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Masky and The Ark

[Playmer]

Re: Masky and The Ark

[Eyeball]

Re: Masky and The Ark

[Devon]

Made an account after an extended duration of lurking.

Occum's Razor suggests to me that there is only one Masky, just as there is only one Slenderman. Having four different individuals who all fulfill the same essential purpose seems, to me at least, unnecessarily complex. I think it's much more likely that it's one person with different masks.

As for Tim, I think I'm one of the few who's reluctant to connect him with TTA/Masky. Yes, I know he has the jacket. But really, given his apparent ability to enter J's house without trouble, I don't think he'd have much trouble stealing it in order to frame Tim. While the main MH videos have been very straightforward (and I think it's silly when people go frame by frame looking for any hidden Slenderman appearance) TTA's videos have been extremely difficult to solve, requiring you to dig well below the surface. For that reason, I'm disinclined to trust anything about TTA/Masky that's only superficial. I know this sort of goes against what I said about Occum's Razor earlier, and in all likelihood I think Tim probably is Masky. I just hope he isn't, because that seems way too obvious for the character they've established for him.

I also think that while TTA might not be actively trying to help J, he is working against the Operator. Because, once again, it just doesn't make sense to me otherwise. Why have two antagonist quantities who are both relatively unknown to the protagonist who basically are out to do the same thing and fulfill the same roles? It only makes sense if they have different purposes, or are working against each other. Supporting evidence for this is the number of opportunities Masky has had to seriously harm J, the way he seems to draw the Operator away from J in Return, and the way a lot of people are saying he seems like he is trying to scare J more than attack him in 33.

I saw someone mention once that they thought Masky wore the mask so that the Operator wouldn't be able to find him. Due to the whole theme of facelessness. Which I thought was pretty compelling, even if it's not true.

As for the Ark, my thoughts are directed immediately to Noah's. Some kind of refuge from Slenderman, where Masky does not have to wear the mask constantly in order to be safe. But this I have the least amount of confidence for out of any of my guesses.



That's that basically... tl;dr, Masky is one person, hopefully not Tim, and somewhere between chaotic neutral-good.

[Bingo Zero]

I think it's fairly obvious what the ark is; it's a small mouse whom has fashioned a ping-pong ball into a crash helmet and rides around on a toy motorcycle while making mouth noises of said motorcycle. Obviously.

[DoubleDog]

I'm beginning to think these other masked fellows are pretty much there for no reason. I mean, the only masked dude we ever see in action is Tim. It made me start wondering: If Tim's only really after Jay, what the fuck are those other masked people up to? I know there's that whole "Skully is Jessica's Masky" thing, but I'm not really on board with that. Unless we see the other masked peeps in some later entries, then I'm just gonna pretend they don't exist. :/

[TheBioGuy]

Re: Masky and The Ark

[Leamony]

Hi. I'm pretty sure there are only two masks.

The first two masks in that picture are the same mask. The eyebrows are actually in the same position, and the eyes are painted the same. The top mask only looks different because a combination of the different angles, lighting, and visual distortion. You also see a bit of the guy's neck underneath, which makes the mask look a bit pointier than it is.

I'm actually really familiar with the mask the MH crew used, I use them all the time (and they look like this before you paint them), so I can easily say that they aren't creating masks from scratch. They bought a blank and painted it, and therefore have no control over it's shape. Also I... Wait.

Wait, hold up.

Somebody help me out, I have no idea where the first and third images are from. They seem familiar, but I just can't place their entries... I don't feel right talking about them unless I'm 100% sure where they came from.

[EDIT] Got it, found the entry myself. Entry ######. Didn't think I'd find it so quick.

Yeah, no, they're all the same mask. TheBioGuy gets it.

[TheBioGuy]

Basically, when it comes down to it, the first rule of interpretation is to never present as fact something that your text (in this case a series of videos and tweets) is silent about.

The second rule is to use what your source gives you. We have distinct evidence pointing to Tim as Masky, though no outright logical proof. We have stated opinion from an admittedly unsteady source that Masky is totheark. We also have an image of an artifact that may or may not be a mask with a skull-like face drawn on it that, when put in context, is part of a long string of scenes that are scary and that we have little evidence for their larger scope.

What we should then glean is that while it is likely that Tim=Masky=totheark, it is not 100%. And the weaker bond is Masky=totheark. And that there is a "Skully" artifact, but no more can actually be gleaned reliably from the Entry #26 footage.

What we should not glean is that there are any more Maskys, that any one other person is Masky without some significantly large piece of evidence, or that the "Skully" artifact, which might not be a mask, is anything more than an enigma in a series of enigmas.

In a separate piece of interpretation, the "Slenderflu" disease that several people in the series have displayed symptoms of-

We know the primary symptoms: a harsh cough, headaches, bouts of both fatigue and insomnia, and blanks in memory (though the final symptom may be unrelated). We know some victims of the disease, namely Jay (displayed in multiple videos), Jess (in recent videos starting perhaps as early as Entry #30), and Tim (in entry #20). Possible, though never confirmed, victims in addition to those listed above include Alex, Brian, and, if different than Tim, Masky.

What we should glean is that a certain level of involvement in issues related to the Operator results in a set of symptoms, possibly in only certain individuals. And that this syndrome's symptoms can be defined as above. No more can be reliably gleaned from the text.

What we should not glean is that this disease inevitably leads to the purchase and conversion of a mask. This seems, from evidence presented in the series, to have been one person's action, the cause of which is unknown, and the direct connection of which to the "Slenderflu" is tenuous at best.

Wow. I posted a long wall there. But I'm not going to tl;dr it, because I believe that reading it in full is important.

[lifegospel]

Well, from where I'm sitting, it looks a lot like the "skully" artifact is just a mask painted onto a cloth sack or something.

Just my viewpoint.

[Zarggg]

[Corvus42]

I initially also thought Jessica was a Masky - my belief is that Maskies* are effectivly cultists who serve Slendy The Operator - and she was a plant. However her claiming to be in the same situation as Jay and then dissapearing makes me think its less likely.

It is worth noting she messed up the camera in the same way - though to a lesser extent - that Masky and Operator have.


*I also think Tim is the only Masky we've seen in MH but I kinda like the idea of there being other cultists.

[Zarggg]

Yes, that would be a giant hole in the theory. For some reason, I thought the interviewed Brian.

[Milkdudds92]

[thehatter]

We find out in the newest that Masky is Tim. Alex is with Jay. They detain Tim but he obviously got away if he attacked Jay at the hotel. So where the f*ck did Alex go... AGAIN?

maybe alex is the ark????