no ok @funonion001 you've made me So fucking unwell over this it needs its own post
bc i also used to be like "ah, the neighborhood's a panopticon and Home is the 'warden'" but recent updates & general things ive read changed my outlook entirely. cause like... if Home (the town) was a panopticon, then Home (the house) should be at the 'head' of it all, where they can view everything. but Home can't view everything directly - half the buildings are behind it.
however. i don't think the panopticon thing is entirely wrong, either. there's some truth in it? i'm pretty sure that the neighborhood is Home. it's like Home is the brain/eyes/heart, and everything else are nerve endings. there's this one piece of livestream trivia that i think of, in relation to Housewarming: "...everyone believes their houses are alive in their own special way". what if this is kind of literal? all of the buildings are extensions of Home, or Home is just the core of it all. one big living, breathing neighborhood. Home might not be able to see it all, but he might be able to feel it
and then yeah from the more abstract side of things - your phrasing of "all the other houses circle home" made me put my head in my hands. because there Are a lot of conclusions/interpretations of all of that. also that sentence makes me picture a pack of wolves circling in on a kill, which is. hng.
Home is caged in. Home is surrounded. Home is always being watched. Home is never not alone. everything leads back Home. Home is holding it all together.
and like... it reminds me of Clown once mentioning (loosely, im going off of memory here whose reliability is tenuous on a good day) that part of WH's story relates to the autistic experience / when does a home become a house / will your neighbors treat you differently once they see the authentic you. and that, at least to me and one of my experiences, relates to a feeling of being watched/judged every time i leave my house. or even when i'm by an open window - everywhere i can be Seen, it feels like everyone is keeping one eye on me. existing in public spaces feels like a performance. i'm hyper aware of every single movement i make and it makes me feel so inauthentic and fake and alien and its So So stressful/uncomfortable.
so that pov + Home (and by extension, Wally since they're kinda one in the same) = well! all of the above! can Wally ever relax outside of Home's four walls? they're all looking at him. the entire neighborhood surrounds him - he can't go anywhere without running into them (the buildings and the neighbors). there's no escaping their watch and/or judgement. it's as if Wally and Home are under constant surveillance, or at least it feels like it - which is half the problem. or it's the entire problem? the fear of possibility, not reality.
and then for a different (but also connected for obvi reasons) interpretation - Home and Wally are alone. they are Singular in the neighborhood. everyone else is next to each other, even the stores are paired. but Home stands alone in the middle of it all. which directly relates to Wally and Home being aware - and also together in whatever state the neighborhood is in at the time of the whrp's creation. in a town of neighbors, Home & Wally have none. and that can connect them being at the center of it all, holding their world together - or breaking it apart
also: on the neighborhood map, the path only ends at Home. it's a loop except for the bit leading up to Home's doorstep. where Howdy's Place & Eddie's Post Office are the path widens into one huge circle with no end. Walk the circuit, end up at Home. walk the entire perimeter, and you go nowhere. there isn't a path out, the path doesn't end at any of the buildings except Home. there's something in that, i think.
there's more in my brain but i can't quite reach it...
Thought I'd share a character of mine, this is Blade.
I originally intended her as a character in a comedy horror story I was making but I loved her so much decided to basically make her a multifandom oc thanks to seeing @funonion001 and their neat ideas with their own oc KnL
Blade's lore, backstory, and appearance will of course be different depending on the fandom I'm using her for, but for when she's A Creachur like in the drawing, as a kid/teen shes 4 feet tall, and as an adult shes 9 feet tall.
Her personality is pretty cheeky and fun loving, a little bit based how I am/how I wanna be, being blunt and a bit of a jokester.
In the original story I made her for she's a species called a Grieveclaw, which has inspiration from mascot horror characters, Nightmare Before Christmas aesthetics, and the Veldigun from Pastra.
I'm working on a small writing thing for Moth!Michael and, well, I had to doodle some of it
Basically I'm throwing together a small AU where K n S are still the bad guys and all, cept everything they do is disguised under them dealing with monsters and such. They go and investigate sightings, thus them hearing about the local moth! Michael still tries to fight crime as best he can, and I'm still fooling around but as of right now I've decided that there's a difference in Michael and his being a moth. Kinda like the whole werewolf thing, he kinda bounces between somewhat human and not- (even as human, he has the pink antennae and soft fluff around his neck and if you hit him with a flashlight his eyes reflect bright red)
He mainly fights full moth- most people dont connect him being a monster, which is how K n S got put on the case. Kraken still has his metal arms, but it's basically an au with supernatural creatures and such
Siren belongs to @funonion001 , and, as always, Kraken belongs to @angerydj !
Something I just wanna get off my chest, I love Welcome Home, its wonderful and refreshing, but the fandoms treatment of Wally and aus is very questionable to me.
I've talked to @funonion001 about this but Wally is mischaracterized a lot, to the point its one of four things
1 weirdly flirty for no reason
2 infantilized and treated like hes a child for no reason
3 completely demonized with his autistic traits twisted to be unsettling and evil for no reason
And 4, he is so out of character it is no longer Wally its basically an oc that vaguely looks like Wally.
Wally has very clear autistic traits, Clown has even said he wants to explore themes of queerness and ablism, and people either removing Wally's autistic traits (his monotone voice, social cues, sarcasm, and jokes going over his head, etc) or twisting them into something negative is more than a little suspicious to me.
Another thing is the aus, now people making aus isn't the problem, obviously people can make aus if they want but its giving the same treatment the early undertale fandom did with Sans aus not to mention Wally is almost never in character in them, either being a villain/very mean spirted, some sort of flirt, or just infantilized, or even his whole personality turned to such a direction its not even Wally anymore.
It being a horror series, I expected some scary stuff in au content obviously but Wally's treatment just hurts sometimes, with the apparent themes I almost doubt we'll have a obvious villain or even a villain at all.
I won't stop loving Welcome Home, obviously not every fan is like this but I hope eventually things will calm down and Wally's very good and sincere character is treated better