#Walfie

[thstarsofsilver]

alex sawyer thinking that willow and alfie would still be dating makes my walfie heart SO happy

[yackers]

Alfie and Willow, I was right. It’s perfect. I think they found their soulmate.

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

Alfie: I want to wake up with you every day for the rest of our lives.

Willow: I wake up at 4:30AM every day to make rubber ducks.

Alfie: I want to see you at some point every day for the rest of our lives.

[jgblkshot]

JG REUPLOADS FROM THE OBLIVION: Holoctober 2022

Literally nothing but Smol Ame, for ONE MONTH STRAIGHT

All credit goes to @walfie for the design... I just decided to draw that for the whole month that year lol

[non-cannon]

Alfie: My future partner must be brave, strong, intelligent, successful and organized. Willow: *steps on a caterpillar and proceeds to drop to their knees and sob while apologizing profusely* Alfie: That one. I want that one.

[wolfblood-of-anubis]

me going through all of taylor’s music desperately trying to find a song for walfie (btw that is their ship name right? correct me if im wrong) and then BAM it hits me, it was right there in front of me. so obvious and sweet and lovely:

[house-of-secrets]

✨Walfie Supremacy ✨

[fakeosirian]

i keep coming up with scenes for foyf that i REALLY need information from late s3 to do properly but i'm not there in my rewatch yet and i don't think i'm strong enough to watch those episodes over and over for reference so if something seems jank no it doesn't

[joysmercer]

What do you think Piper's opinion of Walfie is?

im going to be honest, i think patricia told her about willow as soon as she moved in, so when piper finds out about walfie she's not at all surprised from what her sister has told her. maybe she'll be a little wistful but she and alfie were never going to last (in that season of life, anyway) so i think she'll simply be happy for her friend (and grinning at all of the ways willow confuses patricia lskdjf)

[koistocrat]

ever since i have my (now old) twitter hacked and suspended for over a year bc someone decided to hack me i went back and found this good ol gem that i made at the time

its marvin in walfie style!

[number9robotic]

The title has nothing to do with this song, I just felt yall should know

(thanks to Walfie for this glorious motivational gif)

[disquiet-dream]

It's also very funny because I've never actually been a Jerma viewer, but the reason I started watching NL isn't actually more reasonable lol

Because in my case it's because I started following Walfie* back when I was getting into vtubers in 2020, and he mentioned NL a lot. And since (unlike a lot of vtuber fans) I don't make a weird distinction between vtubers and regular streamers, I started watching him

And now I don't really watch any other YouTubers, or tbh any other streamers. Just the funny bald man these days, on my usual youtube rotation of cooking videos and videos essays.

(*If you know Walfas from touhou stuff, which I think might be more common on this part of tumblr, that's the same guy)

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

Honestly, I think I’ve discovered the actual reason Amber and Alfie don’t work in HOA like they work in the original HHA or DHA. And it’s not entirely due to the actual canon events that are written for this version of the pairing (the dating handbook, Amber’s “no” to Alfie’s attempt at breaking up, forcing Amber into the trial relationship in the first place, etc., etc.), though it certainly doesn’t help. It actually comes down to how their characters were adapted for the English version of the show, and how they are fundamentally different than the OGs.

I’ll start with Alfie first. Alfie in HOA is a goober. He’s doofy, well-meaning, and most importantly childlike. Not even just childish, but childlike. He’s boyish and bubbly, and he certainly makes some weird, sorta sexual comments (especially in S1), but on the whole he’s quite an innocent character. Essentially, he reads as very young. Which he is, especially at the start of the show where he’s probably supposed to be about 15/16, but could even be as young as 14.

Appie, on the other hand, is also a goober. But a different type. He’s honestly way more like Jeroen than Alfie is like Jerome, meaning he’s a something of a womanizer, a bit douchier, and on the whole reads a lot older than Alfie, which I’m almost certain is canonical across all characters (with HHA characters supposedly ending the show at the age of 19, with the timeline across the 4 seasons being only two years— three at most).

The few things character-wise both Appie and Alfie share intrinsically are that they’re besties with Jeroen/Jerome who doesn’t always treat him well, his love for a good practical joke, and (in earlier seasons) his pining for Amber. Of course, Appie also goes through phases of being a bit of a ladies man (see his random interest in Mara), but on the whole these things are constant. But already, the English version of the character is a lot more twinkly eyed and is like “Amber’s really pretty, I hope she notices me” as opposed to the Dutch “Damn she’s hot, lemme tap that”. It’s very subtle, because he’s obviously not a sleazy, bad guy, but it’s though being friend zoned by Amber (for the whole series) that Appie begins to loosen up and be less of a sleaze and more of the silly and whimsical guy we know him as; that’s because of Dutch Amber’s characterization.

I’ll come back to why all that matters, after I discuss the Ambers. (For the sake of keeping track, I’ll refer to them by their last names). Rosenbergh is a rich, pretty, ditzy party girl, but she’s incredibly perceptive. She sniffs out bullshit in an instant, especially with the Mick and Mara situation, but overall she has wicked foot-in-mouth syndrome and just sorta blurts out the first thing that pops into her head even if it’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever heart in your life. She’s extravagant, over-the-top, full of whimsy, and is downright silly. Rosenbergh is simultaneously a ditz and very smart. Simultaneously is the key word here.

Millington is not. She is a much more toned down version of her OG counterpart, and I think that is mostly due to the different actresses takes on the character. This isn’t to say, Millington isn’t any of the those of adjectives I used earlier, but the difference between the English and the Dutch versions of the character is that while Rosenbergh is both smart and ditzy, Millington is simply smart and plays at being ditzy. At least that’s how it reads, and how it reads is incredibly important in this case. Millington would never be caught dead in some of the situations Rosenbergh found herself in, because she’s a fundamentally more uptight version of the character.

So why does all this matter? Because the version of Alfie that we get from the very start is far more like Appie after a good hunk of his subtle character development— far more like Amber Rosenbergh. Amber Millington, on the other hand, is not the type of girl to ever mesh that well with a wild, goofy personality like Alfie’s. She’s just not. Alfie would work super well with Rosenbergh, however, because she’s this whimsical girl with a lot of heart. It’s why Appie works so well with her, too.

This isn’t a diss of HOA!Amber, by the way, because her English characterization is a masterful adaptation of the OG, but there’s a reason why even in S3 of HOA, at the supposed established point of Amfie’s relationship, they still feel so estranged from each other. At the end of the day, Millington has a different outlook on life and an entirely different mindset than Alfie. This isn’t to say they couldn’t work ever, but they’re just not the same pairing that Amber/Appie are.

It also didn’t help that Amfie had no best friends era. Like, sometimes I think we forget that Amber and Appie didn’t get together until the reunion movie. Like they weren’t a canon couple in the series. He liked her, but she didn’t like him back and they were besties. Their chemistry was chaotic and silly, and they had to grow into each other for them to work. Which is why they work. Amber and Alfie never did that, and part of me wonders if that wasn’t entirely because of the plot the English writers put down for them, but rather because the ways Ana and Alex played the characters off each other just didn’t allow for it.

Which brings me to my last point: Willow. Arguably, Willow is more like HHA!Amber than HOA!Amber is, and that’s all because of the magic word I’ve been using this whole, poorly-written essay: whimsy. Willow is the glitterbomb to Alfie’s fuse. Their dynamic feels exactly the same as Appie and Amber because Willow is the writers’ second attempt at having Amber Rosenbergh in the picture, and that’s why Walfie works so much more naturally.

Anyway, this got long and I’m sure I missed stuff but yeah. TL;DR: Amfie was unable to replicate Ampie bc they’re just different

[jgblkshot]

EVEN MORE ART for a new pfp that was ordered from a fren awhile ago in walfie's artstyle :p

[ambersgiantpanda]

Walfie is my endgame, yes, but my Roman Empire... Pifie for sure. Like, they had so much potential... I really wanna see them grow old together just ahhhh😖

And even though Alfie and Willow are soulmates, just imagine how good Piper and Alfie would've been.. I refuse to let them go.