In which I examine The Look

I'll cover tentacles and branches some other time. Those don't interest me right now.

What interests me is elements of the original "human" form-

Tall

Faceless

Thin

Suit



He is the appearance of hopelessness.
The facelessness and the suit are a show of conformism. No identity.

He looks dead, and he causes death. He is so thin; he is emaciated. Yet he is so tall, which would show health. He has the appearance of a man who had been very healthy, but then died. Man struggles to become great, but will inevitably perish.

Tall: The sign of greatness. Man can become great. Man struggles for this. This is the wish. He is the corruption of that wish.

Faceless: Those who he takes no longer are relevant to the outside. The thousands who mysteriously disappear.

Thin: No more nutrition. No more health. The inevitable death. Think to that description that the late Robert was given "tall, pale, thin, bald". Think about that.

Suit: On a first glance, this could be a symbol of conformity. A lack of individuality. And yet, he is not in one form. He takes many different forms. As I've neglected to include, he transforms to form his tentacles/tendrils. Why he is altered would seem to be a contradiction. But this gives another way to view it: The fact that he is not different to every person, but rather, will change even in the eyes of the same people, shows the uncertainty within His (my honest type) existence.

He takes on the hopelessness of his victims. The monster that feeds on the negativity of those defeated by it. I find this quite interesting.

More interesting though, could be the uniqueness of those who he finds. A detective in a corrupt town, several people abused as children, the girl with the many middle names. I suppose not everyone has a story. Not everyone is "normal", and not everyone is "different" (from "normal", that is). Diversity. And in his eyes, diversity is futility.