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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.

Guys, it's so cute!! He's dressed up and Home has a witch hat and even the doodles on the rock are Halloween. There are also other updates but this was just such a nice thing to see in the morning.

Why do I feel like no one ever talks about the eyes scattered in the sides of the Welcome Home page?

Drawings and the video clips.

Foremost, I want to point out that in all the audio clips that appear when you click on Wally’s drawings there is text underneath them that transcribes what’s being said. The same for the videos, for anyone that had trouble listening. The main thing I wanted to talk about though is the videos. In every single one, Wally is also present, even if he never talks, and in every single one when the other neighbors go to address him the audio glitches out on Wally’s name. Heck in the labels on those videos two letters are at the end to represent which neighbors are in the clip, but Wally’s is never attached because he is just always there. Silent and listening, doing his own thing. Often overlooked in the conversation until the end of the clip when the others acknowledge him and the audio glitches on his name. I’m not sure why though. This isn’t the first of the audio’s to be glitched or scratched, but it’s always at his name. Also all the clips seem to be from the same day in a way. The last of the 14 clips is a discussion between Barnaby and Home where Barnaby talks about his day and reference back to some of the other clips. This one also sticks out to me because of how it ends. When Barnaby turns to acknowledge Wally like all the others do at the end, he talks about how Wally stopped painting and seems concerned like something happened. Not only is the ending bring more questions, but that also means that if all these were connected Wally was always present whenever anyone talked. My current theory is because this is potentially when Wally gain sentience, like the last episode of Welcome Home. Wally as the main character is always present in the scene, but whenever he is acknowledged his name glitches out. And at the end of the day or in this case the last clip, something is bothering Wally. It’s also interesting to note that the video we see is likely from Wally’s eyes.

What is Wally?

I know I've already talked about how I don't think Wally is a puppet, but with the new update, there is now more evidence for this claim. Though it also leaves more questions about what he is.

I do think, that at one point, Wally was just a puppet, but I think he gained more than just sentience as the story progresses. The videos are my main focus for this, as they all seem to be memories from Wally's pov. We see Wally's hand or hands in frame multiple times, showing that not only is it from his view we are watching but that he's not holding anything to record the moment. Even if sentient, a puppet can not upload memories onto a website. So Wally is built into the website in a way, though this was already hinted at with all the drawings he manages to add to the site.

But he's also not just on the website. Of the audio clips that can be found on the site through Wally's drawings, one of them is Wally talking about how he has more eyes than he did before. Sure there are a lot of eyes on the website for him to look through, but he also points out that we are the ones who have drawn his eyes. How, though, would he connect and see through the versions of his eyes we draw?

Lastly, the goo, or the substance that comes from the original Welcome Home items, though I call it a black goo since that's what seems to be on the staff-only site. This goo seems to thump like a heart and leaves people feeling sick and drained when they make contact with it. A goo that someone, likely Wally, is apologizing for. We already had clues that the people behind the Restoration Project were feeling pain while looking for clues because of the hidden answers in the get-to-know section. But with the staff-only site and the goo, we now see its effects a little more clearly. Especially shown with the phone ringing that is written all over the staff site, but without a known source.

At this point, I'm starting to think that Wally's awakening of sentience also brought out something almost eldritch in nature. Though it's clear Wally doesn't have control over it and is suffering as well from the effects. It's why he's trying to contact us, to ask for help. To want to be heard and seen as well as to hear and see in turn. But, what are we letting him into? The audio found on the error site asks us to let him in, but to what? He doesn't want out, he wants in. I feel somehow that's an important distinction that he's not asking to be freed as much as he's asking us to give him access. Access to what? Currently, I think our minds. In the same way that he is in the heads of the Restoration Team, though I don't think he means it maliciously as much as it's part of the goo/eldritch thing that is also present.

Can't wait for more of the story to come out!

For all I have seen this picture, it never crossed my mind that it is on the site meaning it is cannon. In some way at some time Wally used cake as a pillow in Welcome Home. I’m laughing way too hard at this.

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.

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

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.

Spoiler for Welcome Home site so keep scrolling

Ok so on the other site the you get to for answering the Playfellow Exhibition Worksheet, there are a lot of papers. Most have a transcript over them, so they are easier to read. This one did not. I did some minor changes to the picture quality to try and make it more legible but it only helped so much. Still from what I can read I think this is about when they first received the mail with information about Welcome Home. Talking about needing to catalogue something and how it was wet. I’m not really sure as I have poor vision, but still. Maybe someone else can read this better than me.