User:Wandergirl108 - minecraft.fandom.com
Herobrinists, die-hard believers, and believers - Welcome! Non-believers and unbelievers - Please be respectful here. Newcomers (or those who are simply curious or undecided) - Please see kizzycocoa's page, then decide for yourself if Herobrine is real or not.
Herobrine terminology:
"Him" - all pronouns substituting for "Herobrine" (in other words, all conjugations of the word "he" when referring to Herobrine) are capitalized.
Herobrinist - A person who believes in - and, to whatever degree, worships - Herobrine, and who tries to make others believe.
Die-hard believer - A person who believes in Herobrine and tries to convince others, but does not worship Him.
Believer - A person who believes in Herobrine, does not worship Him, and keeps their belief to themselves.
Non-believer - A person who does not believe in Herobrine, but keeps their disbelief to themselves.
Unbeliever - A person who does not believe in Herobrine and tries to make others not believe.
The legend of Herobrine runs thus: back when Notch was first developing Minecraft, he had a brother (whether or not that brother's name was actually Herobrine is one of many things about the myth that is debatable), who died before Minecraft was complete. In memory of his brother, Notch added the NPC now known as Herobrine to the game. In some versions of the story, his brother drowned while trying to gather brine for a chemistry experiment, which is one possible origin for the name "Herobrine", which appears to be a combination of the words "hero" and "brine". Another, more well-known explanation of the origin of the name "Herobrine", comes from the story of a person who encountered Him and tried to post a thread about Him on a Minecraft forum, only to have their thread deleted and receive a message from a person with the username "Herobrine" containing only the word "stop".
Herobrine is depicted as an entity with the default skin, except for the fact that the eyes have no pupils and are pure white, similar to those of the recently-added Endermen. What exactly Herobrine does is one of many things about Him that people do not agree on. In the conventional myth, Herobrine stalks the player from a distance and vanishes into the fog when approached, and is typically blamed for such oddities as perfect sand pyramids, two-by-two tunnels in the stone, and forests with all the leaves missing from the trees. Many people, however, go so far as to suggest that Herobrine destroys player-made structures and attempts to kill the player.
Herobrine is by and large considered to be a hoax, initiated by a Minecraft livestream LP'er known as Cope E. Land. The video of this incident, which is agreed upon as the first RECORDED sighting of Herobrine, no longer exists, which makes it difficult for newcomers to the myth to decide whether or not that particular incident was, in fact, a hoax. However, it should be noted that the name "Herobrine", and the myth of Him being a tribute to/representation of Notch's dead supposed brother, are not likely to have come from this supposed hoax.
There are many mods that implement Herobrine in the game, and these mod-implemented versions of Him vary in behavior. Among the mods are a texture pack that turn iron doors into flat images of Him, a mod that causes Him to be summoned upon the creation of a special alter and set the creator of said alter on fire, a mod that causes Him to appear on a multiplayer server if there is only one player using that server at the time, and many others.
Similarly, feelings about Him vary greatly. Many who believe, or pretend to believe for the sake of entertainment, view him as an entity to be feared, and it should be noted that most fanfictions involving Him depict Him as a monster, in some cases the Minecraft equivalent of the devil himself. A few, however, such as myself, believe that He is the PROTECTOR of the world of Minecraft, and is hostile towards the player for the reason that the player, almost by necessity, destroys and rebuilds much of the world of Minecraft to suit their own purposes. To go off on a personal tangent, my personal respect for/understanding of Him began when I saw a comment on a YouTube video in which someone suggested that perhaps Herobrine is as afraid of us as we are of Him; after all, if it is agreed that Herobrine is a native to the world of Minecraft, while the player is, by comparison, an alien, it makes sense for Him to be hostile to the player, for the same reason that any human being would be hostile towards an alien who appeared out of nowhere one day and started destroying and rebuilding everything they came in contact with.
Of course, most people who are against such views are those who would like to point out that, as He is a computer program at most, it is is silly to apply human reasoning to any behavior or quality associated with Him. Those few people such as myself, who would like to think of Him as an entity with free will and conscious thought and feeling, feel about him as they do mainly for the sake of personal entertainment, and not because such sentiments are logical.