#TheNeighborHoodWatch

[knight-of-the-graces]

At about 6:30 this morning I Had A Thought. I am not going to reread this before I post it so I hope it makes sense.

So, we’ve all kind of agreed that superheroes would be celebrities, right? And from my understanding people on the Internet tend to freak out when they see celebrities just out and about, living normal lives.

I propose that there are social media accounts entirely dedicated to sightings of particular superheroes. Like, you send in a photo or an encounter with that superhero and they post/reblog/talk about it, whatever.

(Because DC —and specifically the Batfamily— is my current hyperfixation, I’m imagining it being DC superheroes, but this probably works for Marvel too.)

And the amount of these accounts vary based on the amount of superheroes in that city/area and their popularity, right? So there’s like a hundred accounts with only slight variations for Metropolis all focused on Superman, because he’s Their Only Superhero and they love him for that (usually).

I imagine that these guys are the weirdos of social media, and get made fun of a lot. Nobody really thinks that these sightings are real.

However. There is a guy who canonically stalked his city’s superheroes for most of his life.

Tim definitely had one of these accounts and posted pictures of the Bats, like all the time. And it was when one of these pictures ended up on the news that people outside of these specific communities discovers that these exist and some of them are genuinely accurate about sightings.

They explode in popularity. There are hundreds of these accounts now, all about tracking their city’s superheroes (and occasionally villains).

There are, however, always those that are deemed more reliable. BatWatch has long gone inactive, but there are others like it, and the really good ones can make good money off it, but they’re usually just hobbyists and superfans.

Because he’s my favourite, I’m going to take this opportunity to talk about Red Hood. He was, during his stint as a villain, Gotham’s favourite villain. He doesn’t do the huge schemes designed to kill the whole city to get the Bats’ attention, and he genuinely improves the city and protects the common people, so people generally like him. There’s like a hundred dedicated to his activity, both criminal and not.

There is, like with every other superhero watch, a most reliable one. It’s run by about half an apartment building down in the Narrows, and they always seem to know everything about Red Hood before anybody else.

They call themselves TheNeighborHoodWatch.

[fallout13-story]

The Neighborhood Watch

Episode 2

“And Then We Fall.” Part 2

Pages 170-179

[hyperrealisticblood]

random thing i noticed while going through the character bios again: wally's bio now gives information about how his puppet was handled

there isn't any kind of sneaky wording here that would imply he was operated different from the others either, as frank is described the exact same way in his bio.

if it's true that wally WAS in fact puppeteered by someone and wasn't running around the studio by himself like some horrible gay homunculus, he was most likely puppeteered by ronald dorlaine, the creator of welcome home. wally is kind of the "kermit" of welcome home, and kermit was puppeteered by jim henson until his death in 1990. kermit was also referred to as henson's "alter ego" at times, his co-stars saying that it became hard to tell where kermit ended and henson started at times.

i think clown's mentioned the relationship between a puppet and their puppeteers being a topic explored in welcome home at some point (one of these mentions was pre-overhaul, so i'm not sure if it's still true), and has stated that there are going to be more human characters introduced. and since welcome home takes a lot of inspiration from the history of the muppets (and is why we need more horror media written by people really autistic about the topic covered), and "dorlaine" sounds so similar to "darling", it's possible wally may have been ronald dorlaine's "alter ego" in the same way that kermit was for jim henson.

i don't what what any of this implies or if any of this makes sense. i went on this whole rant because of one line of text. is anyone reading this. did anyone see that gnome run by. its so dark in here

[soul-teller]

I think the order of Wally's recordings goes like this:

"I will help you understand. I will find a way."

Not only the sentences make sense, but also the recordings themselves - at least, I think they do, judging by context and Wally's voice getting more nervous and weak.

UPDATE: There's also two more recordings! I forgot about Neighbor, cus it's Home, but I don't know where "soon" is. Can someone tell in reblogs or replies if they know? :0

"I will help you understand. I will find a way soon, neighbor."

[jazzzzzzhands]

I am awake! i am living! i am FERAL! This litle update has me absolutely SPINNING Firstly just allow me to say that everything is just oh so so CUTE The costumes, the sprites, the 19 minute long audio, the COOKBOOK my beloved!! But anyways, theory time!! Well more like observations, thoughts and unhinged ramblings XD Gonna put it Down Below:

Speaking of that. First observation is the wording of Down Below We usually talk about waving up high! It is said so many times!

But now we finally have our official "As Above, So Below" My first thought on this is the theme of a stage, "As above the stage, down below the stage" But I truly dont think we have enough information to make a connection quite yet We know where "Down Below" is I wonder where "As Above" is? The second thing is the Wally Darling costume And the Eyes

I realize now that the Eyes are actually just holes and showing whatever is underneath, BUT I still can't help thinking that this was intentional! Perhaps it's some sort of Code? Afterall, his eyes are Black!

Now to get into the MEAT here: Spoilers if you have not found the secret audio! during the secret audio "Listen" The bug found on the transcript

Wally stares directly at the "eddie" apple as he eats the apple on the plate (I also just wanted a screenshot of the "eyes" in the BG)

and now… now i have theories hang on cause it involves the entire transcript that was said but not said in the transcript itself! (In fact, it says this part is not there!! but it IS) so i typed it out by ear (also ayoo we have a narrator!!) (also there is a lot of 4th wall breaking and quite a few neighbors seem to know that there is a show/that they are puppets) (but anyways!) ok but here is what is said in the story It is because this town is rumored to have visitors at night… Something from deep within the forest, far beyond the hills and mountains… No one knows what it wants or where it’s going, just that it is persistent.. Just that it arrives here. So many stories have risen about their origins… But I know what it is searching for. it is looking for neighbors who have stayed up past the daytime, to gobble them up whole that is why so few live here it moves through the streets at night, but it doesnt break into Homes However, on rare instances, it will find itself with an appetite unsatisfied by its aimless wanderings even the occasional unfortunate insect that has crossed its path, is not enough those who have lived through the nights say, it isn't quiet about it either they always say you can hear when it gets closer to you do you know what sound it makes? I hear it, every night. you can hear it too, if you listen especially if you wait next to your window First, there's rustling in the bushes Then, the scratching on the pavement, and the walls.. as it crawls up Finally, if you're quiet.. You can hear it's guttural sound ok ok so there seems to be a theme going on here and the theme is Hunger And also when the audio gets all garbled and skipping? I feel like it is saying..."Frankly" over and over? I could be overthinking, but it is what i hear!! it almost feels like Wally.. can't control his hunger he was supposed to be watching Barnaby's apple Barnaby even says "Don’t worry though, kid, there’s plenty’a other eats here! What’re you feelin’ hungry for, Wally?" and he is quick to draw attention away from wally, as he tends to do a LOT barnaby seems to Know a LOT about Wally, and thats why he sort of has to be his babysitter? I think that there could be a connection here I think Wally was HUNGRY, he was absolutely STARVING OR OR Maybe something else was Hungry? Home?? Whatever the black goo/mold is?? If something is controling Wally? His eyes are black, the Goo is black, the goo is coming from Home But also also [It sounds like Barnaby pats the camera.] Going back to my theory of wally being the camera/ the audience surrogate/his eyes are cameras This is fuel to my fire!! Oh and also the Wally Costume add to the motif of You being able to see through Wally's eyes. Of You and Wally being connected through his Eyes!! But at the end of the day, I think this update revolves around Eddie! This little bug on the rock is Purple! Which we know is Eddie's Color!

And just that that doodle looks like the bug that leads to the secret Audio where Eddie's apple is brought to the screen.. Leads me to feel like something forboding is going on for our poor, dear sweet Mailman! Which by the way, just another little Observation But Sally doesnt seem enthused by the fact that Eddie is a fellow Arts lover? and she just calls him "Mailman" rather than an affectionate longname like she does with everybody else But it does feel like Eddie is the Type to give his heart and soul to everyone, the shirt from his back, only for him to get left in the dirt u_u I'm noticing a trend of him being the neighborhood punching bag Eddie IS the mailman tho! So it only makes sense that he is the one delivering the letters to the WHRP. He is not the one writing them, he's just the delivery guy! But I think he could be being sent out at night When everyone else is asleep And I think something terrible may happen to him It's very dangerous to go out at night and This could be where Eddie is ripped in half/mangled Wally fixes him of course! (old theory but it does reference that) So is Wally just using Eddie to serve whatever purpose he is after? Eddie is a very compliant guy, he would do anything for anyone and if he can be put back together, where is the harm? I am starting to make connections! Stringing together the pieces! And once again, i'm getting the question of "Is Wally Evil?" And once again, I am answering with a solid "No" Do I think that he could be slightly morally askew? With the themes of "I must do what I need to do, no matter what happens" "I'm sorry, but this is how it must be" "The ends justifies the means" Possibly, maybe. Especially if it is to save his Neighbors, his World, his Home. Or, Just some of his actions are not his, he is a puppet afterall. Anyways anyways, this has been a very very long and rambly tangent. Hopefully there can be some sense made from this, I know that I can be a bit jumpy with my thoughts!! But these are my inputs for now!! Feel free to add on/correct me! (I know the one link is out of cannon date, but so was the Frankly picture, and it was made cannon, so take it with a grain of salt)

[skyepixels]

Yo, Puppets, what are you doing out there???

Since my rabid obsession with these wonderful little puppets over the last few months has bloomed into an almost unhealthy coping mechanism, I have some headcanons or philosophical mumbo-jumbo that won't Leave My Head and wanted to share!

First? Puppets, man. Puppets share an interesting dialogue with us - like, they're their own entities, but they are also absent of any sense of individual seperation from the roles they take on and their relationship with humans. When we interact with puppets, they're playing their roles as the lovely short friend that teaching you ABC's, or the comedic klutz narrator playing the role of a children's Christmas story. Puppets can be anything and do anything, and I feel like with all these massive and lovely AU's coming out of the blue, the WH puppets are kind of in their element here - fulfilling the roles and impressions that we place on them to tell stories, create characters, and help us connect with the emotions and thoughts we want to explore within ourselves.

Now, if we were to suspect that the WH puppets have some semblance of agency, then...that's where the real horror begins. Because it's implied that they're aware of their circumstances in some shape or form, and they can't stop it. And we could do anything to them and they would comply with that because...they're a puppet. The fulfil the roles we create for them. But who are they, really? And then theirs the Hand symbolism in some of their artwork shown on their Ko-Fi, and that's SUPER interesting. Every time I think about this, I think about the D&D race Muppetborn, where the Hand is the creator that guides them. You know, just a side thought.

So...from what I can see? Our relationship with puppets cannot be seperated in some way, and I wonder if there's some sort of antagonism with the WH puppet's relationship with both its creator or its audience. Who knows? It's so damn META and scary that I think it'll lead to some really engaging conversations overall.

____

But beyond that, I am super happy that Clown is starting to feel better, that their life's getting back on track, and that they seem to be in a good place. I wish them all the Love and Joy in the world, and I am super estatic for what comes next!!!!

[dreamcatcher-faux]

"Mr. Dear?"

"Who... What... Where-"

"Eddie. Focus on my Voice. You're going to Be Okay."

Welcome Class is back! And with a screenshot redraw! Of course it's of Frank, he's my fave and @/theneighborhoodwatch I believe pointed out how Frank looks kinda angelic? Or idolized? In this scene? With him being the center focus with a circle of red behind him, making it look like he's glowing. So I decided to lean into that here! But more scary and foreboding :)

Something I want to point out is Frank's speech pattern. Sense he knows that he has a monotonous voice, Frank tries to put emphasis on certain words that he feels are important to get his point across more easily :3

Below the cut are the flats and the og screenshot :3

[maximilliansblog]

Welcome Home Hyacinth Theory 🏠🪻🐛

Hello Tumblr! Most Welcome Home theories are just little bits and pieces or “Wally is evil, guys look!”/”Wally is not evil! He is a goober!” etc.

This theory is fully fledged and provides a plot and evidence. I call it the Welcome Home “Hyacinth” theory, after the myth that it is based on. This will be a very long post so here is a TLDR: Julie kills Eddie while they are playing croquette-bowling out of jealousy because he is getting too close to Frank, who is supposed to be her boyfriend/best friend within the show. Either just Eddie or everyone involved gets replaced, except for Wally, who witnessed everything. This is why we have all of those videos of Wally dissociating.

I have been sitting around in my toom rambling to myself about this theory like a madman for over a week so I decided to share it.

Please reference this post from @/partycoffin (the creator of Welcome Home) when discussing Welcome Home and be respectful in the comments and reblogs.

Extra information from @theneighborhoodwatch:

Welcome Home Observation Document

Welcome Home Livestream Trivia

Welcome Home Archive Links + Backup Screenshots

Fanmade Welcome Home Wiki (I don't recommend the Fandom wiki)

Extra information on exploring the website from @angel-lyah:

Welcome Home Website Secrets

Alright, let’s get into it! I have evidence to back up every single one of those claims, and I will include it in this post.

I want to be very thorough with explaining this. I’ll start by establishing that there are three main plots within Welcome Home (that I have noticed, anyways):

The plot of the late 60’s - early 70’s TV show, Welcome Home - only related to published episodes, books, audios, etc. that would have been shown to the public at the time of airing Welcome Home

“Behind the show” - feelings and actions of the puppets outside of the show (such as Frank and Eddie being a couple, or Frank being nonbinary)

The Welcome Home Restoration Project - people working to restore the TV show, Welcome Home, and find any and all information related to it and who made it

Okay so for the rest of this essay, when I mention BtS, it is related to the “behind the show” plot. I will color these things blue. When I write WtS, it is related to the “within the show” plot. I will color these things green. When I write WHRP, it is related to the Welcome Home Restoration Project. I will color these things pink. I will also mention things that have been said either on Clown’s Tumblr blog, Clown’s Twitter, or old streams. I will say CS, meaning “Clown source” to denote these things and color them orange. Clown source and behind the show areas often overlap, so Clown source information is dominant over behind the show information (if it is both I will just color it orange). Good? Good.

Now let’s establish our characters (only the ones related to this theory) and their relationships to one another. We’ll go alphabetically, starting with Eddie, then moving onto Frank, Julie, and Wally. 

I’m going to assume that if you are reading this, you have already visited the website (clownillustration.com) and have a basic understanding of who Eddie is. So I will only focus on the elements of his character that will be relevant in this theory.

Eddie (WtS) is clumsy and overworks himself. He is often dragged into Julie’s games. His house (post office) looks like this:

Note the hyacinth flowers and the butterfly. Eddie (BtS) loves Frank. (CS) He is married to Frank in one art on Clown’s Tumblr. BY THE WAY IT TOOK FOREVER TO FIND THIS IMAGE!!!! THEY ARE IN THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER!!

Frank (WtS) is Julie’s boyfriend as it is implied that they are a couple within the show (I know a lot of us don’t like hearing this, but remember the three plots) (also for everyone that is going to argue with me on this, go look on their little profiles in the neighborhood section of the website and come back to me) and best friend. His house looks like this:

Note the sunflowers. Frank (BtS) loves Eddie.

(CS) As I said before, in one art on Clown’s Tumblr, Eddie and Frank are married (you can tell by the rings on their fingers in that image) . Frank is nonbinary but uses he/him pronouns (Clown refers to Frank on his blog with only he/him pronouns, so that is what I will use. Nonbinary people do not have to use they/them pronouns! Pronouns are not equal to gender!)

(WtS) Julie is a rainbow monster. Her thing is that she likes to make up and play games. She seems to be very strong (perhaps related to her being a rainbow monster), as she can easily lift Wally and is indirectly referenced to [throw a baseball very well] by Barnaby in the Live Interview audio. She also incorporates bowling into a lot of games where it is unnecessary. She seems to be immature, which is usually used to make her a playful character. Her and Frank are a couple. In several arts, her horns are different shapes or even nonexistent, implying that she has some ability to change her form. Her house looks like this:

Note the heart motif throughout the design. (BtS) Julie is best friends with Frank. (CS) She is genderfluid (she is only referred to using she/her pronouns on Clown’s blog, so that is what I will use). 

(WtS) Wally is the main character in Welcome Home. His house is alive and is named Home. Home is often considered to be a ninth neighbor. Wally often communicates for Home. (WHRP) Wally signs Home’s name in the guestbook (as Home does not have hands) (please stop with the tentacles I have seen the art please stop for the love of god where did that even come from). (WtS) The other neighbors frequently ignore and talk over Wally, but he doesn’t seem to mind, saying that he loves all of his friends in the live interview audio.

Okay so now that that is established, let’s look at some promotional art. Promotional art is not necessarily canon and may contain outdated designs, but may hint at the plot of Welcome Home. 

There is one more artwork that I would like to add, but it is on Clown’s KoFi. Here is a link to it that you can look at if you are subscribed to Clown’s KoFi:

[link to Clown’s KoFi here]

I won’t describe the image because some of you may not be subscribed to Clown’s KoFi. But if you are, you will see that the image supports my theory.

While we are discussing that image, I would also like to say that I believe that the puppets are some kind of biological organisms. I don’t have much evidence for this right now, but I may make a theory in the future. 

We will come back to those promotional arts soon. Right now, let’s look at Frank and Eddie’s houses and discuss some symbolism and mythology.

Frank’s house has sunflowers outside of it. Sunflowers are a symbol of Apollo. Eddie has hyacinths outside of his post office, obviously a symbol of Hyacinthus. Hyacinthus and Apollo were lovers, but Hyacinthus tragically died. Let me tell the story so we have context. (I am really into Greek mythology by the way, it’s always been a special interest since middle school but I am also a Hellenic pagan, you should follow my witchcraft and paganism blog, creatively named @maxiswitchcraftandpaganblog)

So Apollo, god of the sun, art, archery, and LOTS of various other things, loved Hyacinthus, who was a mortal Spartan man. And Hyacinthus loved him too, by the way. The god of the (west? don’t feel like googling it) wind, Zephyrus, was jealous of Hyacinthus, because he also loved Apollo. 

One day, Apollo and Hyacinthus were playing discus (like frisbee but the frisbee is giant and made of metal, kind of like a shield). Apollo threw the discus to Hyacinthus, but Zephyrus blew the discus off course with the wind, causing it to hit Hyacinthus in the head and kill him. Apollo created the hyacinth flower from Hyacinthus’ blood as he died, but in some myths made him a god. (read more on Apollo and Hyacinthus here)

I’m going to draw some parallels here. Frank = Apollo, Eddie = Hyacinthus, Julie = Zephyrus. Now Frank’s and Eddie’s parallels make sense because of the flowers, but where did I get Julie=Zephyrus from? Recall that (WtS) Julie and Frank are supposed to be a couple. Now, (BtS) Julie may or may not like Frank in that way, but she certainly enjoys being close to him as his best friend. Since she is already established as an immature character, it would make sense that she would be jealous seeing Frank get closer to Eddie.

Pause. So WtS, Frank and Julie are together. BtS, Frank and Eddie are together. If these are separate, then what is Julie jealous about? (WtS) Frank has been seen getting closer to Eddie even in the official material of the show. An example of this is him telling Eddie that he works too hard at the end of the “Eddie’s Big Lift” storybook record. So his BtS love for Eddie is leaking into the WtS canon. That is a problem for Julie, who is supposed to be Frank’s girlfriend WtS. So she comes up with an idea to fix this, much like the jealous god, Zephyrus. 

So what does she do? Let’s turn our attention to the “Just So” song demo. This song was never finished with instrumentals, and for a reason. The puppets function as actors in the show, as it is obvious that they have their own free will, and Julie does something that the writers do not expect later in this episode. So the song was never finished because the episode was ruined. 

In the “Just So” song demo, Frank and Julie are about to play croquette bowling. It was supposed to be just croquette, as Frank put on his croquette bow tie, but last minute, Julie added bowling to the mix. 

Wally knocks on the door and interrupts their song, saying that Home wants to play croquette bowling too. This implies that Julie told someone else that they would be playing croquette bowling after she added bowling. I feel like Wally and Home overheard Julie telling Eddie that they would be playing croquette bowling. This would make sense, as Wally often stands by and listens while the other neighbors talk. It is not unusual for Eddie to participate in Julie’s games, either, as we see from Julie playing “business woman in the big city” with him. [add a photo]

The song recording ends before we see them playing croquette bowling together. But I have a piece of evidence to tell us how it ends. Look at this promotional art again.

You probably assumed that the figure in the back was holding a hammer, but that could actually be a croquette mallet!

It’s covered in some gory-looking stuff, probably from Eddie. Now look at the flower. Whose eyes look like that? Almond-shaped, round pupils. Only one character: Wally. Wally was a witness, which would make sense for him, since he often watches on as the other neighbors do things. 

Julie is holding the flower in front of her, looking innocent. This is a stretch, but I think that this might be symbolism for her saying that she didn’t do it on purpose, Wally saw the whole thing, ask him! And Wally doesn’t know what to do. I don’t know what he does from there.

Maybe this image is a clue? I genuinely don’t know. Once again, promotional art is not necessarily canon, but we can use the concepts from it in theories.

This next part is also a bit of a stretch. The neighbors having a memory of something like that happening would ruin their “acting” (I think they are just being recorded as they do what they would naturally do). The show can’t have that. The solution? Replace everyone involved. 

Now go back and look in the promotional art section and look at that art of Frank. It looks like Frank is laying among extra puppet parts. They have extras!

And this is why Wally is dissociating in the videos we see when we click on the bugs. They did not replace him, because like the neighbors, they didn’t even notice he was there.

Okay yeah that’s the theory. It was really hard to get this into a coherent Google Doc and gather all the links. I was just rambling to myself about this in my room over and over pacing around for like a week. But yeah here you go, hope it's a good theory, sorry if it's not lol please be nice to me

[ronalddorelaine]

WELCOME HOME UPDATE REAL NOW WE KNOW THE NOTES WERE TRYING TO TALK TO WALLY !!!! @theneighborhoodwatch has a great doc for the findings

i think he likes the stickers lmao

Also, were these guestbook entries always here? I think there might be some new ones. Has anyone decoded the file names?

(also, if anyone has a link to any more wh masterdocs or image folders please send them my way!! i will really appreciate it dear neighbour @:) i didnt manage to save all the halloween decorations)

[rabbitdeerart]

Found by @isafoxfire. Finally got it to work, @theneighborhoodwatch

[dirtmix8]

My welcome home oc Molly!! @theneighborhoodwatch

[akemima]

EDDIE DOES DRAG??? /POS OH MY GOD. do you have a source? please? im so interested in what type of drag queen he is.

YES HE DOES!!! clown has stated it in a stream!!

u can find it in this stream archive made by @/theneighborhoodwatch!! theres so many fun facts and info collected and its so fun

[froggos-chaos-corner]

So im checking out the WH wiki @/theneighborhoodwatch made and i didnt know this about Barnaby

[thecolourfulkingdom]

Where did theneighborhoodwatch go?

There was a blog with awesome analysis called theneighborhoodwatch

Where did they go? if you click the link it literally says "ghost blog nothing here"

[adorbspoprocks]

HI KITTY!!! Im still contemplating on whether to watch a shovel knight gameplay with commentary or no commentary.....

BUT!!!! Its seems like your into "Welcome Home" Now and omg,it looks super cute. And I wanna see more of it while I figure out Shovel Knight!!! Can u tell me where to go to see stuff of Welcome Home? I already know the creators blog but idk where to acess more stuff abt it.........♡

OH OH OF COURSE SURE :D

Welcome Home is a arg in progress btw so there's some horror stuff about it.

You can get information by looking at the official website (found here), I also recommend looking at the @/theneighborhoodwatch account, it has doc about stuff in the website and it reblogs stuff from the creator about the series. There's also a video from Night Mind about it as well as Inside the Mind, there are others but those are the two YouTubers I know well.

Basically if you look around about Welcome Home, you'll find stuff, warning though there is a lot of old outdated artwork and information so be warned (anything before January of 2021 is outdated unless it's on the official website).

I hope this is helpful sorry if it isn't!!

[jazzzzzzhands]

Ahh but as much as I want the goo to be us. I think it is a little more abstract

(Mentions of Abuse below)

POV: You are watching me descend into madness in the WH server