#welcome home homewarming update

[tohopa-official]

welcome home theory !! spoiler !!

guyyyyssss. so, am probably really late and someone else probably already find it but i solve the new code in the "homewarming" update ! the letter create a link name : www.awayfrompryingeyes.net

am just really happy to have find it on my own :3

[cookieshapedrat]

Some quick uncolored sketches I made of my reactions to the WH update. What a rollercoaster of emotions that was at 3AM. Spectacular voice acting, gorgeous artwork, the writing was incredible too, and the new website layout looks very nice! I struggled for two hours trying to solve the decoder puzzle. I’m horrendous at word scramble, working my brain so hard to the point of a near headache. Eventually, I did figure it out (anddefinitelydidntjustsearchuptheanswer), and man what a treat!

You know, I used to be one of the fans that thought, “Home isn’t evil. They haven’t done anything wrong yet. Surely they’re just misunderstood and actually cares a lot about Wally and is good friends with all of the neighbors.” Then this update happened. Now I’ve placed a foot on the side of Home being pretty sus actually. I may still not understand much of what happened, but what I do know is that Eddie was already having a rough day. The man deserved to have a break.

Here are my references that I used for a couple of my sketches. (If anyone knows the artists of these, do let me know so I can give proper credit. I’ve been searching but haven’t found them yet.):

[citrineaura]

The Homewarming audio reveals and exposes a lot about the neighbors characters. [ANALYSIS]

1.) First things first; The neighbors can interact with the narrator. But considering puppet shows usually involve the puppets interacting with the narrator, (like Sesame Street for example) I don't know if that's a big deal or not.

2.) BARNABY: (Barnaby pipes up at the Narrator.) Hey, keep it down up there! Some of us are tryin’ to do some serious cerebratin’ down here!

^As above, so below reference again.

3.) JULIE: (Whispered.) Frank’s right… Homewarming is about making sure your house is nice, cozy, and toasty. Right before I go to sleep for a very long time, I make a big nest from my bed just like I used to do back home when I was small- A lot of pillows and blankets and leaves and sticks…

^Her background when she used to live in a cave.

4.) HOWDY: Advice?! …You know I don’t got any’a that for sale, Barn! Not unless it’s to buy, buy, buy-!

^Hmmm, consumerism is what he's advocating.

5.) HOWDY: Frank?! (Howdy Scoffs loudly)

^So far, Frank is wary of Wally, Sally is blatantly disrespectful to Eddie, and now we see Howdy possibly doesn't think of Frank as a close neighbor. What's with all the animosity?

6.) HOWDY: That’s right! Trinkets even! It’s about what you give to other folks! The bigger, the shinier, and the more expensive the better! It’s about the razzle and dazzle! Go on, Barn, tell ‘em!

^We see here that Howdy is materialistic- which is odd considering he only asks for a joke in exhange for his services but then we get...this side of him.

7.) Frank said Homewarming is just a home that's warm, Howdy said it was gifts for Home. Sally says Homewarming is about the ambience, decor, and experience. Poppy says it's for dishes.

^Frank is logical- too literal, Howdy is materialistic, Sally enjoys the spotlight, and Poppy is a foodie.

8.) Wally even tossed the slice of poppy-seed ham into the flames and listened for a sound of approval

^Although it's revealed Home preferred the company of Wally and Barnaby instead of all the gifts in the end, this one specific action Wally did seemed oddly...sacrifical. Like offering food to a higher being.

I still don't think Home is an antagonist, personally. My money is still on Playfellow Workshop.

9.) WALLY: (He sounds frustrated and confused.) …How can that be.

^Apparently, Barnaby couldn't hear it but Wally's voice gets distorted when overwhelmed, just like it did when he tried speaking to YOU or...the Question-Answerer.

10.) AND! Eddie was never mentioned, not once, in this audio- which makes me think this is in correlation to the Wishbook audio recording where "Santa Claus" fails to talk about Eddie, and only Eddie.

[pinata-candy]

Get that mfer out of the kitchen NOW!!!!

[cyanwyrmy]

(Fan Art! Wip)

I love the “Up On The Hometop” audio so much, and I wanted to see how Julie does a Sandy Claws look. She plays with her hair so much I figure she’d happily turn it into a big beautiful beard. I wanted to draw her paws too but it wasn’t working with the vision. I WILL draw her paws at some point!

I’m open to constructive criticism on the look! Ya think there’s any details she needs/would be cute?

[serene-hatterene]

I noticed something about Frank’s Homewarming outfit…

His sweater is the exact same color as…

THE PEA!

I’ve seen theories suggesting that the pea could represent Eddie and the isolation he experienced leading up to the Homewarming party, as well as Home’s/Playfellow Workshop’s disapproval of his feelings for/relationship with Frank. While I like this theory, I’m wondering if the pea could also somehow represent Frank.

In addition to being a reminder that Home is always watching (hence the pea on the plate resembling an eye), this could be Home sending a subliminal message to Eddie that he had better leave Frank alone as if Frank is the pea on the plate. Some people have speculated that Eddie will be completely absent from the next update as he will have been taken off the show, but what if we see Eddie avoid Frank instead, perhaps even suggesting to Frank that he spend more time with Julie instead?

[eldritchravens]

Welcome Home - The Homewarming Update : A compilation of the secrets I could find

⚠️SPOILERS AHEAD!⚠️

This post is simply a compilation of all the things I could find during my exploration of the website. I'm not going to delve too much into theories. Enjoy the read!

1- Statics

Every background is now filled with statics. I tried zooming out but I couldn't find anything. Not really a secret, but still interesting to note.

2- It's a dog! Oh, and a pea!

Found in the "Official Welcome Home Cook Book" in the merchandise page. I am... A little worried about Barnaby. For those who are aware, the pea is foreshadowing for a much bigger secret.

3- Audio distortion

Surprisingly, I was only able to find one instance where the audio distorts. In the "Homewarming Storybook Record", when Wally speaks here (timestamp is 18:16), the audio gets distorted. Please let me know if you found more audio glitches on the main website!

4- The page is breathing

I was able to capture something that made my skin crawl. Look very closely at this illustration. It's... breathing. I'm unsure if any other image in the website does that too. Very troubling.

5- Lost track of time

Uh-oh! Looks like our beloved writer is losing their perception of time itself. An effect of the black substance maybe? You can find this on the News page.

6- Pixels? Smudges? Oh, and a new friend!

In The Neighboorhood page, Home now has little white pixels around him? I'm unsure if this was intentional or not. Interestingly, the secret link under Home dissapeared along with every other traces of Wally.

The logo on certain pages looks... dirty? Look closely, there are brownish stains on some letters. This doesn't appear everywhere.

And! New friend! Hello new friend!

7- Symbols!

Okay, now onto the main course. Something I think we've all noticed straight away! There's a ton of tiny little doodles splattered around the website. The doodles are all named after a letter. Here is every letter translated from their respective symbol you can find on the website :

Home : M I O A Merchandise : P Y E R Media : Y G About us : A R Stickers : E News : T Neighboorhood : S F N E Wally : W Exhibition : N Ghestbook : W W W Transcript : Y

"www" huh? Interesting, like a web link. At first, all of this doesn't really mean anything, until we stumble upon this!

Fascinating, it's a code! Eddie here is giving us the translation to every single doodle. Next, if we solve the question here "What does Home wear at parties?", it gives us the next clue we need. The answer is "ADDRESS". Address? Now, remember the "www" thing? That's right! We need to assemble the letters we found to make a link!

8- Away from Prying Eyes

After assembling a link, you will be able to visit a secret page. In it is by far the biggest secret in this update : https://www.awayfrompryingeyes.net/

When I tell you I lost my marbles when I discovered this. There is a lot to say here! Firstly, one thing to note is that unlike any other secrets we had found in previous updates, Wally didn't put this here. Instead, it was this mysterious "W". Go read the whole thing! It's PACKED with information!

"W" purposely put this here for US to find. W is in distress, confused and scared; this looks like a call for help.

Might or might not be important, but the word "Paranoid" here starts with a capital. It did catch my eye, so maybe it is noteworthy.

This entire phone call is absolutely fascinating and gives us answers about the lore. I highly recommend people to give it a listen : https://www.awayfrompryingeyes.net/phone

AND THIS??? OH MY GOODNESS!!! Clown is spoiling us with gifts for this Homewarming! Truly, thank you Clown and the whole WH team, you're doing such a marvelous job. Watch the whole thing here : https://www.awayfrompryingeyes.net/commercials

And what's this hidden among the commercials? Eddie! Remember how I said the pea was foreshadowing? Eddie can hear Home's heartbeat. Well, our dearest mailman doesn't look too well :( Thankfully Frank seems to be looking out for him!

_________________________

Important things to note: This update is almost completely void of any trace of Wally infesting the website. The symbols were placed by the website manager here. Wally is not there anymore. Also, Eddie is purposely left out of the main update, only to be the center of attention in the commercial compilation.

Well! That's all I managed to find for now! Please let me know in the replies if I've missed anything. Thank you for reading, and Happy Homewarming! <3

Edit : Added some new things I just noticed!

[rudeboimonster]

Happy Homewarming everybody!

what do you mean it's March no it's not it's still desperately cold out and-

Anyways! Happy WH update everyone, if you checked out the Wish Book, you saw a few things I got to make for the update! :D These were so much fun to make and I'm so glad it seems like everyone has been really enjoying the update, getting to make props for this project has been amazing and I adore working with the whole crew!

I made Eddie Dear's toy set bag, cut & sew Frank & Wally plushies, and the big Welcome Home tree skirt! (Design collaborated with Echo to get everything to look just right!)

(fun goofy fact: I used a Lost Origins ETB to help stand the mail bag up because I couldn't find anything better than a pokemon tcg box lol)

Welcome Home; Credits page

[sketchy-tour]

Wanted to try my hand at a more sort of story book look! Been a minute since I made a piece like this!!!!

Oh I love these three so so much. Dandy sticks out so much compared to the primary colored pair hehe

[pawfulofwaffles]

THOSE ARE GENUINELY HER LEGS?!?!?!?!

SHE HAS PAWS!?!?!?!?!!?

HECK YEEEEES

[gachagon]

This is big spoilers for the commercials in the Awayfrompryingeyes website on the Welcome Home site.

I've been saying since DAY 1 that Eddie Dear was going to be one of the most important Neighbors to pay attention too, aside from Julie, Frank, and Sally. And this update just practically confirmed it, I had this long running suspicion about Eddie Dear, and it's that I think he was one of the first besides Wally to gain sentience in a way.

I know most people believe Wally was the one who "woke" up first essentially and was able to see the reality of what they were actually living in, but I think Eddie Dear was the first of Wally's friends to actually wake up. My reasoning for this is that Eddie's "backstory" on the neighborhood page is so vague and strange compared to the other neighbors. He's the ONLY one who doesn't remember where he came from, and we see routinely throughout these updates that he's kind of the odd man out a lot of the times.

And that's not totally unusual for a kids show, but there's something about Eddie that just points to him being a lot different from the other puppets. Like that he's also the only one who's able to actually tell what time it is, as he's the only neighbor with a real watch.

And he really REALLY wants to fit so badly into the world of Welcome Home that he sticks to his job as a mailman as much as he can. But even looking at his interactions with the others, you can tell he's not quite playing the role he's been set as perfectly.

I don't think Home (the house) had anything to do with Eddie waking up, I actually think it was a combination of Eddie just not being able to mesh well with the part he has to play and the other characters breaking his routine without asking him. The moment that really shakes him is when he can hear the Narrator say "And Eddie Dear was happy." and i think that's because he really doesn't know if he is happy or not. Home is still strange because its obviously the one thing that Eddie fixates on when he first gains sentience, but I don't think its what shook him out of just being a puppet only.

Eddie is also so obviously playing along with the idea of Homewarming and doesn't actually know much about it. But he's not letting the others know this, as when he's alone is when he tells himself to just "focus on the festivities" instead of the other confusing parts of Homewarming. When he's with Poppy decorating the tree (with turkey...? and gravy...?) He just makes it seem like what they're doing is a no brainer, and something everyone does during the holidays.

But when he starts spiraling at the party, all of the things he helped decorate look strange and confusing to him. He can't focus on anything, staring into the wallpaper makes it seem worse, and the fabric of his own reality is literally being ripped at the seams (there's just an excessive amount of video tearing which I equate to Eddie's sense of sanity at the moment and just how present he really is)

It's here that Eddie finally realizes just what they're doing, and what everything really truly looks like. Eddie even tries to focus solely on Frank's face to sort of ground him, but the goddamned credits for the episode itself is playing over Frank's face and obscuring his vision. The scene itself wants to move on but Eddie is still able to see what the audience normally wouldn't be able too, and that split from his reality to ours is what makes him freak out in the end.

[snnnailmail]

THINKING ABOUT THE WORDING HERE ESP WHEN IT COMES TO FRANK…

“STILL STANDOFFISH, BUT A LITTLE MORE ANXIOUS”

Girl wdym “still”??? I’m reaching a little with this one but it does kinda poke at everything being an Act… just bare with me.

“CONCERN STARTS TO SHOW THROUGH”

Show through??? Show through what??? What does his Concern need to fight against???

Also why is Frank whispering to him? Like it was so abrupt, the switch from “This is how I’m supposed to be talking to you” to “Hey wait man are you for real???” you KNOW? Alarm bells are definitely going off for him. It doesn’t seem like a reaction from someone who expects his friends to be helpful at all if Eddie is having a bad trip.

And this may be me overthinking but it was kinda strange how Sally vanished completely. Even in the video you could see her just pop out of frame with no explanation. It’s almost like… the script broke? The illusion of the Show fell apart? Leaving Frank and Eddie, the only ones with their foot in reality at the moment?

IDK GUYS just jotting down everything I felt during my exploration… wildest day everrr

[zoerocksand1]

hiiiiiii the puppets live in my brain :)

OKAY SO i don't remember where i saw some of the posts, but overall stuff is happening with censoring i think

i'm gonna ramble now:

on the art for Howdy's Holiday Hullabaloo, aunt Tooduloo and uncle Adieu's Good Friend Sue wasn't present (i for sure interpreted the three of them as poly), im fairly certain Sue is the only person in the song not present in the art (minus Barnaby since he shows up at the end)

Eddie is having a whole situation, as we've seen, and he and Frank are a thing yah? but in universe it seems like the narrators and story are pushing Frank and Julie as a couple (i think i remember Julie being confirmed as genderfluid somewhere, but it seems like she tends to present fem, and Frank being nb but seems to present a lil more masc?, so on the surface Julie and Frank could pass as a cishet couple)

back in the interview with Wally, the interviewer asks about his love-life, and seems disappointed when he doesn't understand- like he really wants Wally to have a romantic partner

it seems like something really wants to keep things from being queer? no art of Sue, trying to get rid of Eddie, pushing romance on Wally...

like am i crazy (yes) or is one of the warnings for welcome home specifically even homophobia?

also Eddie only started that whole disassociation breakdown once he relaxed, and stepped out of his Overworked Mailman role. once he relaxed and tried to be himself while in Home, things went Bad. SO where im going with this is Home might be homophobic??? or represent a homophobic household?? Eddie wasn't fitting the role he was expected to play, tried to be himself, and then Bad Things happened. A homophobic household?

HOME-OPHOBIC?

EDIT:

ALSO, so we all agree that Frank knows some things, right? okay what if he KNOWS about this? What if that's why he called Eddie "Mr. Dear"??? like yah maybe they have a thing, but like on-set Frank holds up a professional facade between them?

WHAT IF THAT'S WHAT HE'S ACTUALLY SINGING ABOUT HERE IN THE BUG-A-BYE & GOODNIGHT SONG???

some might find it sad (us)

even if i might not be able to see you (he has to act cold to Eddie on-set)

i know it's for the best, i can't keep you (he knows Home or something else will hurt Eddie if they don't fill their roles of "Mailman" and "Julie's Partner" respectively)

?????????????????????

EDIT 2:

OHMYGODS HI AGAIN

ALSO WHAT IF THAT'S WHY FRANK ONLY CALLED HIM EDDIE ONCE HE REALIZED SOMETHING WAS VERY WRONG WITH HIM? HE WAS WORRIED THE WHOLE TIME BUT DIDN'T WANT TO SLIP UP AND BLOW THIER COVER UNTIL HE THOUGHT IT WAS ABSOLUTELY NESECARY TO SEE IF HE WAS OKAY

[king-of-vertigo]

uh oh. the puppet is disassociating.

the update has jump started my brainrot again. I love Eddie sm--

((I'm going to attempt to draw for a small handful of fandoms consistently, wh being one of them. keyword attempt.))

version without static under the cut :DD

[pinata-candy]

took a weed worm n got so emotional over them puppets I made an animatic thing in record time with windows movie maker

The song is Little Bird by The Weepies!

[cyanwyrmy]

(Fan Art! Please do not repost!)

🐛The Pillar Family!🦋

Oh I’m so happy I got to draw these colorful worms! I figure Hiya and Biya have more kiddos than just Seeya, Latter, and Howdyadoo, but i decided to just draw who we’ve seen so far. I’m guessing Howdy is younger than Seeya and Latter considering he ain’t a butterfly yet during the Holiday Hullabaloo, so that’s why he’s a baby bean in this drawing! I also went for a 1950s style in terms of clothes and posing and I think it turned out pretty cute 🐛

Edit: I was kindly informed that Howdy mentions Seeya specifically as his little sister! Oops! Well, I think we all needed some baby Howdy regardless haha