Trigger Warning: Stabbing self; Poisoning self; Beating self; Strangling self; drowning self; shooting self; Actor!Mark
I feel like people forget Actor was depressed and stabbed himself because every single one of his friends (minus the detective) and his wife left him. That is how he found out about the void (Or Upside Down as Mark calls it). He then tried dying more than once (partially because he was curious how he kept coming back and partially because he wanted to die) by stabbing himself 36 more times, poison, beating himself death, strangling, drowning, and shooting himself. Eventually after doing it enough times and learning the history of the manor, he found out how to use the Manor and Upside Down to his advantage.
And the plan to frame William for his death was not his idea either. If you don’t know, the Upside Down had entities, and one of those entities used manipulation to its advantage. It tricked Actor into “thinking” of the plan and doing it.
In reality, the entity was going to steal Actor’s body and leave Actor in the Upside Down, but things went wrong when Celine came back. The entity then changed its plan to steal Celine’s body as her body had been more powerful. It told Actor to steal Damien’s so they can trap the siblings in the Upside Down.
Thank you for coming to me rant about people forgetting some of Actor’s history-