#train project

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another combination comparison and what the hell

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This is my prediction for a new ego in the Train Project™

Marcus the Tank Engineiplier

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So, Mark's promo today, huh? Let's break it down!!

*sobs on the floor for 15 minutes, clutching his robe to my chest*

Alright, that's done, now let's analyze it!

The first layer, of course, is its position with regard to recent content. Namely, the "Mark isn't real" week, which Mark said was just a bit to communicate that he'd be gone for a week — then, though, his editors rolled with it and the community went wild with it. People wondered if it was relevant to the thing he was writing, like an early promo, and some theorized that it might be Actor content, given the "not real" Mark business. He could've been lying when he said it was just a meaningless bit, of course. People's suspisions have remained piqued because his return has been rich with simulator games and in most if not all the intro/outros for 3 Scary Games episodes have had some being that was either implied not to be or outright said (by Lixian) not to be Mark. (Much more under the cut.)

I think there were a couple of other things that were argued by some as hints towards Actor content, but from my current state of distress, I can't remember. Do let me know?

The most likely is that this is a combination of meaningless bits and just coincidences, however...

I bring your attention to the Wilford "Motherloving" Warfstache explanation livestream. There, Mark said that the "Oh, I remember the train!" line was just a reference to Murder on the Orient Express, with the intent to communicate the characters' new status as, well, characters by providing a representative piece of media with roles they could fill.

However, then — months ago by now — we got the Train Project teaser. It's widely accepted by now, although still theory, that this project will be essentially the backstory for that line — some events on an old-timey train with the egos; another project with Akupara Games. (Relevantly, even this on its own had some people wondering which versions of the characters we would see, and if it would be "true Actor content" vs something like Heist which is often interpreted as the Actor playing a character.)

In this case, though, that's just to show that— Mark's changed his mind before, and decided to take something from "that means nothing!" to an actual piece of content.

Assuming the theory is correct, of course. That's all we can say about this first part — theory, speculation.

If we look at the post on Instagram, however, we can discuss something arguably more interesting because it is concrete.

This... makes YouTuber!Mark = Actor!Mark canon. After all, Mark’s posting from his own account, in the first person, but obviously this is the Actor. (To be explicit: Note the video itself with his robe and its callbacks to the music of WKM, and the direct references to the events of the MCU in the caption itself.) And, if you’d prefer to look at it in the other direction, this is the Actor doing a Cloakbrand promo = the Actor is Cloak’s Markiplier = that’s our Markiplier.

And if you do take that as canon, it has some iiiiinteresting implications.

I could talk about the vast quantity of pain it causes me, as an Actor simp, but I will not,

Instead! Zoom in on the line “...’metaphorically’ stabbed in the back about 37 times by people I THOUGHT I could trust.” Once you’ve recovered from the heart wrenching reminder of canon, you can take this at least two different ways.

1) The Actor not only blames presumably William and Celine for what happened, but blames them to such an extent that he doesn’t even view the action (the stabbings) as an action that was taken by him. That’s beyond “it was their fault” and beyond “they drove me to it,” that’s an implication he views it almost literally as their doing. Characterization-wise, this ties right in to the delusion he shows in the Damien animation — his anger and hatred, even more intense than one might think from WKM alone.

2) This one, I’ll admit, I notice mostly because of my own headcanons/the interpretations I use when writing fics. But, the other way you could take it is that the Actor counted the Entity — which is canonically implied to have had a much more direct role in the Actor’s pre-WKM decisions — among the people he thought he could trust, among the people who betrayed him.

And in either case (also, both could be true, I suppose) it confirms that the present-day Actor still hates at least Celine and William, and has stuck 110% to his delusions that he was the victim, that his actions were justified, that he doesn’t regret it, that where they ended up is in some way right or good.

...Helluva lotta angst for a 20 second promo, Mark.

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MY GOD GUYS DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS

if they haven’t filmed whatever the train thing is and if wilford is in it we could get 

we could see wilf with earring im 👀👀👀👀

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An update on the train model!

I've been poking around with giving it actual materials instead of Blender "Default Cube" Gray, and I am somewhat enjoying where I'm at. I want to sorta go for that very early 3d look where most (if not everything) is accomplished with vertex colors instead of textures. I may still end up adding in some textures down the road, probably for the carpet in the interior, and maybe for the wood? Who's to say.

Anyways, here's where I'm at today:

See what I mean about the interior? To be very fair I haven't spent really any time yet working on it outside of picking some colors. It probably needs baseboards, and I do want to have the carpet use a patterned texture. I don't know that the walls will read as wood very well without at least a normal/bump map either.

Well that's all for today, minus a quick programming note: Despite what I've been doing, I don't have any intention of sticking to a strict posting schedule. I have a full time job doing something completely different, and some family events coming up this weekend. If I don't have anything to share, then there won't be any posts from me. However, I did set this blog up to accept submissions, so if you have some bad art you're excited to share, send it in!