#wbg matt

[sunriseovergotham]

wbg hcs because im bored (feel free to add on your own)

ty betteridge cannot handle heat for the LIFE of him. like he'll suffer in the cold but his soul legitimately leaves his body when its too hot. he has to have 5 icepacks and 10 fans pointed at him at all times

mikey uses he/she!!!

aromantic anne!!!

edgar bought mikey one of those 'nervous' vests created for dogs. mikey did not find this funny (the pressure calmed him down like a weighted blanket and he was so mad it helped)

mikey and matt just make out sometimes. casually. like friends do. the wbg polycule is REAL idc what anybody says

DEATHLY ticklish mikey

^ i must make mikey absolutely pathetic in every way. its like a reward

i feel like ty would type super professionally and all but... i think he would really like the :3 face. hes so silly he would love it!!

[felixcosm]

Can I say how happy I am that Mikey doesn't have to deal with Matt's death alone?

Even with Matt coming back to life, Mikey still expressed disconnection in earlier seasons because how do you tell your best friend you've experienced trauma because 'they used to be dead once but that never happened?'

But now, Matt knows what happened and he knows how his death has impacted Mikey.

The way he easily addresses and comforts him in the latest episode ("I take it I died again?" "I'm alive again, I'm okay") is just incredibly sweet.

[squivulous]

Yeehaw chain reaction

[thatcakelovingwitch]

Today I offer you a Matt tomorrow... idk

[falloutcoys]

Matt got struck from the timeline during this last season right? which makes sense, because if Nobody was essentially trying to undo them playing Woe.Begone, of course he would be dead. I was fairly sure of this basically since Python was introduced, but confirming that Python was an 'anonymous' Matt validates it.

because if Old Man had remembered Matt, there are two options I see as plausible

He knew what Python's deal was with being an anon iteration. In which case, he would have recognized that was what Chance was, which he did not

He did not know what Python's deal was. In which case, he would have definitely been just as confused as with Chance and that would have come up earlier

neither of those are the case, ergo Old Man did not know Python was Matt because he did not remember Matt. it's the only thing that makes sense to me

[dracolichen]

I have remembered this old q&a drawing was not posted, so, here it is. Who would wear miniskirts? Sly, Michael, Matt, and Boris.

[glendover]

quick sketch of Matt and Mike cuddling bc that’s how I cope

[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

I’d never claim I’m attracted to a voice but Edgar wbg..

[parkeryangs]

thinking about matt woe.begone and how easily he accepted his death. like-- i don't even think he cared that it was a necessary evil in order to save him, i think he saw it simply as a chance to die.

tw for discussion of fictional suicidal ideation under the cut

see, him dying in the car wreck was never the horrific freak accident that everyone believed it was. every second of the crash was meticulously planned and plotted, and matt was still a coward who couldn't even die properly, because mike just had to go and get involved.

that's why it was so easy to give him the gun.

to mike, it was a rescue mission. to matt, it was just some long-coming end to a bitter fight with his own mind; even if it wasn't self-inflicted, it was an inevitability he'd already come to terms with even before he'd met mike and tried to learn to love living again and failed halfway.

he deserved whatever was coming to him, after mike changed history without his knowing and all that really happened in the crash that night was matt breaking his wrist in two places, shattering his survival instinct along with it. he wishes he remembered what it was like to die. he doesn't, until mike shows up in vancouver with tears in his eyes.

mike saved him but now he has to kill him and that human instinct to keep living has been gone for a long time but he puts up a fight because he has to. mike starts crying and then matt starts crying. matt can't breathe and mike is gone again and he comes back, different, changed, and there's two of them and it's not just because matt's eye is already turning purple, freshly bruised.

matt thinks that, in a different life, he wouldn't have forgiven mike for this. he died, he was supposed to die, but mike just couldn't leave it—him—alone. maybe things would've been better if he hadn't interfered. mike told him he couldn't sleep after he died and some nights he woke up screaming and he never moved on, not really, but life was temporary anyways and matt was never going to live forever. he was never going to live as long as he had now.

this was all mike's fault and as much as he loves mike walters—to death—he hates him right now, standing on the other side of the too-small kitchen table looking so guilty it makes matt sick. still, he takes a deep breath, then another. he tells mike the truth, all of it, about the car wreck and all of the broken bones and the bottle of pills in his medicine cabinet and he never stops crying but mike doesn't either. then he pushes the gun across the table and tells him that it's okay.

[sandybrett]

WOE.BEGONE Character Playlists, Part 2

Here are all my character playlists for WOE.BEGONE characters who are not, have never been, and will presumably never be Mike Walters. Listed in order of first appearance. Cut for length and possible vague spoilers.

Matt

"The Magician" by Dizzy "The Winding Stair Mountain Blues" by the Turnpike Troubadours "Cuyahoga Canal" by The Taxpayers (suggested on the Discord) "Down Here" by the Turnpike Troubadours "Research Me Obsessively" from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Anne

"She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)" by The Judybats "A Shot in the Arm" by Wilco "Bravado" by Lorde "We Can Build a Fire" by Autoheart (from a collaborative Ty/Mike playlist) "Shot at the Title" by Curtis McMurtry "The Bonnie Dell House" by Sarah and the Safe Word (from @fortunechaos's Cowgirl Anne playlist)

Ryan & Cannonball

"Turn The Lights Off" by Tally Hall (suggested on Discord) "Blast Doors" by Everything Everything (from Percival's playlist)

Hunter

"So-Called Friend" by Uncle Tupelo "Hanging Tree" by Tim Easton "Heel Turn 1" by The Mountain Goats (suggested by @solipsistful) "Chaplinesque" by Curtis McMurtry "Harvest" by I See Hawks In L.A. "Heel Turn 2" by The Mountain Goats (from @solipsistful's playlist) "Burning Bed" by The Backsliders "When Will You Die?" by They Might Be Giants "Gaucho" by Steely Dan "Can't Cheat Death" by The Ballroom Thieves (from @fortunechaos's Mikey playlist) "my tears richochet" by Taylor Swift "A Fond Farewell" by Elliott Smith

Chance & Shadow

"Emmylou" by First Aid Kit (suggested by @woebegonepod on Discord) "Trouble's Here" by Jann Browne "Don't Follow" by Shelby Merry (from @auxilion's playlist)

Marissa & Charlie

"Old Slew Foot" by Rose Maddox "Miss Marissa" by Reckless Kelly "The Girl I Can't Forget" by Fountains of Wayne "Wilder than Her" by Dar Williams "Don't Follow" by Shelby Merry (from @auxilion's playlist) "it's time to get good at darts" by Brian David Gilbert

Edgar

"What A Heavenly Way To Die" by Troye Sivan "Flaws" by Bastille (from Scholastic Arson's Edgar playlist) "FOOLS" by Troye Sivan "Don't Ask Me Why" by The Backsliders "Body Paint" by Arctic Monkeys (suggested by @fortunechaos) "Out of the Picture" by Son Volt "When Anger Shows" by Editors (from Scholastic Arson's Edgar playlist) "Happiness Will Ruin This Place" by San Fermin (from @ante--meridiem's Mike/Edgar playlist) "I Saw It Coming" by Reckless Kelly "A Lifetime to Find" by Wilco "In Our Bedroom After the War" by Stars (from Scholastic Arson's Edgar playlist) "Mesa, Arizona" by Jeffrey Foucault "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" by Paula Cole "Expert in a Dying Field" by The Beths "IDK You Yet" by Alexander 23 (from @auxilion's playlist) "Ours" by Joe Pug (suggested by @woebegonepod on Discord) "Somewhere in Time" by Reckless Kelly

Ty

"This House Is a Circus" by Arctic Monkeys (suggested by @fortunechaos) "Erase" by They Might Be Giants (from @solipsistful's playlist) "I Love You for Psychological Reasons" by They Might Be Giants (from a collaborative Ty/Mike playlist) "My Ugly" by Cloudfodder (from Scholastic Arson's Ty/Mike playlist) "Skullcrusher Mountain" by Jonathan Coulton (from a collaborative Ty/Mike playlist) "Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other" by Ned Sublette "Panoply" by WOE.BEGONE (from @fortunechaos's Tex/Outlaw playlist) "Otters" by Ryan MacIntyre (from @fortunechaos's Tex/Outlaw playlist) "Expert in a Dying Field" by The Beths "Pot Kettle Black" by Wilco "Outlaw Ty" by WOE.BEGONE "Jenny" by the Mountain Goats "It's All Part of the Plan" by the Punch Brothers "Sway" by The Rolling Stones "Blood Orange Morning Light" by Andrew Montana (from finch's Tex/Outlaw playlist)

Felix

"This House Is a Circus" by Arctic Monkeys "Parallel Universes" by Dan Warren (from @ante--meridiem's Mike playlist) "3 AM" by Matchbox Twenty "Working for the Knife" by Mitski

August

"Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other" by Ned Sublette "Seven Shells" by Fred Eaglesmith "Almost (Sweet Music)" by Hozier "IDK You Yet" by Alexander 23 (from @auxilion's playlist) "I Saw It Coming" by Reckless Kelly "The Curse of the Blackened Eye" by Orville Peck (from Icarus is Falling's Michael/August playlist) "Mostly Major Chords" by Shayfer James (from @fortunechaos's Mikey playlist)

Jam

"Goody Two Shoes" by Adam Ant "Fun" by Troye Sivan "Gaucho" by Steely Dan "Tonight's the Day" by Wilco "ilomilo" by Billie Eilish "Ours" by Joe Pug "The Ballad of Cowboy Jam" by WOE.BEGONE

Eagle

"Kill a Man" by James and the Shame (from @auxilion's playlist) "Eye" by The Scarring Party (from @auxilion's playlist) "War on War" by Wilco "Epithet Erased: Countdown" by plasterbrain and Dawn M. Bennett (from Percival's playlist)

Songs that I desperately want to put on *someone's* playlist but I don't think they currently fit anyone

"Leavin' Yesterday" by John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff "Tired of Walking" by James McMurtry "Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But..." by Arctic Monkeys "Man Out of Time" by Elvis Costello "Broken Bed" by James McMurtry "Twist the Knife" by Neko Case

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

yet another woe.begone detail got me feelin shrimp emotions on a relisten-

ep. 54, OVER!Mike is talking to Ravi and says hes killed people before, people he considered "close friends or family"

FAMILY

Mikey considers either Matt or Hunter (his only two major character-close-to-him kills at this point) family and that just breaks my heart and repairs it over and over again in so many ways...

[incorrect-woebegone-quotes]

All of them sitting around the table writing patreon postcards:

sounds of scribbling with pen

Mike: stretches hands and looks up over at Matt

Mike: Matt... is that - a blue sharpie?

Matt: yeah, and?

Mike: ... [whiny] but it doesn't match the rest of us.

Mikey: He's right Matt. Now yours are gonna look weird

Matt: why am I being attacked right now?

Michael: yall need to leave him alone. The blue was a good choice pardner. It's a good color

Matt: THANK you Michael!

Mike: continues to stare at Matt with an expression that's a cross between disgust and jealousy

Mike: whispering [still whiny] why didn't I think of sharpie? that's so much easier... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some time later, Michael is insisting on quality control: Michael: Mikey, this here is a plot hole. You gotta do it again pardner. People ain't gonna understand the story if you don't tie up all them loose ends.

Mikey: Michael please, this is so unnecessary.

Michael: you've never been more incorrect in our lives pilgrim. All a cowboy's gots' his dignity and these here postcards ain't nothin but the most important.

Mikey: Who even are these people we're writing to?

Mike: Michael, what are you hiding from us?

Michael: you'll find out when you're older. Tain't relevant right now.

Matt: What, you guys don't know? How do I know when you guys don't?

Mikey: ...

Mike: ...

Mikey: [loud and whiny] come ON Michael, you can't seriously expect us to do all this work without knowing, can you?

Michael: Fine you really wanna know? They's patrons of the podcast.

Mike: Podcast? What podca- you don't mean Movies with Michael do you? There's no way this many people are listening to Movies with Michael.

Michael: 🙂

Michael: Oh woulda look at that there time, I gotta saddle on out. Don't forget to fill in that plot hole Mikey *calculator noises*

Mikey and Mike: MICHAEL WHAT? COME ON THAT'S NOT AN ANSWER! THATS SO UNFAIR

Matt: *cackling with laughter* (The first half is from my weird brain, but everything below it is a collaboration between me and @alexelalala on Discord)

[felixcosm]

Transcript under cut

[ SOUNDS OF CICIDAS BUZZING. A DOOR NOISLY OPENS ]

MATT: Mikey? MIKEY: (very drunk, distressed) Matt! MATT: (overlapping) What are.. MIKEY: I missed you so much! Matt! MATT: I've been right here, Mikey. You're…drunk. I can smell it on your breath. Wow- that is strong. MIKEY: (sniffling and choking up) You were dead! Sorry- I'm sorry- Sorry… MATT: It's okay, Mikey. I'm alive. I'm right here. I died again, I take it? MIKEY: I killed you… MATT: What else is new? …and what's in the box? [ MATT GOES THROUGH THE BOX ]

MIKEY: It's- it's yours, your stuff from when you died it was, it was in my house. I wanted to give it to you. MATT: Mikey, this is literally junk. And a Pearl Jam t-shirt. You came all this way to give me this? MIKEY: Mh-hm. MATT: Wait, you transported while drunk? That can't be safe! MIKEY: I needed to see that you were okay. I killed you! MATT: I'm okay, Mikey. Let's go inside. You can fill me in on what I missed. The back room is still cleaned up from last time you stayed. You can sleep here tonight. I don't want you transporting again in your state. You'll get- stuck in a wall. MIKEY: I love you, Matt. I love you Matt! MATT: Yeah, yeah. I love you too, Mikey. Let's get you inside, dweeb. Come on now, the possum's got you. We can talk about Edman and MDawg in the morning after you sober up. If you're even sober by morning. How much did you have to drink? MIKEY: Mmmmuch.

[THE SOUND OF THE DOOR CLOSING AS THE MUSIC FADES IN]

[thatcakelovingwitch]

✨College Life✨

[fenraheart]

matt wbg as the star tarot card

[neutronian]

i haven't said this in a hot minute but i genuinely love edgar [redacted]/walters so much. he's sweet. he's razor sharp. he's kind. he's terrifying when angry. he's so painfully human. he's vivacious. he's a dead man walking