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[LOCKED] EverymanHYBRID 2012
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elizibar
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FalloutGhoul wrote:
Man, what happened to Evan?

He was once a fun-loving guy using situational humor to keep the group's heads together, and now he's a murderous psychopath.

Does getting nearly killed by the Slenderman usually do that to people?


Evan has always been the most murderous of the boys.

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Tharol
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Could we see Damsel or Daniel in coming video.

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Anonymousity
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Stuff:

- I agree about the photos being taken after the video. The bit about HABIT not lying is entirely up for subjective response: we have no idea how fictional the Everyman-prophecy, the typed-diaries or his rants truly are. For all we know, he could be the Blair Witch, using HABIT as a guise to lure more victims in. Damsel's origin story fits with this, as it highlights one big plot-point that has not been picked up yet.

- Twin Peaks is mandatory watching for every EMH Fan. The way these two resemble each other is uncanny. They're also on Netflix (and nobody has to watch Fire Walk With Me before the show, it spoils the ending etc).
Reading qaqa's bit... I agree. The metaphyiscal space we call the Candleverse is a place hardly explored, which, I am sure, MUST change, both in terms of what this universe is (a videogame? a test site? a fictional space/work?) and how the characters respond to their struggle.
In this way, the Everyman-prophecy and the 'Fire Walk with Me' poem are highly suggestive of how the cycle could be broken... and just which role the 'monsters' really play. Do I even need to stress that we still lack a fourth monster?

- HABIT has a tendency to play with his victims, but I am continuously wondering why. Think about it: what motivates this guy? The notes we've seen on him lead back to the third reich. How does this fit with the re-spawning universe? If he is a "Sympathy for the Devil-Lucifer" kind of character, then why is he drawn into the recurring universe? Is this a trap for him, going through the motions over and over again, killing off decoy characters (of which only three are real), overseen by his guardian (Slenderman)?
If this universe works as a trap for HABIT, rather than a realm that needs him (because really, why/how could he jump from our universe to theirs?), then why are we watching? Is Jeff's plea to stop watching HABIT simultaneously an attempt to have HABIT remain in the trap?? Could HABIT escape to our universe (AGAIN) by us witnessing his actions?

Fire, Walk With Me?

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device
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The bit about HABIT not lying is entirely up for subjective response: we have no idea how fictional the Everyman-prophecy, the typed-diaries or his rants truly are.


Thanks for this, Anonymousity. I love your theories.

I always wondered whether all the information about the prophecies and all the historical information about Dr. Corenthal/Fairmont versions were the truth... it is all being supplied to us by Habit after all. Every single scrap... EXCEPT what the boys dug out at the library (and who knows, maybe he set that up too). After all, they were being supplied by a character we all think of as a villian. Why would he be actually helping anyone?

I remember Vin saying, while they were in the candleverse, about the Habit: that "He gets more and more elaborate each time we see him." In what way? His plots? Or is he engaged in a form of self-creation, like creating a history and context for himself, through all this written information?

I'm beginning to think this whole series is actually about Habit..almost every major event constructed by him, every song playing iin the background that has a relevant meaning to the situation timed by him, all the game referenced that are constant through the series, and each character making moves controlled by either Habit or Slenderman like a game of chess.

Edit for another thought:
I also remember, early in the series, a little Habit-supplied snippet...
Jeff begging to stop the series, he's done, he's almost hysterical about it. And Vinny, replying, "He's trying to let him win! If we go on with this, if we shut down-" and "He's gonna let this fucker win if we shut down these videos."

It seems to be rather odd phrasing when you are talking about someone stalking you.

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elizibar
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Anonymousity wrote:
Stuff:
- Twin Peaks is mandatory watching for every EMH Fan. The way these two resemble each other is uncanny.


Until we get a dancing midget that speaks in odd speech patterns, I don't see it.

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Fotzepolitic
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elizibar wrote:
Anonymousity wrote:
Stuff:
- Twin Peaks is mandatory watching for every EMH Fan. The way these two resemble each other is uncanny.


Until we get a dancing midget that speaks in odd speech patterns, I don't see it.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
HABIT = Bob? The last few videos being very much Evan's "how's annie" moments?


I never got the whole House of Leaves thing. Seemed kinda tossed out. I mean, yeah, they did the infinifolding house, but that was WAYYY later.
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Fotzepolitic
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device wrote:
I'm beginning to think this whole series is actually about Habit..almost every major event constructed by him, every song playing iin the background that has a relevant meaning to the situation timed by him, all the game referenced that are constant through the series, and each character making moves controlled by either Habit or Slenderman like a game of chess.


RABBIT OR HABIT RABBIT OR HABIT.

Just saying. If that's not a clue, I don't know what is.
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Mattwan
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Fotzepolitic wrote:
I never got the whole House of Leaves thing. Seemed kinda tossed out. I mean, yeah, they did the infinifolding house, but that was WAYYY later.


I think that was to foreshadow the real-world/Candleverse dual reality. I think they were also going for an unreliable narrator theme at that point as well, but they may have steered away from that; it all depends, I believe, on how Vinnie's story shakes out.

Oh, and I'm not holding out on the slash. Wink I just didn't save any. It's buried in the ginormous original EMH thread.

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lunaticfish
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QUITE. Totally agreed on the not lying thing. The only reason I bring it up is because for me, you either trust that he tells the truth, or you have a hard as hell time of committing to possibilities! Heh. I for one take the angle that he "lies" through the restrictions he places on what we're allowed to know- in other words misleading us more than likely- but so far nothing that he HAS told us has been false. Lies by omission, etc.
tl;dr- I trust him to be telling the truth about what he does tell us, otherwise it would be impossible for me to get a foothold on anything.

The Everyman Annotations are the one thing I question the verity of. Way too easy to be misled by it, but just the same it has only had supporting evidence, even if we never quite settle on the who's who.

Anonymousity, you bring up good points, especially that last bit, though I am not sure there is a "fourth monster". I've always felt that Steph is going to turn up on both sides of the game, kind of the hidden maverick, maybe not by choice but... I think it was Box 5 that made me start thinking that, what with the cards, and it was sort of compounded with the interesting comments HABIT made on CANYOUSEETHEWORDS and the subsequent pregnancy.

Tharol, that would be interesting for sure.

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Anonymousity
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but so far nothing that he HAS told us has been false


What about Corenthal?

Like, really!!

We know this guy walked into a diner, and a BUNCH of people got killed.
Supposedly, he looked out for the boys.
Supposedly, he has some sort of alternate realm which he resides in.
Supposedly, he's all HABIT'y for no reason.

What if his wife is the REAL Doctor? It's a loony theory, but think about it: again, what does HABIT gain from doing all this. If the universe is an alternate one, then why does he interfere in our shit (arab spring and "It's OK." and all)??

What motivates this guy?

I stand by the 4 monsters bit, both from Corenthal's comment, from how the series introduced and used the 'monsters' and how the cards show two sides to each 'protagonist' (one for each being 'their monster').

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Unfamous
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that is a very interesting tree you have there... i now feel compelled to go back through the documents to see if they confirm whether dr. corenthal refers to the wife or the husband.

EDIT:
After all somethings gotta be there to find, since it was only when the boys realized they should try and find her that HABIT comes fully unchained and takes away Jeff, then kills him, and isnt it strange how habit knows who vince supposedly was with in his abscence unless he had something to do with it?

But i digress, ill reread the corenthal documents and get back to you in the morning

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sociallyawkwardstoner
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I've just got into the everymanHYBRID series. I know, I'm a little late Wink
But I've had some theories I want to run past people - people who know what they're talking about unlike me lol

The 'Black Box Device' that supposedly measures slendys radiation... I was thinking - what if that 'radiation' is actually what he uses to kill? It would make sense after all... Stalking his victims for long periods of time - causing nosebleeds etc. It may even be a backlash of timetravel - something we seem to have seen in both everymanHYBRID and marble hornets. It would make sense as to why the counter started going off right before the episode of time warping when we see Dr Corenthal open the storage room.

This may fit in with the idea of an 'ark' as well. Perhaps slenderman has an alternate reality ... A place he makes out to be some sort of 'sanctuary' but in reality is much worse.

Let me know what you think guys!

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C.K.DexterHaven
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I believe HABIT has referred to "THE DOCTOR AND HIS DAMNED WIFE." before, so I don't think his wife is the real Doctor Corenthal. Sorry, guys.

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Anonymousity
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^
Yeah, because HABIT is really reliable.

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C.K.DexterHaven
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Has he ever actually lied? It honestly doesn't seem like a red-herring. I think some of the Corenthal letters were to his wife as well, but I'm not really sure.

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