Case #2: A Pitiable Boy

Another one that is overdue. This case originates from a blog I happened to come across when researching Candle Cove. The author of said blog was a boy of 13. Assuming his account is true, it reveals that though the show itself may be innocuous enough (if creepy), the powers behind it are indeed nefarious. Since the blog ended on May 25, there have been no updates and all efforts to contact Evan (if  it is still him) have failed. We at the N.A.P.T. do hope he's safe.

The blog is entitled, I Am Not Insane, and begins with the boy, Evan Marsden, telling of his meeting with a mysterious, rather puppet-like woman. She offers to give him power in return for becoming her servant.

He ultimately agrees, on account of still feeling bad about some unspecified accident (possibly involving the Skin-Taker) that claimed the life of his brother, Nick, as well as not being very close to his depressed parents anymore. He wants to take out his inner turmoil on those around him, especially a bully named Stephen who harasses him. The "power" and servitude mean that she controls him through some unknown means, described as being like invisible strings.

On the day he agrees to become her servant, he aids her in locking up his parents in the basement since he doesn't think they'd understand.

He also takes to calling her "the Lady" for unknown reasons. Soon she takes him to some strange otherworldy city where they ride an elevator to some kind of lab. Within are two transparent cells containing people, one of whom is starving despite plenty of food being freely available.

The Lady tells Evan she'd been summoned to make "the Choir's" servant eat. The servant ends up taking his own life with a shard of a plate. It may have been the woman's doing.

When he returns home, he finds that his parents are dead, probably skinned by the Skin-Taker, despite the Lady insisting her associate would look after them.

He begins to show signs of doubt, but thinks he is in too deep to do anything now.

When she begins to act more like a mother to comfort him, he calls her "the Queen." This is apparently influenced by an earlier comment by someone claiming to be Pirate Percy referring to the entity as "the Puppet Queen."

The Queen then instructs Evan to go to his father's doll repair shop where he is to kill the person who arrives. The man breaks in and seems to be searching for something. Before Evan kills him, he indicates he was also her servant.

Evan realizes the man probably wasn't looking for money since he was apparently told to go there by the Queen. He finds a glowing eye in a secret compartment behind the counter and takes it home, where he plans to give it to the Queen for Mother's Day until he gets home and finds out that Pirate Percy and the Skin-Taker are in league with the Queen. In the comments, however, Percy claims that he wasn't there.

Now that he knows the Queen has been lying to him, he is angry and realizes she might have been planning all this for a long time, beginning with Nick's death. Because of this, he decides to fight back and begins referring to her as "the Witch," an apt description given her now hideous appearance.

He finds that it's hard to give up the exhilirating power granted by the entity and uses it to fight some bullies at school. Because of this, he is expelled. In the comments he notices his blogs address is "shewillmakepuppetsofusall[dot]blogspot[dot]com," something he didn't recall doing, indicating she has been manipulating him the whole time.

Soon the police arrive, investigating about the body found at Evan's father's shop. Somehow, Evan's father talks with the police. He then mysteriously disappears along with one of the officers; the remaining one leaves.

Evan continues going to school, striving for normalcy. No one can stop him from being there, since the Witch holds them back. She appears to be trying to get back on his good side.

She takes him to meet the characters of Candle Cove (aside from the girl Janice, who apparently died), and he learns that she intends for him to be a General in her army, an army she is creating for something she refers to as "the End."

Evan finally is fed up and tries to stop the Witch when she tries to enslave and make puppets of everyone at the school, both teachers and faculty. In retaliation, she punishes him by making him a punching bag for the others as she tests them to find a suitable replacement for the position of General.

The following day everyone is taken to the Witch's tower, where the dissenters, like Evan, are tortured as they are target practice for the rest of the army.

Later in the day, Stephen visits Evan's house and abides by an agreement they'd made during the trials of the previous day. Stephen brings his knife and cuts Evan free of the Witch's strings; she is angry at this and strangles him.

Finally Evan realizes that he is, unfortunately, a sociopath, since he didn't get all that upset about his family's deaths, aside from no longer having people to take care of him.

Evan returns to the strange city and waits for the Witch in the room with the transparent cells. When she arrives with the school principal, another replacement General, he throws kerosene on her and lights her on fire. After she withers away, the principal transforms into her; the entity appears to be immortal.

He escapes. Another day, she returns and he attacks with Stephen's knife, but his eye is put out. Evan decides to run away and returns to the shop to retrieve the eye (where he moved it back to to keep it safe, thinking she wouldn't expect it to be there still). The Witch arrives at the shop, and another entity referred to as "Death" is there as well, in the form of yet another policeman. On a whim, Evan puts the "Eye of Fate" in his empty socket. He claims to be able to see the future with it. The Witch controls the dolls and tries to attack Evan; he locks himself in the work room.

Death appears to him in the form of his dead family, trying to trip him up with guilt, but he holds his own, since he has little to no empathy. He manages to escape through a window, chased by a man with a gas mask and rifle (possibly Death in another form). In an alley, the Witch confronts him, and Death is behind him. Death shoots, but Evan moves out of the way and the Witch is hit instead.

Evan has since been on the run.