#in space with markiplier wormhole bandit

[hacktplanet]

the real Y/N experience in space with markiplier doesn't depict

[emilyrox]

Gee Guys

I can’t believe In Space With Markiplier gave us a genderfluid abrosexual space captain (The Captain/The Viewer) who is dating a nonbinary pansexual alien bureaucrat (Allu Minium), a pansexual head engineer (Mark) who is dating a pansexual cryo lead (Celci), a demiromantic reactor lead (Burt) who is dating a gay ADS lead (Gunther), a biromantic asexual wormhole bandit/criminal (The Bandit), a polysexual trans male head engineer from an alternate universe (Mack), and an alien robot who’s gender and sexuality are unlabeled/ambiguous (Wug).

Also Ms. Whitacre is an ally and everyone mentioned above are her adoptive lgbtq+ grandchildren. 

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I considered making a list of “’”””logical/analytical”””” reasons for these headcanons, but the actual reasons for all of them are “because I said so.” 

[indiiglow]

Okay ramble time!

To preface this, unlike you gremlins I tried my best to be a good captain on my first time through, so here's how that went.

I fixed life support. This choice was honestly a guess knowing how things in Mark's universe go. I was kinda leaning more towards extinguishing the fire so damn I got lucky with that one lol

Woke up all the crew and we just. Made it to the planet. So you can imagine my surprise when Lady comes in in Go Towards the Light and yells at me about all the people I've killed. ???????

So at this point I start to realize what the fuck is going on. Obviously our chance at finding the warp core by continuously jumping in again is abysmally small, so I call an emergency meeting.

Aand here's where things go wrong (?). I Pop 'er in Reverse. But honestly just because this made more sense to me, like it feels like the kinda crazy solution that would work (which. I still don't see why we just randomly blew up like we hit a damn invisible wall in a videogame but go off I guess). But hey I do think this route is way better than distress signal so!

So we send a distress signal 🙄. Cue utter confusion. N. noir universe? Lady dimitrescu? Wha t??? But throwing down your weapons is obviously more reasonable so I go with that.

HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO YELL AT MY SCREEN THAT IM NOT TRYING TO DESTROY THE UNIVERSE, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO FIX IT!!!!

Then the door says dark and I open it knowing it's an obvious trap but the brainrot's too strong. (Things get fun and horror-y tho). And then it brings up Yancy so I open it again.

Don't care about the warp core so I don't open it a third time lol

Being honest, We've Never Been Here Before, but this is basically meaningless. We've apparently got some combat skills tho lmao

Part 2!

Kind of lost my mind at that beginning sequence. And then the choice reference didn't help.

So obviously horror. From there on I had a clear goal in mind, which was what Old Mark said, to tell him he can't go back.

We're apparently just guessing now, so I decided to always go right because I like the direction better.

So... still under the assumption that it's all very meta and it's Actor, I said he looks a lot like Markiplier... But like I wasn't wrong so?? The heist look punched me in the fuckin face tho

So right we go again! Seeing what was beyond the door this time, I foolishly chose to open it, thinking that time and space might still mean something skdjdkgjf

Of course, nostalgia got to me, I chose to comfort Mark 🙄

Years of training prepared me for this, so when I saw the third option pop up I scrambled to tell him he can't go back!

Intervene bc I dunno. Bandit cool. And I'm trying to save people here I guess

Right! Jim! We'll ignore me backtracking there for a minute it didn't matter anyway. These choices are starting to feel increasingly meaningless.

Next up is Left. Apparently we're in the DDLC universe now?? Left again. (Just bad choices all around, all the cool stuff was on the other side)

One last left. Here We Are- wait wrong universe. That slow, greyish travel through the wormhole even felt final. Istg that little piano tune in the background gave me a heart attack every time. I cannot explain to you the feelings when I stepped through that door to see the core room. That were promptly interrupted by a fire extinguisher to the face 😳

So after repeating 'you'll just continue the loop' at my screen ten times in increasing desperation, I was finally allowed to make a choice. And I wasn't exactly sure what would happen, but I knew Hold On had to be it.

I was completely unphased by Mark yelling at me because I knew I made the right choice the moment I made it (also, I'm impressed with y/n's quick thinking lol). And then THE ACTUAL WKM MUSIC KICKED IN FOR REAL AND IFHFKVVCJGK

But basically my thoughts during that scene went something like 'yeah I know you're tired you idiot but it's fine I fixed it, at least you finally realized your mistake', completely, and utterly exasperated. The relief was immesurable stepping out of that pod in the end though. Like I genuinely had a hard time believing that it was actually over, I kept expecting the reality to glitch but no, that was really it. Fuck. And then honestly my brain was just too mush to even process Dark

And that's it. I'd say I'm a pretty good captain all things considered 😌

If you've read this far what are you even doing with your life

[clones-against-humanity]

So I literally do not have the time, energy, or capacity to write an entire theory right now but there’s something absolutely bugging me that I haven’t seen any posts about.

So TL;DR, In Space With Markiplier is a retelling of Who Killed Markiplier, and Darkiplier could be the reason for that.

And now to the bullet points:

• Red and Blue everywhere with placement similar to ‘void’ scene in WKM with the fake* Celine and Damien. There’s quite literally too many to count.

• Stan the Water man bedtime stories = what Actor Mark feels like he’s doing for y/n

• Heavy themes of cryogenics (cold)

• Even heavier themes of sleep / waking up; ‘I’m so tired’

• Space Mark apology functions also as an apology for events of WKM / realization by Actor Mark.

• The various bits of stories we’re thrown into by the wormhole, the chaos, is how WKM cast feels about being stuck in purgatory

• Confirmed “prequel” to Heist (Darkiplier ending) (also time doesn’t matter technically), while occurring alongside Wilford Motherloving Warfstache, which occurred alongside DAMIEN, could imply Darkiplier is quiet because he just woke up

•But again time doesn’t matter

• that lixian video about wormholes was narrated by Pam and Mark. They play a lot of characters but that specific set up is iconic for Celine/Mark and Celine/Damien; if Darkiplier is controlling the story / having a big influence on the story then that would check out; they’re serving as a warning / shaming as per usual

• themes of ‘ you fucked up big time ‘

• “am I dead?” From Lady and Wormhole bandit // “Celine… am I… am I dead?” From Damien

•Damien Damien protocol. Actually the fact that Damien was talked about and referenced so many times without even a hint of an appearance

[captain-neutrino]

what was captain neutrino like before iswm? how do they fare with all the wormhole stuff during and after the story?

They're a charismatic leader type, down-to-earth but with a good sense of humor and excellent communication/mediation skills.

None of that helps them when the wormhole disaster begins. Wormholes, space time and paradoxes are not their point of expertise, they trust their crew with the mechanics of that and mostly focus on crew morale and space navigation. So when things go to shit and their crew can't fix it (worse, start blaming and/or suspecting them), it puts Capt. Neutrino in a position where they can't function in an environment that they usually thrive in. They don't have answers, their crew doesn't trust them, and they're scared.

Captain Neutrino's "canon" choices are all sensible (fixing life support, not jumping in again AT ALL Mark, sending a distress signal) and trusting/relying on others (Wake the crew x5, Wug seems like he's trying to help! We need the bandit, etc). They tried to do as few wormhole jumps as possible cuz Lady's words stayed with them

My headcanon is that the entire experience was the same amount of time as the In Space With Markiplier videos themselves, not including the ending where the captain lives out an entire life, obviously. So overall the captain went through all of this in the span of about 2 hours. After the story, its healing to them to finally be able to take care of their captain duties and morale like normal, and I think that despite the horror of what they went through, they cope 1,000xs better than Mark does.