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Slender Man's affect on Character's Lives
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GhostK
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 		Slender Man's affect on Character's Lives
Classifying the reactions
When Slender Man enters people's lives, they tend to fall into one of four groups:

Group A: Victims - They realize he's there, but it's too late.

They remain who they are until they're dead.

Group B: Runners like Alex from MH and M. from The tutorial - Runners realize he's there, and don't stay around. These people have good common sense, and are survivors.

They remain who they are, for now, although there is always the chance that they'll slip and end up in group A.

Group C: Watchers like ToTheArk, Conaghan, and various government groups - They're aware of Slender Man, and are trying to figure him out for various reasons. These people are sometimes also Runners.

These people are invariably twisted by what they've seen, although for some, it's subtle. Often they have a desire to express themselves creatively, creating abstract videos, paintings, poetry etc.

Group D: The Watched - These people usually aren't aware of Slender Man, or they may be aware of Slender Man, but they haven't run. They often have memory losses, and there's some proof that they're under Slender Man's control during these episodes.

These people appear to be unchanged at first glance, but may become increasingly paranoid as their facade of safety breaks down.

What do you think?

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 		Not bad, but I'd change group C from Watchers to Taken. Tim isn't just observing The Operator, he's working with/for him.

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G.I.R
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 		As of now it can only be speculation. There is no proof that says that he is working with Slender Man. It could be called C - The Outsiders. An Outside entity not seen to be connected to SM at the moment.

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Seraphic Adonis
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 		Logan (JAF) is a transition from Victim to Runner to a possible Watcher. Since it seems like he summons Slendy right at the end, by reminding Josh of him. Or something.

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GhostK
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threads wrote:
Not bad, but I'd change group C from Watchers to Taken. Tim isn't just observing The Operator, he's working with/for him.


Is he? (And by Tim I take you mean ToTheArk?)

I'm not so sure. I have a feeling Totheark is just trying to avoid becoming Slender Man's victim. He's searching for an Ark, a place of safety, probably to be safe from Slender Man. He messed with Jay, for sure, manipulating Jay for his own ends, but I think Totheark has his own agenda.

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GhostK wrote:
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Not bad, but I'd change group C from Watchers to Taken. Tim isn't just observing The Operator, he's working with/for him.


Is he? (And by Tim I take you mean ToTheArk?)

I'm not so sure. I have a feeling Totheark is just trying to avoid becoming Slender Man's victim. He's searching for an Ark, a place of safety, probably to be safe from Slender Man. He messed with Jay, for sure, manipulating Jay for his own ends, but I think Totheark has his own agenda.


Yes, Tim is TTA, and I figured with the arson at J's apartment following the Warning video and the Return video showing The Operator with an entranced(captive?) J kind of proved Tim has little to fear from and is probably working for The Operator.

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 		What would Zeke be, then? He's seemingly a Watcher, but he doesn't seem to be insane yet.
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Seraphic Adonis wrote:
What would Zeke be, then? He's seemingly a Watcher, but he doesn't seem to be insane yet.


I'd say he goes into his own category:
The Fighter: They know SM's there, but they don't run. For better or worse, they fight back, either by whit, force, or both. Weather their efforts are effective is another matter entirely.

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MetalGearSamus wrote:
Seraphic Adonis wrote:
What would Zeke be, then? He's seemingly a Watcher, but he doesn't seem to be insane yet.


I'd say he goes into his own category:
The Fighter: They know SM's there, but they don't run. For better or worse, they fight back, either by whit, force, or both. Weather their efforts are effective is another matter entirely.


Nah, Zeke is Watched (we aren't going to have to bold this all the time, are we?) Zeke has just now realized Slender Man has been there all of his life, and Zeke also has the memory losses. Sure, he wants to fight it. Who wouldn't? That doesn't make you Sigorney Weaver.



Zeke's aggressive behavior is due to his always getting his way by pushing people around. I think the author may also be hinting that Zeke's aggression may be fear based, or maybe even that Zeke is, through his narration, pretending to be tougher than he really is.

But guns have been tried before against Slender Man, in Iraq by better-armed people. Didn't work. Heck, Zeke himself had guns in his trap, Slendy walked in and then things got loopy.

And here's the thing: what has Zeke been doing during those memory losses? There are two reasons SM victims tape themselves 1) the video shows things that can't always be seen by the naked eyes, and 2) the video records things that happen during memory losses.

Oh, and I guess it also helps in case someone sneaks into your room while you're asleep.

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Yes, Tim is TTA, and I figured with the arson at J's apartment following the Warning video and the Return video showing The Operator with an entranced(captive?) J kind of proved Tim has little to fear from and is probably working for The Operator.


The arson was never confirmed as TTA/Tim, due to visual tears and slendys original association of burning evidence. The entranced captive was Jay and slendy seemed to ignore him for whatever reason and move at the camera man, who most likely is Tim. What other evidence is their of a tim/slendy collaboration?

Regardss

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 		wait wait , what's this about slendy being bullet proof? I know he's able to warp the minds of people and cause he may just be hard to kill. I mean we still don't know what he is. A demon,creature, alien,or a Japanese. Either way slendy seems invincible which sucks.

I'm wondering if water can hurt him cause fire seems to be a calling of his and his hunting ground is the forests where he can move around silently through the trees and can hide quite well.

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 		He'll free float in space until he finds some aliens to mess with.

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Deimos wrote:
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Yes, Tim is TTA, and I figured with the arson at J's apartment following the Warning video and the Return video showing The Operator with an entranced(captive?) J kind of proved Tim has little to fear from and is probably working for The Operator.


The arson was never confirmed as TTA/Tim, due to visual tears and slendys original association of burning evidence. The entranced captive was Jay and slendy seemed to ignore him for whatever reason and move at the camera man, who most likely is Tim. What other evidence is their of a tim/slendy collaboration?

Regardss


Sorry, should have been more clear on this one. Tim videotaping the captive Jay with The Operator walking toward the camera and Tim not running/freaking out/being dead seemed to indicate to me he was not afraid of The Operator for some reason. Also I am pretty sure the Warning Video (STAY HOME/BE ALONE) was pretty obvious foreshadowing for the arson in my mind. I don't think I'm reaching too much here.

Aside from that, in entry 19 Tim was in Jay's room when he disappeared, and I believe it was indicated Return was filmed during his lost time. Jay disappearing, Tim in the room he disappeared from, Tim filming the lost time Jay had with The Operator present. This video was also only revealed after Tim's response to entry 18, so he knows he was filming Jay, and was also taunting Jay to reveal the video of himself in Jay's room. It all kind of leads me toward the conclusion Tim is aligned, if not in the service of, The Operator.

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threads wrote:
Sorry, should have been more clear on this one. Tim videotaping the captive Jay with The Operator walking toward the camera and Tim not running/freaking out/being dead seemed to indicate to me he was not afraid of The Operator for some reason. Also I am pretty sure the Warning Video (STAY HOME/BE ALONE) was pretty obvious foreshadowing for the arson in my mind. I don't think I'm reaching too much here.

Aside from that, in entry 19 Tim was in Jay's room when he disappeared, and I believe it was indicated Return was filmed during his lost time. Jay disappearing, Tim in the room he disappeared from, Tim filming the lost time Jay had with The Operator present. This video was also only revealed after Tim's response to entry 18, so he knows he was filming Jay, and was also taunting Jay to reveal the video of himself in Jay's room. It all kind of leads me toward the conclusion Tim is aligned, if not in the service of, The Operator.


The thing is, not being afraid of the Operator doesn't make you in cahoots with him. Tim/TTA/Masky seems a little off his rocker, which could be one reason he isn't apparently scared of the Operator -- he had the terror crazied out of him already. Or he could know how to deal with the Operator to some degree, and having a modicum of control can take a great deal of the terror of something away.

There's a theory out there that TTA was trying to scare Jay away from investigating the Operator further rather than trying to harm him, because Jay never really comes to any physical, literal harm in the series. The Operator's reasons for doing what he does are unknowable, really, so the defense that TTA never hurt or killed Jay doesn't admittedly stand up to scrutiny, but his actions cannot be taken as proof that he's working for the baddie either. A lot of TTA's actions DO seem to be taunting Jay, but those serve another purpose -- to warn and illustrate how helpless Jay really is, and maybe whip him into shape and make himself more secure, or scare him away entirely (STAY HOME/BE ALONE taunting him about thinking that either of those actions would be at all helpful, for example). That could be interpreted as helpful -- sadistic, but ultimately helpful.

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