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Young Wayfarer
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IonCharge wrote:
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.

That would be called a MacGuffin, as is the sugar bowl in ASoUE.
To be honest, Jay having some kind of link to the "ark" seems rather off since he never really had anything happen to him until he started uploading entries. What if he forgot the tapes forever and just went on with his life? We would have never even seen a totheark.
But then again... J is now completely involved and he is being stalked by masky and shit so I don't know...
Also I just noticed from previous comments that justified J not being TTA, if Tim really is TTA and he was filming J at the car or whatever when he was getting tapes shows that he must have already been deeply enveloped in this slendy mystery.

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Geneaux486
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Magyk wrote:
And there is only one Masky.


This. I don't know why so many people speculate that there's more than one masked man. We've only ever seen Tim wearing it, and there's no evidence to suggest he's got accomplices.

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This. I don't know why so many people speculate that there's more than one masked man. We've only ever seen Tim wearing it, and there's no evidence to suggest he's got accomplices.


I think a lot of it stems from the slight variations in build, etc. that have been noted when Masky's been seen.

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I tend to chalk this up more to Tim gaining/losing weight and/or changing his hair OOG than anything else, though.


But since Tim's been the only confirmed Masky, I do think it's wise to assume, for the moment, that he's the only one.

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Geneaux486
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I think a lot of it stems from the slight variations in build, etc. that have been noted when Masky's been seen.



I did notice in entry 33 that he looked a bit off, but we pretty much know for sure at this point that was Tim because of the limp as a result of Alex breaking his leg. Upon going back and rewatching, he really just looks dishelved. Understandable since he's been hunting for J on foot with a bum leg that he may not have even gotten proper treatment for.

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mag3ba
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Young Wayfarer wrote:
IonCharge wrote:
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.

That would be called a MacGuffin, as is the sugar bowl in ASoUE.

Maybe the Ark contains Marcellus Wallace's soul.

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 		Hey guys, if the Operator is actually the ghost or tormented soul of one of the criminals, have we condered the possibility that the ark may be his grave? Alex was leading Jay into what looked like a ditch in Entry #38, and it would certainly make sense that the Operator (and masky acting as his proxy) would want to find his resting place so he could finally stop haunting dudes.

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Cleavuz wrote:
Hey guys, if the Operator is actually the ghost or tormented soul of one of the criminals, have we condered the possibility that the ark may be his grave? Alex was leading Jay into what looked like a ditch in Entry #38, and it would certainly make sense that the Operator (and masky acting as his proxy) would want to find his resting place so he could finally stop haunting dudes.


This idea certainly makes sense to me if that's the way they decide to go with the story. Though perhaps TTA (if he is in fact Tim) is the one who wishes to find it, with Jay's assistance, and Alex may perhaps be planning something more sinister. He has been acting more strangely as they've met. It seems to me they would want to interrogate Tim some for information (Cause knowledge is power!) when they had the chance, rather than break his leg and run. Alex seemed pretty focused on the cheese it and run scenario

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 		oh yeah, there has to be something to that. theyve really made the point that alex is super aggressive and stoic now. alex definantly didnt want timasky telling jay anything. i honestly dont think tta is tim. seriously think hes seth. just because of alexs whole everyone is gone speech. theres a camera guy who had direct contact with the operator thats unaccounted for. that leaves tim, who we know is masky, and brian (i think thats his name) who might be skully. that"d make sense. but more importantly, if the old cast of mh is after the ark, and my theory of the ark being the grave is right, then why? unless theyre all slender proxies. hopefully that made sense to someone, im super tired and typing this from my phone hahah.

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Cleavuz wrote:
oh yeah, there has to be something to that. theyve really made the point that alex is super aggressive and stoic now. alex definantly didnt want timasky telling jay anything. i honestly dont think tta is tim. seriously think hes seth. just because of alexs whole everyone is gone speech. theres a camera guy who had direct contact with the operator thats unaccounted for. that leaves tim, who we know is masky, and brian (i think thats his name) who might be skully. that"d make sense. but more importantly, if the old cast of mh is after the ark, and my theory of the ark being the grave is right, then why? unless theyre all slender proxies. hopefully that made sense to someone, im super tired and typing this from my phone hahah.


Seth and Brian I think were just unfortunate bystanders that happened to get caught in the crossfire. Neither showed any signs of slendersickness in their (albeit brief) time being shown from what I remember. I have the feeling that if they were not brought along by Alex nothing would have happened to them. Slendy just wanted them out of the way to get closer to Alex, since Alex does seem to be his primary focus throughout this whole story

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[Z.E.R.O.] Ghost wrote:
Cleavuz wrote:
oh yeah, there has to be something to that. theyve really made the point that alex is super aggressive and stoic now. alex definantly didnt want timasky telling jay anything. i honestly dont think tta is tim. seriously think hes seth. just because of alexs whole everyone is gone speech. theres a camera guy who had direct contact with the operator thats unaccounted for. that leaves tim, who we know is masky, and brian (i think thats his name) who might be skully. that"d make sense. but more importantly, if the old cast of mh is after the ark, and my theory of the ark being the grave is right, then why? unless theyre all slender proxies. hopefully that made sense to someone, im super tired and typing this from my phone hahah.


Seth and Brian I think were just unfortunate bystanders that happened to get caught in the crossfire. Neither showed any signs of slendersickness in their (albeit brief) time being shown from what I remember. I have the feeling that if they were not brought along by Alex nothing would have happened to them. Slendy just wanted them out of the way to get closer to Alex, since Alex does seem to be his primary focus throughout this whole story


To be fair, Alex never showed any Slender sickness either. I have a fairly speculative theory that you only get that kind of Slender sickness (Coughing, dehydration, headaches, ect.) if Slender Man is trying to "Masky" you. And don't get me wrong, I'm confident that besides perhaps Skully, Tim is the only Masky we've ever seen. I have an extremely speculative theory that Skully=Jay, hence Jay/Tim being "Gone," but it's really too early to guess about that, and I'm perfectly willing to accept that Skully is just a cryptic image. Also, you didn't name the whole cast, you left Sarah out, and I think Brian/Sarah/Seth may have simply been murdered. After all, unlike Jay/Tim, we haven't seen them since.

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DHock513 wrote:
[Z.E.R.O.] Ghost wrote:
Cleavuz wrote:
oh yeah, there has to be something to that. theyve really made the point that alex is super aggressive and stoic now. alex definantly didnt want timasky telling jay anything. i honestly dont think tta is tim. seriously think hes seth. just because of alexs whole everyone is gone speech. theres a camera guy who had direct contact with the operator thats unaccounted for. that leaves tim, who we know is masky, and brian (i think thats his name) who might be skully. that"d make sense. but more importantly, if the old cast of mh is after the ark, and my theory of the ark being the grave is right, then why? unless theyre all slender proxies. hopefully that made sense to someone, im super tired and typing this from my phone hahah.


Seth and Brian I think were just unfortunate bystanders that happened to get caught in the crossfire. Neither showed any signs of slendersickness in their (albeit brief) time being shown from what I remember. I have the feeling that if they were not brought along by Alex nothing would have happened to them. Slendy just wanted them out of the way to get closer to Alex, since Alex does seem to be his primary focus throughout this whole story


To be fair, Alex never showed any Slender sickness either. I have a fairly speculative theory that you only get that kind of Slender sickness (Coughing, dehydration, headaches, ect.) if Slender Man is trying to "Masky" you. And don't get me wrong, I'm confident that besides perhaps Skully, Tim is the only Masky we've ever seen. I have an extremely speculative theory that Skully=Jay, hence Jay/Tim being "Gone," but it's really too early to guess about that, and I'm perfectly willing to accept that Skully is just a cryptic image. Also, you didn't name the whole cast, you left Sarah out, and I think Brian/Sarah/Seth may have simply been murdered. After all, unlike Jay/Tim, we haven't seen them since.


I know I'm totally missing the main point of the post, but just as a correction, Alex does get slendersickness one entry; remember, he walks in all coughing and tells everyone he's fine (I think its the entry where the shadow fades into him)

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mag3ba wrote:

Maybe the Ark contains Marcellus Wallace's soul.


Do you know what they call a Slendyvlog in Europe?
A Royale with cheese.

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 		I'm among those who think Tim murdered Brian myself, going by the bullet casing, sink full of blood, and the fact that Brian is nowhere to be found in his own house.

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 		I'm not sure. I think the bullet casing was someone trying to shoot the Operator, possibly at point blank. The bullet wouldn't have done a thing, hence why there was only one shot. I think the blood in the sink was because of someone coughing so hard that they broke blood vessels. And I think Brian has high tailed it out of town like Alex did.

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Geneaux486 wrote:
I'm among those who think Tim murdered Brian myself, going by the bullet casing, sink full of blood, and the fact that Brian is nowhere to be found in his own house.

Unfortunately this includes a dead body. Btw, does anyone know if Alex ever said he suffered from memory loss? I noticed the memory loss usually occurs when Jay is near Alex (which would also include Jessica's memory loss). I mention this because the Ark might be a way to regain lost memories caused by Alex which is why masky tried to kill him. The problem with this theory would of course be why masky is after Jay. Plus, for this theory to make sense, Alex must have left the area or masky killed him. I'm with the theory that TTA is the cast of Marble Hornets trying to recruit Jay against Alex.

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