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The Marlo logo was something smaller that caught my attention. The spiral eye in a house logo for a partner company working with Playfellow to make Welcome Home products. It's not the main company yet it seems heavily influenced by the things we've seen.

Is it a code?

Look I first found out about Welcome Home in a video that was going over everything found on the site so far ok? So when I actually look into it more both the site and the creator I still had the thought of the code hidden on the website. Then I see Clown’s post he makes on tumblr and I just want to know what they mean?? I can’t be the only one to notice that the post have odd word choices and random letters capitalized. Now my brain is determined to find a code in them, but I’m not even sure there is one? T-T Can someone pls just tell me? Whether their is a post somewhere that explains why Clown writes like this or if it means something? I don’t care if I’m right I just want to know if I’m wrong so I can stop trying to decipher something that isn’t real.

Is Wally truly a puppet?

And no I don’t mean in the sense that he was a person before hand. (Please note this info is from memory as the site is down)

First off, the Restoration Team of Welcome Home talks about how they are finding pictures and old paraphernalia from the show. They talk about old scripts and show parts of books, but at no point do they talk about having the actual puppets. Yet Wally is seen as present.

Both in his drawings in the guest book as well as some other messages, it is shown that Wally is active and aware of the site.

Going back to the Restoration Team, hidden in the Q&A section there are hidden messages about needing to get it out and that it hurts both alluding to something in the Team leader’s head.

In order to supposedly get whatever is hurting the Team leader out of his head he started the website and the restoration project. And what if he did? What if it was Wally in his head that he had to get out and in doing so put him into the website? Maybe not fully or maybe letting Wally interact at least keeps him quiet, but most of the signs of Wally being around seem more like they come from inside the website than anything. Especially if they do not have his puppet, it makes me wonder what Wally is.

I know that Clown has made a few post talking about Welcome Home more relating to gaining a concise and awareness, so I know that the thought is mainly a puppet gaining sentience, but is he just a puppet? 

Most of this is just speculation and such but I still think it should be consider that Wally may not be confined to his puppet body.

Confused

Apparently Welcome Home had an update of some kind, but I have no idea what it's doing. It's nothing very informative as far as I can tell but that might just be because I don't understand. Scattered across the site are requests but they are things that seem to be about changing components of the site and I don't know how to do that. Has anybody else figured it out?

Also just want to say I love the new side art. It still has the eyes watching, but also little hints of all the characters. Flowers for Julie, feathers for Poppy, letters for Eddie, butterflies for Frank, you get the idea. Like a little of everyone is represented, it's so cute.

I Found more Clues by clicking on an Invisible Link that takes you to the ‘creepier’ site!

Spoilers!!!!

I want to talk about the black goo that is prevalent in the site past the lockbox. The stuff that seems to be coming out of the art itself and that is all over the other site and the room shown in the pictures.

The stuff that grows and is why none of the actual art can be touch with bare hands. That makes people feel sick and dizzy. Though whatever is causing it, supposedly Wally or other, does apologies for in invisible ink.

Ink which appears elsewhere as well though  if written by the same person is unclear. Since the one above is apologizing for the goo in a way while the one below seems to be one of the Restoration Team, likely the leader, who is disgusted.

 But the goo seems to be alive. On the other site it is thumping almost like a heartbeat and there is even an eye in the goo shown in a picture on the site. The goo stains the entire other site and kinda reminds me of the “so below” hidden beneath Home. I wonder if the other site itself is the so below of the Welcome Home site.

The first thing I want to discuss is if you wait a bit on the error page, a drawing of stars will appear with audio from Wally. This is titled soon. and is the most... "questionable" audio from Wally which is why it must be shared first.

Let's be careful before labeling Wally or Home as "The Villain" of Welcome Home

Or anyone for that matter imo

Listen, I can completely understand why people would go to that conclusion. "So Below" and the eerie vibe that Wally gives off in his obsession don't exactly give either a flattering light (I know there are also the art pieces on Clown's personal blog, but I'm not counting anything that hasn't been officially released yet)

But whenever someone labels a character who is acting weird as "the villain," it puts a bad taste in my mouth. At the end of the day, characters in fiction are real people with motivations, so labeling one as "evil" or "the villain" can sometimes erase that complexity. And after the most recent update, we know that Wally has A Lot of very, very complicated feelings about the situation.

Before I get into that though, I wanna point out something that Clown himself has said describes the brand of horror that "Welcome Home" gives off to themselves personally. Click here for the link to the post.

Before I get into that though, I wanna point out something that Clown himself has said describes the brand of horror that "Welcome Home" gives off to themselves personally. Click here for the link to the post.

"My home doesn't feel like home anymore."

That line sticks to me pretty hard. There's a pervasive feeling of unfamiliarity, unreality, that exists in the core of the story itself.

I think we see, firsthand, Wally experiencing this in the latest updates. In all of the hidden Bug/Answer secret videos, we see a familiar pattern. We get some sort of scene of two other characters talking, a scene in whatever universe they call home, until at the very end one of the characters addresses Wally (who was apparently there the whole time) and the video glitches out.

A key part that not a lot of people seem to realize though is that these videos are from Wally's perspective. See the above picture with Wally's hands. In every scene, Wally is present and was supposedly taking part in an activity (in the above one, helping Poppy with knitting), before the video started playing.

Whenever I saw these videos I had that same feeling that something felt. Different. The interactions felt like scenes you would see in the animated/cartoony aesthetic we'd see from the various art pieces, it doesn't feel like it's "on set/TV" to me. They're moreso just intimate glimpses into their lives. But they're shot in the real world, and that feels. Wrong.

This is very likely the same feeling that Wally's having in that moment. "My home doesn't FEEL like home." It's like he's disassociating, having a brief episode of that unreality feeling. Those bouts of strangeness don't go away until, like clockwork, someone says his name and the video ends, snapping him out of it.

Do other people in the neighborhood also feel the same way? Maybe, but we don't know. What we do know is that Wally, whether or not he tries to explain this to others, feels isolated by this sensation. "My neighbors are only neighborly until they know I'm different in a way they can see."

The only other person he likely shares this feeling with? I'd take a guess that it's Home. Nearly every time Home has been featured, Wally has been there, close. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the only physical puppets/props we’ve seen of the cast are Wally and Home.

According to this post by @eldritchravens, Home is the only other person who talks directly to Us, the viewers. That's probably why they're so close, because they're the only ones who can truly confide in each other about this.

"So does that mean Home is manipulating Wally?"

Again, I really don't think that's the case. I don't wanna call people villains quite yet. Besides, we see (or well, hear) Home and Barnaby have a conversation together, and from how Barnaby reacts it's fairly casual.

This shared feeling is likely why Wally is so obsessed with us, including the Restoration Employee. They seem to be sharing a similar sensation to Wally's bouts of unreality, in the fact that it seems they're the ONLY one who doesn't remember Welcome Home being a thing. They seem to be one of the few things that Wally (and maybe even Home) consider to be "Real." Hence their obsession with "seeing" us.

"Isn't this Wally or Home manipulating the Employee though?"

Maybe, I don't know. We don't really know much of what's going on right now, we're only getting glimpses. For all we know this could be a side-effect of Wally/Home trying to reach out. For the time being though, I want to keep my own expectations in check. I'm choosing not to label Wally, Home, The Restoration Team or anyone as a "villain" until something definitive comes up.

It is very, very likely that Wally is going to be doing something more dangerous later down the line (or maybe even is doing so now). But if he's doing anything, I get the feeling it's more out of desperation. He wants something to quell this feeling inside of him, this pervasive sense of unreality, and to connect with something he feels is "real." And, for better or for worse, that thing is us.

This whole thing isn't to bash on people for speculation or theorycrafting, I personally think speculation is very healthy! But it's still important to remember what the core of this story is going to be. We're only seeing the very start of the story right now, and we don't know what'll happen down the line. It's useful to keep that core idea at the center of our speculation so we can have reasonable expectations going forward.

As for me? This doesn't feel like a story with villains. I don't think he'll pull a Monika from DDLC and start gaining a kill count, but if something does happen to the rest of the cast, my money is that it'll happen completely by accident, and he'll regret it. Hard.

Potential answer?

Regarding this update, if it wasn't for the Halloween-induced site glitch

Seeing as how everyone is variously reversing Sally's picture

Is it possible that clown is trying to make the point that Wally and the restoration team may have had a communicating with each other?

After all, the only people who can do things like move, write, and reverse are the people who edit the site, the Welcome Home Restoration Project team.🤔