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Mithost
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 		Yeah it would absolutely be the worst writing decision of the series to give Slendy any background info. Mysteriousness is *precisely* what makes him frightening. No one knows what happens, and it's much more terrifying that way. There is nothing that can be written that could possibly be as terrifying as not knowing.

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Mithost wrote:
Yeah it would absolutely be the worst writing decision of the series to give Slendy any background info. Mysteriousness is *precisely* what makes him frightening. No one knows what happens, and it's much more terrifying that way. There is nothing that can be written that could possibly be as terrifying as not knowing.


Well, thats the mantra isn't it? Of every single human vs alien/monster/supernatural being/new species whatever. "Humans fear what they do not understand".

And it really rings true.

What is particularly telling is that Slendy is so scary and yet, well, what the hell does he do? In the MH Universe, he lurks - thats it. Hes never physically harmed anyone (except maybe Alex with the bleeding head, but we aren't sure), he barely makes sound, barely seen moving (except teleporting and the 2 episodes where he is stalking Alex).

You're right, we know so little about the MH Slendy, yet hes so terrifying!

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Mithost wrote:
Yeah it would absolutely be the worst writing decision of the series to give Slendy any background info. Mysteriousness is *precisely* what makes him frightening. No one knows what happens, and it's much more terrifying that way. There is nothing that can be written that could possibly be as terrifying as not knowing.


This is exactly why I hate M Night Shamalamadingdong movies. Such great buildup then epic failure (save for 6th Sense, though it was predictable).

He would probably end Marble Hornets by J killing Slenderman come to find out he was a severely deformed person who was beloved to the whole town, he's just shy around new people which is why he stalked Alex and J. Alex was actually institutionalized from ages 12-19 until he escaped and snuck into film school until he was caught. He became totheark to warn J not to get involved because he still believed SM was a horrific monster. He wouldn't explain the rest.

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 		I think you'll find, in the Shyamalan re-imagining of Marble Hornets, that Slenderman was the plants all along, only they were dead and really in the future. Also water, and other Shyamalan twists I can't remember.

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Mithost wrote:
I think you'll find, in the Shyamalan re-imagining of Marble Hornets, that Slenderman was the plants all along, only they were dead and really in the future. Also water, and other Shyamalan twists I can't remember.


And it was Alex who was J's nemesis all along, even though Alex told him about everything in the first place.
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 		Could Jay possibly be hiding with his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air...?

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 		way to go off topic gents

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 		A. That's allowed to happen on April Fool's.

B. I think this is the kind of thinking we need to be doing. For all we know, Jay COULD be his own brother. And Alex could be Slenderman, and actually from Neptune.

Maybe what Jay needs is a ray gun Foily! .

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 		Now that it isn't April Fool's day, can I throw something at the wall here and see if it sticks?

*disclaimer about late-comer ARG player's theories*
*honest claim to have read the entire wiki*

It's generally accepted that Masky = Tim or Masky = TTA. However... wouldn't it make a ton more sense if ToTheArk was actually the Slender Man?

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Slayer_22 to totheark on August 6, 2009

Hey, I was wondering since you seem to be a pretty nice person with answers, I was wondering if you could tell me another thing.

You seem to have audio for something. You are showing videos of audio that seem to fit with the videos. If you have the audio, you must have been the one taking them from the videos, No?

totheark to Slayer_22 on August 6, 2009

youare halfright


What if the audio was taken out by the Slender Man himself? He was IN those videos, he could've just played back what he stole. He's proven he has some sort of power with electronics, video, etc...

If we are to assume that TTA has tried to lure J to the House, hint J that Masky is Tim and show J what Masky did to him, and then admitted he wanted something from J and that it isn't a game, why doesn't that scream Slender Man to everyone?

I keep reading posts where folks say that Masky is violent, but the Slender Man hasn't REALLY been anything but creepy so far. Maybe it's because he was toying with J, hoping to be led to the ark. Since J hasn't cooperated, he's forcing J to action.

Maybe Tim has learned the secrets, and is trying to keep J from revealing it to Slender Man, and J is caught in a battle between the two.

Anyway, I sure you folks have a list of reasons why this can't work, and I'd like to hear them. Unless you see some merit, then let me know.

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Mithost wrote:
A. That's allowed to happen on April Fool's.



my bad. Australias a day ahead so it had already finished for me

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DarkProject wrote:
Now that it isn't April Fool's day, can I throw something at the wall here and see if it sticks?

*disclaimer about late-comer ARG player's theories*
*honest claim to have read the entire wiki*

It's generally accepted that Masky = Tim or Masky = TTA. However... wouldn't it make a ton more sense if ToTheArk was actually the Slender Man?

Quote:
Slayer_22 to totheark on August 6, 2009

Hey, I was wondering since you seem to be a pretty nice person with answers, I was wondering if you could tell me another thing.

You seem to have audio for something. You are showing videos of audio that seem to fit with the videos. If you have the audio, you must have been the one taking them from the videos, No?

totheark to Slayer_22 on August 6, 2009

youare halfright


What if the audio was taken out by the Slender Man himself? He was IN those videos, he could've just played back what he stole. He's proven he has some sort of power with electronics, video, etc...

If we are to assume that TTA has tried to lure J to the House, hint J that Masky is Tim and show J what Masky did to him, and then admitted he wanted something from J and that it isn't a game, why doesn't that scream Slender Man to everyone?

I keep reading posts where folks say that Masky is violent, but the Slender Man hasn't REALLY been anything but creepy so far. Maybe it's because he was toying with J, hoping to be led to the ark. Since J hasn't cooperated, he's forcing J to action.

Maybe Tim has learned the secrets, and is trying to keep J from revealing it to Slender Man, and J is caught in a battle between the two.

Anyway, I sure you folks have a list of reasons why this can't work, and I'd like to hear them. Unless you see some merit, then let me know.


Trying to think of reasons as to why this idea blows, but I'm not coming up with anything off the top of my head. What I can think of is that Masky appears to have access to Jay's place, for whatever reason. There is nothing saying that he couldn't have had access for longer than we have been given reason to believe: Masky could have had access to Jay's tape pile, rooted through them, and edited/copied them as he pleased before Jay rediscovered them.

We HAVE heard echoed noises in #23 where Jay says 'Hello?' and it is played back a couple of times. The same thing happened in Addition, where we hear 'Alex, Brian' repeated over and over but slowed down quite a bit. Since it's the same deal, TTA could be Slender Man...

In his interview with Jay, Tim doesn't seem to be all that proficient of an actor. He was just hired by Alex because they shared a mutual friend, so it COULD be that he doesn't know as much about theater crap as we've been saying? On the other hand, Slender Man's been around for a long time. If Slendy is TTA, that could explain where the old timey music and video footage is coming from.

Somebody else is holding the camera in Return, suggesting that if Slendy is TTA, he has a helper. If Masky is not TTA, then that may suggest that Masky is working for TTA in order to have that video created. At the moment I think that Return is probably our strongest evidence that TTA =/= Slender Man, but that Masky is TTA, and has been trying to give hints and warnings as to how to recognize Slender Man, and provocation for Jay to meet Slender Man face to face. (To which he was successful, as #23 rolled around!)

I wouldn't discount that the Slender Man is seeking some secret that he suspected Jay possessed; if he were looking for such a thing, it might explain why Jay has not been killed or made to disappear. Maybe Masky was maneuvering Jay into meeting Slendy so that Slendy could try to pick the secrets out of his mind? (Jay did wake up after #23 feeling roughly like snot in a used bubblegum wrapper, if I recall correctly. Razz Could be signs of a brain-picking!)

It could be that both Slendy and Masky are looking for the ark, either together or separately. I don't think that TTA is Slendy himself. It could be that Masky worked for him at one point and is now separated for whatever reason.

Time will tell, I hope!

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Dray wrote:

In his interview with Jay, Tim doesn't seem to be all that proficient of an actor.


Unless that was an act! Surprised

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DarkProject wrote:
wouldn't it make a ton more sense if ToTheArk was actually the Slender Man?


I cant actually think of a reason why this HAS to be wrong. But, just picture the image of slendy sitting at a PC uploading videos to youtube . Personally I cant see it.

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CatasTrope wrote:
DarkProject wrote:
wouldn't it make a ton more sense if ToTheArk was actually the Slender Man?


I cant actually think of a reason why this HAS to be wrong. But, just picture the image of slendy sitting at a PC uploading videos to youtube . Personally I cant see it.


This is my main reason for thinking that Slendy is a third (fourth?!) party. He can make electronic equipment fizzle and futz up. I can't even see him having the ability to make content appear on the internet in a supernatural fashion. They'd need to have youtube look glitchy as well if that was the case. Razz Interference style.

I dunno about Tim... if he is totheark and totheark as as fucked up as he's acting in videos, I guess that he's not a half bad actor, or at least he has a pretty awesome poker face.

Bringing it back to #25, I can actually see TTA being the one responsible for the burning moreso than the Slender Man. TTA has access to the information surrounding Slendy's past. He knows that in the mythos of Slendy we have fires and firestarting. The way that Tim had been acting in the interview, it seems possible that TTA blew his top after repressing tendencies towards craziness. There has been three (and a half!) years between the original MH tapes and now. That's a lot of time to put up with Slendy circumstances! If he's pissed enough at Jay (and it did seem like TTA's sole pleasantness in life revolved around yanking Jay's chain XD) then it doesn't take much to leap to firebug tendencies.

Slendy's still a great candidate, and we have the visual tear in #25 to suggest that he was THERE (as well as the fact that they think the fire started on the third floor)... but I can still see TTA spreading the kerosene. XD

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 		What if, not trying to sound too stupid, slenderman is totheark and can download the videos from his body into the wires or hard drive or whatever on the computer possibly through his tentacles, if he has them in this. I just think this could be a possibility.

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