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MorbidPuppies
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shadowstalker wrote:
Perhaps slendy was the one doing the stretching? I find it hard to believe that trees would grow quick enough to stretch the criminals. Maybe slendy killed the criminals.


The thing to take from this entry isn't the magic growing trees, Alex said right after the stretching theory that all of them died because they weren't fed or given water, not due to being stretched, the stretching is more or less a red haring to make you think one of the criminals is The Operator.

The true point is how once again the MH series is starting to integrate into some of the original mythos into the videos, first by having Jessica say she was having dreams of being stalked as a child, next showing Alex as a child in a video on Jay's channel that he cannot explain, and now, the whole kid being torn to pieces by something in the forest.

And also to make all just a little bit more suspicious of whats up with Alex.

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Boreamor wrote:
Alex is clearly wearing contact lenses because you can't wear the mask with glasses.

...what?

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Zarggg wrote:
Boreamor wrote:
Alex is clearly wearing contact lenses because you can't wear the mask with glasses.

...what?


Oh god we're not going to get on another Jessica=Tim topic are we?
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Zarggg wrote:
Boreamor wrote:
Alex is clearly wearing contact lenses because you can't wear the mask with glasses.

...what?


It was a joke about Alex being a Masky. Everyone was making such a big deal about Alex not wearing glasses as if it were some huge plot twist.

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Boreamor wrote:
Zarggg wrote:
Boreamor wrote:
Alex is clearly wearing contact lenses because you can't wear the mask with glasses.

...what?


It was a joke about Alex being a Masky. Everyone was making such a big deal about Alex not wearing glasses as if it were some huge plot twist.


We shouldn't rule out the possibility that the glasses are important, but it just seems like he forgot them in the car or something.
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 		I think a large part of the story may be coincidence. By this I mean:

1. The people put the criminals on trial before God, but were not aware of The Operator. God is the Judeo-Christian God you'd expect 19th century Americans to worship.

2. The trees grew unnaturally fast because it was Slendy's domain, or perhaps it was his domain because he liked a place where trees grow fast. Either way, it was coincidental as far as the punishment went and there was no intentional growing of the trees to stretch the people.

3. The child murder was unrelated. The Operator didn't pay attention to the already dying criminals (why bother?) and in non-MH media he's been shown to have a fondness for killing kids. It's simply that no kids had ever wandered into the forest before, and he happened to be around. The villagers took it as a message to stop what they were doing, or that they created something bad, or whatever, when really it was just the fact that any kid that goes in there is screwed regardless of whether they did that stuff or not.

4. His form is coincidentally that of a tall faceless man with a suit, he's not intentionally doing anything as far as appearance, he just HAPPENS to look like a man in a suit.

Though now that I think about it, The Operator could have just been getting back at them for burning his goddamn trees. Possibly even taking the form of what they were intending to do with the criminals to screw with them.

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 		I like the idea that that the death, hate and revenge created Slender Man in the image of the dying criminals. Funeral suits, burnt off face and stretched and disfigured. And the only thing keeping him at bay was the sacrifices. But the peasants didn't know that it was sacrifices that kept it at bay, and the kid was murdered by someone that wasn't Slender Man. And due to the disappearance the punishments stopped, thus so did the sacrifices. This angered Slender Man to going around stalking and killing kids.

And I think Alex may have been the Kid that got away. Thus Slender Man is especially angry at Alex and anyone who knows him.

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awakeasaurusrex wrote:
iFaux wrote:
So basically, the Operator is

a) a criminal from the 1800s who was stretched out via some sort of torture method involving trees, who was then burned (getting rid of his face) who lived forever and ever

b) a ghost of the above

There's a third option that pretty much everyone who's bitching about the Operator's origins being demystified is missing:

c) the entity that caused the trees that grow so fast. The villagers thought that the killings of these criminals were in honour of God. Not so. The sacrifices were for the sake of someone far worse. The tree method may have been ineffectual at stretching the victims out into the image of the Operator, but the intention was there. And watching them starve was delicious enough... at least, until the Operator had built up enough strength that it didn't need to wait for them to bring it sacrifices any more.


This was my first thought as well.

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Boreamor wrote:
I like the idea that that the death, hate and revenge created Slender Man in the image of the dying criminals. Funeral suits, burnt off face and stretched and disfigured. And the only thing keeping him at bay was the sacrifices. But the peasants didn't know that it was sacrifices that kept it at bay, and the kid was murdered by someone that wasn't Slender Man. And due to the disappearance the punishments stopped, thus so did the sacrifices. This angered Slender Man to going around stalking and killing kids.

And I think Alex may have been the Kid that got away. Thus Slender Man is especially angry at Alex and anyone who knows him.


Considering that 19th century = 1800's, I would have to disagree with you. There were no suits like what Slenderman wears in that time period.

I kind of like the idea that he was the reason the trees grew so quickly, and the villagers mistook him for a god and dedicated a pagan religion to him.

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eunsook wrote:


Considering that 19th century = 1800's, I would have to disagree with you. There were no suits like what Slenderman wears in that time period.



You are incorrect. Slendy wears a very basic black suit, easily available in the 19th century.

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all2human wrote:
eunsook wrote:


Considering that 19th century = 1800's, I would have to disagree with you. There were no suits like what Slenderman wears in that time period.



You are incorrect. Slendy wears a very basic black suit, easily available in the 19th century.


Oh. Sorry, my mistake.

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 		Was I the only one expecting to see Selndy peaking out from behind a tree every time Jay looked back behind him with the camera, heck it almost seemed like Jay was expecting it.

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ultrassjstuart wrote:
Was I the only one expecting to see Selndy peaking out from behind a tree every time Jay looked back behind him with the camera, heck it almost seemed like Jay was expecting it.


Hehe, I think everyone was. The paranoia is a side effect of watching marblehornets. Heck, slenderman might have been there the whole time when Alex was asking J to "come here" like a rapist.

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 		I'm not so convinced J didn't post enttry 37...he showed severe signs of slender sicknessthen enttry 37 appears and then he mysteriously shows up at the red tower only to make it back and post 38.
and yeah the operator needs to make a very scary appearance soon

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all2human wrote:
You are incorrect. Slendy wears a very basic black suit, easily available in the 19th century.



He definitely wears a very 20th century tie though. It was all cravats before about 1924.

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