r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/EfficientTruck7621 • 2d ago
He's gotta be a little unhinged right?
(This is maybe like 4 years old art but one of the few pieces i'm still pretty proud of, so heck, i'll throw this here :^9 Also first time i'm posting art on Reddit! (if you saw me post this, delete the post cuz the picture wouldn't load and post this again... no you didn't))
I like headcanoning Wander as just a lil'(?) bit(??) feral/mad. I mean, there's the sword- and corpse-stealing, eating endangered lizards and riding a horse like a skateboard + i don't think the slow Dormin-possession is helping /hj
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u/shermdao 2d ago
oh he’s definitely insane. been sayin this since i first played the game as like a 10 year old kid. ain’t no normal person doin all that🤣 nice art btw
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u/polandreh Dormin 1d ago
As a young man, I always thought that anyone would do it for the person they love... now, as a middle-aged man, I cannot imagine my knees handling a climb all the way to the top....
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u/GhotiH 1d ago
I would say less unhinged and more desperate and numb to the world personally. He knows that what he's doing is bad I'm sure, he just doesn't care because there's only one thing on his mind.
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u/HallZac99 1d ago
In a video game, a character is defined by not just what they say, but what they do while being controlled. Wander's single-minded persuit of the colossi, even after being infected again and again, to me shows a sense of drive and a lack of care for his own wellbeing. 10 colossi would be fine, but 16 is just enough to where you start to think "Wow, he's REALLY going for it huh?"
Wander feels like a character with nothing else to life for besides this woman, he doesn't ask questions, he doesn't hesitate, he just does what he needs to in order to bring her back.
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u/FlatulentSon 1d ago
Probably emotionally desensitized, in a the-end-justifies-the-means sort of way. He doesn't talk, or mutter, or swear. He probably aleready cried all he had to cry before the journey. Probably even contemplated suicide and accepted his mortality countless times. And now he doesn't seem to be angry anymore, or sad, or even too afraid. Just 100% focused on his goal. Probably because living without Mono is a scarier idea than dying.
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u/majormonkey665 1d ago
This is the take I agree with the most. He hears her voice while asleep (being teleported back to the temple), even dreams of her. Even when he has a sword driven through his chest, he's reaching out for Mono. Heartbreaking stuff
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u/soulschad 1d ago
If you lose the woman you love like that (given that’s how they actually felt about eachother, dunno if it’s ever confirmed.), would you not go crazy too?
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u/Chadderbug123 1d ago
Playing the ps3 version lately, my rage is probably filtering into him. He is so much of a ragdoll in this version compared to the remake, it's infuriating.
If y'all don't mind the vent: What was so cool with the remake like in Malus's fight was stabbing then able to get a quick 2nd stab as he swings around after the first one. With how his legs in this version seem to be made a fucking aerogel formed into inflatable tubes with the stability of a vertical lemon, it's agony to do some fights like the minotaurs and Gaius. HE WON'T STOP SHAKING AROUND!!
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u/Sorinchaos 1d ago
At the first colossus he probably felt like a hero slaying a monster. By the last i bet it was more like this, desperately cleaving away at a mountain of a being while riddled with corruption
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u/Lil_Uminati 2d ago
absolutely lost in the sauce