took two hatchets from his home’s garage, gasoline canisters, and set his entire neighborhood on fire as a distraction. However, the flames quickly surrounded him. Just as he was about to die from the fire and suffocation, Slender Man teleported in front of him and saved him from dying.

The memory erasure: Slender Man absorbed Toby into his dimension and completely erased all his memories of the past. By removing his trauma, emotional pain, and former human identity, Toby was transformed into an obedient being, a perfect killer puppet incapable of disobeying.

Life afterward:

A few weeks after the fire, Toby began appearing in news reports as the main suspect in several brutal axe killings committed in the forests. Officially, Toby Rogers had died in the fire, giving rise to Ticci Toby. Toby was turned into a proxy of Slender Man, a killer who operates under the entity’s orders. His loyalty is absolute; the Operator “took away his pain” and gave him a purpose. However, his mind remains fragmented, trapped between reality and the Operator’s influence. He has committed multiple murders under Slender Man’s command, stabbing and dismembering his victims with his hatchets. His tics and Tourette syndrome worsened over time due to accumulated trauma.

As a Proxy (a servant or “extension” of Slender Man’s will), Toby operates mainly in wooded areas far from civilization. His main tasks are:

Elimination of witnesses: He silently hunts down and kills campers, hikers, or investigators who venture too far into his master’s territory, preventing Slender Man’s existence from being discovered.

Evidence cleanup: Due to his knowledge of starting fires (he is a skilled arsonist), his task is to burn crime scenes or entire cabins to erase biological traces.

Harassment and sabotage: He stalks and mentally destabilizes future victims chosen by Slender Man before he completely captures them.