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#There is a correct answer here btw and it's wally
autisticcassandracain · 7 months
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Everyone's crimes:
Raven: busy going evil and/or being dead 80% of the time, annoying and pretty fucked up will-they-won't-they with Wally that makes neither of them look good.
Dick Grayson: the writers' specialest little boy who needs to be the smartest person in the room always, has the narrative bend over backwards for him constantly to the point where he gets a brainwashing arc that means you could argue nothing bad he did has ever been his fault since like, issue 26 or something.
Donna Troy: got married to Marv Wolfman's self-insert, little miss perfect.
Garfield Logan: group sexual harrasser and self-described chauvenist pig, won't stop complaining about his trauma and daddy issues (and yeah they're pretty bad but in the immortal words of Donna Troy 'that's not exactly unique in this group'), depressed funny guy except he's not funny 98% of the time.
Victor Stone: won't stop complaining about his trauma and daddy issues 2 electric boogaloo (again they're bad again that's not exactly unique in this group and also there's only so many times you can have the same character conflict before it gets annoying).
Koriand'r: idk I guess she's annoyingly clingy towards Dick but if a female character is stuck in an annoying relationship you should always blame the guy, it is always morally correct. She's written by a guy and Dick's that guy's specialest little boy, of course she's shafted. She's done nothing wrong ever in her life no I am not biased do not look at my icon —
Wally West: self-described conservative, primary character trait is not wanting to be here and complaining incessantly about it, see above point about blaming the guy in reference to his relationship with Raven.
Joey Wilson: honestly I have no clue why you'd find Joey annoying. He's too nice? Got no-homo'd too hard before they changed their minds and made him canon queer twice? Had a badly written villain arc bc the writers didn't know what to do with him? Idk. His worst crime is being attached to Deathstroke who IS annoying. Annoying by association.
Kole Weathers: introduced to die and it shows, if you thought Kori was clingy wait until you meet Kole's pathologically clingy ass. That said if I'm honest she's mostly here so I can justify putting Danny Chase on the list as well.
Danny Chase: fourteen years old but he thinks he's the smartest most capable person in the room and he's not even right. The narrative desperately wants you to think he's cool but he's just kinda not. Worst part here is that since I'm literally ten years older than him l can't even be bothered by him bc if I am that makes ME the loser. Damian Wayne did the annoying arrogant over-competent kid schtick better (source: me and my bias).
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Hey! I’m so excited to find a blog investigating the WH website! I’ve been trying to find blogs that try to piece together what’s been going on but since this is an upcoming project the fandom is pretty small (not that that’s a bad thing it’s just harder to find theories and informational posts about it sometimes) so it’s great to see you gather up the info and sharing ideas on what’s going on. Also, I checked out the site and the books in that gif of Frank’s head spinning and thought I saw something else that I wanted to add. In the “Do you think/know about me” part there’s additional text right after it that seems to say “You do.” which I thought was pretty interesting! I’m thinking that this could be Wally since he’s the one breaking the fourth wall the most so far and that he’s kind of answering for us (kind of like what he did on that phone call when he went: “Did you like my joke”, “I think you were going to say, yes!”) which could be because he can read our minds (from the call: “it’s hard to you think through this funny phone”) but what are your thoughts on this?
Also, I was wondering if you are interested in making any post on the images in the WH website and what happens when you inspect them? Because I have screenshots of all the info I found when investigating them if you were interested!
thank you!! there’s definitely other folks out there keeping an eye on the site and archiving things even more extensively (before the old phone recording was re-uploaded, for example, i knew at least 2 separate people who just Had It on hand. they never shared it publicly, for obvious reasons.) but most of the discussion’s in private gcs and servers and such. i’m definitely not complaining about that btw - the more the merrier! - but i thought it’d be convenient for other folks who were interested to have somewhere to host the observation doc in public.
and YESSS i would be VERY interested in seeing those screenshots if you’ve got them on hand. i’ve tried inspecting other images on the website before, but i’ll admit my tech literacy is lacking and i’m always scared of irrevocably fucking up the site layout somehow, so i’ve never gotten very far.
as for the actual observations:
i Do see that “you do”! i’ll add that to the doc right now. it definitely seems like wally’s being presented as a “patient zero” of sorts, since we know from the actual overview page that eventually Everyone gets in on the 4th wall-less existential dread roulette one way or another. however, i feel like “patient zero” is kind of a misleading term here, not only because there isn’t anything to suggest that this meta-awareness(?) is contagious in a traditional sense (at least not yet, but i don’t think there’s ever going to be, is what i’m getting at here) but also because i don’t quite think that wally being aware of the 4th wall is something that was an accident, per se - currently i think that at most, it was an unforeseen consequence of something very much intentional.
something about wally that clown likes to emphasize on their tumblr or on livestreams a lot is that he can Learn and is constantly Learning, though he may not always draw the “correct” conclusion from information he’s gathered (one example they’ve given multiple times is that barnaby taught wally how to laugh, but instead of actually laughing, wally just says the words “ha ha ha,” implying he thinks of it as a general expression of contentment/good will instead of something that’s usually an involuntary reaction.) you see some of this in the filenames for the guestbook doodles, too, where wally has to ask other neighbors what clowns are or what wiggle means, and doesn’t seem to realize that frank’s example of a clown was supposed to be a dig at barnaby (or alternatively, he just chose not make note of it since it’s not very polite.)
my working theory is that this is a result of wally being an audience surrogate, or at least the neighbor that was meant to be the most relatable to children, since As A General Rule, kids have a lot to learn about the world. if we follow that train of thought, wally has a greater reliance on human input than perhaps any other neighbor, and may be making himself at home on the welcome home restoration project website (or maybe even set the website up himself, somehow) so that he has a way to continue learning even after the show’s cancellation and/or get the show back on air in order to continue learning; it is called the welcome home restoration project, after all. again, heavy emphasis on “theory” here - this definitely doesn’t account for every specific instance of weirdness on the site right now, nor is it the Full scope of what i think may be going on, but it’s what’s most relevant to this ask!
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