#also areas where markiplier was playing and others where I was running around as the protags

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Just had a dream of a FNaF fangame where you're Gregory, Freddy or Roxy going around a speeding train trying not to get caught by every animatronic ever and like... Thirty new ones where the train stops and you go underground to find stuff too I guess??? It's hard to explain but it was really cool and while going around as Roxy, it was revealed Moon had a crush on her and that crush saved us from someone else. Mangle had also had a redesign and saved us and when Roxy got tired and had to recharge she went and joined Mangle for a snooze.

It was apparently winter too so there was a Christmas themed Freddy that followed us onto the roof after discovering singing jingle bells keeps him at bay. So now we're trying to yeet the guy and some elephant thing off the train by hucking snow at them.

Honestly, the entire dream up until Moon had been 'if they notice you, it's over you literally can't win' so I'd just run at them when cornered or wanting to respawn in a different location so I didn't have to walk back.

The game was called Farroway btw. Not sure what that means or anything but it's probably partly come from that fan game where you run around the sewers trying not to get caught.

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Wkm au

Ok- so. *deep breath* this is an (who killed markiplier) wkm au, but at this point. It could be its own entire timeline just using wkm characters, and I will be referring actor mark as either actor or mark,

Also basic stuff here

you and Celine are friends in this au or at the very least have small talk whenever you see each other.

Celine still cheated on mark

Wilford and Celine are thing (after the whole party) but also act like friends????

I thought about this a few days/a week ago

*VERY DEEP BREATH*

Here’s how this shit went downnn……

So actor kills Damien a few days before the party, everyone thinks that damien went missing and mark makes the party to be like…a farewell party. And plans to poison everyone. Celine actually shows up because she thinks her brother is dead, (even tho nothing is really conformed with the police because actor hid the body so well.) you and Celine are using each other as moral support, and have become great friends even with Damien being missing. (Like best friend trust, like no body else can call me ugly except for you and get away with it, platonic cuddles, sorta friendship). Party happens in the morning, but before that, you go and adventure the manor.

Also Damien becomes a vengeful spirit because betrayal and all that,

So you know this area?

Where mark was supposed to be dead, well instead of that, I thought, well, Damien is a vengeful spirit. And is probably really blinded with rage, (mostly because mark already had hurt his sister with divorce and stuff) probably just goes back to his body and puts his head on top of the fireplace. So you turn around and just see Damien’s head on top the fire place. Dead. (Obviously.) and everything plays out as it would have in regular wkm, you go talk with the detective and the butler, the chef, ( you talk to the chef after the butler immediately)

except in this Scene (it happens after you investigate everyone the butler,the chef, etc)

where Damien and colonel argue it’s instead replaced with Celine crying and colonel comforting her, colonel leaves after Celine stops crying. You walk in, Celine says “oh…hello ‘sniff’ ” “I just… I miss Damien…” Celine starts crying again and you comfort her.

And this area where you talk with Damien is replaced with colonel, you talk about the ordeal and how it’s weird that actor has been hiding in his room, hiding away.

You investigate the rooms blah blah blah, but when you return to the crime scene Damien’s head is missing. Causing everyone (except celine) to believe that Damien came back as a zombie to recollect his head.

Also the entire detective and colonel trying to shoot each other doesn’t happen, instead you get way too curious and go into marks room which leads to mark lashing out at you, mostly exposing himself as the murder for Damien. Making you leave the room as he chases you, leading you to the balcony. (Also he picked up a random gun in his room)

Ok so time to get into the real shit. The shit that’s makes this into a completely different timeline and story. You know the shit. That shit.

*deep breath again*

Let’s do this shit! >:D

Mark ends up a bit insane and shoots hyou off the balcony. And shoots himself, you fall and Celine who followed behind mark after seeing everything. (She was ease-dropping) try’s to help you, running down the stairs towards you.

You know how Damien and Celine got like morphed/trapped/whatever? And it made dark? Well you and mark do that but you force him to do it too trap him and make sure he doesn’t hurt anyone else. (Also yes it did make something/one like dark)

This scene is replaced with you and mark, mark seemingly in chains trying to talk. You explain to Celine about trapping mark and she agrees to lend you her body, she becomes trapped big the mirror but not for long…

You leave to go find the colonel (which takes 1-3 years) , and then you snap him back to reality because he’s partially insane. You go back to the manor and free Celine from the mirror and then the same thing happens with Celine and William/colonel, ( they did it with the power of LoVe) they become the like new dark but at the same time they glitch in and out, just to talk or something, because there happy and stuff. Whilst you make games for mark to suffer in (adwm,ahwm,iswm) but each time it gets harder to keep him at bay. And he glitches in and out trying to get control, Celine and William help you as much as they can.

Damien keeps on ruining the games, and keeps on trying to kill mark. And tries to make mark suffer much more then you wanted him too, which sparks an argument that leads Damien yelling about how much of an asshole mark is, which makes you pissed off and you tell about how much of an asshole Damien’s being.

In the end, you are struggling to keep mark at bay, Damien is just f*king shit up, William and Celine are living their best lives,

Essentially this photo:

I’m not sure if I want too make this into a fic, but it will probably have 6-12 chapters, and I might upload them on Wattpad first, if you don’t know my Wattpad. Here.

https://www.wattpad.com/user/Us3rUnknown12?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_profile&utm_campaign=invitefriends&wp_page=home&wp_uname=Us3rUnknown12&wp_originator=cYiP5cGqq9qf%2FiaDwAyG7zZHrv7WnHxZwmKeSyH3oOJTHvOzRXEQg4FgyXxpaMjD9zSc%2FYw7EWlGMNnvlEISkVliA%2F%2Bb1ZbSCUGM9pGOqV7Iyw%2BJ8keugAIaaa44lvkV

Anyways I think I’m gonna call this au…

Two darks au! Although the name is definitely not fitting, in any way shape or form. I like it!

Also you guys better be grateful for this because I spent way too much time researching

It has been 2-3 hours of writing this.

And it’s 1:50am. I started at 12:00am…

Also tumblr almost deleted this but I could restore it.

HELP

[rainbow--panic]

A letter

Hello guys, i just wanted to write something because i just saw markipliers ‘final’ fnaf episode and i'm emotional right now. In all honesty i just wanna get my opinions/emotions out there, i hope yall dont mind.

For some of you reading this, fnaf is a new thing for you, maybe you saw people hopping onto the trend of liking fnaf and decided what the hell, maybe you saw fnaf and genuinely thought it looked cool, i'm not sure. But to me, fnaf is more than just a trend and I noticed lately the fandom has become toxic, I think it's the most toxic it's been for a while. I would just like to remind everybody what fnaf was all about. It was about us, getting challenged night after night, hour after hour, being a security guard just trying to survive animatronic horror while trying to find out which kids died where and when.

It was a sticking point for some of us, a place we would always come back to because it was the only place that accepted us. I joined the fandom back when i was only 13, but now 7 years later my life has changed for the better. FNAF is constantly giving me inspiration, motivation to better myself and help those around me, and lastley happiness.

Now, all these years later, a lot has changed. I feel like I may have lost more than I gained. I have lost friends, loved ones,a bond with both of my parents, and sadly of all, my best friend (R.I.P Sweetc), but it doesn't matter what i have lost, i have gained true friendship with people who actually care about me, a job which i am happy at, and i have regained a bond with my sister that i thought i lost long ago, and all through this fnaf was always there to distract me from the sorrows of life.

Fnaf has taught me that your ideas can fail miserably time and time again, but, it doesnt matter how many times you fail just get up and try again, and you will fail and fail and fail until you are strong enough, motivated enough, and inspired enough to succeed.Fnaf shows us that in its own game play. Over and over again you have to play the nights until you make it to six a.m. only then to be rewarded with lore. And lets not forget about the most important part of fnaf, Scott cawthon.

Regardless of how you feel about scott, you need to remember that he was not a man to discriminate one based on their sexuality, sex, or race. Scott was different, he gained money from fnaf, that is true, but he also funded projects made by others inspired off his game. He uplifted people and gave them confidence, he inspired us to go fourth and draw or write or just create in general. I've noticed many talented artists had a fnaf phase, myself included, and that just goes to prove that fnaf has, at one point, helped many people and now we have people walking around who wouldn't be a game dev, or an artist or singer, or theorist if it wasn't for this game series he put so much time, effort, and love into.

I understand many people are mad with scotts’ political views but hear me out. Politics are dumb as shit and its wrong to hate people based on their politics, also you need to remember that people who fund political campains are not the politician, two different people with two different world views. Sadly though its not common for people to base other people solely on their actions and how they have affected an area. I am at no point trying to point fingers at anyone, I have done this too, based people off their politics which i really knew nothing about.

Once Scott retired from the scene I started to have a conversation with myself. ‘Is one's politics that I may or may not understand a worthy reason to throw hate at a person?’

My conclusion: no, because politics are dumb, if someone wants to become president i say we throw them onto an island to 1v1 eachother, winner gets a chili dog and the rest of us talk about a better way to run our country because honestly politics end more healthy relationships then it creates.

I know what I am writing may make people angry, you may want to type out a long paragraph and tell me how my views are wrong or how maybe i should go fuck myself or anything you may think of in your head, and you have all the right to state your opinion on my opinion, thats how we grow as people and further bonds with eachother. Each and everyone of us has an opinion and idea and thought. That's what fnaf was all about. I can guarantee most fans have a headcanon on a character, have their own version of timelines, events and every fan has an idea about the series and that's what connects us all to one sticking point.

Never before in my life have I seen a game which brings so many people, from many platforms, and so many ideas together. One person will have an idea and then another will have an idea about that idea and someone else will have a completely different idea from that, and that is amazing. Say what you want about Scott but he is the sole reason we are still here, he is the sole reason you are reading this, he brought us together.

But then he left. I have an idea, which of course you can build upon, and that idea is, the people who threatened scott and forced him into retirement were not fnaf fans, they saw a way to hurt him and hit him hard. I refuse to believe that a member of our community could look at a well functioning, welcoming, safe home and still be convinced to tear it all down.

I'm not sure what point in time you had joined the fandom. I have no idea why you are here, why you decided to read this far, but surely you must care, just a little. FNAF was not only a game, it was a safe haven for all of us stuck in a closet, for us who were trapped in a corner with no place to go. Fnaf kept some of us from stepping off the edge, whether that be physically or metaphorically. Fnaf, it was amazing, we may have fallen down a well but fnaf was the rope that helped us out.

I am not sure if fnaf is over, I know the Scott Cawthon portion of it is. But regardless, fnaf will always be my comfort zone, it will always be my safe space, it will always be that place that united us and brought us together. Hell my account wouldn't have gotten so popular if it wasn't for fnaf. I wasn't originally going to make any fnaf stories. I loved the series and decided, what the hell, why not make a small story to contribute to it and well, i'm glad i did.

At the end of the day, fnaf is not about politics, its not about which animatronic murder bot you like more, hell its not even about the lore. Fnaf is about a generation of children, who were faced with responsibilities that frankly, we couldn't handle. Too much weight was put onto our shoulders and it killed us, but we came back, we always do. Now we are just shells of our former selves trying to piece back the lives we once had, but everyday there's a new problem in our world which continuously stresses us out. We become sick of the adults who burdened us and left us to rot, we become hostile to those who wore a badge of our former wardens. However, when we see a child, we do end up wanting to protect them from the horrors and the responsibilities that we saw that eventually ended up killing us.

Maybe that's what william afton is. Responsibilities put on a child's shoulder that they cannot carry. William has killed us, but we are resilient, if he is around, then we are. Forever we are following him as he kills child after child. For a while we trapped him in a suit he cannot escape, and with the help of some older generations that actually listen to us we trap these responsibilities behind a wall. But they always come back and alone we cannot fight them. We must ban together and create a world where vanny’s do not exist. We must come together and fight the evil, or else we will all be remnants of who we once were.

It is like the lore is telling us, William Afton is a virus and it affected vanny, a child who grew up alongside us. William Afton is a problem and that problem has given rise to another worse problem. If we don't stop vanny then she will infect another and they will affect another and so on. The problem will continue if we cannot band together, get our heads straightened out and figure out what really is important to us, the sake of Gregory, the younger generation, depends on us. We are stuck in a pizza plex, which is just modern day life but we are stuck in the past and must find a way to protect our futures.

Lastly, I would like to write a letter to Scott himself, who may never even see this, but that's ok.

Dear Scott Cawthon,

Thank you. You have helped me grow and keep me stable through my darkest times. Fnaf has had a huge impact on my life and has constantly inspired me to do more with my life than just sit around and wait for something to happen. My younger self would be proud of me because of you, your work has inspired me to be a better person and constantly ask myself hard questions on how i should judge and treat those around me.

If it wasn’t for you I probably wouldn't have made it, my darkest time i had always feared since i was small came true last year and I relied on your work to soothe the pain. I always smile when I think of your games or the theories made off it or any content that has to do with your game because it reminds me that you did this, you brought us together, you brought us a light that guided us out of the dark tunnel.

Scott, you have united us, you have given us a foundation to stand on when our own role models looked down at us and spat on our heads. You were here for us when we were being torn apart and you told us that we could if we desired to and then you gave us tools to tear down tyrants.

I think I can speak for most OG’s when I say, thank you, for everything. We all love and appreciate what you have done for us. And thank you for leaving us Glamrock Freddy, we needed a father figure to hold our hand through this.

With all my love and unconditional support,

E. Rainbow, a lost soul that was found thanks to you.

[sonicthehedgehoglover2]

FNAF Security Breach Theory: Where's Bonnie?

So, I've been a bit addicted to the newest FNAF game that has come out -> FNAF SECURITY BREACH.

I've mainly been introduced to this massive fandom through watching Markiplier play all the games. But Security Breach is both scary and kind of adorable, and I would recommend you guys check it out. Anyway, I have a possible theory on what might have actually happened to Bonnie in the game.

Spoiler warning:

From the get-go, the player notices that Bonnie is missing. Even so, his face is still plastered around the bowling alley in Pizzaplex. And, it found that Bonnie was originally a part of the band. (My boi Glamrock Freddy misses him :( )

The only information that is known about Bonnie is found in a couple of messages around the Pizzaplex.

1. Bonnie was last seen entering Monty Golf around 4:20 am

2. Bonnie was replaced by Monty

With this in mind, a lot of fans theorize that Monty might have done something to Bonnie, in order to become a part of the band. For instance, what if Monty destroyed Bonnie?

I don't think so.

In the game, it is found in several messages that all the animatronics have all been severely damaged in some way before Gregory got to them.

1. Chica fell into the trash compactor

2. Roxy ran over on the race track

3. Monty crushed by a giant bucket

But they were all repaired back to their previous glory. So, could the same not be done to Bonnie?

Here's where my theory comes into play.

Before Vanessa leaves Freddy in the "protective cylinder" in Parts and Services, she states that she will essentially strip Freddy of his Glamrock skin and slap it onto another Endo. This shows how easily replaceable all the animatronics are, but maybe not their skins?

Think about it -> In one ending, when Freddy and Gregory leave the Pizzaplex, a newspaper article is seen after the credits. In the newspaper article, is Monty - as the lead singer -, Roxy, Chica, and a Hippo animatronic.

There is no new Glamrock Freddy.

Instead of making a new Freddy, they simply replaced him with another character.

Why? Maybe because they did not have Glamrock Freddy's skin.

What if Bonnie isn't actually as "dead" as some might believe him to be? What if Monty simply put Bonnie out of commission?

Bonnie could actually still be alive, but only deactivated. I mean, the animatronics all run on battery power, right? And, when they run out of power, they shut down. So, imagine that Monty merely damaged Bonnie enough that he was unable to move and left him to "die" somewhere in the Pizzaplex.

{You also have to take into consideration that there are several areas in the game that you are unable to enter without using other animatronics' abilities, such as Monty's claws. Monty could have hidden Bonnie in one of these areas? Or, under the Pizzaplex?}

This would explain why Bonnie was never seen leaving Monty Golf, or why Bonnie's skin was never "slapped" onto another Endo. Bonnie's skin disappeared.

We all know how shady the Freddy Frazbear company is, so it makes sense they wouldn't waste too much time looking for Bonnie. Instead, they just added Monty to the band. We might see more of Bonnie if Scott adds a DLC to the Security Breach game, who knows?

[penisman420-69]

Mark: Hello everybody, my name is Markiplier and welcome to Five Nights at Freddy's, an indie horror game that you guys suggested, in mass, and I saw that Yamimash played it and said it was really really good... So I'm very eager to see what is up. And that is a terrifying animatronic bear! "Family pizzeria looking for security guard to work the nightshift." Oh...12 a.m. The first night. If I didn't wanna stay the first night, why would I stay any more than... five... Why I stay any more than two- hello? Okay...

Phone starts to call

Mark: Hello?... Hello? Oh, I can't move. That is a creepy skull, there's creepy things on the wall. Oh, hello.

Phone Guy: Hello?

Mark: Hi!

Phone Guy: Hello?

Mark: HI!!!

Phone Guy: Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night.

Mark: Ugh...

Phone Guy: Um, I actually worked in that office before you.

Mark: Ah...

Phone Guy: I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact.

Mark: Hm?

Phone Guy: So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming...

Mark: Uugh! U-hu-hu...

Phone Guy: ...but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about.

Mark: Eh...

Phone Guy: Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week.

Mark: Okay, sound goo- O...

Phone Guy: Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read.

Mark: Uh-huh.

Phone Guy: Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, "Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

Mark: Okay.

Phone Guy: A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike...

Mark: (Scared laughing)

Phone Guy: where fantasy and fun come to life.

Mark: Uughuh!

Phone Guy: Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.

Mark: (Totaly in panic mode)

Phone Guy: Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know...

Mark: Yeah!

Phone Guy: but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No.

Mark: (Scared laughing)

Phone Guy: If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right?

Mark: Okay!

Phone Guy: Okay.

Mark: Okay...

Phone Guy: So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit.

Mark: No way...

Phone Guy: Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night.

Mark: (Scared laughing)

Phone Guy: Uh...Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long.

Mark: Ugh...

Phone Guy: Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87.

Mark: THE BITE?!

Phone Guy: Yeah.

Mark: What bite!?

Phone Guy: I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know?

Mark: WHY?!

Phone Guy: Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person.

Mark: Oh, OH!

Phone Guy: They'll p-most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit.

Mark: Oh, I get it.

Phone Guy: Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices...

Mark: Uh-huh.

Phone Guy: ...especially around the facial area.

Mark: Uh-huh.

Phone Guy: So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort...

Mark: Yeah!

Phone Guy: ...and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh.

Mark: Ugh! Oh, why... What happend?

Phone Guy: Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary.

Mark: THAT'S NOT GOOD...

Phone Guy: Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.

Call ends

Mark: GOOD NIGHT?!

Mark: OH NO... OH THAT'S BAD! I understand what I need to do. I need to watch the cams so that they don't come after- ONE'S MISSING!!

Bonnie is in the Backstage

Mark: OH, HI! There you are, pretty bunny thing... Okay... Okay, okay, I get it, I get it, I get it, where'd you go? You're still there? Alright, you stay there. I don't know if it's good that you're staring at me! Oh my god. I thought it was weird that it couldn't move, but this is totally different... than any horror game I've ever played. So what you gotta do in case you not getting it is you gotta watch the cameras to make sure they don't come by- You got a little much power- Is he still there? Hi, you're still there. Wait a minute, what, DID YOU MOVE?! Okay, you didn't move. You don't move neither... You don't moving nothing... If I see you moving... I don't wanna see anything...Oh-oh-oh MY GOD! THIS'S TERRIFYING! Why do I leave doors so open, why isn't there enough power-

Bonnie is in the Dining Area

Mark: Hi, okay, you moved again. Hi. What are you doing there? Might be getting a little close to me...

Camera goes static

Mark: O-oh, oh, no, OH NO, NO, NOOO! No-no-no... Nooo, no, no, close the clo-ose, closing, closing! Eh. YOU'LL NEVER GET ME! Okay, you're over there, alright...It's okay. Why didn't I have enough power for lights? Stay right there you douchebag! You stay right the F there... God, dammit! That was like- this is like the most terrifying game I ever played! They're gonna pop out at me! Oh, god, he's gone. Hi. Okay. You just gonna alternate between the two places, it's totally fine. And your friends, they ain't moving. They're not moving, are they? I see where I am. You're not near me. So, that's good. Just gonna periodically check... How much long do I need- I need last to 6 a.m. Oh god, am I gonna have enough power? If I run out of power thy'll able to get me! Oh god... You stay right there! Why am I still using some power? O-oh god... Seriously, I what... this like... this like... bad! You're still there, okay. This is a first night, they said it should be easy to first night so I only assuming one of them... just gonna wandering around and it is a creepy bunny guy. ♪{Happy fun time at Freddy's, in fun land... having such a wonderful time...}♪ Okay, so, you still there? Okay, you still there... I'm gonna name you... Bunny Blallagy-

Camera goes static

Mark: OH GOD WHERE'D YOU GO?! Oh god, he's here? Hello? Where'd he go? Hi again, okay. You stay right the F there! I don't want to have to deal with you...

Mark closes both doors

Mark: Probably shouldn't do that, I need to conserve power. God dammit I was like have the damn thing in- I think the doors were down. You're still there? Oh-kay... Oh-kay. Oh-kay! (Scared laughing)

Music starts

Mark: I hear that... I HEAR THAT! OH GOD! WHERE'S THE OTHER ONE?! WHERE'S HE?! U-UGH! U-UGH! WHERE IS HE?! Where'd you go? Where'd you go, where'd you go, where are both of them, both of th-

Bonnie is in the West Hall

Mark: H'i, you are really close to me! Oh god, it's not 6 a.m. yet?

Chica is in Restrooms

Mark: Hi. Okay. So I think I just need to keep the left door closed? (Crying) NOT OKAY NOT OKAY! Is he behind that door? No, where'd he go? Where-

Chica is in the East Hall

AH! OH HI HI HI HI HI HI OKAY OKAY, I DON'T HAVE MUCH POWER LEFT. What you gonna do? Is the other one still there? U-uh! HI... Oh, you moved again! Where where where? (Scared laughing) What do I do, what do I do-

Chica is in E. Hall Corner

Mark: OOOH YOU'RE RIGHT SO BEHIND THAT DOOR! OH, WHAT HAPPENS IF I OPEN THE DOOR?! I'm running out of power. Oh, I'm gonna run out of power! Is he there? I don't want- I don't- I do- I don't wanna die... AH, ONE PERCENT POWER?! (nervous grudging sound)

Power out, doors open

Mark: AH! ... Oh NO! OH NO, NO NO! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! Oh no no no no no...no no...

Freddy flashes in left door

Mark: HIIII! OH, GAWD DAMMIT! HOW'RE YOU DOING?!

6 a.m. chimes

Mark: Oh, did I make it? I make it? Yeah-ha! Oh god not again! Why would I do this stupid job?! Oh-kay... Okay. So I ran out of power, but...

Phone starts to call

Mark: OH HI, HI AGAIN! You got to be some "sage advice" for me? Yep, okay, yep, I know, yep, yep yep yep, what I can do for you? I know! Oh god...

Phone Guy: Uhh, Hello? Hello? Uh, well, if you're hearing this and you made it to day two, uh, congrats!

Mark: (laughs in panic)

Phone Guy: I-I won't talk quite as long this time since Freddy and his friends tend to become more active as the week progresses.

Mark: What?

Phone Guy: Uhh, it might be a good idea to peek at those cameras while I talk just to make sure everyone's in their proper place.

Bonnie is in Dining Area

Mark: No.

Phone Guy: You know... Uh... Interestingly enough, Freddy himself doesn't come off stage very often. I heard he becomes a lot more active in the dark though, so, hey, I guess that's one more reason not to run out of power, right?

Mark: (laughs in panic)

Phone Guy: I-I also want to emphasize the importance of using your door lights. There are blind spots in your camera views, and those blind spots happen to be right outside of your doors. So if-if you can’t find something, or someone, on your cameras...

Bonnie is in the West Hall

Mark: Ugh-h!

Phone Guy: ...be sure to check the door lights. Uh, you might only have a few seconds to react... Uh, not that you would be in any danger, of course. I'm not implying that.

Mark: Of course!

Phone Guy: Also, check on the curtain in Pirate Cove from time to time. The character in there seems unique in that he becomes more active if the cameras remain off for long periods of time. I guess he doesn't like being watched.

Bonnie is in W. Hall Corner

Mark: UGH-GH! UHH!

Phone Guy: I don't know. Anyway, I'm sure you have everything under control! Uh, talk to you soon.

Call ends

Mark: Where's Pirate Cove? Why are you going to leave me with this? Don't leave me like this!Where's, where's Big Yellow?

Chica is in Dining Area

Mark: There's Big Yellow. Is he still there? He's still there? YES YOU SILL THERE! VERY GOOD! VERY GOOD! Oooooh dooon't like th... Is he still there? I'm so going run out- Okay he left, okay. Okay! We're okay! We're going be fine, we're gonna be totally fine. We will be fine, hello. Hello, bubsy, where's the other guy? Where's the other guy? Where's he?! Where's he, where's he, where's he, where's he, where-

Bonnie is in the West Hall

Mark: Oh, there... Okay. He's not-

Freddy looks straight in the camera

Mark: Oh, HIII! HEY, FREDDY, HOW U DOING?! Okay. He will be nearby? You stay there! Where's the other one, where's the other one, where's the other one? There he is. Okay. I am pan- I'M LOSING MY SHIT RIGHT NOW! I'M NOT OKAY WITH THIS!

Camera goes static

Mark: OH GOD NOT AGAIN! NO DO DO DO THAT! No no no. Don't you be- Oh god!

Bonnie is in W. Hall Corner

Mark: AH! HE'S RIGHT OUTSIDE THE DOOR! UH! HI!

Chica is in East Hall

Mark: HI! Okay I'm- I'll keep my eye on you! Oh god, where'd you go? Where'd you go? Kay... GOD, THIS NIGHT IS LASTING FOREVER!

Bonnie pops in West Door

Mark: AH! ISTHATAFAGA! ISEWAMEMEGE! IT'S NOT OKAY! Oh oh oh... Okay, so what be-

Chica is in Dining Area

Mark: Hi... "Let's Eat!" Let's eat what? You still there? Okay, he's gone. Good. Stay gone, forever, and ever and ever and ever, oh, you're coming back! Either that or you're leaving. Oh, I'm not gonna have enough- I'm not h- My butt is going be munched! I'll be shoved into a teddy bear outfit. And they're gonna laugh! Where's he? Where'd you g-

Bonnie pops in West Door

Mark: AH! U-fe-fe-fe... That Bunny wants to get my gibblets, but he can't have em! Not today! Not ever... ♪{Good thing Freddy staying in his house.}♪ Hi mister- Wait, Bunny, you were just outside my door! Kay... Where's the Ducky? Where's mister- is that him- No, no Ducky there...

Chica is in Restrooms with hostile look in camera.

Mark: Hi, (Scared laughing), Hi mister Ducky. (Crying) God, this night is lasting so long... I just wanna go home. I'll never play this game again. I'll be a good boy! God dammit. It's would be terrifying if you controlled the cameras with like an Oculus Rift or something? Oh, my god. Cause you just move your head back and forth... Oh, my god. Hi again. Where's the other one? Where'd you go, where'd you go? Oh, there he is. Okay, so long as you two stay right there, you'll be good! You look very pretty! Uh, where's the Pirate Cove Guy- Oh, here's Pirate Cove, okay. So I just gotta... I just gotta keep an eye on you guys. Gonna be fine! OH, oh I bet using the camera takes power too, I'm down to 34%, I've got 3 hours to go!

Music starts

Mark: No. You're still there. You're still there. You're still there. You're looking at me now.

Foxy is in Pirate Cove

Mark: HI PIRATE COVE MAN!!! RARRR! HU-OHG... Oh, where'd they go, still there, still there? Pirate Cove Man! How u doin'? Oh, man, I love workin' at Didney Worl, it's ma faavorite...

Foxy enters his pre-sprint phase

Mark: HI WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT OF YOUR CAGE?!! PLEASE, GET BACK IN! I DON'T WANT YOU OUT OF THERE! HE'S COMING FOR ME? Oh, he's coming for me! Oh, why do I have to watch three of them? I'm like ligit freaking out right now. I'm not okay with this. Oh god, they moved. Where'd you move to, oh, you're coming down the hallway, ha? Which one are ya? Not left Pirate Cove yet... You still there... Coming down that hallway... Pirate Cove Man, how're you doing Pirate Cove Man?

Camera goes static

Mark: No! I got 2 hours left! No no no! Nooo! What's that sound?

Bonnie is in W. Hall Corner

Mark: Oh, he's right there. Well, he's not here JUST yet. I don't wanna run out of power. Oh, the sounds, I don't like them.

Foxy sprints to office

Mark: AH, FUCK! NO! OH GOD!

Foxy attacks!

AH-HAH, FUCKING FUCK! I TRIED TO PUSH IT! OH-OH MY GOD! Ah... Oh...

Game Over

Mark: Oh, game over indeed! Oh, are those my eyeballs? Auh... (coughs) Oh hi... Okay. So that's Five Nights at Freddy's, I couldn't even survive two, GOD DAMMIT! HAH! OH, GOD! Oh, I tried to hit the door- I tried so bad... Oh... Okay. Okay, thank you all so much for watching, check out the other scary games that I played, if you want to play it by yourself, you can check it in the description bellow. If you REALLY want me to play it again and try to BEAT it, let me know in the comments below. Thanks again everybody and as always, I will see YOU in the next video. BYE-BYE!

YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS WHO IS THIS WHO DID THIS WHO ARE YOU I'M GETTING A RESTRAINING ORDER

[protagonistheavy]

Been watching markiplier's go through the newest fnaf game because Cactus has been watching it. She's pretty familiar with the franchise, but I've never actually played any of the games myself, in fact I've only ever watched the first game... get played by markiplier. So, full-circle.

In any case wow this game seems sooooooooooooooooooo boring. The pacing is just terrible and nothing has worked right in the game to actually create a scary atmosphere. I've noticed this in general that it felt like the series sort of stopped trying to be scary and just be an aesthetically pleasing game that's full of jump scares... and this seems like the real peak of it. All of the animatronics are either too endearing to find scary, or they're sooo over the top in their design to look scary that it just doesn't work. Or they're only around for like, one minute... and then gone.

I mean I guess I am early in this playthrough still, but considering I'm hours in and its been this lackluster, wow. Like, forever ago... the game explained a mechanic about calling the Freddy mech suit over to your location... but then immediately following the instruction on how to do that, Freddy becomes entirely inaccessible... FOR HOURS of game time. Sooo why not wait until the mechanic becomes POSSIBLE before giving it to the player?

And the progression is just all over the place. So many times I find myself listening to Freddy's directions and I'm like, what the shit are you TALKING about. This is hardly an exaggeration of what it feels like talking to him: "I'm sorry, Gregory. But in order to continue, you're going to need the VIP Pass from the door behind me (does not specify which of the five doors behind him he means) which takes you into the laundry room. Use the vents in the laundry room to access the kitchen's bathroom and then take the ladder into the basement, which will grant you level 3 security access to the pizza-making machine, which will give you the VIP Pass." There's NO logical sense of progression, it's just random items located in random places with no rhythm connecting them. And the map design makes this ALL so much worse, the entire layout just reeks of "video game developer architecture" just clearly designed by someone with no sense of how buildings and facilities actually work lol. So almost none the space makes sense in your head, it's so hard to track and wow, I cant believe Mark is giving himself such a hard time for "missing" this one pathway in order to continue... he spent 45 minutes lost, and I cant blame him AT ALL because if this was a WELL-DESIGNED game, the pathway forward would be themed into the map -- you would have lights or camera angles or colors that help guide you to where you need to be. Except this is FNAF sooooo youre just expected to circle around a huge area multiple times until you find the unlocked door....... or, just, the fucking loading zone to trigger the next event lol.

And I cant press enough the fact that NOTHING is scary here. Part of it is because the plot builds NO suspense, it's just unexplained circumstances meant to look eerie and all portrayed from a low POV. But a bigger reason it isnt scary is probably because the horror is just constantly the same. "Don't get caught." That's it. And I imagine this gets better inherently as the plot unfolds, but currently, the only danger, the only spookiness going on... is that things love to grab you by the shoulders. And honestly, since the game is giving me NO other context, all I can assume is that the security is all in the right lol, because it does just sound like a mischievous kid running around backstage. It doesnt seem like anything horrible is happening at all. Why does any of this plot matter.

The humor also takes away from the suspense too. This is something that bugged me a lot of the first game actually, was that the excuse for why all the bad things were happening in an otherwise-standard chain restaurant environment was always "oh the restaurant is just that bad lol, theyre just really bad at being safe and healthy, they have lots of OSHA violations lol." And like they lean on that soooo much in order to deflect any criticisms that would shake anyone's suspension of disbelief. Idk maybe the FNAF universe just isnt for me in that regard, but it's weird that the game is hitting you with these like mostly-comical uhhh yelp reviews? in the middle of all the jumpscare should-grabbing.

Anyway uh I guess the characters are cute and the location itself seems like, fun. Theres lots of cool ideas around here but the execution has not been stellar. Feels a LOT like all they had were cute ideas but no real sense on how to connect things together.

[surveys-at-your-service]

Survey #367

“i should warn you that you may fuck me, but chances are i’m gonna fuck you over”

Where was the last place you went for vacation? The beach. When was the last time you wore makeup? Halloween. Do you watch soaps or drama series? If so, which ones? Not currently. What’s your favourite tomato variety? I hate tomatoes. What was your very first pet like? Dad had a dog named Trigger when I was born, but I have no memory of her, so I'm excluding her. I consider our first family pet to be Chance, a cat my mom took in after finding her literally in the trash. She was... god, incredible. She was a loyal friend, and I can imagine no greater mother than she was (she legit fought off a rottweiler head-on to protect her kittens). She was so smart, so gentle, and just simply amazing. I'll always miss her. What was the best school project you remember doing? Looking back, despite the fact it TERRIFIED me before, that would be my senior project presentation. It was about snake misconceptions and fallacies, so I made a slideshow to present to the special ed class. I made drawings for them to color, word searches, all that kind of stuff. They were just the sweetest and seemed really into it. What’s your favourite type of fish to eat? None. What kind of an old person do you think you’ll become? I really... don't like thinking about this. Like I'm weak enough now at 25, I can't imagine how my, say, 60s would be. I hope and just about pray that my physical health will improve, but I'm just going to exclude that part entirely from this answer. Personality-wise and such, I have a feeling I'll be the quiet and sweet kind, the one that loves her (hopeful) spouse like crazy, and comes most alive on Halloween if I live in a place where children come trick-or-treating. I imagine I would LOVE that. I'd love to be the type that goes on morning jogs to help stay spry. Which well-known person’s death shocked you the most, if any? Steve Irwin and Chester Bennington might be tied. Both were so, so sudden. Steve was like, invincible to my childhood eyes, and when I heard about Chester's death, I thought it was just a sick rumor. Two amazing people that died way too soon. What’s the craziest colour you’d dye your hair? That would depend on personal opinions. I want to dye my hair LOTS of colors though, if that tells you anything. What’s the coolest hobby one of your friends has? Uhhhh. Idk. Name a video game you can play over and over again: Shadow of the Colossus. It's a pretty short game if you know what you're doing, and it's super relaxing to me and just so goddamn pretty to look at. Every time I've played it has just been a pleasant experience. Do you like meatloaf? Yeah, it's fine. How about Meatloaf? I know who he is, but I've never really listened to his music. Do you take time to do charitable work? If so, what do you do? No. ;_; Especially with all the free time I have, I really should... What is something that will make you laugh instantly? Okay, don't ask, but if I for a SECOND see that commercial of Mr. Clean dancing while he's cleaning, I will die because of memories. What is something you hope you will never inherit from a specific relative? Diabetes. It runs heavily in my family. Name a movie you wouldn’t watch solely based on its name: The Human Centipede. No. Thank you. Have you ever played in a stack of hay bales? No. What’s your dearest souvenir? The stuffed moose I got at Cabela's during a visit to Ohio. I named him Brownie, and he was my "childhood plushie" we all have. Is there a lot of graffiti around your neighbourhood? Not in the actual area I live in, but there are DEFINITELY places where it's a pigsty of distasteful shit. Have you ever made your own soda? (Soda Stream doesn’t count!) No. Do you have a hobby that forces you out of the house? If so, what is it? Nature photography. Have you ever been part of a theater group? No, that stuff doesn't interest me. What’s the most ecological thing you do? We recycle, and I also use metal straws. Would you stop eating meat, if you had to raise and slaughter it yourself? Absolutely. There is no fucking way I could do it. What’s your favourite board game? Why do you like it best? I like Clue just because of the mystery-solving factor, and I think it's kinda cool how you can think ahead and use other's findings to your own advantage to win the game pretty early. Besides English, what other languages can you speak? Some German. It's gotten pretty weak with neglect, though. Besides English, what other languages can you read? I can read German well. What thing/person/happening has made you the happiest you’ve been? This is a complicated answer that I just don't feel like elaborating on. What’s the most freeing thing you’ve ever done? Letting Jason go. Have you ever had a restaurant dish that was made with bugs? If not, would you even want to try one? No, and I'm not interested. Have you ever tasted birch sap? No. How about the young buds/shoots of spruce trees? No. Which edible flowers have you tasted? Honeysuckles. What has been your worst restaurant experience? Well, it's a fast food restaurant, but lemme tell you about my vegetarian encounter with Burger King. I ordered their veggie burger. Which they have. It's not a secret. These idiots gave me a bun with tomato and lettuce, and I think mayo on it, after sounding confused when Mom was ordering for me. Mom went back in there of course to tell them, and oh god was the manager pissed, lol. I got my veggie burger in the end. What’s the most immature, adolescent thing that still makes you laugh? Some sexually inappropriate jokes can still get me sadly, lol. Have you ever had a life-threatening condition? If so, what was it? Not literally, but boy do I think depression counts. Do you ever compare your life to somebody else’s? If so, why? Y E P. I can't tell you why, I just... do it. I look at other's successes and am just like, "Why aren't I there yet?", and beat myself up about being a failure. What is a food item or a dish you absolutely cannot stand? Brussel sprouts, asparagus, runny eggs, many other things because I'm just mega picky. Have you ever had a custom print done on a shirt? If so, what was it? Just the spray paint kind that vendors like to do at the beach and stuff. I don't remember any I got, though. What does your favourite mug look like? It's black with a Markiplier quote on it, given to me by Sara. :') Do you ever read other people’s survey answers? Yeah! Friends', anyway. I love learning all the obscure things about them. Do you like daytime or night time better? Why? Daytime, specifically early morning, because it's better for my depression. Are you more comfortable as a leader or a follower? A follower that isn't afraid to speak up when I'm really against something. What is your favourite song right now at this very moment? I've been really into "7empest" by Tool lately, and the synthwave edit of "Voices" by Motionless In White. If you watched The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, who was your favourite character? I don't remember it well, but I think I liked the butler. Was there even a butler? Who was your first online friend? Emma. :') Do you have any plants in your home? No. If you wear makeup, what’s the most outrageous colour you use? I only ever use black. What was the last photograph you took? My cat being adorable while sleeping. <3 Have you ever submitted a video to Funniest Home Videos? No. What was the first sport you learned how to play? I want to say soccer? I absolutely hated it. Do you have a headache at the moment? Yes, actually. I've really been attacked by the Covid shot side effects. Are your parents still together? No, thank god. What was the last hot food you ate? I made a chicken and I think pesto (some Italian noodles, idk) Healthy Choice bowl for dinner last night. Have you ever seen a meteor shower? No. :( Do you ever feel afraid people will question your sanity? I'm sure people have before, and back then? Rightfully so. Which X Factor audition(s) was/were your favorite? Never watched it. Were you a straight A student in spelling and grammar? Always. It's so weird how it's gotten worse with time since leaving school, even though I write... Were you a straight A student in math? Yeah, no. I usually got Bs or Cs. What is your favorite shade of yellow? Pastel. I don't really like yellow. What is something you want to accomplish before you turn 30? Have a stable job. Are you afraid of getting yelled at? YES. Do you feel a connection to the moon? It's not something I think about, so not really, but I do believe all things in the universe are connected in some way. We are simply a part of nature, as all else is. What does your heart long for? Contentment in who I am and where I am in life. I know I also miss being in love. Do you know what your purpose in life is? We have no innate purpose; we make our own, and I want mine to be to show others that there is always hope for yourself in yourself, and also to spread the message of love of all animals. Did you decorate a pumpkin this year? Last year I didn't. I really should change that this go around. Have you ever seen a fox? Yes! They're a kind of rare sight here sadly, so when I had the opportunity to photograph a fox tragically as roadkill, it was a photographic experience I won't forget. God, I wanted to pet it (I obviously didn't), but I did talk to it about how beautiful (s)he was as I got some shots. I never had a harder time leaving one of those angels I've taken pictures of. Do you find Halloween fun or scary? FUN!!!!!! Is there anything about Halloween you find offensive? Not at all. What do the trees look like where you live? I mean, there's a variety, but the staple that you see literally everywhere are pine trees. What is your dream vacation? Somewhere with mountains, clear lakes, cool weather, beautiful and various wildlife... What was the best vacation you’ve been on so far? Disney World as a kid. What is the best class trip you’ve been on? The zoo in the 5th grade. It was the one occasion I got to see meerkats. Did you like field trips when you were a kid? I lived for them. Do you find museums boring or interesting? I find science museums to be very, very fascinating. Art ones are great, too. What are three issues you are passionate about? LGBT rights, the pro-choice movement, and wildlife conservation, to name a few. Would you ever wear a shirt with your country’s flag on it? No. I'm not patriotic enough at all. What size is your bed? Queen. What’s a medicine that makes you sleepy? When we were experimenting with my Klonopin dosage, I learned that 3mg was enough to knock me on my ASS. Do you like bath bombs? I mean they're pretty, but I wouldn't waste money on 'em. Who are your favorite small YouTubers? Yikes, a looooooot. But this also depends on what you think qualifies as "small." Most of my favorite "small" YTers are tarantula keepers or sub-1M let's players. Who are your favorite big YouTubers? Markiplier obviously, Snake Discovery, Good Mythical Morning (even if I don't watch them anymore, they are veeery dear to my heart and I will always support them), Sam & Colby... Again, there's a lot. When you don't watch TV and YT instead, you really get attached to a lot of them. What was your favorite girl group when you were growing up? Would you believe me if I said Pussycat Dolls? haha Do you like Disney movies? Um, DUH. Were you ever in the popular crowd? No. Have you ever used an outhouse? UGH, at like childhood sports games, yes. I could NEVER nowadays, oh my god. Could you possibly write a successful novel? I think I have the creativity to, but not the dedication. Are there any foods that make you gag? Beans, for one. I just canNOT with them. It's a completely involuntary reaction. Have you ever had blonde highlights in your hair? I think I did? Who was the last person you video-chatted with? The lady who was seeing if I qualified for TMS therapy. Do you think sleeve tattoos look trashy? Definitely not, I love those. If you had to get a portrait tattoo, who would it be of? I don't actually want one, but if I did, I'd go to a serious professional to get THE Darkiplier smile. :') If u know u know. Do you have any stickers on any of your electronic devices? No. Do you think half blonde/half dark brown hair is attractive? It looks great on some people, but it's not my favorite combo.

[falseroar]

Dog Days Part 4: Information Exchange

((Abe returns to his office to find a shady potential client waiting with an offer he can’t refuse.

Link to the previous part, Part 3: Slow Recovery.))

Abe made a detour by the parking lot to grab his bag out of the back of the beat-up car he called his own before walking into the office building, where there was no one waiting at the front desk. Come to think of it, he wasn’t sure he had ever seen anyone behind the glass since he signed his lease, but that just meant fewer questions whenever he was back in town. Instead, he took the stairs up to his floor, only to stop when he spotted the man standing in the middle of the hallway.

Right next to the door to his office/as close as he got to home these days.

He played with the idea of turning around and just going back to his car, but there was always the chance he would just run into the guy on his way out. Abe took another long sip of his coffee before stepping out of the stairwell and walking straight toward the door, hoping that maybe the man was just hanging out and waiting for someone else.

A hope that quickly died when the man turned with a slightly off movement, his head turning and his body following with a slight delay to fix Abe with a cold stare behind black square frame glasses.

“Abe Lincoln,” the man said, more a declaration than a question.

“That’s what they call me,” Abe said. His keys were already in his free hand, but he found himself slowing as he approached. A voice in the back of his mind screamed that there was something off about the man, more than just his odd movements and smile that failed to match his eyes. While he couldn’t point out what it was immediately, Abe knew enough to trust his instincts and keep his distance. “And I’m not taking clients at the moment. I left a sign on the door, didn’t you see it?”

“This just says ‘Be back sooner or later.’”

Oh. In hind sight, he probably should have double checked which sign he put up before he left three months ago.

“Well, point is I’m still not here to take another case, if that’s what you’re looking for,” Abe said. “Maybe call ahead next time, make an appointment with my secretary if I ever get one. And if you’re here looking for money, then you can just get in line behind everyone else.”

The man turned in place to watch as Abe circled around him to get to the door, the hunter just as careful not to take his eyes off of the visitor. Abe was already weighing his options, considering whether a punch with the keys in his fist or a splash from what was left of his coffee would be enough to distract the stranger if push came to shove. He had more options stowed on his person and in his coat, but this close there wasn’t a lot of room for trial and error if he didn’t know what he was dealing with.

“While I am capable of waiting out here as long as necessary, perhaps the hunter might be willing to hear my employer’s offer first. He is willing to offer you far more than your usual rate, in return for your assistance in looking into a particular person of interest.”

“Don’t see why he would need a hunter for that,” Abe said, making a show of unlocking his door. This close, he realized that it wasn’t just the stilted way the man talked, the emphasis not quite falling on the right words. Watching him out of the corner of his eye, he realized that the man’s chest wasn’t moving, just as there was no sign of movement around his nose or mouth when he wasn’t actually speaking.

The stranger wasn’t breathing.

“Just who is your employer?” Abe asked, trying to sound casual as he pulled his bag off his shoulder and tossed it down just inside the office door, on top of the pile of late notices covering the floor. Leaning against the frame left the hand not holding the coffee cup out of sight and free to reach for the handle of his revolver. Bullets didn’t work against everything, but they sure helped slow down most things.

“He would prefer to remain anonymous in this situation—”

“Nope,” Abe said, already reaching for the door.

“Wait!” The stranger reached out to stop the door from shutting only for his whole body to stutter the second his hand tried to cross the threshold. Sparks arced between his fingers and raced up his arm before he yanked himself backwards. His whole head twitched to the side before he returned to his far too straight stance, and Abe was quick to notice the red light in the man’s brown eyes before it disappeared, although his scowl remained. “You have anti-magic wards.”

“Of course I do, what hunter worth his salt wouldn’t think of something that basic?” Abe scoffed. And those were far from the only protections he had in place, although he was pretty sure the handy sigils he carved into the interior of the door frame probably meant he wouldn’t be getting his deposit back on this place. Landlords generally didn’t recognize a good thing when they had it.

Magic, but the ward hadn’t stopped some kind of spell or curse, it had reacted like he was the magic. Not fae, the eyes would give it away. Maybe an inanimate object powered by magic? One shaped like a human, or else Abe would have seen through it when he tried to break the ward, but that didn’t explain the sparks. He could probably figure it out with a few more clues, or…

Screw it, Abe thought.

“What are you?”

The man paused before he answered, his words falling out quickly as though he couldn’t help answering, “I am a Google unit, a blend of technology and magic created to provide information and services to my employer. Among other things.”

Magitek? Abe had heard of it, but never anything like this. This Google thing looked human, or human enough if you could ignore the slightly stilted mannerisms and the whole not blinking once while they had been having this conversation thing.

“Guess that explain the ‘G’,” Abe muttered, gesturing to the vivid white letter on the unit’s red shirt. “Well you can provide your employer with the information that I said ‘no.’ Hell no, if you feel like it.”

“While it is typical of humans to be reluctant to deal with superior beings—”

“Okay, I’m going to stop you right there. I seriously doubt the ‘superior’ thing, but I don’t care what you are. The point is, I don’t take work from anyone who won’t meet me in person, much less refuses to even give me a name. Believe it or not, I do have standards.”

The Google unit’s eyes moved from Abe’s face to stare pointedly at the darkened office behind him, the floor covered in late notices and clothes that didn’t make the cut to come along on his latest trip, filing cabinets crowded up against the paper-covered desk, and the multiple cork boards full of papers and photographs pinned and connected to each other by lengths of string, and that was just what could be seen from the office door.

“Clearly. That is why my employer requested that I bring this to you, hunter. He believes that this person may be involved in certain activities that could be a danger to others, including to someone of value to significant persons within the city. If he were to take these suspicions through official channels, there might be enough bias against the person of interest to prevent a real investigation from taking place.”

Abe had to take a second to work that out, but considering they were coming to him he thought he could take a guess. “This person you want me to look into isn’t human, and if enough rumors float around they could be in trouble whether it’s true or not.”

“Correct.”

Abe hesitated. He had taken enough cases like this before, but never one that sent up this many red flags at one time. There was clearly something shady going on here, and the last thing he needed was to get dragged into someone else’s mess when he had enough of his own to deal with.

As if sensing something else was needed, the Google unit added, “I have been given permission to tell you that an exchange of information is also on the table, should you choose to take this case.”

“What kind of information?”

“Information regarding one Wilford Warfstache, the most recent alias of the man formerly known as William J. Barnum.”

The floor could have opened out underneath Abe at that moment and he didn’t think he would have noticed the difference. Without realizing it, he had stepped back out into the hall, his hand wrapped tight in the collar of the unit’s red shirt as he pulled him closer.

“What do you know about him?” he growled, but the automaton’s expression did not change.

“All information about this person is stored in a file that I cannot access until given permission by my employer, which will not be granted until you provide your own information about our person of interest.” Google did not blink, and there was no trace of concern in his voice as he added, “If you attempt to damage this unit, the information can and will be deleted.”

Abe forced himself to let go of the unit’s shirt, but his hand just as quickly closed into a fist. “Why should I believe you know anything about him that I don’t?”

“I cannot provide that information until permission is granted. However, my employer thought you might be interested to learn that last night at approximately 12:37 AM, the local police received a report of strange lights and noises at the house formerly known as Markiplier Manor. By the time they arrived, there was no sign of any persons in the area,” Google answered, his gaze taking on the faraway stare that Abe was beginning to recognize as him recalling something from his memory.

Abe made a conscious effort to control his reaction to those words, to keep his breathing steady and his eyes as clear as he could, to not give in to the shudder that raced down his spine to meet the pit opening in his stomach.

“That could be anything,” he said. “Some kids messing around, frisky raccoons, you name it. Doesn’t mean it’s related to—to him.”

“I am also allowed to say that we have reason to believe that Wilford Warfstache has returned to the city,” Google said. “But as I cannot provide anything to verify this information until after you provide something in return, and you are clearly not interested—”

“Wait.”

Abe hated this, he hated not knowing what he was getting himself into, he hated not knowing who was behind this, hated that whoever it was clearly knew enough to get his interest and press his buttons, but more than anything he hated the idea of missing his chance to finally get his hands on the one monster that had evaded him all these years. If there was even a chance this thing could lead him to the Colonel, or whatever he was calling himself these days…

“Who does your employer want me to look into this bad?” Abe asked.

“Does this mean you’re taking the case?” Google asked in turn.

Just because he agreed, it didn’t mean he couldn’t do his own investigating on the side. And if this guy was as dangerous or as in danger as robot boy here claimed, then maybe it wouldn’t hurt Abe to look into him.

“Yeah, I’ll find out what you need to know. Just give me a name.”

The Google unit pulled an envelope out of his pocket and presented it to Abe, inside of which he found a downtown address, a photograph of the man in question, and a copy of a certificate verifying the person in question was registered with the city and the Bronson Institute.

“My employer wants you to obtain as much information as possible about any suspicious activities or relationships involving the vampire, Dr. Henrik von Schneeplestein.”

((End of Part 4. Thanks for reading!

Link to Part 5: Second Opinion.

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[grumpysepticsauce]

YouTuber Roleplay Plots (Characters Included!)

//tw for mentions of temporary character death and violence

Before we get into the actual plot ideas I had that I wanted to share with you, in case you are interested in roleplaying any of these with me, here's a list of all the YouTubers I'm capable of roleplaying as;

Pewdiepie

Roomie (Joel)

Boyinaband (Dave)

Markiplier (Includes Egos)

Jacksepticeye (Includes Egos)

CrankGameplays

Game Grumps - Arin

Game Grumps - Dan

Wilbur Soot

Corpse

Quackity

RubberNinja (Ross)

Vinny Vinesauce

Joel Vargskelethor

JaidenAnimations

TheOdd1sOut

SuperMega- Matt

SuperMega- Ryan

Daniel Howell

AmazingPhil

Muyskerm

LordMinion777

WildSpartanz

Kingani

Pokimane

ihascupquake

Aphmau

CallMeKevin

GrayStillPlays

CaptainSauce

The roleplay can be completely platonic or include romance! But remember; if you want to include romance between two or more YouTube stars, you must be aware that it is a fictional situation and the pairing is not something to obsess over. OCs are welcome, too! I'll gladly play as one of your comfort stars for a character and I can play as more than one character at a time!

Now, let me share my plot ideas with you!

Plot #1: Among Us

Ten YouTubers are placed in a virtual reality simulation for a full 48 hours. In this simulation, the team of ten is placed on a spacecraft by the government and sent off to search for alien life. The problem is; two of the crewmates amongst them are already aliens, hungry killers at that. Character A is an imposter who actually feels guilty about the mayhem they have to cause, especially since they can hear and see the ghosts of those they've killed. Character B is an innocent crewmate who anxiously sides with Character A and the two team up until Character B finally becomes suspicious. But just as Character B tries to get away..Character A brings them down. Now Character A is haunted by their ghost until the end of the simulation.

Plot #2: Angels and Demons

Character A is a beast known as a fallen angel. Fallen Angels are forced out of heaven for supposed wrongdoings, and in this case, Character A is framed for a murder that they did not commit. This turns Character A into a cold-blooded bastard who doesn't trust anyone, not even the demons they're forced to live amongst now. Meanwhile, Character B was sent to hell completely on accident. Their friend attempted to summon a demon, which required a sacrifice. Character B became said sacrifice and ended up here as a supposed punishment for assisting in the summoning. When Character B meets Character A, they try to help the fallen angel go back to their positive ways so the two can go back to heaven together.

Plot #3: Band AU

Character A is the lead singer of a band that they created with their two best friends. One of those best friends is Character B, who has never sang for the band before, but has been secretly writing song lyrics and singing when they're alone. When Character A doesn't notice that Character B is trying to get their attention with their own songs, Character B goes to one of the members of the band's tour group for comfort. Character A becomes jealous, seeing Character B with another person, and decides to write a song about them, not knowing that all Character B wants is to be in the spotlight just once.

Plot #4: My Hero

Character A has been living a peaceful life in their apartment in the city for a few years now. But when Character B moves in next door, things take a sudden and unexpected turn. It gets to a point where Character A can hear yelling and banging on the walls every night and actually becomes concerned for Character B's safety. However, when Character A goes to confront Character B, they claim that they're not in any danger, despite living with a partner with anger issues. And the worst part is..Character B has a young child, an infant that's caught up in this mess too. Character A is determined to get both Character B and their child out of their abusive home and to help them recover.

Plot #5: Wolf Pack AU

In Mystery Falls, there's a large, dense forest that consists of four different wolf packs. Each pack owns their own area of land and isn't allowed to infiltrate any of the other territories without permission. But all of these wolves have a secret..they're actually a species known as Lycans. Lycans have both a human and a wolf form. They're identified as Alpha, Omega or Beta, based on their gender and sexual orientation. Each pack of Lycans has an Alpha leader, an Omega queen, and a Beta guard leader. The guard is the group of wolves that goes hunting with the Alpha every half-moon. Character A is the Alpha leader and after a fire occurs across their previous territory, not only is the pack forced to move, but the leader loses their partner and their pups. This makes them a stern leader, who shows no mercy and treats others like they don't mean as much to the pack. Character B is originally just a human, but after being attacked by another pack leader, they find themselves turning into a Lycan and come across Character A's pack, asking for their help. Character A originally insists upon turning Character B away, until the pack decides that Character B can act as a temporary queen until Character A gets another mate. Character A ends up finding a new friendship in Character B, and the two slowly become inseparable.

Plot #6: Zombie Apocalypse

Character A had just been arrested after being framed for the murder of a stranger. While on their way to jail in the back of a police car, something slams into the windshield and the vehicle crashes on the side of the road. When Character A wakes up from being unconscious, they find the police officer that was driving the car is now dead and that they're surrounded by..zombies. Character A manages to get rid of their handcuffs, finds a weapon and gets to work on shooting away at the zombies crawling around them. Once they can make a run for it, they escape into the nearest house, which appears to be abandoned. But it's not abandoned. Character B is a child that was abandoned by their parents and is hiding in the treehouse right outside of the abandoned home. The home was actually invaded by zombies, and Character B's parents are..dead. Character A begrudgingly gains Character B's trust and the two become traveling partners as they try to survive the zombie apocalypse.

Plot #7: Superhero AU

Character A is the hero of the city. A masked and mysterious character that everyone admires because of their strength and bravery. Character B is a new villain who has come to destroy the city and leaves their trail for Character A to find. The two would never admit it out loud, but they actually enjoy playing their little game of cat and mouse together. When Character A ends up in trouble due to the wrongdoings of another bad guy, they're much surprised to find that Character B is there to save them. That's when Character A realizes that Character B isn't so bad after all and is now determined to teach Character B how to be a good person, despite the fact that Character B runs away every time Character A comes across them.

Plot #8: Littlespace

Character A has been a caregiver for a few different age regressors over the years. They love taking care of those who are vulnerable and are in need of a new way to cope. However, none of the age regressors they've ever cared for have stuck around for a long time. The previous littles have only relied on Character A until they found someone else to take care of them. So when Character B, one of Character A's closest friends, reaches out with an interest in learning more about what it's like to age regress, Character A is shocked but more than happy to be the best caregiver possible for their friend.

These plots can be edited to suit your roleplaying needs! I'd also like to hear any ideas you may have. Please don't show any hate or distaste towards this post, as everything written here is purely for fun and is not meant to be taken seriously. Please direct message me if you're interested. I do have Discord, you can ask for it in DMs if it's easier to talk there. Thank you for your time and have a wonderful day!

Reblogs are appreciated, but do not repost.

[abbybubbls]

A Character Study of Actor Mark (and others)

This is something I’ve had in my mind for quite a while. Since everybody’s going on a late Actor Mark craze lately, I’ve noticed that some people have been forgetting that Actor Mark is... well... an asshole. I won’t name any names, just know that I have no ill will towards people who view him differently, they can do whatever they want with their favorite characters, I just wanna go on a bit of a tangent, so... here we go.

Also, you’re gonna have to create a “flaw” counter because I use the word a LOT here.

Let’s get this out of the way; Actor Mark is flawed. Seriously flawed. He’s egotistical, he’s selfish, he only cares about notoriety, he’s a megalomaniac at best. And some people would assume that the Actor has been innocent before the Mansion messed him up after Celine left him, but... not really.

The Mansion pointed out the Actor’s flaws for a long time, and made those flaws more apparent when he was at his highest and lowest points in his life, making him more of an asshole within these moments. It wasn’t towards JUST the Actor though. It’d be towards William (eccentric, being too much of a hopeless romantic), Celine (using people, overprotective, short temper) and yes, even our innocent angel baby Damien himself (confusion, mostly). Almost every character in this series has flaws, but of course, the Actor is most apparent, even when we don’t see him that much.

Then again, the Actor is that kind of character you can guess what he’s like RIGHT when you look at him at first glance. Rich, has a big ego, arrogant, keeps secrets, etc.

I mean... the Actor was ALWAYS like this, it’s just that it’s more pointed out and apparent when there are defining moments in his life. He’s an asshole!

I’m not saying that the Actor is an asshole ALL the time, though. I’m pretty sure he’s had his moments of doing good, but... not a whole lot has been seen of him doing any good at all. We only hear that he’s helped Damien become a mayor, he gave up everything (maybe a bit too much) for Celine when they were married, “reaching out” to William while hiding his spite... and that’s really it. I mean... he gave Abe a job, too... I guess... 4 good deeds the Actor has done! Yaaaayyy...?

Anyway, what I’m getting at is that Mark (not Actor Mark, our boy the man of the hour Mark Fischbach himself) said that he doesn’t believe in 100% good flawless people. Almost every character he’s played and created have things wrong with them.

Let’s use our boy Wilford Warfstache as an example.

Wilford is playful, colorful, excited, curious, and is in constant need of looking for adventure and fun. But he is also very trigger-happy, easily distracted, violent, VERY forgetful, he selfishly runs away from his responsibilities (hence him blowing “BUBBLES!” in the GIF above), and he’s so traumatized and out of touch with reality that he just makes his own as he goes with no worries whatsoever.

Now, Wilford has been my most favorite Ego for a LONG time, and as much as I love portraying him as a cute soft playful idiot, I never forget that he does have a lot of things wrong with him, so I don’t make him too innocent and naive. He’s too far gone to even try and turn back to the way he was, and I absolutely LOVE that concept, and I think it fits very well with somebody like Wilford. His backstory and his problems and are what make me love him so much because he’s such a fun but complex character.

There is a degree as to how many problems that the character has and to see if that character really is a good person or not. There is always this middle ground between the black and white, there’s the morally gray area. You can create a grid of white, gray, and black, and list every Ego with ALL of the flaws that each of them have, and you can put them in whatever area depending on which one has the most problems. And of course, Actor Mark has a lot of them.

The Actor does have every right to be upset that Celine left him for William, but never to the point where he wants revenge on them. The Actor is too prideful and so up his own ass that the Mansion made his flaws more apparent than ever for YEARS, and he’s so spiteful and CONVINCED that he deserves to be more happy than anybody else that (justifiably?) did him wrong.

This is when some people assume that the Actor is the victim, and I don’t agree with them at all, but I can see where they’re coming from. The Actor became depressed that Celine left him, he was all by himself in the Mansion losing his mind, and he can be a very sympathetic character. And yes, when you look through his perspective, you can see why he’s so upset to the point of taking revenge on William for “stealing” Celine away from him, when really Celine probably had every right to leave the Actor for William anyway. She did say that she was never comfortable in the Mansion, and she was probably used by the Actor just for attention.

I’m not saying that it was a great decision for Celine to leave without saying anything. I mean, she could have just said she wanted a divorce because she felt uncomfortable with her surroundings and liked William much more, and if the Actor wouldn’t be so spiteful, he’d let her go. But of course, that doesn’t happen, so all my hopes and dreams for a nicer ending are crushed (I’m just kidding, I ADORE the ending we’ve gotten).

Where was I? Oh yeah, people thinking that the Actor is the victim... The more that I think about it... he’s really not. He brought it upon himself to be spiteful and brought misery to his friends instead of trying to move on from it. Sure, he doesn’t have to forgive them, but he should have at least tried to move on.

There is this VERY important statement that Mark has mentioned during his DAMIEN Explanation stream that most people seem to forget: The Actor never apologized for his actions once.

Let’s go back to our boy Warfy for a sec.

In Wilford ‘MOTHERLOVING’ Warfstache, even though Wilford may not remember a whole lot of Abe, he knows that he might have done something wrong to him, and apologizes wholeheartedly (with a squeak hug and everything)! He admits that he’s done some bad things even though he doesn’t remember them, or even know that he’s done them at all. He apologizes and is willing to move on from his previous mistakes, though of course he might know he’ll make more down the road.

In DAMIEN, the Actor is so far up his own ass that he doesn’t think all the horrible things he’s done to Damien, Celine, and Will are even that horrible. He’s thinking that his actions are somehow justifiable because of his tragic backstory, thinking he’s the hero. “My humble upbringing, my tragic backstory... There’s no other role for me to play!”

The Actor SAYS he’s come to Damien to apologize, but he doesn’t say sorry once. He never says “I’m sorry for what you had to go through” or “Yeah I might have gone a bit too far with you” or anything that would even remotely count as an apology. He only says “Things weren’t according to plan, some mistakes were made, it was supposed to go like this but then I found another way around it”.

He’s more focused on his own plan more than what happened to his friends DURING the plan. The Actor is SO convinced that he is the hero of his story that he NEVER admits that he is in the wrong of what he’s done to Damien and Celine, but he says he’s willing to move on from the past... when he’s really not.

He loses his temper very quickly whenever he mentions the past and he keeps snapping at Damien. When he “casts” Damien as the main villain of his story (even though Damien has done absolutely NOTHING against him besides not agreeing that he was good enough for Celine), Damien refuses and wants to live in peace, and then the Actor gets pissed off more, practically forcing Damien into the role of a villain.

You know who admitted that they’re wrong?

A LOT of people have had mixed feelings about Celine ever since her debut. Even I wasn’t so sure if I liked her when I first saw her. Nothing like some decent writing and character development can’t fix!

Mark has stated that in Who Killed Markiplier?, Celine had no real clear motivation than just “controlling people” and “doing seer things”, so he wanted to do more with her in DAMIEN.

Here’s some stuff we now know more about Celine;

1. She is overprotective towards Damien, and wants him to be safe within the body they both are forced to share.

2. She is Damien’s twin sister (ten minutes older)!

3. She REALLY wants the Actor dead after what he’s done to her and Damien.

4. She is a badass queen and has GREAT aim with her ax.

5. Her survival skills are to the max.

6. Her kickassery cannot be contained.

7. She has used people to protect herself and her brother... and admits it.

I am not saying that manipulation is a good thing, I myself am very gullible and I don’t like being used just to feel idiotic in the end. But of course, when you look into Celine’s perspective, you can see that she has controlled people for a very good reason, even though Damien is literally the same age as her and can take care of himself... but she wants to keep him safe anyway. Celine admits this in her lowest point, Damien lets her sleep after all that she’s done for him.

Here is the way I see it; If you don’t honestly and truly admit that you are in the wrong and don’t take responsibility for your actions, then you are not ready to move on from your past mistakes.

Just like everybody, we all make mistakes, and it’s our responsibility to make sure we can evolve from these mistakes instead of ignoring them or focusing too much on them at the same time.

Wilford is ignoring his mistakes entirely, but he still apologizes anyway without taking full responsibility for his actions and lets somebody else do it for him.

Celine does a good mix of both ignoring and focusing a lot on her mistakes, admitting that she is wrong and tries to take responsibility for it by letting Damien take the wheel.

Actor Mark, as well as Wilford, is ignoring his mistakes like mad, but doesn’t apologize at all.

And this is why I love the Actor as a character. I know, right? I’ve talked in SO MUCH detail about how and why the Actor is a horrible person and I just said I love him as a character! Well, much like Wilford, I have a strong adoration for characters that are ridiculously flawed, and we go deep into their pasts to find out why they’re the way they are.

Actor Mark really is the embodiment of a vengeful tragedy, and his entire character is so complex and interesting to look into...

and now people are treating him like an uwu soft angel boy, but this trend is gonna end soon, I’m sure. Not the love of the Actor, but the uwu soft angel boy part of the trend because... he’s not that at all.

Anyway, Actor Mark is not the hero, he’s an irredeemable douche bag, and I love him anyway. Let me know if there’s any more details about him that I’ve missed!

Buh-bye~

- Abby

[official-michael-afton]

Made a tier list of FNaF media!!! Not counting the activity book or the security survival log because those don’t really add anything, they’re just neat activities or summaries of game info

I explained the choices under the cut, equal parts personal bias and objective opinion, so if you think differently then hey, good on ya!

Going down to up XD

F

The Silver Eyes Graphic Novel: Do I even need to explain this one? Rushed art with countless mistakes, horrid coloring, samey designs, the important scenes come off as bland and even goofy instead of impactful. It’s clear Pinky wasn’t used to drawing humans, the colorist had no idea what they were doing, and no one on the team made a graphic novel before. It’s laughable how bad this was XD

E

The Fourth Closet: Does anyone really know what happened at the end? I... really don’t like what they did with Charlie in this one. I don’t like how William was able to get out of his Springtrap- it was SUPPOSED to trap him, and yet he just... is out of it... I think the whole thing with Baby being like this hot clown girl instead of what she is in Sister Location is very... ... it exists... Tbh I respect the bold direction it took, but I honestly felt it was too much of a stretch and just didn’t work.

D

FNaF AR, Special Delivery: Not bad! The character models and voice acting is where the game shines most. Other than that, there isn’t really much substantial to the game other than some lore with Vanny/Ness and Luis. The gameplay can get frustrating sometimes(I cant collect remnant, read my mail, or even work on my own animatronics without DING DONG SOMEONES HERE every 5 seconds), and all you do is spin in a circle until you get glitchy, look away if they get glitchy, or zap them when they run at you. Some people probably love this game and good on them for that, but I find myself not touching it for weeks at a time.

Freddy In Space 2: GREAT game for charity, great art, great music! ... That’s all it has going for it, though. It was clear that this was a quickly made game designed to be beaten in one sitting, and it did exactly what it needed to do! Other than being amazing how it was for charity, the game doesn’t have that much going for it(except introducing Lolzhax aka BEST ROBO), so overall not bad but also did almost nothing outside of being for the Charity Livestream XD

Fazbear Frights, Into The Pit: Again, not bad! A nice collection of short stories, almost like goofy campfire horror you’d tell to kids... like goosebumps! I felt each story was REALLY lacking in some areas, but I liked the general idea they were going for. That being said, they’re moreso neat scary stories with the name FNaF attached than anything else(except maybe the first of the three). It hints that they have an overarching plot that will be covered in future books, but as of right now, I feel no one’s missing out by not reading them.

C

FNaF 3: A satisfying end to the original trilogy story! Purple Guy gets justice, everything gets tied together with a neat bow, and the first arc in the series comes to an end. Also Springtrap, aka my favorite. This game is riddled with neat 8-bit minigames and bits of lore, but the gameplay itself is where I find it not as good as the S A and B tiers. The new setup with the system reboots are def really interesting, but other than that, each night is just... the same thing but harder. Most other games introduce different characters on different difficulties per night, but since Springtrap is the only deadly one, it’s just... him more aggressive each night and systems failing more often. Makes the gameplay pretty repetitive and frustrating after Night 3 or so.

FNaF 4: The beginning of what I like to call the Afton saga(4, SL, FFPS, UCN)! This is when the lore began to get REALLY good... and also really confusing. Props for it taking such a bold direction by taking place in a child’s bedroom instead of in an office with cameras, its a neat change of pace! That being said, the gameplay can get frustrating and there’s a high learning curve for needing to listen to each sound the anmatronics make. Also lore wise... there really isn’t much! Just mainly focuses on what happened to this poor kid. Also the box still being a loose end... yeah.

The Twisted Ones: I enjoyed this one! It had a very interesting direction that kinda kept me guessing on what was going on, and this is when Scott really started nailing in the foreshadowing for the reveal in TFC. The Twisted animatronics are SO cool, and the introduction of those little alteration chips provided new context to games like 4 and SL! That being said, I don’t remember it being... that memorable? I also didn’t like how Charlie’s and John’s relationship was... so awkward... It was neat, but honestly nothing to really go crazy over, in my opinion.

B

The Silver Eyes: Honestly, I adored this book when I read it back in 2016, before Sister Location happened. At the time I wasn’t trying to connect it to any lore, so it was really great just to see a sort of retelling of the FNaF story. A lot of people complained about how long it was... I might agree if I reread it but tbh it never bothered me before. It was delightfully creepy, yet had a simple plot and wasn’t NEARLY as out there as TTO and TFC. Especially TFC. I felt this book didnt need 2 sequels and would’ve been just fine on its own, but whatcha gonna do. Carlton is forever my fav, and it’s the first time we really learn about Henry AND it was the first time we got a name for our Purple Guy: William Afton!

Sister Location: I like this one for just how bold of a game it was. I’m also including SL’s Custom Night wrapped into this package. Jam packed with lore, our first (main) game with VOICE ACTING, and honestly the humor has no right being as good as it is. I love how this not only expanded on the crying child from 4′s story, but also gives us so much Elizabeth and Michael content. The gameplay has a lot of unbalanced features and feels a little too over the place at times, but I appreciate where it was going with it!

FNaF World: ... This one is pure personal bias. A lot of people don’t like it. I adore it. Honestly I love the cute overworld, I love beating up enemies as my favorite animatronics, I love the horror, nihilism, and lore shoved into this game alongside SO MUCH humor. Update 2 was nothing short of an absolute delight and... wait, no!!! FNaF World had our first voice acting!!! So many endings and nods to other games Scott’s made, a cool scene with Desk Man/Henry and Baby, just... muah. Good content. Also Scott 57 <3

A

Ultimate Custom Night: Name a better way to end the Afton Saga, I’ll wait. It’s so obvious how much time, thought, and care went into this one. I love how the game rewards you with funny cutscenes the higher scores you get, and I just! So much voice acting! I love how each preset- no, each character has their own moves so every time you do a certain mode, you need to learn to manage them all and get a good strategy. I like how it’s way more strategy and skill than the RNG that many previous games had. Also, Scott!!! You managed to put this into the LORE by making it William’s hell, MUAH, couldnt have done it better!!!

FNaF 2: This one might have bias for being the peak of the fandom, but it was one of the greatest times to be in that fandom. Freaking out over the trailers, theories galore, prequel vs sequel, and just... so good. 1 didn’t have much plot, 2 DID. 2 had more mechanics and strategy to it than 1, and gave us over twice as many characters! We finally got a “face” to our killer, Mr. Purple Man, and how could I ever complain about more Phone Guy~? This one also introduced the 8-bit minigames, which became a HUGE staple for the series! Perfect expansion of the first!

Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator: The PERFECT blend of old and new gameplay. The salvage scenes are intense, the nights had a great balancing mechanic of juggling doing tasks while also avoiding animatronics, multiple endings, and a neat tycoon segment to give the player a breather... but with LORE!!! Midnight Motorist is easily one of the best tracks in the series. Also has a GREAT canonical ending, when(with paired with UCN), ties the plots of 1-6 SO nicely with a neat bow. 

S

FNaF 1: Okay. From a personal and gameplay standpoint, I was going to put this much lower. Like B or C. That being said... this has to go in S. Yes, it has the least lore and arguably the worst gameplay(too much RNG for 4/20 mode), but this was the game. I can’t even exaggerate when I say just how much FNaF changed not only the gaming community, but especially the horror and indie communities. So many names got big from this: Markiplier, Dawko, Game Theory, The Living Tombstone, DA Games, SCOTT HIMSELF, just to name a few!!! And to think, this was originally going to be Scott’s last game! FNaF changed gaming HISTORY, and I think that alone makes this title deserving of S.

FNaF VR, Help Wanted: Okay, personal bias time, but I truly think VR deserves this S. Seeing Glitchtrap for the first time incited a panic in me that I hadn’t felt since FNaF 1 and 2. You get FNaF 1-4 in one, all in VR, WONDERFUL character models that you can WATCH MOVE!!! SO many minigames and fun challenges to play, so many neat knickknacks to collect, the Halloween update is FANTASTIC. The introduction of some great characters, such as: Glitchtrap, Vanny, Tape Girl, Dreadbear, Grim Foxy, etc!!! There’s also just- something so nice about being able to see every office and the pizzeria in 3D spaces where you can look around! Just from a gameplay and environment standpoint, this was an AMAZING addition and deserves the S.

... Thanks for listening to me ramble XD If you disagree... then good for you! I won’t fight anyone on this, I’m aware that this is a lot of personal bias. But if you made it this far... thanks for hearing me ramble!!!!

[sml8180]

Spring Cleaning

I wrote a Markiplier Ego fic! After going through AHWM, I went through a lot of the other ego content that Mark has been putting out, and decided to try my hand at writing for these guys. If anybody has a prompt/idea they’d like to see, feel free to drop it in my askbox! This particular story is based off a prompt I found while messing with various prompt generators and looking through lists of prompts.

The prompt:  A forgotten object is found in an attic during spring cleaning

Spring Cleaning

It was time again for spring cleaning around the Iplier Ego household. Everyone was up to something, whether it was cleaning their room or office, or helping one another to clean up the common areas of the house. Google was up in the attic with Bim, doing what he could to reorganize the shelves so that they could all put away most of their winter belongings, while also trying to remind Bim from time to time to focus on what they were supposed to be doing, as he kept getting distracted.

Bim knelt down by a trunk, unhooking the latches to look inside. Usually, the old thing was ignored, seeing as nobody ever said anything about it. But, with the reorganization going on, he and Google would have to move it, so Google had instructed him to look through its contents to see if there was anything that might get broken, or that they should just get rid of. The hinges of the trunk’s lid protested against the ego moving them, giving off a shrill squeak. Inside, he found that the contents were covered by a grey sheet. Pulling the sheet aside, he found a number of objects and articles of clothing that were anything but familiar to him.

“Hey, Blue? Any idea what to make of this?” Bim called out over his shoulder.

Google looked towards the game show host and stood, making his way over. He knelt down beside Bim and looked into the trunk, himself. “I don’t recognize any of this,” he stated, picking up what looked to be a red satin dressing gown.

“Me neither,” Bim mused. He pulled a tan pith helmet from the trunk and put it on, chuckling a bit. “What d’you think? I look ready to go on safari?” he joked, looking over at the android beside him.

“Take that off, you don’t know who it belongs to,” Google dismissed, setting the satin garment in his hands aside.

Bim removed the helmet with a shrug, setting it out of the way. The pair continued to look through the trunk, finding an assortment of clothing and objects likely long forgotten. There was a black cap with a small veil and pink silk rose, a tan coat that clearly went with the helmet, adorned with a couple of red service bars and a medal, a set of pink bell-bottom pants and pink afro-style wig, a black deerstalker cap, a groundskeeper’s hat and a chef’s ladle, a black ribbon with the word “Mayor” in flowing script, and a black cane with a silver tip and ornate silver topper.

“Most of this stuff looks pretty old,” Bim suggested. “Maybe we should ask Dark about it? Maybe he’ll know where it all came from.”

“Where what came from?” came a voice from the attic steps behind the pair. They turned to see Dark standing there, his hands clasped behind his back. He didn’t have his suit jacket on, and had his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, with no tie to be found and the first couple of buttons of his shirt undone.

“We were going through stuff, and found this old trunk,” Bim told him. “We opened it up, and there’s a ton of old clothes inside.”

Dark made his way over, kneeling between his fellow egos. He picked up the veiled black cap, carefully running his grey fingers over it. Everything was quiet as Bim and Google watched Dark; he set down the cap, and looked at other items that had been set aside, the pith helmet and tan jacket, the satin dressing gown. After several long moments of the three egos refusing to speak, Dark finally said something.

“You two go see if anyone else needs help,” he told them. “I’ll take care of things up here.”

The two other men knew better than to question Dark. He wasn’t someone you wanted to upset. So, they both stood, quietly shrugging to one another before leaving down the attic steps. Soon, Dark was left alone, kneeling by the trunk of old clothes and small belongings.

“It’s been so long…” he whispered, picking up the tan helmet and running his hand over it. “How long has it really been?” Dark sighed quietly, setting the helmet on top of the jacket that went with it. He carefully pulled each item out of the trunk, holding them in his hands for a short time, his usual aura turning the objects to grayscale before he set them back into the trunk.

Eventually, Dark stood, going a few steps and grabbing an empty box. He returned to the trunk, kneeling once again, not caring about the dust getting all over the knees and shins of his black trousers. The ego used a sharpie to write the word “Memories” on the box, and set it on the floor beside him. He went through the items in the trunk slowly, holding each one as old memories bubbled up to the surface.

Dark slowly went through the objects in the trunk again. He folded the dressing gown into a small bundle, using the belt from it to make it keep its shape, and set it into the bottom of the box. The ego set the deerstalker into the box, next. He set the chef’s ladle and groundskeeper’s hat aside; those could be sold at the coming yard sale; they held no strong memories, anymore. Then, he got to the things that really mattered to him. He folded the tan jacket carefully, and set it inside the pith helmet, before setting both into the box beside him. The grey ego gave a wistful chuckle at the bell-bottoms and wig, folding the pants up and tucking them into the wig, before they found a place in the box of memories. Next up was the veiled black cap; he ran his fingers over it.

“I almost forgot this was up here,” he mumbled. He set the cap into the box carefully, as if it would break if he was too rough with it. Dark picked up the Mayor ribbon, and felt a pang in his chest; he dipped his hand back into the trunk, shutting his eyes and carding a hand through his hair with a heavy sigh. After a moment, he put the ribbon into the box, and picked up the final thing left in the trunk; the black and silver cane. He held it in his hands, a thumb smoothing over the surface. Had this been years and years ago, he would have been fidgeting with the cane, turning it in his hands, or running his thumb over the ornate topper. The silver top of the cane drew his attention; it was clear that it was once cared for and shiny, but now, after years of being stored away, it was dull and tarnished.

“I’ll have to clean this up,” Dark mused. He set the cane aside, closing the trunk at last. The ego went about finishing up in the attic, seeing as there wasn’t much left to do. Once everything was finished, the man closed up the box and picked it up, along with the cane, and made his way down the steps. He set his things down, closed up the attic, and picked up the box and cane once again, making his way towards his room.

Dark set the box on his dresser, pulling the pink wig and pants from inside. He wrote up a short note, and went down the hall to Wilford’s room. When his knock on the door went unanswered, Dark simply let himself in. The pink and yellow color scheme of the room was a stark contrast to his own, but he had no say in what Wil did with his own room. He simply set the pants, wig, and note down on the candy-patterned bedspread and left, shutting the door behind him.

Later that night, Dark was in his office, a smooth jazz record playing quietly to fill the silence. The box from earlier was tucked into the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet, locked away, while the cane was in his hands. He was carefully cleaning the topper of the cane, making it shine like it used to. The light glinted off the newly cleaned surface, as he buffed away the final traces of the cleaner he had used. The ego stood, setting the cleaning cloth on his desk before taking a step away from it. He let the silver tip of the cane on the floor, taking a couple of steps towards the mirror he had hanging on the wall, the cane swinging a bit by his side in his hand as he went. Dark stood in front of the mirror, looking at himself as he planted the end of the cane on the floor between his feet, letting his hands rest on the top of it.

“You never know what you’ll find when you do a bit of spring cleaning,” he mused, speaking to nobody in particular. He wouldn’t tell the others about what had been found, at least, he wouldn’t tell them the truth. The history of the items that had been found didn’t matter to them, it didn’t affect them. Even Wilford didn’t need to know everything that had been found. Things had changed, after all, just as the seasons had.

[twracehorse]

Cringing at my own videos

Training Videos Edition!

I got bored, needed motivation to start editing, went back to take a look at my older videos, and now I judge and cringe at them because that’s a given at this stage

Under the cut to keep your dash shorter :3

Determined Horse Training, the title I came up with to be a little unique. I obviously couldn’t use something akin to Northena’s “Training Is Fun...Right?” and I wanted to give it a proper title knowing this would be a series of videos. I thought, and thought, and came up with the title after thinking of Undertale and how you are filled with determination in the game. “I am filled with determination to train these horses!” is what I thought and so the title of the series became that!

I use // as a way to separate different topics I’m talking about

Brave Rebel- First off...the thumbnail. He was originally themed sort of after Nathan Drake from Uncharted, since I was into that series at the time. So the map was, you know, for the treasure hunting. But I didn’t want to stretch the map to fit and somehow decided that a brown background was a good idea?? // AH THE CLOTHES! THE NECK!! AHHH GATORADE OCEAN BLEHH. // Oh yeah I have a spelling error in the video “Let’s go defeat this traning day!”. // Been training with Sage from the start of the series. I wonder how many fails of their’s I’ve caught XD // Ah the rocks, the rocks that I caught Sage stumbling out of in a later training video. // Let’s not forget the double mouse thing going on that makes its appearance in many videos before I figured out to click off of the web pages (which had a music playlist going while training). // Omg there’s someone with the club name The Babies standing nearby when I turn in the final race. // Low-key still love this horse. He was my first true Soul Steed before we were designated to our starter. I don’t take him out much, the difference in horse animations from new to old is getting bigger and for dynamic photos, it just doesn’t look good ( @~@)

Cool Hero- The horse based off of Markiplier back when he had red hair. I also uploaded the video on his birthday! // The song choice....I mean it fits the theme, otherwise I’d pick a better song. // The mini references I’m still low-key proud of. // There’s quite the amount of gliding pons in this video and some horror texture pons. // I obviously had to max Markimoo at the observatory! // I also mimicked Mark’s outros where an image is boomeranging. It took a couple tries with my friend in the background, but it was worth it!

Violet Mystery- I hope when I introduced her as “The winner of the Jorvik Wild horse competition” I mean, she was the first coat to be picked. Back when it was only one horse coat is being made. They added the top two coats afterwards. // Oh yeah the character’s whole head would move to the side to keep eye contact with the camera. // It’s so weird to think that I caught a bit of footage of Swifty just before meeting her. Then again I remember NOT editing this training video until months later and uploaded it in September. Mind you that I got Cool Hero and Violet Mystery at the same time and Cool Hero’s video was out in June...oops. // Ironic that I have the pandoric cracks around when the horse is based off them. // People running up from the riding arena, ah the fog glitch that would happen when you left your horse in the riding area, ran all the way to the dino valley elevator, took it, and there was no fog in the valley! 

Megalove- Ah the first Undertale horse! I mean technically still the only Undertale themed horse I have, but I do have others planned. Haven’t gotten them yet and some plans changed. // The thumbnail....why did I make the stickers super tiny?? // Finally changed Elsa’s hairstyle to the ponytail I still wear to this day. We need updated ponytails with side bangs! I know we have the awesome braided ponytail in Mistfall, but there’s too much forehead! // Also the first training footage with the meet up....was 4 hours long. This was back when I recorded all stages of training and went through the footage in real time....I’m glad I changed strategy. // Can’t remember if crashing into a jump and the jump of the music timed at the same point was on purpose or if it was editing magic. // Oof cringing that I put comic sans as Sans “talking” in the video nnngghhhhh! // Ah my old club name Royal Ambassadors. I gave that club over to my side account Chiara Monsterhope for obvious reasons. // Annoying Dog in the credits, I still love that

Lucky Hero- I’m still proud that I came up with his nickname Vien short of Vienna where the famous riding school is. He, along with Brave Rebel, are my top horses. Please get an update eventually boys! // Finally Mac users had clear water! I was so happy over this you do not understand XD // Warriors by Imagine Dragons fits this horse, but quite a pain when I got Dark Warrior and didn’t want repeating songs. // Oh yeah early on, the Lipizzaners had a weird reflective tail glitch going on. // Vien was the first horse of mine that I got the day of release, bright and early in the morning! // I love how in the face of danger, an approaching bull dozer, I just stare at it. It wasn’t even a “oh no I should get out of the way” and instead was “huh that’s a thing”. // ALLY CHUM! I forgot that was a nickname to good friend!

Grey Ghost- OH BOY HERE WE GO!! Honestly my favorite training video. It was so much fun to edit with the music and the Halloween stickers hidden around the screen! Despite waking up at 5am to train for that aesthetic™. // Okay but that mushroom with the dark green sign did legit give me a spook. My body froze for a second and then I remembered that Slenderman doesn’t exist in Star Stable XD. // Ngl two of the stickers are hard to see cause of their surroundings. // GALLOPER THOMPSON MY MAN! Honestly I waited till midnight for him to be in Goldenleaf forest, just to see what would happen if you were racing and he caught you. By the gods of editing magic, the song was at a good point that fits perfectly with that scene. // For the scarecrow race I did actually take two different takes. I failed the first one and when I was editing I noticed that the two runs looked similar. So I put the first part of run 1 and cut before I failed and then put the remaining of the race with run 2. Looks almost seamless! 

Silent Promise- My favorite mare in my stable! She ends up being my AoT cosplay photo horse...until I get the actual themed horse XP. // Shadows were a little glitchy at first. // Why am I using Rud instead of Rude. Like I know why cause that’s how we got around the filter, but I didn’t need to put it like that in the video. It’s like back in my WolfQuest days where I learned to use Cuz as a short version of Cause and it bled into my text vocab. // The witch bombs...I wanted to make it dramatic, but in hindsight it’s just tasteless really. Also to note that the sound which was fine before uploading, got more rough once it was on YouTube

Small Potential- Real cringe theme here, Hetalia. It was fun while watching and all that, but since then I’ve seen some well done anime! Growth! // I love the nickname Finny. Not too sure if I want to keep this pony or not, sadly. // The Christmas remix song is because I had no other ideas XD

Brave Eagle- Oh this is another slight cringe theme. Even more cringe is the fact that I had to re-upload this training video since it got blocked all over the world! due to the Hamilton musical songs. So I....had to layer over the songs with other songs....it’s a whole mess and was a whole pain since I had to re-edit the sound effects. // I’m proud of the thumbnail though....that’s it

Winter Dust- Why did I make the “there’s a new app with these foals you can train” with the dramatic music? // I think because I had less levels to train, I tried filling that space with “cool looking shots”. // Ah, yes, my How To Get Over A Jump wikipedia step by step

Hollow Phantom- Had to bring a creepy vibe even though it was February. So he’s like a Halloween not Halloween horse. // Can you believe that I found the main song from a Haikyuu!! crack video? XD. // That zoom on the pony surrounded by magic shires was weird. We’re saying “SO TINY” but the clip was so short it was done and over without much sense. // Mmm that slight irritation that the music and clip didn’t match with the drop. // Tried to blend the music together with itself....it’s obvious. // Of course had to max the Galloper horse where I first met the phantom himself

North Guardian- I wanna talk about the thumbnail....that background...is literally just the horse’s hindquarters. I wanted something mossy since the horse is sort of based off of Pelagia from Shadow of the Colossus. I couldn’t find good enough backgrounds, so I used the horse itself. // Again that urge to want to make the clip and music match but ahhh

Lucky Lucky- Still wish I could name this horse Gold Luck or something. // I think one of the camera turns during a race was just to show off the rainbow nearby. // Ahh! back when we could say “demon” in the chat. // Hmm instead of letting the clip run, I could’ve just cut to Reed calling the askew fence “a disgrace”. // Text was onscreen for just too long. // Trying to do the riding arena jumps with a good camera angle. But at that point, the camera kept moving and wouldn’t hold still. I’m glad it’s better now. Maybe I’ll try it again with a future horse. // Huh, forgot to add sound effects when I hit something on the last race

Silent Surprise- Cause I had to let the people know that I bought the horse after watching the Belmont. // AH STILL THE NECK! // 2 minutes in and we haven’t even gotten to the actual training yet. // Another day, another SSO glitch, this time it’s shadow rocks. // Oop missed a sound effect

Hot Spot- THE MUSTACHE! // I forgot I put a filter over the video to give it an old timey look. I should do more like that if it’s in theme. // Of course I had to have The Wanted be playing with this song since it’s old west sounding. // What was the purpose of editing the scarecrow race like that? XD. // Random running clip. // Walking the whole bobcat race would be nice if I didn’t keep moving the camera

Pumpkin Candy- As much as I love my Halloween horses, this training video isn’t up to the standards that the first Halloween training video set up. It’s still got Halloween themed music, it’s still got stickers hidden in the video, but it doesn’t feel the same. // Having text be their default instead of making them the same agh. // The spooky filter I overlayed the clips with changes at times. Would be nice if it stayed consistent

Dragon Dawn- Hmm now that I have more songs to choose from (getting into another artist as much as I did with The Wanted), I would have another song playing to fit the horse better. Maybe Euphoria or Mikrokosmos. Oh well those will be for future horses eventually! // Didn’t drop with the music...disappointed

Thunder Spirit- The horse that trains through three months. You can easily tell by the Valentine race, the rainbows of March, and April Fools. // Man I really need to work on making the text not be so BIG. // The first rainbow race had lots of sound effects. After that one I was just like “yeah not doing that again”

Sun Chaser- Eh the slowed down music is not the best idea. But I think it was also an intro to a remix of the song. So it was only so long and I had a bit to say for the intro of the horse. // The second clip of the mysterious Icelandic cryptid you can’t see them once it zooms in....annoying. // Too much of a slow build up with another cryptid spotting. // Also using the same sound but slower after just using it...smooth (not). // You know the very last clip of the horse as he’s turning around on the beach? Yeah that’s the exact moment I did the intro for the horse XD

Dragon Warrior- The contrast between me and Sage’s bantering vs the sadder song (I found the song because of a Zeno AMV) well it’s kinda weird having laughs and then sad melody. // YouTube again ruins the quality of the mic as it sounds fuzzier than it was pre-uploaded. // Low-key recording voices was fun aside from having to make sure the clips matched the voices and clicking of the mouse. // I’m still annoyed I couldn’t find the perfect snoring sound effect when Sage’s Connemara is sleeping and starts gliding away

Smoke Mirror- A little too much of a pause between text in the intro. // I love how I’m wearing a Halloween shirt because no other shirt matched with the blue of the hat except for the dress it came with THAT I GOT RID OF! 

Obsidian Mystery- I love the thumbnail for her training video. It’s so spooky and cool! Favorite thumbnail of the entire series right there. // Ironic that with the three Halloween horses I’ve had. The two with the upbeat music are the ones where Galloper was present that year. The one where Galloper was missing that October, the music was softer, generic Halloween music. Not intentional, but it works. Though the first Halloween training video still gets the trick-or-treats because it has nostalgic music. // Some text isn’t easily visible

Dark Warrior- The horse I wish I could name Secret Warrior cause that would make SO MUCH MORE SENSE than Dark Warrior, but here we are. // Since Warriors by Imagine Dragons was in a previous training video, I had to search for another song to fit the horse. I literally went through those anime character theme song videos to find one! That was a terrible jump cut of the song

Ember Flame- Coming Soon

[cyclonecasey]

Why did I do this?!

WHO KILLED MARKIPLIER, an analysis (+theory).

My theory is actually that the Colonel wasn’t completely wrong. I believe that it did in fact start off as bit of a prank, I think it saddened Mark that he wasn’t as close to his friends as he use to be and was afraid that they didn’t really care about him anymore. I think he lured his friends to his manor with the intentions of faking his own death to see if and how his friends would mourn him.

Warning, this is a long analysis.

Our relations It is implied that we know Mark to some extent, we wouldn’t have been invited otherwise, however we don’t seem to be as much a part of the gang as everyone else, as implied by the Colonel, the Seer, and the Detective not seeming to know us very well or at all. Damien refers to us knowing each other from at least our university years, and we assume that is how we know Mark as well.

Chapter 1 We arrive at Markiplier Manor where we meet the Colonel for the first time. We enter the manor to be greeted by the Butler (who doesn’t seem to know us), then move on to Damien the Mayor (who greets us as an old friend) and Abe the Detective (who goes silent as we approach and backs out of frame). After that we meet the Chef (some people have theorised that he knows us but I think that theory was made under the assumption that this takes place after A Date with Markiplier), then the Butler returns with our drink and Mark finally graces us with his presence. Ominous foreshadowing monologue ensues, followed by a toast, a rowdy drinking montage, and blacking out.

During the night Mark finds Damien and (somehow) takes possession of his body, trapping him in an alternate dimension, and leaving his own body (empty of life) to be found in the morning.

Morning comes and after the Butler gives us our cocaine seltzer (what?) we are greeted by Damien (who is actually Mark) who proceeds to say sinister things like “there’s our little monster” “you really knocked ‘em dead last night” “good to let the beast out every once in a while” followed by briefly wondering why now, what were we celebrating, planting questions in our mind that we’d want answered later. We head downstairs and as we enter the room with a fireplace Mark’s body falls at our feet. The Detective enters first, followed by the Butler, followed by the Chef, each one more panicked than the last but certainly no real hysterics or mourning. Thunder rumbles every time someone utters the word murder. Abe goes straight into Detective mode and questions us until the Butler points out that the body is already cold, he then decides to make us his partner. After the area has been sectioned off and the body covered, Damien (Mark) enters, feigning confusion and is told Mark is dead. Abe insists the authorities not be called and that he should be the one to handle this, the Butler wanders off to tend to the other guests, the Chef gets back to cooking, and Damien/Mark (probably shocked and a bit angry that everyone seems just go about their lives so fast) says he need to speak to the Colonel and rushes off. After determining where we where at the approximate time of the murder, the Detective sends us off to question the other guests. As we approach the Colonels room we can see and hear Damien/Mark yelling at the Colonel accusing him of hating Mark, saying he wants him to care (pretty sad in and of itself but so much sadder thinking that it’s actually Mark), as he brushes past us on the way out you can practically feel the disappointment and anger. When we approach the Colonel he’s obviously on edge, assumes we’re Damien back to have another go. He then treats the situation with a bit too much levity and mockery, telling a story of a caricature version of Mark making a fool of himself and then falling down the stairs, showing how little he thought of the man in the process. He insists we move along with our investigations and shoos us away. The Butler then hijacks us, telling us how privy he is and how well he knows all of the guests, he takes us down to the cellar where we find a broken bottle of wine that he flips out over, crying that Master would be displeased if he was still alive (I still can’t make sense of this scene, maybe it was just meant to be funny). Anyway, we back away not-so-slowly, and move on to the next person, the Chef. After some clever lines that both incriminate and absolve him, he tells us to ask his “little buddy” (security cameras) what happened. This is where we see that Mark had met with the Detective (who seemed oddly sober considering the last time we saw him he had a makeshift turban on his head and was drunkenly punching us out) 13 minutes before Marks supposed death, to discuss Marks staff (still unsure of the significance of this). We head outside and find Damien, clearly stressed and worried. He apologises for before and justifies that the Colonel must just be in shock. He monologues a bit about how long he and Mark had been friends and how lost he feels, he says he need time alone to process and we leave him alone to think. The Detective calls us back to tell us the body has disappeared.

My assumption here is that Mark, angered by his friend’s reaction to his death and the way the body was just left in a room covered in a sheet, decided to cause more suspicion and panic by making his body disappear.

Chapter 2 The Detective rants awhile about the body being moved and how it couldn’t have been him despite being the last person alone with it. The Butler comes in and asks if the body moved on its own, as does the Chef, the Detective now suspects a zombie. The Colonel appears, commenting on the lightning, when told of the ‘zombie problem’ he acts like he’s dealt with this sort of thing before and offers to put the old lad down again, claiming plenty of experience, as does the Chef, this just seems to raise more questions about them for the Detective, and the Colonel (undeterred) runs of to the ground to see if he can track him down. Once he’s gone the Detective goes on about not trusting him, or anyone, then demands the place is put on lock-down. Then he goes on a  tangent about why, why they were invited here, why now (implying that the whole setup was a ruse), confessing that he knew something was wrong with Mark, lamenting that he’d never find out what. More ranting. Noir style internal monologue. More analytical discussion. Obligatory Cluedo joke. And then it’s time to rummage through Mark’s room looking for clues. The room is trashed, but in more of a drunken party way. We make our way over to a table where there are pictures of Mark and his friends, one picture is upside down and shattered, it features the Colonel only. The Colonel suddenly appears in the room, asking to borrow us, his visage is threatening and frightening, he says he want’s us to get to know each other “far away from the prying eyes of anyone else”. He takes us outside and tells us how he and the Mayor have been friends for years, and that he use to say the same for Mark. He spontaneously jumps in the pool at the same moment Damien/Mark comes to look for him. When he’s gone the Colonel pops back up and out of the pool and continues the conversation as though there were no interruptions, he says that Mark has many enemies lately, suggesting that the employees could be responsible. He spontaneously runs down to the golf course as Damien/Mark comes to look for him again. This time he asks us to accompany him (which I think we were all very glad to do at that point) saying he wants to discuss something with us. He talks of the investigations and says that he would stake his life on the innocence or the Colonel or us but is unable to say the same for the Detective (I assume this is the same thing he wanted to say to the Colonel. I also assume that at some point he spoke to Abe saying the same basic thing about the Colonel, to create suspicion). Suddenly there’s a commotion inside, we both run in to find the Colonel and Detective aiming guns at each other. The Colonel claims the Detective assaulted him, the Detective claims the Colonel was aiming a gun at him, the Colonel claims he was just getting in some target practice, Yelling match ensues among all characters (here it’s implied that the Chef use to work for the Colonel). I also feel it’s worth mentioning that the Colonel says “I will not be called a murderer in my own home” (can’t make sense of that). Then the Seer appears through the front door yelling stop, swathed in ethereal light.

Chapter 3 (I’m practically weeping at the idea of analysing Chapter 3, but here we go…)

Celine the Seer enters, disrupting the fight. Abe has no idea who she is, the Colonel calls here by name, they tell her that Mark is dead and possibly a zombie (Celine seems shocked at Marks death but unsurprised at the idea of zombies). The Colonel says that why he’s waving a gun around, the Detective takes offence to this. When Celine asks how Mark died Damien/Mark enters and says simply that it was murdered and that the body is missing (almost as though it was nothing more than shock value). Celine insists that everyone refrain from using the word murder for reasons too long to summarise here. She says she needs to talk to the dead soul of Mark, Abe objects and Celine ignores him, she then singles us out for being quiet and the Chef, Butler, and Detective judge us with suspicion (the Colonel passes), even so, she feels like she can trust us, sensing a greater part to play, she asks us for help and we agree. Abe objects again, and the Colonel rushes to Celine’s defence, saying that he trusts her with all his heart. The Butler also has doubts about this, and even the Chef agrees for once. Celine offers to let them stand watch at the door but insists they not interrupt and heads upstairs. Damien/Mark follows, wanting to know if she’s alright, he’s shocked and surprised by Celine’s involvement in the occult and seems to be trying to stop her, but Celine keeps walking and he tells her to just be careful, and tells us the same as we pass him. We follow Celine into a room where she sets up a tarot table with a crystal ball and candles and asks us to take a seat. She tells us that with our help she’s going to get to the bottom of this, and that Mark’s death feels like just the start of something much bigger. She also says that she’s never really felt comfortable in this house. We go into a trance where we see the fight between the Colonel and the Detective, we see the Colonel taking us for a walk, the Detective telling us the body is missing (but this time the camera pans away to see the Colonel up on the balcony), Damien/Mark greeting us the morning Mark’s body was found, we see the Detective pointing a gun at a man in a hat with a shovel, the Chef standing on the other side… the trance breaks. Celine tells us to draw what we saw and we sketch a man digging with a shovel and hand it to her. Celine gets angry, saying this answers nothing, demanding we go back. Abe barges in with Damien/Mark right behind him, Celine tells them to get out, Damien/Mark says this is  quite enough, Celine is getting angrier by the second, saying it’s enough when she says so. Abe gets us out of there, he takes the drawing from us and calls for the Butler, asking him if it means anything to him, after obviously withholding the truth he says it could be George the groundskeeper,  but he only works weekday. The Chef is acting suss and the Detective picks up on it, he pleads the 5th at first but then confesses that George has been living on the grounds for years, as a hermit. Damien/Mark suggests they go down to the ground and just question him instead of standing around arguing, when asking if he was coming he said he needed to stay with Celine, but Celine says she doesn’t need help “especially from you”, this seems to hit a nerve and he yells “our friend is dead”. He apologises instantly, claiming to need answers and not wanting to loose another friend. He and Celine head back to the room while the Chef, Detective and Butler discuss the Colonel going back to his room tired before the Chef leads the Detective and us out to the grounds where we find George digging a hole with a shovel. The Detective aims his gun at him while the Chef stand opposite just like in the vision, Abe questions him and George talks only of how the grounds are his business and nothing else, that lightning is the sky’s business, and he’s digging the hole for a burst water pipe. Abe insists that we all come inside and have a nice lovely chat, George doesn’t like that, he says he hasn’t been in that house in 15 years and that he doesn’t care how many murders (no lightning this time) there have been, there’s only one thing that he’ll go inside for and we all better pray it never happens. Thunder and lightning strikes. Light pours out of the house as though the lightning is coming from inside. George runs towards the house, this was the reason he was talking about. We all run inside, up the stairs, passed the Colonel as he’s coming out of his room to see what’s going on, and back to where we the Seer and Damien/Mark had gone. The door swings open and Celine is standing in the doorway bathed in light but not looking at all angelic. George calls for help in closing the door on her. My theory is that Damien/Mark stayed with Celine to take possession of her body and send her to the same alternate dimension he’s already sent Damien and his body, thus trapping the only person powerful enough to stop what he was doing. I have not figured out what happened to Celine’s body, since it’s implied that he goes back to Damien’s body, leaving Celine’s empty but it’s also implied that neither one of them can return to their own body.

Finale George locks the door and the Colonel comes over asking where Celine is. George tells him that she and everyone else is gone, then he takes his leave, proclaiming that the place is cursed and advising that everyone else leave as well. The Colonel becomes agitated, asking where Celine and Damien are. The Chef quits and leaves. The Butler is sympathetic but ultimately leaves as well, imploring that we do the same. The Colonel refuses, saying he won’t let his friends die here and that if everyone else is too mush of a coward they should leave before he kills them himself. The Detective objects and trying to stop him from walking away, but he shakes him off yelling at him and stalks away, the Detective follows. The Butler turns to us, still sympathising, suggesting we leave. “There’s only death here now” he says, and walks away. Everything slows down and distorts. We here Celine’s voice whisper “hey” and “help” from behind the door and we look briefly before turning back around and heading downstairs. We here distorted audio, starting with unfamiliar dialogue before backtracking right back to the start when Mark greeted his guests, the sounds become more and more distorted until they can’t be understood as we walk through the house in slow motion with a filter effect that almost makes it seem like we’re on an astral plane. We come to an office room and the world shifts back to normal. We enter and look around. The room is cluttered with news papers and files, all indicating that the Detective had been keeping tabs on everyone, especially the Colonel and the Seer, on a typewriter are the words “the colonel did it” over and over and over again.

Now I’m going to take a moment to say that I find it very unlikely that the Detective was able to gather so many articles, so many pictures, so much work in the day that had passed since Marks death, and considering he didn’t even know who the seer was when she turned up, he certainly hadn’t been keeping tabs on her as is implied. I think the Mark set up this room to look like the Detective had been watching him for a long time, to push him into a paranoia fuelled rage.

The Colonel barges in angrily saying that he’d been wanting to ask us some questions, he takes in to room and assumes pretty much everything that I’ve already said he was being prompted to. He becomes agitated, ranting that the Detective was the one who orchestrated all of this, that he did this. He starts yelling for the Detective walking away to find him and we follow. He continues ranting, saying he took his friends away from him, that he took Celine, and Damien. He grows angrier and angrier, accusing us of hiding him from him, pushing us out of his way. We find the Detective coming out of a room and they instantly start pointing their guns at each other. Abe accuses the Colonel of being the murderer, the Colonel claims he didn’t kill anyone, this is madness! The next bit of dialogue is interesting. The Detective strongly implies that the Colonel stole his best friend’s wife and then squeezed him for money to fund sexual exploits with the same woman. So... who was the Colonels best friend? Mark? Damien? Was the woman Celine? There does seem to be a fair bit of history there, she is in one of the pictures with Mark, Damien, and the Colonel, and the Colonel did say not that he’d trust her with his life but that he’d trust her with all his heart. Did the Colonel love Celine? Was she Mark or Damien’s wife?  The Detectives words seem to hit a nerve with the Colonel and he yells at him to shut up. Abe accused him of plotting the death of his childhood friend because he can’t handle the truth. A gunshot rings out and the Detective slowly collapses. We try to take the gun off the Colonel and it goes off again. As we fall back over the railing the Colonel tried to catch us. “It was an accident, I swear” he says, and everything goes black. Marks empty body appears in the darkness… “It’s not fair, is it?” Damien and Celine appear, Damien flickers with a blue aura while Celine flickers red. Damien rants about how he (Mark) took everything from us, trapped us with “this broken shell” and no way out. Celine says she never though he would fall this far and Damien laments they we played right into his hands, that he’d been planning this for years and now his out there walking around in his body. Celine tries to sooth Damien’s anger and turns to us, saying our questions can’t be answered right now, but Mark took everything from us in his “twisted quest for vengeance” They explain that dying doesn’t have to be the end, that our body, though broken, is still out there (implying that Celine’s is not). Celine explains that she has the power to send us back. Damien says we can’t survive on our own, and I wonder if he means that literally, and they seem to bare no ill will against the Colonel despite the fact he killed the Detective and us, stating only that he’s a good man but dangerous now. Damien explains that he doesn’t really know what’s going on, only that he trusts Celine, and that if we trust them we can fix this together, we just have to let him in. We’re given a choice and we agree to let them in. Damien promises this will work and Celine sends us back. We wake up (I’m not sure if we’ve been moved, the sound effect sound like getting off a couch or bed but we don’t seem to have moved from where we fell), and we find the Colonel sitting beside us, He’s taken off his hat, jacket and cravat and now we can see the yellow shirt and red suspenders that had been hiding beneath. When we spot him we back away but he calmly soothes us, telling us it’s OK. He’s obviously relieved that we’re alive, he thought we were dead. He goes on a tangent about how of course we weren’t dead, how could we be? He wouldn’t have killed us, he didn’t kill us, he didn’t kill anyone, it was all a joke, Damien put us up to it, of course he did. He places Damien’s cane on the mantel and wanders off calling out to Damien to come out now, that it was a good joke and that he almost got him. We approach the mantel and pick up the cane, our image flickers and our hand changes from (in my opinion) feminine, to masculine and the camera pans up to the mirror to reveal Darkiplier has taken control of our body. He cracks his (our) neck and the mirror cracks with static. His face contorts with anger and he storms off.

After I replayed A Date with Markiplier afterwards and I refuse to believe they’re not connected and that we’re not the same person. At the start Mark says that we seem familiar and that he feels like he’s known us for a long time. When Darkiplier appears he says that he missed us very much, and that he’s been waiting for a very long time to see us again. He says he’s tired of giving people a choice (as Damien he gave us a choice at the end of Who Killed Markiplier), this implies that up ‘til that point he would only take someone over if they let him, and maybe he needs people to let him in, he’s words echo what he said as Damien “you just need to let me in…” (Either Who Killed Markiplier was inspired by A Date with Markiplier or Who Killed Markiplier has been in the works for far longer than any of us could have imagined...) So my theory is that Darkiplier stays with us long enough for our body to heal so we can survive on our own and then goes off to seek his revenge against Mark, constantly trying to take control of his body, channel, and life in an eye for an eye type justice. Years pass, Mark somehow forgets everything that happened? The thing that I can’t wrap my head around is that if even half of this theory is right then that kinda makes Mark the bad guy. Mark took over Damien’s body, made everyone believe he was dead, turned his friends against each other. It just doesn’t make sense.

[edit: I’ve been reading up and it seems some people think that this was all about Mark getting revenge on the Colonel for stealing his wife and Celine for leaving him. While this does make a hefty amount of sense it still raises a few too many questions. Why punish Damien? What did he do to deserve getting so caught up in this revenge plot? Like I said before, there does seems to be a bit of history with Celine for for the Colonel and Damien. Was she involved with all 3 at one point or another? I guess we’ll all just have to wait for the 24th to find out]

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Yo guys! I warned you I’d be back with oneshots. I’m in a writing groove again, and I have a bunch of ideas to let loose. Prepare yourselves. This is the first of many.

So @alcordraws has been doing amazing stuff about Markiplier’s egos for ages now. Love’em. Go follow’em. Right now.

Anyway, I got a lot of inspiration from them for these oneshots. Their theorized relationship/history between Dark and Host is just enthralling, and led me to believe “Out There” from Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame would be a fantastic scene/song for them. So I wrote it.

I also parodied the two halves of the song, though the first half shared by Dark and Host was already so spot-on you might not even notice much of a difference. It’s crazy.

So yeah. If you like the egos, and you like Disney, give this a read! And keep an eye out for more. :D

AO3 Mirror

It had only been about a week since Darkiplier brought the Host to Egos, Inc. One week back amidst civilization (somewhat), this time around without his eyes. Adjusting to all of the people and the buzz of activity was... difficult, to say the least. Host had admittedly spent the first few days curled up in his new room of the building: an old library none of the other egos had shown interest in. Host had few personal belongings besides his books, his bat and his violin to fill the minimal space. He didn't mind.

It was quiet. And dim. And no one except Dark ever came there. He was left alone to wallow in his regrets and sorrow, in the endless blood dribbling from his empty eye sockets and the constant visions swarming his head. Dark had taken the time to let Host adjust before bringing him to the headquarters, but still he felt so out of depth with his new abilities.

He missed his eyes. Though the power he now held was greater than ever before- perhaps even greater than Dark's- he had to wonder if the cost was worth it. If sensing the terrified expressions of the other egos, the hurt and disappointment on one pink mustachioed ego, was worth that superiority.

Dark certainly seemed to think so. He didn't enjoy Host's brief, quietly mumbled requests to see the other egos more, to get to know them beyond the meetings. He didn't seem to appreciate Host's interest in anyone but him. Or the Host's desire to acclimate himself to this cruel, confusing new world.

No, Dark only seemed to appreciate and show interest in the Host focusing his attentions and efforts on him and him alone. It was late one night at Egos, Inc. when they had another one of their "talks." Really, it was more Dark scolding Host than anything. If Host spoke up at all, it would merely be a hesitant mumble. Or verbal compliance. Tonight was no different, as Dark circled about him with irritation rolling off his greyed features.

Host had mentioned to Dark how Wilford was looking for someone to host the new radio show they would be testing out, a companion of sorts to the Markiplier TV scheme. He'd confessed to showing interest; to having an outlet for his stories and visions. Perhaps, even, using it as an opportunity to better fit in with the other egos, since he was to be living among them.

Dark hadn't liked it. Dark hadn't liked that suggestion at all, and he didn't hesitate to remind Host of exactly why it was such a terrible idea. His aura crackled and rang in the Host's ears as he began to speak, his deep voice lilting and almost soothing in a way that could only make one's skin crawl.

"The world is cruel, the world is wicked. It is I alone whom you can trust in this whole building. I am your only friend."

Chilled fingers swept over Host's shoulder and he shuddered at the frozen sting they left behind, even through his coat. He gathered it closer about him, feeling the temperature drop in the room. He had no doubts his breath could be seen in the frosty air.

"I, who kept you, taught you, fed you, dressed you. I who look upon you without fear. How can I protect you, Host, unless you always stay with me? Away from them."

Dark stepped up behind the Host, resting both hands firmly upon his shoulders. The frigid burn had been lessened, but now a harsh weight was applied, steadily pushing the Host down, down, down into the dark depths of the crackling aura and his own blinded mind. Static filled his ears until Dark's rumbling tones were the only thing he could hear. "Remember what I told you, Host. You are deformed."

"I am deformed." The words came soft and hushed to Host's lips as he licked them, recalling Dark's statements as his only clarity through the haze.

"And you are deadly."

"And I am deadly."

"And these are crimes for which the world shows little pity. You do not comprehend."

"You are my one defender."

Host swore he felt Dark's sinister, pleased smile at his back. He did so enjoy when his puppets knew their placed and played along to the jerk of his strings. Yet, at the same time, Host knew Dark was right. Dark was the only ego he could without a doubt trust. Dark had saved his life. The others were a mystery; a danger; a threat.

"All of them revile you as a monster." Dark sneered.

"I am a monster." Host's tone was resolved; defeated.

"All they'll do is hate and scorn and jeer."

"Only a monster."

"Why invite their calumny and consternation? Stay with me."

Dark finally released Host's shoulders, but the cold which had gathered there lingered. It clung to him, making it feel as if all that weight which had been pressed upon him was still being applied, even as he felt Dark step around to his front. He knew their eyes would be locked, if Host had them. Small blessings.

"Be faithful to me."

"I'm faithful."

"Grateful to me."

"I'm grateful."

"Do as I say..." Dark reached out to grasp Host's chin and he went stock still with fear, his breath catching in his throat. "Obey..." Host could feel Dark's cold breath fanning across his face as the other ego leaned in to cement his "lesson." The mental image his narrations conjured up terrified him. "And stay with me..."

"I'll stay with you." Host's head dropped as Dark released his face, another cloudy breath leaving his lips. "You are good to me, Dark. I'm sorry." The apology was barely above a whisper, but Dark heard it. He was satisfied- for now.

"You are forgiven. But remember, Host." Dark moved to cradle Host's cheek in his palm. It was a faux show of tenderness, and all it did was leave tiny ice crytals dusted along Host's skin. "I am your sanctuary." Dark's hand slid off his cheek, and with that their little "session" was deemed concluded. He turned his back on Host without a second thought and left him alone in his library of solitude.

Demeaned and demoralized, Host remained slumped where he stood. The temperature in the room would return to normal soon enough, but he knew the chill residing in his veins and within his heart would take longer. The library was silent beyond the sound of his own breathing.

"My sanctuary...."

Slowly, Host turned away from the door, retreating deeper into the room. He ducked among the shelves and books where their musty scent made him feel safe. It was warmer there as well, tucked away from the influence Dark had been exerting. Releasing another hushed breath, Host began murmuring to himself, allowing his hand to run across the spines of so many books he could no longer see.

"Safe behind these bookshelves and these words that I have sown, Gazing at the others from a distance. All my life I watched them as I hid out there alone, Uncaring for their histories or substance."

Host paused to pull a particular book from the shelf. He didn't need to see it to recognize it as one of his own. All of his books had been made with a piece of himself; a piece of his soul. Just being in their presence felt like home.

"All my life I'd memorized the stanzas, Never once an offering of quittance. All my life I'd wonder how it feels to pass a day, Not far from them... But part of them..."

Clutching the book in his hands like a last life line, Host left the shelves, returning the major empty space of the library. He had to pass through it to reach his own personalized corner, but his mental gaze caught the door as he shuffled past.

"And like them, Living in the sun. Give me one day like them, All I ask is one, To hold forever..."

Nonsense. Host wasn't like them. He was different. Created by Mark, but then fabricated to be different... changed... irrevocably twisted. He was chained to Dark and all of them could see it. There was no place for him. No place, except by Dark's side.

"Like them, Where they all live unaware. What I'd give. What I'd dare. Just to live one day like them..."

Oh, how part of him wished, though. How it thought and wondered and conjured ideas of what it could be like. Hanging around, joking and laughing, sharing stories and ideas to garner more attention from Mark's fans. No. No, surely Mark's fans would want nothing to do with him. He was merely a tool. A means to an end.

"With them, Among the androids and the show hosts with their fans, Around the doors and corners I can sense them. Every day they shout or laugh and go about their lives, Heedless of the gift it is to be them."

Host stopped short of his desk area, head dropping forward again. His fingertips ran across the cover of his book; worn and frayed but well loved.

"If I were there with them, I'd treasure every instance."

He shook his head and forced his feet to move. Only a short distance to his desk, and then he could sink down into his chair. Here, alone with his books and with his visions, was where he belonged. Not with them. Never with them. Yet...

"Like them, Strolling through the halls. Taste the freedom like them, Like regular egos, Who freely walk With mayhem."

Oh, wouldn't it be nice. Wouldn't it be a sight to see? If he could see. No, there was no fighting it. No fighting Dark. It didn't matter what he wanted. The other egos were scared of him, they thought he was a monster, and attempting to interact beyond the minimum necessary was... a bad idea.

Still...

"Briefly part of nonsystem, I'll be content Requiem. Won't resent, Stratagem, Blind and bent, No problem."

It would be nice. Host hunched over his desk, still clutching at his book, his knuckles a bone white. Blood was streaming freely from his broken eye sockets, soaking his bandage. He would need to change it. Again.

"I'll have spent one day like them."

Hushed and buried away, alone in his library, not for the first time... Host wept.

[captainschmoe]

I was tagged by @darling-bucky to answer 11 questions and come up with 11 of my own for the next people. Let’s get to it. I swear I don’t mean to write novels for answers but I guess I just looooove talking about myself too much just kill me Wilford

1. How do you feel about the concept of living forever?

         See, on the one hand, I’m scared of death and would love to live a much longer time than I’m currently forecasting I’d live. But the problem is that I don’t know how much my feelings on the topic would change after 30-50 years or so. And I definitely don’t think I’d want to live forever, though perhaps a longer time than normal for humans? I just want to see how the world progresses. That’s something that makes me down. That no one is able to see what the world looks like after they die.

         As far as the whole “but you’ll have to see everyone around you die!” Well... yeah. That is another huge problem. Such a problem could potentially be mitigated by the fact that I could potentially leave a big impact on the world at large, but... would I? Would I be significant enough of a figure to make this whole “living super long” thing worth it? Would I want to be a significant figure in society? Is that pressure I can handle?

         I’ll have to decline.

2. What’s your main fandom and how did you get into it?

         Obviously, my main fandom is the Youtuber communities, primarily Jacksepticeye, Markiplier, and Crankgameplays. They dominate my blog. I discovered Mark in September last year when I was visiting and old friend and she said “you HAVE to watch this guy, he’s hilarious.” And she showed me the Nota-Pe-Nis videos. (She was right.) And I kind of left him alone after that, but months later I saw other people here on Tumblr who would put Youtubers they liked to watch in their about pages, and he and Jacksepticeye, among others, cropped up a lot. For whatever reason (most likely randomly), I chose to watch Jack first, and I got extremely addicted to his energy and binge-watched all 99 episodes of Happy Wheels in a week or so. After that, I still wasn’t satisfied, so I started binge-watching Reading Your Comments.

         I don’t really remember what happened after that, like how I re-discovered Mark, or how I came across Ethan (I do know that I discovered Ethan through Mark, but even then, I don’t remember which video). At the time, my primary fandom was still Hetalia. It wasn’t until mid-April when I fully discovered Antisepticeye that my focus shifted entirely towards Youtubers, where it remains to this day.

         My other big fandom now is Pokemon, which I didn’t into until I was 14 or so. By that time, Diamond and Pearl were almost out. My first game was Colosseum for the Gamecube, because that was the system I played the most. I was inspired to get a Pokemon game after reading the Pokemon trophies in Super Smash Bros. Melee. Which I was inspired to get after watching a skit performed by a group of people for the middle school talent show (I liked them a lot and their skit was really funny).

3. What’s your ideal home? When you picture your future home, what do you see?

         Right here. I’m really attached to this place I grew up and spent my entire life in. I can’t really imagine myself living anywhere outside “the corridor” (what we call the area around Interstate 380). All of my relatives are here. All of my memories are here. I feel like this is just the place I belong?

         I love the countryside, I love the kind of place my grandparents have. Nice and peaceful, where I can run around with no one else to bother me. But that’s not very practical considering winter driving and all that. So I want to live in a more suburban area (which I currently do). I can’t decide whether I like old-timey or a modern aesthetic more, though I’m leaning more old-timey.

4. Storms or sunshine?

         Storms are really pretty and relaxing. I just like the grays and the mist.

5. What’s your earliest memory?

         See #9 below. My entire childhood is a blur. I’m honestly kind of envious of people who can clearly remember events from when they were little kids.

6. What’s your favorite movie, and movie genre?

         I never watch movies. If I had to pick a genre, it’d be either animated movies or nature documentaries. So many weird and wonderful things live in this world!

7. What are you passionate about?

         I have become so passionate about health and wellness since taking a job at the hospital. Disease, diet, lifestyle, mental stuff, you name it, I like it.

8. Night owl or morning person? Or both?

         I sleep from roughly 3:30 – 11:30 am. I’ve always been that person who stays up until the crack of dawn and sleeps until mid-afternoon, if left to my own devices. Plus I currently work second shift at work, which I chose specifically to play into my natural tendencies.

9. Have you ever broken a bone?

         Broke my right pinkie finger in second grade. It was during the winter, and we’d come in from recess, and I’m one of those lazy people who takes off shoes and boots by stepping on the heel instead of sitting down and pulling it off. To balance myself, I put my hand up on the wall. My coat hook – and thus the place I was standing – was the closest to the door, and I’d accidently put my finger in the space between the hinges. It slammed shut, and ta-da! Busted.

         I also broke a tooth in high school. During marching band season, while the rest of the band was outside practicing their formations, I and the other pit crew and the color guard were inside doing our stuff. I got slammed in the face with a flag that one of the other pit people decided to pick up and wave around while I walked behind her to get to the xylophone.

10. Do you have any pets?

         None living with me right now, sadly. I want a cat. Although, my folks have a dog that I still call my dog because I’m so attached to her. She’s a yorkie/chihuahua mix and she’s my favorite dog and I’m her favorite human. She’s the reason I love chihuahuas so much. They’re so cute and funny!

11. Free space. Tell me what’s on your mind!

         Endigo’s Youtuber songs are stuck in my head. The only way I can get one out is to put another one in.

         Also, fuck gnats.

And now I ask of you:

1. Any little quirks of yours?

2. What type of scenery appeals to you the most?

3. We all have them. Any cringey things you did as a tween?

4. Would you consider yourself philosophical?

5. I had to bring it up. Pineapple on pizza Y/N?

6. If you had to move to another country, which one?

7. What is your favorite name?

8. When was the last time you cried or got choked up for positive reasons?

9. Are there any bugs you think are actually kind of cute?

10. What is your dream job?

11. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President?

I ask these of @thatonebubblebitch, @crazilyawesomeme, @fear-is-nameless, @hufflepufftrax, @fsocietydotdat, @katielovesyoutubers35, @jacksinsanity, @huggiebird, @lisasepticsuperplier, and @melviiiis