As we know, Anti is the embodiment of Jack’s greatest fears, right?
What if this is true of all the other egos as well? What if Anti appears differently to each ego- Jack included- based on their individual fears?
…with some similarities, of course. Every time we’ve seen Anti- whether it’s in Say Goodbye, Detention, Dark Silence, anything– he’s had traits that let us identify him instantly. The staticky, electronic white noise. The unstable form shown in glitches. The low video resolution whenever he appears. The grin coupled with black eyes. The gauges in his ears and black clothes. The RGB-and-black color scheme.
We’re most familiar with how Anti appears to Jack:
The green tint, the slit neck, the knife…. He embodies several fears that Jack has openly stated he has:
having his throat cut/ being stabbed
glitching figures
something looming in the background over him while he’s unaware
distorted voices, high-pitched giggling
..and others that I’m probably forgetting.
But he changes drastically after DDLC, the last time we see “Green Anti” (excluding ONW, as we had seen those clips previously in other videos). The next time we see him is from Chase’s perspective at the end of Dark Silence:
No knives. No slit neck. No voice or giggling, even. But, there’re several new things instead:
new form of glitches, much more rapid with trailing effects that give an other-worldly feel (could just be Robin experimenting with new effects, however)
the single blindingly bright eye; we can never see both eyes clearly until the end when we see they’re pitch black
we hear kids crying, and whispers repeating lines such as “it’s all your fault,” “close the door,” etc (instead of hearing manic laughing as usual)
mainly red-and-black color scheme, as opposed to the green-and-black scheme from before
Something else that stood out to me between Green Anti vs. Red Anti is that we never hear the latter one speak during Dark Silence. We hear voices, yes, but there’s nothing really indicating that Red Anti is the one speaking aloud. On the other hand, Green Anti is constantly whispering or laughing (even though Jack usually can’t hear it), and specializes in giving long-ass monologues to us in the community. Red Anti just strides directly up to Chase silently and with purpose. He doesn’t stand there and laugh at Chase or taunt him, as Green Anti seems likely to do. It’s possible that he projected audio hallucinations of kids’ screaming as well as the whispers into Chase’s mind, but we never actually see/hear Red Anti speak.
Now we don’t actually know that much about Chase just yet, since he’s only canonically been in a handful of videos. But we do know that he cares deeply about his kids, he relies on alcohol to cope with possible depression/suicidal thoughts, and he feels responsible for his and Stacy’s divorce. But Red Anti seems to embody traits to target these as well as some potential fears:
fear of losing kids – screaming and crying children in background, Chase’s distressed response of calling out for them (“Where are they?!”)
fear of abandonment/ never being forgiven – whispers saying “it’s all your fault”
alcoholism – wavering room, seeing multiple Antis at times, inability to focus on what’s being seen
fear of helplessness/ hesitation – whispers telling Chase to “close the door” and essentially give up on his kids, “What do you want from me?!”
…now here’s what I think is the worst part.
We’ve seen Anti take on two different forms, one for Jack, one for Chase. If he truly does appear differently to each of the egos, that means that Anti can and will take on at least 4 other forms- one for JJ, one for Jackieboy Man, one for Marvin, and one for Dr. Schneeplestein. And we don’t really know enough about these egos yet to know how Anti will target them.
Seán wants us to take Anti more seriously… and I’m starting to see why.
We haven’t even seen half of what Anti’s capable of. And there’s no way for us to know for certain what’s in store for us regarding the other egos yet.
A Glitch Named Anti 