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[ectobandit]

Then why would they bother to have a funeral if he didn't really die? To throw Noah and everyone else off track? Why not just say he's gone to a psychiatric ward or something?

[Lewa]

Milo's mom is Milo in disguise.

[ArkyMcArkArk]

[Ol'Slendy]

[ArkyMcArkArk]

[VoidCaste]

just a thought concerning Milo as the observer: the notes, videos etc refer to "you will join us" ...what if this is referring to Milo and his mother? like a group of slender-survivors or something?

might be cool to see a group on the run from the slender man, guerrilla-style!

[Slendery]

[thehatter]

[Bartok]

[kirokokori]

[Rodion Romanovich]

Dead or alive, I think Milo's with Slender Man now. As is Observer. Does that mean that Milo is Observer? Maybe. I think the unknown caller was Milo (at least "Help me" and "I'm sorry"). But I think it's more likely that Observer is more than one person, although Mr. Glasses might be the main one.

So what does Observer want from Noah? He wants Noah to "join them". But why doesn't he just take him? Observer and Slender Man are obviously doing whatever they want with him. They're in his house, in his computer, in his nasal cavity… As for Thanksgiving, it could be just another way to show Noah how completely powerless he is, they can take him anywhere and make him do anything. But still, they can't make him join them. For some reason, they want him to give himself up. Like Milo. He took the pills and it made him feel better.

Observer's attitude towards Noah has always been a bit ambiguous. He's mocked him, taunted him, but also talked about enlightenment, and about souls awakening. He wants Noah to feel helpless and alone, to give up all hope, until he starts asking himself if it might not be better to give in, to surrender, to abdicate, or anything else found in the Observer Thesaurus.

In other words, this is a battle over Noah's free will. Noah is the Winston Smith to Observer's O'Brien/Ministry of Truth, and maybe this will all end with Noah telling us that he loves Slender Man.

Now here's the funny part. I've thought about this for some time, including the connection to 1984. So yesterday I posted a question on Formspring, based on this interpretation, just to see his reaction, and I got this:

[AfterHours]

I'm not going to read through 150 pages, so excuse me if this has been stated before, but Observer = Slendy?

I mean, T12 started the same way as MH (it even had the same white text over black BG at the start), so who's to say "Observer" isn't their term for Slendy, like Operator is in MH? Plus, the drawings in the box coupled with the pictures at the end of the more recent videos seem similar to those in "HELLOTHERE".

[Rodion Romanovich]

[AfterHours]

[NoMoreGaems]

I've come to the conclusion that the Observer is most likely Milo, who in the past five years has faked his death (or was perhaps divorced from his human form and thus appeared dead) and grown a beard. In the Token Letter, he emphasized the letters "M I L O", and the photos with Milo burned out of them make me think he's trying to erase that part of his life, or something. He might be physical, too, as the "FOLLOWING YOU" clip would suggest.

Milo may have been turned or subverted by Slenderman ("hollowed out" to use a phrase from another part of the Slendersphere) and is now helping guide Noah towards whatever terrible destiny awaits him at the boardwalk.