Talk:The Brute/@comment-58.170.119.45-20130203064340/@comment-1988716-20131231215159

While I'm flattered that you'd bring up The Neonate (and actually if you've read Rapture you might notice they all become pretty useful and threatening halfway through Act III and pretty much singlehandedly take the story into its darker half), I have a few arguments to make.

The Brute was made specifically for The World Through These Eyeholes, where it fit right in and made sense as a dormant Fear. The details of the Fear weren't quite as important as the fact that people did not want it to come back. When people wanted to keep writing with the Fear, they buffed out some of its details and turned it into the Fear of anger.

Really, that's the important thing and I'm not sure why the Wiki says what it does: The Brute is the Fear of rage. Not just angry people but a fear of your own anger. Think Metallica's St. Anger if that helps (coincidentally an album that heavily influenced the very act of Rapture where The Neonate came from). I suppose the wars and the mob mentality bits are extensions of rage and what it can cause people to do. Because anger and rage is scary.

....wait. How does The Slender Man have a mob mentality or a hive mind? o________o Last time I checked, he has neither. He's just a faceless man in a business suit who has a lot of Servants that people for some reason call "proxies."