Watcher!Wally

AU made by

TikTok: @Deadlyeyez

Tumblr: @deadlyeyez

Art made by

TikTok: @Dodozoi

The lore

So basically you have Welcome Home but it contains implications of cult behavior, religious trauma, scopophobia, and agoraphobia.

The regular show still exists in this au! Wally looks the way he does in canon during the daytime, when he’s performing for the kids show. However, at night, he started to miss his viewers.

Meanwhile Wally and Home are intertwined “as above, so below” Home is as above, and Wally is so below. they are physically connected. If Home where to burn down into ash, so would Wally. One cannot exist without the other.

Home is not a kind entity in this au, it seems to be working against Wally at times during the night, when there are no cameras to stop it.

Home requires attention and care in order for it to continue being a living house, which works with the kids show that’s being watched during the day featuring it as well, but at night… it has no eyes on it anymore. So it tries it’s best to make Wally love it, worship it, devote himself to it, as a form of twisted self preservation. Home hurts Wally in these attempts, many times.

Wally started to keep the cameras on at all times, he would preserve his safety by interacting with his precious viewers as Home can’t integer with them watching, thus, began the nighttime show.

Wally can talk to people through the screen, there’s a little voice that comes from some of the eyes around him that ask him questions, give him concepts, and he answers them. Sometimes he paints while he does, or brushes his hair, or even sleeps with the cameras on. He even changes his appearance, just because he likes it.

Eventually, Home starts to grows restless with the viewers there. It possesses Wally, takes hold of him through that tricky bond of his, and uses the fact that the puppet is a mobile being in order to wake up each of his neighbors, and hypnotize them too. Wally still isn’t quite sure how it happened, but soon Home was the god of their neighborhood, a being meant to be appeased and devoted to and honored.

… and he couldn’t take it.

Wally didn’t know how to reverse what Home had done, or how to keep Home from doing it again other than running away. So he ran away from the puppet show, taking one of the big set cameras with him. Wally wandered off away from Home, so that it would be too far away to control him again. His body now aches constantly, he feels almost like he’s decaying, but he knows that it’s just his body fighting the distance and imbalance between him and Home. what is as above is no longer ‘so below’, and it’s eating at him physically.

But he doesn’t mind. because he has his viewers, he has you and you are Wally’s best friend.

Side info

✰ Wally is often portrayed as over 8 ft tall, he has butterfly tattoos on his body made by Frank and scorch marks from a certain ‘incident’.

✰ He wears a eye pendant as symbol of his devotions to the viewers. He NEVER takes it off. He also wears a robe made by Barnaby.

✰ Wally purrs when asleep or content, much like a cat.

✰ He is actually wonderful at singing, but he sings rarely and knows very few songs.

✰ He likes cherries instead of apples.

✰ Wally is so done with living in fear and avoiding Home by sleeping at Barnaby’s house only to end up with a painful fate once he eventually would be back in his own house. Wally tried burning Home… only for him to end up being hurt himself. To see his felt skin burned and scorched and blackened with ash. He couldn’t destroy it, cause it would destroy him in the process.

✰ He has night terrors regularly.

✰ Wally’s connection with Home’s strange little abilities allows him to change appearances as he pleases. So at nighttime he will look different from his canon appearance. Kids don’t like fangs or a tall neighbor but after the workers have gone home, and no children are watching anymore he morphs into a look of his preference.

✰ Wally likes the internet sometimes too! there’s always people talking about him and when he’s grown tired of conversation after turning cameras on at night, he’s busy sifting through the guestbook and social media and worming his way to leave messages in pictures.

✰ None of the other neighbors and his friends know about the nighttime show. They’re all asleep, and they assume he is too, when in reality he’s busy singing in the mirror for little red eyes around his float around his head.

✰ The viewer is you, you’re the eyes. For every person watching him, there’s an eye to symbolize them. and he likes them, because he likes eye contact, after all.

✰ Wally is very happy the viewers come back every night. He worships the viewers and is completely devoted to them.

Side note

The information presented here came from a Tumbr post from the au creator themselves, explaining the lore, it was very helpful.

Truly I knew nothing about this au Wally aside from being the tallest one. I am happy I decided to get into the lore.