saw the opportunity to rant about my favorite characters and went for it. you would not believe just how long i obsessed over wilson from don’t starve. i mean sure the big big hyperfixation part where i kept drawing him and telling my friends about him was majorly just throughout middle school and it died out a lot after that, but oh my gosh i still love that goober so much. i think i just have a thing for tall lanky characters who either act goofy or funny without hiding it, or who try their best to act oh so professional and wise but are a goofball at heart. i mean you see wilson just doing his best to make a new invention in the original cutscene / opening animation for ds, but i mean you can’t say he isn’t a stubborn goober, just look at him. and the outfit. oh my gosh the outfit. i love his waistcoat so much and i mean his hair too, everything just ties in together and in conclusion he is a wonderful little goofball that lived rent-free in my brain for years and still does. but now i’ve def moved onto focusing on a lot of other funny characters from other indie games but that gentleman scientist holds a special place in my brain / heart.
originally was going to end this at the wilson ted-talk but nah im gonna talk more since this to me also feels like a really fun writing exercise, i hope you don’t mind.
not sure which blorbo came after wilson, but i’m sure whoever it was had also come from an indie game roguelike. pretty sure it was bobby / the prisoner from dead cells. i mean, especially with how fast paced that game can be, i love the little moments where you can talk to npcs and listen to basically bobby’s thoughts. and i love the concept of him just being like this. sentient and pretty much immortal lump of what looks like guts that can always possess bodies for his own. and that detail of him specifically preferring headless bodies is just so neat for some reason since i mean with the concept of him being immortal and all that, you kinda wouldn’t think he’d have interests and that he’d just be focused on his goal. but i think i also just mainly really love like how he’s drawn / depicted in all of the dlc trailers, like he’s so much more clumsy.
was gonna go even further but im gonna stop here. before i send this i just wanted to leave a few more notable blorbos of mine. well i mean wilson and bobby are kinda just the main ones but there’s also stanley and the narrator from the stanley parable, spamton kinda fits into the list, and the most recent one is the pilot from the indie roguelike enter the gungeon.
hell yeah this is what i'm talking about thank you for your time i'm so happy you love that character so much to write so much about them. whenever you feel the need to do anything like this again please do, i loved reading through this and i wish i had the patience to write that much about postal dude...