I'm going to be honest this is such a funny time for this meme to be going around because I'm like "man... It certainly would have helped Walter if he found love... Too bad"

Date, no. Regret-and-anger-fuelled one night stand? Probably also no, but it would be an entertaining trainwreck.

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I'm losing it
This is certainly a fraught point in time for both of them

Like it's certainly more plausible than at any previous time

Not immediately but like... omg...

It really, really is.

Like I don't want to be a bother because "sex" is not something I can currently handle for this particular game/character even in FTB form (which I also worked up to an interpretation where it is IC) but if "something" (e.g. sloppy makeouts) is acceptable then "something ' could literally happen...

My Homestuck roots showing with me using that phrase.

tragically walter is just not old enough for ashton to categorize him as An Older Man. thusly they are uninterested. which is a good thing for both of them,

Yeah, that would certainly be acceptable. Still an entertaining flavour of poor decision.

I was definitely thinking about Ashton with the meme going around, like, certainly Ashton is in the "it would be a bad idea that might piss off some wardens so why not" part of the venn diagram, just other parts are like... What ...

on one hand it'd pull out some sides of Ash's personality that've basically been dormant since she died!!

on the other hand: she was kind of a terrible person, is the thing,

Walter with one of my three...well two are wardens and the third is mean to him indirectly, so...

Walter would truly rather undergo physical harm than do anything with Sokie

she's that scary huh

Walter would claim more like that pathetic

wow

He seriously thinks she's a brainwashed groupie

certainly ALSO scary as hell

Sokie would find that Hilarious that she was brainwashed, different kind of scary

no no no

Sokie is a pathetic brainwashed groupie. She is also capable of lots of murder which is unrelated to the brainwashing

though she probably also does revenge murders for her precious wardens now <3

Sokie both insulted and amused at the mindset of Walter...but he is right, she is capable of so much murder, <3

Yelena, actual brainwashed murderer, quietly laughing her ass off in a corner.

Sokie just shaking her head like "brainwashed, you're calling me that, in front of my salad"

Sokie got hung on a goddamn hook and then was out here like "Oh yeah we don't all realize at first that the barge is safer than where we come from"

She just slowly pulls out the Narrenschiff card and lays it on the table -though yes, she is very weird about death for SOME reason

Big ol nope from mine. Three are wardens. Walter has a traumatizing name and is exactly not what he could ever date (Vincent) and Max was turned off pretty much immediately.

Ethan would not date Walter, but he'd definitely sleep with him because of course he would. Hanna at some point probably could have... Varker just staring at this man in cargo shorts, raising an eyebrow and going no

Losing it at Varker because out of those eight, he's the only one Walter would even slightly consider

cargo shorts are for straight men or men who don't love themselves enough and he has no time for either of them

Walter is a fun in between both

do you want some fashion advice, Walter? you can still have pockets and not look like you're just about to go crash a college party you weren't invited to

Walter and Hanna is very funny like Walter just sees him as A Young

Ethan is also pretty young but at least that would track, like, "ah yes he's asking to hook up with an older man"

Walter's head it's like
17 and under: literally a minor
18-20 years old: still basically a teenager
21-25 years old: alright you still can't rent a car
26-30: you can probably make your own decisions but I have so much more life experience and a kinda pathetic type of it at that, so that's just weird

I still laugh over how wildly different Hanna and Ethan are, being the same age. Ethan is turning 26 this month and while he does understand life experience is important, do you really need to know someone's whole everything to sleep with them? maybe, but he doesnt let that stop him.

I do think if Walter fell in love with a warden it would be very funny and an artistic synthesis but the burn would be so sloooooooow and obviously they'd have to have some kind of standards

Walter never change. except do maybe. a little bit.

Walter: if that's supposed to be Ethan saying never change, I'll be Sorely tempted to resort to a punch

xD no thats me, Ethan would not say that.

Well he can kinda admit it to a player. He just found Ethan's way/context of saying it particularly irritating xD

Ethan's take is that inmates have things that they believe or choices they feel forced to making that actively harm themselves or would get them killed/imprisoned if they were resurrected and cannot leave until there is a shift to make them understand that. they might not have to change how they think, though some do, but they have to acknowledge-

and accept that to leave.

which is why Fitz has been here for years because that man never admits or acknowledges anything that might be harming him

Walter: as opposed to the wardens who literally are temp killed regularly here, and chose to be trapped here (possibly straight up trapped if they're dead at home). Those decisions were great
(Let alone the other possible decisions)

Ethan is here for a very good reason and isnt judging anyone else for their reason, but sometimes he can side eye. he isnt often but he sure can be petty gay when he wants to and sees no reason why anyone needs to be killing anyone else. ridiculous.

Walter is ... probably going to continue to be very weird and petty and spiteful even as he reflects a little. Like he's just never going to see this institution as a good thing, it's a deal with the devil. Maybe even for the greater good (Ethan's case) but with the devil

Literally regretting the pie incident because it compromises his ability to claim moral superiority to these fuckos

xD regret from anywhere is progress??? Ethan still horrified.

he wrestles with the morality of the situation all the time, see his issues with Pyotr, trying to be helpful while attempting to not be disrespectful to commanding officer, knowing this place is not great in lots of ways for his boyfriend...

questions he's asked himself: am I any better than Cook, assisting in nonconsensual experiments???

Yelena maintains that the sole difference between people who start as wardens and people who start as inmates is that wardens are egotistical enough to swallow the whole “you’re such a good person, come fix some loser and earn a wish” line whole.

If y’all were slightly less up yourselves, you’d be starting on the other side of the bars.

quantumvelvet / magicom
For the record my concept is like, Malcolm and Walter are going to have ANOTHER serious conversation shortly AFTER the current post, and THEN after that has made good progress would be a good time for some kind of Yelena starter. So ROUGHLY two weeks from now

Ballpark estimate

Sounds good to me!

for those who have been playing along at home with the cabin update request... yeah this was a factor