If You Haven't Checked Out The Halloween Update For Welcome Home Do It Before Reading This. I Have Too

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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

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.

Once more going through Welcome Home’s website and something I notice is Julie’s “horns”? I think at least. But they seem to change. Sometimes disappearing all together sometimes varying in size. While sometimes it may be her hair that hides them I still thought it was interesting to note. Especially if they do it because of her rainbow monster species has such a trait like they change based on emotion or something. Though I would then question how that would work for a puppet. Who knows? Also in the picture with the three outfit styles I noticed the trademark in the corner which might relate to an artist of the show? Just random thoughts to share.

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.

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.

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.

https://www.clownillustration.com/neighbor

This is the one

Anyone know Morse Code?

Last thing I want to post before I have to go do things. Among the drawings/audio clips, there is one that is exclusively Home talking. In the text hidden underneath that transcribes the audio, it is hinted that it may be in morse code. I don’t remember currently which one it is, so I may come back to add that, but I wonder what Home might be telling us?

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.

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.