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[Verdett]

[Porphyrophobia]

[lunaticfish]

On the subject of the Corenthal/ Mining Town 4, it seems we have proof Damsel/Steph is the fourth. All the same, something feels off about her involvement (thus far) as well. Am I the only one who thinks that? Like something doesn't quite add up yet. Which is a shame because I like her mucho. I just can't trust the situation yet.

[Mattwan]

[Luipaard]

[lunaticfish]

I don't think she's at all lacking as a character. I think her activity will increase as the story goes forward. What I was saying is that what exactly her involvement will be I am unsure of. Mattwan, you kind of summed up part of what I meant- She's not out of place to me, but there's something off about it. I know she'll be more involved soon, but whether that will be good, indifferent, or even bad involvement is what I'm concerned about. I want to trust her and I really see no reason not to- her situation just feels... off.
Luipaard, I didn't really mean anything like that. Sure she's still kind of an "outsider" at the moment but I'm quite open to her getting more involved. As for the whole she's staying with them with no apparent complications bit, I just chalk that up to suspention of disbelief. We're probably meant to just go with it. :>

[lunaticfish]

*Suspension. I can spell.
And about her being a "Damsel in distress", I don't think that's where it's going at all.

[qaqa]

I think she's incredibly funny in the scenes we've seen her in with the guys since her escape, but as of now her purpose is a question mark. There was all the hype regarding her eventually meeting the guys, then getting imprisoned, then being broken out, but ultimately she had little of import to tell them. Maybe that's because she's still hiding something, or maybe it's because SM wanted them to let her out to reunite the 4 - which I think is very likely. So I think her full purpose is yet to be determined. I do think they could stand to give us a lot more of her on-camera.

[lunaticfish]

Wait wait wait. Just had an idea here.
Whilst randomly pontificating here at work about those delicious Cadburry creme eggs, and how I will soon be within the season to procure one, methought about Easter itself.
AND THEN BAM, MOTHERFUCKER.
So obviously we've all connected this fact before, Easter = Rabbit connectionderp. But I never exactly thought about it, thought about it. I may know next to nothing about religion, especially of the Christian kind, but I do know Easter is a celebration or remembrance of the Resurrection, right? In one of the Corenthal papers, we have the story about HABIT "re-enacting" the scene of the Crucifixion with a warren of dead rabbits. I doubt anyone has failed to notice the sacrificial nature of the Trials, and that there is a good chance the winner will too have a large sacrifice to make. Perhaps Easter will be the end of the Trials. That doesn't signify much, except that if it is on Easter or somehow a major Trail event occurs there, we will have a level of depth on the possible resurrection of the characters tree and a little closer look into HABIT himself.
Again, it's sort of an anticlimax of a realization, but the more you think about it, the more it seems like this could be a significant clue.
Or I'm just bored as hell. It could also be that.

[Porphyrophobia]

[Luipaard]

[NoMoreGaems]

[G.I.R]

[veljko]

@re: new video

I'm way late to the party, but I have to say the video made me more confused than when I started. I have to thank you guys for explicating the whole possible Rose/William/&c family tree. That helped me make sense of things.

I do have an observation to make. Someone asked if Deadgirl is Linnie or not, and there was some discussion about her age and her possibly being Linnie's daughter. I'd like to point out if the Fairmount Four[1] can be timeskipped/de-aged/reincarnated/whatever so that they appear both in old documents and today, why can't Linnie go trough the same thing?

@re: Damsel/Steph

I think the reason she hasn't been doing much lately is, actually, OOG. If you take a look, the last video where they investigated something, or went on a road-trip was "Damsel". Sure, there was the issue with the "Now you're thinking with portals" house, but that was not as well planned -- they did end up taking a trip, but an unexpected one. I think they didn't have the time to do another "Centralia"-caliber video and that Steph would be of significance in such an excursion.

Of course, another option is that she hasn't shared everything with them. Either because she doesn't want to, or because she is prevented from speaking by some compelling force. Or she could have shared important information that is being kept from us. If Evan had his way, we wouldn't even know about Rose, after all.

Or it could be that her entire future role is to hang around in the background and snark incessantly at the guys. I am amazingly okay with that.

@re: Easter HABITs of rabbits

Would have totally missed that. In my neck of the woods, rabbits and Easter aren't particularly connected.

I'm not sure that a replica of a slendermurder could be mistaken for the crucifixion, though. It depends on what version of Slendy's M.O. is recognized in EMH. I thought it was the standard body impaled on tree, organs in bags around the tree version. Or does he impale the bodies directly, like a shrike?

[1] The canon name for them seems to be the Mining Town Four but I am an alliteration addict.

[lunaticfish]

Yeah I never got how you go from Resurrection to rabbits, but it's definitely an American thing, as much so as Slenderman is an American folktale- so canonically it works. (Pun.)
Luipaard, nah I totally got ya now. XD
Yeah I was pretty sure others had figured this out but it was such a wham kind of moment for me, not because it could be Trial 7 date, but because of the implications of the "crucifixion/resurrection" idea. And also sometimes I'm slow in the way that I stare at obviously significant things, think to myself "that's significant", but think it for the totally wrong reasons and miss completely the actual significance until like way after everyone else already sucked the marrow from its bones and moved on. That's just how I do sometimes.