I'm making a new one. Just to put text posts I see, or for people to drop links HEY WE MENTIONED WALTER! or whatever.
At some point in the next few days I'm going to make the PSA that I'm going to be checking in less. But some of my back tags are still going, so that hasn't happened quite yet.
I'M LOSING IT. A+ WALTER MENTION
Varker: where there's smoke there's fire...
This is also so funny because of all the times Walter kept asking people "why does Arthur hate Misty?" and somehow NEVER got a straight answer
Asking around adventures...
I mean, he got told she shoot at him and never apologized
I had fun with it xD also blaming it on walter as if he wasn't also being an ass is funny to me
I love how much of Walter's bullshit could have been deadheaded if he literally ever conceived of talking to Arthur or John as a reasonable solution
I was primarily referring to the six month period before Walter actually attacked him
To the exasperation of everyone involved, "oh! I actually was severely misled about this situation all along!" and "screw everyone involved including Misty, not my circus not my monkeys" happened simultaneously and not in sequence as would have been much more reasonable
Six months later John is going to be taking to Malcolm like "so... Walter graduated so he must have gotten over his 'god forbid women do anything' [like the Tumblr meme] ism, right?" And Malcolm will have to be like "no, he actually just got even more angry that Misty had been lying to him"
But yes I know Walter hears what he wants to hear please rest assured of that
From Walter's perspective, right through "Misty shot Arthur and never apologized... Unlike promptly getting an apology from Natalie, who is actually the one who manipulated Misty into doing it in the first place" Walter is like "every single thing I hear about this makes everyone BUT Misty look WORSE" but then the unrelated matter of "she lied about Adam"
came to light and in the ensuing confrontation, Walter took away that Misty was lying her ass off about LITERALLY EVERYTHING that ever happened when she was an inmate
...oh, John would agree with Walter's anger
Walter just kinda boxed it up inside because he still doesn't exactly think John and Arthur are GREAT. so unless he was really willing to do a 180 "wow I was wrong about you guys", he found it ungentlemanly to go over like "hey uh good news Misty really is super unworthy of trust"
He thinks that would just make him come off as a butthurt stalker and that's maybe even kinda true.
(he thinks it's kinda true. I know it's really true

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this just kinda made me think of Silent Hill Walter by the way. Random other video game characters named Walter
I'm losing itWalter is never going to be over Malcolm like "you can learn to poke a vampire in the eye!!"
this is also a fun post. I'm going to check back and see if any of my graduation hating CR is ever mentioned.
And yet he refused to learn to poke a vampire in the eye
Probably because that’s a good way to lose a hand.
I KNEW. I KNEW IT WOULD COME
That is very Malcolm of him 🤣
praying for a better pirate day for them this year
Any day has to be a better day
silly. I'm fascinated by the assumption that VeggieTales Bob would be a sufficiently evocative description
For the people
IT HAPPEN... Walter get Malcolm to face his past
Aw, nice! Will was easing Malcolm towards it, but sometimes a big confrontation is good too. It probably would've been another year or more, Will's way.
Go open that box! Will hopes that particular cat is dead.
he's not but that just gives Will some road later right? 😀
Yeah when Walter was like "why do you think no one else tried to make this a thing?" obviously the #1 person who comes to mind is Will. They'd had a close bond the entire two years and it's now been 0.5 years that they're married after graduation, even. So Walter had assumed that Will agreed it shouldn't be a thing, and accepted that
From his point of view "it can be a thing... Maybe in a year or two" is like no!! No, this is important and won't just go away!!
Walter doesn't think of it as "confrontation" though especially because Walter really has come to Malcolm like this like... I don't know, it really might be three or four times in straight up threads
And Malcolm brought it up first this time. So Walter would like to think of it as Malcolm's epiphany.
I always feel so freaking silly though when I'm like
Walter: we need to open the box!!!
Prodigal son getting cancelled after season 2: haw haw
lol yes. Malcolm brought it up bc he assumed Walter was going that way. Will's work on Malcolm's issues is so subtle that he doesn't realize he's making progress until he has a different reaction than he used to to something 😆
Also Will does not Tell Malcolm What To Do. he knows he's had a lifetime of people Informing Him Of What's Best For Him.
so Will's approach to helping him is a lot different.
Amy
1 months ago @Edit 1 months ago
oh yeah, then they(Malcolm and Walter) have had discussions on this before. it is a healthy thing to do! even with everything on the barge messing with reality, it's good to know where one's own reality sits.
Yeah! And Malcolm came to the Barge to sort of escape reality and if he’s building a life out of what he’s found there, then he had to go deal with reality so he can integrate the stuff he’s keeping with his real life.
Heeeeeey two things! One,
walter mentioned! And two, just confirming that Walter's left the Barge?
Oh my god he still thinks of Walter fondly. So cute!!
Secondly yes Walter has been completely gone for a while now. The plan was to say
here "welp, I graduated so I'm leaving tomorrow", that probably did get said, but he did say "what the fuck, you lost your arm? They TOOK your arm?" First. There's a network post as well.
So Walters been gone 1.5 months.
Cool, I thought so! I just saw Walter still listed on the warden list and wanted to make sure before I had Vash talk about how his misses his friend who is left and gone!
I still find it funny that Varker also thinks of Walter fondly and yet hates Vash's dumb guts.
Varker and Vash are just too similar and they both dislike themselves, so they were always going to butt heads.
I waited until a few days ago to post the drop because I thought I wouldn't be able to backtag if I did (actually wrong!) and I was working on, mainly, this one thread with Malcolm
Walter: well, I like it when people react proportionately to the fact that this place is hell. Unfortunately Vash reacted to this in ways that were not psychopathic but in practice were very stupid, and Varker was directly hurt by said reactions. That's how the cookies crumbled.
Malcolm would have done puzzles with you but you were selfish with them, Walter!
There was that time they talked about going to the enclosure and making a day of it!!
That’s true! I hope they did that
So I went looking at Vash threads to see some relevant things happened. And I'm ascending at
thisVash exerts too much psychic energy talking to the barge AND DIES
and she basically went "breach safe friends dream safe don't be scared"
it was very imprudent for him to do so instead of just set up an ouija board or something in the first place. I assume people using less psychically intense methods haven't usually DIED. That perspective on the events would actually advance "Vash tries to do WAY TOO MUCH by himself and is negligently dangerous, that's what he needs to learn as an inmate"
I'm glad you enjoyed that! It also gave me a way for Vash to discover how much psychic energy he has left, for future plotting purposes.