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[LiefWolfsbane]

[Neroslol]

so I did some observations:

[DJay32]

I apologize if this has been suggested before, but the only thing I thought as Jay saw the Operator was "Oh my god, the Ark is the place the Operator takes people to, isn't it?"

I mean, totheark told Jay to go to Benedict Hall, find Alex, and find the Ark. And I'm pretty sure that totheark wants closure just as much as Jay does, he just isn't stable enough to find it himself so he needs a surrogate. totheark either wants to find all his old friends and save them, or just find out they're gone forever and close that question. So this could potentially be how he intended it to happen.

However, I don't know if totheark intended for Jay to get shot. In Decay, he said "[Jay] will lead me to you. Lead me to death. Lead me to the ark." So that could support the theory that he did intend it to happen, as "death" came before "the ark," so in dying Jay would lead him to the ark. But he might have been referring to Jay killing Alex, in which case it might have become a lot safer to get to the ark without going through Alex?

I dunno, I feel like this entry when combined with the previous videos heavily supports that the ark is wherever Jay went-- most likely the same place Tim went in Entry 65, where we saw Bruce, so it can be inferred that anyone the Operator takes is in that same location.
The only problem is that that's as far as I can get with this theory, myself, until either another video comes out or some other clue/evidence to the contrary is found in an earlier video.

...y'know what, while I'm rambling, I want to mention another reason I don't think totheark intended for Jay to get shot. totheark has been fixated on Jay ever since the start of the series, because Jay is potential for closure. Jay is someone who did not seem entangled enough in Alex's web of lies to prevent him from investigating and uncovering things. totheark provided Jay with many leads and clues to finding the path to answers, and potentially to uncovering the ark where totheark's friends were kept, dead or alive. Jay often did nothing productive, and when that happened, totheark would get angry (Entry ######, Memories). Whenever Jay encountered another character, totheark would often attempt to speak directly to that character in the only way he's able to while so psychologically fragmented: typing/videos. To Alex, totheark would be consistently vengeful (Program, Fragments, Decay) or vindicative (Sidenote), though usually also paranoid (Isolation, Decline). To Tim, totheark started off seeing him as a companion in suffering (Addition, Warning, Extraction), though as Tim made progress with his sanity totheark saw him as leaving him behind and grew bitter (Reminder, Reference, observation).

Then Tim did something surprising: He started trying to help how he could, even giving pills at one point. totheark grew jealous (File), fearing that if Tim got his way he and Jay would continue living as Tim himself was trying to live-- putting the past behind them and pretending nothing ever happened (as supported by Tim's specific complaints in Entry 59). totheark wanted Jay back on "track," the track of seeking closure even if nobody else wants to help you, because that's what totheark's always wanted. So totheark does something drastic in return. He lies about Jessica still being out there (Display, Surveillance). When that doesn't seem to work, and Tim seems to be making progress at gaining Jay's trust, totheark lashes out (Conversion). But by this point, the damage is already done. Jay knows Jessica is gone now. He blames himself entirely for this, and since he only wanted closure, he deteriorates considerably and lashes out, himself, at Tim. totheark sees this as in his favour, as he doesn't want Jay to trust Tim too much out of jealousy, so when Tim leaves him alone, totheark saves Jay and helps him go do what he was supposed to have done all along, bumping up the pressure and saying this is his last chance.

The last thing I will bring up is that, the way things are structured, I think Quadrant was intended as totheark's response to the events of Entry 80, it's just that Tim hadn't uploaded the video yet (look at it like a sort of depressing equivalent to Sidenote). Quadrant stands out, to me, as being a piece of regret. totheark realizes what he has done and asks himself if he is a liar, just as he had so vehemently claimed Tim was (and Jay, when totheark was mad at Jay).

I see totheark as a dynamic character, someone whose viewpoint and intentions have changed throughout the series, though his modus operandi has always been to try and help/manipulate Jay to find closure once and for all by any means necessary. It's just that now he's come to see the ramifications.

..of course, at the moment this is all just a theory. We'll have to see what direction future entries and videos go in to see if I'm just extrapolating baselessly.

[Oransel]

Couple of thoughts:

1. "Jay from the future" theory is wrong in my opinion. Both for IG and OOG reasons. Sure, it can be true, everything is possible in Marble Hornets, including my theory on

[CraicIsMighty]

I don't even care who Hoodie is anymore. Whoever it is can go to hell. So can Alex and Tim. All three of them have done nothing but plot and scheme and bring suffering on all the innocent people around them.

[Jibbles]

what if alex is hoody and has been getting someone else to pose as him and make it seem like theyre on different sides

[Piqua72]

[LiefWolfsbane]

[JustJim]

Great video. Holy shit that was out of nowhere. And it didn't take 10+ minutes for shit to start happening. Really eager to see how the endgame plays out. It was absolutely heartbreaking to hear Tim scream out for Jay at the end.

The first person who picks up the camera, logically has to be Tim. He hears a gunshot, goes in to investigate, finds the camera, picks it up, watches the footage, and resumes recording. At least that seems like the simplest explanation to me. A lot of people here have a tendency to see hoof prints and immediately think "Zebra!" instead of "Horse."

Hoody's motivation is rather baffling I'll admit. But he was true in his words. Jay found Alex, and he found the Ark. He never said it would be pretty. Perhaps Hoody has a way of accessing or contacting Jay once inside the Ark, and can use that to achieve his ends.

Also, I couldn't help but laugh at the end when Tim screamed "YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY AGAIN!!" And Hoody proceeds to... get away again. Some things change, some things stay the same.

[Geneaux486]

*reads theories about hoody being Jay from the future*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3id-Fb8ooY

Seriously though, if they did reveal that that's who Hoody was at this point, I'd actually like that. I'm not convinced that Hoody was involved with totheark until after Jay had started working with Alex, still think that if anyone was working with masked Tim in season one, we'd have seen them, and that Hoody came later, in a similar way to how Jay started to turn this season. And yes, I do think it was Tim who was filming Jay from the bushes during the summer of '06. He's the one who seems to have been dealing with this stuff the longest.

[wassupbro]

The biggest question of all is what are their intentions. What does hoody want. what the hell did masky want. what the hell does the operator want.

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