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[SPEC] The Four Masks
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ToTheFading
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The first three are all clearly Masky wearing the same mask, in my opinion. Skully I would put money on being Amy, not only because her blonde hair is visable, but because it's added into the same video where Amy disappears, presumably getting her own Masky persona afterwards. I would also bet this is an idea which was scrapped, and the Skully mask is now largely irrelevant, since that was the one and only clip of that character we have. They could still bring that character back, but I seriously doubt that the character will have had any impact whatsoever on any of the events we've currently seen.

TL;DR: My opinions are that the first three are Tim. The last one is currently unimportant for various possible reasons.

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Geneaux486
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They're probably all Tim.

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Xman
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The only thing that has some validity as another mask is Skully from Entry #26. It was a clear view of some type of skull-like mask that stayed on for a few seconds. Is it a mask? Definitely seems like it. It honestly looks exactly like the Masky mask, just with a different mouth. So maybe that was just Masky yet again? Who knows. I just hope that if we never get an explanation for it in-game, that Troy will be willing to tell us what happened there OOG.

Sha Noran wrote:
Don't kill me for saying so, but the third picture actually reminds me strongly of Jay. Think of how he looked in the TTA video Return. That trance like state, eyes wide and distant, mouth agape. See what I mean? Kinda looks like a super blurry Jay, maybe b-roll straight from Return.

I don't think picture 3 is Masky or Tim, partially because the figure is much too thin, even accounting for the distortion/blurriness. Also, I'm just not seeing the Masky mask in image #3... The eyes are not so fully rounded, and for that matter, neither is the mouth.

You're underestimating the effects distortion and blurriness. Straight-up, when you look at the third picture, it's quite obviously just Masky. It being Jay's face doesn't really make too much sense because of the big black eyes and mouth. A human face wouldn't produce that dramatic of an effect, but a mask with big black eyes and a black mouth definitely fits the profile much more.

Also, it's not exactly easy to account for distortion and blurriness in this situation. In the third picture, it looks as if he's farther away, behind bars of some sort, and there is some heavy blurring. Plus, Tim had a bit of a thinner frame back in the Season 1 era. So, it's kind of pushing it to say that it's not Masky just because of the thinner looking figure.

And just a side note, Jay's mouth wasn't agape in Return. It was actually mostly closed looking.

I know you're just speculating though, and that's fine. Nothing really wrong with that.

And in general, another thing that some people are overlooking: Entry ###### is quite simply featuring just Masky. It's a Masky video. Why would they vaguely introduce new masked characters like that? I mean, here we are in Season 1 back in 2010, we've seen Masky three times already, a lot of focus on him being an antagonist of some type, and then they introduce Entry ######, and suddenly we've got ourselves some new masked characters because of some blurriness and distortion? That's just really far fetched and a bit silly.

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I won't argue the possibility that the same person (Tim) is likely under all four (or three, however you want to look at it) masks, but I'm also curious as to the symbology of the masks. They're white, with black eyes and black lips. They resemble a mix between a mime and a mummer. If you don't know what a mummer is, it's this strange, silent but colorful clown that dances in a parade in Philadelphia on New Year's Day.

The "Skully" mask, admittedly, does appear to be something different-- for all we know, it was something that actually showed up on the TV that day. Like the infamous "Max Headroom" broadcast that interrupted an episode of Doctor Who in the late 1980s. The fact that they (the Marble Hornets crew) caught it on tape could just be a fabulous coincidence.

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The first three are all Tim. It would be a huge mistake to have three virtually indistinguishable masks for three different characters, unless they belong to some sort of collective. And I don't see MH going down that route this late in the game.

OOG, I'm sure they have at least four or five different masks for convenience. These are hand-painted, so they're bound to have minor inconsistencies. Therefore, whenever a mask appears that looks similar to Tim's mask, I'm willing to bet it's supposed to be Tim's mask.

Skully still confuses me, but it was such a minor thing that I doubt we'll get an answer.

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First two are masky, I belive the third to be Seth. It is shaped like him, slight big head skinny and small. The forth, Skully is either A concept Hoody, or some other anti proxy. If Skully is still in use then it's Amy. End speculation.
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Osttle wrote:
I belive the third to be Seth. It is shaped like him, slight big head skinny and small.


I thought the exact same thing! The third one is way too skinny to be Tim and has Seth's shape, like you said. On the other hand, it could be a younger Alex, because Alex has gained a lot of weight since then as has become apparent in recent entries.

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Serum wrote:
Osttle wrote:
I belive the third to be Seth. It is shaped like him, slight big head skinny and small.


I thought the exact same thing! The third one is way too skinny to be Tim and has Seth's shape, like you said. On the other hand, it could be a younger Alex, because Alex has gained a lot of weight since then as has become apparent in recent entries.

Or, y'know, it could just be a distorted image of Masky.

On the topic of Skully, I've heard a lot of people say that Skully is Amy because of what appears to be blond hair around the mask. To me, it looks more like the hood of Hoody's jacket. But, I still think that Skully is probably just some more creepy imagery Trosephim threw in to make the vid more creepy.

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hachiman
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fezstudios wrote:
Serum wrote:
Osttle wrote:
I belive the third to be Seth. It is shaped like him, slight big head skinny and small.


I thought the exact same thing! The third one is way too skinny to be Tim and has Seth's shape, like you said. On the other hand, it could be a younger Alex, because Alex has gained a lot of weight since then as has become apparent in recent entries.

Or, y'know, it could just be a distorted image of Masky.

On the topic of Skully, I've heard a lot of people say that Skully is Amy because of what appears to be blond hair around the mask. To me, it looks more like the hood of Hoody's jacket. But, I still think that Skully is probably just some more creepy imagery Trosephim threw in to make the vid more creepy.


I think the blonde hair around the mask is actually part of the background.

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fezstudios
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And back onto the topic of the third mask:
http://i.imgur.com/HbyucKt.png
This appears a couple of seconds later in entry ######. It has the blinds and the same style of distortion. Basically, I don't think there's any reason to believe that masks 1-3 are anyone other than Timasky.

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Jordan
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Hey everyone,

I really don't understand why some are arguing that Skully has been scrapped from the series. Unless Troseph retcon Skully by deleting the footage from entry #26, he/she is part of the series and if he/she isn't touched upon at some point, even if only lightly, it will be very unsatisfying dramitically.

We really don't know how long this season is going to be, so there's plenty of time to touch upon Skully in some shape or form.

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Xman
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fezstudios wrote:
And back onto the topic of the third mask:
http://i.imgur.com/HbyucKt.png
This appears a couple of seconds later in entry ######. It has the blinds and the same style of distortion. Basically, I don't think there's any reason to believe that masks 1-3 are anyone other than Timasky.

Even more proof and reasoning. Good job catching that. I fully agree with you.

Again, I don't see how it makes any sense to say the third picture is someone else just because the person looks "thinner," even though the shot is black & white, heavily blurred, and behind vertical blinds. And honestly, if you want to put all the blurriness and distortion aside, compare the second picture to the third picture. Are the figures in them that different in terms of size and shape?

Jordan wrote:
I really don't understand why some are arguing that Skully has been scrapped from the series. Unless Troseph retcon Skully by deleting the footage from entry #26, he/she is part of the series and if he/she isn't touched upon at some point, even if only lightly, it will be very unsatisfying dramitically.

We really don't know how long this season is going to be, so there's plenty of time to touch upon Skully in some shape or form.

Who knows if Skully was ever supposed to be something, though? If you look at the image, it looks like Masky's mask, just with a different mouth. What if Skully is just Masky? Or who knows if that's actually a real mask at all?

There's so little to work with when investigating Skully, that people just tend to think it's not anything significant.

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AgentLampshade
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Jordan wrote:
Hey everyone,

I really don't understand why some are arguing that Skully has been scrapped from the series. Unless Troseph retcon Skully by deleting the footage from entry #26, he/she is part of the series and if he/she isn't touched upon at some point, even if only lightly, it will be very unsatisfying dramitically.

We really don't know how long this season is going to be, so there's plenty of time to touch upon Skully in some shape or form.


I think if this "skully" is meant to be a part of the series, we'd have more than a single vague image to work with by now.

I've always had a personal theory that "skully" is simply a discarded mask thrown into a toilet, given that the previous footage is of Alex pointing a camera down in a tiled room (presumably a bathroom.) Who's mask is anyone's guess, but I doubt it'll come up again in the series.

EDIT: Though having just watched that entry, it moves ever so slightly to the right.

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Kinda off topic here but serum, what was the max headroom incident?

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Next time someone does an interview, and comes here asking for questions, we can submit this...

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