The Alternate (Vol. 333)

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"The Alternate" nicknamed as The Murray Residence Alternate, is a major antagonist in The Mandela Catalogue. It serves as the primary antagonist of Act 1 and one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside 6) in Act 2. 
==Description==
The Alternate is a very tall, lanky, pale entity and apparently has the ability to float or at least appear to do so. Its voice is extraordinarily deep and raspy, as heard when it sings Amazing Grace to Thatcher.
Thatcher's confrontation with it heavily implies that alternates cannot be killed by conventional means.
When disguised as Thatcher, the alternate appears to look like Thatcher, but ends up looking uncanny.
==Biography==
===The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 333===
The alternate appears in the Murray household after Lynn's encounter with 6. During a 911 phone call between Jude Murray and Thatcher Davis, Jude describes The Alternate as appearing like nothing he's seen in his life. After Thatcher holds on Jude's line, Jude is presumably killed by The Alternate off-screen.
He makes it's first physical appearance during Thatcher and Ruth Weaver's investigation of the house, after Ruth goes missing. Soon after, Thatcher hears footsteps nearby. He calls out into the house, The Alternate responding back in Thatcher's voice. As Thatcher becomes frustrated, The Alternate impersonates the prior phone call between Thatcher and Jude before running up to Thatcher and singing Amazing Grace in a low, gravelly voice. Thatcher eventually jumps out a closed window back to the Police Station.
As Thatcher is making desperate calls for help at the Mandela County Police Department, Amazing Grace gradually gets louder and louder on the security cameras, signifying The Alternate approaching Thatcher.
After none of Thatcher's pleads work, The Alternate reaches and confronts him. Then impersonates the voice of Ruth and multiple other citizens, who tell Thatcher "The town is in shambles because of you", as well as a child (possibly Adam Murray) who believed him to be their imaginary friend. The Alternate floats toward Thatcher until cornering him. As near the same with Mark’s initial confrontation in Volume 1, the camera cuts to black and “uh oh! bad decision Thatcher!” appears onscreen. From Thatcher's chest camera we can see the The Alternate stretch its face and laugh maniacally before being shot by Thatcher, which does no damage. With closed captions on, the following names can be read: "Mark Heathcliff", "Ruth Weaver", "Cesar Torres".
The Alternate copies the appearance of Ruth before telling Thatcher "THERE'S NOT ENOUGH ROOM FOR THE TWO OF US LIEUTENANT". We then see the alternate twitching before staring into Thatcher's chest cam. The footage freezes on it smiling.
===every day gets brighter===
Thatcher reveals in a recording that the Alternate has impersonated himself and is wandering about. He talks about how he feels he cannot show how he truly feels about the alternate invasion. “I'm scared, but I can't show it. I can't show any fucking weakness because if I act human, if I act like this- this is fucking bothering me, everyone's gonna lose hope.” He then goes on to say that he will kill the alternate even if it’s the last thing he does, and that part of him wishes he did not survive the encounter with it.
=== The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 4 ===
The Alternate we see in Vol. 333 presumably takes Thatcher's chest camera, turns into Thatcher and films himself saying "This is Lieutenant Thatcher Davis. It seems like I made a mistake. Everything's clear here at the station. Calling off all units. Over." 
The Alternate then teases Thatcher (still referring to Thatcher as "Lieutenant") and refers to him as a "Scared boy with a gun", comparing Thatcher to Mark Heathcliff, using psychological tactics to torture Thatcher, as he was the officer leading the Mark Heathcliff investigation. The reason why this would torture Thatcher would be because he followed the Mandela police rules and didn't send any units to save Mark, causing Thatcher to have even more regret on his mind.
== Abilities ==
=== Shifting Faces ===
Like N, The Alternate has the ability to change his face by manipulating his own face.
=== Levitation ===
The Alternate has the ability to levitate never seen before in another Alternates (Except Gabriel and 6) . With the peculiarity that he has the posture of Jesus crucified as he did when he went straight for Thatcher Davis in The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 333
=== Speak with different voices ===
In The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 333, we see The Alternate's ability to use different voices from his future or past victims (Like Thatcher Davis, Ruth Weaver and Jude Murray) something that more Alternates like him probably have.
==Speculation==
*There is a lot of evidence supporting The Alternate being accidentally created by Adam Murray as an infant in Vol. 333, after Adam did everything the man in the TV (Stanley/6) told him to.
*This Alternate and Cesar's Alternate are often implied to be one and the same, which doesn't make chronological sense, given that this Alternate was manifested through the broadcast of the Might of the Subconscious TV show, which happened after Mark's death.
==Trivia==
*Given that Thatcher Davis is named after King David, whom had notoriously slayed the giant Goliath in the Book of Samuel at a very young age despite all odds, it's assumed that "The Alternate" is supposed to mirror Goliath due to its massive size.
*The bullet Thatcher Davis Shot to The Alternate is a 9mm bullet.
==Gallery==
Arm.png|The alternate appears before Thatcher.
Alternate hallway.png|The alternate followed Thatcher.
Raising.png|The alternate begins raising into the air, notably in the same position as Jesus Christ (The son of God in Christianity) during his crucifixion.
Rapidly approaching.png|The alternate floats towards Thatcher.
Stretching.jpg|The alternate molting itself.
Smile.png|The alternate stretches its mouth into a smile to distress Thatcher.
File:333altvol4.png|The Alternate in TMC Vol.4 as the Face Studio 2 guide face.
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Category:Antagonists
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