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Cheshire01
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The first thing I though of was a Slender Pikachu, which would be hilarious fanart.

On a more serious (if you can call any of this serious) note, I see less distortion on the film when SM is actually seen. It's almost as if he doesn't move around in a solid form (why he moved to fast in entry 10), so he's just electromagnetic particles floating through the air unless he wants to be seen. Being spread out like that could affect any equipment in the area.

When he wants to be seen, he could pull himself into a solid form, only affecting equipment if very close to it. This is the only thing I can think of to explain Entry 14, which has been bothering me since I first saw it.

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The Rogue Wolf wrote:
there is a distinct screen-tear effect, and his nearby presence tends to cause a soft, repetitive hollow sound.


Oh wow, I hadn't noticed that, either!

That is even more hair-raising to me... it reminds me distinctly of cats who sit at windows and make that strange chirpy noise when regarding birds or squirrels. Sort of an unconscious hunting noise, trying to blend in. 'knock knock' like he's heard people knocking to be let in... the suit because he's seen people pass unnoticed. Bleargh, bringing the creepy back.

I like the idea of him quieting himself when he's actively paying attention to it. It had occurred to me also that Slendy might not necessarily be a solid-formed monster in so much as he's a projection that's been made solid, or that can make himself solid. If he's coalescing from some electrical state I suppose it'd make sense that there would be a tearing effect (god I have no idea really, but it sounds neat from a narrative standpoint!)

Back to the water for a moment: it seems that Tim's shadow stops getting interference-y after he sips from his bottle. Maybe he's flushing Slendy out after all?

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there might be something to this theory
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So it seems that the theory at hand is that Slend-dog is a paranormal entity who can teleport and control how he himself looks, with the exception of his face. It makes sense that he would have SOME sort of weakness, so the water would seem to act as a sort power reducing effect. On the other hand, there is also the argument that water strengthens Slendy, so I think we should decide which the more likely possibility is. As Dray mentioned, Tim did take a swig of water before the screen finally shit itself, it could very well be Slendy getting pissed off at the fact that water is present. Or it could just be a coincidence. On a side note, I'm not sure if anyone has brought it up before but has anyone considered the shell casing found in Brian's house could be a remnant from an act of suicide? It would be plausible that Brian had his own mindfuck torture going on and decided to end it, which would also explain all the blood. Hell, if Alex is Masky then seeing Brian's dead body might have just provided that emotional trigger to make him snap. So he got rid of it, explaining why Brian is missing, and decided to take matters into his own, skinny, grimy little adorable psychopathic hands. Of course, just a theory.
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Maybe he can travel through electricity (his means of teleportation), but he's already shown to not be reliant on it. He was moving on his own in #6 at Alex's window and he was no where near electricity in his couple of appearances in the middle of the woods. However, there does seem to be a bit of a correlation between Slendy and electricity.

Maybe his strength grows around electricity at least. Maybe there's something in that basement (like a circuit breaker, transformer, or something similar to producing or controlling a large amount of electricity) that's caused both Alex and J to have incredibly paranormal experiences down there with Slendy (he was mostly not present outside of being down there). So maybe it at least gives something else to look for...

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A water bottle was found in the infamous closet, which I always thought was the last holdout of someone. Perhaps I'm wrong but wasn't there some footage of Pearl Harbor in a TTA video? (too late to check myself) Conflict/destruction/war on water...

With the bullet casing, I think the fact that there was one points to a suicide shot. If someone really wanted to take a shot at SM they'd unload a whole clip (while yelling "aaaaagggghhhh") But I think the blood in the sink could be any number of things.

Nagging thought, probably nothing, but could Tim's shadow been edited back into the video and that's why it's all screwy. The water ending this could debunk this right away, but with TTA having audio and all sorts of missing pieces, I think it would be safe to assume that they've been tampered with before...

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Pactin wrote:
What seems funny to me is Tim's shadow, to our (the viewers') left. At about 0:23 Tim is leaning close enough against the wall to which his shadow is seen. What's awkward is that the "head part" of his shadow is all distorted. This doesn't seem like a function of the window/trees behind him because whenever his elbow or body get close enough to emit that same shade of darkness, no fuzziness is seen.

That fuzziness looks to persist until about 0:52. Again, I'm hoping this hasn't been said before and has some significance. Go easy on my noobish detective work.


Isn't that the same type of distortion effect used in Exit? Seems heavy on darkened areas.

Also, regarding electricity. The lights in the house doesn't work at the time of J's first visit (I dont remember him ever trying them in #23), yet in Return they are flickering like mad (assuming this takes place in the house). Someone could have tampered with the fuses, to keep a certain other one out.

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Perhaps Slendies, and by extension Masky(For surely he has somehow gain access to some of Mr. Thins powers), use electric fields to manipulate space time, ALA Philadelphia Experiment. That's why in Cities, etc, he just doesn't warp in and suck out your......whatever he takes out. However, in the forest, his abilities are at their strongest, and it takes less power for him to warp things. That's why the tapes are less messed up.

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Yeah, I agree that the electrical currents are being used to manipulate space/time like the lightning bolt in Back to the Future.

Also, this debate is going on in two places at once. It should be in the game discussion thread.

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That's actually the first impression that I got from #16 as well. 'Pill overdose, shot to the head, cutting wrists over sink' but my thought was more that they had tried all of these things and none of them had worked. XD

Of course, the 'pill overdose' is debunked by Tim taking them regularly and us seeing them again in #23. The 'wrist-cutting' blood stains could also have been explained by Alex's head-wound: perhaps he'd had another one? The bullet casing is still a mystery though. Speaking of blood stains, there wasn't enough in that sink to explain a gunshot wound, nor do I think we see anywhere in the house that has any bloody looking mess. In Slendy's domain we see two separate instances of splatters of blood though... perhaps Brian befell a bad end earlier on in the story's chronology (hence why it was dry?) and Alex, wanting to have some reminder, kept the bullet casing? I'm just thinking that whatever happened to Brian probably happened in Slenderland, not in his own house. It could also explain why Alex makes the move from his own house to stay predominantly in Brian's over the course of filming himself.

But yeah, knowing that your best bud got the chop would probably do a lot to push you from the realm of cantankerous and paranoid to outright crazy.

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A water bottle was found in the infamous closet, which I always thought was the last holdout of someone. Perhaps I'm wrong but wasn't there some footage of Pearl Harbor in a TTA video? (too late to check myself) Conflict/destruction/war on water...


To me the closet seemed less like a last stand and more like a surveillance outpost or a hunting screen. Slendy might not know that you're in there but you sure as hell are going to be aware of him. (Reminds me of, as a kid, going to hide in a smaller place when I was very scared of something in the dark. You could hear everything but no monster would know where you were! XD) In any case, the footage you're looking for is in Messages. I'm fairly certain that the overlay of the face that we see is also Tim's so... yeah, just one more point in the favor of him being a significant player. XD

It's probably less that water itself is the problem, but water combined with whatever drugs Tim is taking are beneficial somehow to survival? Now I'm reaching...

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The water ending this could debunk this right away, but with TTA having audio and all sorts of missing pieces, I think it would be safe to assume that they've been tampered with before...


Mmm, if it was edited it would only have been to give Jay (and us Razz) a clue that Tim is important and that we should be watching him more closely. I don't see why else TTA would have edited that shadow in unless he also edited in the distortion in #20. :\

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Also, regarding electricity. The lights in the house doesn't work at the time of J's first visit (I dont remember him ever trying them in #23), yet in Return they are flickering like mad (assuming this takes place in the house). Someone could have tampered with the fuses, to keep a certain other one out.


Hah! Flicking the lights on and off is a sort of dog-whistle to Slendy? XD It would make more sense that the breaker'd have been thrown while Jay was around if they wanted to assess him without him getting caught up by Slendy. Makes me wonder though why in #23 there wouldn't have been some more indication of electricity before Jay gets thrown down the rabbit hole to Slenderland. D:

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Dray wrote:
Dotman and Kjax wrote:
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That's actually the first impression that I got from #16 as well. 'Pill overdose, shot to the head, cutting wrists over sink' but my thought was more that they had tried all of these things and none of them had worked. XD

Of course, the 'pill overdose' is debunked by Tim taking them regularly and us seeing them again in #23. The 'wrist-cutting' blood stains could also have been explained by Alex's head-wound: perhaps he'd had another one? The bullet casing is still a mystery though. Speaking of blood stains, there wasn't enough in that sink to explain a gunshot wound, nor do I think we see anywhere in the house that has any bloody looking mess. In Slendy's domain we see two separate instances of splatters of blood though... perhaps Brian befell a bad end earlier on in the story's chronology (hence why it was dry?) and Alex, wanting to have some reminder, kept the bullet casing? I'm just thinking that whatever happened to Brian probably happened in Slenderland, not in his own house. It could also explain why Alex makes the move from his own house to stay predominantly in Brian's over the course of filming himself.

But yeah, knowing that your best bud got the chop would probably do a lot to push you from the realm of cantankerous and paranoid to outright crazy.

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A water bottle was found in the infamous closet, which I always thought was the last holdout of someone. Perhaps I'm wrong but wasn't there some footage of Pearl Harbor in a TTA video? (too late to check myself) Conflict/destruction/war on water...


To me the closet seemed less like a last stand and more like a surveillance outpost or a hunting screen. Slendy might not know that you're in there but you sure as hell are going to be aware of him. (Reminds me of, as a kid, going to hide in a smaller place when I was very scared of something in the dark. You could hear everything but no monster would know where you were! XD) In any case, the footage you're looking for is in Messages. I'm fairly certain that the overlay of the face that we see is also Tim's so... yeah, just one more point in the favor of him being a significant player. XD

It's probably less that water itself is the problem, but water combined with whatever drugs Tim is taking are beneficial somehow to survival? Now I'm reaching...

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The water ending this could debunk this right away, but with TTA having audio and all sorts of missing pieces, I think it would be safe to assume that they've been tampered with before...


Mmm, if it was edited it would only have been to give Jay (and us Razz) a clue that Tim is important and that we should be watching him more closely. I don't see why else TTA would have edited that shadow in unless he also edited in the distortion in #20. :\

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Also, regarding electricity. The lights in the house doesn't work at the time of J's first visit (I dont remember him ever trying them in #23), yet in Return they are flickering like mad (assuming this takes place in the house). Someone could have tampered with the fuses, to keep a certain other one out.


Hah! Flicking the lights on and off is a sort of dog-whistle to Slendy? XD It would make more sense that the breaker'd have been thrown while Jay was around if they wanted to assess him without him getting caught up by Slendy. Makes me wonder though why in #23 there wouldn't have been some more indication of electricity before Jay gets thrown down the rabbit hole to Slenderland. D:


because slenderman messes with the lights. who says slenderman was in 23 for sure? Wink eeeeeeeerrrieee!!!!

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What, the giant nodding head at the end and the numerous squiggly sightings of him in the 'basement' weren't indication enough? XD I can't see TTA subbing in footage there. Though... lol, if that was the case, that would be a pretty effing mean joke to play on Jay. "Yeah, you TOOOtally ran into Slendy! Heh... heh heh. Sleep well now, sugarplum!"

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ptlundholm wrote:
Isn't that the same type of distortion effect used in Exit? Seems heavy on darkened areas.


It's similar, but Exit is a lot more extreme. I'm not sure they have anything to do with each other, though.


Has anyone mentioned that the blood on the walls in Slenderland might be from the same person as the blood in the sink? It could even be from the same injury.

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Hm, I noticed the shadow thing, too. I didn't think to look if anyone or anything else's shadow was doing that, though. I assumed it was Slenderman screwing with the tapes.

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Just seems so weird that Masky only pops up three years later when Jay gets into investigating things.


Maybe the interview in #15 triggered it? :S

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