#— ch : the regenerate degenerate ( wade )

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WADE'S HEADCANONS

-> wade cannot remember his life before department k. this is something that's canon and it's explained away with the good ol' mans lived through to many retcons he doesn't know his origin story. however i like taking it a step further and say that he genuinely does not remember. he's not sure if wade winston wilson is even his real name or just an identity department k gave to him to attempt to hide their crimes.

-> carries a first aid kit in one of his many pouches specifically for the occasions in which he's working with someone who doesn't have a healing factor <3 he's a sweetie-pie like that. he also carries an assortment of snacks in said pouches for both potential work partners and also to keep his own energy up!

-> he IS a mutant!! my god marvel you won't change my mind!! department k's experiments activate and mutated his x-gene to an extreme extent that would've killed him if not for the other thing already killing him at the time!! i personally like to believe that wade would've always had a healing factor if his mutation was activated in.. normal circumstances?? that feels like the wrong way to describe the typically traumatic experience that is a late mutant awakening but we'll go with that. anyways. the original healing factor wouldn't have been anywhere near as strong as it is today. and we have the government to thank for that (derogatory)

-> very good in the kitchen actually, despite appearances. when given the chance and the ingredients he can cook up some decent, edible food that. favourite food is unfortunately just junk food and snacks so his kitchen is. only ever really stocked with that sorta stuff.

-> ellie is his favourite person in the whole wide world and nobody will ever be able to beat her on that no matter what. i'm sorry if you wanted to be his fave, but his daughter is his number one human.

-> for some fuckin reason comic keeps making my oddly tall faves shorter and i exist mostly to fix that. so wade is 6'3. as he should be.

-> while the healing factor requires sleep to work at it's most efficient rate, the nature of it sorta.. stops wade from knowing when he's actually tired until he's physically unable to get up. so you'll see him a day when he's had a good amount of sleep the night before and he'll be his usual self, and then you'll see him a few days later, having not slept very much and the only way you'd really be able to tell is if a) his legs didn't just give out or b) you can tell if he's healing slower.

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WADE WILSON / FOURTH WALL & REGENERATION

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, wade is not aware of the fourth wall at all times, due to the nature of the.. 'ability' and wade's own twisted, broken psyche, he often forgets that he's a fictional character in a fictional world and believes himself to be a real person living a real, fucked up life. it's something that has to be triggered, typically by pop culture references or even just interacting with another person/character. used correctly, breaking the fourth wall can give wade a strategic advantage as he can look ahead in his story and see how events will unfold though the chances of this happening again relies on his ability to remember that this application exists. failing that, he has been known to enter into the 'white space' between pages to stall for time and even acquire more weapons thanks to gwen.pool and her own abilities.

IT'S WIDELY KNOWN by this point in his career, that wade see's his regenerative ability as a curse and given that it destroyed his body in order to save it, and the nature that he got these powers in the first place, through torturous experimentation at the hands of power hungry paranoid madmen, it's easy to see why he's got no love for his healing factor. that being said he's smart enough to know that it is his greatest asset. he can heal from being blown to pieces in a day, bullets and stab wounds heal within minutes or even seconds depending on how well he's been eating and how well he's been sleeping. additionally, the nature of his healing factor means that his body is in peak human physical condition and then some, at all times, he can run as fast as an olympic athlete and can carry 900lbs in weight on a good day and his stamina never falters. honestly he's a nightmare.