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[Mr_Magpie]

[YamaKami]

^agree

I think that intellectually, I could accept that Alex's split personality is TTA, since I can't think of any hard evidence that would make it absolutely impossible. But I would be extremely disappointed. As far as I can tell, this has been the story of some normal, average, completely unexciting kids who stumbled into a terrifying situation. Giving one of them a split personality to explain this mysterious and sometimes threatening entity would seem like a cop out to me.

My speculation on TTA is that he communicates the way he does due to being completely Slender-mindf*cked, possibly from being taken and held in Slender-captivity. The Operator definitely causes mental disturbances. But would he cause a split personality? I find it a little hard to believe that a person could be crazy Operator-affected some of the time and completely normal the rest of the time. But saying Alex just happened to already have a split personality seems contrived.

BLAH- I just don't know. I would accept a split personality if that turned out to be the case, but it still wouldn't *feel* right. And we'd still need a good explanation for the alternate personality's behavior. Again - just being crazy is kind of a weak answer.

[Biohazard80]

Well now that we are pretty sure TTA lost someone important (well I am at least) that could explain the psychopathic behavior. How would you feel if one of your friends or a family member was taken by some tall guy without a face wearing a suit. The drawings seem quite similar to Alex's drawings but this could just be a symptom of slendy-sickness. Although I'm leaning against it, the videos moods do seem to parallel Alex's (as far as we know anyway) so I wouldn't be shocked if TTA did wind up being Alex's split personality.

[det slanke mannen]

I know exactly what you mean, I'm just trying to think of any possible explanations here. I'm absolutely not sure Alex is TTA, just trying to find reasons how he could be. Since we don't have more than suspicions and speculation going for any of the other possible characters being him, well...
Kind of agree with you on the split personality thing though. kind of a cheap twist if not done right.

[YamaKami]

You're right though, split personality is definitely a possibility, or it could be some other reason we haven't thought of yet. Maybe we'll get evidence in the coming entries that will shed some more light on Alex's or TTA's motivations and state of mind. If it's Alex, I'll accept it and I trust the boys to make it fit. But I'm still hoping it's not. (I also just noticed that Team Brian has a few more members - he's up to 19 votes in the pole! **tiny celebratory dance**)

@Biohazard - That's a good point about grief over losing someone driving a person to insanity. Especially since we know Alex has lost so much, and TTA just indicated that he's lost something too. But Amy disappeared back in April 2010, and TTA didn't become active again until February 2011. (I'm still operating under the assumption that if Alex is TTA, it's only been in season2). It's still possible, but that's quite a long gap between the initial loss and subsequent bowl of crazy.

[Biohazard80]

[dinosauring]

I think that if they did a split personality thing it would be a bit... Easy to fuck up. They could do it wrong so very easily. -shrug-

[Biohazard80]

[dinosauring]

[WhyYouBawwing]

perhaps Totheark is Full Round Action? TTA clearly likes fucking with us

[DHawk314]

[DonMonte]

Ok, this is a legitimate spoiler tag, so if you haven't seen Cloverfield and don't want anything in the movie spoiled, don't read ahead.

[Susil]

Thought regarding the 'TTA is several people' idea:

I re-watched Warning and clocked something I'd not noticed before. It's probably been brought up ages ago - but very near the end, you get the frame saying "regards". There looks to be a second 's' at the end that sort of becomes an underline: "regardss" hardly makes sense, but could this be interpreted as a sort of signing off? "Regards, S." It could just as well be a reference to the TTA video... but let's take it as a sign-off for a moment.

You also have the S / sigma symbol that appears in Program and Advocate (and Tim's t-shirt) and it got me thinking... If TTA is several people, could they be 'signing' their videos this way? As in, if we think the sigma / S is Tim (which would kind of make sense, given his shirt and the mask in Warning) could there be other calling cards in the different videos? I'm not all that sure how well this idea holds up, but thought I might share it.

An additional (even more ridiculous) idea occured as I was typing that. What if TTA is a number of people who are using the account to communicate amongst themselves? Its not always obvious who the videos are directed at - some have been definitely to Jay, Fragments at least seems directed at Alex and there's even the possibility that some are dirtected at us, the audience. If all the members of TTA have access to the account, but want to avoid openly meeting / speaking / whatever, it might be their only option. There's also the often-mentioned split-personality idea - by preserving them on the youtube page they're available to watch next time Jay's on a sleepwalking trip.

Huh. Seems mad to me that idea. Have fun disproving it!

[Chest Cam Avenger]