Hey can you explain the will wood hair war for me. I'm confused. Why are there ocs. I wasn't a part of it please explain it. Please
(to answer the other ask- dont worry rhis isnt rude at all! Also sorry for late reply- I was a sleepn’)
okay- so basically the whole will war thing started when bald will wood and his roommate created hair will wood (gimmick accounts who would post bald/hair pictures of will wood daily) and decided it would be funny to jokingly start a feud. Well it worked- so alot of people wanted to join in! What they would do was create a side blog, grab a random feature or object and slap will wood at the end of it.(ex: nose will wood)
so anyways at first when it was still kind of small, it was mainly memes and jokes for shits and giggles. Making comical things happen, usually our actions centered around our gimmick.
Like say paper will wood for instance (dispite the fact I didnt make a side blog, I low-key was just kind of lazy - but with the resurgence i finally did yay) they at first would “cast” things on the enemy balds “origami-magic-style - insert something random and quirky here”
I think when meow will wood and woof will wood came into the picture, writing very detailed prose it being technically a joke, with the punchline being the entire point of the war- things took a shift.
more and more people started to join- and it started to become a comical role play. For me it became that when I interacted with eyebrows and liminal (love you guys!!! /p) another defining thing was when liminal started to make the updated charts, showing the relations in the war between the characters (who’s a general, whos on hair/balds side, are Chris and will (I will explain thst soon) still captured by the balds etc.)
and also when people started to become more creative with their woodlings (I’ll explain that in a moment too) or building off from their silly wacky one, giving them lore and backstories as more and more people shifted to role playing. as February became march, it really was that, people even began to talk to the characters they would interact with most, elaborating where they were gonna go next with their plot (still do!).
And coincidentally, the ides of march was coming up. That was to be the “final act” of the will wood hair wars. Basically setting bald and hair free (the admins didnt want to participate anymore- which is always fine. If you joined and had to leave there is absolutely nothing wrong with that)
anyways we classify that as era 1. Usually pretending it was the most violent and war torn era (even though it was so fucking funny brooooo)
Some people still wanted to participate in the will wars, so we cooked up the elections, era 2. And it was going great! Until it wasn’t. One day this guy pretending to be Chonny jash or something started to harass alot of people, even joined the will wars community thingy (those tumblr community things) spammed some awful shit, we got rid of him- but it just tired alot of people.
It also opened a Pandora’s box of people not in the hair war telling us to end it, it was becoming annoying and obnoxious, were flooding the will wood tag (which thst last one was a serious problem during era 1, but we fixed it and made sure to avoid that tag, but it was so long ago- I have to admit it annoyed me thst they were saying that as we have been so careful, monitoring ourselves and making sure to not inconvenience anyone. Ruined by trolls. But I digress.) so anyways we kind of got a deadline to “wrap things up” by a certain date, and we did. Thus ending era 2.
and also people we’re essentially saying that what we were doing was inappropriate and disrespectful towards will wood- saying that it’s rude to roleplay as a real person
that one made me realize that this is so much a role play that these characters aren’t even will wood anymore, theyre our own oc’s who are based off of certain will wood aspects and references mainly for comidic relief, but at the same time will woods dicography and aspects was like the basis of the whole logic system of the wood verse- and it was probably important to define that with how far in we were - so thats why we were now called “woodlings” as a species in the world (or willworld as liminal like s to call it) and the Chris and will being trapped, not being rp'd by anyone, we’re pretended to be “Gods incarnate” to those who were religious in game (some people think theyre the real will and Chris, some think theure con men, either way it was an immense political decision in game to kidnap them - but it’s okay because they were just playing dti style showdown in their cage at the balds barracks)
so anyways, browses admin and I had been kind of elaborating on the entire thing, establishing certain things thst solidified the fact that this is a world on its own- heavily referenced to will wood and other brainrot. We even created a geographical system to whereas different albums were regions, different songs were cities and landmarks, also elaborated on which album is next to which, not in a chronological way but mainly based on vibes and sound (it’s still very conceptual) aswell as elaborating on our own characters and their relationships with eachother (so much lore man)
so anyways, last week or a week before last idk, with summer coming up, alot of people decided “hey remember that? Thst was fun we should do it again” so ever since that, era 3 began. And now that things are more clearly established, it’s alot easier for people to join or roleplay and overall have fun. I also am glad that this one is going alot slower than the other two eras, mainly because of the mutual understanding that alot of us are either busy, or in different time zones and whatnot- respecting that we all have a life outside of this
Anyways this is all my own perception- so there may be some inaccuracies. and I have no idea if this helped in anyway or was coherent- and if anyone wishes to add on or correct me with anything feel free to!
and thank you for asking!!!
