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A theory about Tim
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SilentMedusa
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A theory about Tim

I didn't really see an existing thread to put this in, so I made a new one.

One of the things I was really hoping would be explained -or at least hinted at- was why The Operator targeted Tim in the first place. I noticed something while rewatching #65, and it spun an idea.

First, what I noticed: one of the things that happens in #65 is Tim being submerged and almost drowned, multiple times. That didn't happen in #83 or 86, despite all the teleport spam happening. My thought was that all the places he was taken to in those entries were places that were significant -and upsetting- to Tim. I also had the thought that when TO takes someone, the experience is custom tailored to each person to be the most horrifying and traumatic. Which made me wonder why there were no more attempted drownings.

Now, the idea this brought up: There is a lake at Rosswood park. Rosswood seems to be a kind of home territory for The Operator. What if Tim almost drowned in that lake when he was a child, and that's what drew TO's attention to him? Especially if it was close enough that someone had to perform CPR to save him. That could explain the symptoms he has, which include coughing fits that hinder his breathing. The rest of the MH crew could have that same problem because it's being inflicted on them by TO -which is interested in them because of their connection to Tim.

Thoughts?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 10:07 pm

lonsumtravlr
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Re: A theory about Tim

SilentMedusa wrote:

First, what I noticed: one of the things that happens in #65 is Tim being submerged and almost drowned, multiple times. That didn't happen in #83 or 86, despite all the teleport spam happening. My thought was that all the places he was taken to in those entries were places that were significant -and upsetting- to Tim. I also had the thought that when TO takes someone, the experience is custom tailored to each person to be the most horrifying and traumatic. Which made me wonder why there were no more attempted drownings.

Now, the idea this brought up: There is a lake at Rosswood park. Rosswood seems to be a kind of home territory for The Operator. What if Tim almost drowned in that lake when he was a child, and that's what drew TO's attention to him? Especially if it was close enough that someone had to perform CPR to save him. That could explain the symptoms he has, which include coughing fits that hinder his breathing. The rest of the MH crew could have that same problem because it's being inflicted on them by TO -which is interested in them because of their connection to Tim.

Thoughts?

There's at least one problem with this theory, which is that aside from the recordings of Entries #83 and #86, we don't know what others who had been Oppynapped were put through. Maybe how The Operator operated is that it somehow (I want to be careful because I still am not positive that The Operator thinks and wills in a way that we'd recognize it) taps into one's memories and even subconscious and somehow causes one to experience that memory or fear or those memories and fears. But that almost sounds like taunting and bullying, and the question is raised of what the point is (unless it's some sort of parasite looking for an ideal host--which explains why Alex would liken TO to "a disease").

But we don't know what Alex, for example, was put through. Maybe instead of drowning and being lost in the woods and apparently getting electroshock or some other horrific procedure as what apparently happened to Tim, Alex was put through a combo of the excruciating loneliness of having no one show up to audition for his Great American Movie and killing Amy over and over. What was Jay put through? What was Jessica put through? What the fuck happened to poor Brian that he wound up as Hoody looking for The Ark? (Here's where the paucity of backstory becomes a stinging critique of MH, because if we knew just a little more about others' experiences, we could put your theory to a more rigorous test. But because we don't have it but just have Jay's apparent derpiness and such entries as #26 and #65, it's tough to really say.) Unless there's some sort of projection in which Tim's fears somehow get associated with others through TO exposure, I personally can't see why others would manifest these symptoms--especially Jay and Alex.

I don't mean to say that you're not onto something. Especially as Tim's story seems to be one of repressed childhood trauma and apparent torture at the hospital (I doubt Hoody would have integrated footage of electroconvulsive therapy into at least one TTA video and that Tim's visceral fear of the likely operating room at the hospital would have appeared on camera if there hadn't been some IG reality to it), there could very well be some sort of lake or pool induced traumatic episode, yes. But maybe it's not a near accidental drowning. What if one of his parents tried to do something to him on purpose? His dad was never around and his mom seemed to be less than the mom of the year. There was a TTA video that seemed to show the perspective of someone being held underwater or having someone stand over him or her as he or she was submerged underwater. Maybe it was some sort of "scientific procedure" at the hospital. Or maybe the first TO encounter happened near the water?

My apologies if my attitude reads as being in any way patronizing. It's not intentional. I just never see any need to hold back in writing a response, especially after a pale ale of moderate strength. I think you may have something, but as we don't have the record of anyone else's abduction experience (and Entry #45, I think it is, the one that ends with TO appearing in Alex's room and taking him, shows Alex setting up a camera to make a record--maybe for himself but maybe also for whoever might find the tape?--of the fact that he was being abducted rather than trying to show what actually happened while he was abducted), I'm not sure how to demonstrate it.

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 10:42 pm

Slendermau5
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This theory would shed some light on TTA's Broadcast (the one with the picture of the lake and the voice saying "enjoy watching you suffer"), could that have been directed at Tim?

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:43 pm

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