Wirt

Adelaide Parade

The Fight Is Over

“	Sometimes I feel like I’m just like a boat upon a winding river, twisting toward an endless black sea. Further and further, drifting away from where I want to be. Who I want to be.	„
	~ Wirt

“	The Beast? We don’t know anything about that! We’re just two lost kids trying to get home!	„
	~ Wirt

“	I have my own problems to take care of. Here, this one is yours	„
	~ Wirt

“	Alright, my turn huh? Ok well. It's weird to admit it, but, well, I-I have this crush on this girl....That's all. And I secretly whisper poetry to myself in my room at night	„
	~ Wirt

Background

Wirt is a teenage boy who has a crush on his schoolmate Sara, and he made a tape to give to her on Halloween. He went to find Sara at the graveyard where she and her friends were hanging out, and his half-brother, Greg, tagged along. Because of Wirt's disliking towards his stepfather, he disliked Greg as well, although he was fairly tolerant of Greg’s antics until they started getting in the way. When Wirt was about to give his tape to Sara, he and Greg ended up running away instead, and when trying to avoid a train, the two fell into a lake and blacked out. When they woke up, they had entered the Unknown. They would soon meet a talking bird named Beatrice, who, claiming she was “honor-bound” to Greg for saving her from a bush she was stuck in, directed them to the witch Adelaide to help them get home. Unbeknownst to Wirt and Greg, however, Adelaide actually enslaves children, and Beatrice has made a deal with her to turn in the brothers to be her servants in exchange for a pair of scissors that could turn Beatrice and her family back to humans. When Adelaide trapped the brothers, Beatrice managed to kill her by opening a window and letting in the fresh night air, melting her away. The brothers continued their journey, this time without Beatrice as Wirt lacks the full context of the situation and believes she betrayed them. Upon learning that Wirt is about to have his soul claimed by the Beast, Greg let himself be claimed in his brother's place. When he woke up and saw that his brother was gone, Wirt went to search for him, once again aided by Beatrice. Wirt arrived right after a fight between the Woodsman and the Beast, and the latter tried to tempt Wirt to take the Woodsman's place as the new lantern-bearer to save Greg. However, Wirt realized that the lantern actually contained the Beast's soul, so he instead refused and rescued Greg, carrying him home. The Woodsman is then shown killing the Beast via blowing his soul out. Wirt wakes up in a hospital, and is initially panicked before realizing that Greg is safe and busy telling their friends about their adventures in the Unknown. Wirt finally confesses his feelings to Sara, and she agrees to come over to his house to use his tape player.

General Information

Name: Wirt

Origin: Over the Garden Wall

Sex: Male

Age: 14 to 18

Classification: Human

Status: Alive

Alignment: True Neutral (Wirt often thinks about the safety of both him and his brother Greg, over anything else. Often times, Wirt can be really selfish and only think of himself when he is stressed or angry. However, Wirt often states that he has a responsibility to make sure his brother gets home at all costs. This is best seen when Wirt started to become depressed at the fact that the possibility of going home was getting slimmer. He gave up on saving his brother and started becoming a tree due to his negative emotions. However, when his brother was in trouble, Wirt instantly came to his senses and saved his brother from The Beast)

Codex Statistics

Keys: Human | In the Unknown

Tier: 10-B | 9-C

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Human level | Bone level (Wirt is consistently overpower characters such as the Woodsman, who can easily chop down trees in a couple of swings of an Axe. Wirt was also able to overpower an alligator that had a firm grip on a car. Wirt was also able to pick Greg up and jump through a window which had wood blocking the opening)

Durability: Human level | Bone level (Wirt was able to survive getting eaten by a horse that was two times bigger than a normal horse. In the next scene, Wirt was shown to be perfectly fine, with no injuries)

Striking Strength: Human level | Bone Class

Lifting Strength: Average Human | Peak Human (Was able to easily pull a tooth out of a giant Donkey's mouth. The tooth in question is a decent size bigger than Wirt's head and chest)

Travel Speed: Average Human | Superhuman (Wirt has been shown to be able to outrun horses, wolves, and several other animals who are much faster than a human)

Attack Speed: Average Human | Superhuman (Wirt was able to keep up with The Beast, who is able to move much faster than the human eye can see)

Reaction Speed: Average Human | Superhuman (Wirt was able to keep up with The Beast, who is able to move much faster than the human eye can see)

Stamina: Above Average (Wirt is able to do physical activities all day without needing to rest or take a break) | High (Wirt is able physical activities all day without needing to rest or take a break. In this time, he has also been shown to be able to fight off life threatening monsters for several minutes without being tired)

Range: Standard Melee, Cross-Universal with Astral Projection (While dreaming or knocked out, Wirt is able to go into the Unknown, which is a separate reality from his original one) | Standard Melee, Hundreds of meters with the bell (As long as a person can see and hear Wirt's command with the bell, you can be affected by its power)

Intelligence: Gifted (Wirt was able to outsmart The Beast, who is able to easily manipulate grown adults and other people. He is also able to think of plans in right before an event that usually goes well until his little brother goes against the plan)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Acrobatics, Stealth Mastery (Should scale to his brother Greg, who was able to sneak around a house and not get caught by the owners, even after the lights turned on, making a lot of noise, and other people entering the room), Social Influencing (Wirt is able to talk his way out of several situations that a normal person wouldn't be able to escape from. This is best seen when Wirt was able to convince the Woodsman to not harm him and his brother on multiple occasions, even after they destroyed his entire house), Non-Standard Interaction (Wirt is able to touch several spirits during a ritual. This is shown when he was able to see and touch the spirit of a dead crow and a dead dog. Wirt and Greg are able to see and touch music), Portal Creation, Dimensional Travel and Astral Projection (Wirt and his brother, Greg, are able to go into the Unknown while they sleep or when knocked out. They can also open portals to the Unknown as well), Regeneration (Mid-Godly. Characters in the Unknown are able to regenerate from their bodies and soul being burned and absorbed into the Beast's soul. This is show cased when the Beast turns children into Edelwood Trees, which are made from the souls of lost children from the forest. The Woodsman has been shown chopping all of the trees and then burning the oil in the tree in order to fuel the lantern. His daughter was turned into a tree by The Beast and was shown to be fine at the end of the series), Immortality (Types 3, 4, 6,and 12. Characters in the Unknown are able to regenerate from their bodies and soul being burned and absorbed into the Beast's soul. Wirt and Greg are protected by the Queen of the Clouds and her angels, who grant them wishes and makes it to where they are able to escape the Unknown without dying. The Unknown is a place that exists between living and dead, dream and reality. Nothing that enters it can die in this place and all the dead from the living world pass through here before going to the afterlife. The characters are able to survive having their body parts change into tree parts and having a tree grow from inside of them), Soul Manipulation ( Wirt is able to interact with ghosts and other spirits. Wirt was also shown to be able to interact with The Beast's soul and threatened to blow it out), Mind Manipulation, Power Nullification, and Battlefield Removal (Wirt was able to use The Whisper's Bell to expel an evil spirit out of a character. The spirit was commanded to leave said character alone and to never come back. They spirit was soon removed from the area and couldn't use their powers to come back), Wish Granting (Wirt should scale to Greg, who was able to make wishes from the Queen of the Clouds), Fate Protection (Wirt and Greg are protected by the Queen of the Clouds, who made it to where the two are able to leave the Unknown without losing to the beast or getting lost even more), Corrosion Inducement (Wirt and Sara were able to feed a Shapeshifter a lot of sweets at once. This made the Shapeshifter grow large cavities instatly), Healing (Wirt is able to eat a certain fruit that is capable of healing any sickness or wound that said person has. When Wirt and Greg gave a horse with an unheard, supernatural cold that rotted away their skin away that also transformed them into a monster, they instantly turned back to normal and was cured of said cold), Breaking the Fourth Wall (Wirt is able to go outside of the story and acknowledge the reader’s existence), Illusion Manipulation and Perception Manipulation (Wirt and Greg are able to manipulate already existing illusions), Sealing (Wirt and Greg are able to seal spirits in objects by preforming a go away song and dance).
Resistance to Corrosion Inducement and Acid Manipulation (Wirt was perfectly fine in the stomach acid of a carnivorous plant for several hours even though all the other characters that were in the same plant got digested very fast), Sleep Manipulation (By thinking of goats instead of sheep, characters are not able to sleep for weeks or even longer), Possession and Mind Manipulation (Wirt was able to resist the Scare Crow's possesion after his influence got stronger. It's shown that Wirt was able to disobey his orders and defeat him with Greg), Poison Manipulation (Wirt was just fine after getting his entire face covered in a very strong poison), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation) and Corruption (Wirt was able to break out of The Beast's influence and not become an Edelwood Tree even after the branches were wrapping around him. This tree takes your soul out of your body and turns it into oil), Limited Transmutation (With a certain fruit, Wirt will be able to turn back to normal as long as he is able to eat it), Cold Manipulation (Wirt is able to walk around with almost no protection from the cold during late fall. He has also been shown to be fine while it was snowing or when he gets wet in the cold air), Heat Manipulation (Wirt was fine after being surrounded by a very close fire for several minutes), Death Manipulation (Wirt exists in a place that is between life and death so he can't die by normal means. Two evil spirits were able to sacrifice people by making them sing. They would usually die with in a day. It took Wirt and Greg several days to even feel tired from the ritual)

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Equipment

Jason Funderburker (Frog)

Despite Jason being Greg's frog, He has been shown to help save Wirt whenever his life is in danger. He has been shown to interrupt evil rituals and can be used to command people or spirits against their will since he swallowed the The Whisper's Bell. The Whisper's Bell is able to control a person's mind and negate their powers in order to command you.

Frainy Fruit

Wirt has access to a fruit that is able to cure any sickness or wound, no matter how great it is. It works as long as Wirt is able to eat something.

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Notable Techniques

None notable

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Other

Standard Tactics: Wirt will always try to talk his way out of a situation by giving the person what they want or striking a deal. He will often try and outsmart his opponent and make a plan during a life threatening event. If Wirt feels like there is no possible way to win, he will either run or fight back based on the situation,

Weaknesses: Wirt isn't very brave and will likely cower in fear if the person seems to be a huge threat. He is also very likely to become flustered or depressed if things don't go his way. Wirt is also very self conscious and it can lead to him overthinking situations a lot.

Trivia

• Wirt is also the main protagonist of Tome of The Unknown.
• Wirt was one of the first characters to be seen in a short preview as part of a sales video by Cartoon Network in June 2013.
• Wirt is overly cautious of many things, and prefers to be by himself. However, he has Gregory to look after.
• In another show called "Clarence", in the episode "Lil' Buddy". When Clarence is about to bury his doll, a silhouette of him and Greg in the right can be seen walking in the background.
• His secret passions are poetry and playing the clarinet.
• The name means "worthy" or "powerful" and "strong".
• Wirt, along with Greg and the frog, may appear to be from the year the setting takes place, but in fact he appears to be from the late 20th century, still wearing his costume before he and Greg got lost on Halloween. Sometimes it was hinted throughout his remarks, reasoning and knowledge seemingly out of place of that era.
• Making cassette tapes for significant others was a popular pastime in the late 70s and 80s (almost to a cliche point).
• Judging from how Sara states that she does not own a cassette tape player, one can infer that the story takes place in a modern setting.
• In one of concept art Wirt's original name was Walter. This may be unintentional, but his name makes a pun out of the phrase 'Worry Wart', aptly capturing Wirt's disposition.
• The cape he wears is a WWII nurse cape.
• Wirt's hat is made from what looks like a Santa hat with the fuzz cut off.
• The shot of Wirt's room in "Into the Unknown" shows that he owns a book on interior design, which explains how Wirt recognized the difference in architecture of the two mansions in episode 5, "Mad Love".
• Wirt can play the bassoon quite well, as shown in "Lullaby in Frogland."

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