Dark showed up one night curled up in a corner of Mark's bedroom not knowing where he was or how he got there. After that night, Mark would see someone out of corner of his eye, but never could see who it actually was. This kept going on for years until four years later when Mark had his own place and he found out just who this person was. Once again he woke up to see a person in the corner of his room which disappeared a little bit later. He also realized food was going missing in the house so he set up a camera to find out what was going on at night.
The next morning, he checked the camera and saw a person walking around, but he still could never get a good look at him. Confused, Mark decided to just drop it and hope whatever was there would leave. It wasn't until a few days later Mark woke up one night to find the person curled up in the corner of his room again. This was his chance. He approached the figure cautiously and placed his hand on the person's shoulder. The person jumped at the touch looking at Mark. Mark jumped back in astonishment. The figure looked like him, but with painted black nails and eyeliner. His black hair was covering his right eye. He looked like a Goth version of Mark, but with gray skin.
"You looked at me!" Mark said in amazement.
"You looked like me." The figure said still curled up.
"Who are you? What are you doing here? Why do you look like me?" Mark demanded.
"I think I'm Darkiplier. I don't know how I got here. I'm just here." Dark explained.
"Well, could you leave?" Mark asked.
"What?" Dark asked.
"Leave. Just get out of my room. I don't want you here." Mark stated running his hand through his hair. Dark got up and left with a whimper. Where he went Mark didn't care.
A few days later, Mark found Dark again curled up in the corner of his room. Mark approached him. He wan't too happy that Darkiplier was here again.
"You're back?" he asked.
"Yeah." Dark said quietly. Mark sighed and ran his hand through his hair again.
"I guess you're here to stay then? " Mark asked. Dark nodded his head.
"Alright. You may sleep on the couch then." Mark said and watched Dark leave. He then went back to bed.
The next morning, Mark woke up hoping what had happened last night was just a dream. He went down stairs and sighed when he found Dark sleeping on his couch. It wasn't a dream.
"I can't deal with this. Where the Hell did he come from? I don't want him here, but it seems like he's here for good." Mark said going into the kitchen to get breakfast for the both of them. Once he had it ready, Mark shook Dark awake and told him he had breakfast for him.
"Thanks, Mark." Dark said then proceeded to eat his cereal.
"You're welcome. If you're staying here, you might as well get something to eat." Mark said finishing his cereal.
After that, Mark started recording a video for that day. Dark wandered in there to see what Mark was doing. He was proud of what Mark was doing and wanted to help. Mark saw him and stopped the recording.
"Dark, Get out. Ok? Don't come in this room. You understand? You need to stay out of this room." Mark said sternly.
"Alright." Dark said and left. Mark finished recording for the day and walked out. During the rest of the day, Mark did a few other things. Then that night, Mark and Dark both had supper.
"You'll sleep on the couch tonight again ok?" Mark said.
"Ok." Dark said back. After Mark finished his supper, he went to his room, locked the door, and lay down on his bed. He sighed running his hands over his face.
"I don't want him here, but the fans seem to have drawn him a lot. If I'm going to have him in a video, I want to put my own spin on him." he thought. Then, he had an idea. It'll take some time, but it'll be good. Mark fell asleep happy that night.
The next morning, Mark and Dark had breakfast. Mark then decided this was his chance. He smiled at Dark.
"Dark, how you like to be in a big project for a video I had in mind? Like be a huge part of it?"
"Really? You mean it? I'll be in one of your videos? Yes, I'd loved to, Mark. Thank you." Dark said excitedly.
"Perfect." Mark said smiling again. The project was going to take quite a bit of time to write up and plan, but he couldn't wait to do it. This was going to be good.
After a long time of preproduction, Dark was finally handed the script to Mark's big project. "A Date With Markiplier." He was so excited to be joining Mark on a date with the fans, but as he read through it, he realized that was not the case. He was not going to be with Mark side by side on this date. He was supposed to come in like a villain and crash the date and his rout in the video lead to a "Try Again" ending.
"Why Mark? Why?" Dark asked himself, "Why would Mark do this? Well, if you want me to be an evil manipulative guy, you're going to see an evil manipulative guy." Dark waited around until it was the day to shoot his part.
"Ok, Dark, time to shoot your scenes." Mark said.
"Can I go off script and improvise most of my lines?" Dark asked still shaken up and extremely upset about what Mark wanted him as.
"That's fine with me Dark, but stick to what I want you as. Don't go off character." Mark said.
"Don't worry. I won't." Dark replied.
"Good. Ok. Roll film!" Mark said.
"Did you miss me?... I missed you...very much." Dark began. If this was his first actual appearance in one of Mark's videos, he was going to make it one the fans will never forget. He was going to make sure of that!
