Beast wirt rambling cuz I had a sudden au idea
this is probably so already done but the thought of a beast wirt au where they do find him alive in the lake but in a coma and he’s just stuck in a hospital for years and years being kept alive by doctors and visited by family with no signs of waking up, and, depending on the ending, either eventually coming back to the real world or passing away. Greg having to live his teen years knowing Wirt hadn’t yet/never got out of the unknown, and not being able to tell anybody. He probably tried to explain it as a kid, but as less listened he stopped trying.
I just love to think about beast wirt, but I also love to think of an ending where he does get out and heal. Cuz I think wirt should be happy and hashtag healing. But I will always make the obligatory bad ending.
It just kind of came to me, like Greg just being so hopeless and sometimes revisiting the lake, trying to get back in when he’s older so he can maybe help his brother. I feel like sometimes, in the unknown, when beast Wirt is wandering he hears the faint whispers of his family, his friends and the doctors speaking, but they’re all gargled and undistinguishable, so he can pass them off as random hallucinations. As he gets closer to getting out though, maybe they become clearer, maybe he can finally make out the familiar voices, despite how much they’ve aged since his disappearance.
I’m aware time works different, but I’m gonna say that I think Wirt would’ve been in the unknown for like, years upon years at this point. Greg’s grown into a teen, Wirts friends have entered early adulthood but still come to visit. Especially Jason and Sara.
When Wirt wakes up, he has to readjust to being alive. Crowded by older versions of everyone he’s loved, his body has aged to. He didn’t get to finish his teen years in the real world and is thrown into very early adulthood. I imagine he has insane phantom limb syndrome when it comes to his antlers being gone, being disoriented that he isn’t as tall, isn’t leaking oil from his eyes constantly.
He gets to live though, and get better even if he didn’t have a very good last several years. I also imagine that this plays out like how Anna was never truly in the lantern, Greg wasn’t trapped in the unknown, being taken out shortly after Wirt takes the deal, but I’m still debating on how that all works!!
Anyways yeah, this isn’t really insanely unique, just what if wirt was in a coma, and Greg had to deal with the loss and the fact he couldn’t tell anyone where his brother truly was. The thought of him holding old pictures constantly, knowing wirt isn’t truly gone, but is stuck somewhere no one in the real world can help him. He’d probably carry some sort of guilt, like, it’s my fault wirt is in that situation. Maybe if I tried harder. Yeah ❤️❤️❤️and uhm. Yeah!!
