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'too much blood' for goretober and also the least matching set of drawings of all time I'm so sorry I just could not figure out how I wanted to do things

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My take on the Two Clarks

!BACKROOMS SPOILERS!

I think Clark and Pirate Clark are essentially one being who's aspects are contradicting like a bottle filled halfway with vinegar and half with oil. It exists as whole yet still separated. Every movement of the vinegar effects the movement of the oil in the bottle like how the characters mirror each other. What happens to the liquids if the bottle is shaken and forced to confront itself? The liquids would combine and change into something with realized potential, a salad dressing. This does not happen with Clark. He never confronts himself to realize his true potential. Instead he blames everything else for his failures. Like he is imagining himself as a bottle of oil because he cannot comprehend his own aspects of acidity. Pirate Clark may have manifested as an attempt to further shift accountability to his shadow self. Like visualing all the worst parts of yourself as a completely separate being so you can't possibly be at fault. Pirate Clark is manifested like a bottle of vinegar. Both the oil and the vinegar forgot they actually always resided in the same bottle, forever separated as one and unrealized. Unchanged.

What causes human memory to forget? Lots of things, but most commonly its traumatic emotions. We would recall a memory differently based on our emotional states at the time of recollection.

For example, if one were to recall a sunrise while their emotional state is negative, would they even remember the sounds of the morning birds singing? Or do the shadows cast by the mountains take precedence in the recollection? In Clark's case his emotional state causes him to forget his agency in favor of blaming others, ignoring the fact that he has in fact hurt others like he's been hurt. His victim complex is akin to the bottle ignoring it's own vinegar content and insists itself as a neutral oil only.

Two "different" Clarks are misremembered by the backrooms because of original Clark subconsciously separating his selves throughout his life. He would endlessly insist that he isnt at fault for his failures so it must have been incredibly validating to see that the things he hated about himself are really not his fault because it actually was a separate creature the whole time. Clark likes it in the backrooms because he always believed that to be true and claims Pirate Clark's existence as proof. Mary must apologize for blaming him now because the blame should fall on Pirate Clark in his perspective.

So when Mary says "You are your brain!" It destroys the false memories of separation, forcing Clark and Pirate Clark to recall they share a bottle/existence. Clark was always his own victim first even before the Backrooms by not realizing himself as a whole person with flaws that can be overcome if he truly wanted to work for it. Unfortunately, Clark gave all his power and agency to his shadow self long before falling into the Complex and remained stagnant in therapy. The moment the Clarks were told by Mary that they are essentially one, the "vinegar" wins.

"We don't have to change." (I can keep blaming you for hurting me.)

*hurts Clark in the same exact way he has recently and shockingly hurt others*

#my thoughts on the backrooms movie #backrooms spoilers #the complex created pc early because clark always separated himself from his shadow #the humiliation of filming the commercial was a strong fracture of his selves due to his ego needing to protect himself from his failures #in order to survive the humiliation of acting like a cheesy pirate on local tv to save his failing store #i wonder if pc perceived clark as the “vinegar” and itself as the “oil”#because they are both clark would they blame each other for the state they themselves are in?