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sgt lonestar 91
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mokie wrote:
Antifringe wrote:
Except that now they basically did just that Sad. He's the ghost of a murderer, or a child rapist, or perhaps a murdering child rapist that got tied to a magic tree :/


Or the thing that preyed on people left out to die. Or a folkloric attempt to explain away uncomfortable events, the way Hansel & Gretel supposedly came from infanticide during the Great Famine, and child-eating witch Baba Yaga's house from food storage sheds that stood on stilts in hopes winter predators wouldn't raid them.

(In case it's not obvious, I'm hoping against an obvious Freddy reveal...)

I agree with this. Slendy didn't have to be human he could have been in that area preying on the people in the trees then one day a child enters his part of the woods. Slendy does what he does to children and the villagers decide to stop hanging people up so that slenderman will move on. Alex might have spent the past couple year just tracking Slendy's trail through history and was just showing Jay that he had been in this area before.

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iFaux
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Spritey 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

This kind of takes away some of the mystery. But so much people were constantly complaining about how MH is getting nowhere, etc..

Also, maybe this place is The Ark? Or somewhere around this area?


I liked the idea that Slendy was a demon, or some other kind of nonhuman being from a completely separate reality. If he was human at some point, that makes it a lot less creepy.

It does make some sense though. Remember how crazy that distortion got in one of the early entries when Alex said "fire department"?


I was a fan of the nonhuman being from a completely separate reality and something along the lines of him being curious and observing (and occasionally when provoked, attacking). But how the hell would they explain that?! How would they integrate that into the story & why would Alex or Jay or Tim or Brian or *anyone* know? And for the people who don't like it, it's pretty much our fault. We pushed them into an explanation with all of the complaints that the story is going nowhere..

Ah well, MH is still rocking my socks.

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 		I really want to see what Alex wanted to show Jay...

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onetruepurple wrote:
- So where are we going?

- (silence)

- Alex, where--

- The ark.

It may not be the ark they're going to in this entry, but you got the "following Alex into the middle of the woods creepily" bit right. I actually got chill bumps while watching the entry because I remembered this post in the April 4th thread. Good prediction skills, my friend.
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 		I'm thinking of it more along the lines that...

1) Slender Man was attracted to the decades of murder and torture, and the kid lost was due to his usual shenanigans.

2) Slender Man is a conglomeration of the hatred and torture of the murderous souls left there, and the dreams of vengeance towards the possible innocents.

Either way. Remember, Slendy is the Operator. And, in Totheark's own words "operator belongs to others".

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 		My own take on it is that the trees in the area grew fast enough for the locals to invent myths about it, but not tree-boner fast.

As far as the stretching thing, I think that's just a flub on the writers' part. Someone who died of dehydration while chained to a tree probably would kind of stretched out, but that's because they got thinner, not longer.

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 		Soooo recalling earlier entries; remember the painting in Entry #20? It was of a burning forest.


This is also me being a derp, but the stretching out of criminals' bodies is... very similar to The Enigma of Amigara Fault. The criminals were tried and the worst conviction was being sent into one of the carved tunnels that slowly stretched out the individual's body until they no longer looked human.

Just sayin'. It's the first thing I think of when I imagine stretched out humans.
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sgt lonestar 91
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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.

I agree people are jumping to quickly to the idea that Slendy had to have been human there are alot of ways to look at the story Alex told.

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awakeasaurusrex wrote:
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.


Wicker Man! The criminals were brought to be tried before God. Nobody said it was the Christian God. Twisted Evil

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sgt lonestar 91 wrote:
mokie wrote:
Antifringe wrote:
Except that now they basically did just that Sad. He's the ghost of a murderer, or a child rapist, or perhaps a murdering child rapist that got tied to a magic tree :/


Or the thing that preyed on people left out to die. Or a folkloric attempt to explain away uncomfortable events, the way Hansel & Gretel supposedly came from infanticide during the Great Famine, and child-eating witch Baba Yaga's house from food storage sheds that stood on stilts in hopes winter predators wouldn't raid them.

(In case it's not obvious, I'm hoping against an obvious Freddy reveal...)

I agree with this. Slendy didn't have to be human he could have been in that area preying on the people in the trees then one day a child enters his part of the woods. Slendy does what he does to children and the villagers decide to stop hanging people up so that slenderman will move on. Alex might have spent the past couple year just tracking Slendy's trail through history and was just showing Jay that he had been in this area before.


Can we go with this? I like this. Alex wandered into the territory where Seņior Operator enjoyed preying on things and this kinda pissed him off.

REVELATION! THIS ACTUALLY WORKS OUT WITH THE "DEAD ANIMALS" ON ALEX'S LAWN DAAAAAYUM. While Seņior Operator was stalkin' Alex, he obviously needed to feed on something so he nommed on the local pets and left them on Alex's lawn.

Definitely agreed, we jumped to conclusions way to fast. That God they're sacrificing to might just be the nonhuman entity we've been dying to see.

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 		Anyone recall a date from the 1800s in the date flash in enttry 37?

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 		maybe Alex got so confident after the Timasky incident that he decided to go smash SlenderLeg using any convenient rocks. Really, the system is simple:
1)Lure Jay in
2)Use him as a human sheild as he blunders in before you with a camera
3)The Slenderman, not wanting to ruin such a good film of his charming looks, runs past him
4)Hogtie and smash.

but never forget the step ###) which is: have him look at you and then appear inexplicably with your internal organs suspended by a 50-foot branch.

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 		It's funny how people didn't seem to question when doors acted like space-jumping wormholes, but now they're like, "Trees stretched people out? That can't happen!"

What's happening is some creepy **** is going on. Some creepy **** going on is what's happening.

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Zaden wrote:
It's funny how people didn't seem to question when doors acted like space-jumping wormholes, but now they're like, "Trees stretched people out? That can't happen!"

What's happening is some creepy **** is going on. Some creepy **** going on is what's happening.


physics and reality? meh

Botany though...thats just too close to home Wink

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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. My instant impression, too.

If it turns out to be true, I'll probably never sleep again.
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