#van series

[thedolanfics]

Can we take moment to appreciate E in a fluffy hoodie ❤️

[noctiscircum]

What, this is what happened! Wil and Abe became odd allies Mark never framed Wil because he found love with another girl and the DA is going on adventures with Mark! No-one died

[fickle-ghost-friend]

VAN VIDEOS THEORY

Alright, so Mark said that the van videos have a story line, and that got me into theorizing mode, and I'm trying to figure out what it is. So I looked through the van videos again, trying to find some kind of storyline. Now I think that there are two possible theories as to the story of the van videos. The first one is about Darkiplier. Now a lot of people have brought this up, so I'll keep it short since I'm leaning more towards my second theory. Basically the idea is that, the van videos are just Dark pretending not to be Mark. - At the beginning of the first van video Mark is holding his hands behind his back. This pose is Dark's signature position, and something we've only seen Mark do while being Dark. - everyone was kind of put off by the over ridiculousness of the van videos. Mark was being more silly than usual. And while we eventually got used to it, we still couldn't get the thought out of our minds. And right after the events of WKM, we were all still in theorizing mode. My second theory is one that I haven't seen while looking through tumblr, so I'm pretty sure I came up with it on my own. First let's point out the odd things we noticed in the van videos. - Mark being more silly than normal. - Why do you need a van? -Why did you not say the outro regularly in the first video. Now, if we are making a theory out of this, it clearly has to do with one of the egos. The question is, which one of the egos is overly silly? -Wilford Warfstache/ The Colonel - Jim(s) - Ed Edger - Silver Shepard - King of the Squirrels -Bim Trimmer? Right off the bat we are going to eliminate Bim Trimmer, he wouldn't be the type to not boast about something like this. Next we knock off Wilford Warfstache/The Colonel. If it were Warfstache, then we would have pink mustache undoubtedly. Next off is Ed Edger. Not enough southern twang. Next Silver Shepard since he wears a costume all the time. This leaves two egos. King of the Squirrels and the Jim(s). I believe that the van videos are the origin story of the Jim(s). - they have a van. News reporters use news VANS to travel, and those news vans tend to be white. The ridiculousness of the van videos is just a lower degree of Jim ridiculousness. And will probably get more hectic later on in Jim(s) life. - throughout the van series, we see Mark (AKA Jim) trying to use the van in multiple ways in order to make money. This would indicate that they are in need of a job, and it wouldn't be much of a stretch to say they went into news broadcasting for a bit. - in the "Don't Remember" video. Which is the camera person sleeping in the van. It shows that the hand of person behind the camera is Mark's (AKA Camera Jim's) hand. Also take into account that the "Don't Remember" video is not included in Mark's playlist of the van videos. Meaning that any implication of Darkiplier or any other ego in that video do not apply to the canon if the van videos. Anyway, I just didn't see anything on the Jim(s), so I wanted to put my insight in.