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[Anonymousity]

My bet is Steph is busy OOC, but her being off-video is kinda troubling.

As for Evan/HABIT: I was one of the "Jessa is HABIT"-persons, but Evan's mom even called him HABIT. That's his frigging name. She also seemed content (from what I remember) that her son was totally cool, so no HABIT-rape on that side, as with Nick.

[KeithXK]

[jackofnotrades]

So TONS of thoughts on this new cystw post, I guess I'll start with why I am so interested in it - some epic coincidences

My name is Nick, I have been referred to as both "strong as shit" and "big as a motherfucker", and I went to kindergarden in a town 10 minutes from the boys. If only I had a dog named Chowder...

Now on to real stuff - good catch on them referencing a Nick way back when they thought it was all a prank, but if memory serves - is Greenfeathers real name Nick? It kind of stood out to me in those videos because Evan brought it up. Sorry if that's irrelevant or if I'm exposing someone's personal identity, or even if I misheard/misremembered.

I have several ideas about who/what is going to be fought, (could be the Rake or Evan or Alex or ????) but I'll work off of the idea that an Evan/Nick showdown is coming- This kind of reminds me of Supernatural where -

[Anonymousity]

It's also sort of in line with the "why did god create a dual universe?"-line... Where "evil" is being passed on from one generation to another.

"The smiling man" could be whoever/whatever HABIT possesses at that time.

One thing that worries me though: how come the HABIT that took the kids was indestructible... yet he seemingly has to change bodies?? Do they age, but not succumb to wounds?

[Mattwan]

[Anonymousity]

True - then again, Evan WAS called HABIT. So this would mean that HABIT could switch only in a number of bodies - those he gave life to himself.

One thing I find odd with Evan is that HABIT seems to pop into him randomly, like at the ending of the last video. We know he can seemingly effortlessly cross huge amounts of spaces and time (logic fleeing to every which way), like some sort of demon, but only capable of inhabiting those he created...

Can we try to round up all the facts we know about HABIT and Slenderman??

Like, we know that Steph did NOT see HABIT, or seemingly does not know of him - so could she even BE inHABITed, as all the others seemed to be aware of it? We assume Slenderman took Jessa - but why? Just for snackz? lulz?

[agreatdivorce]

Or, for you Stephen King fans, HABIT could work like the entity Tak does in the Desperation/The Regulators mini-verse. Tak is a body hopping entity who, once having taken possession of a body, is able to use it beyond its natural abilities... for a short time. The body rapidly decays soon after, forcing a swtich.

Honestly, I don't think we should consider the inHABITing that physical or that easily specified. I think it's more a mental thing, which is why I find this sudden switch to HABIT as a phsyical force in these back stories so odd. Till now he's been a voice with an internet connection and little else. Maybe a split personality in Evan once or twice. Suddenly, HABIT's getting physical.

Anyone else, I'd say it was just the authors running out of ideas of how to make their villain scary. The old Eli Roth method: throw blood on the audience till they mistake disgust with fear. But with EMH I don't buy that. It's got to be a bit deeper.


Edit about Jessa: Is taking Jessa the only "evil" thing Slendy's done in the series? If it is (I can't remember all the scenes with the tallman at the moment) I find that very significant because it does throw a wrench in the whole "Slendy is good" idea, but it also leaves one to ask "Why?" Why only Jessa, why only that one time, and why show her off only that one moment later on? To what end? If he's evil, why stop there? If he's good, why do that? If he's chaotic, why be so lazy after that one incident?

[qaqa]

I don't buy this "Slendy is good" thing at all.

[agreatdivorce]

[Anonymousity]

He killed the priest.

And he makes "the pain" go away.

That Jessa bit still throws me off too... I still... am not sure if we might not see her again in some way or another...

[qaqa]

He does enough.

He killed the priest because he doesn't share. He made the pain go away to keep the guy enslaved. And he took Jessa, and she's not living it up in the land of milk and honey. Among countless other things we could mention.

[Anonymousity]

[agreatdivorce]

Eh, in all honesty all the EMH villains except the Rake take the Monte Cristo approach to villainy: manipulate one or two events and then just wait for their victims to fall apart. That's why EMH is worth all our time: it's actually protagonist driven, not antagonist. Even if by "driven" we mean "stumble around over each other like they lost access to GameFAQS." XD

[Anonymousity]

"Gonna get my emergency machete."

THIS IS GOOD CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT RIGHT THERE, HOLLYWOOD!!

Back OT: I think Slenderman is not as much villainous as he is... mystical. He seems to be less malicious than HABIT though. By that, I mean "He's eating his Jessa-steak, while HABIT is re-choreographing the silly dance with his half eaten steaks."

The thing I didn't figure out yet is: Why the Rake!

You see: it's OK to have HABIT inHABIT Evan, due to the HABIT-connection from the MT4. So, say, Slendy does show up because he's close to where HABIT is hitting, getting the kids either to safe them or... to eat them, whatever. But why the Rake? Does he show up because of the gore, eating whatever is left? And what drives HABIT? The fun in chaos a la Joker? Does he consume pain and anxiety, like a demon?

[DandA]

I don't have any really good ideas (read epileptic trees) about the rake, and this may have already come up, but I do think he/it is targeting Alex more than the rest of the crew. Which is interesting, because Alex is also the least connected to the Fairmount shenanigans- remind me, Alex doesn't come up in any of the Corenthal stuff, right? Which would further support HABIT, the rake, and Slenderman as separate but coexisting entities.

Something that's always struck me (and I'm sure I brought this up before) is that I think one of the earlier Corenthal letters made some reference to each of the children having their own monsters or something, and how Linnie's seems more feral than the others (which would make sense given the Linnie/Rake connection).

As for Slenderman's morality, I've always seen him as an Eldritch horror, so assigning him a morality is kind of trite. That being said, I would by no means call Slenderman "good."

Anyway, long rambly post is long and rambly.

Also I tried to find angora chat the other day on mibbit and couldn't, has anything changed recently or did I just forget the chats official name?