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[Grim Joker]

[Slendery]

[KeithXK]

Been sorta half following this until now.
Just read through the forum. Much easier to digest 49 pages of forum than EMH's 400+ now.

I'm calling it now.

As kids, Milo and Noah did something terrible, maybe accidentally killed another kid and dumped the body in the river. Nobody found out, and they both blocked the memory out and have forgotten.

Slendy first tormented Milo until he went insane and offed himself.
Now it's Noah's turn.

All the sound clips and the phone call are EVP, he's been talking to dead people who are haunting him.

It's important to note that in the old man's story, Slenderman didn't attack his camp. It only attacked the Nazi who who ran into the camp. Why? It was punishing the nazi solider, likely for having killed Jews or something.

This is all about torment and punishment.

[The Abracadaver]

[KeithXK]

My reasoning is thus.

The hidden mesages.
"He knows what I did"
"Do you remember"
Things like that.
Then the footage of tentacle-Slendy next to a child that doesn't look like Milo or Noah, but could be either of them as children, or the victim.
The fact that Slendy only attacked the nazi, not the camp.

And I'm not suggesting this torment and punishment is Slendy punishing the wicked cause he's on the side of the angels, but because they're done awful things, and Slendy preys on that. At least in this particular iteration of the Slendy story.

[jonnymanic]

The theory of The Slender Man as a manifestation of guilt and/or retribution is not nearly as rare as some might think.
As Keith rightly points out, the fact that he often appears to prey on those with dark pasts doesn't mean he is an angel of righteous retribution; it could just as easily be that he is drawn to it.
People are too swift to apportion human reasoning or human sentiments to this thing when in fact it is s vastly alien in every manner that it would make more sense to apportion features of a force of nature to it.

[awakeasaurusrex]

Uh, if it's not sensible to apportion human reasoning or sentiments to Slender Man then it's not sensible to say that he's a manifestation of guilt or retribution. Because, uh, those are pretty human sentiments right there.

Remember how Slender Man is hiding in the bathroom in the very first Submission video? (See page 3 of the thread from waaaaay back). Remember that Noah was looking kind of rough even then? I reckon Slendy used Noah to lure Milo out to Florida. Milo'd already come to his attention, but perhaps he'd come up with some coping strategies which seemed to work, so Slendy wanted to lure him to his places of power (like the tower and boardwalk) to infiltrate his life all the better. Either way: Noah was being puppeteered all along to get Noah, hence "Forgive me" - subconsciously, Noah wants to be forgiven for what he did to Milo, even though he doesn't remember it.

Of course, now that the tool has served its purpose, Slendy's free to break it.

[IllusionOfLife]

[The Abracadaver]

Forgive me, I apparently forgot some of my Slenderman mythos. That does make a lot more sense. It is definitely an interesting theory. I guess I was confused since pretty much most of the Slenderman stories so far have not given a clear reasoning for his stalking.

[Bartok]

[Norrior]

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[awakeasaurusrex]

Just rewatched submission 1.

At 00:32 you can see a mask on Noah's desk.

BUSTED.

[jonnymanic]

[Axcelissearching]

[NoMoreGaems]

KiethXK: Yeah, that's my thought too. Remember, the Großemann goes after naughty children, which Milo and Noah would definitely be in this case.