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[Boreamor]

Theories about The Ark

[Salkovich]

There is a Season 2 Discussion thread. Take this THERE, and don't create a new thread.

[Boreamor]

The Ark is through the whole Marble Hornets series though... Not just season 2 :S

[slice22358]

[Ikekudeyg]

[Salkovich]

[8bitFilk]

[Geneaux486]

J really can't be totheark. Think back to Totheark's entry that shows J being filmed with a handheld camera while he gets tapes out of Alex's trunk. The camera was being carried by an actual person, and they started to run when J was done getting tapes. So yeah, J probably is not totheark.

Really, the simplest answer is probably the right one, and that is totheark being Tim. Tim features in several of the videos, and totheark entries refer to masked Tim as "Me", (end of Signal video, the words "COME BACK. FIND ME. Followed immediately by J going back to the house and finding Tim) so yeah, all solid evidence so far points to Tim being totheark.

As for the Ark, I'm more inclined to believe it's a place, and that it's somehow responsible for the abnormal growth talked about in Alex's story about the forest. I think the Operator wants it because maybe it can give him his humanity back, or if he was never human, give him a better human form, or something along that line, and he uses Tim as a proxy because he's unable to communicate with people directly. Obviously due to the Operator's corrupting influence Tim is not a very good proxy, what little is left of him in that masked head, but still.

[StereotypicalName]

I thought it was pretty obvious that totheark was Masky. Doesn't Masky appear in totheark's videos a lot?

Edit: OH. We're talking about the Ark itself. I dunno. Lemme' think.

[DHawk]

Well, first we need to think "What are totheark's motives?" I personally think he is Masky, and that he is a puppet of The Operator/Slender Man. So from there, we can figure the ark is both:
A) Something Jay could help find access to, and
2) Something The Operator wants.
So then we list things The Operator wants. Originally Alex seemed to make sense, but now that I've seen Entry #38, I am inclined to believe that whatever makes that forest grow so fast is the ark. I think this, because if it's just a mystery as to why the forest is growing so fast, it'll bother me. Also, because I could see why The Operator would want this. Perhaps he wants to destroy it, so he can get his revenge on the forest. And perhaps he feels Alex has found it, and he can use Jay to find Alex. Also, from tothearks's POV, perhaps part of him has not been completely taken over even as totheark. Since a flood appears to be a metaphor for The Operator, and the ark would be safety, perhaps once The Operator gets his revenge on the forest, totheark feels he may be set free.

[Timur]

1) Slendy, having crawled out of whatever abyss in thw 1800's to feed, began to grow curious with his prey. As he grew strong on the bodies of the damned, he began toying more with his food, even taking on a near-human form. Slendy undoubtedly considers himself to be of the dominant/superior species, but our existence slowly made slendy question more and more on life itself; he now has playing with his food down to an art, and uses that art to try and decipher meaning. The ark is in fact meaning, what he hopes to accomplish with all of this. TTA, for this to work, must be slendys form of communication via mind-controlled puppets.
2)TTA is in fact a cult seeking worship of the slenderman as they did in the forest, or to take control of him. The ark is either therefore a gift to slendy or a way to try to manipulate him.
3)TTA is trying to escape slenderstalking. The ark is some way or somehow involved in warding slendermen off, or ridding the world of them.
4)the number of licks required to get to the center of a tootsie pop. Slendy, the poor guy, saw the commercial but lacks the proper tongue to see for himself.

[NoMoreGaems]

I think the Ark is something in the original Marble Hornets footage. Somewhere in that mess of tapes is whatever original incident got the Operator following Alex, and that's going to have something to do with it. I bet you the original Entry 37 would have directly followed the footage from 38, and in that footage Alex shows Jay the Ark, or perhaps tells him what it is. Tim wants it because he thinks if he has the Ark, he can finally escape the Operator. Whatever happened, it drove Jay into a Mask and wiped out his memory for seven months. If Jay and Tim were allied and still couldn't find the Ark, then I don't know what it could be. Maybe Alex has it.

[Boreamor]

I'm wondering about theory that Alex could be the Ark. Because if we assume that Tim is TTA, then he hasn't seen Alex in over 3 years, but he knows J is looking for Alex. And lets face it, when he finds Alex he tries to stab him! That's quite damn serious.

The whole concept of "The Ark" could be a red herring itself, and just be a way of tricking J into showing Tim to Alex when he's vulnerable so he can kill him, because he thinks it'll stop the Operator.

[Magyk]

I think the Ark is something that will save Alex/Jay/(theworld?) from Slendy. Much like Noah's Ark saved everyone from the rain.

(Bonus theories: TiMasky is TTA. If not, it's Jessica. And there is only one Masky.)

[IonCharge]

Maybe the Ark is similar to the Sugar Bowl in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events". If you haven't read the series, the Sugar Bowl is basically a container of some sort of information that both the villains and protagonists are trying to obtain. However, the contents of the Sugar Bowl are never revealed, and it's purpose, from a writer's stand point was simply as a plot device for the series.