#wkmtheory

here's a headcannon!

despite dark acting all  elegant and scary when he is on his own he is EXTREAMLY clumsy like to the point where he has more broken cups then intact ones. why? you maybe asking. simple answer. He’s literally Damien in our body! so he wouldn't be used to functioning in our body. Plus our body may be trying to kick him out because its not our soul. 

Honestly, I don't believe Celine and Damien in the end were Celine and Damien at all. They were puppets. (If it truly was them, they were controlled by Mark.)

When the Colonel killed Mark (And I do believe he killed Mark. If they got into a spat like the Colonel and the detective... well look at what happened to both us and the detective.) It left Mark as a vengeful spirit. The house was always a "den of evil", a place where the border between ours and the spirit world is thin and blurred. Mark is now trapped there, and he is angry.

(Everytime someone says murder, it's Mark's spirit lashing out in anger.)

When Celine and Damien are left alone, Celine, being a seer, acts as a catalysts between the two worlds, allowing Mark to reach through, kill them both, and whisk them away. He now has two pieces of the puzzle he needs to get his revenge.(I went back to watch the last episode and I realized that Celine told them that her session could not be interrupted. Guess what happened? It was interrupted. And at the end of the episode, when everyone runs to the house Celine is both red and blue, and Damien was no where in sight. It's possible that Mark tried to use Celine's body and failed.)

Knowing the Colonel is looking for us, he uses Celine's pleas to lure us into the detective's room. He wants the Colonel to see the detective's notes, to see his accusations, he wants the Colonel to confront the dectective, because he knows Abe is aware of the affair, of which was possibly the reason Mark was killed. He wants the Colonel and the detective to kill each other. What he possibly didn't factor in (or maybe it was his plan all along) is that the detective would survive, and we would die in both of their stead. Regardless, a body is a body none the same.

We are now dead. A spirit in the house, the same as Mark, whom is the first person we see.

"It's not fair, is it?" He goads, his face shifting to something less human. He wants us to be angry too, he wants us to want to leave this hellhole.

Enter Celine and Damien. Two people we know, one of them whom we trust. Mark uses them as puppets to talk to us, telling us that we are dead, but that this death is not the end. Everything that is said henceforth is used to either bait, or misdirect you. (At this point I would like to point out the real Mark's comments about Darkiplier: "He is a social manipulator. He leads you into this false sense of security, and he wants you to trust him, because he wants to take advantage of you.") "You can't do this alone, you need me. Trust us, trust me. Let me in, and I promise I will fix this.” Sound familiar? The vengeful spirit manipulates us into a false sense of security, and gives us a choice, which is in fact, no choice at all. "This is the only way you can escape." Our death, isn't fair, is it? Of course, we would chose life. So we let him in. Now the spirit has what he wants, our body, but with us in it. We awake, jarred, but alive to find the Colonel, now mad with the death of all of his friends. We take the now discarded cane, and Dark awakes. He takes Damien's form, (The real Mark has mentioned Dark can do this, and it makes sense. Damien is suave, someone that can be trusted) and locks us in the mirror. His plan is complete.

We are now a burden.

We are no longer needed.

And we are now trapped in this hellish house for eternity.

Now, to go a little deeper into this lore, I don't think it's farfetched to think that it wasn't ever Mark at all, but a spirit/demon/evil-thing-what-have-you that used his death as a means to put it's own plans of escape into action. Or, possibly, that the evil of the house corrupted Mark. There's a lot of open ended questions here that I'm sure Mark will answer later, but I find the whole "Dark is three souls shoved into one body on a crusade to exact revenge against Mark for their deaths" to be a little... Odd.

So, I think there is a conspiracy, and Markiplier is not dead, perhaps no one is. My theory doesn't cover everything, but I have an idea. Actually two, but I only thought of the second one halfway through writing this and I'm too sleepy to re-write it all. It's really long so bear with me.

my theory begins at the party scene. It has been observed in this scene that it's highly likely that Markiplier, the butler and the cook are all sober through the night. Which in one way makes sense because mark can't drink irl, but this Markiplier isn't the same mark we know. So yes, there are times that mark may have taken a drink, but we never see him drinking or showing signs of being drunk. No clothes changing and no wild actions like the colonel, detective and Mayor did (and presumably you). As well, if he did drink, him not going wild after one drink (like our character seemed to) would mean that he wasn't drugged (like how everyone else seemed to be, and for some reason none of them were worried about it the next day??). meaning the butler wasn't the mastermind behind this, because he was handing out the drinks, and likely the cook wasn't either. And all in all, during this scene we only see mark playing poker, which brings me to my next point.

How did this Markiplier gain his fortune? Not from YouTube, surely, or we would have seen something showing his geeky life of video games, other than a tv. Even in his room we see nothing (that I know of). so here's my first shot in the dark as to why mark the butler and the cook are doing this. Markiplier is drugging people and stealing money from them via poker. It could explain why he has many enemies, and even maybe part of why the colonel doesn't like him. in the party scene we can see the colonel holding two aces and two threes, which if I remember correctly is a solid hand to win with in poker. Of course mark is going to expect to lose sometimes, but if there was a high enough sum that he may have had trouble winning back, that would make him angry. Especially if, as people suspect, darkiplier is in the mix of this, and dark would not be able to keep his cool even knowing he could easily win it all back, he's impulsive when angry. I haven't fully thought out this part and I don't think we have enough evidence yet for me to get it solid anyways.

Another thing I wanted to say was that in marks room, we see it trashed. And in the chaos there's four pictures (none of which we are in). Three right side up, in perfect condition, and one faced down. And when we look at it closer, we see it's the colonel, and the glass is shattered. (Then he like teleports into the room but I have no clue about that, maybe he's really warfstache or a ghost) Presumably the picture was slammed into the table for some reason. So I think mark may have trashed his own room, and he was obviously angry at the colonel. If it's because of the gambling I mentioned, that would be assuming that the room was trashed the night he "died". But I don't like assuming anything, and we have no evidence that it wasn't destroyed well before he even invited anyone over.

Also I wanted to address the theory I read earlier that the butler may have been trying to show you there is far more to the cellar than would seem. I think it could fit in here somewhere.

The celebration of "you" may perhaps been "your money" or "your life" because I do very much think Markiplier is alive and the mastermind of everything. Perhaps even still being controlled by dark, and Damien is just there to throw us off.

Actually, a lot of things in this theory would work if mark was actually dark. the pursuit of money, the evil deeds, how he could be the mastermind subtly manipulating everyone and everything going on in the mansion. Manipulation could be why the butler and cook stay even though "it's must have been difficult to work for him" and even with how distraught the butler got over the broken bottle and vase. The really expensive looking robe, general high quality taste. And if his room was destroyed before anyone was over, impulsive anger like we saw in ADWM.

But hey that's just a theory (that doesn't have enough evidence for yet, but will be expanded upon tomorrow when ch3 is (hopefully) released and has a lot of holes and things not covered in it)

A really sleep deprived individuals theory

Thanks for reading

...Sorry it's all so messy :3

Also Wtf is up with the little chef camera? Who's voice do you hear outside the cellar? Who else is in the big ass mansion that we don't know about? Are any of the past characters from the Markiplier universe actually in this one, or is it a parallel universe with very similar ones? How's someone who sees the future going to be able to help us figure out the past? Is there a new character being released we won't even be able to anticipate? If the host is really blind, why can we see what he does? Is this all just a part of Markiplier Tv? Are we actually going to be given an answer to any of this by the time it's over or is it going to be a cliff hanger forever that we will theorize to no end on? that would be fucking cool tbh imo