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[Osttle]

How long has Tim known the Operator?

[Mehetabel]

Pretty sure the implication is that he's known it since childhood, and that it's what he was seeing in his "hallucinations". But, I do think if he could remember it, he'd have let on, by now. Especially since Jay's started seeing shit. Instead, he insists he doesn't know what he saw, then, but he's definitely seeing TO, now.

So, yeah. I'm thinking if he's still lying about something (as opposed to just not telling Jay that he's been a headcase for a long time and was in that hospital) it's something else. Like maybe he's leading Jay closer to the truth so he can trade Jay to TO, in exchange for his own freedom. Or maybe 'lying' isn't even the word we want, despite it being the word that got used in the graffiti. He might not know he's holding something back.

[Osttle]

Good idea, Masky definitely knows stuff. I mean really. Tim is really a chamber of secrets

[CenturyChild]

[Craig Digsby]

[FalloutGhoul]

[TomCat]

[Kraehtot]

I have two different ideas that could fit.

1) Tim has indeed some sort of mental problem that made TO's presence worst for him than to other children, so TO directed his attention towards Tim and all the shit begun.


2) TO, for some reason, started messing up with Tim as a child, so the fear, the paranoia and the stress of being stalked by a monster affected the little kid's behaviour and the slendersickness begun. All of this made the doctors think that something was wrong in Tim's mind. They told him that the monster he saw was just in his imagination, that he was hallucinating, but of course, he was not hallucinating at all. I think he can't remember his hallucinatios because we all know what TO does with the memories... maybe at first, he saw the Operator, but then the paranoia made him not able to discern when TO was really there and when he imaginated it, and this is maybe what is happening to Jay.
We can also asume that his split personality started also in Tim's childhood, and Tim seems not to remember what goes on when Masky takes control, so it could also be a reason why he doesn't remember.

I think the second one is the most plausible, but it doesn't explain why was Tim chosen.

[CenturyChild]

[Mr_Slen]

Tim did say that he was taken to The Hospital when he was little, He of course was probably friends with Alex since they both lived near Rosswood. If you rewatch Entry #66 He explains it all to Jay, Tim was the probable cause of Alex being stalked since he knew Alex well and accidentally lead Oppykins to him, So Tim talks about em hallucinations and the seizures are on his medical file, he has to take pills SO I IS SAYIN DAT TIM KNEW OPPYKINS SINCE TODDLER YEARS!

[Craig Digsby]

[device]

I'm afraid I would be taking any such claims from Tim with a grain of salt.
If all the "liar" messages from Hoody pertain to Tim, he may yet be concealing info from us. (and I'm fairly sure that Tim believes the "liar" messages from Hoody to be directed at him... otherwise why would he attack the message on the wall?)

Also....Tim and Jay both have huge swathes of memory erased. Who is to say that Tim accurately remembers his childhood, especially if he was receiving visits from Dr. Oppy back then? Childhood memories are pretty tenuous to begin with. After all he acted as if he barely remembered Jay, even though Jay was active in the original Marble Hornets production. Even Jay barely remembers anything during that time 6 years ago.

I'm afraid I won't be drawing such solid conclusions until the truth is finally revealed, by confession or video.

[Mr_Slen]

[Craig Digsby]

[Gameshark]

Now don't quote me on this (lookin at you Digsby), but if memory serves, it wasn't clear if Tim had mental problems before TO started stalking him, or if TO caused them. All we know about his past is from his medical records, or from what he told us in #66; which is that he's had mental problems since he was a kid, and TO was involved somehow.