If Seer Celine is the red in Darkiplier, and Damien is the blue, then the House must be the black, grey and white.
Adding to this; before Darkiplier boots us out of the body, he’s normal colored + no chromatic aberration. After we’re kicked out, Dark goes grey + chromatic aberration.
So, if you know how light/sight/vision works, you’d know that there’s 3 primary colors; Red, Blue, and Green. We know that Damien and Celine are Blue and Red respectively, so the only color left is green. Darkiplier consists of Damien, Celine, The District Attorney, and The House.
Based on that, we can say that when Dark turned grey + chromatic aberration, the House took control. The Colors associated with the characters disappear, sans some fragments of Damien and Celine, as evidenced by the Red & Blue aura. The DA is booted out entirely, hence there being no green aura.
But those are just my thoughts.
I really love your addition to the post, it really got me thinking about some other factors that could break into the character Darkiplier is.
And now, I know Im really going off here into the technicalities, and Im not sure Mark had these intentions when producing Darkiplier, but on a production and design stand point, the RGB color space is a crucial one when coming to understand Dark.
Bare with me here, Im gonna explain a few concepts first and then explain how it applies to Darkiplier. (I’m actually a major in Theater Design/Production and have a focus on Lighting)
To begin with, what is RGB? Like the previous post stated “RGB stands for Red, Green and Blue. It is a color space—a means of representing color—that is based on light. Through the combination of red, green and blue light any other color can be created. Because of this, these three colors are referred to as additive primaries. Primary is in reference to the fact that they are the base colors used to create all other colors. Additive is in reference to the fact that white is created by adding equal parts of all three. Conversely, black is created by the complete absence of red, green and blue light.”
Something else to consider is this fact:
“White is the additive combination of all primary coloured lights while black is the absence of light.
RGB is the color you see on your televisions, computer monitors, phones, and tablets while CMYK colors are specifically used for printing.“
“The simple fact is that RGB is based on light. And printers can’t print light.”
Now, what does this have to do with Darkiplier? Well, actually it reveals A LOT and I’ll break it down piece by piece.
Why Dark being based on RGB and not CMYK is so important, because it can reveal that:
1) He is made up of more light/more from another dimension than he is made from a physical existence (RGB=light CMYK=physical) this again reinforces the ideas that Dark isn’t of this world, but also shows us he is more unreal than he is real, his being not meant to exist, like he tore through a dimension to become himself (which could explain why he turns the world around him black, blue, and red at times). The light used to create his being is bleeding through reality (like the House’s “upside-down”/internal dimension) (I explain this fully here:
2) THIS EXPLAINS SOMETHING BIG ABT DARK: why he glitches. If he is mainly a light based RGB, than his appearance would seem like a TV, explaining the static effects, his eerie voice, and even the new video “go back to sleep…”. In fact him appearing on screen would probably be easier than him manifesting his being in the physical world.
AND even explain the strange deep voice. Because what is sound to light? It’s just slow, the light always reaching you before the sound, causing distortion. The sound is just something bleeding through the dimensions and into Dark separately than the light. He glitches because what he is and his physical light form get jumbled, in that what he wants to appear and what he truly is, is hard to keep hidden. So like if Dark is upset or particularly unstable one day, the RGB light revealing his being won’t lie, and his true form rips through in his screams.
3) This explains the dynamic between Damien, Celine, and the House when it come to how they each effect Darkiplier. I mean just look at Darkiplier, he is primarily black, the absence of light. Sometimes you cant even see the red and blue of him too well, and when you can it is just added effects. They surround the black. It reveals that the House’s characteristics/intentions are the primary factor in who Darkiplier is, while Celine and Damien have a few added things they give to Dark, but they’re just little added features. (I explain this all fully here:
Dark of course is someone new, not them, but how the three influence him is important.
Just some added interesting thoughts:
1. If Y/N was still present (green), Dark would be grey b/c the house is black but RGB is white. But he’d also be less powerful, because he needs the absent of light to be primarily influenced by the House. (The three together possibly stronger than the 1 demon, so the house kicked y/n out. B/c the whole purpose of Dark is for the House to have a physical manifestation that is as strong as possible)
2. If the house wasn’t a factor, and Damien, y/n, and Celine combined, they’d be a white glowing creature.
3. I’d like to imagine a CMYK Darkiplier and all that entails, like he’d be more physical than otherworldly.
In conclusion, Darkiplier is mainly a light based RGB demon that can touch and manipulate the physical world.
Ooh, you just gave me an idea. Let’s take a look at another individual affected by the House.
William J. Barnum
AKA, The Colonel.
Also AKA
WILFORD
MOTHERLOVING
WARFSTACHE
Now, look at Warfstache. What color is he most associated with?
PINKS AND MAGENTAS
From what we’ve seen of Wilford, he’s DEFINITELY more physical than light based. I mean, he kills with weapons like guns and knives as seen in “Warfstache Interviews Markiplier” and “Markiplier TV” respectively. It’s implied he’s slept with a great deal of women, and he has the added bonus of not entering the Upside-Down, preventing whatever happened to The DA, Celine and Damien from happening to him. It also explains why he glitches basically not at all; he’s WAY more physical than light based, so OF COURSE his body would be more stable in the physical world.
Wilford is the CMYK to Darkiplier’s RGB. He’s the physical being to Dark’s light based being. It’s actually really brilliant how it turns out.
OH MY GOSH, that also explains why William’s red coloring faded into pink, and why there were color distortions in WKM. Or even why William becomes more and more pink!!! Because the House’s effects slowly effect him more and more, more light bleeding through into the physical world, effecting him in a way that doesnt make him light based but shows that light, or rather color from another dimension is effecting him over time, but he is still just CMYK, so he is primarily a physically existing person that’s been effected by a secondary light/color dimension: the House. Their colors are so important. I love this.
And now something else just popped into my head to strengthen this theory. Look at all of the concept designs Wilford had before Mark made the final decision.
Notice something? What 3 colors are used the most in these outfits?
CYAN/BLUE, PINK/MAGENTA, AND YELLOW.
Sure, the Cyan and Magenta aren’t very saturated, but STILL! Out of all 4 concept outfits, these 3 colors were the ONLY ones he used.
Im literally losing my mind this is too on point.
Something else this might give a bit of meaning to?
Abe
Specifically, his B&W monologues. Since we’ve established that B&W are characteristics of the House, we could say that the Detective is sort of an Anti-Darkiplier.
Dark’s greyness is permanent, since the house is most in control. Abe’s greyness is voluntary, since he’s the most in control.
Dark is mostly grey with snippets of color, while Abe is mostly colorful with snippets of B&W
Dark is an otherworldly light based being with supernatural powers. Abe is a normal human with no powers (other than entering his monologues).
Darkiplier is mostly House with bits of Damien and Celine. Abe is mostly Abe with bits of the house
And he falls in a category in between Wilford and Dark. He died in the house, but didn’t become part of Darkiplier, so he retains physical form.
Now, the combination of CYMK ends up being black. The absence makes white. Aside from his B&W monologues, there’s another point to make: look at Abe’s outfit
What 2 colors make it up? Black and White
So what we can determine is this:
1) If you survive the house, but are affected by it in some way, you start gaining CYMK attributes + your body is physical.
Case in point; Wilford Warfstache
2) If you die and are revived into one body, be it your own or someone else’s, you have B&W attributes + your body is physical.
Case in point; Abe the Detective
3) If you die and multiple souls are fused and put into 1 body, you have RGB attributes + your body is made of light.
Case in point; Darkiplier
And the higher each level gets, the more the House affects that person.
So with that covered, let’s point out why it all matters: The House is affecting Abe some way through the B&W monologues, but why? It already has a vessel, so what does it need Abe for?
To answer your last question and later build upon what you said about Abe, I want to say that I don’t think the House needs Abe at all, just like the House doesn’t need Wilford. He used Wilford, Abe, Mark, and everyone else in the House in WKM to get what he wanted: a manifestation of himself in the form of what becomes Darkiplier. Abe, Wilford, and everyone else aren’t vessels, they’re merely being effected by the powers of the House.
Maybe the effects of the House, once you’re inside it long enough, will always effect you. I mean, it explains why the Chef from WKM was also in “A Date with Markiplier”, and why the Gardener didn’t wanna go into the House, and why when he did he wanted to quickly leave.
So that once the House touches you for long enough (starts whispering to you, holding onto you), its effects will never go away. (This can also explain why thunder only occurs when certain characters say “murder” in WKM) But the longer you’re in it, the more it effects you. WHICH CAN EXPLAIN WHY ABE AND WILLIAM ARE EFFECTED SO DIFFERENTLY. Because remember, William references in WKM that he lived in the House for years upon years before the events in WKM unfolded. Mark even clarified that himself during the a livestream he did explaining WKM.
And it isn’t as though Darkiplier would stop to help all those he’s harmed to manifest himself. He doesn’t even care about the lives he’s ruined (I mean it is essentially eternal torture that’s happening to Wilford, Abe, etc.)
(alternative less likely, theories include:
1: maybe the House is just a thin boarder between this world and another dimension, and the House’s demon was just a creature that resided in the other dimension. The House demon (which we can still call the House, because it resided in the House from WKM) manipulated the thin dimension to his advantage, whispering to Actor Mark and manipulating Damien and Celine into giving him a body. Because a demon doesn’t have to have the appearance of a human. In that other dimension it could be more of a spirit.
or 2: After the House manifested itself, it left behind the pocket dimension in the House that still contained the same distorting powers.This theory entails that the other dimension, not the House demon, is what is still effecting Wilford, Abe, etc.
But the original theory I stated connects to more truths in the story, but consider the other two moving forward because I always wanna consider all possibilities, especially as Mark releases more videos.)
So, to build off the strongest theory and what you stated, Abe’s black and white moments are mere after effects of what the House had done to Abe after being in the House after such a short period of time. It could’ve effected him so quickly too because when he died, he would of had to have briefly entered the House’s “Upside-down” dimension before being thrown back into his body, and then off across time and space. The fact that it is black and white and not CMYK/RGB could have to do with this too, I mean the “upside-down” is literally black and white.
What this means is that when Abe awoke from his death, he bought a piece of the “upside-down” back with him. He now is constantly in this black and white world. (Meaning in the scene where Wilford snaps him out of his black and white world, he is literally pulling him away from the House’s effects that keep his world so dull. These two literally balance each other out. Abe helps Wilford too, pulling him back to reality and connecting with Wilford for a bit)
To connect to this, Mark, in his live stream explaining “Wilford ‘MOTHERLOVING’ Warfstache“, focuses a lot on the colors. He talks about how bright Wilford’s world is, how important it is that Abe’s is black and white, and about how when the two are together in the same room, the coloration is the perfect mix between colorful and black and white. It’s their two worlds colliding, or more accurately: their individual effects from the House over lapping. Because like Darkiplier, they both give off a light that changes the world surrounding them (like with Darkiplier turning the world black, red, and blue). I mean look at these three scenes:
Wilford’s effect on color in the world:
Abe’s effect on color in the world:
Both of them together:
Bonus, Dark’s effect:
Or even more powerful Darkiplier: (where he distorts reality/everything around him is black, implying his presence is drowning out everything around him)
I mean, you literally can see their colors / effects on the world fade into each other in “Wilford ‘MOTHERLOVING’ Warfstache“- Don’t believe me? Look closely at the color changes at these times:
Also if one character is giving off more power during a scene, the scene is over powered by their coloration (like for example when Dark is angry/serious, Abe is in his thoughts, or Wilford is dancing). If their energies are equal, so is the coloration of the background. Also, Wilford and Abe can’t control this color shift. Darkiplier can, but if he gets too upset, he can’t control it.
This analysis is absolutely brilliant. The only issue I have with it is that Dark’s colors are not red and blue. They are red and cyan.
Though it’s an interesting thing to consider that not all of the DA was trapped in the mirror. That maybe a very small part of them remained, clinging to Damien.
Thank you!! And it’s interesting you bought that up! And to respond there are two possibilities about why Damien in Darkiplier is Cyan.
First of all is the technical way. When editing the RGB color effect into a video in Adobe Premiere Pro (like Mark did in WKM. He didnt start using Adobe After effects until later- a program that is better for effects in videos, but even with After effects its RGB effects are the same) and in fact photoshop and other Adobe systems as well, the blue effect always appears cyan. (I’m Adobe certified btw, Ive taken three years worth of classes on editing with different adobe systems) However it is still considered RGB. It’s just the RGB effect. The appearance of the color blue in the film, when being split up as it is, is cyan. Im not sure why this specifically is, I just know this is what it always does. Because green included in an RGB effect is noticeable in a video / an edit.
Without green:
With green:
The technical explanation entails Y/N District Attorney was kicked out of Darkiplier by the House, just like Mark said during the WKM explanation livesteam, the green having to be kicked out for Dark to be balanced with the House.
HOWEVER
If you’re right and Mark is using the fact that blue appears Cyan in the RGB effect to his advantage and for story telling, this would mean a small part of Y/N is still with Damien, which is interesting considering Y/N seemed to be Damien’s plus one since everyone always refers to you as “Damien’s friend” and only Damien knows you / recognizes you. A small part of Y/N could be with Damien, combined with his soul while y/n’s mind is left in the house (that part is fact).
BUT i think it is more likely that it is just a technical appearance and not apart of the story. But anything is possible! It’d be much cuter and nicer if you were right about this.
To further clarify because I think I caused confusion:
What I was trying to get at more so was Markiplier’s editing. I dont think he made Damien Cyan because of the story line. I think it was just that while editing with the RGB effect you cant get the blue perfectly blue without the green being obvious. Because Damien alone is also cyan, not blue. It’s just how Mark edited it. But it is still called the RGB color effect.
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