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I HAVE A DETECTIVE NESS AU‼️‼️‼️
I'll never write a fic on it but anyone else is welcome to, or just use it to inspire your own ideas
(Warning: I have not watched Escape The Night in ages and I never watched season 4, so whatever happened in season 4 is being disregarded)
So it starts with Escape The Night (not YouTubers AU), when Matt is revived he basically becomes part of Everlock so when they defeat the carnival master or whatever, Matt is forced to stay behind in the 1970's.
For whatever reason reason Manny doesn't die just bc I don't want him to, I had reasons for this but I don't think it really fits with the Escape The Night lore so back to the drawing board.
Matt is left in the 1970's with no house, money, friends, family etc. I'm pretty sure everyone living in Everlock died but whatever, this is an AU so no, they didn't fully die they were just in limbo or some shit idk. Anyways, the point is Matt manages to make some friends and get back on his feet
By the mid 1980's Matt is an actual detective and is living a good life up until some time in the 1990's when people are like "bro, you literally haven't aged a day in the past 30 years"
Oh, yeah forgot the mention, Matt/Ness is immortal in this AU bc spooky revival stuff and he can also like sense ghosts and his orange tinted glasses allow him to properly see ghosts, he doesn't doesn't age and when you kill him the wounds just sorta heal and he gets back up like "Damn, that kinda hurt"
People are suspicious of his unchanged appearance so he fakes his death, changes his legal name and leaves Everlock.
He purposely moves to the town with the closed down Freddy Fazbears bc the case of the missing kids always intrigued him
He chooses not to go down the detective route again and just gets a job at Sparky's diner, he works there for about a year when he meets Mike and falls in love, at this point he was already aware that he wasn't straight (I headcanon him as pan) but he's never been romantically interested in a man, he's just seem some attractive men in his life time, so he was like "HOLY SHIT, I NEED TO DATE THAT GUY"
At this point he's going through a "Hell yeah, I'm fucking immortal" phase, he gives no fucks, has a "respect is a two way street" attitude and is absolutely serving cunt. He's practically a different person to who he was when he first went to Everlock. He has his ears pierced, he paints his nails and he sometimes experiments with make-up but it's not really his thing
So now we focus on Joey who has gotten Manny and Nikita (and I guess any other survivors? Completely honest, I never finished season 1 and I never even started season 2) together and have taken them to the abandoned Freddy Fazbears and is like "I think we can revive everyone here" and then time travel stuff happens and they end up in the year 2000 with no limits or instructions of where to go or what to do
The go to a random diner to talk it out and Ness shows up like "Hey, welcome to- ah shit, not you assholes" Manny and Nikita start up normal conversations like "omg I love your nails and your earrings" and then Joey's like "Help us revive people." And Ness is like "No?". Quick side note- Joey continues to call him Matt through the conversation and Manny and Nikita are like "Don't deadname him, damn"
Thats mostly what I have so far, theres a scene I have in my head where he gets springlocked and Mike and Vanessa get him out of the suit in a panic and Vanessa's like "He's dead, theres nothing we can do" and then Ness sits up and is like "Owwwww, fuck"
Also, Manny, Nikita and Joey are very shocked by Ness's cunty personality and but they're like "Yas queen, you ate that up"
They're less shocked about his boyfriend, they're kinda like "Well, he was a theatre kid"
I feel this
When I tell you I am falling back down the "MatPat ego rabbit hole" again, I mean it-
When I saw the crystal thing, my eyes bulged out of my head like a cartoon wolf looking at a pretty lady, I was in shock! But yeah, thought it was interesting so I decided to post about it :)
The Pixar Youtube theory, Part 1: Escape with Markiplier
Hello! The first two I would like to tackle are the With Markiplier series and Escape the Night, and hopefully, next, I can tackle Iris and Sander's sides, talk about Dad Feels and Genloss, try and cross the talking points between them, and at the end I’ll make a post on how they’re all connected and what I think the timeline would be.
Note: I don’t know everything, this is just a theory, tell me if I’m wrong or if you like it!
Let's start with something big;
The houses. In Escape the Night season One, Two, and (arguably) Four are set in houses. In the first season, they contained the evil, trapped in the 1920s, but it sunk its way into Joey. In the second season, they broke a seal to allow them to leave the house, stuck in the Victorian era, and Joey dies and is revived by the crown of oblivion. And the fourth season is the afterlife. Or, I guess, an afterlife, set in a museum, where Joey decides to open Pandora’s box and gets trapped inside.
Now let's look at Markiplier Manor. It is Mark’s estate that he grew up in that has spirits and evil living in the house. Every time he dies, he comes back and gets closer to the entity. The entity then helps him come up with a plan to kill all his friends because the entity wants to leave the house.
Right off the bat, just looking at these two series, we see some obvious similarities. House is evil, has weird spirits roaming inside of it, and makes the people who own it murder their friends. And nobody leaves the house the same. They are still affected by this magic when they leave whether they’d like to admit it or not. Remember this, I’ll come back to it.
Every single time someone new is invited to the chaos, it always comes in a little invitation. Whether written by him or by someone pretending to be him, it always comes in a letter. And what do we get before ‘Who Killed Markiplier’ came out?
Exactly.
Evil house, invitation, good people turning into bad people, and death. In Joey's, there is a lot more beating around the bush, but it gives us a lot of information on how the world works. This leads me to my next point.
The idea of time not being linear, hoping through universes, and getting stuck in loops over and over again. Their dimension-hopping and teleporting back and forth between time all comes... from stones. In Mark’s Space series, you, as the player, replay events, restart over and over again, teleport to different times, and teleport to different universes. And it's all thanks to the warp crystal, this little, blue, glowing crystal tower. It was also used to power the warp core, which caused time loops and paradoxes, and the warp device, which allowed teleportation to different universes.
And now let's look at Escape the Night. Specifically, at the very end of season four, where Bretman and Colleen used ‘The cosmic sphere’ to open a portal and escape purgatory. And what is in the center of this device?
A little blue crystal tower.
This. This one little detail is huge! They look the exact same, they do the exact same things, and they both need to be attached to something to be used properly. And, when attached to something different, it does something different. When attached to the box in Heist, it gives you whatever item you want or need, assuming it takes it from a different time or universe. When attached to the warp core, it's supposed to cause the ship to warp to where it needs to go but caused a time loop in the process. When attached to the warp device, it teleports you to random points across the multiverse. All of the devices work, but it acts erratically and unreliably. But when attached to the cosmic sphere, it projects a portal that you can then walk through. No weirdness, no unpredictability, just exactly where they needed to go.
(My working theory is that the warp crystal needs to be in the cosmic sphere to work properly. If it isn’t, it will be unpredictable.)
The crystal was taken from the afterlife, purgatory. A place completely identical to this one, but slightly different. Darker, scarier, a place filled with spirits and evil, Dark entities.
Kinda sounds like Mark’s upside-down, don’t you think?
But the real question is which one comes first? Well, let's look at what time period each ETN season came from. The events of what happened in the show are linear to how they come out, but the dates of what happens change the timeline completely. Season 2 was the Victorian era, which was between 1837 to 1901. Season 1 was in the 1920s, very cut and dry. And season four was mainly set in the 1940s, but can go completely across time. We know this from the things collected from the different time periods. (Irrelevant for this post, but season three is set in the 1970s.)
And Who Killed Markiplier, according to Google, is set somewhere between the 1920s and the 1950s, meaning the order of events would’ve been S2, S1, WKM, S4, S3. God damn time fuckery, making my job hard.
In season one, the original manor, they ‘contained’ the evil, meaning it couldn’t leave the house. Or we thought it couldn’t leave the house until we see Joey leave the house being corrupted by this evil. Meaning that the evil needs to inhabit someone so it can bring others in. The longer in the house, the worse the effects get. The same thing with Mark’s manor. Two, unnamed, evil entities leave the house through both Celine’s body and your body.
What I’m trying to imply is that, maybe, Mark’s manor is the same house in ETN season 1. “But Devon,” I hear you asking, “How does that make sense? Mark would have to have owned the house at the same time as Joey for that to make sense, considering Mark grew up in the house and Joey ‘inherits’ it at the very beginning.” And to that, I say, “Consider the pockets of time.”
If Joey exists in this pocket of time and then leaves to go back to the modern world, that means the person that owns the house no longer exists. At least, not at that time. Mark was 28 when he made ‘Who Killed Markiplier,’ Meaning he lived in his own place for a while. Since Mark grew up in that time and that house, and since Joey abandoned that house in the 1920s, that means the exact events that happened in that house happened around 1948 at least, which puts us squarely in our timeline.
If Mark’s Manor and Joey’s estate are the same, then that means that the evil and the entities are the same beings. Just like how the warp crystal and the cosmic sphere are the same stone. However, I would like to add one last thing.
Cc! Mark has said that the entities not only trick C! Mark into doing their bidding but also convince Mark that it was his idea the whole time. That idea was to have Wilford kill him in a game of Russian Roulette, have everyone turn on him and kill him as well, and then him and the entity could take his body and get out of there. And I’ve noticed that death description fits two deaths in escape the night season one.
The death of Timmothy DeLaGetto, also known as ‘The Mobster.’
And the death of Arthur.
For those who don’t know, Arthur’s entire role was to manipulate the evil to do what he wants. He was ‘The butler’ of the house, convincing all of the other past owners to feed into the evil so he can do what he wants. It feels like he’s not just working as a butler for the owner, but a butler for the evil. He gets found out, the remaining guests free his brother, the brother then shoots the other two residents of the house along with Arthur.
If I were to guess, Arthur doesn’t like being dead. So after Joey leaves, the bodies get cleaned up, Mark and his family move in, and Arthur is forced to watch Mark, Damien, and William grow up in front of him. Arthur gets replaced with Benjamin, Mark falls in love with Celine, Celine after realizing the house is evil (Because she’s a seer) leaves the house and runs away with William, Damien becomes Mayor, Mark feels worthless and alone and kills himself.
Arthur talks to Mark, Arthur convinces the evil to bring him back, Mark comes back, Mark kills himself, so on and so forth. The entity that works with Mark being Arthur makes sense. He would know that killing Wilford like that would work because he’s seen it work. Once with the mobster and once with him. All he did was combine the two and convince Mark he came up with it.
When Celine comes into the picture, he’s ecstatic because he gets the chance to not just get his own body, but a more powerful body. A body that could do what his and Wilford’s couldn’t. Talk to the beyond and commune with other entities. So he changed the plan and had Mark kick out Celine and Damien from their bodies, forcing them to take yours when they die. But not without taking some evil on their way out.
But, of course, this is just the beginning. This isn’t the last time we see the evil. The evil spreads, and my god does it spread.
(Author’s Note: Joey needs better friends both in and out of canon.)
The Pixar Youtube theory, Part 1: Escape with Markiplier
Hello! The first two I would like to tackle are the With Markiplier series and Escape the Night, and hopefully, next, I can tackle Iris and Sander's sides, talk about Dad Feels and Genloss, try and cross the talking points between them, and at the end I’ll make a post on how they’re all connected and what I think the timeline would be.
Note: I don’t know everything, this is just a theory, tell me if I’m wrong or if you like it!
Let's start with something big;
The houses. In Escape the Night season One, Two, and (arguably) Four are set in houses. In the first season, they contained the evil, trapped in the 1920s, but it sunk its way into Joey. In the second season, they broke a seal to allow them to leave the house, stuck in the Victorian era, and Joey dies and is revived by the crown of oblivion. And the fourth season is the afterlife. Or, I guess, an afterlife, set in a museum, where Joey decides to open Pandora’s box and gets trapped inside.
Now let's look at Markiplier Manor. It is Mark’s estate that he grew up in that has spirits and evil living in the house. Every time he dies, he comes back and gets closer to the entity. The entity then helps him come up with a plan to kill all his friends because the entity wants to leave the house.
Right off the bat, just looking at these two series, we see some obvious similarities. House is evil, has weird spirits roaming inside of it, and makes the people who own it murder their friends. And nobody leaves the house the same. They are still affected by this magic when they leave whether they’d like to admit it or not. Remember this, I’ll come back to it.
Every single time someone new is invited to the chaos, it always comes in a little invitation. Whether written by him or by someone pretending to be him, it always comes in a letter. And what do we get before ‘Who Killed Markiplier’ came out?
Exactly.
Evil house, invitation, good people turning into bad people, and death. In Joey's, there is a lot more beating around the bush, but it gives us a lot of information on how the world works. This leads me to my next point.
The idea of time not being linear, hoping through universes, and getting stuck in loops over and over again. Their dimension-hopping and teleporting back and forth between time all comes... from stones. In Mark’s Space series, you, as the player, replay events, restart over and over again, teleport to different times, and teleport to different universes. And it's all thanks to the warp crystal, this little, blue, glowing crystal tower. It was also used to power the warp core, which caused time loops and paradoxes, and the warp device, which allowed teleportation to different universes.
And now let's look at Escape the Night. Specifically, at the very end of season four, where Bretman and Colleen used ‘The cosmic sphere’ to open a portal and escape purgatory. And what is in the center of this device?
A little blue crystal tower.
This. This one little detail is huge! They look the exact same, they do the exact same things, and they both need to be attached to something to be used properly. And, when attached to something different, it does something different. When attached to the box in Heist, it gives you whatever item you want or need, assuming it takes it from a different time or universe. When attached to the warp core, it's supposed to cause the ship to warp to where it needs to go but caused a time loop in the process. When attached to the warp device, it teleports you to random points across the multiverse. All of the devices work, but it acts erratically and unreliably. But when attached to the cosmic sphere, it projects a portal that you can then walk through. No weirdness, no unpredictability, just exactly where they needed to go.
(My working theory is that the warp crystal needs to be in the cosmic sphere to work properly. If it isn’t, it will be unpredictable.)
The crystal was taken from the afterlife, purgatory. A place completely identical to this one, but slightly different. Darker, scarier, a place filled with spirits and evil, Dark entities.
Kinda sounds like Mark’s upside-down, don’t you think?
But the real question is which one comes first? Well, let's look at what time period each ETN season came from. The events of what happened in the show are linear to how they come out, but the dates of what happens change the timeline completely. Season 2 was the Victorian era, which was between 1837 to 1901. Season 1 was in the 1920s, very cut and dry. And season four was mainly set in the 1940s, but can go completely across time. We know this from the things collected from the different time periods. (Irrelevant for this post, but season three is set in the 1970s.)
And Who Killed Markiplier, according to Google, is set somewhere between the 1920s and the 1950s, meaning the order of events would’ve been S2, S1, WKM, S4, S3. God damn time fuckery, making my job hard.
In season one, the original manor, they ‘contained’ the evil, meaning it couldn’t leave the house. Or we thought it couldn’t leave the house until we see Joey leave the house being corrupted by this evil. Meaning that the evil needs to inhabit someone so it can bring others in. The longer in the house, the worse the effects get. The same thing with Mark’s manor. Two, unnamed, evil entities leave the house through both Celine’s body and your body.
What I’m trying to imply is that, maybe, Mark’s manor is the same house in ETN season 1. “But Devon,” I hear you asking, “How does that make sense? Mark would have to have owned the house at the same time as Joey for that to make sense, considering Mark grew up in the house and Joey ‘inherits’ it at the very beginning.” And to that, I say, “Consider the pockets of time.”
If Joey exists in this pocket of time and then leaves to go back to the modern world, that means the person that owns the house no longer exists. At least, not at that time. Mark was 28 when he made ‘Who Killed Markiplier,’ Meaning he lived in his own place for a while. Since Mark grew up in that time and that house, and since Joey abandoned that house in the 1920s, that means the exact events that happened in that house happened around 1948 at least, which puts us squarely in our timeline.
If Mark’s Manor and Joey’s estate are the same, then that means that the evil and the entities are the same beings. Just like how the warp crystal and the cosmic sphere are the same stone. However, I would like to add one last thing.
Cc! Mark has said that the entities not only trick C! Mark into doing their bidding but also convince Mark that it was his idea the whole time. That idea was to have Wilford kill him in a game of Russian Roulette, have everyone turn on him and kill him as well, and then him and the entity could take his body and get out of there. And I’ve noticed that death description fits two deaths in escape the night season one.
The death of Timmothy DeLaGetto, also known as ‘The Mobster.’
And the death of Arthur.
For those who don’t know, Arthur’s entire role was to manipulate the evil to do what he wants. He was ‘The butler’ of the house, convincing all of the other past owners to feed into the evil so he can do what he wants. It feels like he’s not just working as a butler for the owner, but a butler for the evil. He gets found out, the remaining guests free his brother, the brother then shoots the other two residents of the house along with Arthur.
If I were to guess, Arthur doesn’t like being dead. So after Joey leaves, the bodies get cleaned up, Mark and his family move in, and Arthur is forced to watch Mark, Damien, and William grow up in front of him. Arthur gets replaced with Benjamin, Mark falls in love with Celine, Celine after realizing the house is evil (Because she’s a seer) leaves the house and runs away with William, Damien becomes Mayor, Mark feels worthless and alone and kills himself.
Arthur talks to Mark, Arthur convinces the evil to bring him back, Mark comes back, Mark kills himself, so on and so forth. The entity that works with Mark being Arthur makes sense. He would know that killing Wilford like that would work because he’s seen it work. Once with the mobster and once with him. All he did was combine the two and convince Mark he came up with it.
When Celine comes into the picture, he’s ecstatic because he gets the chance to not just get his own body, but a more powerful body. A body that could do what his and Wilford’s couldn’t. Talk to the beyond and commune with other entities. So he changed the plan and had Mark kick out Celine and Damien from their bodies, forcing them to take yours when they die. But not without taking some evil on their way out.
But, of course, this is just the beginning. This isn’t the last time we see the evil. The evil spreads, and my god does it spread.
(Author’s Note: Joey needs better friends both in and out of canon.)
Me, looking at every YouTube series: These bitches are connected, I know it
Wait. Wait stop. Now I want this. No. Please.
repost of my escape the night fancast!
theme: renaissance era
joey graceffa - the savant
markiplier - the philosopher
crankgameplays - the nobleman
game grumps - the minstrels
jacksepticeye - the watchman
coryxkenshin - the knight
courtreezy - the weaver
emirichu - the baker
danny gonzales - the candlemaker
macdoesit - the winemaker
This would be ME if I wa son ETN!!!!!
You would get some good content. Lol!
@tyleroakley @joeygraceffa
Should I rewatch ETN again?
“Don’t wait for the world to be ready!!”
Omg! Loved this season!
It was so good! The art was spot on. The season in general 👏🏻❤️
BiG oOf
My ExAcT rEaCtIoN tO tHiS sEnTaNcE (LiNe) WaS
1. 🤭
2.😬
3.😮
4.😳
And finally 5.😶
GiRl I wAs ShOcKeD
f-N sHoCkEd
LiKe WhAt
Last night (Sunday September 13th) Joey was live on Twitch playing Minecraft and he told us a couple story’s of his life (I would say child but he is still a child( your not a child anymore when you turn um... you decide the age) some of the story’s made my jaw DROPPPPPPPPP. Talking about F*-boys, first kiss(es) Paranormal story’s of his “childhood” house. 👿😈, etc... go check it out!!
This might have been my favorite season!?
I would put everyone’s name that’s in this season (just the main characters. Lol.) but I have to leave and go somewhere right now and I don’t have time. But, love ya all!
@joeygraceffa
ETN4 MatPat & Rosanna
Am I the only one that hopes that Rosanna makes it all the way to when MatPat and Nikita come back. And am I the only one who hopes for a emotional reunion or is it just me?
EDIT: It happened! I am so happy! I nearly started crying, ok i did cry. Great episode!
ETN4 Theory 2
This is another theory I have been thinking about and I am sure I am not the only one but I believe that Colleen will die. Now before people start to argue, I don’t want her to die either, but there is something to note before we can dispel this.
In 4x1, we get a look at whats to come next, this is different to the trailer as this shows more about whats really to come then the trailer. In this Joey says this line “I told her I was going to get her out of here.” and whilst this could be about any of the girls (except Justine), I believe this is about Colleen.
It is clear that Joey has the most remorse about killing Colleen. He mentions in one part that he feels bad that everyone died especially Colleen. When he releases the group from their glass coffin things, he calls out Colleen’s name first and goes to hug her. This all in just the first episode with many more examples of this in the three episodes and surely more to come. It is obvious that he regrets what happened to Colleen the most.
I believe Colleen will make it quite far, with her already been seen in the pirates episode, but I believe she will die before the last episode.
ETN S4 Theory 1
Now I have just noticed this and just let me explain but what if the order of the deaths has already been given to us.
As seen in 4x1 all the youtubers are out of their glass things but it is also the introduction of them all. It begins with Justine, then Tim, DeStorm, Tana, Gabbie, Alex, Colleen, and then Rosanna.
Now whilst I believe this is just the order of death. S1 first, S2 second, S3 last. I also have noticed with the 2 deaths so far that this may not be the only thing.
Spoilers for those who don’t wont it!
In 4x2 Justine dies, sad but true, and then Tim dies in 4x3. So far Season 1′s guests have died. But isn’t it a little weird that they are first to die and it work so well into the order they are introduced. Whilst I do not fully believe this (as normally a guy and a girl survive (not including Joey)) and it would be believed that would be that it would be the same with this season, I thought it was something to think about. If DeStorm dies next its gonna be very interesting.
Edit: So DeStorm has now died so yeah... theory has yet to be debunked...
Have you fools ever heard of Escape The Night