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[SPEC] What is The Operator?
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Zebez
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Randoman96 wrote:
Things like 21, 23 and 40 make me think The Operator doesn't care about Jay too much. All of those circumstances just have TO just kind of looking at Jay like "The fuck you want?".


This.

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Boreamor
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 		Am I the only one hoping The Operator has a purpose? A goal of some kind?

Because if he's just some guy who randomly appears, makes people forget, terrifies them by standing there and make them violently ill and go crazy... For no reason at all... I might kill myself because I don't want to live thinking that something could do that.

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Mr_Magpie
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Boreamor wrote:
Am I the only one hoping The Operator has a purpose? A goal of some kind?

Because if he's just some guy who randomly appears, makes people forget, terrifies them by standing there and make them violently ill and go crazy... For no reason at all... I might kill myself because I don't want to live thinking that something could do that.


You've just summarized my own personal theory on the Operator and what it does. Cool

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Zebez
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Boreamor wrote:
Am I the only one hoping The Operator has a purpose? A goal of some kind?

Because if he's just some guy who randomly appears, makes people forget, terrifies them by standing there and make them violently ill and go crazy... For no reason at all... I might kill myself because I don't want to live thinking that something could do that.


I feel like that would make him even more terrifying, if he just fucks with everything. To me, I never felt like Slendy had "evil" intentions but that he is just an embodiment of it, if that makes sense. He's doesn't have any concept of what he is doing as being bad, it's just what he naturally does. He's a predator and ToTheArk is trying to make him have a seat over there.

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t3hkender
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Zarggg wrote:
t3hkender wrote:
words

I like this one. Can we keep it?


Yus.

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Zebez wrote:
I feel like that would make him even more terrifying, if he just fucks with everything. To me, I never felt like Slendy had "evil" intentions but that he is just an embodiment of it, if that makes sense. He's doesn't have any concept of what he is doing as being bad, it's just what he naturally does. He's a predator and ToTheArk is trying to make him have a seat over there.


I've always liked the idea that he's more like a little boy frying ants with a magnifying glass, or pulling the wings off of flies. There's no sense of purpose to what he does... he just does it because he's curious, amoral and he can. No malice as such, but no morality or compassion either, and thus perhaps even more dangerous because there's no logic to his actions.

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Zebez
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JKatkina wrote:
Zebez wrote:
I feel like that would make him even more terrifying, if he just fucks with everything. To me, I never felt like Slendy had "evil" intentions but that he is just an embodiment of it, if that makes sense. He's doesn't have any concept of what he is doing as being bad, it's just what he naturally does. He's a predator and ToTheArk is trying to make him have a seat over there.


I've always liked the idea that he's more like a little boy frying ants with a magnifying glass, or pulling the wings off of flies. There's no sense of purpose to what he does... he just does it because he's curious, amoral and he can. No malice as such, but no morality or compassion either, and thus perhaps even more dangerous because there's no logic to his actions.


Yes.

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JKatkina wrote:
Zebez wrote:
I feel like that would make him even more terrifying, if he just fucks with everything. To me, I never felt like Slendy had "evil" intentions but that he is just an embodiment of it, if that makes sense. He's doesn't have any concept of what he is doing as being bad, it's just what he naturally does. He's a predator and ToTheArk is trying to make him have a seat over there.


I've always liked the idea that he's more like a little boy frying ants with a magnifying glass, or pulling the wings off of flies. There's no sense of purpose to what he does... he just does it because he's curious, amoral and he can. No malice as such, but no morality or compassion either, and thus perhaps even more dangerous because there's no logic to his actions.


I dunno. To me, that's scary, but it isn't very interesting. I'd prefer the Slendy with intentions over the amoral, unthinking Slendy.

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 		In the end, we are just toys to The Operator? He views us as being such a thing so far below him that we're really inconsequential to him?

I like this.

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JKatkina wrote:
Zebez wrote:
I feel like that would make him even more terrifying, if he just fucks with everything. To me, I never felt like Slendy had "evil" intentions but that he is just an embodiment of it, if that makes sense. He's doesn't have any concept of what he is doing as being bad, it's just what he naturally does. He's a predator and ToTheArk is trying to make him have a seat over there.


I've always liked the idea that he's more like a little boy frying ants with a magnifying glass, or pulling the wings off of flies. There's no sense of purpose to what he does... he just does it because he's curious, amoral and he can. No malice as such, but no morality or compassion either, and thus perhaps even more dangerous because there's no logic to his actions.

This.

Or, he has morals and intentions beyond our understanding. Blue and Orange Morality, I think it's called.
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Susil
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JKatkina wrote:
Zebez wrote:
I feel like that would make him even more terrifying, if he just fucks with everything. To me, I never felt like Slendy had "evil" intentions but that he is just an embodiment of it, if that makes sense. He's doesn't have any concept of what he is doing as being bad, it's just what he naturally does. He's a predator and ToTheArk is trying to make him have a seat over there.


I've always liked the idea that he's more like a little boy frying ants with a magnifying glass, or pulling the wings off of flies. There's no sense of purpose to what he does... he just does it because he's curious, amoral and he can. No malice as such, but no morality or compassion either, and thus perhaps even more dangerous because there's no logic to his actions.


My bolds.

The other possibility, of course, is the complete antithesis to this. That is, the Operator is a sort of universal 'force'. If memory serves, that's the kinda line Just Another Fool went down.

There's something about the way the Operator is both relentless and calm that makes me think its sort of a physical form of the inevitable, if that makes any sense. Like, there is a task it has to complete, and you can be sure that it'll take its time, but it will happen! Think back to the legend about the criminals - if the Operator was what the criminals were "on trial before", there's sort of a 'judge, jury and executioner' side to it.

As to how this ties into Alex and co.... I've no idea. Have they somehow broken some sort of universal law? Is TO somebody's past catching up with them? Did they somehow break away from something that was supposed to happen, and TO is a Final Destination style enforcer charged with returning them all to the path they were supposed to take?

Gah. I have no idea!![/b]

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The Reverend
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 		I'm very much against TO being good, at least from an OOG standpoint, to be honest. Why? Because once you start thinking about him in those terms, he's not as frightening - which is part of his appeal. Don't get me wrong, there's still the Super Maskio Brothers, but when I'm done watching an episode of MH, it's not them that I'm worried is standing in the dark corners of my flat....

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 		I think it's also possible that. The Operator is in fact feeding off of the mental or emotional states of Alex and Jay. Both of them have had really close contact with TO and he never kills them, just incapacitates them and leaves them somewhere else with their memory wiped. Because they became aware of TO (Alex first probably accidentally through shooting marble hornets) it was easier for TO to establish some sort of mental link and find them more easily. The deeper they get into it and think about him. The more he can pop up. For Alex it seems like it's gotten to the point where TO has so much of a mental influence and connection, Alex doesn't even notice that he's there, and TO just hangs around feeding off him all the time (Which is why he has to wear the chest cam, because he keeps blacking out) like a parasite.

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onetruepurple
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 		I'm not a fan of "The Operator isn't evil" theories, but this one strikes a very close-to-home vibe:
celticsfan87 wrote:
Random theory I don't even necessarily agree with: Slendy isn't necessary "evil" but is kidnapping children and hanging them from trees to mimic the behavior of the villagers. Similar to how he mimics human attire with his suit (possibly speech as well in the entry where Jay goes to Slenderland) he is just trying to fit in and do what everyone else does.
tl:dr; The Operator isn't inherently evil, he just mimics the horrible human nature (case in point: entry #35, where Big Op is nowhere to be seen and yet there's three adult men running around in amok and being uncharacteristically violent - purely because they don't fully understand what they're facing).

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 		While knowing how little this explains about The Operator, I'm a fan of the idea that he is some kind of being from another dimension or some such, primarily because it doesn't tie him down to our concepts of what it can and can't do. Also, saying "He does that with magic!" as is the implication with the forest spirit and ghost ideas doesn't seem too good of an explenation to me to begin with and, frankly makes him less frightening to me.

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