Remember Tara the Cat, who last
year saved her owner’s son from a vicious dog attack? Well, the SPCA of
Los Angeles just awarded her its annual “Hero Dog” medal.
Her unprecedented heroism had to be recognized. They scratched out “dog” and wrote “cat.”
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.
I kind of want more backstories of the other egos(i.e. The Host, Googleplier, Bim Trimmer and Doctor Iplier) but at the same time I’m scared that Mark and the gang is just going to break my heart even more like he did with Dark and Wilford
wilford’s just looking at one of his guns, polishing it, making sure it’s beautiful and clean
when dark just comes up behind him and hugs him for no reason
wilf’s all confused, and just asks “why are you hugging me, dark?”
and dark’s only reply is “because i wanted to.” and it’s celine talking, not damien
and wilf has no good response, and just drops the gun, hugging back, saying “well, i was gonna come find you after i finished cleaning my gun, and hug you. but you beat me to it.”
