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[PSUwithBigBlue]

I think you're reading too far into Tim's reasoning. I believe what he said, about it being a guard. Remember, if he IS suffering from a total memory wipe, like Jay got that time with Sarah, then he's not going to remember who that dude is. Jay got his memory back from watching the tapes. Tim never watched the tapes (well, from what it seems), so he has no memory either.

Also, Sarah took forever to mention that she was forgetting things (the mind wipe), so maybe Tim is trying to be manly, and not do any of that. And has anyone really said what Tim is doing at the doctors? Maybe that's his way of dealing with the memory loss. Or maybe from that blow in the head from 35...

Anyway, my idea is Alex is not working with the operator. Tim is. Alex knows this, too, as Alex saw the operator symbols in 57, and started panicking. Tim wanted to go to that hospital, where the other two got "slenderized", right? Therefore, Tim wanted Alex to get slenderized. Slendy got tired of Tim, or he was of no more used, and wiped his memory clean, however "Hoody" doesn't know this, and thinks Tim is still working for Slendy, so he's Jay's guardian angel, if you will.

[Nintendawg]

[PSUwithBigBlue]

[Araenna]

Maybe Tim is avoiding mentioning things, because he's going through the same thing. Maybe he doesn't remember being Masky, but when he's normal, he's being stalked by Jay wearing a mask.

Yeah, probably not. Would be cool, though.

[TheKraken]

I'm inclined to believe Tim was acting so "casually" when Hoodie appeared because he honestly thought he wasn't in any danger. Like he said, he thinks Hoodie is just some guy wandering around like they are. To Tim, his presence, while something that signals they need to hightail it before they are horn deep in cops, doesn't warrant the kind of reaction Jay exhibited.

If Tim's amnesia is genuine, I wonder if he's aware of it? He's apparently had a history of illness; I'm not sure if his appointments at the clinic are an extension of that or brought on by seven months' worth of memory evaporating without a trace. Jay and Jessica were instantly aware of it because they woke up somewhere without any idea how they got there, but Tim lives in the Rosswood park area.

Memory is a tricky thing. We don't actually remember as much as we think we do -- a lot of it is just tricks our minds play on us, assumptions we make that fill in the gaps. If you forgot something that you weren't actively thinking about, how would you even know? How often do you think about what you were doing seven months ago?

ANOTHER THOUGHT: I know some of us were complaining about the beginning of #58 rehashing information we already knew, but I think we take for granted how many of us read Jay's twitter. The YouTube videos are meant to be able to stand alone without us having to follow any of the other sites. Not everyone knew ahead of time the details of their meeting.

[Oscar Langley]

Sorry if this has been brought up before, but I'm wondering, if the amnesia is genuine (I think it is, personally), when did Tim get it? It couldn't have been the same time as Jay and Jessica because he showed up at the hotel a while later as Masky. But that was also the last time we saw him like that. Did the amnesia occur that night at the hotel? Or maybe off screen? I wonder if the TTA videos give any clues to when Tim lost his memory. In fact, now that I think of it, I don't think the TTA videos even started back up until right after the Masky Hotel Incident. Huh.

[ThinSuit]

[ReverendJ]

[Susil]

[ReverendJ]

[Jamocha101]

[TheKraken]

Eh, assuming the theory is true, Alex could have called Tim there to take him out before Tim had an opportunity to do the same to him.

But yeah, there's a huge chunk of evidence pointing to it not being true, not to mention a ton of things simply not adding up, so there you go. I never thought it was true; I just thought it was interesting to think about because we still don't know exactly what the Operator symbol was doing in the building, what effect it had on Alex, blah blah blah. There were like two seconds of him staring at it and then bam, Tim beatings everywhere.

[kotetamer]

here's a theory, the hospital that they went through burned out was a mental hospital that tim had stayed at previously when he was younger. It's why he's always been reluctant to go to there as demonstrated in the earlier entries when he went to the buildings with alex. His masky persona maybe part of a split personality disorder. He had it under control up until the original sightings of the operator, but due to the experiences combined with whatever the operator did to him, this personality reemerged and took whatever experiments the operator performed. Whatever the operator did to the masky persona gives him the ability to teleport and such. Masky however maintains a bit of sanity because tim exist, it creates a balance and while tim may not be aware of masky, masky is aware of tim and is able to keep himself better together than alex.

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[Araenna]

I always personally thought he was getting mental health help because of his timnesia. If I suddenly lost large chunks of time, I'd probably be seeing someone about it.