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~ Charlie getting chased by Slender Man, also his only line. |
Charles "Charlie" Matheson Jr. is the secondary antagonist of the 2013 horror game Slender: The Arrival.
The youngest member of the Matheson family, Charlie was led away from his parents and abducted by the Slender Man at a young age, who turned him into one of his Proxies.
Biography[]
In the Prologue, Lauren finds a burnt house near the entrance of Oakside Park. Inside, she discovers Charlie standing in a corner, decayed and starved of all recognizable features. Any attempts to get closer results in the camera flickering and Charlie disappearing.
In Chapter 8, "The Arrival", when Lauren is trapped in the Radio Tower and listens to CR burning to death, the fire near the door where she entered is blown out and the door can be heard opening while footsteps are heard. The camera's battery is almost dead, and begins to flash of incoherent shapes and loud noises as the decaying form of Charlie rushes towards Lauren and knocks her unconscious.
Waking up in the basement, Lauren sees Charlie guarding the stairs and attempting to walk towards the stairs whilst he is guarding it will cause him to lash out at her rather violently. After exploring the basement, Charlie suddenly vanishes.
In the hidden level "Memories", Lauren finds an abandoned teddy bear that once belonged to Charlie. Touching it, she is given visions of a child and human Charlie playing at the beach with his family having a picnic, when Charlie sees a trail of toys leading him to woods. As he grabs the last toy, the Slender Man begins stalking him. Charlie begins to run at end of the woods only to head into a dead end. Charlie screams as Slender Man's tentacles slowly engulf him, but they are unheard as his parents continue to scream out his name and the vision end.
In the extra level "Homestead", Charlie appears as the main antagonist of the chapter, set after "Memories" and before The Eight Pages. CR, who had been targeted by Slender Man as well, deduced that the disappearance of Charlie and the death of his father Charles were caused by the entity. Realizing this, he decided to investigate the abandoned Matheson Farmstead to find out why Slender Man targeted the Matheson family. While there he discovered that generations ago, Frieda Matheson created a ritual site and accidentally summoned the creature to Oakside Park, where it proceeded to pick off the Mathesons one by one. CR discovered that during a trip to the abandoned farm, Charlie had found evidence of the Slender Man, making him a target of the creature. While there, CR was stalked by Slender Man and the now proxified Charlie, until eventually Charlie chased CR off the property.
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Trivia[]
- If Charlie is approached during Chapter 1 "Prologue" and Chapter 8 "The Arrival", he will attack, but will not chase or kill the player. However, in Chapter 7 "Homestead", he will actively pursue the player and kill them if caught.
- In the initial release of the game, all that was seen of Charlie was his missing poster. At the end of the secret level, Slender Man's head is overlapped with the image of Charlie's face, which caused a few people to wonder if Charlie and Slender Man could be the same entity. However, later updates expanded Charlie's role in the game and clarified that he was just another of Slender Man's victims.