New headcanon. Dark really likes ice cream and Anti is just as nuts for cake and cookies as Jack, if not more so. Maybe that’s why he’s so grumpy, he’s got cake and cookie withdrawal. Someone get me a cookie stat!
sure why not! one of my favorite headcanons that @antisepticdark and i have is that whenever anti’s feeling down, he’ll hide in jack’s computer. and jack typically pulls up a notepad on his computer and types out messages for anti to respond to so they can talk, but without the pressure of being face to face. and it actually helps anti out immensely and jack feels better knowing that anti’s happy again.
Remember on the livestream when Mark read a comment saying “the Colonel deserved better”?
He wasn’t sure he agreed.
I don’t consider myself very knowledgable when it comes to matters like law, but I remembered something I learned in my senior year government class about crime, and that is the concept of mens rea.
Mens rea is a Latin term that refers to the mental capacity of someone accused of a crime, and it’s used to determine whether or not a crime was committed intentionally. It’s brought into question when someone is trying to plead insanity. It doesn’t exactly lessen the degree of the nature of the crime itself, but it can be used to determine the kinds of charges or punishments the accused may face.
Now, let’s have a look the Colonel and Wilford Warfstache– mainly, his various homicides.
It is undeniable that he has killed many people, yes. But a commonality between them is that none of them were premeditated– I can’t think of a single time where he sat down for a considerable time beforehand and contemplated that, yes, he was going to kill someone deliberately.
While nearly every one of his acts were voluntary, most were not intentional. I say this because yes, he did make the choice to bring out his gun and pull the trigger, but not with the specific intent to kill– here, his first scene in The Ned Affair comes to mind, where the officers were approaching and Warfstache sent a bullet their way (possibly because it had become a reflex for him at that point, hence his following line, “It was an accident, I swear”). The same goes for Asshole Mark, the Detective, and (Y/N) from WKM, plus his repeated stabbing of Mark from the Warfstache interview– in each case, the actual death of the victim was neither his real intention nor his end goal.
Then there were his two intentional murders– both from MarkiplierTV, the one in the game show and the one with Septiplier. Those were performed with intent to kill, but only because he thought the victim asked him to do it.
Taking all of this into consideration, let’s look at his mens rea once more.
I do understand Mark’s hesitance to say that the Colonel deserved better– Will’s criminal record isn’t exactly clean, after all– but now we have consider the fact that he is no longer sane. When he watched our body rise again and came to the conclusion that everything was “all a joke”, the last of his sanity slipped out of his grasp. In that situation, there was nothing he could do to prevent madness– like I said in the previously mentioned post, it happened without his control or his consent.
Now let’s talk about one more thing: his two affairs. One with Celine, the other from his video with Cyndago.
They are very different in nature.
At the time of the first one, he was arguably still sane. I do not condone cheating on a significant other in any way, shape, or form– all I can do to rationalize this one in any sense is that the two were in love, and that Celine also chose to participate, because like Mark said, you don’t just “steal” someone’s wife– she could also have chosen not to pursue the Colonel.
The second one, at which point in time he’d taken the name of Warfstache, is what’s up for debate here. Knowing that by this point he is no longer to be considered “sane”, his mens rea comes into question. The point made by @pleaseletthisjimbetaken is extremely possible: that the affair might have only been because, in his mind, that’s how finding love works– that every relationship starts with an affair. Thinking how broken he really must be to have reached that point is a tragedy in itself, but like I said, it’s very plausible, especially considering how broken he’d become to think that the people he kills will eventually just get back up.
I’ve been talking about all of this from an analytical standpoint up until now. Here is where this all gets sad:
Every homicide Wilford has committed was without the necessary mens rea to understand that everything he was doing was wrong.
He literally does not have the mental capacity to comprehend that death is permanent, that genuine love does not only come from dirty affairs, and that people don’t always mean what they say.
He never had the direct intention of really, truly hurting anyone. Every gunshot in The Ned Affair was either a reflex or self-defense because the cops started shooting back. In The Warfstache Affair, he was just afraid of what he’d done, and he wasn’t thinking. In the interview with Mark, all he wanted was for him to stop talking. In MarkiplierTV, he thought he was doing what his victims wanted. And in WKM, every shot we see him take was an accident because the Detective riled him up.
The fact that he’s insane was neither his choice nor his fault.
And that’s why I think the Colonel deserved better, Mark.
From what I’ve seen, and from what I myself believe, he’s Chase’s older brother. There had been a similar picture that Jack had posted on Instagram months back with the caption, “Sup! I’m Chad, I’m in a band and I play Bass!”. As I see it, Chad, Chase, and Clint are all siblings – Chase being the youngest and the child-at-heart one while Clint is the eldest and the cool, chill one, with Chad being the middle child who’s a mix of his two brothers’ personalities.
damien strikes me as the guy who’d wear silk robes and drink red wine from a champagne glass when he’s home relaxing amongst nicely scented candles. but like the second he’s off from work for the entire weekend, he’s in comfy band shirts and boxers and his hair looks like its been unkempt for days as he watches ryan gosling movies.
A Glitch Named Anti 