#ata fanart

[alexparozi]

never kill yourself drop out of college and get a stupid hyperfixiation instead (real events)

[peabrainproductions]

AMANDA THE ADVENTURER FANDOM WHERE YOU GUYS AT

I love these two so much please let them have a break 😭😭

[NOT A SHIP BTW!!!!]

[freakenomenon]

welcome back to the weirdest crossover ever

[a-typical-nightowl]

Ready for an adventure? :D

[seasonalmoss]

Amanda the Adventurer: Wooly and escapism

“There’s nothing you can do but Dream. Hopeless you think of a Better place to be. One where you’re free.

One with triumphant tales And dangerous lairs And a happy ending that’s fair

A happy ending in your head A happy ending you can grasp A happy ending you’ll never have

A happy ending you can only dream”

(Disclaimer I am not a professional or in anyway someone with credentials, I’m simply someone who Knows a lot about trauma and psychology and has an interest in it, do not take my words especially my exact wording as anything)

Do any of you guys think about just how much it’s implied that Wooly is typically off in his own head and thinking of different stories to help him cope? that he possibly and most likely maladaptive day dreams?

two specific incidents come to mind:

There’s a version of the very first tape of the second game, Let’s Plan a Trip, where Wooly appears at the end. When Amanda goes over to give the coins to the doll Gretchen, Wooly shows up and asks what Amanda is doing. When Amanda answers that she’s going on a trip Wooly says “Oooo! it’s fun to pretend to go places” with a clear vocal emphasis on pretend

In the tape When You’re Feeling Bad, at the beginning Wooly says “well… I’m going to go on an adventure in my mind. You can come along with me if you like. Telling a story is like going on an adventure!”

all of this implies a level of escapism that Wooly is trying to achieve or note. When he first appears he mentions how it’s fun to specifically pretend to do something, how it’s fun to pretend to be on a trip. His tone emphasizes the pretend bit but it wasn’t condescending, in fact it was more happy if anything. He expressed a level of excitement with his “Ooo!” And seemed genuinely happy and okay at the prospect of pretending. His wording shows this, “It’s” implies that he’s done it before, “It is fun to do that” as opposed to “it would be fun to do that” or “It’d”. “It’s” is more past tense and in this context implies that it’s been done before and therefore a conclusion can be drawn from said experience, and this case, the conclusion that is drawn is that it’s “fun”. the second time he mentions anything, especially demonstrates his need for escapism. He mentions specifically going on an “Adventure” in his “mind” and the certainty in his tone along with the “you can come along if you like” implies that this wouldn’t be the first time that he’s done this. What even led up to him doing this shows this. When Amanda expresses not knowing or caring about what to do because she feels “weird” Wooly thinks for a bit and then suggests going on an adventure, to which Amanda immediately shuts down. But instead of being unsure or nervous after Amanda yells at him, he continues forward with a confidence to suggest that he was either already going to talk about stories or that regardless of what Amanda did he was going to go on an adventure in his mind. The fact that he had the idea in the first place, and his confidence to share it and do it, implies a level of consistency on how often he does it.

this entire Tape in general show’s his need for escapism. If you don’t follow along with his story and instead follow along with Amanda’s he gets incredibly worked up. And I think a part of this is because it breaks and messes with the reason people even escape into their heads in the first place. Escapism can occur because the person who’s doing it want’s to escape from their current situation and off into a place that is better, more accepting and in general easier to control. If you continually interrupt that clear more perfect and happy world with a tragedy much like the one they’re trapped in. Of course the person trying to escape would show a level of annoyance by it. Especially in this kind of situation where Wooly is actively trying to get away from the awful place he’s trapped in, get away from all of the dread, and get away from all of the trauma, of course he especially would get incredibly worked up.

and that’s not to say that he’s doing all of this to cheer only himself up, quite the opposite actually. It’s clear that he wants to help Amanda, but he simply just can not understand why having a story like that of your own, would help in any capacity. he probably genuinely thinks that it’s nothing but harmful if anything, and that it would do nothing but remind you of how awful your situation is then help it. He’s doing what he genuinely thinks is best for Amanda.

it’s clear that overall Wooly exhibits the flight and fawn trauma responses the most. We see him constantly try to appease, obey and follow Hameln with little amount of boundaries and poor advocacy for his own discomforts and himself overall. All of these are signs of the Fawn response but he also clearly exhibits flight as well. The way he quickly changes topics, refuses to talk about certain things and in general his attitude of shaking things off is the flight response, with that being said forms of escapism *can also be categorized as the flight response. Your flying away from your problems and into a world where everything’s okay. (*That is to say, this particular kind of maladaptive daydreaming- or more rather this form of intense escapism- would generally be described as dissociative. Which to my understanding typically falls under the “flop” response.)

Wooly is constantly shown to have discomfort in dark topics and often seems afraid and scared, because on one hand it’s going off script, it’s going against the precedent of the TV show and by extension what Hameln wants them to do. He doesn’t want to go against Hameln, he doesn’t want to go off script because neither of that would appease the people who are hurting them (Hameln) nor would it typically appease the viewer. And if they don’t try to appease them if they don’t try to comply, one of them would most likely get hurt! And on the other hand Wooly simply doesn’t want to be reminded that he’s trapped, that he isn’t in a good place. Because all of that is hard to cope with! All of this is hard to understand! It’s so clear that he’s simply trying to please Hameln and then pretend that everything okay, since that’s simply what he thinks is the only way they can stay safe.

Wooly being an escapist and constantly in his own head makes sense for who he is as a character and how he handles traumatizing situations. I feel like at some point it would be more then just escapism, but it would turn into maladaptive daydreaming as well.

Maladaptive daydreaming is an excessive amount of “day dreaming” that can span for hours on end and make you ignore some of your basic needs. “Maladaptive” refers to the unhealthy nature of quickly adapting to something. It’s caused by multiple factors but can be caused by

Trauma especially childhood trauma. The need to be away from the stressful situation your in, and a way to cope with everything that’s happened.

Boredom and poor enrichment. Unable to do anything to pass the time or stimulate yourself in a meaningful way. the first one clearly applies for Wooly but the second one applies too. In any of kind of content outside of the original games, where we see Amanda and Wooly simply sitting around, we see an immense amount of boredom and in general a kind of understimulation. The animators and creators deliberately chose to portray them in such a way, and it make sense too. What purpose does the two have when there isn’t a viewer watching? Nothing. They don‘t have much of a purpose when no one is out right watching, and it clear that they are often alone, looking at Amanda’s many mentions of having to do stuff “alone”.

With all of this I definitely feel as though Wooly does Maladaptive Daydream or at the very least has the likely possibility to start doing it.

In generally he’s desperately trying to get out of the world he’s trapped in without physically doing anything about it, since he’s simply hopeless and resigned to what he’s trapped in, and refuses to go against Hameln out of fear.

so I drew this do capture that.

this is my design for him in the TV show, it’s a whole lot more simple and round. The shading is meant to look empty, lifeless and odd, the textures and colors not being right. I was trying to emulate the poor shading in a old 3D program but in a 2D format because that especially would look odd and off putting. In general I wanted this piece to look and feel empty but also chaotic and fearful.

[kickstheclown]

Manda the venturer

[rufpup47]

Something I drew last night.

Wanted to post this cause I’m really proud of it.

Idk, I had a random idea of a scenario of Amanda learning how to control her demon form and being able to summon it at will.

Partly took inspiration from Eda finding out how to control her Harpy form. (Talking about a character from The Owl House btw lol)

Also something I feel like I want to explain; she looks surprised/shocked here cause she wasn’t expecting it to work.

Basically Amanda experimenting with the form— seeing what she can and can’t do.

Uhh.. anyway- enjoy the drawing i guess lol- 🤠

[maxvoidcanz]

Some Amanda the adventurer stuff cuz i actually quite like this game.

[r0sebush12]

A wolf in sheep’s clothing

[maiipai]

"answer my question!! 😡😡"

(Drew these in my media class a few hours ago)

[peabrainproductions]

PLAY MY WAY PAINTING

Im so tired

[freakenomenon]

do i look like him

[wallababyworks]

Cute little thing I did based on a song I heard hehe :> !!!

SIDE NOTE: i do ship them in a "elementary school sweethearts" way. I like drawing fluff of amanda and wooly because in my world they are happy and they hold hands and play on the swings together. they are a huge comfort for me !! but just being very kind about it, i dont want my ship art to be portrayed as familial as that makes me uncomfortable >_<

expect me to post more wholesome art of them together because thats what i draw pretty much, i love to draw fluff of these two because they make me really happy and im a bit emotional about them :>

[emotional-mess-in-distress]

Amanda the adventurer doodles! 🐑🐑🐑

[seasonalmoss]

Amanda the Adventurer AU Doodle

Doolde thing, I love these two so much, anyways this is actually part of a silly crossover AU I have, if any of ya’ll are interested then feel free to ask!

[yaya-ww]