I think I want to do a series of these for everyone. Literally all of these egos are so fascinating to me. And Wilford especially is an interesting character to pick apart. Like Dark, he falls more under a ‘what’ category. But unlike Dark, the ‘what’ isn’t his most defining characteristic.
A lot of these draw a lot of compare and contrast from Dark, but I think that’s because these characters have been around the longest and Dark has always had a kind of parallel to Wilford’s zigzag. Do correct me if you think I’m wrong.
-Wilford, in his truest form, is a being of pure energy. Like Dark, when uncontained, he has no solid form, but that doesn’t mean he can’t react to his environment in a solid manner. Much like the erratic nature of his ‘normal’ self, as an energy being – who glows bright pink naturally – he can either be solid or ethereal. When bottled into a human form, however, his body functions much the same as human being’s would, but only in the aspects in which he wants it to. (For example: his sweet tooth is legendary, but he doesn’t need to eat/drink/sleep to remain alive.)
-This also explains why Wilford is so fidgetty. From bouncing his leg, to shifting from foot to foot when talking, all of his strange postures and mannerisms can be contributed to the fact that he just cannot sit still unless forced. (And even then he’ll just get grumpy, anxious, and more prone to talking over others.) All these projects and ideas he pitches are mostly just outlets for that rampant energy that sometimes have the added benefit of maybe helping everyone else.
-This is also why he can manifest something out of nothing. He contains enough raw power to make and move a universe. Pulling a gun or knife out of thin air is baser to him, much like breathing. (Ed got a hold of one of Wilford’s guns once and pulled it apart only to discover it had no inner firing mechanism. Yet it was still fully functioning, and very much lethal, in the pastel ego’s hands. Wilford has no idea how anything actually functions and can make things work simply because he knows what it does and wants it to.)
-Wilford’s appearance is as much a ‘skin’ as Dark’s is. The biggest difference is that Wilford’s is much more solid and breaks only when he chooses. (Which is basically never because he’s quite stubborn. At least, not in the current iteration of this universe. Dark bore witness to his raw destructive power only once and his respect for him was born then.)
-Unlike Dark, who has a singular form, Wilford strikes me as a shapeshifter sort. While he has the ability to change his form, when in our dimension
(for the same reasons I gave to Dark)
) he looks like Mark because the youtuber is his focal point in this universe. But unlike Dark, Wilford isn’t constrained to this form. He honestly likes it and likes the attention it gives him. So he instead chooses to change everything around him.
-Wilford is a sociopath. We know this. But his sociopathy is more of a suppression of emotion rather than a lack thereof. It’s been basically confirmed in Markiplier TV that he’s haunted by feelings of guilt that he can’t comprehend as such simply because he hasn’t ever thought or felt that way. (That and it seems death is a foreign concept in his universe. Things either exist or they don’t. This poor ego seems to be stuck with the perceptions of a child.)
-Going even deeper, I don’t think Wilford even understands what human emotions are. He feels some of them, but he doesn’t think about why or how he does. He’s built solely on reaction and because of this, he doesn’t get why people react the way they do to him. Everything he does should elicit excitement!
-I’ve also noticed people try to portray Wilford as resenting Dark because of their differences in personality, but I honestly think this is untrue. While they are almost polar opposites on a power and personality level, their goals are almost similar, just like their means to get there. The bigger difference is that Wilford doesn’t understand when he’s being manipulative or what the holy heck tact is, while Dark makes a living off of both those things. In their dynamic, Wilford is the hammer while Dark is the dagger.
-In times where the noise in his head becomes too much (be it because of guilt or racing thoughts due to his hyper nature), Wilford will find himself in Host’s domain. While the situation between the two still isn’t at the level it had been previously, they are on good enough terms that the narrator will sit him down and “read” him the stories of the world around them. The calm aura Host exudes and his ASMR-like tone are more than enough to still the chaos within the reality warper’s mind, and sometimes even put him to sleep.
-Despite looking the opposite, Wilford is like a shadow to Dark. You won’t always find them together – due to varying reasons, differences, and self-given occupations – but if one is wondering why the building is so quiet, you better believe it’s because Wilford is hanging around Dark. (Dark has an immensely high tolerance for the hyperactive being due to knowing him for so long, but even the demon has his limits.)
-Because they are transcendent beings, both Dark and Wilford have been
around for a long, long time. They’ve gone through many dimensions and
worlds and somehow neither of them have been separate from the other for
long. I would even go so far as to say they were made at the same time
and their fates are intertwined.I agree with your interpretation of “sociopath by repression.” I think its interesting, though, how you say he doesn’t understand human emotions. Does that mean that the guilt he feels isn’t human guilt but something else? Something far more powerful? Far more… destructive?
And maybe thats why he represses it. When he first felt guilt, it was so painful he tried to box in his mind. Maybe thats why he became a sociopath- he could physically and emotionally not handle feeling.
Markiplier Ego Headcanons: Wilford Warfstache
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