So since SOMEONE ( @splatoon-jim) is in the mood for Angst, I’m gonna give them what they want.
I decided to re-watch ADWM because i hate myself and splatoon jim forced my hand, and there’s some things that stand out to be about Dark, now that we’ve seen WKM.
Look at Dark’s Dialogue:
– “Did you miss me? I’ve missed you, very much”
– (of course i gotta add this) “I’ve been waiting a long time to see you again.”
– “I’ve been pushed aside, replaced”
– “It’s my turn now”
– “I’ve been waiting patiently”
-”i suppose i could give you one last option”
– “Any of four choices, more than he had ever given you.”
-” Why do we need to choose in life?”
-(the start of the fight scene) “How did you get out?” (to Mark)
– “Two can play at that game mister.”
-(Dark, the one on the right) “He needs to die.”
– “Don’t listen to him. He’s a liar.”
-”He does bad things to good people”
-(Upon shooting Mark) “You made the right call”
There’s more in the Dark route, but those interested me the most.
So if we look at this from the perspective of WKM, this brings a lot of questions, as well as some answers
Firstly, Dark says they’ve been waiting a long time to see us again.
He doesn’t ask “who are you”
Not “why are you here,”
but I’ve missed you. I’ve been waiting to see you again
Dark mentions being replaced and we now know why.
That isn’t Dark talking to us: It’s Damien.
Damien is the one in control at the moment, and i think he’s in control for pretty much all of ADWM. This would explain why Dark was so adamant about killing Mark.
This would explain why Dark seems like a kind and genuine person at first. Why he said all the things he did and why he’s after Mark.
He’s angry and talking about how his Mark betrayed him.
How he was killed by a close friend and his body and identity was stolen.
In this instant, this is no longer the old ego Mark created and has revived.
In this instant, this is the shadow of a broken, angry man who lost everything. And then, standing(?) before him is the spitting image of someone he lost.
Before him stands us, the veiwer.
We’re there as though the WKM events hadn’t happened, and we aren’t the final piece of the puzzle.
A puzzle Dark thought was solved ages ago.
After all, in WKM, we gave in. We let Damien and Celine send us back and all of us were stuck together.
And we see what our absence has done to Dark.
At the end of WKM, we’re back with Celine and Damien as Dark and (going off a previous theory i had) We’re stable. Angry beyond reason and broken, but stable.
But this Dark is different.
This is just Damien and Celine stuck in an empty Shell.
We’ve gone away and the glue that help Dark together so well isn’t there and so the anger and pain and suffering is leaking out.
We see Damien’s agony in that brief moment, only for Celine’s composure to reel him in almost instantly.
That’s why Dark tells us “we made the right call”.
Dark still sees an old friend who, confused and scared as they are, remembered something.
Dark thinks we still know about WKM.
Dark thinks we killed Mark because our vengence.
The only thing left to do is get us back.
After all, Dark’s compsure is frail and shattered without us.
Without us, Damien and Celine have gone crazy with anger, agony and the loss of a common ground.
Sure, they have “our” body, but it was our conciousness that allowed them to compose themselves into Dark.
Without us, Dark’s become corrupted and unreasonable.
Towards the end of the Chocolate ending, Damien and Celine no longer see their friend.
The no longer see someone who isn’t the person they remember.
They see someone who abandoned them.
Someone who went on a date with the one person who took everything from them.,
They don’t understand that WKM wasn’t a thing for us.
They only see another friend who was taken away from them by Mark and they’re bitter at yet another betrayal after all this time.
At the end of ADWM, Damien and Celine are furious, delusional and out for our blood.
Yeah, same! Robbie was a cool idea, but S-34-N was the one that I thought was a bit too much (for no reason at all, I’m just a dumb dumb is all), but hey, with all the egos Mark has and develops, we’re not exaggerating a single bit haha – Mod Lily
Considering the Colonel’s breakdown as his last shred of sanity finally giving in, it makes total sense why he runs from us.
Wilford is scared. Celine and Damien? They were his only support system. They were the only ones he considered friends. The only ones he thought he could trust.
They truly did care about him.
They knew they couldn’t leave Will alone, so they took one more shot at life to see if he could live without them.
It’s obvious now that he can’t.
Wilford has no one left. No more support system, no one left to keep him grounded.
Why do you think Damien thought he had to relay the news of Mark’s death to him? He had to do it carefully so he wouldn’t lose it– but was surprised at the fact that he didn’t. That’s why Damien snapped at him (“You come find me when you pull your head out of your ass!”), and almost immediately apologized after taking a moment to think (“I lost my temper, and it wasn’t right”).That was because Damien cared enough to make sure he got the information from someone he knew was safe and trustworthy.
Darkiplier is Celine and Damien’s last physical chance to make sure Wilford will be okay.
Darkiplier was born out of love.
Think about it.
He doesn’t like giving people choices anymore because Damien and Celine were forced to be selfless if they ever wanted to see Will again.
He sits at the opposite end of the ego table because he knows Wilford is dangerous, but will still put himself at something of a risk as an attempt to keep him from going too far off the rails.
He chooses his words carefully and speaks calmly when talking to him just to make sure nothing he says will trigger him again, to be certain that Wilford knows he means well before saying anything else to him that might set him off.
His figure shatters because his shell can barely handle the physical agony of having two souls trapped inside of him.
Damien and Celine are still in him somewhere, but can’t take another risk at losing their only chance to make sure Wilford is okay.
The mirror shattering was his heart breaking into a million pieces, because no longer could he allow himself to love his friend and be there as Damien and Celine once had.
i think she’s an interesting character, while at the same time i know that she’s not a good person. i mean, there’s the whole theory out there that she was married to mark but cheated on him with the colonel. and although i do love the idea of damien celine and william being in some sort of poly relationship, celine certainly isn’t to be trusted.
i mean, hints of that are spread around in the detective’s office, saying not to trust her. i think she’s responsible for dark’s power and strength, where damien in dark is more his smooth talking and a bit of his rage (since damien gets into fights with william sometimes and can’t control his anger, which is a dark thing too). but i do believe she cares for her friends and wants to help them.
idk i really like her, but i’m hesitant about trusting her, y’know? ❤️
