I Could Make You Care

I Could Make You Care is a Slenderverse webseries following a troubled twenty-something who reunites with high school friends through supernatural means.

Brief Description
A mentally ill twenty-something successfully reunites with his old friends from high school and sees that nothing's changed. Despite all the fun, parties, and adventures, however, he soon realizes he's also reunited with something much more sinister.

The Introduction Arc
Novak explains that, in the high school days, he always had his phone out, taking pictures and recording videos of his friends while hanging out, and so they dubbed him "the Photographer" which serves as the protagonist's name for the rest of the series; eventually he prefers the nickname "Photo".

Photo made a bucket list. On it, he states that he wants to get back in touch with his high school friends, Andrew(Anna), Cramer, Bobby, Ian, Jake, Skylar, Anthony, Eddie, AJ, Dan, and Will. Others come along the way.

Cramer: An adventurous best friend of Photo and will accompany him on many adventures

Andrew(Anna): An important friend to Photo, one he shares a lot of memories with.

AJ: Someone who will always have Photo over, will always have a place for him to stay.

Photo successfully finds his friends, turns out some of them live in an apartment, the apartment they all talked about getting with each other back in high school, Cramer even has his own place. It's there that the group gets together and has fun; parties, stayovers, game nights, it's all good fun until Photo starts to undergo changes. His videos become glitchy, he's forgetful, he's paranoid, this builds until the Slender Man quite literally shows up at his door, it's now that he's scared of his own home, he finds mysterious Operator pages from the popular series Marble Hornets scattered around his house, he's teleported around, he develops a cough and laugh attacks, and the Slender Man follows him around. Photo decides to confide to Cramer this information who is very skeptical.

The LIFEMARE Arc
A major alteration has been made.

The series has departed from this Photo and visits a different version entirely. There is more than one Photographer, many more, and they all hold a secret as to how exactly they reunited with their friends. These Photographers are identified, oddly, by their outfits, the main focus right now is on one wearing black jeans and a Three Days Grace shirt, he wears it all the time. All the time. This Photo is seemingly supernatural, he is very durable and has abilities such as teleportation and telekinesis.

Photo lost all of his friends some years back, they were killed, every single one, Photo is cursed to have his friends die in every universe; every version of him. The power he receives comes from a formless entity we only hear, It and Photo made a deal to bring his friends but at a price: once they're back, Photo has to kill them, and once they're all gone he has to revert back to when they were alive and kill them again and the entity rewards him with supernatural abilities. This happens hundreds of times. Photo spends a year biding his time and murdering these "copies" of his friends, meaning he's over a thousand years old, over a millennium hoping that he will be granted the power to bring back his friends on his own and escape the cycle he's found himself in.

His teleportation, for example, is activated by a tool called the "Southern Bell" which is an orb of obsidian made from an ex-partner by the entity that Photo eventually uses to replace his heart, meaning he can teleport any time he wants since he's always touching it.

The tool by which Photo travels back in time is his Journal, a journal encased in iodized pennies containing notes from an unknown person and two red hand prints he must place his hands upon to initiate the reset.

It is now when someone other than Photo starts uploading videos, the enigmatic "Gathering" starts making videos containing secret codes, taunts, and information about Photo that he himself isn't revealing. The videos are titled in all caps and initially worry him but as no harm is done to him he learns to ignore it. Photo also familiarizes himself with someone named Hayden Blackwell, a monster hunter from Recollect that the entity warns him about, saying he's a threat to their deal, Photo takes this to heart, or lack thereof. He also acquaints himself with the Perspectives which is Hayden's inner circle that he actually is friendly with.

What we learn towards the end is the name of the entity: LIFEMARE.

The infinitum Arc
Photo learns the ability to assimilate others, absorbing their power and memories to become a stronger version of himself, also assimilating the journal so he doesn't need it to reverse time, as well as replacing his heart with the Southern Bell. He also establishes his own pocket dimension to live in called "Seven Bridges" which is a miles long underdeveloped road cutting through a coastal marsh until it reaches the ocean. On the beach there is a house that serves as his headquarters as he continues to destroy the copies of his friends and gaining power from LIFEMARE.

Hayden Blackwell teamed up with something called Apollyon who is a god-like entity with the power to rewrite universes, which it ends up doing, creating a new world in which it is the author that contains none of the monsters from the prior iteration of existence with the intention of governing a world not subjected to the oppression of the previous one's unnaturally cataclysmic nature. This Rewrite leaves the Perspectives without a home, prompting Photo to take them in and keeping them at Seven Bridges. It became apparent that one such Perspective, Protector, introduced Photo to the concept of consuming Nightmares (a being born from darkness that feeds off the energy radiating from a host's emotions), eventually turning him into a Nightmare.

Members of the Perspectives such as Gustav and Colette were in charge of an organization known as Geist, a militant group of researchers dedicated to the security and containment of supernatural anomolies. At the time of Apollyon's Rewrite two hundred member had to take shelter in Seven Brigdes and quickly began constructing a Site to continue their operations.

Among Blackwell's ranks is a Nightmare named Crow Locke, formerly just Locke, who convinces one of the Perspectives, Zahk, that Photo is becoming a villain similar to others from Zahk's past. This prompts him to recruit his boyfriend Lewis to the opposing side and attack Photo with a weapon capable of killing Nightmares, he survived the encounter and retreated. Zahk and Lewis, along with Gustav and Colette, left Seven Bridges and went to a different dimension by means of Crow Locke. Photo eventually returned, still wounded, and assumed the role of Administrator of Geist and furthered its expansion by creating Rifts to other worlds to occupy them, a world that would come to be known as Dark Jersey.

Crossovers

 * Recollect
 * 2FreeEnigma
 * TheNoisesBelow
 * Dark Seeker
 * TallAndFaceless
 * DarkTapes04 Project
 * (Original) Stateofamadman
 * Brown Haze
 * JustSomeOldTapes
 * JSCamera
 * REM Sleep
 * Pie Writes
 * CeramicCicadas