“I brought the Captain to Exhibit D. I don’t know if they have ever seen vegetation or plant life. I personally haven’t, so it surprised the both of us when it was covered in Poacae. Also known as grass. Besides that there was also some sort of floral growth. Pink in colour, species unknown. Then the captain did something odd, they picked a few by the stems and began intertwining them. More oddly, they then proceeded to put it on my head. “Flower crown” they signed with their hands. When did they learn to do this? And why did they seem so…sad?”
Something about the Markiplier cinematic universe I think needs to be talked about is the fact that literally 80% of the reason it's so compelling is because it doesn't take itself seriously at all. It's just a story that's an absurdly chaotic mess, and I mean that positively.
Who Killed Markplier is a tragedy at its core, a very well done example of, even if you try to do all the right things, sometimes you still fail, and there's no way to fix what's already been said and done.
'DAMIEN' has hauntingly beautiful scenery, it's an outsiders perspective of an altercation between two unreliable narrators that gives little context to its premise, immersing us in our place as a bystander.
All that being said, it's juxtaposed by;
-The man cast ending up in space with zero explanation.
-Two men getting into a fistfight in a movie theater parking lot in borad daylight in a violently slapstick manner.
-William telling the group he once got sucked into jumanji and nobody even questioning it.
-The viewers very existence being used to play up a series of visual gags with absolutely no context, (Pocket Sand, for example.)
-Darks tendency to pull a 'draw me like one of your French girls' while speaking to us in fucking riddles
-The stunt dummy being kept in after the editing phase
-Literally 90% of the shit Actor does despite being a revenge fueled monster, he wears crocs everywhere like c'mon
-HeeHoo
Honestly I think it's great because it allows you to play with the worldbulding extensively as there's debatably no concrete facts one way or another. I'm writing at the moment and using it to my advantage and will probably post more about that soon.
I drew these nine scenes from ISWM for a fan project (which didn't get released yet, but might be in the future)! I was allowed to share them by now anyway, so enjoy!