Jeff the Killer

"Go to Sleep..."

- Jeff the Killer's most famous quote.

Jeffrey Woods, more commonly known as Jeff the Killer is the titular main protagonist villain of the Creepypasta story of the same name. Jeff was once a protective 13 year-old boy who cared deeply for his family, after a tragic accident and going insane he became a murderous, dangerous, and merciless serial killer.

History
Jeff started out as a normal suburban teenager, living with his mother, Margaret, his father, Peter, and his brother, Liu.

At some point in Jeff's life when he reached the age of 13, he and his family moved into a new neighborhood after his father got a promotion. Jeff and his brother were happy about the idea. Not long after settling into the neighborhood, Jeff obtained an odd feeling in his mind, but did not think too much of it.

One day later, Jeff and Liu went to a bus stop void of people. While waiting for the school bus, three kids, Randy, Troy, and Keith, approached the brothers and mugged them at knife point, taking Liu's wallet in the process. That’s when Jeff got the feeling in his head again and got into a fight with the three bullies, incapacitating all three of them, shocking Liu. Jeff and Liu left the scene after the school bus neared in and went to school, believing they were in the clear.

The next morning however, police arrived at Jeff's house and both Jeff and Liu were accused of attacking the trio with no apparent motivation, even after Jeff tried to tell the police that they were being mugged, the police didn't believe him. Jeff rightly took the blame for the whole thing and was about to be taken away by the police to a Correctional Facility for a whole year, but Liu stepped in with, knife in hand, and took the blame for the whole incident, showing cuts and bruises on his arm to prove it. Liu was then taken away in Jeff's place, leaving Jeff into a depression.

After two days, Jeff became more and more debilitated with guilt and loneliness. However, on a Saturday morning, Jeff's mother insisted that he should go to a neighbor’s birthday party, believing it would make him happy. Jeff reluctantly went to the party, which shortly took his mind off of Liu and made him feel slightly better. However, things took a turn for the worse when Randy, Troy, and Keith tracked Jeff to the party and confronted him with anger in their eyes, showing that they were wanting an obvious fight. Jeff tried to reason with Randy, believing that the odds were even between the two as he got to beat them before they got his brother sent to the Juvenile Detention Center. Randy dismissed this and said, "I don’t go for even, I go for winning."

Randy then proceeded to brutally attack Jeff whilst Troy and Keith held the parents and children at gunpoint to prevent them from stopping the fight. During the fight, Randy smashed a bottle of vodka over Jeff's head, drenching him in alcohol. After Randy incapacitated Jeff, he constantly yelled at Jeff to fight back. After Jeff struggled to stand, Randy finally insulted Jeff, telling him that Liu would rot in prison and that he should be ashamed of himself for not doing anything about it.

This infuriated Jeff to stand up and knock Randy to the ground. He struck a vicious punch into Randy's chest, which caused arrhythmia to Randy’s heart, resulting in his death. Troy and Keith, enraged by Randy's death, began shooting at Jeff with their guns, but they failed to hit him. After the two ran out of ammunition, Jeff lured them into the bathroom where he mortally wounded them.

During the struggle with Keith, a tub of bleach drenched Jeff, and Keith took this opportunity to set Jeff on fire by throwing his lighter at him. With the combination of the alcohol and bleach drenched on Jeff, it set him ablaze, making it practically impossible for him to put out the flames himself, Jeff then fell down the stairs of the house and passed out as the flames engulfed him.

Jeff woke up in a hospital room with bandages covering his face and body and was informed by his mother that Liu was being released from jail after witnesses overheard Randy mention that he was responsible for getting him in prison. Several weeks later, Jeff's bandages were removed, revealing his face to be deformed. Jeff took a liking to his new face, and when his family noticed his behavior, the doctors mistakenly assured them that it was a result of the painkillers.

After being taken home that day, Jeff's mother woke up to find Jeff in the bathroom burning out his own eyelids and carving a Glasgow smile into his cheeks. She realized that Jeff had gone insane and knew he needed to be killed. When informing Jeff's father, Jeff overheard this and proceeded to butcher his parents. Liu woke up from the noise and tried to avoid it by trying to go back to sleep, however Jeff crept into the room and told Liu, "Go to sleep," before plunging the knife into his chest. Liu's fate was left uncertain.

Jeff then went on a serial killing rampage, killing those who refuse to sleep at night, Jeff became infamously known as the "Ominous Unknown Killer."

Appearance
Jeff has extremely pale skin and burnt off eyelids, giving him an even more ghostly appearance. Jeff later got his most distinctive trait, the smile that he had carved into his face. His build is commonly described as slim but fit at the same time and reaching a height of around 5 to 6 feet. His clothing normally consists of a pair of black skinny jeans with a white hooded sweatshirt, sometimes stained with fresh and old blood from his victims.

Personality
In almost all depictions, Jeff appears as an extremely ruthless, brutal, sadistic, psychotic, and violent killer, commonly accompanied with a twisted sense of humor and a snarky attitude. Jeff is torturous, aggressive, and violent, being one of the most infamous serial killers in his home town, as well as a stealthy and mischievous individual, able to break into victim's houses almost always without getting himself caught in the act. Jeff is also depicted as having quite a narcissistic personality accompanied with a fine dose of egoism and intense arrogance, bragging about his skills and taunting other Creepypasta characters.

Powers and Abilities
Despite being an average human, Jeff appears to wield incredibly powerful abilities that only apply to his human attributes, such as incredible stealth, inhuman speed, and brute strength used to mercilessly slaughter his victims, being able to overcome his parents and brother simply by gutting them. A few things that make him stronger is his intense hatred and bloodlust to keep him going, as well as holding great stamina. In recent years, Jeff has been depicted as being a charming individual, manipulating people into trusting him only to backstab them later. He has also shown to use his killing intention to intimidate others into morbidly hallucinating their own deaths, paralyze them in fear, and even force their minds to believe that they are dead. One example is projecting psychosomatic illusion (tangible illusion) of the dead body of a young girl in a closet, which the police could not find information about her to even know who she was.

Danger Level
Jeff truly lives up to his name. He's a feral maniac, looking to trouble, chaos, and murder wherever he goes and bringing as many people down 6-feet under as he can while avoiding authorities at all times. However, Jeff is still young, being 13 in the original story and possibly at least 20 years older as of now. It's also possible that Jeff's psychopathy may catch up to him and begin to overwhelm him in time, eventually driving him into killing himself, thus scoring him an 8 on the danger level.

Trivia

 * Jeff has been criticized as one of the worst Creepypastas of all time, despite his huge following and being a major birth icon of Creepypastas and internet horror.
 * Jeff is also very notorious for having multiple fan adaptions, fan fictions, and most infamously, copycats, being a vulnerable target for other "killers" to make it into the spotlight.
 * Jeff is also very popular due to the many fangirls he has, being a main inspiration for other copycat stories.
 * It is unknown if Jeff is older or younger than his brother Liu.
 * Jeff is very often referenced as a Joker ripoff, mostly resembling Heath Ledger's Joker from the 2008 superhero film, The Dark Knight.