y’all i might be wrong but i think part of me will still be stuck on the way q!Wilbur’s “Did I fuck up chat?” wasn’t about why q!Philza shouted at him, but was him thinking out loud about how he should’ve never left the island, should’ve never left Tallulah without him, because all the bad things occurred while he was gone.
on the flip side, q!Wilbur is never beating the q!Philza’s son allegations for me and how it impacts their lore. q!Wilbur represents those grown children, now young adults, who can’t admit to their guardians that they might’ve done something wrong, might’ve fucked things up, so no, he doesn’t recognize his questioning q!Philza’s and the maze running island residents’ efforts as being why q!Philza snaps. no, instead he immediately jumps to thinking his absence was the problem all along, and he must be the one to find Tallulah, which was a process of thinking that would only lead to him isolating himself — if it weren’t for q!Philza, who knows q!Wilbur, who was q!Philza’s family before Chayanne and Tallulah entered the picture, heck we wouldn’t even have Tallulah if it weren’t for q!Wilbur’s simple existence (and *cough* q!BBH’s badassery as a single parent *cough* anywAYS). so yes, q!Philza, in all his infinite kindness, was able to push the two into moving past their incident in the maze. not an entirely healthy solution/wrap-up you could say, but that’s what she wrote.
