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[Demongel]

Also on topic, Evan is drown ing.
...No, really. If you notice in the "hidden" videos/scenes, it's always Evan who is under water . Most of the time he seems to be drown ing or being pushed under, but once or twice he was doing the pushing. Combined with his recent bout of talking to himself and the disturbing link between Evan's alternate personality mentioning taking someone's blood and HABIT demanding blood from Ryan, it would seem to me that Evan is slowly losing himself to the flood . The recent appearance of The Rake is just accelerating the damage.

Let's face it folks, Evan's been losing it since Episode #3: Dreams & Eating. He's been getting progressively worse since then, even if he has good days where he seems fine. He was the one who had the purple tape during the UStream before the "shrine" was found with the CAN YOU SEE/THE WORDS clue, which Evan then coincidentally found Damsel's Blog shortly after. Evan is the one who had the dreams about children, bags, and screaming. Most of all, Evan is the one defending the woman who thought it was a good idea to cuddle with the remains of her family before setting her house ablaze and listening to Slender Man.

Evan is HABIT. It'll be revealed shortly after Jeff, Vince, and Evan can see the hidden footage...it'll be the last straw to snap Evan's mind completely.

[Dixie_Wolf]

I think we're all in agreement that Evan's losing it, and that he will, inevitably, be revealed to be HABIT.

But the question remains:
Is HABIT another personality that's been with Evan all along, or is it some kind of body-snatcher that just began taking him over recently?

[Demongel]

Neither.

If we look at the Corenthal papers, we see that they all mention children who were involved in violent situations that pushed them to insanity. Corenthal himself had connections to Slender Man, and it's semi-safe to assume that the Evan, Vincent, and Jeffery he treated were all touched by Slender Man in some way.

Fast forward to present day and we see history repeating itself. Evan carries a knife around with him and occasionally becomes excessively stabby. Vincent is in constant denial of his past traumas, going so far as to say the obviously supernatural being is a guy in a mask. And Jeff...we never saw Jeffery's papers, but I have a feeling they'll have something to do with losing a lover.

The Slender Man is manipulating our three Protagonists to mimic his past victims. In Evan's case, he's creating the HABIT persona in his mind like the Evan Corenthal treated. The part that concerns me is that there were five children if you include Linnie. Vincent, Evan, Jeffery, and a fourth redacted name (Most likely Damsel given her past and artistic nature).

[kaleeshwarrior]

Has the idea that Jessalyn = Linnie been brought up yet? Because I just noticed that but am usually excessively late to the party on these things because, despite following since the beginning, I can only mentally retain 200 pages or so of speculation...

[Dixie_Wolf]

Hmm... I suppose that's a definite possibility. Never thought about that before.

So, how do you think the Rake figures in with all of it? I know the Corenthal papers mention something about a more feral monster (though I can't remember the exact wording, and my internet connection is so damn slow that I can't really be bothered to dig through the wiki for it at the moment). But does the Rake have ties to Slender Man? A foe, or a former victim, perhaps?

@kaleeshwarrior -- It has been mentioned before, but it seems like it got dropped pretty quickly due to uncertainty. It's a possibility, though. But then again, pretty much everything is a possibility in this series.

[TheNightmareComplex]

[Demongel]

It's possible, though I somehow think it's more likely that Jessie is Linnie's modern day counterpart. Her connection to Corenthal repeats the pattern of Corenthal's VII letter, where he called Linnie his and says he's taking her far away from "The Mining-Town Four".

I didn't call Jessie Linnie directly because that's impossible without time travel, and I don't see that being a possibility. History repeating itself seems much more likely.

As for The Rake, when he talks about Linnie in the VII letter he called her personal demon "much more feral" when comparing it to the Mining-Town Four. Coincidentally, we first spot The Rake when Jessie is introduced in "Cops Checked, No Body."

[Dixie_Wolf]

And if I'd gotten the VII letter like I suspect I was supposed to, I could've just looked at it myself.

I just don't understand why, if Jessie is Linnie's equivalent, and Linnie's personal demon was the Rake, why Jessie herself didn't see it at Lambertville, and why she hasn't seemed to have any direct contact with it.
Unless she's going to be the next to die. DUN DUN DUN.
EMH does seem to like disposing of its females.

[Anonymousity]

[TheNightmareComplex]

There's no evidence that the girl they found was Linnie, either, other than the letter in her hand. And it seems kind of fishy she'd be holding a letter addressed to herself; It's more likely that the girl they found was the messenger.


If William was a player, and it was signed William I believe, then the messenger was found by the Rake, killed, and the Rake left to execute William for seeking outside help. Be it Linnie or the messenger. This would have been the tournament that preceded our own, which started with Ryan only a few weeks ago.

[distilled]

[JinseiZetsumei]

The reincarnation theory always reminds of an episode of x-files where something like that happened.... think it involved skinning people alive or something.... it has been a bit since I last saw it.

[kaleeshwarrior]

[TheNightmareComplex]

In the middle of the forest, by herself, with no one else around but the Rake? If it was clutched in her hand, it'd be because she needed it at that moment for some reason. To read it, or to hand it to someone else. Why would she need to go to a long-abandoned, burnt down school to read the note? And it was clearly a fresh kill, the Rake had been right there. If that was the same Linnie from Dr. Corenthal's reports, she, too, would need a time machine.

[Demongel]

I'm not sure, honestly. Also of confusion is why The Rake would target Alex if it originally targeted Linnie, assuming her present equivalent is Jessie. Makes me wish Jeff hadn't been stingy with Jeffery's report...

Also, Nightmare, I see why you think Rake is somehow being controlled by the HABIT persona if we assume there was a past contest, that the girl with the note was some sort of messenger, that William was a player, and that Ryan's recent death was due to The Rake. If it truly is a feral creature it could be domesticated like any other animal, but this assumes it has no intelligence or cunning.