Post by Bluedramon on Jan 23, 2015 0:48:17 GMT -5
I whipped up a creepypasta earlier today. This one deals with a theory regarding the red chalk, where it might have come from, and why it acts the way it does. I should not that I don't personally believe this theory, however I felt it made for a nice, creepy story. So here ya go!
Does anyone remember that old show? ChalkZone? It was one of the early 2000 cartoons, although it began life in the 90s in the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts. A cutesy, relatively harmless show about a boy and his friends exploring a world of chalk.
On the surface, this seems like a good show for kids. And it is. Children will eat the show up with all its adorableness and sugary adventures. They’ll sing along to the various songs that play at the end of most episodes. They’ll be quoting the different funny quotes that many episodes contain. Truly, you cannot find a more sugarcoated show than this.
Yet there are still some intense moments present in the show. Like one episode where Rudy nearly dies, or another one where he and his drawings, as well as some innocent bystanders, are nearly drowned. There’s even an episode where Penny, his best friend, nearly turns on him.
For the most part, these emotion-packed scenes are short-lived or are explained away and resolved. Penny was faking her betrayal, Rudy outsmarts Skrawl, and he escaped serious injury when he was slammed against the wall. All nice and good, keep the children happy and blissful. It’s a G-Rated show after all. They can’t possibly have anything too scary for the little ones...right..?
Well there was one aspect of the show that..frankly never was fully explained. It appeared twice, and in both appearances, it was treated in a 2D-ish way.
The red chalk. A chalk with a shroud of forebodiness around it.
In the first episode it appears in, right from the get go, it’s painted in a darker light than you would imagine something from the show would be. A sign warns Rudy of being ‘drawn into a battle’ and he ignores the warning. What happens? The red chalk takes control of him and creates monstrous drawings. When Rudy resists, the red chalk fights with him, and the two fight control over Rudy’s own body.
By the end of the episode, Rudy takes the red chalk into the Real World and is able to render it powerless. Biclops is seemingly none the wiser, unaware that Rudy invaded the Chalk Mines and took red chalk from it, and unaware that Rudy was responsible for the red chalk drawings that spread throughout ChalkZone.
Though a seemingly happy ending, it’s not over as the red chalk physically moves and hides unerneath Mr. Wilter’s desk. Cue the next episode later on where Reggie finds the chalk.
In this episode, Rudy has to face Reggie, who has become influenced by the red chalk, invades the Chalk Mine after easily overpowering Biclops, and takes a whole bag of red chalk. With Reggie, the red chalk is able to spread its mayhem into ChalkZone City. That is, until Rudy manages to outsmart Reggie and gets him tossed back into the Real World. The piece of red chalk is dissolved into water and that appears to be the end of it.
The red chalk is among one of the darkest concepts in ChalkZone, and yet it remains mostly a mystery. The goals of the red chalk are never explored, and outside of Biclops saying that the red chalk ‘won’t stop until all of ChalkZone is in chaos’, we don’t really know what the red chalk wants, and why.
Where did the red chalk come from? Why is it so aggressive? Why is it so obsessed with controlling a creator? Why, out of all the chalk, does this type appear almost..sentient?
Well perhaps there is a reason for it. I have delved deeper into the subject, and I found something.
To begin, I need to turn back the clock to the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts. Back when Rudy was eight, not ten. Back when Rudy was still new to ChalkZone, and well before he met Penny. Back when he had his first encounter with Biclops, then called Cyclops.
At this point, Biclops..er, Cyclops, had no warm intentions for Rudy. Instead, he was painted as a rather nasty guy, though understandably so, who was doing what he could to keep Rudy from taking any magic chalk. It was in this episode that we get to see some of ChalkZone’s history. It’s one of the very few episodes that does this, and while it’s brief, what its shown is pretty disturbing.
There used to be creators allowed into ChalkZone. Left and right, they’d draw whatever they wanted to, to allow their creations to run amok. Considering the power of a creator...or human actually, to be able to draw anything on a whim, that is pretty terrifying to imagine. It’s no wonder Cyclops was embittered.
But what happened to the children? Cyclops never explains it. He never tells Rudy how the children were kicked out, or how humans were essentially locked out. He only tells him how things used to be. No explanation.
This appears tobe a mystery that would never be solved. That is...unless you think a little deeper into the subject.
Think back to the children. Think what those past creators’ behaviors were like. They were careless. They created on a whim. They were destructive. They allowed their creations to run through the chalk world, regardless of how dangerous they were. They did what they wanted to regardless of who got in their way.
Wait.. doesn’t this sound familiar? It should. It’s the exact same behavior of the red chalk.
The red chalk creates anything it wants to. It does what it wants to without worrying about others getting hurt. The red chalk is destructive and dangerous. It is among one of the most lethal forces in ChalkZone.
But reading into its behavior, is it possible that there is more to the red chalk? When thinking more deeply, the red chalk appears to act out...like a child. A child that got gipped and tired of being ignored. A child that suffered injustice, and is now lashing out at the world around them.
And how funny is it, the red chalk is red, or if you want to be specific, pink.
The same color as stained blood.
Now, maybe I’m overshooting this, but hear me out. There used to be a lot of creators before Rudy. There was a time when creators were allowed in whilly nilly, without discrimination. A lot of zoners would have hated the creators, not just Biclops. After all, they had to watch their world get ripped apart by these reckless creators. Could it be possible that one of these zoners had finally had enough and...did the unthinkable..?
Not all the zoners are so nice and friendly as depicted in the show. There are zoners that would have no qualms about hurting a child. Maybe a few of these zoners had finallly snapped after so much abuse, and killed the children in a fit of rage.
But now they were left with a problem. What to do with the bodies? They could not go into the Real World themselves, and they could not bury the bodies. Not many zoners would approve. They could not let themselves get into trouble. So what do they do? I think they ground the children’s bodies up and blended them with the magic chalk. Or maybe just make new chalk out of them that just happened to be red. I’m not yet sure of the full details. The result, however, is still the same.
The red chalk...is made of people.
But wait, you speak up. What zoner woud do that? And how could they pull it off? Rudy and Penny are made of flesh, not chalk. How coud they be affected?
Well, here’s the thing. ChalkZone still affects them in much the same way as the Real World. It is true that some things may not afflict them. But the show has shown that Rudy and Penny are vulnerable to things in the chalk world. Rudy was caught under the spell of a musical forest, for one, and he and Penny were both affected by the Smooch’s kiss. It is safe to assume that magical spells cooked up by a wizard zoner would do the trick. Or any zoner capable of magic.
Exactly who did this? What zoner would have been so hate-filled as to curse the children to a fate worse than death? Had we even met this zoner before?
Yes, yes we have. I believe I know who would have done such a cruel thing.
What zoner was hellbent on protecting the magic chalk from creators? What zoner chased Snap and Rudy around when they entered the mine? What zoner informed Rudy about ChalkZone’s past? What zoner held a distinct hatred of creators?
The answer is Cyclops.
Think about it. Before he became Biclops, he was a rather embittered zoner. He had little reason to trust Rudy. And he had been quite nasty to him in their first meeting. Even as Rudy told him that he would only draw ‘good things’, this did not satisfy Cyclops, who only had a thirst to get Rudy. Was it possible that part of this thirst was for blood...?
Cyclops never once tells Rudy and Snap what he’s doing to do with him. And if you watch his behavior and his expressions, there’s little reason to believe he was going to go gentle on Rudy. He was treating Rudy roughly, as if he were an adult. Cyclops was treating a little child this way, but it is understandable. Just imagine the pain, both physical and mental, he had gone through when living in a world of creators. Is it any wonder that he had gone mad?
Is it really that much of a stretch to imagine that Cyclops had been the one to banish the children? Is it too hard to believe that he’d be the one to take action? Is it truly unbelievable to think that he would have forced the same fate upon Rudy?
But given this history, this sheds unexpected light on the red chalk. It’s no wonder that the red chalk acts the way it does. It is a child. It is children. Children who had been screwed out of life, who were forced to be inanimate, and yet remain sentient. And who put them there? The zoners.
The red chalk is simply acting out in frustration and vengefulness. The red chalk seeks to destroy, for the world it is in had tried to destroy all that was them. They were merely children retaliating against the very world who made them for what they were.
And it will not stop, for the children are trapped. They will never be able to truly rest, as souls do not die, and neither does chalk. They will forever remain trapped in that mostly feral state of mind. Furious at the world, and yet powerless to try to change anything.
But even when all hope is lost, they will continue to fight. They have declared war on the world that wronged them, and they will not stop, not until the zoners have all felt what it feels like being a trapped animal.
Does anyone remember that old show? ChalkZone? It was one of the early 2000 cartoons, although it began life in the 90s in the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts. A cutesy, relatively harmless show about a boy and his friends exploring a world of chalk.
On the surface, this seems like a good show for kids. And it is. Children will eat the show up with all its adorableness and sugary adventures. They’ll sing along to the various songs that play at the end of most episodes. They’ll be quoting the different funny quotes that many episodes contain. Truly, you cannot find a more sugarcoated show than this.
Yet there are still some intense moments present in the show. Like one episode where Rudy nearly dies, or another one where he and his drawings, as well as some innocent bystanders, are nearly drowned. There’s even an episode where Penny, his best friend, nearly turns on him.
For the most part, these emotion-packed scenes are short-lived or are explained away and resolved. Penny was faking her betrayal, Rudy outsmarts Skrawl, and he escaped serious injury when he was slammed against the wall. All nice and good, keep the children happy and blissful. It’s a G-Rated show after all. They can’t possibly have anything too scary for the little ones...right..?
Well there was one aspect of the show that..frankly never was fully explained. It appeared twice, and in both appearances, it was treated in a 2D-ish way.
The red chalk. A chalk with a shroud of forebodiness around it.
In the first episode it appears in, right from the get go, it’s painted in a darker light than you would imagine something from the show would be. A sign warns Rudy of being ‘drawn into a battle’ and he ignores the warning. What happens? The red chalk takes control of him and creates monstrous drawings. When Rudy resists, the red chalk fights with him, and the two fight control over Rudy’s own body.
By the end of the episode, Rudy takes the red chalk into the Real World and is able to render it powerless. Biclops is seemingly none the wiser, unaware that Rudy invaded the Chalk Mines and took red chalk from it, and unaware that Rudy was responsible for the red chalk drawings that spread throughout ChalkZone.
Though a seemingly happy ending, it’s not over as the red chalk physically moves and hides unerneath Mr. Wilter’s desk. Cue the next episode later on where Reggie finds the chalk.
In this episode, Rudy has to face Reggie, who has become influenced by the red chalk, invades the Chalk Mine after easily overpowering Biclops, and takes a whole bag of red chalk. With Reggie, the red chalk is able to spread its mayhem into ChalkZone City. That is, until Rudy manages to outsmart Reggie and gets him tossed back into the Real World. The piece of red chalk is dissolved into water and that appears to be the end of it.
The red chalk is among one of the darkest concepts in ChalkZone, and yet it remains mostly a mystery. The goals of the red chalk are never explored, and outside of Biclops saying that the red chalk ‘won’t stop until all of ChalkZone is in chaos’, we don’t really know what the red chalk wants, and why.
Where did the red chalk come from? Why is it so aggressive? Why is it so obsessed with controlling a creator? Why, out of all the chalk, does this type appear almost..sentient?
Well perhaps there is a reason for it. I have delved deeper into the subject, and I found something.
To begin, I need to turn back the clock to the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts. Back when Rudy was eight, not ten. Back when Rudy was still new to ChalkZone, and well before he met Penny. Back when he had his first encounter with Biclops, then called Cyclops.
At this point, Biclops..er, Cyclops, had no warm intentions for Rudy. Instead, he was painted as a rather nasty guy, though understandably so, who was doing what he could to keep Rudy from taking any magic chalk. It was in this episode that we get to see some of ChalkZone’s history. It’s one of the very few episodes that does this, and while it’s brief, what its shown is pretty disturbing.
There used to be creators allowed into ChalkZone. Left and right, they’d draw whatever they wanted to, to allow their creations to run amok. Considering the power of a creator...or human actually, to be able to draw anything on a whim, that is pretty terrifying to imagine. It’s no wonder Cyclops was embittered.
But what happened to the children? Cyclops never explains it. He never tells Rudy how the children were kicked out, or how humans were essentially locked out. He only tells him how things used to be. No explanation.
This appears tobe a mystery that would never be solved. That is...unless you think a little deeper into the subject.
Think back to the children. Think what those past creators’ behaviors were like. They were careless. They created on a whim. They were destructive. They allowed their creations to run through the chalk world, regardless of how dangerous they were. They did what they wanted to regardless of who got in their way.
Wait.. doesn’t this sound familiar? It should. It’s the exact same behavior of the red chalk.
The red chalk creates anything it wants to. It does what it wants to without worrying about others getting hurt. The red chalk is destructive and dangerous. It is among one of the most lethal forces in ChalkZone.
But reading into its behavior, is it possible that there is more to the red chalk? When thinking more deeply, the red chalk appears to act out...like a child. A child that got gipped and tired of being ignored. A child that suffered injustice, and is now lashing out at the world around them.
And how funny is it, the red chalk is red, or if you want to be specific, pink.
The same color as stained blood.
Now, maybe I’m overshooting this, but hear me out. There used to be a lot of creators before Rudy. There was a time when creators were allowed in whilly nilly, without discrimination. A lot of zoners would have hated the creators, not just Biclops. After all, they had to watch their world get ripped apart by these reckless creators. Could it be possible that one of these zoners had finally had enough and...did the unthinkable..?
Not all the zoners are so nice and friendly as depicted in the show. There are zoners that would have no qualms about hurting a child. Maybe a few of these zoners had finallly snapped after so much abuse, and killed the children in a fit of rage.
But now they were left with a problem. What to do with the bodies? They could not go into the Real World themselves, and they could not bury the bodies. Not many zoners would approve. They could not let themselves get into trouble. So what do they do? I think they ground the children’s bodies up and blended them with the magic chalk. Or maybe just make new chalk out of them that just happened to be red. I’m not yet sure of the full details. The result, however, is still the same.
The red chalk...is made of people.
But wait, you speak up. What zoner woud do that? And how could they pull it off? Rudy and Penny are made of flesh, not chalk. How coud they be affected?
Well, here’s the thing. ChalkZone still affects them in much the same way as the Real World. It is true that some things may not afflict them. But the show has shown that Rudy and Penny are vulnerable to things in the chalk world. Rudy was caught under the spell of a musical forest, for one, and he and Penny were both affected by the Smooch’s kiss. It is safe to assume that magical spells cooked up by a wizard zoner would do the trick. Or any zoner capable of magic.
Exactly who did this? What zoner would have been so hate-filled as to curse the children to a fate worse than death? Had we even met this zoner before?
Yes, yes we have. I believe I know who would have done such a cruel thing.
What zoner was hellbent on protecting the magic chalk from creators? What zoner chased Snap and Rudy around when they entered the mine? What zoner informed Rudy about ChalkZone’s past? What zoner held a distinct hatred of creators?
The answer is Cyclops.
Think about it. Before he became Biclops, he was a rather embittered zoner. He had little reason to trust Rudy. And he had been quite nasty to him in their first meeting. Even as Rudy told him that he would only draw ‘good things’, this did not satisfy Cyclops, who only had a thirst to get Rudy. Was it possible that part of this thirst was for blood...?
Cyclops never once tells Rudy and Snap what he’s doing to do with him. And if you watch his behavior and his expressions, there’s little reason to believe he was going to go gentle on Rudy. He was treating Rudy roughly, as if he were an adult. Cyclops was treating a little child this way, but it is understandable. Just imagine the pain, both physical and mental, he had gone through when living in a world of creators. Is it any wonder that he had gone mad?
Is it really that much of a stretch to imagine that Cyclops had been the one to banish the children? Is it too hard to believe that he’d be the one to take action? Is it truly unbelievable to think that he would have forced the same fate upon Rudy?
But given this history, this sheds unexpected light on the red chalk. It’s no wonder that the red chalk acts the way it does. It is a child. It is children. Children who had been screwed out of life, who were forced to be inanimate, and yet remain sentient. And who put them there? The zoners.
The red chalk is simply acting out in frustration and vengefulness. The red chalk seeks to destroy, for the world it is in had tried to destroy all that was them. They were merely children retaliating against the very world who made them for what they were.
And it will not stop, for the children are trapped. They will never be able to truly rest, as souls do not die, and neither does chalk. They will forever remain trapped in that mostly feral state of mind. Furious at the world, and yet powerless to try to change anything.
But even when all hope is lost, they will continue to fight. They have declared war on the world that wronged them, and they will not stop, not until the zoners have all felt what it feels like being a trapped animal.
