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Dark and Dark-Chica !

I liked this little idea very much and I’m happy to have drawn it into existence :p

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Uh, the entities do get a bit quirky at night.

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Did somebody say Mayor Attorney fluff? No? Well anyway

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I made a little something. This is my way of coping with fictional tragedy!

Also, exactly this is one of the many reasons why I love Damien so much; He is such a versatile character, so full of different emotions and actions, all while still wanting to do his best.

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Out of topic, but I just found a spicy pillow in my old 3DS. Beware of swollen lithium ion devices, folks.

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Something about Wilford at the Manor, in the seance room that has stayed the same ever since the day Dark came to be; The thought made my cinematic ass emotional, so I had to draw it.

It’s basically a time jump parallel to that old drawing of mine.

I very like how this turned out, feel free to take a closer look at the details!

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YOURS, DAMIEN.

This is a direct prequel to my previous art! My headcanons are finally developing and growing at their finest.

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Me: AHH, there’s sand in my eyes! Quick, somebody make my eyes wet!!

Remember that William must’ve gone into the seance room after shooting us, to pick up Damien’s cane and cradle it for ten hours straight; The realization that he has lost him and everybody else crept up while he watched our dead body the entire night, drowning in regret

Me: OK THANKS IT WOKRED

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My views on Darkiplier (with references, and similar)

Because the fandom is alive and thriving!

The character of Darkiplier appears to be entirely different for every single fan, and I‘d like to share my views and my understanding of who I think Darkiplier is, better late than never.

I’m going to say what I wanna say and then I will name my reasons :]

So! To visualise my small essay, I have prepared this little graphic:

To me personally, Dark is no new person. There definitely is a new component that wasn’t there before (the “scary juncture”), but the way I understand the occurrences, is the following:

As I see it, Dark is a conjoined entity, who can be taken under prominent control by one of the containing parties.

Especially the post-credit ending of DAMIEN shows this for me; Damien steps up after Celine “went to sleep”, Damien is the one to turn grey, then the Darkiplier ringing sets in, it’s still Damien, Damien becoming Dark. It’s clear that Celine is still part of Dark though, because, she wasn’t ejected, she just went to sleep.

I view this portrayal to be a sign that, to some extent, Damien and Celine are part of separate existences still, while being part of the same entity at the same time.

If they were to melt into one and the same entity, I think the portrayal of Dark and his mannerisms, as well as the whole DAMIEN episode, would’ve been shown differently. Less prominently about Damien, less prominently about Celine resting and backing of the control she’s had. The entire concept of Damien and Celine switching places of the awake / the asleep, is what I personally interpret in the way I’ve described above.

Them both being molten into an entire, and absolute new being and their separate identities to be destroyed fully… That would not be the fitting outcome of the described build up in the series, to me.

Plus thing: Actor repeatedly asked Damien specifically to be the villain (“Well, he did say he wanted me to be the villain…”) and I think this build-up was very purposeful as to have Damien take “control” over Darkiplier while Celine can rest.

I write “control” in quotes, because I doubt that Damien has his whole free will left to him completely, as the new juncture in the middle is a part of him now and connects him to the other two parties as well.

This adds up with Celine saying “It will change you, forever”. If they were to add up to be the same new entity, I don’t think she’d have addressed only Damien with this. Plus, being molten into a singular, new person, is not really what you would call “change”, this would be a nullification, a merge.

Plus thing: There’s also Dorene. I will not get in depth about her, since that could take a whole new essay. But her portrayal (the stars, the black, red and blue, the scarf, her strong will, not being married anymore, and ultimately, that warm, melancholic quotation of Damien, almost mentioning him as her brother!!!) make me absolutely certain that she has to be representing Celine. As a Celine-led Dark, or even a separate Celine, it doesn’t matter: In any way, it makes me believe that Celine exists, to some extent at least, as a separate entity or concept still. The same must be the case for the Entity and Damien.

The arguments above are more meaningful for me, but the detail about Dorene deserves mentioning as well.

Another important thing: Dark shows a lot of Damien’s character, only tuned down, his gentleness more rigid, darker. Added by the occasional parallels of quotes and mannerisms (“Let me in!”, his general politeness, and his constant fidgeting, his desperate, sad aggression, following Mark’s initiative of being his villain) whereas showing less of Celines obvious mannerisms.

All added up, I think Damien’s “control” is very clearly alluded, while also shown that he is not Dark. He is PART of Dark, and currently on the front (or second row, the House is still powerful, after all.)

Sooo, to round up my rambling of how I view Dark:

Celine and Damien are still kinda existent as Celine and Damien, but they aren’t independent and free as they were as regular people. And they certainly aren’t the same anymore, as in quotidian sense of speaking.

They might not BE the same entity, but they FORM the same entity, together with the House, they are all bound together by influence. Their state is an unstable one however, and Celine (or the House) could push the broken Damien off the front at any time, which is what might’ve happened already.

And, I don’t view it as impossible, that the “scary junction” can take control as a separate fourth party as well.

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THE NIGHT THEY LEFT

Pre-WKM angst because the fandom is immune to happy art!! /lh

I have let a few headcanons shimmer through; I won’t caption this too much, I like leaving art like that :)

Also, thank you all for all the nice comments and tags! I may seldomly answer, but they make my day and I genuinely love reading them so much!

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Just some silly little watercolouring 🎨

(the dark cards represent the entity)

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Damien’s enraged line “You were never good enough for Celine!” is making me ponder. It sounds very off-character for Damien to say this; He says it in a way that fits, but is still a jump out of his usuality. He can get angry and accusatory, but never before did he fire such truly worth-weighing statements. (Not on screen at least.)

It’s probably not that deep, and it’s just a line that fits… But like, think about it just for a minute:

Was this just an angry slip up, or an actual opinion about Mark? And, in case the latter was the case, since when did Damien have this opinion? Did he have this subtle feeling all along, or did he just now realise it, as everything came crashing down?

“You were never good enough for Celine!” is just so absolute, given that Damien genuinely cared for Mark and wasn’t shown to have doubts about Celine’s and Mark’s marriage;

Ahhh I WANNA KNOW the thought process behind this exclamation!!

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Just a silly sad scene because the DA is an absolute tragic character (as they all are, ffs). And I love comparing their dynamic with Damien to the one with Dark. I’ll never be over that, I swear.

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I like the idea of Dark’s eyeliner not being a default avatar detail but something he is manually applying by mood. Like, he carries an eyeliner pen in his pocket to use when he feels like it, something like that.

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Pheww, that was a lot of text. Just lemme dump this dialogue here that I kept in my head for so long, and enjoy the drama of my little Damien-kicks-Celine-out-of-Darkiplier concept!

I just love Damien so much, I gotta create more angst with him, thank you.

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Damien’s subtly, melancholically told character arc will never let me go! All these specific climactic changes in his development, they make themselves present in the Darkiplier he is controlling (as much as you can call it control). It just makes so much sense, especially after DAMIEN, and I love how much it makes my heart crackle.

His leader-to-rebel arc.

His pawn-to-prisoner arc.

His peaceful-to-vengeful arc.

His “We’ll go through this together“-to-“We don’t need the others” arc.

His sweet-to-intimidating arc.

His inviting-to-deprecatory arc.

His optimist-to-mysterious-pessimist arc.

His “We can do it”-to-“I am so tired of this” arc.

The way he cares less and so much more at the same time.

The way he is misunderstood.

The remaining constant is his want for justice. His honesty. His will to make things right.

THIS MAN WON’T GIVE ME A BREAK.

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REGRET

(Tap for better quality, and to zoom on the details, if you like ^^)

I felt like messing around with a possibly popular scenario. One in which Actor falls apart as his repressed regret finally (rightfully so) crashes over him, all due to a small, coincidental, but final, reminder of what he’s done.

I seriously am so fascinated by his character story.

My insatiable plot-hungriness makes me doodle all the time!