Zelda who is ben

Started back in , Ben Drowned is the colloquial term for a series of works by author Alexander D. As the in-fiction author, a user named Jadusable, plays further into the Nintendo 64 game, things get stranger and stranger.

The game begins to glitch in odd ways, and while Majora's Mask is already a creepy game , the storyline Hall injects into it gets even weirder, as Jadusable's in-game avatar is taunted and tortured, and the cartridge's malevolence turns on the player. Fast-forward to , and the third and final arc of Ben Drowned has kicked off in earnest. A series of videos have been released since March, detailing a new player Sarah's discovery of the Ben Drowned mythos and expanded universe, and in a conversation with USgamer, Hall says he's planning to give some closure to the series.

Readers and viewers are able to vote in this iteration, which has allowed for some interactivity and community-driven storytelling, like Sarah's decision to explore the original Majora's Mask cartridge after finding it in a mysterious hotel.

But a new element is the use of artificial intelligence; while even the original Ben Drowned reference A. A creepy video which is, forewarning, pretty darn scary used Artbreeder in partnership with DeepAI to create images, while a theme for the series was written with MuseNet, part of OpenAI, by feeding it the original Song of Healing from Majora's Mask.

The former is absolutely terrifying, while the latter builds on the lore and feels like a natural permutation of this fiction: an AI writing a song based on Zelda music certainly fits with the haunted cartridge theme. It is unclear where the name Ben Drowned came from. No one appears to have drowned in the original creepypasta. The creepypasta continued after the five original forum posts, linking to a website about the cult Moon Children. On this website, now offline, users could solve puzzles and form their own theories about characters in the games.

Creator Jadusable soon admitted that he had created the website and the creepypasta on a whim while in college. A third arc of the Ben Drowned creepypasta, Within Hubris, was launched as a forum website that housed a trailer for a game that was never developed. While exploring her online history, some followers discovered that she had followed the Ben Drowned creepypasta and was apparently obsessed with someone who had catfished her while pretending to be the Ben Drowned character.

Ben Drowned is one of the most popular creepypastas in gaming culture, inspiring fan art and spinoff stories. With game creation software becoming cheaper and easier to obtain, and more and more creators learning coding and design, projects like these are becoming easier to create. Channels like the aforementioned Petscop even go so far as to create their own games for the purpose. But what Hall did during this time was both unique and effective. He took a concept that was already gaining steam and gave it a reality it was lacking.

But BEN Drowned brought a level of realism to its story that had yet to be accomplished in other attempts. Creepypasta is successful when it punches you in that dark hidden corner of your brain: the one where you have nightmares that are terrifying to experience, but sound inscrutable when you try to put them into words.

Recreating that sort of imagery effectively is hit-or-miss, with very little middle ground. These days, the bar has been raised. Spinoff horror does still exist, but creators are challenging themselves to create completely original projects that they can call their own with no fear of copyright strike.

Display Name. Kara Dennison March 24, 4 minutes read.