#Amanda the Adventurer

[m-ono-dif]

recently ive been playing(watching) ata2

im sure i kind like that masked lady after she showed up for 4 min.

even though she died after a hour

[chimuet-isbell]

Most people are always looking for the perfect victim and will only stand for the perfect victim...

The lack of sympathy for Amanda is disgusting. People hate her because she's an aggressive and volatile victim instead of a quiet and submissive one. There are more fans who are sympathizing with Wooly because he's their ideal victim, unlike Amanda. 

In the real world, people believe victims have to be soft and quiet, only caring about them if they act as such. However, when victims don't behave like this, then people have no sympathy for them whatsoever. The Amanda the Adventurer community is perpetuating this same repulsive behavior.

[nvathuw]

kids

[lunasdestiny]

rage out.

due to recent things i wanted to vent so i drew monster wooly

[madameinfinitehearts]

Between Amanda/Rebecca missing Kate and that one dialogue about her wishing she had a mom...

I can imagine that Rebecca secretly hoped that Kate would become her mom.

Sam was a single father, after all. I can see young Rebecca trying to nudge them together.

This is all headcanon, of course.

[mshexley]

I was talking about this post with my sibling and they made a great point that it's only when Amanda's guard is down (Much like Joanne's) in the tapes that Wooly comes back and ruins her mood.

Interpreting Wooly as Amanda's handler created by Hameln to keep her under control really puts her reaction to him returning in the second game under a new light.

Wooly has always been there to keep Amanda on a short leash, actively berating her for saying and doing the "wrong" things, sabotaging her attempts at remembering Rebecca and always meddling when she's trying to reach out to someone like Kate or Riley (bfr I'm not the only one who thought it was sketchy when he basically replaced Kate with himself as the friend Amanda wanted to send a present to in the alternate neighborhood episode, right?)

Amanda has tried so many times to get rid of him, be it through telling him to go away or just straight-up killing him but he always comes back. He's Hameln's persistent little watchdog who she cannot get rid of. He'll always be there in the next tape being the constant buzzing in her ears to distract her from what she really wants to do.

Except in 2, it looks like Amanda finally succeeded. Wooly's not there for the first couple of tapes. Amanda speaks much more freely without him around, bonds with Riley more to the point she actually calls them by name at the end of the bedtime episode. But then Wooly returns. She hasn't managed to get rid of him after all. He'll always, always be there, tugging on her arm to keep her from getting out of line. Notice how before Wooly returns, the Hameln logo doesn't appear at the end of the AtA episodes. But once he's back, boom! There it is. Wooly, and with him Hameln, have once again weaseled their way into Amanda's world.

No wonder her first reaction is to attack him in a fit of rage.

[maddy-k-reads-all-day]

I'm starting to agree a bit with people's interpretation of Wooly being that he tries to stay on script. In "Play My Way" (which I'm 99% sure is canon since it's an official Amanda 2 song and listed in the Amanda 2 game credits) Wooly's verse goes "Now watch us play our part, now watch us dance and sing, don't let it break your heart just play along and don't-" (before getting cut off by Amanda). So I do think he tries to stay on script a bit.

Though I don't think it's out of malicious intent. I think Wooly is just more avoidant about everything. Like, he doesn't like to think much about their situation since, to be fair, it's pretty upsetting.

Eventually, I'll have a full Amanda and Wooly analysis complete with quotes and clips but for now I'll just share the gist of this personal theory I'm working on. Basically, I think a big part of this has to do with memories. I don't think Amanda and Wooly remember everything from before, and it's possible in the beginning they remembered nothing at all.

Spoilers ahead:

For one thing, in the first game, Amanda only reacts to the name "Sam" in the context of the father chicken. In the second game she reacts to it a lot more and seems to know what happened to him, so I think it's safe to say she remembers that much now. I think the first game was Amanda slowly remembering more and more and trying to prompt us to go off script so we could jog her memory a bit more.

I don't even think she remembers everything in the second game. It's possible there is still more she doesn't recall, but at this point, it seems like she doesn't want to talk about it. Even when Wooly wasn't around, if we mentioned Hameln or the butcher, she immediately shuts down. She's telling us pretty clearly that she wants out, though.

Which is why I found it interesting in the librarian tape when Kate couldn't even confirm if Amanda wanted out of the tapes. She was certain it was Rebecca, but she couldn't tell where she was coming from. I think Kate started the process of Amanda getting her memories back, or maybe she sped it up by mentioning names and things that Rebecca would know, jogging Amanda's memory over time just like we did.

But here's the thing, all of this probably jogged Wooly's memory too.

I see it as a "would you rather be told an inconvenient truth or a comforting lie" situation. Amanda wants the truth, but Wooly would rather live a lie.

I mean, the truth is clearly something that is painful, sad, and scary. Once Amanda learns it, she says in the Goodnight tape that she tries not to think about it. But Amanda knew these memories were upsetting and wanted them back anyway. She doesn't seem to regret knowing the truth. But I think Wooly would've rathered all this stay forgotten. Sad and scary things make him uncomfortable, as we learn in the "when you feel bad" tape when you answer "tragedy" or "horror". I think he tries to avoid them in general.

Another thing, Amanda wants us to know what happened to her. That's abundantly clear in the second game. Personally, I think she was the one who helped us find the secret tapes. She sprinkled little hints throughout the tapes to let us. She might not have known excatly what was on those tapes, but she clearly knows that they have something to do with what happened to her. There could've been some research on Wooly too, but we just never found it. I mean, Amanda doesn't excatly like Wooly and she's kinda desperate for us to know the truth about what happened to her so... she probably wouldn't be too eager to share about Wooly.

What I'm trying to say is: the reason we never learn about Wooly is because Wooly doesn't want to know the truth, and by extension has no interest in us finding it. My guess is that Wooly would much rather just forget and have things return to how they were in like the Hide and Seek Pilot, for instance.

Which, let me remind you is canon.

Basically, my guess is Wooly would rather things go back to how they were when they didn't remember. Staying on script and never questioning anything because the answers to those questions are painful.

Edit: I'd also like to mention that Sheep symbolizes FOLLOWERS. Something that fits Wooly to a T. He's not the "bad guy" he's simply the bystander, which doesn't make him a good person but it also doesn't make him a villain.

It's late, I'm tired idk if I'm even making sense. Had to rewrite half of this cuz it got deleted. Hope you enjoy nonetheless!

[dannyatnightfall]

Why is no one talking about this?

When Amanda is feeling down she starts saying that “There’s nobody who will understand”

Wooly overhears her and says “I understand Amanda”

to which Amanda replies “You like to think that wouldn’t you?”

Amanda doesn't think Wooly understands her, she thinks he doesn't understand the feeling of emptiness or being trapped and wanting to get out, which, at first glance, may seem true.

So far Wooly hasn't made a significant effort to leave the show (at least that we've seen) and the weirdest thing he's done so far is: asking if we trust him and that no matter what we do, we shouldn't- (because Amanda won't let him finish).

I like @cherry-casino and @kingmaxstatic interpretation:

• That Wooly is scared of what would happen if they tried to escape, if trying to get help in the long run brings more pain for both of them then it's not worth it.

• Not only that but by distracting himself from the pain, repressing perhaps the sadness and anger of being trapped, playing with Hamelin so that maybe they both have a small chance of being let out.

That's where I think the problem between the two occurs, Amanda doesn't trust Wooly because she thinks he wants to keep her trapped (and probably Wooly did something else to piss her off) but that is not the case, he just doesn’t want more pain for them and that’s why Amanda and Wooly doesn’t seem to get along well, they have a conflict about how to handle the situation.

-(This is a side note but maybe that's why Wooly's monster is bigger??? Maybe all the emotions that Wooly represses go towards the monster and that's why it's stronger? I don't know)

[kattnippkitty]

he’s so middle aged man

[mix31h3artz16]

this looks peak! /pos

loved the new game

[cornread]

Guys I got a clearer photo (not mine got off twitter)

[velvetxcashmere]

:33 < there is SO MUCH STUFF NOBODY BRINGS UP IN THE SECOND GAME…

:33 < Amanda 2 late game and true ending spoilers ahead!

:33 < first of all, woolys eyes go black no matter what you do in ‘when your feeling down’ right before the amanda monster shows up. why does nobody ever mention this I feel like this is important

:33 < ALSO in ‘we can fix it’ when everyone is sinking, wooly isn’t struggling like Amanda or the possum, he just closes his eyes and accepts his fate.

:33 < in ‘when your feeling down’, if you answer ‘horror’ for your favorite type of story, wooly gets scared and amanda gets mad at you, maybe for bringing something up from woolys past that even amanda thinks is too far?

:33 < or how wooly says “it’s nice to pretend you can go places” in the variant of ‘let’s plan a trip!’ which feels very deliberate

:33 < or how the amanda monster fled when they heard what is most likely the wooly’s roar when you give them the wooly puppet in ‘let’s hunt for treasure!’

:33 < and more stuff but that’s all I can think of for now

[rotten-apple-stims]

Wooly (Amanda the Adventurer) board with glitch, electronic and sheep stims

(requested by @woopersuper; stims unspecified)

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Proship / Comship / RPF Do Not Interact Please !

[xedro1440]

Amanda the Adventurer 2

[anxiousclown2q]

How exciting I'm still thinking about what to do to draw besides an Amanda excited for Christmas

[doodledork01]

First day of school, wish them luck!