End of an era

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No romance, no action.

have you ever met an Italian man

that man looks……

I took notes watching the stream! Let me know if there’s anything integral that I missed– and you can bet SERIOUS MONEY that I’ll be piecing together more theories in the next few days!

CHAPTER ONE

CONFIRMED: WARFSTACHE PREQUEL.

“Bonjour” was an homage to ADWM.

Each character Mark plays has different quotes about “Life” (i.e. Life is for the living, life is ours to choose, life needs a bit of madness).

THE DRUNK SEQUENCE PREDICTS EVERYTHING!!

The Damien keg stand meant to signify that he’d be stuck in “the upside-down”, and when he tried to wake us up, that told us he was the only one who really wanted to help us!

ASSHOLE MARK NEVER DRINKS.

The Mayor turning gray means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Mark tried to make it obvious we would die, yet we were all still surprised (lmao).

CONFIRMED: In Mark’s own words, Damien is the only one with a “human” reaction to the death.

The Colonel was based on the hunter from Jumanji!

The Chef is scary, but inherently harmless.

Little Buddy’s “kill” mode is insignificant to the story and WAS an homage to FNaF.

CONFIRMED: COLONEL, MARK, AND DAMIEN WERE FRIENDS SINCE CHILDHOOD BUT HAD A FALLING-OUT.

And the dick on the body tape was 100% Ethan’s idea!! LMAO

CHAPTER TWO

CONFIRMED: The Colonel DOES “pop in and out of existence”, but he is NOT the only one to do so– just the most obvious.

Mark tried to make it “painfully apparent” that the Colonel was the one who did it.

Detective and Asshole Mark were friends at the same time he, Damien, and Colonel were friends– but the two did NOT know the Detective.

The long winding hall sequence with Detective was intentional– so we could get oriented with the house…

… because the house “does not follow the laws of physics”.

When following the Colonel out of the bedroom on the second floor, we warp with him to the first floor patio (with the pool).

The crib in the room was not a planned detail in the story.

CONFIRMED: The Colonel and Celine ran off together, and that’s what made Asshole Mark hate him.

CONFIRMED: IN THE WHOLE STORY, THERE IS NO HOST INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER.

CONFIRMED: The Colonel and Asshole Mark grew up together in that house, which is why the Colonel knows it so well and refers to it as “his own”. Mark even considered making those two characters be brothers!

CHAPTER THREE

“Hence the guns” is one of Mark’s favorite scenes in the series.

The cane is a sign of Damien’s high-class status as Mayor.

CONFIRMED: Celine and Asshole Mark were married.

Quote from Mark himself: “[Celine] wants what she wants, and she won’t let anyone get in her way”

Another quote: “She also has a temper… like someone else we know”

Mark’s original inclination was to make Damien and Celine be siblings, hence Celine’s adamant refusal of Damien’s help. (I caught onto this notion, but it didn’t really resonate with anyone else I talked to about it.)

Mark said that Celine wanted to use the viewer in the ritual because she saw them as expendable, since she didn’t know them personally.

There are no lightning strikes when George says “murder” because he hasn’t been inside the house for many years.

CONFIRMED: The house is cursed. (Make of that what you will.)

CONFIRMED: In the final door shot of Celine, she is possessed– because she messed with power beyond her control, and Damien was in the room with her at the time.

CHAPTER FOUR

The Colonel looks out for Celine and Damien– but NOT Asshole Mark.

The odd glowy room-walking sequence was supposedly a small view into another world– “the upside-down”, it was dubbed (but there’s debate about whether that region specifically was “the upside-down”)

There is debate as to whether this is how the Colonel “pops in and out of existence”.

We don’t see the Detective’s investigation room until that chapter because the house hid it from us.

In that room, there are post-its reading “DON’T TRUST THE SEER” (which I caught, but it was a very minor thing I had to watch multiple times to see)

The Colonel owed Asshole Mark A LOT of money.

As we fall, William says, “It was an accident, I swear!”

The original idea for the final gun scene was that Damien would walk in and be the one the Colonel shot, NOT us.

CONFIRMED: Asshole Mark had killed himself many times before, but returned to his body from “the upside-down”. That’s why he was stabbed 37 times, poisoned, beaten, strangled, drowned, AND shot– none of those happened on the same day. Asshole Mark tried his hand at the dark arts to achieve this.

CONFIRMED: The black eyes we see when Asshole Mark’s body speaks to us after we die is NOT his own spirit– it’s the spirit of someone else trapped there.

CONFIRMED: Damien had every intention of helping us! He did! Mark confirmed it– he wasn’t manipulating us at all, he just wanted the best for us!

CONFIRMED (!!!): William/the Colonel spent ten hours watching our body overnight and cradled Damien’s cane the whole time. (THE FEELS ARE REAL, GUYS! THEY’RE CANON!!)

CONFIRMED: The reason Wilford Warfstache’s suspenders are pink is because they used to be red, but they faded over many, many years.

Mark didn’t realize how tragic the ending really was until he was editing it. In his own words, it’s “terrifyingly sad”.

And, finally, the one we’ve all been waiting for…

The being inhabiting your body at that point is no longer purely Damien nor purely Celine. Imagine two fractured halves of a picture that was stuffed into a broken frame they were never meant for.

Whatever good intentions went into this amalgamation were washed away when only the worst sides of either coin would fit into the slot. The Damien and Celine you know are gone. And when all the light has gone away, all that’s left is Dark.

Out of all the things that I’ve been wondering about in the overall Who Killed Markiplier continuity, the Jim twins were the biggest things on my radar.  Nothing about what they were doing made any sense in relation to the overall mystery.  Initially, I was assuming that they were to serve as opposite to our PoV, allowing them to wander around places that the episode didn’t show us in order to give us more clues toward the killer.  They seemed to do that fine during the first two chapters, where they were able to get a good look at the crime scene and show us just how close the detective Benjamin was to his former partners…in both sense of the word.

But come the third and fourth Jim-casts, and…they’re really just joke casts.  One big lead up to a subscriber joke, and mumbling nonsense about how Jim thinks the murder occurred.  No contribution to the overall statement.  Isn’t that weird, especially when the original cast had enough jokes to hold itself!

…wait a minute.

How many jokes were in each chapter, really?

That’s when it hit me.  The very first episode threw us a red herring in terms of the chef, whom it tried to show off as the potential killer.  Everything seemed to be a red herring, huh?  But what if the Jims were red herrings as well?

What if they were atmospheric red herrings?

Couldn’t find a better term for it, sorry.

Up until this series, all of Markiplier’s skits would always end with a joke.  Each one, no fail.  All of his work with Cyndago ends with a joke.  Google IRL ends with a joke.  Five Nights at Freddy’s: The Interview ends with a joke.  A Date with Markiplier ends with a joke.  Hell, Darkiplier vs Antisepticeye (something we all thought could be serious) was just one big glorified shitpost.  We’ve been trained to think that everything Mark will do will just lead up to one big punchline.  So tell me that this wasn’t what you were thinking about the minute you saw the thumbnail.  “Oh boy, another skit.  Let’s see where this ends up.”

And hell yeah, the first episode feeds on that expectation.  We’re in a goddamn murder mystery noir thing, and the first joke we get is how they end up partying in the manor.  Come on, the first chapter even ends on a dick joke.

Were we not just assuming that this was going to lead up to something hilarious?  I remember seeing it everywhere.  “Oh, the murderer is Chica, isn’t it?!”  We were all expecting a punchline.

Until the jokes stopped coming.

Chapter Two had some jokes sprinkled in it, but it didn’t end on one.  Chapter Three had two, max, and Chapter Four?  None at all.  It actually kept to its serious tone all the way to the end.  Forget the fact that this was an origin story, THAT was the big twist ending that no one was expecting.  How in the world did we buy this?  How did no one realize that this was going to be a series that is going to keep itself straight?

Enter the Jims.

They are the ones that are going to be heavily memed to hell and back.  They are the ones making the funny jokes, with the weird walks and the endless Jims and whatever else they decide to make them do.  Sure, they’re not part of the main story, but they’re still there for people to go and watch.  Hell, the hashtag is now swarmed with Jim memes for levity.

And this is how Mark fools us into thinking that this series is something it’s not.

Sure, those of us who only watch the main series will probably not be surprised by how dark the ending gets, but for those of us who did watch these, we were all probably thinking that this was all going to lead to a big joke.  Wouldn’t it be funny if Markiplier actually died because one of the Jims did something stupid or something?  Besides, if we watched the Jimcasts after we watched the main chapters, then they really did end on jokes.  The theme of the Markiplier skit has been maintained.  Since the Jims are waddling around in an otherwise serious environment, the whole thing has to end on a joke, right?

And then the twist comes in.  There will not be a joke at the end of this train.  Everything is being played 100% seriously.

I’m just in love with this GIF, my god.

What started out with the death of one man ended up being the shattering of a closely knit group of friends that can never be fixed.  One goes insane, while the other becomes hellbent on revenge.  There is no joke here.  There’s nothing the Jims can do to alleviate the situation.

And what better way to show this meta change, to show that this is something that must be taken 100% seriously, that there will be no laughs coming from this manor, 

important video

Imagine that at the time ADWM happend, we already would have known about Darks past. And when he is starting with his “Did you miss me? I missed you” we’re like “Yes. Me too, Damien.” And we hug him. Dark just stops moving, not shoving us away or anything, he just lets it happen, being confused about this positivity towards him.

I give a quick glance to the stage, which is empty except for a small table and some makeshift walls, before looking back at my date. Who isn’t there. I look around wildly to find where he went off to so quickly, only to be interrupted by a high pitched whining and creaking coming from the stage. Maybe it’s part of the show?

The room begins to darken as I start to stand up, I need to find Mark, but as soon as I do the room begins to spin until I lose all equilibrium. Everything turns to a pitch black and I’m spinning and spinning until I’m not anymore and flashes of cyan and red are shot everywhere. I look around wildly, clutching my dizzy head as I try to figure out what’s going on. It’s like a void in here, no ends and no beginning.

“Did you miss me?” A voice asks, the sound reverberating throughout the wallless void. I manage to twist around to where the voice originates from to find a man who looks exactly like Mark standing like he’d always been there. But he’s not Mark, his skin is an ash grey, his hair is tousled and parted on the other side, and his eyes are like black holes. “Because I missed you very much.”

Then it clicks in my head, the image of him appearing in my memory. I walk up to him tentatively, the memories starting to sluggishly creep back in. “I…I know you. I–I thought it was always just a dream, but you’re real!”

He seems confused, as if not expecting an answer to his question, but he quickly glosses it over with a suave smile. “Of course I’m real. I’m more real than anything you’ve ever known before.” Part of his seems to glitch, his entire demeanor and position shifting so he looks like he’s screaming, but it’s gone so fast I almost think I imagined it.

“You're…” I scrunch up my eyes to try and remember. “You’re Damien. And Celine. And…me?”

His surprise can’t be covered up as easily this time, utter shock coloring his features as he stares wide-eyed me. But that shock is covered up with rage as he steps closer to me. “No one. Can call me. By that name,” he bites out, his breath cold against my skin.

I stare back defiantly him. “I was you. I think I can call you whatever I want. And if this isn’t a fucked up memory, then I’m pretty sure that that’s my body you’re using.” He continues to seethe, but my expression softens and I take the final step forward so that I’m hugging him. “But that doesn’t matter. I’m sorry Damien and Celine. I’m so sorry.”

He stands rigid against me, but seems to surrender as he realizes what I’m doing. When he speaks next, I can hear Celine’s voice mixing with Damien’s. “I’m sorry too.”

~~~

”They didn’t teach about timelines in detective school”

So this is my midnight rambling right now but I thought in the shower

Wasn’t Little Buddy’s surveillance cameras timestamp October 9th 2017?

Which makes everything Mark has released before WKM in the future. This is happening right now. Dark/ Damien trapped us yesterday somewhere and is going around looking for Mark who took his body and wants it back.

Colonel/ Willford is still probaply thinking that this whole thing was a joke and wondering, why his friends aren’t coming out and telling something like ”YOU GOT PRANKED!”

When we ”died” Damien mentioned that Mark is now walking around in his body. In A Date with Markiplier, if you choose to see the horror play, he(Dark) says

”He promised to let me in again” which we can assume that he means he can get his own body back. So he can get out of our broken, creaking body.

So everything else Mark has posted about them is in the freaking future.

My question is:

how did we get out of the place that Dark/Damien trapped us in? Did the Detective have something to do with it? Because in the end of Ch. 4 you can hear the Detective saying

”Colonel,

If you can hear this

You better run”

SO CLEARLY MAYBE HE’S ALIVE SOMEHOW AFTER HE GOT SHOT. I THINK HE PLAYS A BIGGER ROLE THAN WE THOUGHT.

I’m sorry for this rambling, it’s currently past midnight here where I live and I am very tired and haunted (JIM) by this. But anyways, I hope this made sense!

(Also thank you Mark for distracting me from reality for a sec, this is so much fun I’M LOVING EVERY MOMENT OF THIS @markiplier )

⬇️that’s me right now.

But then this begs the question…

I’m my Darkiplier songs, you can here a very common piano piece. I picked this piece to use in the Darkiplier music I make because it has a sad tone to it, to represent a broken shell.

I think I made a good choice.

However, in this piece, I use some more strings.