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[pravado]

This is my take of the video


totheark is watching tim from outside of his window and zooms in

tim is upset, contemplates taking the pills, and then does it

he sees totheark, totheark zooms out and runs away



what i got out of it is that the pills are what turns tim into masky, not prevents him from becoming him. perhaps his prescribing doctor is involved in some operator business in some way?

edit: wow, the last post before this one is literally the same theory. nice job.

[Lithp]

That, in general, sounds a little cliche, but there are some things in it that strike a chord.

IIRC, Masky once went somewhere, & it was implied to be to retrieve the pills.

But what pills could you handwave to be the cause of an alter-ego?

I'm just spitballing ideas here, but suppose whatever Tim has isn't legal. Suppose they're some kind of hallucinogen, or something similar, which causes a break in the perception of reality. Suppose this somehow protects you from The Operator.

[Kilo]

[aidansean]

Based on recent entries I'm inclined to think that Tim suffers from some form of schizophrenia. By this I do not mean dual personality, I mean altered perception of reality, often manifesting in paranoia. For some people with schizophrenia they have a lot of trouble trusting people and they often have a lot of trouble trusting doctors and their motives for medication.

This could explain why Tim is so angry at Jay in Entry #60 and refuses to to listen to him properly, let alone trust him. It could also explain his reluctance to take the pills, since logically he knows they will help, but he can't shake off the feeling that they have been prescribed for some other reason (ie to control him in some respect.) Now add to this the memory lapses that happen around the operator and what would otherwise be a manageable mental illness becomes unmanageable and starts to have major effects on Tim's personal and professional lives. Given that the symptoms associate with schizophrenia can include hallucinations it's very likely that any talk of the operator to medical staff would be ignored as a side effect of the condition, and even close family members/friends would not take him seriously.

There would be some trace of this in the medical notes, right? "Possible disorder" is written on the admission form. On the "Fall risk assessment" they list "hallucinations". This is brought up again in the "Suicide/self-harm assessment tool".

[Lithp]

I like that the theory is in accordance with modern medicine, but none of those can't be attributed to The Operator.

[aidansean]

[Boreamor]

I love it when theories are formed without any evidence.

TTA is watching Tim through a window.
Tim is upset/anxious.
Tim takes pills.

Now this is where the bullshit is beginning to form. "Turns him into Masky". "Prevents him from turning into Masky".

They could just be paracetamol. They could be anti-depressants. Anti-anxiety. But I don't think they make an "anti-masky" pill.

[azureillusions]

[Flame Reaper 734]

Wow, I really like the anticonvulsants idea. I think it makes more sense than the split personality idea, since it removes the need for an explanation of why Timasky acts the way he does.

On another note, I think that Jay being part of TTA is a bit silly, and that it's more logical for the Twitter account to have been hacked by TTA. I also think that by this point, Jay has been locked out completely.

[Stevie D]

[Kilo]

[Starkley]

Until I see evidence that Masky was around before Jay uploaded Entry #1, I don't really see how the pills could have something to do with Tim becoming Masky. Anticonvulsants, sure. Cough medicine, sure.

Jay has trances and stuff too, and they haven't always had anything to do with pills, because that would make his trance from enttry #37 and his trance from #19 contradictory (one possibly with pills, one without).

Also, wouldn't that be HORRIBLY convenient? Hoody stops stalking Jay and starts stalking Tim just in time to see Tim take some Masky-related pills?

Tim's always coughing, Tim's always taking pills, Tim has a medical history. I guess they could just as easily be antipsychotics.

Also, Totheark doesn't always have great meaningful reasons for the things he does. Sometimes he just wants people to know they're being watched. Like in "Exit," "Addition," and even in that photo he left for Jay. Really, what does taking that picture show except that Totheark is WATCHING?

This could just as easily be the same thing. It wouldn't be that unusual. The video is called "obvservation," after all.

[BlankSlate]

What if Tim thinks it was Jay outside of his window? And comes to kick his ass?

[pravado]

[Starkley]

Can someone explain to me the reasoning of why Tim would need pills to put on a mask? He doesn't get superpowers or anything. Except maybe ninja stealth.

I mean, the pills are a manmade thing. It's likely that at least some of Tim's mental handicaps are Operatorelated...so I don't see how the pills could, in any reasonable belief, exacerbate or alleviate them.

I get the whole "they could alleviate Operatorelated effects" thing but Hoody isn't really afraid to walk around places where TO is, and the pills weren't really helping Tim out with any of the other physical effects TO was causing. And apparently Tim still lost his memory after #33 (apparently, okay). Don't see why he wouldn't have had his pills anymore.

Even if Hoody was taking pills too, wouldn't he need a prescription for that kind of medicine? (Don't know)