#lanternbearer!wirt

[xovera-toz]

Spiteful Lanternbearer!Wirt who prances through the Unknown and plays a clarinet always slightly off-key just to annoy the Beast. Who sings in the falsest tone he can manage, as loud as his voice allows. Who spreads the nastiest rumours. Who leads the Lost back to their road. Who tosses flowers into the lantern every once in a while to imitate a "healthy diet".

(The flowers would grow to be blooms on the Beast's antlers, much to his chargin.)

#I just really don't think he'd only sulk about it #he'd do his best to get the beast to crawl out of his skin #otgw #wirt #the beast #lanternbearer!wirt #over the garden wall

[thedarkangelpuppet]

Hm, I didn't notice in the comics that the Woodsman was the first lantern bearer. I did notice the Beast carrying his own lantern but it's quite different than cutting edelwood himself. But still, the idea of usually alone Beast looking at Wirt with his lantern and having thought process like "I want this underage twink enslaved" is funny asdfghjk

I don't really like the headcanon that the Queen is the same person as the Beast. Idk, it seems a little... cheap. Like, the Beast doesn't need an illusion to manipulate people, he has quite a silver tongue. And I like the idea that he and the Queen used to know each other and he holds a grudge against her. I just like to think of the two forces like them being opposite of each other and having personal conflict. Like, she's associated with heaven and peace, he's associated with earth and despair, if you know what i mean.

yeah i mean I guess it was not explained that he was the first I assumed since we only saw the Beast carry his lantern himself before he met the woodsman and the townsfolk haven't heared of the concept of a lanternbearer only claiming that the one with the lantern has to be the Beast so in my mind I was like that must mean it was like that. but yes that thought was one of the reasons i started shipping them!

yeah me neither hence why i headcanon them as siblings or atleast friends. I definetly agree that the Queen of Clouds helped the Beast her colors also pretty much co-line with the colors of his eyes but it still felt like they were more of the same species rather than the same person.

#poetree anon #over the garden wall #otgw #poetree

[doyouknowhowtowaltz]

for the bingo!! enoch otgw and anna otgw if you'd like to!!

Why yes, reblogging this bingo was just an excuse to draw otgw characters tiny, thank you for asking. Specifics commentary bellow cut:

Anna: I'm a little surprised Anna didn't end up with more boxes checked, because I do have a great deal of fondness for her. It's probably a side effect of the fact that she's not really in the show for very long, we only get to see her through the lens of her haunting the Woodsman, but the comics do a great job in making her a very compelling character.

I like Anna as a foil, especially to a young beast, like Beast!Wirt or Beast!Lorna with her paralleling her father, as a kinder more understanding lanternbearer/friend. I also think stories with her and the Beast are a riot, there's such an interesting dynamic to be had in the fact that Anna was prey for the Beast, but she's escaped him but the Beast has taken her father instead, leaving the Beast able to taunt the woodsman and Anna both.

She's neat!

BINGO: Enoch!

I love him obviously! I didn't actually have much to say about him when I first watched OTGW, so it's not like he just clicked with me, but through the process of writing and rewriting him, turning him over in my head, I've fallen in love with him, and I only dig myself in deeper every time I come back to reconsider him.

#otgw #over the garden wall

[changeside]

A redraw of two old pages.

#otgw #otgw beast #otgw wirt #manga #myart #over the garden wall #lanternbearer!wirt

[astratic]

beast wirt is just a popular bad end fanon thing, there's no canonical indication that the lanternbearer becomes the beast. it's just a fun idea! so there's lots of art and stuff about it

I missed this but thank you!! Yeah ive watched otgw like 10 times so I was like is it possible I missed something...? Lol

#asks

[xovera-toz]

"Nothing to bury"

#yes it is about lanternbearer!wirt #otgw #wirt #lanternbearer!wirt #poem #if you squint it rhymes #over the garden wall #the beast #my inspiration: I finally played the “prelude” on clarinet

[xovera-toz]

"What's upstairs?"

"Your race calls it Heaven, I believe."

Wirt sent the unassuming corridor a wary glance. "Are you serious? You can't be serious. It that- a metafor? Some codename?"

"Nothing of the sort. If you'll excuse my bluntness, we must move on. The Harvest Lord awaits our arrival."

"You're laughing at me."

The Beast merely shook its head. "Believe what you will."

#something that's been in my drafts for a while #no idea what I wanted with it so here you go #otgw #wirt #over the garden wall #the beast #drabble #maybe... #lanternbearer!wirt #or #beast!wirt #depending on how you want to interpret it