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[NoMoreGaems]

I don't think everyone has a monster, personally. I think it's just comfortable coincidence they ended up with three main male characters and three main male(ish) villains.

[Invictus]

[Lithp]

I agree with all of those except 4, because Corenthal also has a distinct style, which is nothing like how he appears in that video. I thought earlier that maybe he could be "partially inHABITed," & that's how he can do his teleporty trick & inconvenience Slenderman--then I remembered that HABIT's only stated abilities are possession & heightening physical ability.

[Invictus]

[Lithp]

I will literally be angry with rage if that's the explanation. You can't just "learn how to do" quantum phenomena just because something else is naturally able to exploit it. It's like, I understand how a bee can see in ultraviolet, but that doesn't bring me any closer to being able to do it myself, without the aid of special equipment.

[rand__althor]

[lunaticfish]

Happy New Year, my friends family. <3
May we tear this pristine thread to pieces. Amen.

[Invictus]

[Lithp]

I could get behind the doors thing. I have a theory that the reason everyone gets teleported to Baldpate all the damn time is because Slenderman & Friends set up a system of portals there. That is also, I believe, why The Property looks like a hodgepodge of different houses.

[TheArmadaBledd]

Much as I'd love to see a more heavy nod toward the Norse pantheon... I am not holding my breath, especially in relation to Steph baring more significance because of the Ash tree.

Odin spent nine nights in the tree, a willing sacrifice to himself. Now one can use the traditional sense of the word sacrifice which is bolstered by abrahamic images of altars to God, Christ on the cross, whatnot, or one can simply look at it from the point of view of risking one's self to glorify one's self. Either way, it paid off. When he fell from the tree he had knowledge surpassing any other's. 'Runes,' which some interpret to be, more plainly, magic signs, sigils, that sort of thing. Either way with what he gained from his time riding Yggdrasil was something so amazing, so glorious that he changed everything.

Obviously there's the content of the most recent video to turn around the idea of the Ash tree playing into Steph and making her some sort of beacon of hope. More than that though, Steph lost everything when she found her family hanging from the tree. Since then, there have been various implications that people she has been involved with have been hurt or lost.

Could be wrong but if there is an overtone of Asatru to what's behind or what's to come it really is subtle. I've never read house of leaves, though I've been considering asking a buddy to let me borrow his copy (but he'd probably have to mail it and postage and whatnot, I'd feel bad) so I can't really comment on all of it's relations to Yggdrasil beyond saying that based on what I've read about the story, I do agree with the analogies comparing the two.

Though there is a point in *favor* of the theory re:Steph. While Odin was on the tree, he was a sacrifice, pierced through by his own weapon, it had to hurt yet he continued to live and in the most recent video

[Lithp]

He was most likely talking to Evan.

[Invictus]

So we have Steph, whom has a connection to an ash tree, which in turn has connections through Norse mythology to concepts like sacrifice and the salvation of humanity (Yggdrasil protects one man and one woman through the end times to perpetuate humanity afterward) and we have Evan, whom has possibly sacrificed his control over his body to protect his baby and whose MT4 doppelganger is found recreating the crucifixion of Christ. Does this point to the baby being the savior of the Hybrids? or am I making too much of the bunny Christ incident?

[device]

The Yggdrasil connection was discussed pretty heavily in the first EMH thread, I think.

But the tree at Baldpate is figured extremely prominently throughout the series.... and as far as we know, Steph has never been there.

[Hoogalindo]

Is no one going to talk about how ALEX WAS ALIVE IN THE NEWEST VIDEO AND WHY HE WAS HOLDING KNIVES?

[stevo6456]