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[SPEC] Oddball theory on Alex

[awakeasaurusrex]

If this is the thread for oddball theories about Alex, I've got a doozy of one:

Alex has been a possession of the Operator since he was a young child, and only interacts with human society to obtain victims for the Operator. Alex's true home is in the forest, with the Operator.

At the end of Entry 22 Alex talks about waking up in "this house" - not his home, otherwise he'd say "my house" or something along those lines - that he had thought running away might help but it made things worse, that he was "getting out of this house" and returning "home". Supposing the house we see Alex recording himself in during Season 1 was not his true home, but a place he lived after running away from the Operator?

We now know that the location in Entry 26 wasn't Alex's home, it was Amy's place. The apartment he's been living in for season 2 is full of his scribbled notes - which include the very bold phrase RETURN HOME, suggesting that perhaps the apartment isn't "home" after all. If the places Alex was living in in seasons 1, 2 and 3 aren't "home", what is?

Note that in Entry 50 Alex just stays in the forest and makes no move to leave.

Here's what I think Alex's life story is:

- Alex is marked by the Operator from a young age and is eventually kidnapped to live in the Operator's realm, which is found deep in the woods or in old, abandoned buildings. It might be another dimension, or it might just be some place.

- Time passes in there and eventually Alex is able to escape. Perhaps he's able to very soon, perhaps he's almost grown up before he does it, but he does. I'm inclined to say that little time passes in the wider world - otherwise his parents would have kicked up a fuss - but from Alex's point of view spends a long amount of time indeed in the Operator's realm, not aging as he does so.

- Although at this point Alex had no conscious recollection of what happened, he feels out of place in the real world. On a subconscious level, he kind of misses the Operator's place, bizarre though it is - it is possible he has been conditioned to miss it in fact.

- Alex begins making his student film, Marble Hornets, in which he uses the film of someone who feels desperately homesick but, when he tries to return home, finds that it is not at all like he expected it to be. It is around this time that the Operator finds him; it is possible that the themes of homesickness in MH attracted the Operator.

- At first Alex is terrified of the Operator, but eventually he realises that the Operator's realm is his true home and he becomes desperate to get back to it - but he must make amends for leaving. He attempts to sacrifice the cast and crew to the Operator, an event which affects them in different ways; some of them are gone for good, stuck in the Operator's place, whilst others (Tim and whoever the Gimp is) escaped - and were able to steal away the secrets of the Operator's powers for themselves, like his teleportation ability.

- The Operator wants to track them down and get them back, but obviously they aren't going to trust Alex. They might, however, trust Jay. Jay is returned to the world with his memory wiped and Alex is prompted to give him the tapes. Alex then "moves away" - returning to the Operator's realm - whilst the Operator waits for the right moment.

- Jay eventually gets around to watching the tapes. He begins his investigation. Unfortunately, Tim and the Gimp are sharper than the Operator gave them credit for and work out what's going on. They hatch their own plan to use Jay to lead them to the Operator's realm, so they can raid it, free the captives, and steal more delicious occult power. They set up a YouTube account (ToTheArk) to give Jay hints, send him anonymous notes sending him to Brian's house, and so on.

- Since the plan has gone wrong, Alex is dispatched on a damage control mission. He becomes acquainted with Amy, and once he is embedded enough in her life to credibly be her distraught boyfriend out to rescue her, the Operator comes and takes her. Alex then has the difficult task of luring Jay into the Operator's clutches on the one hand, but on the other hand finding an opportunity to do so when Tim and the Gimp are close enough that the Operator can snatch them up too. He decided not to press the issue in Entry 50 because he realised Jessica would need to be taken up too.

[device]

Oh, I llke your theory, awakasaurusrex. That's a great take on the idea.


One of my many crackpot theories is that the Operator takes the dead... and makes "changelings".... like in the old fairy tales.

Similar to the old Faerie stories where people would find their children missing, their babies seemingly dead in the cradle... and when they would come back, or come to life again, their personalities would be forever changed.

The people he sends back out into the world look like the ones who went missing, and perhaps have part of their memories, but are really just genetic copies, avatars that carry his will and have a portion of his power.

Perhaps the "Ark" is only a colonization device... much like the original ark.

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[SchwarzeKrieger]

[Zarggg]

The problem with that statement is that we not yet been told what the ark means in the context of MH.

[device]

[czaaaaaa]

I always thought that alex was bound to the operator, and throughout many lifetimes he's had the unfortunate demise to have him follow him everywhere. That's why during entry ##### during the birthday cake distortion, and all of the date flips could of possibly been the dates of Alex's deaths from the Operator.

[smog]

My theory is that Alex is the operator, hes doing the work for slendy, which makes him the person carrying out the operations.

[Lytrigian]

[Avanyx]

My turn for an oddball theory, even though I'm pretty sure I read it in the original thread for the video. TO is actually some sort of strange imaginary/wish gone wrong. This is why TO shows up right after Alex blows up the birthday candles. IT WAS HIS BIRTHDAY WISH!

[Tharol]

More oddball Amy has the possible amy r. k. being the ark we are looking but she is gone. Jessica and Jay are brother and sister. Tim and Brian were having lovers quarrel on side. Sarah ran off with Seth because they got warned from Bruce who is alive somewhere. Slenderman has a pony named the Slendermane who watches people bro hoof on vlogs.

[czaaaaaa]

[pravado]

*facepalm* please stick theories we both know won't turn out to be true in the season 2 thread, not one theory topic has done anything but dissapoint me

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