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[[Z.E.R.O.] Ghost]

Slendersickness and Alex

[Randoman96]

I THINK he coughed once in 22, but it may have been Seth.

[mellodragon]

Aside from paranoia and his snippyness in the first season, he doesn't display any symptoms. At least none like Tim and Jay, but I'm not completely convinced their maladies are related to the Operator.

[ZomgShaylex]

You know, I hadn't even thought of his lack of symptoms up till now.

Then again Jay certainly didn't upload all the footage of Alex taping himself. Their might be some coughing and such in there, and Jay probably wouldn't have deemed it important at the time. Since all the previous tapes got burned, I guess we'll never know. I'm definitely going to start paying attention to that now though (if we see Alex again any time soon that is).

[[Z.E.R.O.] Ghost]

[Dray]

It could be that he didn't display any symptoms because he'd found something useful to guard/inoculate against them. Just like he managed to escape in the end (sort of), he could have had some resistance all along...

Or else maybe Joseph couldn't pull off a convincing death-rattle, so they didn't bother to have him act sick at all.

[FallenTraveler]

another thing to keep in mind is that, in the beginning, there were quite a few entries with audio cut out, and also... oog they've said that they had no idea where they were going with it first season, that could explain some of it... if indeed alex did cough in 22, then it is a good indication that they probably were still figuring it out... and jay hasn't really shown any symptoms lately... just sayin...

[mellodragon]

[shoeler]

i've always wondered this. him not displaying slendersickness is definitely something that's always stuck out to me.

People always consider paranoia as "slendersickness" for some reason, which i don't really agree with. alex started filming himself for the same reason jay did, and, as far as we know, which we think we know pretty well, jay wasn't being stalked by slenderman. he's never really ever been after jay, only alex.

so ignoring paranoia, alex hasn't shown anything. at all. his resiliency to the operator has to be some sort of plot point in the future, perhaps explaining why he knew what to do in entry 26 to help amy escape.

[SticktheFigure]

Let us also note what Jay brought up at the beginning of #26. How when he was running around, trying to forget about it, he started feeling much better.

[[Z.E.R.O.] Ghost]

Wonder how much filming he was doing at the time....

I have this feeling that based on Alex's relaxed nature in Entry 26, along with what Jay was saying, that perhaps Slenderman uses the cameras or perhaps the MH footage to find people he's following. After all, it seems that Slendy hasn't come after Alex until the events on the video in 26, which seemed to have resulted in Amy either looking at the footage from the tape in the camera, or the camera itself.

Perhaps Jay stopped filming constantly while he was driving around (out of a need to want to keep going and not stop to change tapes) and that was the reasoning behind him starting to feel better...

[iFaux]

Pretty sure that the Slendersickness is more Maskysickness; it only happened in Jay as soon as Masky started showing up.

Or, yeah, Joseph can't really fake cough too well so he's immune to it.


(ALSO OH GOD I JUST REALIZED THAT I'VE BEEN COUGHING SO GODDAMN MUCH LATELY)

[[Z.E.R.O.] Ghost]

Thinking about it, I don't really think the reasoning behind Alex not caughing would come from Joseph not being able to pull of a convincing cough. It seems that everything done so far is pretty deliberate, though the idea of them not knowing what to do with Alex could be a possibility. Looking over it I know both Jay and Tim are obviously seen coughing, though perhaps Seth, Brian and Sarah showed symptoms as well (Of course their disappearances is technicly a "symptom" of having Slendy after you...)

The oddest thing though is Tim seeming to have it the worst, though that could be a part of his possibly close working relationship with Slendy. What's odd about it is there haven't been any sightings of Masky in any of Alex's footage (which would have been mentioned, especially after Jay's experiences) so it's quite suspect on just what exactly has been going on there with Tim.

To tie in the latest TTA video as well (Sidetone) there seems to possibly be more suspicion towards Alex from the way the hidden messages in the video have been decyphered (Specificly the voicemail message saying "I'm not answering my phone, I'll get back to you as soon as I can" and flashing the 12, 9, 5, 19 representing "lies", perhaps to say he's not as unavailable as he says)

[Zarggg]

Here's a thought I just had. Unfortunately, I have nothing concrete to back it up with (just a hunch), but let me know if you guys think it has merit.

Perhaps somehow Alex is immune to the Operator's "effects." We've seen what happened to Tim and suspect what happened to Seth after they were stalked for a long period of time. But perhaps Alex's history of capturing the Operator on film (this goes in hand with the "observing through recorded media forces the Operator to adhere to local Newtonian physics" theory) has somehow rendered the Operator unable to affect Alex directly.

This could be a reason why the Operator went after Tim, Seth, and later Alex's girlfriend (why can I never remember her name?) as potential tools for dealing what what the Operator sees as a threat against which he is utterly impotent.

Alex's paranoia could easily be attributed to the fact that Operator is just that much alien to our perceptions of how the universe works combined with Alex seeing him pop up everywhere.

[[Z.E.R.O.] Ghost]

The immunity makes sense to me, it would be the best explanation for his lack of symptoms. Whether this immunity comes from himself or some outside source (camera or otherwise) can be debated. The idea of capturing Slendy on film being a way to hold back his powers seems to be likely due to Jay's apparent lessening of symptoms as well. Perhaps they had been able to speak about the effect when they met up during the missing seven months. After all, Jay didn't have the same amount of recording before then that he does now.

I do agree that Seth, Sarah and Amy are all pretty much innocent bystanders in the situation (Tim most likely not as much though) and that they were attacked in order to get at Alex. It seems like a pretty likely strategy: Isolate your target to demoralize them and cut off their resources for help.

And yes, the paranoia would definitely come from the constant pressure being put on Alex. I would certainly agree on the alien nature of Slendy affecting Alex as well, looking at it from a Lovecraftian perspective. Bringing in something so unnatural and alien and having the human mind try to comprehend it.