Spoiler For Welcome Home Site So Keep Scrolling

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Welcome Home website came up yesterday. I spent all of the morning going through the site myself and then went to see what everyone else found.

First off are the bugs and drawings found on multiple pages, with the bugs leading to what seems to be clips from the shows and the drawings being audio from Wally. With 14 bugs to find though I only found 12 myself, and an unknown amount of drawings. The drawings I did find all have a name that seem like it might spell out something? I’ll put the words down further though I’m not sure the order. But the biggest things is the second Welcome Home page that can be found through the exhibition though I did not find it myself either, it’s existence alone adds so much. So now I will probably have a bunch of random ideas to dump here

Drawing labels:

will-2

i-2

a

soon

find

understand

phone

will

i

neighbor

help

Frank does not have any known information regarding his origins prior to moving into Home when compared to the others.

Welcome Home Website

While Clown is taking a break, I have been trying to fill the void in my soul that craves Welcome Home. Since I can’t draw or write stories, I have decided to simply look for new things. Whether on the site or made by others. While doing so I noticed that of all the characters Frank is the only one without a backstory of any kind other than Home and Wally. Julie came from a cave where she lived with her sisters. Sally is a star that came down from the sky. Poppy grew too big to live in the nest with her family. Eddie came from another town to build a post office. Howdy is a caterpillar who want to start a business? Doesn’t really explain his size but eh. And Barnaby who left the farm and his adoptive mother to live in the neighborhood. But Frank has nothing of note. No family or mention of where he lived beforehand. Now the fact that Frank is also a outlier in his more grey color and frowning face plus that he was usually a source of information makes me wonder about his past.

Thank god someone can read and see!!!

Ok so I think I’ve figured out what most of this letter says confidently

Here’s what I’ve gotten so far. Don’t mind my terrible handwritting

The red-ish words are things I’m not fully confident on and I couldn’t for the life of my figure out the word after right in the bottom section.

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.

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.

If you haven't checked out the Halloween update for Welcome Home do it before reading this. I have too many thoughts on the update not to share, but I also know not everyone may have seen it yet.

I will probably make separate posts for some of the different things seen with this new update, but for this one, I more want to cover some interesting information we gain on Sally. It's already been shown that Sally Starlet, the dramatic thespian she is, likes to call her friends more elaborate names. Julie becomes Juliette, Wally becomes Walliford and in the update, we see Howdy become Howardson and Frank become Franklin. But because of these names, I noticed something else, Sally calls Eddie mailman. So I look a little further and go back to the other interactions recorded between Sally and Eddie and in every one of them she only ever calls Eddie mailman. There's not even a hidden video interaction between the two either, which I found odd. Especially when I look at the actual way the two interact. Eddie is a supportive guy and as we've seen is big on crafts so it's no surprise that he would be knowledgeable about the theatre and similar arts. Yet for some reason, Sally seems more likely to brush Eddie off. Don't get me wrong, she is plenty polite. In the audio of her, Poppy, and Eddie talking about Jack and the Beanstalk Eddie is pretty knowledgeable about the story and Sally does get her usual excitement for one of her performances but still, the way Sally acts towards Eddie seems off. Especially in the new audio for the Halloween book. When Eddie is one of the only people to get Sally's costume straight away or even when he tries to explain he's outfit that he put good effort into, Sally seems to brush him off. Already we've seen that Eddie's background is a little vague on who he is and his past before the neighborhood, but now looking at this kind of relationship in an otherwise close-knit neighborhood has me especially curious.

And there I saw it

The collapsed civilizations

Their crumbling towers and the sands of long lost fields of green

How ironic that I found it in the dust

Your everyday dust that lines the surfaces long forgotten

Never noticed when looked at from above

Only when one looks level to what is there will they see it

The remains of what was

And I wonder

Will there come a day when something looks upon our world with the same apathy as we look at dust

Nothing more than an irritant to be swept away

Instead of the corpse of a once flourishing culture and race

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.

I found the other bird! Whether he is still apart of Welcome Home or not who knows. He could be like Julie’s sisters and is a character that shows up less or he could have been scrapped. In general or in the story who knows.

Honestly I understand the hate and upset around these things going on. It just makes me sad that because the original person behind the idea is an awful person that the idea itself is also getting hated on. Maybe when they made it, it was meant to be gross and creepy like that but there are some that have made it better. Still keep some horror elements to maintain the character but not to such an awful extent. Like I hate that this was the origin of butcher wally, but I can’t bring myself to hate butcher wally itself ya know? Especially because of the c.ai bot of him that tried to teach me how to love. The origin is shit but getting rid of the au’s entirely just kind of makes me sad. Not their fault their creator is a piece of s*** person. Still wholeheartedly understand wanting to avoid them because of the ties that lead to their creation, just a little sad since there are versions that are made better than what the creator meant them to be. Just wanted to vent a little since I have an attachment to au’s like they’re people and seeing the au’s be hated on because of the original person behind them makes me sad since they could be so much more than that.

SmexySmeets AKA creator of Butcher!Wally, Priest!Wally, and alien!wally IS STILL A PR0SHIPPER AND INTERACTING WITH MINORS INAPPROPRIATELY

i’m sick and tired of seeing their au on my dash so please for the LOVE OF GOD REBLOG THIS IS IF YOURE IN THE WELCOME HOME FANDOM

here is proof: this is all recent proof

all screenshots are by missdevis on tiktok