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[EmeraldWind]

[DHawk314]

While I've considered the idea that Tim became Masky after Entry #15 and then got his memory wiped after Entry #33 so he's Tim again, I doubt it. First of all, he mentions waking up and not knowing why his leg was broken. His leg was basically healed by Entry #33, so he must have switched back to Tim sometime between 35 and 33. Plus, he mentions calling his job, and they hadn't heard from him in 3 weeks. So he must have maskied it up for 3 weeks and then Tim'd back. Plus, I don't find it likely he became Masky in the small distance between Entry #15 and 18. I find it more likely it manifested over a large period of time as an alternate personality. Obviously you can find some other explanation to explain it, but I think that's the explanation that works the best.

[Zebez]

[Lithp]

[Jamocha101]

[FalloutGhoul]

[Zebez]

[SeantheStone]

We should all remember "Megadrunk" dealt with Troy's views on split personalities. Since Masky isn't a German woman, I think that theory isn't viable.

[Zebez]

[SeantheStone]

Megadrunk was the accidental entry that got deleted after an hour back in season 2, I believe. Involved two box robots, one with the voice of a German woman, waxing philosophical.

[DHawk314]

It was made in XtraNormal, that thing with the computerized voices that was briefly popular. Troy meant to upload it to his channel. He didn't. This is it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIDjk1Wyj4s

[Zebez]

[S.Reay051]

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[Starkley]

I read of all of that, and it's nice speculation, but until we know more about Tim I don't think we can say anything for sure.

Here's why I don't think surgery has anything to do with a "split personality," anyway.

-Tim's cough has nothing to do with any personality disorder. It's more likely Operator-caused, from both the medical records and consistency across the board (Alex coughs before his Operator-induced trance, Jay coughs plenty of times). It would be weird for one unusual occurrence - the Operator cough - to be completely unrelated to another unusual occurrence - Tim's alleged personality disorder.

-We know that this series messes with memories, and that something, if it's not The Operator itself, can wipe memories. Tim's complaints about not remembering breaking his leg and so on can easily be ascribed to this. I speculated somewhere else - either earlier in this thread (I should probably look up) or in another thread - about how Tim's behavior could have been consistent all through Entries #15 to #52 with a combination of mask-donning and mind-wiping.

-We know of at least one more character that does things while wearing a mask that are totally Operator-related. That character's behavior is consistent, and as far as we can tell - even if you don't think Hoody is Totheark, it's apparent from Hoody's Entry behavior that he still remembers everything at least from his first appearance - his memory is intact. Therefore, we know that just because Tim wears a mask and runs around, it doesn't mean he has a split personality.

-Jay does things that he doesn't remember too. Escapes, the end of #18, the seven month period, #19...from that perspective, he is in exactly the same situation as Tim, just not for as - apparently - an extended amount of time. Unless we're speculating that The Operator is called such because it is capable of Operating on people's brains so that one side is normal and the other side is Op-influenced (totes dibs on this theory, explains the blood that Alex wakes up with in an early entry - but I'm not serious ), you kind of have to assume that because Jay and Tim have similar symptoms, anything like split-personality disorder being used to explain Tim's odd behavior would apply to Jay as well. Which is ASTRONOMICAL, if it has nothing to do with The Operator, and instead is the result of an official (or even unofficial) medical procedure.

-It is VERY unlikely that Tim has anything to do with Totheark at this point in the season. The recent 60.5 photo was taken by someone other than Tim and Jay. The style of a curt message saying "WATCHING" is extremely in line with Totheark's behavior. Yet Tim didn't take the photo, so from that alone we can assume that Tim =/= Totheark right now, so split-personality can't explain Totheark's cryptic style, because Totheark is still cryptic.

-Tim goes to a medical clinic. THere are records of him having a surgery. Because of that, the mental clinic should have access to his medical records. They should know if he has a severed corpus colossum. If Tim reports strange occurrences like waking up with an inexplicable broken leg, they should be able to tell him that he has split-personality disorder if in this universe that is possible - otherwise that's a HUGE suspension of disbelief. It wouldn't be consistent. So Tim's disbelief in #59 would make no sense, when he brings up his broken leg, if this surgery caused his split-personality.

-Tim was doing crazy stuff apparently from the medical records since he was seven. It's unlikely that they performed such an operation on a child of seven or younger.

I forgot my other points. But yeah. Here.

EDIT OF JUSTICE: Welcome to the forum! Good first post, and I hope you liven it up around here.

EDIT #2: Anyone else thinking it would have been downright lovely if at least one of the medical records had Tim's friggin' birth date on them?

[S.Reay051]

Thanks. Like I said, it doesn't seem to fit with quite a few things we know.
Though I don't see the age at the time of the surgery as a problem, if a child of that age had serious spasm problems caused like in the clip I could imagine it.* And memory loss could also be an effect of loosing "half of your brain", I guess. Concerning the coughing, somebody mentioned (I think in the Entry #60 thread) this could be from smoke when Tim tried to burn down the hospital. Could. How his feelings, fears and hatred got so strong that it created a personification that can let not just him, but even other people re-experience all of that is hard to say, but it's not impossible to come up with a reason - in theory.
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