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Biography of The Operator
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AbyssalRook
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Ztakk wrote:
I like that thought but I don't think it's true in any sense. It relies too much on humanizing The Operator like some curious person that's still learning. TO works better as an omnipotent character.


Bleh, shortened this a ton.

Eh, omnipotence is boring. If he isn't humanized and he's omnipotent, that would make him like some bland machine, and he'd be way more efficient than he is. A couple of measly pills wouldn't stop him, that's for sure. Besides, this series is absolutely soaking with intrigue and hidden motive. Having TO be just some hardly alive machine, acting for no real reason, doesn't sit right with me and doesn't seem to mesh with the feel of the rest of the story.

What I'm trying to do here is piece together all of the information we have and answer as many questions as I can, using everything we know about TO to do so. With that, I've come up with a possible (stressing possible here) answer to a lot of the questions. If I tried hard enough, I could probably come up with another one that does lean more towards TO being a bit less curious and a bit more powerful, but this is the one that keeps leaping to the front of my mind, so trying to do that right now is out of the question for me x.x.

Anyway, yeah, I do see where you're coming from, but I just don't think I agree with you 100%.

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Ztakk
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 		There was a theory floating around that The Operator affects the neurotransmitters in the human brain, as a lot of super natural beings seem to do, and the pills counteract this to an extent. They don't make the person who takes them immune to his effects, just resistant. Like a bullet proof vest isn't 100% bullet proof. It'll stop a few bullets, but after that you better learn to dodge like Neo.

As for the omnipotence making him bland, The Operator isn't exactly a deep dynamic character. He shows up, people get scared and run, or he pops up and takes them. That's all that really happens a majority of the time. He just kinda exists.

But as I said, it's really interesting, I just can't see it.

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Or I could just be talking out of my ass and wasting an hour typing all of this up. Who knows? Anyway, that's enough outta me for now, I just wanted to get this all out through my fingertips, cause it's been buzzing around in my head for a while ><. Feel free to ignore me if you want~.


Really impressed by this (enough to create an account, be gentle) not sure if it's true but it feels like more of a story than the incomprehensible and the unknowable. It's also utterly terrifying, like a childish god that can't talk tampering with people he can't understand with ridiculous powers.

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That said, OOG, if they're going for some larger horror-movie-like story in the film version, this becomes probably a bit less likely.


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gennerx
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 		I posted this theory a long time ago but it relates to this thread so I will again. I believe TO's primary motivation is to remain unknown. Everything about him from his blank face to people around him loosing their memory says this guy wants to be anonymous. His main problem then is that people keep video taping him and he wants that to stop.

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Sha Noran
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gennerx wrote:
I posted this theory a long time ago but it relates to this thread so I will again. I believe TO's primary motivation is to remain unknown. Everything about him from his blank face to people around him loosing their memory says this guy wants to be anonymous. His main problem then is that people keep video taping him and he wants that to stop.


I've got a soft spot for this idea, I like it and its a nice simple explanation that requires no outrageous back story to have it make sense on its own.

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MDHDZN
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gennerx wrote:
I believe TO's primary motivation is to remain unknown.
With over 350,000 subscribers, and 70,000,000 views, he isn't exactly doing the best job at remaining unknown.
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I do agree with the idea, though.


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gennerx
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MDHDZN wrote:
gennerx wrote:
I believe TO's primary motivation is to remain unknown.
With over 350,000 subscribers, and 70,000,000 views, he isn't exactly doing the best job at remaining unknown.
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I do agree with the idea, though.


....and that's why totheark said jay just made things worse.

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sp103
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 		Hang with me here as I'm going to go out of bounds with the other Slender Man Mythos...wait.
Quick RANT-I fucking HATE the word "mythos". It's grammatically SHITTY as a word, and I give 0 fucks its in the dictionary. It's pronounced METHOS-Sounds terrible, nerdy as fuck and I want to slit my wrists on a Jonathan TOEWS (Pronounced TAVES) jersey when I see the word

Ok. Rage over.

For Marble Hornets I think the biography of the Operator is the unseen threat who finally gets identified. He gets caught on tape, and mercifully goes after everyone who is aware of him. Hence why Tim and Jay do not acknowledge him. Alex tries to seperate himself from the Operator but even a camera use on him summonds him.

For EverymanHybrid-It's more of a Ghost/haunting situation. The Operator becomes aware of their antics, becomes angered and torments the group to no end. (Literally NO END).

On the flip of that is Tribe Twelve, in which the operator attaches himself to certain individuals-Much like alien abductees claim its a "family tradition".

Finally-and mercifully-Dark Harvest takes it to the complete full level-Identifying him as a former God (Remember Ghostbusters? ZUUL!) who is returning.

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Beidah
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sp103 wrote:
Quick RANT-I fucking HATE the word "mythos". It's grammatically SHITTY as a word, and I give 0 fucks its in the dictionary. It's pronounced METHOS-Sounds terrible, nerdy as fuck and I want to slit my wrists on a Jonathan TOEWS (Pronounced TAVES) jersey when I see the word


It's short of Mythology. What word would you use, oh brilliant one?
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The Happy Madman
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 		Either mythology or lore, if I were to guess.

Anyway, regarding the Øperator's "time manipulation," I don't think it has ever performed this action, at least not on camera. Instead of changing time itself, I believe that it instead chooses to teleport its victims into the future, which explains Entry #72. If TØ suspended the duo in time or its realm, the camera would've picked it up.

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gennerx
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The Happy Madman wrote:
Either mythology or lore, if I were to guess.

Anyway, regarding the Øperator's "time manipulation," I don't think it has ever performed this action, at least not on camera. Instead of changing time itself, I believe that it instead chooses to teleport its victims into the future, which explains Entry #72. If TØ suspended the duo in time or its realm, the camera would've picked it up.


Time dilation rather than teleportation would be a better explanation. Time slows down in a kind of bubble around TO. So while seconds pass inside the bubble, hours pass outside making the sun go down. It's not teleportation because they didn't leave the physical location. Time just moved at a different rate. The camera didn't pick anything up because inside the bubble time was moving at the same rate for everything in the bubble including the camera. Outside of the bubble looking in they would appear suspended....or moving very slowly.

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MistrPibb
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Ristar wrote:
I'll post a theory, it has been said or referenced before, so i'll just put it here:

I'm pretty sure that TO powers by themselves are pretty weak at first, it only seems to stalk his victims in the beggining and his powers seem to grow the more the victim is aware/scared of him.

(This is a personal of mine) If he is spotted by someone he is unable to move, no matter what, it seems that his influence over the subject depends on how close he is to TO, if he is caught by a camera or any sort of image recorder, he cannot move away. He only seems to move/teleport whenever he is not being watched by anyone.

He knows when he is being spotted, and although he cannot move when he is on the sight of anyone or a camera, he can see through them, it would be the explanation of why someone with no face (Eyes, nose and ears) can detect the location of someone nearby.

(This one came from #69-72)

His victims develop synthoms (English is not my native language) that are related to the effects of choking, explaining everyone's loss of strenght and coughing, it even explains the memory loss (If you spend too long without air you can develop brain problems, such as the one i just mentioned). This also seems to be is way of attacking people.

The mentioned above also reassembles the theme of water on the overall series and especially the entry with Tim wearing the chest camera (I believe it was #65) where he is being teleported to the Slendyverse after being submerged underwater. (In entry #72 it only seems that he manipulated time until it was night, they were not in the slendyverse in my opinion)

I also believe that Oppy CANNOT manipulate time, but he can take control of people and make them skips chunks of time (Could be another explanation of the memory loss) without them even pick up on it. (If we have to get technical in this, i don't believe he can make the planet spin faster without the whole world knowing about it, i know it sounds ridiculous, but is what i think).

TheSupremeFace wrote:


Abilities
- Distortion of recording devises



In my opinion, i think he cannot distort the cameras by will, i think they distort when TO uses his powers, the images that we see i'm sure they are memories of the victim that TO is toying with, wich in my opinion explains why the distortion was so fucking loud and convolluted when Tim was resisting it.

And that's all folks! If u have things to correct or to add, just be constructive about it
But we have seen him move on camera in 6 and 14. I like to think that the distortion and memory erasure is the Operator's attempt to obscure his existence, along with Alex angered at Jay for spreading his awareness to the entire world. So long as The Operator is in the consciousness of anyone, he can't ascend to the 5th dimension... Pony?!

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gennerx
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MistrPibb wrote:
Ristar wrote:
I'll post a theory, it has been said or referenced before, so i'll just put it here:

I'm pretty sure that TO powers by themselves are pretty weak at first, it only seems to stalk his victims in the beggining and his powers seem to grow the more the victim is aware/scared of him.

(This is a personal of mine) If he is spotted by someone he is unable to move, no matter what, it seems that his influence over the subject depends on how close he is to TO, if he is caught by a camera or any sort of image recorder, he cannot move away. He only seems to move/teleport whenever he is not being watched by anyone.

He knows when he is being spotted, and although he cannot move when he is on the sight of anyone or a camera, he can see through them, it would be the explanation of why someone with no face (Eyes, nose and ears) can detect the location of someone nearby.

(This one came from #69-72)

His victims develop synthoms (English is not my native language) that are related to the effects of choking, explaining everyone's loss of strenght and coughing, it even explains the memory loss (If you spend too long without air you can develop brain problems, such as the one i just mentioned). This also seems to be is way of attacking people.

The mentioned above also reassembles the theme of water on the overall series and especially the entry with Tim wearing the chest camera (I believe it was #65) where he is being teleported to the Slendyverse after being submerged underwater. (In entry #72 it only seems that he manipulated time until it was night, they were not in the slendyverse in my opinion)

I also believe that Oppy CANNOT manipulate time, but he can take control of people and make them skips chunks of time (Could be another explanation of the memory loss) without them even pick up on it. (If we have to get technical in this, i don't believe he can make the planet spin faster without the whole world knowing about it, i know it sounds ridiculous, but is what i think).

TheSupremeFace wrote:


Abilities
- Distortion of recording devises



In my opinion, i think he cannot distort the cameras by will, i think they distort when TO uses his powers, the images that we see i'm sure they are memories of the victim that TO is toying with, wich in my opinion explains why the distortion was so fucking loud and convolluted when Tim was resisting it.

And that's all folks! If u have things to correct or to add, just be constructive about it
But we have seen him move on camera in 6 and 14. I like to think that the distortion and memory erasure is the Operator's attempt to obscure his existence, along with Alex angered at Jay for spreading his awareness to the entire world. So long as The Operator is in the consciousness of anyone, he can't ascend to the 5th dimension... Pony?!


....or he just wants to harass small children without getting caught. What TO was doing before Alex came into his life is anyone's guess.

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