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[Starkley]

That still makes no sense. The Operator can teleport or go anywhere. Entry #52 proves that, I think. He outright followed them to a completely new location.

[pravado]

[Drnothing1]

[Lithp]

[Drnothing1]

[Lithp]

[Starkley]

[DHawk314]

The story doesn't have to do with the Operator. They've said OOG that it's just to foreshadow something about Alex's character. This seems like it should be a "Get out of theorizing free card," they've explicitly told us the point of the story. But hey, I can't stop you guys, and I don't really want to anyway, so whatever.

[Starkley]

Someone's phoning it in. :O

In any case, it would all get really complicated if Alex's story was true. "Slenderman haunted the woods because he was the vengeful soul of some dead perverts. Also he marked Alex for Slendyhaunting when he was a kid. Also he marked Tim for Slendyhaunting when he was a smaller kid. Also he demands sacrifices from the same seven people almost daily."

Just, too much. Trust nothing you don't actually see happen.

[DHawk314]

[Starkley]

I think it's out of character because you have here a story that can be told with nothing but pure malicious intent; it's a completely unnecessary story and he's inevitably going to frighten Jay. Especially cruel because he knows what they're up against and knows the kind of mental stress that The Operator can cause. And yet he tells the story calmly and methodically.

Then, in #52, no creepy story, but instead he just takes Jay and Jessica to a spot where he decides to kill them, and rather than showing that cool, disaffected, methodical demeanor with which he told the story, he goes into paranoid hysterics about all the shit that's been happening to him, getting incredibly self-righteous in the process.

Alex's attempted murder of Jessica and Jay isn't nearly as malicious and planned out as you might imagine from the way he tells the story. It comes off as much more fearful and desperate.

It's just two very different portraits of Alex. Within the span of 24 hours. Seems to me like something's up, yeah?

Cool points for editing that in. But you should feel dirty. Like noises coming from Jessica's hotel room dirty.

[DHawk314]

Well, I don't expect Alex's insanity to be consistent. That's kinda the thing about insanity, it's...insane. But I understand what you mean. The recklessly furious Alex we get in Entry #52 is probably much more in character when you consider how Alex acts most of time when he's insane, take Entries 35 or 45 for example. Although, if you look at Alex in Entries like 51, 56, or 57 he does show his creepy malicious side too. Walking slowly through the hospital with that pipe looking for Tim. But anyway I get what you mean.

[Lithp]

[Starkley]

My point is that there appears to be a defined difference between Alex doing things "for Slendy" and Alex doing things because he feels he's been attacked. #35, Tim attacked him, self defense. #45, attacked by TWO masked men, self-defense. #52, he THINKS Jay is out to get him or something, and again can justify it with self-defense, which IS his plea. In all of these, he's this frantic, desperate character whose only goal is to end whoever's torturing him. He wanted to kill Tim. He wanted to kill Tim and Hoody. He wanted to kill Jay and Jessica. He saw them all as threats.

In #51, #56, and $57, there's none of that. There's convenient assaults that cause The Operator to appear, and Alex at no point goes into any speech, nor does he show any hesitation, overt anger, or panic. He just stalks around and does the job. Tim and Brian show no sign of ill-will towards him; hell, they're helping him out.

And this is my other point. Alex doesn't have to lead anyone anywhere. The Operator has proven itself to be able to go anywhere. In those frantic entries, Alex isn't leading people to The Operator. Entry #35, Tim is already there waiting for them. Entry #45, Alex CAN'T be leading anyone anywhere, even if The Operator appears, because he's the one being led by the Masked Men, and THEN TO shows up. Entry #52, no sign of TO until AFTER Jay and Jessica are well the hell away from Alex. And again, Tim was ahead of them. In the frantic entries, there is no overt sign that Alex is working with TO.

Then, in #51, #56, and #57, he makes a big show of being deceptive, pretending he's filming, and then just striking. No anger, no hesitation. And TO is right there every time.

So, there's a large difference between Alex attacking the Masked Men, Jay, and Jessica, and Alex attacking Tim and Brian (possibly Seth but I doubt it). It's not just insanity. There's consistency between the two behaviors. The odd factor is obviously The Operator.

So I don't think Alex is foreshadowing what he's planning to do to Jay and Jessica. I think what was happening when Alex was taking Jay to "the spot" and what was going to happen in #52 are two different things. One was very Slendy influenced, the other was a panicked move that Alex decided on himself.

He looks more like a frantic victim than a thought-out killer.

TL;DR: Alex isn't insane. His two different attitudes are consistent, just disjointed. Blame it on the O-o-o-o-o-o-o-operator.

[DHawk314]

This makes sense.