Creepypasta Research Journal

Theories and Discussion- Bloody Painter

*TRIGGER WARNING: Brief mention of child death*

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Appearance/Info

I've provided a link to what his author says he looks like (with a reference photo & sketch) on Quotev, you can click the external link to view it. He's got messy jet black hair, blue eyes with green circles underneath them, and paper white skin. He's 5'7 and was born on October 1st.

When Helen was young, his parents weren't too present. His father often travelled several months at a time for work and his mother came home around midnight every night. In addition to their frequent absence, they raised him as a female until he started school. They had always wanted a daughter but they had him instead. They couldn't afford another child so they gave him a female name and raised him completely as a girl. Due to this, he's agender. If you don't know what that means, it basically means he doesn't identify strongly with either gender. Since his author still refers to him with male pronouns, I will too, but it's likely he uses either they/them or he/they pronouns.

Despite his parents' absence and being raised as a female for the first few years of his life, Helen was a normal kid who had a lot of friends. He had a particularly close one named Phil, who he liked to draw with. When he noticed Phil was being abused, he helped him put on medicine to relieve the pain. He encouraged his friend to not go near his abuser, but things took a turn for the worst and Phil was found dead by Helen. After this, he gave up on making friends and his art began to take a more morbid turn as a way of venting his feelings.

The story after this takes place when Helen is a teen in school. He is framed for stealing a watch and begins to get bullied for this. Upon having his notebook ripped, he lashes out and punches the boy who did it. However, this was the only time he lashed out. After that, he took the bullying and lied to his teachers and parents about where his bruises came from. The boy who framed him befriends him on Facebook, but Helen doesn't know the boy is responsible for doing this to him. They become good friends and eventually the boy confesses what he did to Helen on the rooftop of their school. Helen gets mad and pushes him around, grabbing his collar. The boy ends up slipping over the edge of the roof and Helen grabs his hand tightly, trying to pull him back up. However, the boy lets go on purpose, falling to his death to Helen's shock. Helen genuinely did not want him to die despite his anger toward him, and he was too horrified to speak to the police afterward. That night he cried and shivered in his room, guilt growing in him. He reasoned with himself that the boy deserved it for what he'd done which helped calm him down.

Soon after these events, the people in his dorms (do schools other than colleges even have dorms?) throw a Halloween party, so Helen makes a mask and goes on a rampage to get revenge on them. He killed everyone in the student dorms. He felt at peace when they all stopped moving and ended up falling asleep on top of the bodies. (That is so unsanitary.) He woke up in a psychiatric hospital with total amnesia. He didn't remember any of the events that had taken place. This is the beginning of his third story.

He talks with his doctor, becoming 'friends' with him over the years before finally being released when he turned 21. His doctor thinks he's a genuinely good guy and he keeps in touch with him, occasionally meeting up for coffee and communicating via email. When all seems well, the doctor stops keeping a close eye on him as he figures all is normal.

Helen got a job and bought a house and seemed good for about 2-3 years. However, this is when things turned back around. He found his old mask, remembered everything, and targeted everyone at his school that had escaped his grasp. He wrote the doctor a note that was left at the crime scene. In it, he confessed everything and ended off by saying "See you soon. :)".