Damien (The Mayor), was Markiplier's best friend growing up.
Celine (The Seer), was very protective/dismissive of Damion.
For Abe (The Detective): Mark trusted him, 100%. He was the only person who knew how to get the job done and in a reasonable amount of time.
Mark would know if something was to happen to him Abe would be the first person to try and figure out what had happened. Mark knew that Benjamin (The Butler) and the Chef would obviously be upset however they wouldn't worry about finding out who killed him. They're only here because it's their job. They could/will go find a new one.
Markiplier's turn:
Mark started to notice something was up with the house. In my head the senerio for the first time he noticed something was different was when he was in the kitchen cutting something for him and his new bride to eat after the Chef went to bed for the night and he dropped the knife and it stabbed through his foot, (1 of 37), and sticking through the floor; but when he looked down to examine the wound there was no blood. Even when he pulled out the knife and looked at the now open wound on his foot, there was no pain and no blood. That's the beginning of Mark trying to test his limits seeing what he could do to himself before something would happen.
Mark tried to explain it to his wife Celine but she already knows and tells him not to tamper with it. She doesn't want him to become like her. But because the house is it's own thing it causes him to become obsessed. Causing Mark to do crazy things and see how far he can push his own limits.
As for the house: After Mark explained it I saw more and more and made the explanation that much better in my head so I'm only going to tamper with it but that's going to be later on. (Lol sorry!)
Now for my craziness to run off with this idea:
Celine and William had met earlier in their lives and had fallen in love. However Celine thought William was too crazy and unsafe for the child they had together. (I imagine this after the newspaper article in the office where it says Safari Hunt Gone Wrong). Celine just left with the baby. Which explains Damion.
Celine found a way to change herself with the powers. Because she feared death she wanted to become younger and the only way she knew how was to become someone else. After she became someone else she knew it would help her get away from William and protect Damion from the crazy man that he was. They moved away causing Mark and Damion to meet and become friends when they were just children.
She got to watch the two of them grow older together. And before they went off to university Celine knew her body had gotten older and she didn't want to go (Die I mean). She became the form of Celine we know now from WKM. This young woman who Mark falls in love with. But before she does that, she tells William about Damion because she doesn't want him to know 1. That this younger person in their lives is her 2. She doesn't think Damion would believe her if she explained it to him (Which later on spoilers he will) and 3. She knew he was going to do great things with his life and she didn't the public to know he was a bastard child.
I imagine that William stepped back into Damion's life because he wanted to know more about his son. Damion just kind of kept him around. He knew that when he would run for public office it might make him a better candidate. He also knew that if he became Mayor he could better hide public record about his dysfunctional family. I also believe that Damion didn't want anything to do with his parents once he became an adult. That's why he asks for the Colonel and doesn't use his name when he yells at him during the first episode but William doesn't understand and is trying to be his father and calls him Damion. I think that Damion resents his father for not being their for most of his life because he thinks with him there his mom (Celine) would not have gotten herself interested in Dark Magic.
But since the four of them are hanging out more with each other that's Celine explains to Damion who she really is but not until after her she runs away again with William. Damion is trying to help his now heartbroken friend get over his ex. Mark decides the party is a great way to get everyone back together (or the house thought that for him.)
Now buckle up because this is where my brain went into insanity mode:
I believe that the house is showing Mark the path it should take to kill himself:
Because the house was controlling Mark at this point it started making him believe these crazy stories about why his wife would leave him. Hint to the major story I came up with earlier. Mark didn't want to believe that she would just leave so the house created everything above.
Because of this I believe that the house manifested everyone in this house. And I mean everyone except Mark obviously
The house didn't want us to feel overwhelmed when we walked through the door to something we have no clue what's happening. When you walk into a home of a friends as a kid usually the first person you would meet is the parent right? The first person we are introduced to is William, the father of Damion. The Butler is next but only because it's his job but it's also the houses way to boost Marks ego, (Look man you're rich enough that you can afford a butler to open the door to the guests, makes you feel important right?)
The Detective ducks away quickly because we don't need to know him right now. We get to know him really well during the series. But then were met with Damien. We know him, obviously putting us into a (false) since of ease as we walk around because we at least know somebody at the party. With the Chef (Also I picture this taking place during the same time as A Date with Markiplier, so the house would pick someone remembered maybe not fondly but still "Doing his job").
Then we meet the host: Markiplier. The house put's him there to foreshadow everything happening. In this crazy 'dream' (I don't like using dream because dream theory is not what I'm going for here.)
When we wake up from our drunken night of fun the Butler is the first person we meet. (I thought that was weird as well but my explanation for that was obviously everyone would be awake except you. The Benjamin has to wake up early along with the Chef to make sure everything is set for the morning, so they are awake already. The others would have asked for something from the Benjamin as they woke as well. Damien is already awake because he's the next person you see and talk too and William doesn't ask for anything and is already roaming around the home. Abe I picture took a shower explaining why he's the only person in the Manor to have a costume change. Leaving only you left to wake up, explaining why he's creepily standing outside your door.)
The next person we come up to is Damien, he says his things but the last line is: "I have work to finish but I'll meet you at breakfast." Why would he bring work on a weekend away? There's no reason for him to have his work with him unless his work is already at the manor. The house has him here this whole time. His office is here.
Then we find Marks body that falls into frame. I believe Marks body just gave out before we get to talk to him this morning. The house is going on only what Mark would come up with. (From Mark's explanation from the live stream, why would the colonel make sure the only things left behind if he did it was a broken wine bottle and the dead body in the middle of the sitting room? That wouldn't make since but it also wouldn't make since for everybody to go down to the basement/wine cellar at 8:30am. Nobody is have morning wine with breakfast after the rager from the night before.)
Causing the who done it's to start. Damien goes to the colonel for a shoulder to cry on. But when the colonel is dismissive of him he becomes more suspicious of him. Damien's already has covered too many things for William and now he doesn't think he can this time. He need's to own up to his actions. That's why at the end of the first episode he needs time to think and during the second he's trying to find the colonel to tell him.
As for the Detective, he took over everything right away. I think the house brought him in to be Mark's since of humor through the whole thing. We question his examination of the body and in the second episode when he leads us though the entire house going up and down two flights of stairs, when we could have had the whole monologue told to us while standing around the beautiful portrait of the body outline in the sitting room.
In episode two:
I like to believe the backstory for the colonel is that he obviously had seen war. He was a decorated man of honor, he did what he had to during his service to come home safely. He drowns out his past because he feels guilty. That's why he knows the dictionary words for Zombie, it's his worst fear. He would obviously tell the one person he trusted, his love, Celine, obviously why she knows the terms as well. You tell someone you trust your worst fears right?
(I actually had to look it up, thanks for the new vocab words ;] )
Okay, so this is the part of the second episode where I questioned everything. Why would the detective be looking for clues in the victims bedroom when he already "fingered" the killer. The detective doesn't trust us, he even said it to himself (out loud) in the film-noir scene as we walked through the house. Why would he trust us to tell us we are going to the Colonel's room? (As a person who does set design stuff the context clues are the things that were giving it away. If this was Mark's room why would he still have Celine's things in his room still? I picture he got rid of them out of rage.) The reason I also believe this is Williams room is the pictures in the room. Why would you have a single picture of your friend sitting in your bedroom? Mark wasn't in the photo with him, unlike the other three. I know this sounds mean however, Markiplier (in the video not the one we know IRL) seems to egotistical to have pictures of anybody by themselves in his bedroom. There would be more photos of himself. That's the one thing in the room (besides the crib,) that didn't make since to me.
Then there's the last point, out of all 7 rooms (they said it in the live stream), why would the colonel come to one room in the house you are in? Unless he was familiar to the room, like as if it was his own.
To continue what Mark says before: "It's also why when the body moves the colonel suddenly becomes more amicable and he's like 'okay I see what's going on here' and he's just more conversational than he was in the first episode.
Since I said earlier, the colonel's worst fear is people coming back from the dead.I believe that's why he becomes more conversational during the later episodes, the body's missing and none of them know where it went. He doesn't want to be alone, afraid of being face to face with a zombie. Explaining why he want's to talk to you, he just needs someone with him, he didn't really want to walk the grounds alone. He runs away thinking you had followed him, then comes in Damien.
Damien is trying to be the leader that he is now that he's figured out what he's going to do for the colonel. He starts to make you question the Detective, only becasue with the Mayors power he's normally the people turn to in a time of crisis or need but this time the Detective just took over. He's not saying anything or pointing fingers, just planting a big enough seed to make you think.
For episode 3:
The only person surprised to see Celine is William, he doesn't want her back where she doesn't belong and worst he doesn't want her tangled up in all of this. The detective has no clue who she is. The chef knows, that's why he tells her what happened. The Butler has only heard stories of her, him being the new guy and all. As for Damien, he doesn't care, he want's her to have the same feelings as he does, with her being his ex and all but he also has odd emotions to all of this.
The rest of the episode explains itself really.
As for the 4th episode:
The colonel never asks for Damien because he knows he's a good kid and wouldn't get himself caught up in the things Celine is doing. William is only looking out for Celine because she's the only thing keeping him sane over the years. The colonel also knows there something wrong with this house, nothing good ever happened in the Manor. So when he say "I won't let my friends die in this godforsaken house," he means the only two people he really cares about. And at the moment both are missing, but he only knows of one. That's why he leaves, in pursuit trying to find Damien.
When we reach the office and find the research the detective has done, the colonel isn't mad about the detective keeping tabs on him, he's mad that he was even looking into the others. He realizes at that moment seeing everything in the office that he needs to step up for his actions and needs to do the right thing. However he feels like he needs to put the blame onto someone else for the two main people in his life, that are left, going missing. "He took my friends from me. He took Celine, He took Damien." He knows what happened to Mark, that's why he doesn't mention him in the list of people. He knows that's his wrong doing.
In the gut-wrenching end, the colonel doesn't mean to shoot you. He planned on shooting the detective. The colonel is a very smart man, he knows that if you shoot someone in area's away from main artery's or from major organs the person wouldn't die immediately. That's why he shoots the detective in the stomach, it causes him enough pain to shut him up. We are the odd person out. He want's to hide behind the walls that he's built.
The only reason Damien is with Celine in the end is because she want him there. She want's to make sure her child is safe. But in the end, she got everything that she wanted, in a sad twisted way she died knowing her son never turned into something evil, because she made sure they died together.
Damien is the pearl out of two evils. I know... I know... two wrongs don't make a right and two red's don't make blue but just hear me out alright?
Mark states: "Yes the colonel was waiting there the entire night cradling Damien's cane.
He was mourning the loss of his friend and he was standing over your body the entire night
mourning his actions. That doesn't mean madness, that means regret. Madness comes from seeing this body you'd been staring at for 10 hours suddenly just get back up. That's where madness happens."
That's why the colonel sits with the body all night. Nobody is there anymore to cover for him when something goes wrong. He's afraid that he's going to have explain to the police about why 7 people walked into the home (8 if you count the grounds-keeper but he was a minor character, so in this I don't) and why only 4 are coming out alive (maybe).
He cradles the crane because he knows that was the only part of him that came into this world that was good or pure. The colonel knew he was evil, but war had made him that way. Desensitized him from death. He was mourning the loss of the only good thing he had left. He might have called for Celine more but he didn't realize until they both were gone that he loved Damien. That's why he cradled the cane, it was all he had left.
He was standing over your body because you were not a part of any of this. You just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He became crazy when he saw the body move after 10 hours of it not.
He just saw his worst nightmare come true.He watched as the dead rose from the grave. I think that would sent anyone into madness don't you?
In the last scene, we pick up the cane. Or do we want to, we stare at it for a bit before picking it up, then our hand twitches (probably not intentional but still, its there) before our hand is not our hand anymore. That's went we look in the mirror, seeing that we are not ourselves but now Damien with the help of his mothers dark magic. But Damien was good, he was the pure child. That's why he doesn't look in the mirror right away, he's guilt stricken because he's becoming just like his parents, the one thing he didn't want to do. That's also why the blue is around him as well he's still the innocent person. But the longer he's trapped (You see it if you go back to ADWM and watch the Horror and what-not path) he becomes more evil and the blue fades.
Then he finally looks up, making eye contact. It's not him upset at us, he's upset with himself. Then he walks away.
Now my M. Night Shyamalan twist at the end here to make everything really questionable is:
Why would Mark invite someone he doesn't really know over for a night with his pal's he hasn't seen in a long time unless the house put us there for/as Mark.
Why would two of the people look exactly like Mark unless the house didn't know what to make them so instead it created these people especially for Mark.
Mark wouldn't know the man that ran away with his wife, so why not make him this older chap that would be 'crazy' to steal another mans wife.
As for Damien,the house has never seen him to put the face with the name. So why not go with someone who Mark can trust, but himself. (If were still going with the egotistical stand point here.) The only ones that repeat that is Damien, "It's good to get the gang back together but out of the blue like this?"
Hear me out, The District Attorney of this town is new, Damien even says it. "Oh, there you are old friend. How are you settling into your new office?" Why would only the Mayor be the only one to know you, if Mark is planning his own death at some point in the night? Because each person in the house is important, except you. You're just a pawn, the eyes if you will. This house of evil wants to show Mark exactly what each of them would do. Why would you care if there's a murder or not? You don't know him like the rest of them do.The house knows that out of anyone Mark trusts its Damien. Why not invite an ol' friend?
Everything happens the rest of the day just the way Mark would want it too, everyone blaming each other. Getting revenge on the colonel for the sin he committed. The wrench in the plan was Celine to walk through the door, or was it. Her things were already upstairs in the chair we were going to sit in, the house planned everything out for him to get exactly what Mark wanted.
In the end The Chef quits, The Butler leaves as well. The Detective's shot, and Celine is become one with the Darkness. Everyone dies including you! But the special thing about you is, you become the shell of a person, Damien takes over your body.
The three of them back together. Forever.
But the thing is, Mark was just a pawn too. The house is what trick you in the end, it needs a body. You're the body it needs, not completely broken as the rest of them someone who's willing to just go along with everything. The house tried to host in Mark, "It's not fair is it?" meaning Mark already knows what's going to happen next. It's going to give you the two people who you think you need to see. Celine because she can easily convince you to do whatever it wants and Damien, your friend, the only face you would know at the party. Celine says "I wont force this on you, you have a choice here. It's the only way you can escape." Any other decision in any of the videos was followed by a very obvious shake, but this time we just stood there. Then she went ahead and sent us back. We never had the choice. We were the pawn.
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