Talk:The Deep/@comment-9289481-20131013165248/@comment-1988716-20131013233946

People keep saying that, but it's not true. xD The Deep wasn't based on the Bloop. The Deep originated from, in the original Fear Mythos TVTropes thread while I was developing EAT and we were still in one canon, my proposal that the In-Story reason why EAT will never infect an entire ocean be rumoured to be EAT fearing an even more dangerous monster in its depths, a monster that we deliberately never reveal (simply because it would ruin the horror we'd be going for). I think it was alliterator who first made the connection that we could probably tie it in with the Bloop.

The Deep became more of an in-joke between us, an idea most of us didn't actually want to use because we just didn't feel ready for it. But it was created entirely as a Handwave (after all, the OOG reason EAT never reached the ocean in Jordan Eats is because that would have killed all suspense, but I couldn't say that in the story). That's why it's an Outer Fear.