Freddy Krueger

[Freddy Krueger]

Full name: Frederick Charles Krueger
Pronouns: Coming/ForYou
Occupation: Dream Demon
Relationship status: No bitches, bitch.

Canon Point: Freddy Vs Jason
Face claim: Robert Englund

Once upon a time in the snoozy town of Springwood, Ohio, there lived a guy named Frederick Charles Krueger. Now, Freddy seemed like your regular Joe, blending in seamlessly as the nice neighbor, loving husband, and wholesome dad. Little did everyone know, behind that facade lurked a dark and monstrous secret.

By day, Freddy toiled away at the power plant, but by night, he was up to some seriously sinister shenanigans, preying on the innocent kids of Springwood. To make matters worse, he even did away with his own wife and a not-so-lucky bunch of about twenty kids back in the day. Talk about a real party pooper, huh?

As luck would have it, the parents of Springwood eventually caught wind of Freddy's despicable deeds. They weren't about to sit around sipping lemonade while their little ones were being terrorized. Oh no, sir! They took matters into their own hands, like any self-respecting mob of angry parents would. They tracked Freddy down to an old boiler room and decided to give it a fiery makeover, with Freddy still inside. No questions asked, just a good old-fashioned barbecue, Springwood style. And that, my friends, was the last anyone saw of old Freddy.


So, after Freddy got turned into a crispy critter in that fiery fiasco, did he peacefully move on to the afterlife? Oh no, no, no. Instead, he was like, "Hold my beer, dream demons," and struck a deal to come back as a seriously ticked-off, charred nightmare with a bone to pick.

Armed with a homemade razor glove that would make Edward Scissorhands jealous, Freddy started crashing the slumber parties of unsuspecting teens in Springwood, turning their peaceful dreams into a horror show. Yeah, he was on a sleep-slashin', nightmare-inducin' spree that would make any Sandman think twice about punching the clock.

But here's the kicker: the more people feared him, the stronger he got. He was powered by fear, which is a bit like being fueled by coffee – just a whole lot scarier and with fewer bathroom breaks. As you can imagine, his reign of terror kept growing faster than a teenager's appetite, but so did his ever-expanding list of adversaries, because nothing brings people together quite like a shared fear of a razor-fingered maniac.


He'd kick the bucket in a bunch of ways, but he'd always bounce back for his kids….by feeding off their fears and collecting their delicious souls. The suicide rates went through the roof, and young people were murdered brutally in their beds. The folks over in Springwood decided to shake things up to deal with Freddy Krueger once again. The whole town went to extremes, putting kids who knew about him into facilities and giving them an experimental dream-suppressant drug called hypnocil. It worked. For now.

As his power lessened, he had to rely on mama’s boy Jason Voorhees to do his dirty work and remind everyone who he was. Freddy Krueger, the Springwood Slasher. He never expected his plan to blow up in his face so badly, but it ended up giving him enough power to reclaim control. Then he got foiled all over again when a girl named Lori yanked him out of the dream world and killed him again, sending him back to hell where he belongs.

Skills:
Killing kids, torturing kids, planning to kill or torture kids, crafting finger-related weapons, using the Nintendo Power Glove, Slicing, Dicing, mad sweater drip, making all of your nightmares come true.

In the dream world, he's basically a one-man show of shape-shifting, super strength, telekinesis, and can even heal himself. He’s quite unstoppable and can do almost anything as long as the person is asleep, but with a serious weakness: once you drag him kicking and screaming into the real world, he's just as squishy as the rest of us, which gives his victims a fighting chance. You can also have your character wake up just before he tries to strike you down.

So, one of his lesser-used talents is possessing bodies and controlling them like a puppet. The catch? He can only take over the weak-willed, so it's not a go-to. I promise to always ask for permission before unleashing this craziness, and we can brainstorm some loopholes or weaknesses to avoid your character ending up six feet under.

His ultimate weakness are dream suppressants and a general lack of fear, but it has to be cumulative in mass amounts of people.

He is also not fond of being set on fire.