Wild is one of the smartest members of the chain and watch me PROVE IT.
(picture is tiny sorry :C)
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lookie here. wild gets a lot of attention for being a feral arsonist, but unfortunately its often made into his ENTIRE personality in fanfiction (etc). which is an unfortunate, but common occurrence when a 'chaotic' character...well, exists at all.
but when people promote these qualities in wild they often seem to gloss over how smart this man actually is. people forget that out of the chain he is one of the most likely to have received a formal education............... not to mention most of the people he spends time with in game are SUPER MASSIVE SCIENCE GEEKS (Flora, Purah, Robbie, etc etc the list goes on), point being that he likely has extensive knowledge about varying scientific areas, as well as field experience. and in totk he's a freaking teacher.
but the real kicker? Wild is INSANELY creative and resourceful, as shown in game AND in LU canon. he is an out of the box thinker, and while his methods may be...... unconventional....... THEY WORK. and he has fun with it. that's the big one here.
yes, Wild sometimes does dumb things. but doing dumb things doesn't make the PERSON dumb. it doesn't DEFINE them- which I unfortunately see a lot in Wild's fanon characterization. to add on, this man woke up out of a dang cave after 100 years (and before that basically only military training) so LET HIM FREAKIN' LIVE!!!!
he is definitely (at least in my eyes) the most creative chain member, so why does this quality always get overshadowed by "hehe feral gremlin man"??????
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idk please voice your opinions below lol
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and thank you for coming to my tedtalk :D
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(also I think someone made a post about something relating to this topic farther back in the LU community?? I don't wanna scroll back but that was my motivation to make this post)
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@linkeduniverse for the art credit :D