User blog comment:Nanepul/irrational fears./@comment-1988716-20141008234724/@comment-25515926-20141009152112

i understand completly the whole "we dont base fears off of fears thing" but we have based charachters off charachters. would this all be like greek myth ? i mean that by we have a a long list of primary/archtype fears ( and those would be like zeus, hades, and poseidon)  and then a extended list of specific fears ( and those would be like artimis, hercules, hephastus, etc) and they would be specialized forms of the specific fear. for example the fear of judgement is represented by The Eye but, what would the fear of failure be? sure we could classify it as judgment but it could also be the fear of isolation and the fear of depersonalization. do you understand what im saying?

and i know fully well our goal is to tell a story and be compelling, but we are dealing with FEAR here. the very thing that drives mankind to its core, the very thing that causes people to shiver and quake, the very thing that people who would read these types of things keep coming back to. if we could write a compelling enough story about the fear of the number 13 we could potentially either make a person scared of it or make them so creeped out by the stories plot and details that they become darkly entertained. thats what makes creepy pastas so good. they find and get obscure things that no one would be scared of and makes a story so compelling and dark and chilling that a person becomes scared or weary of that thing.

are you scared of animatronics? no? play five nights at freddies.

are you scared of childrens shows? no? read about ricky the rat or where the bad kids go

are you scared of video games? no? search for sonic.exe, or ben drowned, or lavender town.

those are examples of what i mean.

of course this is all just my reasoning and not a end all answer as you said as well