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OOC Information
IC Information
Personality:
Wirt is in that awkward stage in his life where he's still not really comfortable with who he is, and it shows in the flashback episode that looks at how he and Greg found their way into the unknown. He plays the clarinet, likes to spout flowery poetry, and has a crush on a girl he thinks he doesn't have a chance with. He makes her a tape, but despite his initial resolve, he can't bring himself to give it to her because "It has poetry and clarinet on it!" He cam play the clarinet well enough, and he often goes off into weird poetry tangents over the course of the series, but despite that, he thinks that he's either really bad at clarinet and poetry, or he figures they're just really embarrassing things to give to someone.
All in all, Wirt is kind of a stressed out kid. He worries a lot, over thinks most situations, and tends to try way too hard. When he and Greg first find themselves in the Unknown, they come across a huntsman. Greg thinks they should ask for directions, but Wirt worries that the huntsman is actually a murderer and that he might kill him. It's only after the huntsman leaves that he realizes they probably should have asked for directions, because they have no idea where they are. This kind of thing happens all the time through the series. Wirt worries about everything, and thinks that everything is out to get them. And, in some cases, he's right to be a little wary, because there is a lot of weird stuff in the Unknown. It just gets to the point that his worries end up being a little ridiculous. Wirt's kind of a pessimist, honestly. He expects the worst out of every situation, and can't help but worry about it all.
Not only that, but Wirt is very easily frightened. He pretends to be the leader, he tries to act like he's a good older brother who can lead them home, but really it's all just a front. Whenever something scary pops up, Wirt is the first to turn tail and run in the other direction. Oftentimes, he doesn't even look to see if his brother is following him. He just books it and hopes for the best. He does manage to get his act together when he really, really needs to, though. In one case, Beatrice is in trouble and Wirt rides off, kicks the huntsman, and saves her. In another, at the very end of the series, Wirt runs straight into danger to save Greg. For the most part, though, Wirt is kind of a wimp. He tries, but he definitely falls short.
All that being said, Wirt isn't a complete stick in the mud. When things are going alright, he opens up and has fun. He sings along with Greg when they're on the ferry to Adelaide's, and tries to cheer up Beatrice when she's feeling down. He's definitely willing to have a good time if the situation isn't too dire, and he definitely has a sense of humor. It's just when things are looking bleak, or things don't seem to be going his way, that he gets stuck in his pessimistic mindset.
He can be very stubborn and childish when it comes down to it, and is definitely in that awkward stage where he's trying really hard to be super deep and adult, but falls back into his own childish tendencies. Beatrice calls him a pushover in one episode, so he goes out of his way to do what a random school teacher tells him to do, just to make a point and be really, ridiculously stubborn.
He's also, for the most part, in denial about all the really weird stuff that happens when they're in the unknown. When they first run into Beatrice, he questions why a bluebird can talk, but after that, through all the other strange things that happen around them, he just kind of goes along with it. He puts all his efforts and thought into getting home, so that he doesn't have to think about anything else. He still gets a little weirded out by things, but those few instances aside, he does his best not to question things too much.
Wirt is also very intelligent. He's obviously a studious guy, knows anatomy things about bluebirds, and when they go to a wealthy tea merchants house he's able to pick out the differences in two different styles of building. He's very logic-minded and likes to think things through in ways that make sense. But that doesn't work so well in the Unknown, where things don't really make logical sense. He can be naive at times, but he's not completely gullible.
Now, Wirt's family. Wirt has major family issues. He doesn't like his Step-father trying to get involved in his life. He takes issue with Greg, too. He finds his brother annoying and irritating, and likes to blame him for all his problems. Wirt loves Greg, he really does. But he often gets caught up in his own teenage drama, and doesn't really think about how much he actually cares about his little brother. It isn't until Greg is in actual, real danger that Wirt comes to his senses and realizes how much of a jerk he's been.
Wirt is a good guy, all in all. He just tries way too hard and let's his head get in the way of his actions.
Powers/Abilities: N/A
Keepsakes/Mementos: His Clarinet, Greg's teapot hat, His cassette player, cassette tapes with his really obnoxious poetry and clarinet solo's recorded on them, and the little gold scissors he picked up at Adelaide's cottage.
Sample:
Greg is gone. The winter wind is blowing, cutting through Wirt's clothes as he half runs half stumbles through ankle-deep drifts. Part of him wants to be critical of how quickly the snow had come and covered the woods. He hadn't been asleep long enough for this much accumulation. But he can't find it in him to be critical. There's only a panic he's trying desperately to keep in check. Greg is gone. Wirt was supposed to be looking out for him. Sure, Greg had been annoying on more than one occasion, but that didn't mean Wirt wanted him to disappear like this.
He can't shake the feeling he's the one responsible. If only he'd tried harder. If he hadn't blamed Greg for this mess in the first place, then maybe things would have panned out differently. Maybe they would be on their way, headed home. It wasn't fair. Greg hadn't done anything.
"Greg!" I'm sorry. He doesn't say it, though. He can't. Not just because the words get stuck in his throat, but because the cold air makes it hard to breathe. He can only call out to his brother every couple feet.
He stumbles. The gold scissors fall out of his pocket, but he scoops them back up and tucks them away again. He thinks about Beatrice, and it hurts to because she'd been fooling them all along. But even so, she'd looked so sad when he and Greg had burst into Adelaide's cottage. She had helped them escape, and they had left her behind. Now, Wirt has the only thing that can turn her human again. He feels bad about it. He feels terrible.
Maybe if she had been here, Greg wouldn't have wandered off.
"Greg!" Come on, answer. He can't be far. He's just a little boy. Wirt can remember when his mother had been pregnant with Greg. He'd been so excited to have a little brother.
But when Greg had been born, just a tiny little baby, Wirt's step father had said "You're his big brother now, you have to look out for him." Wirt had hated it. He'd never liked his step father. He wasn't a bad guy, but he felt like a stand-in. Like he was just pretending to care. So when he told Wirt to take care of Greg, it had felt like a job he didn't want. He had been 7 and had more important things to do than look out for a little baby. It hadn't been fair.
It's only now he realizes that he was the one who hadn't been fair. He hadn't even given Greg a chance. He'd just written him off as annoying, when Greg had always tried to be a good little brother.
"GREG!" Wirt hears the ice crack before he feels it. His stomach drops. He tries to jump away, but the ice is already giving way and he falls into the cold water.
As he sinks, he thinks back to the hours before they found their way into the Unknown. Sara, the Mix Tape, the Cemetery. And once all that passes, and his consciousness starts to fizzle at the edges, he thinks; It really was my fault.
IC Information
Name: Wirt
Canon: Over The Garden Wall
Gender: Male
Age: The series only says he's in high school, so probably 15 or 16
History:
Canon: Over The Garden Wall
Gender: Male
Age: The series only says he's in high school, so probably 15 or 16
History:
Wirt comes from a pretty normal, 1980's-ish town. When he was younger, his mother re-married and had Wirt's younger brother, Greg. Not much is said within the series about his actual past, but he has issues with his step-family that color how he acts towards his little step-brother Greg.
Wirt has a crush on a girl named Sara, and before what happens in the series happens he makes her a mix tape of clarinet solo's and poetry. He dresses up and heads to the football game to give it to her, but chickens out. It isn't until Greg comes up and runs off with the tape--to give it to Sara for him--that Wirt's adventure really begins. Greg embarrasses him in front of some classmates, and the two run off, only to realize that the mix tape was left behind. They run back, but his classmates had stuck the tape in Sara's jacket.
Wirt follows Sara to a party, where she invites him to go to the graveyard with her and a few other high-schoolers to 'do nothing illegal and drink age-appropriate drinks.' Wirt declines, but ends up heading to the graveyard anyway, to see if he can't get the tape back before Sara notices she has it. He and greg hide behind some headstones, but greg calls attention to the two of them. It seems like he might end up joining the group, but the police show up and everybody runs. Greg and Wirt jump the cemetery wall, landing on the other side, where Wirt yells at Greg. The two are almost hit by a train, tumble down the hill, and land in a river where they are seen sinking to the bottom.
The entire series can be seen as them wandering on the road between life and death. They're stuck in 'the unknown' a forest where lost souls are chased by a lantern-bearing beast. Wirt and Greg don't realize they're actually sinking to the bottom of a river, and travel through the forest to try and find their way home. They run into all kinds of strange characters and situations, and meet a girl-turned bluebird-named Beatrice. She offers to bring them to adelaide of the pasture, a good witch that will send them home.
It's later revealed that Adelaide is actually a huge jerk who just wanted a child servant, and that Beatrice had offered to find someone for her, so that she could get some magic scissors and turn human again. Beatrice, having grown close to the brothers over the course of the series, flies off to break off the deal, but Wirt and Greg show up at a really awkward time and think she's betrayed them. Wirt and Greg run off.
Eventually, Wirt gives up hope and puts Greg in charge because he doesn't think they will ever find their way home. When they lay down to sleep, Greg wanders off with the beast because he thinks that doing so will help Wirt and him find their way home. Wirt wakes up to find Greg gone, freaks out, and runs off to find him. It's in the middle of a snowstorm, though, so Wirt just ends up falling through the ice.
Instead of him being saved by Beatrice, I'm going to have this be where Wirt dies.
Wirt has a crush on a girl named Sara, and before what happens in the series happens he makes her a mix tape of clarinet solo's and poetry. He dresses up and heads to the football game to give it to her, but chickens out. It isn't until Greg comes up and runs off with the tape--to give it to Sara for him--that Wirt's adventure really begins. Greg embarrasses him in front of some classmates, and the two run off, only to realize that the mix tape was left behind. They run back, but his classmates had stuck the tape in Sara's jacket.
Wirt follows Sara to a party, where she invites him to go to the graveyard with her and a few other high-schoolers to 'do nothing illegal and drink age-appropriate drinks.' Wirt declines, but ends up heading to the graveyard anyway, to see if he can't get the tape back before Sara notices she has it. He and greg hide behind some headstones, but greg calls attention to the two of them. It seems like he might end up joining the group, but the police show up and everybody runs. Greg and Wirt jump the cemetery wall, landing on the other side, where Wirt yells at Greg. The two are almost hit by a train, tumble down the hill, and land in a river where they are seen sinking to the bottom.
The entire series can be seen as them wandering on the road between life and death. They're stuck in 'the unknown' a forest where lost souls are chased by a lantern-bearing beast. Wirt and Greg don't realize they're actually sinking to the bottom of a river, and travel through the forest to try and find their way home. They run into all kinds of strange characters and situations, and meet a girl-turned bluebird-named Beatrice. She offers to bring them to adelaide of the pasture, a good witch that will send them home.
It's later revealed that Adelaide is actually a huge jerk who just wanted a child servant, and that Beatrice had offered to find someone for her, so that she could get some magic scissors and turn human again. Beatrice, having grown close to the brothers over the course of the series, flies off to break off the deal, but Wirt and Greg show up at a really awkward time and think she's betrayed them. Wirt and Greg run off.
Eventually, Wirt gives up hope and puts Greg in charge because he doesn't think they will ever find their way home. When they lay down to sleep, Greg wanders off with the beast because he thinks that doing so will help Wirt and him find their way home. Wirt wakes up to find Greg gone, freaks out, and runs off to find him. It's in the middle of a snowstorm, though, so Wirt just ends up falling through the ice.
Instead of him being saved by Beatrice, I'm going to have this be where Wirt dies.
Personality:
Wirt is in that awkward stage in his life where he's still not really comfortable with who he is, and it shows in the flashback episode that looks at how he and Greg found their way into the unknown. He plays the clarinet, likes to spout flowery poetry, and has a crush on a girl he thinks he doesn't have a chance with. He makes her a tape, but despite his initial resolve, he can't bring himself to give it to her because "It has poetry and clarinet on it!" He cam play the clarinet well enough, and he often goes off into weird poetry tangents over the course of the series, but despite that, he thinks that he's either really bad at clarinet and poetry, or he figures they're just really embarrassing things to give to someone.
All in all, Wirt is kind of a stressed out kid. He worries a lot, over thinks most situations, and tends to try way too hard. When he and Greg first find themselves in the Unknown, they come across a huntsman. Greg thinks they should ask for directions, but Wirt worries that the huntsman is actually a murderer and that he might kill him. It's only after the huntsman leaves that he realizes they probably should have asked for directions, because they have no idea where they are. This kind of thing happens all the time through the series. Wirt worries about everything, and thinks that everything is out to get them. And, in some cases, he's right to be a little wary, because there is a lot of weird stuff in the Unknown. It just gets to the point that his worries end up being a little ridiculous. Wirt's kind of a pessimist, honestly. He expects the worst out of every situation, and can't help but worry about it all.
Not only that, but Wirt is very easily frightened. He pretends to be the leader, he tries to act like he's a good older brother who can lead them home, but really it's all just a front. Whenever something scary pops up, Wirt is the first to turn tail and run in the other direction. Oftentimes, he doesn't even look to see if his brother is following him. He just books it and hopes for the best. He does manage to get his act together when he really, really needs to, though. In one case, Beatrice is in trouble and Wirt rides off, kicks the huntsman, and saves her. In another, at the very end of the series, Wirt runs straight into danger to save Greg. For the most part, though, Wirt is kind of a wimp. He tries, but he definitely falls short.
All that being said, Wirt isn't a complete stick in the mud. When things are going alright, he opens up and has fun. He sings along with Greg when they're on the ferry to Adelaide's, and tries to cheer up Beatrice when she's feeling down. He's definitely willing to have a good time if the situation isn't too dire, and he definitely has a sense of humor. It's just when things are looking bleak, or things don't seem to be going his way, that he gets stuck in his pessimistic mindset.
He can be very stubborn and childish when it comes down to it, and is definitely in that awkward stage where he's trying really hard to be super deep and adult, but falls back into his own childish tendencies. Beatrice calls him a pushover in one episode, so he goes out of his way to do what a random school teacher tells him to do, just to make a point and be really, ridiculously stubborn.
He's also, for the most part, in denial about all the really weird stuff that happens when they're in the unknown. When they first run into Beatrice, he questions why a bluebird can talk, but after that, through all the other strange things that happen around them, he just kind of goes along with it. He puts all his efforts and thought into getting home, so that he doesn't have to think about anything else. He still gets a little weirded out by things, but those few instances aside, he does his best not to question things too much.
Wirt is also very intelligent. He's obviously a studious guy, knows anatomy things about bluebirds, and when they go to a wealthy tea merchants house he's able to pick out the differences in two different styles of building. He's very logic-minded and likes to think things through in ways that make sense. But that doesn't work so well in the Unknown, where things don't really make logical sense. He can be naive at times, but he's not completely gullible.
Now, Wirt's family. Wirt has major family issues. He doesn't like his Step-father trying to get involved in his life. He takes issue with Greg, too. He finds his brother annoying and irritating, and likes to blame him for all his problems. Wirt loves Greg, he really does. But he often gets caught up in his own teenage drama, and doesn't really think about how much he actually cares about his little brother. It isn't until Greg is in actual, real danger that Wirt comes to his senses and realizes how much of a jerk he's been.
Wirt is a good guy, all in all. He just tries way too hard and let's his head get in the way of his actions.
Powers/Abilities: N/A
Keepsakes/Mementos: His Clarinet, Greg's teapot hat, His cassette player, cassette tapes with his really obnoxious poetry and clarinet solo's recorded on them, and the little gold scissors he picked up at Adelaide's cottage.
Sample:
Greg is gone. The winter wind is blowing, cutting through Wirt's clothes as he half runs half stumbles through ankle-deep drifts. Part of him wants to be critical of how quickly the snow had come and covered the woods. He hadn't been asleep long enough for this much accumulation. But he can't find it in him to be critical. There's only a panic he's trying desperately to keep in check. Greg is gone. Wirt was supposed to be looking out for him. Sure, Greg had been annoying on more than one occasion, but that didn't mean Wirt wanted him to disappear like this.
He can't shake the feeling he's the one responsible. If only he'd tried harder. If he hadn't blamed Greg for this mess in the first place, then maybe things would have panned out differently. Maybe they would be on their way, headed home. It wasn't fair. Greg hadn't done anything.
"Greg!" I'm sorry. He doesn't say it, though. He can't. Not just because the words get stuck in his throat, but because the cold air makes it hard to breathe. He can only call out to his brother every couple feet.
He stumbles. The gold scissors fall out of his pocket, but he scoops them back up and tucks them away again. He thinks about Beatrice, and it hurts to because she'd been fooling them all along. But even so, she'd looked so sad when he and Greg had burst into Adelaide's cottage. She had helped them escape, and they had left her behind. Now, Wirt has the only thing that can turn her human again. He feels bad about it. He feels terrible.
Maybe if she had been here, Greg wouldn't have wandered off.
"Greg!" Come on, answer. He can't be far. He's just a little boy. Wirt can remember when his mother had been pregnant with Greg. He'd been so excited to have a little brother.
But when Greg had been born, just a tiny little baby, Wirt's step father had said "You're his big brother now, you have to look out for him." Wirt had hated it. He'd never liked his step father. He wasn't a bad guy, but he felt like a stand-in. Like he was just pretending to care. So when he told Wirt to take care of Greg, it had felt like a job he didn't want. He had been 7 and had more important things to do than look out for a little baby. It hadn't been fair.
It's only now he realizes that he was the one who hadn't been fair. He hadn't even given Greg a chance. He'd just written him off as annoying, when Greg had always tried to be a good little brother.
"GREG!" Wirt hears the ice crack before he feels it. His stomach drops. He tries to jump away, but the ice is already giving way and he falls into the cold water.
As he sinks, he thinks back to the hours before they found their way into the Unknown. Sara, the Mix Tape, the Cemetery. And once all that passes, and his consciousness starts to fizzle at the edges, he thinks; It really was my fault.
Mindset: He will likely freak out a little at first, and then do something similar to his mindset in the show. He'll try to rationalize everything that's happened and focus on something that isn't being dead and trapped in the mainframe.
G̶̶l̨͡i̵͢t̷c͝͠h̕é͠s̷̷͡: Feeling like a fool, having people laugh at him, being looked down on, Greg dying, Greg embarrassing him, Sara and Jason laughing about his mix tape, Sara and Jason getting together. Being stuck in the unknown forever, his step father trying too hard to get involved in his life, his step father not making any effort, being betrayed, finding out Beatrice never actually cared.
G̶̶l̨͡i̵͢t̷c͝͠h̕é͠s̷̷͡: Feeling like a fool, having people laugh at him, being looked down on, Greg dying, Greg embarrassing him, Sara and Jason laughing about his mix tape, Sara and Jason getting together. Being stuck in the unknown forever, his step father trying too hard to get involved in his life, his step father not making any effort, being betrayed, finding out Beatrice never actually cared.