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Darkiplier at every chance he gets: “Same snake, different skin.” “The truth, not the lies he’s told you.” “I always thought you were trapped in his games, perpetually plunging down the rabbit holes of his stories.”

The fandom, very logically: “Okay, so while future projects aren’t necessarily related to WKM because that story is done, they were set up because of it and technically all of the choose your own adventure protagonists are Actor Mark. They’re Actor Mark’s stories. Thanks Mark, that’s cool lore to establish how all this ridiculous stuff can happen while still having consistent characters and faces.”

Mark, like an asshole: “Lol Engineer Mark isn’t The Actor by the way.”

Us: “I’m sorry, W H A T?!”

I think I have an answer for this…Maybe. It might be a bit of a crack theory, but it’s the best I’ve got.

Remember, Mark said that the events of Space bleed over into the past. That much is clear with Wilford scheduling us for an interview that, for us is in the past, but for him is in the future. Also with Darkiplier picking up the warp crystal that seemingly becomes the box ™.

It’s clear from the ending that the wormhole has ripped into every possible universe out there.

Mark also says that we, the viewers, are not the only ones making choices. He brings up the example of Lady, and how they CHOOSE to jump into the wormhole with you, and how they wonder what might have happened if they didn’t. Keep this concept in mind.

My idea of who Dorene is comes from these very three concepts:

What if Dorene is Celine if she never CHOSE to interfere in Who Killed Markiplier?

That would explain not only her BEING Celine, when up to this point we’ve been told Celine is sleeping (seemingly within Darkiplier), but also her older appearance.

It would explain her emphasis on choices, and wether or not you feel you’ve made a correct one. It’s because she feels she made a wrong choice by not interfering, and therefore not being able to protect her brother.

Finally, it would explain how she knows what happened to Damien despite seemingly not being a part of Darkiplier. She knows Damien is dead because she was a part of the aftermath, but not the chaos. That’s why she seems so melancholy when mentioning him.

Celine wasn’t originally a part of Actor’s plan. She wasn’t supposed to show up and wasn’t invited to the party. That implies she actively made the choice to appear, and that there could be a universe where she never did…

My two cents on the L O R E:

Mark said the ever so lovable quote, “engineer isn't actor, but actor might just be engineer.”

Confusing, right? However, I think this just means that while Actor is NOT Engineer Mark, aspects of Engineer Mark and his character arc are significant to who Actor is and who he will become.

Remember, Mark said that Space bleeds back into the past, so I think that Engineer Mark’s scene at the end of Space might just be reminiscent of something Actor went through/will go through. I already see aspects of Engineer Mark in the Actor:

• Refusal to accept that HE is the one that caused this, no matter why he did it.

• Blaming others for something that, in the end, was his choice.

•The focus on justice and “the hero vs. the villain”

• Real life Mark saying that “there are no villains.” Actor Mark is not a villain, despite what we as a fandom may think of him. Neither is Engineer. They are both characters who partially caused their own downfall, and blame others for it, and thus seem like the villain from an outsider’s perspective. In their own minds, THEY ARE THE HERO. Wether or not that’s actually true.

• Engineer Mark’s realization and apology bringing the potential for some sort of realization Actor may have. Will it be a redemption arc? Hell no. Will it be a HUGE step for him in terms of character development? Absolutely.

• Potential for Actor to realize he was being manipulated by the house entity. Real Mark mentioned he imagined it similar to Warhammer, if you believe in something enough, it happens. Actor truly believes he is the hero in all of this. That’s a direct quote from DAMIEN. But what exactly happens if he ever realizes that he’s NOT a hero?

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So first off, OW MY HEART. I literally cried watching this, so that’s fun. But second, I want to talk about some of the things that were said by our robotic friend in this video, starting with the most significant things.

Obviously the entire interview is important. I wasn’t expecting to get lore in this video, but here we are. WAIA tells us a story:

“A man goes to a party. This man met an old friend. The two friends shared some wine. The two friends played a game. The most dangerous game. I didn’t know the gun was loaded. I didn’t know. Was it my fault? Was it?”

This is clearly a reference to Who Killed Markiplier. In the explanation livestream, Mark explained that Actor died of a gunshot wound because during the party he took William down to the basement/cellar for a drink. After catching up, Actor challenged William to a game of Russian Roulette in order to put all the bad blood behind them. Actor rigged it so that William would shoot him. This is why we see a broken wine bottle when we go down there in WKM.

However the information that William didn’t know the gun was actually loaded is incredibly sad. It implies he thought that Mark was joking, and that they would have a laugh about it afterwords. This is probably why William was so adamant that everything was a joke by the end of WKM. I also want to note the use of “friend” here. This shows that even after everything that happened between them, William still considered Actor a friend, and he didn’t want to hurt him. I also want to note that after WAIA mentions “the most dangerous game” a flash of red appears behind him. This is incredibly similar to what happened in DAMIEN when Actor mentioned how things didn’t go according to plan. The red and the sound here clearly represent the gunshot.

Moving on to if we say “No” in response to WAIA’s question:

“You can’t change the past. You can tell all the stories you want to tell, it won’t change what happened. It can’t rewrite the past. If you live in fantasy forever, you’ll lose yourself in the story.”

Shortly after this it’s revealed that WAIA was created after scanning Wilford’s brain, so I think this is all coming from the little piece of sanity he has left. What little of his memories and regrets remain, and what parts Wilford himself ignores. We saw very clearly in WMLW that Wilford tends to ignore serious things and just go with the flow. Anyway, I think this little monologue is just Wilford knowing he can’t change what he did. It’s also recognizing that Wilford has been living in a fantasy forever. The fantasy that no one died, the fantasy that it was a joke, and he lost himself.

I also think that’s relevant to Actor Mark in this case. Actor is literally living in a story at all times. A story of his own making. He’s losing himself to his own ego and his creations.

Moving on to if you say “yes” in response:

“I’m sorry for everything that I’ve done. I don’t remember who I was. I wish I did. But I am sorry.”

Much shorter this time, still just as hurtful. Here you can really hear the emotion come through in his voice. There’s not much lore here aside from confirming the fact that at this point, Wilford is too far gone. He’s lost. He doesn’t remember anything about who he was when he was William, at least not until you drag it out of his brain by force. He’s repressed who he used to be so much he can’t remember anything.

The next thing I want to bring up is from the video “Uhh...Potato Salad?” In it he starts listing off colors, and after he says red, he glitches and says “I saw you die.”

Here I think he could be referring to two things. One, he’s talking to us as the DA. He saw us die after he shot us. Two, he’s talking about Actor, saying he saw him die in the cellar. Either one is likely considering the context.

Within this video, he also glitches when saying directions, after saying down he says “basement” referring to the basement where he and Actor were. After saying “who where” he says “What am I?”

Moving on to the next bit, when WAIA kills you in the bad endings, he says multiple things

“I tell you me.”

“It was an accident.”

“There’s still time.”

The “there’s still time” line is a bit confusing. There’s still time for what? I’m not sure what this means, but I’m sure something will come up eventually.

He said Heist 2 was in FULL PRODUCTION. Which means it’s most likely already written, or at least the script has been approved in some way. I could be wrong, but you usually don’t say something is in full production when it’s still being written. Plus, Heist 2 is a pretty hefty project when it comes to filming and editing, and he said in this video that it was coming late 2021. I don’t think that would be possible if the project was still in the writing stage.

In the video he posted recently, he stated he needed to put his full attention towards WRITING a special project. Plus, it’s interesting that he called it a “special project” when he’s been VERY open about the fact that Heist 2 exists and is in production. Meanwhile with this special project, he’s being very vague and secretive about it.

If you remember in the post mortem, he said there was a project that wasn’t ready to be talked about yet, and was censored when he tried to. I think that this “special project” is the project that he couldn’t talk about in that video. The timeline makes sense, since he is now writing this project, and can talk about it now because of it, when before the project idea could easily go through drastic changes since it hadn’t been written yet. I think this is one of the other things Mark has been working on, and now that Heist 2 is in full production and Unus Annus is over, he actually has time to fully pursue.

Rhytm Redux is a total jam that I can’t stop listening to, and I noticed that the song has quite a bit of bass! So, I took the time to write out some tabs for those who may want to play along with the song!

I realy hope these are correct, and I’m pretty confident they are. I played it by ear, so if something is wrong I apologize.

I didn’t write this out, but the song sounds a lot smoother in a few places if you use a hammer on rather than plucking the string multiple times. The song isn’t too difficult, so if you’re a beginner, don’t worry. I suggest using your thumb to play this song, but if a different method is easier for you, go for it.