I'm posting this as an OP because I want it to show up in the tags
@accidentallye-m-o @ghostcats-random-hubworld @lilacrosemary Wish granted!
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So it's not like a "theory" or whatever, it's essentially just a headcanon that I'm using to cope. I was pretty quick to accept that Unus and Annus are gone, even though the grief is hitting me in small waves(you'd think that I'd be a bit more livid, considering how emotional I am, but surprisingly I'm a quiet griever in most situations); and one of the bigger reasons is that I know they don't have to be gone completely.
It's like I said in my eulogy: they're gone canonically, but Canon doesn't stop fandoms. There are plenty of canonically-dead characters that live on through fanart, fanfics, AUs and RPs; it's not like it's illegal to talk about a character who's gone from their story's timeline.
Furthermore, Unus Annus came partially from Mark's mind, and as we know the characters* don't fully die in the pocket-dimension they exist in. We've seen Wilford be fatally shot. Dark died twice. The Actor's whole origin story has to do with him experiencing multiple deaths, both on- and off-screen. Who's to say Unus and Annus aren't in the "Upside-Down" now, waxing poetic about death to anyone who will listen, coming up with wacky projects and daredevil stunts, and the like?
(AND who's to say that poor, sweet Eric Derekson fully died from that paragliding accident? Please, let me see him one more time, I miss that lil bugger--)
Death isn't about disappearing, not in that plane of existence. They just moved on somewhere else... at least for me.
*Unus being played by Ethan is irrelevant, because Detective Abe and Warden Murderslaughter are played by Mick, Prof. Beauregard is played by Rosanna, etc. It's also irrelevant that Unus was created by Ethan, because so was Heapass, and he also exists in Mark's little brain-world. The idea of owning characters is irrelevant, even though Mark established this world.
