Journeys’ End In Lovers Meeting

Of course, the whole scene in the tavern with all the townspeople happily accepting their one-note personalities and trying to convince Wirt to do the same was just part of the Unknown being a conglomeration of folktales, and of course Wirt didn't fit a folktale archetype because he isn't actually a folktale character. This isn't about that.

All I was thinking about was, although he more or less accepts the second role offered to him, The Pilgrim, on a wandering quest to find his way home, they weren't too far off in trying to cast him as The Young Lover. They just had the details wrong.

While Wirt's "quest" at that point was just getting him and Greg home, it is later revealed that the whole quest started with him bungling an attempt to confess his feelings for a girl. Wirt's original "quest", the one he prepared for with a costume and a mixtape, was just to confess his feelings for Sarah. Travelling through an unknown fairytale land was not on the agenda until he had already messed that up. So, the "quest" he chose in the first place was "the Young Lover". In his mind, that quest was over once he entered the Unknown, however it did immediately resume upon getting himself and Greg home, so one could argue the Pilgrimage home was part of resuming his first quest.

And as for, "Lover, sing us your love song!" he also eventually does that, just not with Sarah. Because I can think of nothing else to call his duet with Lorna. Of course, this might not have been diegetic as it's played over a montage, but there is no arguing that the Wirt and Lorna duet is not "Wirt's love song", whether or not he sang it aloud or just in his head.