Who is Y/N District Attorney in WKM and what role do they play?
Every character in “Who Killed Markiplier?”, despite misconceptions about who and what they are, are established in their own timelines, and they’re are all connected in clear ways… All except for Y/N District Attorney (Y/N DA). Now this could be because it’s Mark’s way of allowing us to insert ourselves into the story, but I want to go beyond that. Who is this character, “the viewer” what connection do they (or do we) already have with the characters of WKM. Also, what does seeing the world through the DA’s eyes mean for us?
I want to start off by saying the viewer is referred to as Y/N (your name) District Attorney because at the beginning of WKM, when Butler Benjamin asks for Y/N’s invitation, the letter you hand him says who the invitation if for. (I wanted to clarify this because a few people I know were asking why the viewer is called Y/N District Attorney in WKM.)
We also know that only Mayor Damien recognizes us at the party, having met him before and seemingly being longtime friends with him and only him. Strangely enough, we seem to have no connection to Actor Mark, the man who the party at the manor. If I had to guess, this party to the DA would seem just like any other high profile party during the time period. You see for these types of partied as the District Attorney, they more than likely would have attended because parties like this were a way of making connections with others. But as we know this wasn’t the party’s intention, Actor Mark’s true intentions for the party being much more sinister with the front of being a “reunion for friends”. But the DA if I has to guess wouldn’t have known this, just having received the formal invitation and going to the party as a formality.
The fact that we only know Mayor Damien and our relationship with him says MANY things about the viewer’s perspective of the party. Such as:
1) We were more than likely invited to the party because of Damien. Now I’m NOT saying he asked Actor Mark to invite us, what I’m saying is that, going back to what we know AS FACT about Actor Mark is that he has hired Detective Abe MANY times to look into and essentially stalk his friends/ex. He stalked Colonel William and Seer Celine (explained fully here if you don’t know the WKM story line: https://markiplierloretheories.tumblr.com/post/176800235455/who-killed-markiplier-explained ) to get a better idea of their fates and to essentially envy and plan his revenge. But with Damien, he’s got no personal grief or hatred towards. Damien had stayed out of all of the drama between William, Actor Mark, and Celine. So when he looked into Damien’s current personal life, Abe more than likely reported on the DA, someone Damien seems oddly fond of (and honestly probably there was a crush or love between the two but I’ll explain why I think that later in the post). I think Mark invited Y/N for him, so that when everything went wrong, Damien would have Y/N DA to fall back on as someone who makes sense, who would be just as lost as he was in the mix. I mean just look at how Damien constantly comes to you for reassurance and for guidance in WKM. (But again I’ll come back to this)
2) I think perspective is important, Mark during the WKM Livestream stresses on the importance that we are seeing this story through Y/N’s eyes. He tells us constantly how important the viewer or the District Attorney is. I think this is because how we see each of the characters and their personalities, depends on how Y/N sees them. So for example, since Damien is an old friend of the DA’s, he makes sense to Y/N. He appears well put together and speaks to the DA in a clear way that makes him seem more trust worthy than every other character in WKM. Everything about WKM is confusing, from the video, to the storyline, to the characters, but NOT Damien. I believe this is because we are seeing this story from the perspective of someone who was just introduced to this situation and to these wacky characters with in depth backstories. This explains why Abe seems to too dramatic, why Celine seems overly suspicious, why Actor Mark seems to be a completely misunderstood and confusing character, and why William seems so bizarre. But they all don’t make sense to the DA and the DA is trying to understand these new people, their perception making them seem more dramatic and exaggerated than they may actually be. I mean we know that perspective matters because of the scene from the perspective of William when he described Actor Mark:
How we see the characters depends wholly on who is seeing them, and in this story that is so jumbled and confusing, Damien makes sense because you know him. This can also explain why he seems like such a well put together, strong and pristine man, because Y/N obviously admires him, looking past any flaws he may actually have. Because either the DA just admires him as a person and is one of his closest most trusted friends, the District Attorney blindly follows him, the Mayor, or, like most people in love, Y/N only sees Damien’s best qualities and is blind to his faults. Regardless of why, the fact that the viewer sees the story through the District Attorney’s eyes is important.
3) Why Celine used/manipulated Y/N at the table is because the DA is the only person she could have used. I don’t see Celine as an evil person, she, in WKM, is just someone trying to get stuff done. Y/N is the only person there who she has no personal connection to (meaning she doesn’t care as much about Y/N), and the DA is the only character who she doesn’t know who is listening to her, trying so desperately to understand what is going on so this whole story can end. Y/N doesn’t argue with her like Detective Abe does. You’re literally the only option.
She’d never hurt William, Mark isn’t there and she’d never use him as a subject (many reasons for this), Abe wouldn’t help her, she’d never hurt her brother Damien, and the Chef and the Butler wouldn’t care to help (I mean just look at how they ran away in the end while you stayed to help William and Abe- this may have to do with your connection to Damien and concern about him).
4) It explains how crucial it is that at the end of WKM, it is mainly Damien trying to convince Y/N in the “Upside down” about “their” plan. Notice how he reassures the DA while Celine explains the plan. Of course the House is manipulating them into doing this, but it works. And of course the DA trusts him. And because of it, they forever lost their self.
That is my insight into Y/N DA. If there ever way something between the DA and Damien, it wouldn’t even matter, because Y/N is left to suffer the worst fate of all, their spirit being left to stare into the mirror at the end of WKM while Darkiplier takes their body. All because they decided to go to a dinner party.
