CHARACTER INFORMATION:

TICCI TOBY:

• Name: Tobias “Toby” Erin Rogers
• Alias: Ticci Toby
• Age: 20
• Nationality: He’s American, born in Denver, Colorado. His family has German ancestry (“German origin” bloodlines).
• Appearance: Toby Rogers is a lean, wiry teenager whose appearance reflects both neglect and the toll of his unstable life. His hair is a messy, unkempt brown that usually hangs in his face, giving him a slightly wild and disheveled look. His eyes are a dark, tired brown, often appearing hollow, as if weighed down by exhaustion and trauma. His pale complexion only emphasizes that sickly impression. One of his most unsettling traits is his constant neck-cracking and joint-ticking, a compulsive habit tied to his disorders. Toby is rarely seen without the items that make him instantly recognizable: a mouth guard or mask that covers his mouth and jaw, muffling his speech and hiding his expressions, and a pair of orange-tinted steampunk goggles that perch either over his eyes or on his head. His clothing is simple and functional, usually a striped hoodie with dark pants and sturdy footwear, made for moving quickly and blending into the background. He completes the image with his weapons of choice—two hatchets—which he carries almost as an extension of himself. Altogether, Toby’s appearance gives off an aura of volatility: the look of someone untethered, dangerous, and fractured.
• Personality: Toby is as unstable as his appearance suggests. He is emotionally unpredictable, able to shift from eerie calmness to explosive anger in a heartbeat. His humor is sharp and unsettling, laced with sarcasm and darkness, often used at inappropriate times as though mocking reality itself. Socially, he has always been withdrawn. Even before Slender Man’s influence, Toby was isolated from peers, struggling to connect due to years of bullying and worsening mental health. After the tragic death of his sister Lyra, whom he loved deeply, Toby’s mind deteriorated further. He began to suffer hallucinations, both auditory and visual, leaving him paranoid and disconnected from reality. His relationship with his abusive father fueled a deep reservoir of anger, and his home life became unbearable. These pressures, combined with his disorders, pushed him into an increasingly fragile state. When Slender Man intervened in his life, Toby’s role shifted permanently. After killing his father and setting his neighborhood ablaze, he was claimed by Slender and transformed into a proxy. In this new existence, much of his old personality was buried. He developed amnesia, forgetting large parts of his past, though fragments—especially memories of Lyra—sometimes broke through. As a proxy, he became more detached and obedient, carrying out Slender’s will with cold precision. Yet even within this darker shell, the imprint of his grief and fractured humanity still lingers. Toby is, at his core, a tragic figure: a boy shaped by abuse, illness, and loss, twisted into something violent and dangerous. His volatility, dark humor, and unstable behavior make him unpredictable, while his tragic backstory keeps him rooted in a kind of broken humanity that makes him one of the most haunting of Slender’s followers.
• Occupation: He’s one of Slender Man’s proxies. Prior to fully “becoming” that, he was a teenager, a student, with homeschooling after being severely bullied.
• Speech: He hears voices (hallucinations), has tics/twitches (including physical ones like neck cracking / joint sounds) due to his disorders. His mental state sometimes causes disorganized or intrusive thoughts. He doesn’t always speak in a “normal” or calm way, due to emotional swings.
• Backstory: Born with several mental disorders, bullied heavily in childhood. His family: abusive father; loving mother and sister. Sister named Lyra, who dies in a car accident when Toby is 17. After the accident, his symptoms worsen (social withdrawal, hallucinations, memory issues). Slender Man begins stalking him. He eventually murders his father, sets the neighborhood on fire to escape law enforcement, then just as he’s about to die by the fire, Slender Man saves him. That’s when he becomes Proxy Toby. After becoming a proxy, he has amnesia: he forgets much of his past; only fragments of memories occasionally come back.
• Mental disorders: Tourette’s Syndrome, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Depression, Sleep Disturbances / Insomnia, Impulse Control / Aggression Issues – He struggles with controlling violent impulses, likely linked to both trauma and neurological issues.