#wes headcanons

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BEHOLD THE WES THROUGH TIME HEADCANONS YEAH. I’m pretty sure the read more link isn’t gonna work bUT YEAH HEADCANONS WHAT.

1904:Just came to America. Very freckled, hair hasn’t been cut in a long time, and he’s wearing one of his father’s shirts because his got ruined before he left France. Scared, hungry, thought coming to America would help him get money for his father. Realized it was a big mistake, goes months without a place to live and is desperate for food. Ends up digging in circus trash for scraps, is found, is adopted by circus. Becomes fast friends with Wolfgang and becomes extremely attached to Charlie, even viewing her as a mother figure. William and Wes start out close but quickly grow apart the more he becomes Maxwell. By the time he ‘dies’ Wes and William resent each other heavily. Starts miming on stage at about the age of 8. After Charlie’s ‘death’ he’s forced to leave the circus to live with a foster family in New Orleans. Lives with a French family, keeps the accent because of it. Comes back to circus around age 16.

 1918:Year Wes was brought to Maxwell’s world. Some freckles, usually none. Manipulative, easily reads people, can shift emotions on a dime, extremely good at changing himself to fit a situation and get what he wants. 9\10 times if you have something he wants you’ll either end up giving it to him or he’ll lift it off of you while you’re not paying attention. Nothing is off limits when it comes to persuasion, sex and physical contact are frequently used. Smokes like a chimney, flirts often, drinks for the heck of it, has many meaningless flings. Commits multiple small thefts almost weekly, sweet-talks his way out of jail and heavy punishment. Very broken on the inside from multiple failures and Charlie’s ‘death’, has a generally bad attitude because of it. However, towards certain few people, Wes is nothing but kind, positive and gentle.

1921:Wilson arrives on the island, Wes is freed from Adventure Mode after being trapped inside for roughly three years. Face is significantly lighter than it should be due to having a full face of makeup for a long time. Face is thinner from years of malnourishment. Anxiety and high amounts of stress from being alone and surrounded by Them have caused a large personality shift. The manual removal of memories (by Them) has also contributed to a change in his personality, he mostly can’t remember his former self but he generally prefers not to think about who he used to be. Silent, gentle, and mostly kind, his worst qualities have been blocked off by Them to make Wes behave more like They believe mimes should. However, the missing memories often cause Wes to have frequent identity crises. The longer he’s alive the more he remembers about himself. He dies often so more often than not Wes can’t remember much of anything about life before Maxwell’s world. Nightmares come often, panic attacks are common when he’s under stress.

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[STOP. But also don’t stop, because I’m suddenly having lots of feelings about 141 Wes keeping his hair close and under control just like his emotions.]

[He used to wear it longer and it curled like crazy. Sarah had always said it was part of his charm, even while James was poking fun at him for its length. He didn’t mind. At least with longer hair he and his brother could be told apart easier.

After the accident, things aren’t the same as they were before. Everything that Wes was vanished and he lost all of the things that made him who he was. He would look in the mirror and his longer curly hair would serve as a reminder that one brother lived while the other died. It hurt seeing that, so like his emotions he cut the length of his hair down and he saw more of James than he did himself. With things under control, he realized it almost hurt more seeing James, but the alternative was worse.]

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Is Wes oblivious to the way Lara feels about him or does he simply think she sees him as a brother? Misconception or not?

[One thing that is very important to know about Wes is that, after losing James, he very much lost the will to see his life as his own. He took on dreams that James had and decided right then and there that he would do whatever he could to make up for the biggest failure of his life. That being said, Wes has become a machine dedicated to helping everyone but himself. This includes relationships. He has friendships with people, Lara being the closest, but he never gives much thought to anything past a friendship developing. He just isn’t in that mindset. That’s not to say that he doesn’t develop romantic feelings towards people, but he isn’t focused enough on them to make anything like that known to himself or other people. 

So I guess you could say that he does want Lara to have a chance to find love and be in a relationship like that, but he hasn’t considered that he might be that person that she wants or needs. It just isn’t in his pattern of thought.

So yes, he is oblivious, but he doesn’t necessarily think that Lara thinks of him as a brother, just a good friend.]