I too am stuck in the ISWM pipeline and all this theory cracking and lore digging...but I am also an idiot who has always had an interest in actual multiverse theory, and I don't know if this is just my brain being weird about that, but I've come to the conclusion that every theory everyone has come up with is entirely wrong and completely right all at the same time, and that's so cool! And knowing Mark I'm sure he knows this with him saying he doesn't care what everyone else sees and that he has his own vision of the true story, however, Mark literally created a fan's playground of potential introducing literal multiverse theory into this. Think about it.
Actor! Mark, according to Mark, IS NOT Engineer! Mark, but at the same time literally is on the sheer fact we said so and it became a fandom wide thing. Techincally, we literally created a new universe/interpretation with this idea that its Actor the whole time. This is "infinite upon infinite" as Mark has said, so technically every path in ISWM is Actor and Engineer at the same time and not and then some in regards to true multiverse. Hell if you really wanted to mess with this you could say it's Dark the whole time, just for funsies. It's the multiverse, literally anything is possible, as wrong and stupid as it could be. Let's break this down "path" wise for a better understanding (I hope).
To me and my take on ISWM, there's three canons at the same time:
Mark's true vision (the real actual story we're supposed to take from this with the true ending)
Every individual's first run (as Mark has said this is the canon events for the viewer and whatever ending you get on your first run)
The collective ideals from everyone's runs + theories combined (lens that Actor! Mark is Engineer! Mark, Whitacre is Celine, etc for the whole run while keeping in mind the fact "we" have died 1,000 of times and Mark and Captain are aware of every path at the same time)
That is Canon and what we are aware of in the multiverse. Considering anything is possible, random ideas outside of this is just fan ideas and "AU territory" is what I'd call it (like the random idea i said of Engineer! Mark being Dark, there is no evidence of this anywhere, I literally just came up with it, as this is possible in a true multiverse idea because ANYTHING is possible). However, these ideas are all technically "canon", because multiverse/anything is possible, I'm a broken record at this point but it's true. Gotta love the multiverse and how it doesn't make sense but does, and I honestly wish more people took this even farther and implied more multiverse theories to it just for fun. I saw someone saying Whitacre is an idea/different version/stand-in of Damien and honestly, good shit, I love that idea, I love all of these ideas. It's literally wacky AU territory but you get to call it multiverse canon in a weird way because this is multiverse theory. In saying this, someone should totally do a universe where Yancy is Engineer! Mark
AHHHH I LOVE MULTIVERSE THEORY SO MUCH YALL SHOULD GO WILD WITH THIS STUFF that is all
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