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[SPEC] What is The Operator?
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 		After thinking about it, (in addition to LISTEN) I want to believe that "Lakes in stillness will take every life of the night" is another hint that water=bad for the protagonists, not The Operator.

However, water may not mean literal water. It could be a metaphor, as well as the ark.
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 		I reallyreallyREALLY hope that the Operator is not one of those executed criminals/that murdered kid that Alex was going on about. Sad It feels too slasher-movie predictable/cliche for the kind of alien horror and psychological creepiness we're dealing with here. An explanation that... mundane, for lack of a better word, just feels wrong. I'd be okay I guess with the "dark forest spirit" or some of the other forest-connected but non-human origin stories, I guess, but I really want something that fits with the "eldritch abomination" vibe I've been getting.

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 		Slender Man Theories
Thoughts on what the slender man could be
The slenderman could be a tulpa and the operator sign ( the circle with the cross inside) could be a sigil amplifying mental energy.
This would explain how he has become more active with jay and alex getting closer to them as they are "taking more notice" or that more people seem to be becoming involved

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=tulpa+tibetan+symbols&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&nord=1&tbm=isch&tbnid=_Z3KuCzbLhM07M:&imgrefurl=http://listentothecrows.blogspot.com/2011/04/supernatural.html&docid=8OGxgNhKxb1dlM&w=1600&h=1200&ei=TiAqTuXqDMLOhAeH5Y2EDA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=631&vpy=136&dur=5748&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=134&ty=124&page=2&tbnh=138&tbnw=184&start=18&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:18,s:18&biw=1366&bih=643

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 		Wat is this i dont even
AND IT'S NOT SLENDER MAN

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 		>>[SPEC] What is The Operator?
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 		Slender Man/Operator is some sort of variation of the noppera-bo.

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The Reverend wrote:
Slender Man/Operator is some sort of variation of the noppera-bo.


Eh... not all faceless beings are necessarily a basis for Slender Man/the Operator. There are lots and lots of faceless entities, generally known as the Blank.

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DonMonte wrote:
The Reverend wrote:
Slender Man/Operator is some sort of variation of the noppera-bo.


Eh... not all faceless beings are necessarily a basis for Slender Man/the Operator. There are lots and lots of faceless entities, generally known as the Blank.


If you'll notice, the noppera-bo is the only entry under "Myth and Legend", though.

And it was just a random thought/theory that came to me when I was reading a yokai encyclopedia, to be honest.

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 		Have anyone thought that the operator can actually be a benign entity? i mean he hasn't hurt anyone that we know of... the only "suspicious activity" was on entry 14 where we see alex with the face covered in blood but we cannot be sure that was the operator

what if TO is a interdimentional/cosmic being that is only visiting our wolrd, and someone aware of his powers is trying to restrain him (the ark for example)? what if he looks for help and that's why keeps looking for alex?

i mean if a faceless tall and slender guy in a suit were showing everywhere i go i would be scared to death... but it can be misinterpreted...

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faktorkhaos wrote:
Have anyone thought that the operator can actually be a benign entity? i mean he hasn't hurt anyone that we know of... the only "suspicious activity" was on entry 14 where we see alex with the face covered in blood but we cannot be sure that was the operator

what if TO is a interdimentional/cosmic being that is only visiting our wolrd, and someone aware of his powers is trying to restrain him (the ark for example)? what if he looks for help and that's why keeps looking for alex?

i mean if a faceless tall and slender guy in a suit were showing everywhere i go i would be scared to death... but it can be misinterpreted...


I've always liked the idea that Slendy isn't a bad guy. Mind you, the flavor of the show is that Slendy is evil and is up to no good. But you're right, we don't ever actually explicitly witness Slendy doing anything bad to anyone.

I don't necessarily believe it, but my favorite "Slendy is good" theory is that he's some kind of neutral (or even good) extradimensional being. He's either stuck in our reality, and trying to get out, or he's a messenger--or perhaps trying to warn us of something (perhaps another extradimensional being, some kind of eldritch, Lovecraftian horror is trying to come to our reality).

Unfortunately, Slendy is, in our reality, just plain alien. He tries to mimic human form--badly. He's unable to communicate in ways we're prepared to understand. Because the laws of physics where he's from are vastly different from ours, his very presence is corrupting to the surrounding area. Electronics wig out (not just cameras--we have evidence that Slendy's affected at least Jay's phone, and possibly his laptop(s?) and televisions). People even get sick if they're near him for any length of time. Making Slendy's intent even harder to carry out is the fact that his presence even corrupts people's memories. Who knows, maybe our characters have figured him out multiple times and just plain can't remember it.

His frightening appearance and unfortunate "side effects" on our reality make HIM seem like the "eldritch horror", even though his intention is to warn us, prepare us, protect us. Unfortunately, in our world he's almost completely powerless to even just talk to us.

Like I said, I don't really think that's the story that Troseph has in mind. I just think it would be a cool one, and it -might- fit as things stand right now. TTA thinks Slendy's bad news. Jay's clueless. Alex has finally figured it out, but TTA's interfering with his attempts to communicate with the Operator. Keep something in mind: while he is acting suspicious, I'm not sure we've actually seen Alex do anything wrong (it can be argued that the leg-smashing of Timasky was an act of self-defense or maybe justified retaliation--he did get stabbed after all).

Where the missing Marble Hornets cast and crew, as well as Amy and Jessica, fit into all of this, I have no idea.

EDIT: Fixed a botched tag.

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t3hkender wrote:
faktorkhaos wrote:
Have anyone thought that the operator can actually be a benign entity? i mean he hasn't hurt anyone that we know of... the only "suspicious activity" was on entry 14 where we see alex with the face covered in blood but we cannot be sure that was the operator

what if TO is a interdimentional/cosmic being that is only visiting our wolrd, and someone aware of his powers is trying to restrain him (the ark for example)? what if he looks for help and that's why keeps looking for alex?

i mean if a faceless tall and slender guy in a suit were showing everywhere i go i would be scared to death... but it can be misinterpreted...


I've always liked the idea that Slendy isn't a bad guy. Mind you, the flavor of the show is that Slendy is evil and is up to no good. But you're right, we don't ever actually explicitly witness Slendy doing anything bad to anyone.

I don't necessarily believe it, but my favorite "Slendy is good" theory is that he's some kind of neutral (or even good) extradimensional being. He's either stuck in our reality, and trying to get out, or he's a messenger--or perhaps trying to warn us of something (perhaps another extradimensional being, some kind of eldritch, Lovecraftian horror is trying to come to our reality).

Unfortunately, Slendy is, in our reality, just plain alien. He tries to mimic human form--badly. He's unable to communicate in ways we're prepared to understand. Because the laws of physics where he's from are vastly different from ours, his very presence is corrupting to the surrounding area. Electronics wig out (not just cameras--we have evidence that Slendy's affected at least Jay's phone, and possibly his laptop(s?) and televisions). People even get sick if they're near him for any length of time. Making Slendy's intent even harder to carry out is the fact that his presence even corrupts people's memories. Who knows, maybe our characters have figured him out multiple times and just plain can't remember it.

His frightening appearance and unfortunate "side effects" on our reality make HIM seem like the "eldritch horror", even though his intention is to warn us, prepare us, protect us. Unfortunately, in our world he's almost completely powerless to even just talk to us.

Like I said, I don't really think that's the story that Troseph has in mind. I just think it would be a cool one, and it -might- fit as things stand right now. TTA thinks Slendy's bad news. Jay's clueless. Alex has finally figured it out, but TTA's interfering with his attempts to communicate with the Operator. Keep something in mind: while he is acting suspicious, I'm not sure we've actually seen Alex do anything wrong (it can be argued that the leg-smashing of Timasky was an act of self-defense or maybe justified retaliation--he did get stabbed after all).

Where the missing Marble Hornets cast and crew, as well as Amy and Jessica, fit into all of this, I have no idea.

EDIT: Fixed a botched tag.


Dude, you just hit the point! and you are right more than benign, he would be something more... neutral Very Happy

And now that you mention it i'd lke to add something to my previous statement: about slendy's form

imagine that he is a being from another dimension were the rules cannot match with the rules on our world, so his true form is something we cannot understand or even see, so our minds get him in the form of a tall, slend and featurless man (anyone who has read lovecraft will understand this point)

now, we see him like this... but what about the cameras distortion? simple! a cam doesn't have a mind that misread his true form, but since it is still tied to this reality it can almost record his true form, but since it cannot be interpreted on this world's rules it catches distortion... it's like trying to watch a video in the computer with a wrong codec you can maybe see images without sound or distorted low quality pics... but not the whole thing... that would explain why jay's cam stoped working after a close encounter, the cam somehow catched it's true form... but it was too much for the primitive mechanism to hold and ended up broken...

now imagine if our minds were able to see his true form... scary huh? Shocked

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 		I agree that The Operator isn't bad. It had so many chances to kill the protagonists, but they just ended up waking up in their apartment/hotel/whatever.

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 		Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who isn't particularly attached to the "eldritch abomination" idea. I don't mind it, but there seems like little support for it in most representations of the slender man. Usually people are just seeing what they want to see. Personally, I think it's just as effective as a classic monster.

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