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And yet, these links are paramount to their existence. Without them, they'd be voiceless, unable to express themselves, unable to interact with others. It's like- imagine your favorite cartoon character's voice actor being replaced. It's still that character, technically, but it isn't them in the same way it used to be. Every voice actor will bring something different to a character, for better or for worse. It's a very precarious balance between innovation and familiarity.

It's notable that Frank and Sally were present during both Eddie and Poppy's breakdowns, and that both of them have had brief moments of what might be lucidity on the WHRP pages- Frank with the bug messages (though these might be Wally's doing), and Sally with her scary story on the Halloween record. Sally is vain as all get-out and seems to have a bit of a mean streak with Eddie, but she clearly knows more than she lets on. Frank isn't just grumpy, he has a wide range of emotions: singing about his orderliness and winter woes, laughing with Julie, being generally helpful.

Wally is the only puppet who is said to be unclear as to whether he HAD a puppeteer or not. His backstory is by far the most mysterious, other than Home's (and that clock/watchtower/lighthouse thingy, whatever they are). When he interacts with the in-universe You on the website, he sounds noticeably drained and frustrated at being unable to establish the kind of connection he wants to. When the Neighborhood findings are allowed to be observed without interference, he sounds more confused and melancholy.

What I'm trying to get at is- if all the Neighborhood folks had a human they were linked to, if that human died or left, they became functionally lifeless. Wally, Frank, and Sally are exhibiting traits of sentience beyond their assigned roles. I think this means that either Frank and Sally's humans are still alive, still tethered to them, or they found new humans to inhabit among the WHRP.

Think about it. All Wally has wanted through this whole story is for somebody to "let him in". He's tried with the Question-Answerer, he's tried with the in-universe You, he's trying with W, but nothing works. The human-puppet links that came so instictually to his friends are quite difficult for him for some reason, so he manipulates what he can- the website, audios, images- in order to be seen.

Do I think Wally's being manipulated by some outside force, like Home or that clock-thingy? Yes. Why is he still sentient when he's missing the human link he needs to be? There's clearly an exception to him, but I'm not sure what. Maybe he can just get by with the smaller, temporary connections he forges when communicating with W.

Made a better W blinkie (older one being too empty was bugging me).

So we know, from brightening the image on the away from prying eyes website, that w has in their possession this box with what is probably a buggle in it, judging by the few letters we see at the bottom. (GLE')

Now we also know that W drank the Joy Cola™ and possibly hid that fact from the rest of the whrp crew (if whrp didn't hide it from the main site goers themselves). They will probably do a similar thing to Buggle, hatching it instead of handing it off to the restoration team... Maybe I'm too judgemental and they will ask premission this time, but the way the Joy incident is framed it seems like a foreshadowing/establishing that W is prone to doing things like that, at least as of their recent exposure to the stuff infecting the wh merch.

There is a few ways I see this going:

Buggle is alive and/or has some sort of message or thing that freaks W out. If it's a message that's not addressed to them there could be a misunderstanding plot or w feeling conflicted as to wether they should try to find the actual recipient or forget about it.

Buggle is just a humble toy. An old and malfunctioning one that probably needs some special method to recover or is better left in this form. But W doesn't know that and adds some water and it dissolves into goo and W has to face the consequences of their, possibly not sober, actions. A more mundane yet visceral horror.

Either way they're not gonna have a good time.

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

Realised I never posted these two oops

Anyways re-designs of my old Veldigun OCs I did on a whim. Likely won't do anything more with these.

Also old designs for reference:

Welcome home

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Very, very random. Noodle with a cake and 2-D... just... just imagine clown music playing.