You Know When I Was First Exploring Mark's Channel I Watched Damien Before Even Discovering Dark's Existence.

You know when I was first exploring Mark's channel I watched Damien before even discovering Dark's existence. I didn't think much of it for some reason... Then I finally watched a Date with Markiplier, still completely unaware of Dark. On my first run I ran into Dark and I was so confused. When he said his whole "Did you miss me?" Thing I was like "Do I know you sir? Am I supposed to know you? I'm so confused? You look hot. Are you from a past video or something? What is your name?!" After choosing freedom I killed Mark because I'm left handed, and then what do you know It's Dark again, and for some reason I didn't care at all what happened to Mark I was more concerned about the ice cream! He gave me chocolate and he got the vanilla. That was my vanilla Dark! Then after that experience I did a whole ton of research on Dark... and then I discovered fanfiction... and then after months of not doing anything I watched Who killed Markiplier and everything finally came full circle for me... Well... After watching Mark explain everything in a past live... So ya... I have no idea why I rebloged this post anymore but enjoy the info I just spat at you.

Okay but the development of Dark as a character is so funny to me like.

Here's Mark in 2013, goofing around with spooky editing with Don't Move/Blink. And the fandom's like what if that were Mark? But evil??? And thus, Darkiplier is born. And Mark's like, okay you weirdos, have fun with that. And he kind of makes fun of the concept because it's a little silly, a little hokey, but fun!

2016, and we get Relax, ie Dark's debut as Mark's "emo vampire roommate". He's still poking fun, it's still a silly concept, you know. Mark, but evil. But wait. But fucking wait.

2017. A date with Markiplier, the vanilla/chocolate route. Mark's take on a serious Dark is a vicious, angry, contemptuous bastard who hates Mark with everything he has. Dark is Not Mark. He's manipulative and he wants to take what Mark has away. And the fandom loves him! What's his motivation, why is he so angry?, why does he hate Mark so much? What even is he?

2018. Who killed Markiplier. We meet the twins Damien and Celine. And okay, we don't know where this is going, only that we think Damien is actually Dark in disguise because he's too sweet, he's too good to be true. Celine is suspicious, but we're pretty sure Damien is the real bad guy here

Chapter four of who killed markiplier. We recognize those colors. Those are Dark's red and blue. Around here is where we start suspecting that maybe we dont know as much as we thought we did.

And it all comes together. Dark is the fused, angry vengeful souls of the twins, twisted by the demon in the house. He hates Mark because Mark killed them. Mark wanted a villain to for his story, and Damien and Celine, sadly, accepted that as their fate if it meant that they could destroy Mark.

2019. A heist with markiplier. We're back to Dark, fully formed, angry, twisted, vengeful. Hateful of Mark, manipulative of the audience. And he's more terrifying than ever. I mean sure he still delicately applies his eyeliners, but like. What a great character