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 		We never know what happens when Slenderman actually gets close enough to someone. Alex COULD simply have been frozen in terror; Maybe he was being turned into a "Masky" slave.

As far as an MO goes, we have no bloody clue. From what I've gathered, while location scouting with Seth, Alex wandered upon an abandoned house, descended into the boiler room, and Seth was never heard from again.
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Barolas wrote:

Here's my question though. I came in late in the original Marble Hornets game, some time around Entry 23. What exactly is Slenderman's MO in the series? To date, I think he's only hurt Alex once (Entry 14 where he entered his room), but other than that he's just screwed with them ever since. Showing up randomly, making doors go places they shouldn't, erasing memories, etc.


The Slendy of MH is very different to the Slendy of EMH. In Marble Hornets he seems to be stalking Alex, he hovers outside his house, standing on the edge of shots whilst they are filming. He doesn't tend to get too involved. It is assumed that his presence causes sickness, anxiety, anger, general mental instability! We aren't 100% on where the blood comes from (we see Alex bleeding in one ep, after Slendy comes into the room and theres a tonne of blood in the mystery house).

Ultimately, I believe he is after Alex - and everything else is just him trying to stop others from getting in his way. Its Alex who he personally attacks twice (once where he enters his room and later we see him bleeding and most recently in E#26). But, as Nightmarecomplex says, we aren't really sure.
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 		Close proximity apparently causes severe memory loss as seen by Jay in Entry 23 and Alex in Entry 22.

Additionally, the effects on a camera (electronics?) seem to get more severe as The Operator gets closer. This is seen in Entry 23 when Jay's camera is rendered useless after his encounter with the operator.

PS.

I forgot to post that Jay was sleeping fully dressed in my big long post.

I updated it in case it is going to be used for the Wiki.

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 		This is probably silly to think about, but what if Slender Man was forcing Alex to finish his video project, Marble Hornets, for some reason? It'd explain Alex's ridiculous level of anxiety whenever he sees him, the Operator's appearance on-location, even when location was the middle of a busy city in day time, and Alex's resignation at the end of 26. "Ah hell, this guy again," as opposed to, "Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck."

It might even have some ties to the camera itself; "Finish the project with this camera etc., etc." And why Slendy appeared when the camera was turned on again.
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Barolas wrote:
Here's my question though. I came in late in the original Marble Hornets game, some time around Entry 23. What exactly is Slenderman's MO in the series? To date, I think he's only hurt Alex once (Entry 14 where he entered his room), but other than that he's just screwed with them ever since. Showing up randomly, making doors go places they shouldn't, erasing memories, etc.


There has been a lot of speculation over time in regards to the Operator's MO! This is one of those problems that doesn't have an agreed-upon theory, which is a lot of funs because it means you can come up with all kinds of crazy stuff. (Slenderman Is An Alien, anyone?)

Actually, I was considering this a couple of nights ago. It's possible that the Operator is just doing damage control (ha ha, 'just'). It could be that he doesn't like adults to know he exists, and whenever he's seen by an adult he wipes their memory of him. But Alex and co stumbled upon him in a park that one day, he got caught on video camera, and that prevented Alex at least from forgetting about him permanently. Having never encountered this before, he started following Alex trying to figure out WTF -- which only made the problem escalate because he kept getting half-seen by the cast, AND Alex kept catching him on video. (Hence the extensive memory loss that at least Jay experiences; every time the Operator shows up he wipes the memory of everyone present, ie in Entry 17 that Jay doesn't remember happening and Slenders is behind the window there.) When Jay got the tapes, and thus the memories of Slendy, Slendy started going after HIM, too!

Somewhere along the way the Operator may have figured out cameras to enough of an extent that he had more control over the distortion he causes... and maybe the ability to see through cameras that are filming (a la Entry 26, the tape Jay received of Alex and Amy, Amy videotaping and then shortly after Alex shows up on the screen, the Operator makes himself SO VERY KNOWN).

Why would the Operator not want to be seen by the cast of MH? If we tap into the original Slendy mythos, he's a monster that kidnaps children. What better way to do that than to remain unseen by adults? Then when kids tell mommy and daddy about the big tall faceless man that's been in their room, mommy and daddy say "you just had a nightmare, go to sleep"....even if they had seen Slendy too.

Which also lends credence to the mask as a protective talisman. The features are exaggerated in an almost childlike manner -- big eyes, small mouth, upturned nose -- which could be enough to fool the Operator, who obviously doesn't have much experience with faces, yo. However, that would make the mask very interesting in that it wouldn't guarantee safety -- just protection from memory loss. After all, if the Operator is after kids, and he thinks you're a kid... well.

This isn't my favorite theory, but it's a theory that ties a lot of stuff together. Honestly, I still am a fan of "the Operator is just SO MUCH of an interdimensional eldritch horror that this is just him messing around for funsies", aka the "Operator is a kid pulling wings off of bugs" theory. I think him not actually having malicious intent, but instead incidental harm and casual, experimental cruelty makes him WAY SCARIER, because it makes him a force of nature, and really, if this is him messin' around, imagine what he could do if he decided to be malicious! :O

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JKatkina wrote:
Barolas wrote:
Here's my question though. I came in late in the original Marble Hornets game, some time around Entry 23. What exactly is Slenderman's MO in the series? To date, I think he's only hurt Alex once (Entry 14 where he entered his room), but other than that he's just screwed with them ever since. Showing up randomly, making doors go places they shouldn't, erasing memories, etc.


There has been a lot of speculation over time in regards to the Operator's MO! This is one of those problems that doesn't have an agreed-upon theory, which is a lot of funs because it means you can come up with all kinds of crazy stuff. (Slenderman Is An Alien, anyone?)

Actually, I was considering this a couple of nights ago. It's possible that the Operator is just doing damage control (ha ha, 'just'). It could be that he doesn't like adults to know he exists, and whenever he's seen by an adult he wipes their memory of him. But Alex and co stumbled upon him in a park that one day, he got caught on video camera, and that prevented Alex at least from forgetting about him permanently. Having never encountered this before, he started following Alex trying to figure out WTF -- which only made the problem escalate because he kept getting half-seen by the cast, AND Alex kept catching him on video. (Hence the extensive memory loss that at least Jay experiences; every time the Operator shows up he wipes the memory of everyone present, ie in Entry 17 that Jay doesn't remember happening and Slenders is behind the window there.) When Jay got the tapes, and thus the memories of Slendy, Slendy started going after HIM, too!

Somewhere along the way the Operator may have figured out cameras to enough of an extent that he had more control over the distortion he causes... and maybe the ability to see through cameras that are filming (a la Entry 26, the tape Jay received of Alex and Amy, Amy videotaping and then shortly after Alex shows up on the screen, the Operator makes himself SO VERY KNOWN).

Why would the Operator not want to be seen by the cast of MH? If we tap into the original Slendy mythos, he's a monster that kidnaps children. What better way to do that than to remain unseen by adults? Then when kids tell mommy and daddy about the big tall faceless man that's been in their room, mommy and daddy say "you just had a nightmare, go to sleep"....even if they had seen Slendy too.

Which also lends credence to the mask as a protective talisman. The features are exaggerated in an almost childlike manner -- big eyes, small mouth, upturned nose -- which could be enough to fool the Operator, who obviously doesn't have much experience with faces, yo. However, that would make the mask very interesting in that it wouldn't guarantee safety -- just protection from memory loss. After all, if the Operator is after kids, and he thinks you're a kid... well.

This isn't my favorite theory, but it's a theory that ties a lot of stuff together. Honestly, I still am a fan of "the Operator is just SO MUCH of an interdimensional eldritch horror that this is just him messing around for funsies", aka the "Operator is a kid pulling wings off of bugs" theory. I think him not actually having malicious intent, but instead incidental harm and casual, experimental cruelty makes him WAY SCARIER, because it makes him a force of nature, and really, if this is him messin' around, imagine what he could do if he decided to be malicious! :O


I like it because it makes sense and follows the original mythos, but MH didn't really follow the "this thing steals children" angle. Just "this dude is creepy and fucks up my tapes and stalks me."

Also, he's an alien. that. explains. everything. I wonder if Jay is gonna show us crop circles in Alabama in Entry 28.
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 		Maybe Alex was the kid who got away.
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Moon wrote:
I like it because it makes sense and follows the original mythos, but MH didn't really follow the "this thing steals children" angle. Just "this dude is creepy and fucks up my tapes and stalks me."

Also, he's an alien. that. explains. everything. I wonder if Jay is gonna show us crop circles in Alabama in Entry 28.


Well, to be fair, there aren't a lot of kids to get involved in the MH storyline! For all we know, tall dark and scary is still off nabbing young'uns on the side. There just don't seem to be any kids in our protagonists' lives to get nabbed.

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TheNightmareComplex wrote:
Maybe Alex was the kid who got away.


Oh my god, it all makes sense now!
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TheNightmareComplex wrote:
Maybe Alex was the kid who got away.


Ooh, I like that one!
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TheNightmareComplex wrote:
Failing to read a terms of service does not nullify it. It's the same as signing a contract you didn't read; You clicked the check box, and they have proof. You can't prove otherwise, metaphorically or legally.


Under the hypothetical situation I posed, I did not 'fail' to read the terms. I simply posited that it is impossible for me to derive the exact meaning intended by the writer, because language is a metaphor and is, therefore, imprecise by its very nature. For this reason, binding contracts are somewhat moot.

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 		JKatkina's theory + TheNightmareComplex = Very Yes

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Maybe Alex was the kid who got away.


I like this. And then all the others got sucked in because they knew too much
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 		Sweet, I'm helping!

It'd fit in well with the Mask idea, I suppose. It really kind of fits with

Any theory we've come up with so far.
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 		Aw, see, the "Alex was the kid that got away" thing seems simultaneously too neat and tidy, and too unnecessarily complex to me. Separately, they're neat ideas, but if the Operator was stalking Alex anyways, he wouldn't need the extra motive of wiping everyones' memories. It would just be "hey let's stalk Alex some more". And Alex wouldn't have freaked out so much about the new stalkings if he had been getting them his entire life.

Anyways, the idea that the Operator is stalking Alex because of the meaningless accident of having caught Oppy on film lends a kind of tragedy to the series that I guess I personally find appealing thematically.

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