Jayne Prell’s infamous character - Slishy Slasher - would feature in several of her later works and was typically depicted in abstract nightmarish landscapes, either being tormented by them or being the perpetrator of the events within them.

Not much can be said about the Slishy Slashers backstory or history, as what we know comes from rumor, gossip, and vague accounts of Prell’s own words. The Slishy Slasher was a manifestation or metaphor for her BPD, and her struggles with it. But what the characters' motivations were, what their end goals were, and the past they endured are unknown. However, with the restoration of the Stars and Blue storybook based on the notes left behind by Prell, this character's history should hopefully be revealed in time.

The Slishy Slasher was often depicted by Jayne as a murderous tall woman, with an abstract swarm of arms at her employ that she would use to chop up puppets, people, and ideas while grinning a scarlet smile. She was depicted doing this in a very casual way, her human arms typically stuffed in her pockets and herself leaning to the side while her additional arms went to work chopping and slicing away with straight razors. However in her later work, this murderous agenda would be changed into something a bit more abstract, cutting the ribbons of people and breaking them apart. This could have been a more elegant metaphor for destroying relationships via cutting the “red thread of destiny.”

Based on the notes we have recovered from Jaynes’ digital footprint, we can discern the slasher was a deeply unhappy and jealous individual. Her early drawings of the character would have them demanding people to look at them and muttering jealous bile and insults at her targets. It’s no wonder that people took the drawings personally and ostracized the artist; however, I can’t help but feel that - messy and poorly explained as they were - these words were not directed at anyone but Jayne herself, a portrayal of how she perceived BPD was manifesting within herself. Simply put, the Slishy Slasher was a hateful depiction of the self from an extremely self loathing individual that eventually became a self fulfilling destiny.