#Bob shrugs: I have no clue either never noticed til now

[classyruinsbarbarian]

HDHIUIAHSY ANGST MY BELOVED

Hi guys, the one post got 6 notes, so I’m doing the context for my sad Whammer art

Basically, I got attached to the headcanon that Whammer temporarily dropped villainy after Can’t Touch This.

At first, no one noticed, before Wordgirl suddenly realized “hey wait, I haven’t seen the Whammer in a while.” It wasn’t just that she hadn’t seen him commit crimes, she hadn’t seen him out and about on the street like she usually does with other villains.

When she gets the chance to, Wordgirl heads over to the Whammer’s ‘home’ to go talk to him. He’s half dressed, and even though his home is usually messy, something about it seems extra unkept.

So they talk for a bit, and the Whammer just seems off. He still smiling and upbeat, but the second he thinks he’s not being looked at, he just looks upset. Eventually, Wordgirl tries to stop beating around the bush and question where the Whammer has been this whole time, and Whammer just tries to admit that hes just in a creative block for crimes (which was clearly a lie). Despite some pressing, Whammer doesn’t budge with the cover up.

Eventually, Wordgirl tried to not so naturally shift the topic to stuff in the Whammer’s horribly organized base. While it’s mostly filled with random crap, Wordgirl stumbles upon the Whammer’s plushy collection, which was interestingly filled with a lot of the villain plushies. She tries to question just why he owns so many, and that causes him to break.

He completely breaks down and goes on a half coherent, sob-filled, wham-filled rant about how after the events of Can’t Touch This, he’s convinced no villain, not even the ones not involved with the EVA, will ever take him seriously again because they thought he was lying before. In reality, yes the villains assumed he was lying and were annoyed with him, but they’ve pretty much got over/forgot it. Yet in the Whammer’s mind, they all hate him now. It doesn’t help that he already isn’t friends with that many villains because most of them think he’s loud and annoying. He owns so many of the villain plushies because he genuinely admires the rest of the villains so much, and tries to find some mutual affection through the plushies.

After awkwardly calming him down, Wordgirl gently suggests that he actually goes outside instead of holing himself up in his house and stewing in his poor mental state. After some convincing, the two of them have a fun day to cheer him up.

It takes him a while, but the Whammer does get back into crime.