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[Ristar]

I like it but i have to say that based on what we have seen so far in the series it's more likely that the ''sickness'' effects are related to drowning.

Think about it, they cough because they are running out of air, and water seems to be like some sort of medium between TO's world and the real world, is like Constantine where they explain they can use water to transport to hell.

And you are also right about the lack of oxygen although this is also a side-effect from drowning wich is, like fires, lack of oxygen

Water has been a theme used a lot in MH, especially TTA's videos, i will admit tho your theory made me think that maybe you are true, and somehow TO represents fire, while TTA represents water (It's a longshot but it came in my mind as i was typing this). But i think it's more likely that drowning has more to do with TO's than fires.

The only mentions of fires throughout the series are; the hospital fire, Jay's apartment's fire, and the basement (Wich to this day i'm not sure if it's just old or burned down)

[Marble Hornets]

I posted a theory a while ago that depicted the feeling of drowning when the symptom that causes coughing sets in. One of the early TTA videos shows a lung expanding and contracting.

[Geneaux486]

[Hep Alien]

Glad this seems to have provoked some discussion. I've been a long time lurker and have enjoyed the theorizing here immensely. Feels nice to contribute.

I thought with the supposed recent reference to the fire when Tim was chasing Hoody and ended up in the abandoned hospital, and the fact that the hospital fire was introduced after Season 1 (so they sort of knew where they were going), that Trophesim might be alluding to this fire being very significant, and phantom smoke would seem to fit.

[Sidenote]

I like this theory, but I think it's something worse than smoke due to the several times in which Tim has coughed up blood (and quite a considerable amount)

[Sha Noran]

Props to Ristar for beating me to the punch on drowning. That has been my theory on the coughing since 65, with various TTA dialogue really helping that along. Seeing Tim get dunked several times in what looked like a lake pretty much sealed the deal for me.

Trying to suggest that TO emits a gas that causes the sickness makes MH into a four year fart joke. Despite the alarming likelihood of that given Trosephim's nature, that would be disappointing, so no.

Radiation sounds good on paper but it is too logical an explanation for my taste. The Operator seems much too abstract an entity to me to be releasing a quantity of radiation we could measure. TO seems immeasurable to me.

The coolest spectrum of this smoke inhalation theory to me is the symbolism of Tim smoking cigarettes tying into it. Cigarettes are basically a chronic habit of smoke inhalation.

[Ascalondion]

[lonsumtravlr]

[JAL13]

[Cyan507]

[Marble Hornets]

Cigarettes could make you cough up blood, but again, not nearly as much as Tim has been shown coughing up. Alex coughing up blood also debunks that theory since he doesn't smoke.

[Ristar]

[knightmare]

I've always thought the coughing was just a physical manifestation of the slendysickness, similar to headaches, seizures, and memory loss. I see it as more of a supernatural cause than a physical one.

[gennerx]

[Marble Hornets]