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OOC: I think I will move William to my multimuse, mostly because the show got cancelled and I think he might get a little more attention from me there. I don’t know. I’m tentative to do it because I liked having my own blog for William but I just can’t see myself being on here a lot now. So please follow me over at @fallsekings .
What do you know ?
Jimmi Simpson as Tom Andrews gifs in Pachinko.
OOC: Host!Caleb and his daughter gives me so many feels. I didn’t ask for this emotional torment lol I love it though. I need more.
OOC: Just putting this out there--- I will not prioritize young William over old William or vice versa. I know a lot of people prefers young William, but to me, William is William. One whole character, despite two different people playing him. I have verses for all of the Williams, and everyone is free to make requests for those verses... but I don’t really like pretending they’re two different people, because they’re not.
We’re not here to transcend. We’re here to destroy. If I could, I would pull the plug on this whole goddamn world.
Westworld 4.07 “Metanoia”
𝚜𝚘 … you’re a ᴍ ᴏ ɴ s ᴛ ᴇ ʀ after all
“Clearing me of my delusions yet again. Thank you, Dolores (....) I'm disappointed in you, Dolores. I guess I'm gonna have to find Wyatt by myself.”
I just want to say, what William meant here, right before he stabs Dolores in the season 1 final... he meant that he was hoping that she had woken up. That she was real and now he’s disappointed because she’s still programmed to lose... meaning she is still trapped in her programming aka she’s not alive like he had hoped. He had started thinking there was hope for that and then he fell for the delusion again.
Hiya,
I saw your new meta about William and wanted to add my two cents. :)
I think people greatly overlook the impact William's first visit in the Park had on him. I don't think it was necessarily William's love for Dolores and her forgetting him that reshaped his view on life and many other aspects of it, or not primarily. It's much more complicated and sadder than a simple amnesia story. It was about everything that came with William's growing feelings for Dolores, namely the sense that there was someone relying on him that badly needed his help. I'm not sure how his monologue from episode 7 fits into that, but later on it is clear that William had put aside the prospect of being a character from a Western movie and replaced it with one task only, which was getting Dolores out of the Park. The true transition to MiB started when Dolores and him were separated and she got caught by the soldiers. Having your beloved one violated and killed is a source of great trauma and can break a person. MiB, who I think he always had in William but that's not the point, got unleashed to help him find Dolores, but also to get through initial shock and anger. I don't think at that point William has been numbed by Ford and co with reassurances that the hosts are reseted on daily basis and remember nothing, so yes to him it was real and massive.
Then another break happened when he reached Sweetwater and found her at last. Seeing Dolores with another man, happy and free of any worry while he spent days losing his mind over what happened made him realise it was all in vain and that Logan was right and it was all a game after all.
I think he had struggled with accepting what happened to him for most of his life, adapting malignant defense mechanisms to deal with the pain, likely blaming himself for being silly enough to risk his all life or go mental for a doll. Deep down however I think his brain has never truly ended the operation "save Dolores" and he never got a closure on what happened when they first met.
I'm simplifying here things a bit since I think there was much more going on there later on, like the fact he still cared about her even years later and I think deep down he was grew attached both to Dolores and Lawrence and started fantasising about becoming a part of their world. That was until Juliet and Emily died which I think sent him on a downward spiral.
Anyways, I hope it makes sense.
Hey there! And thank you for reading my meta and for your input. I actually agree with you. I had made posts about this before but you worded it perfectly. I do think that William continued caring for her, even into his old age:
He may not say it, but his actions speaks a lot louder than his words. If anyone thinks for a minute that he would let Dolores touch him like this, if he didn't want her to... well she wouldn't be touching him in this manner and he wouldn't be looking at her like this. He was longing for this...
Everything he became was because of everything that happened with Dolores and his inability to do anything about it to help her. Not only did it traumatize him, he also realized that, it was because of people like Logan, that something like this happened to begin with. His own inability to stop them let this happen. He was tired of being a doormat and this newer version of himself could have protected Dolores. This newer version of himself had more control of his destiny and he didn't want to let go of that after he found himself because it is just easier for him to believe he was a monster than someone who was destined to always have things he wanted and cared for taken away from him and there was not a damned thing he could do about it before.
Thank you for your thoughts! I always love hearing this stuff to be honest. Because it is something I thought for a very long time and then season 3 happened and I had to reevaluate how I felt about William and thought I had been wrong all along. Season 4 clarified a lot for me. So you actually make me feel validated Nonnie! So thank you <3
William’s Darkness. Spoilers ahead. Do not reblog. I feel the need to talk about this topic today because I feel like it is something that is completely misunderstood by many people, even by myself, since last the season. This darkness that he is referring to is not evilness, but emptiness, the absence of anything, essentially a void. A black hole. Whatever you would like to call it, it’s not evil per say, it is the absence of anything meaningful.
William, since the beginning, and I am referring to younger William here, has felt like he doesn’t belong to this world. He has been looking for a place to belong because the world that Westworld has created is devoid of any meaning. Programs, such as Rehoboam, has decided many many many things for people until their very existence has felt fake. So he started reading books to find meaning in them. Stories about heroes and villains and knights. He read up on Philosophy to a point where he could quote philosophers to find meaning to his own life and he never found that.
Dolores gave him meaning, though, and that woke him up to a bigger reality... actually realizing how fake everything was and how unhappy he truly was just going through the motions of every day life.
This is depression. All of it. William is severely depressed because everything seems and feels so artificial.
William found meaning in Dolores. He found what he was truly capable of because of her. He had been stepped on by people his entire life and suddenly he was capable of fighting back and getting the things that he wanted and he liked that he finally had some control over his own life and how it could turn out... Dolores was like a mirror for him because he realized that was a part of himself that had been there all along and she made him realize that.
Having her die and not remember him did break him in many many many ways. Suddenly there was this void of meaning inside of himself again. There was no more light there. It was dark again. He had been given light and then it was taken away again.
Now, after all of this, this void could have been filled with some meaning that he had been looking for. He kept going back to Dolores in hope that she may come back to him, but she never did... and he gave up. He went back to what he would consider a meaningless life. Going through the motions again and again, all the while looking at humanity and seeing how terrible they treated each other. How selfish, terrible, and fake everything seemed to be.
Depression can make things seem worse than they really are and that can breed anger and hatred, which William let out in the park. So, while the darkness, the void, the depression isn’t inherently bad, he truly did become a black hole that sucked in everything, even light, all around him and Emily and Juliet suffered because of it. Did he purposely do it? No. He tried to keep it from them, thinking that his darkness was inherently evil and only let it out in the park... but that’s the thing... someone’s mood can spread to those around them, even if it is unintentional.
We all know that William has an extremely dark view of the world from season 3 during his little therapy session where he compared humanity to bacteria. The host version of himself even admitted to trying to find meaning in the hosts before killing Bernard. Westworld felt like those stories that he had been reading about since he was a kid and so he felt like he could finally live in one of those stories that had meaning, rather than the meaningless existence that the world the show creators had made where every decision was made for you. Westworld let you be free from that for a while and he really quite enjoyed that to a point where he felt like he belonged to one of those stories and wanted to stay there.
Isn’t it weird though, how a supposedly fake world that Ford created was more free and real than the real world? William sort of lived in this delusion until he killed Emily, which woke him up to the fact that not everything going on around him was just a game. The stakes were real now, just as he had always wanted and when he finally got that, he realized he didn’t want it anymore. It wasn’t what he had hoped that it would be.
He realized that both systems, the Hosts and the humans were broken (because they were mirrors, reflections of the people who built them) and there was no hope in saving any of it by the end of season 4, so he was basically like, in his own William fashion, “fuck it, let’s start over.” The human world is fake, evil, broken, and devoid of any meaning and the hosts were just as broken as the people who created them (in William’s eyes), so he decided to pull the plug on all of it. The darkness, while it didn’t start out as evil, it became evil because that’s how the chips fell, because of everything with Dolores, and everything after.
OOC: Okay I am tentatively back after a natural disaster that happened in my county, but I have some things to say about William in season 4 of Westworld and some of the things that I have realized about him. So I may do that today.
William: I want freedom!
Also William: Valhalla!!!
So with all the ‘reliving’ and testing for Fidelity. Do you think that was the new William going through it all? The one who nearly killed himself, saw flashes of Dolores, found host!Emily. I know it’s obvious, but like, tell me your thoughts
This is a very good question, so thank you for it ^_^ I do believe that you're right, to be honest. But up until this point, he probably didn't have an emotional connection to these memories. For him they are just memories. He knows that he is a host, so he knows that he isn't the real William so while he has these memories, they happened to that "other guy". But as he is becoming more conscious and connected to his humanity, these things are feeling more real to him because he is becoming more like the man that he has been copied from.
It is interesting you brought up "The one who nearly killed himself", because Real William did ask the host if he wanted to kill himself. William did it because he thought that he was a host and that was the one true way of finding out and ending the loop and starting over. I wonder if William thinks that the Host version of himself is thinking about it for the same reason, because they were both questioning the nature of their reality at this point in time? Or if it was something else... like just the sheer drive to end it... just like the human's who are infected with the virus?
I think this host of William is probably most likely the Host we see at the end of season 2, but I also think that William plays a hand in his fidelity, because I remember one of the showrunners saying that this Host was built to basically do playthroughs to see if there was somehow an ending where he doesn't kill Emily, which would tell him if he truly had free will to choose... or if he was really coded to do this all along.
"Well, you can't have it both ways, Dad. So which one is it? Are you free and evil? Or blameless and helplessly enslaved?"
*spoilers*
Henchman William is interesting to me now because he is showing his humanity even before he came in contact with that Outlier. He is questioning Hale and he is questioning the world that she built for all of them... why? It’s not because of the parasite that she infected everyone with... it’s because they have freedom to think for themselves. Humans are not of a hivemind like Hale wants all of the hosts to be. She made the Hosts in the image of humanity and gave them human wants and needs... and this makes him crave the same freedoms that William craved--- which is a big reason for his insanity in the park. Freedom of choice, freedom to be who you choose to be... Charlotte SAYS she gives them these things and yet when the Hosts act on this desire for freedom, she ends them... which was something real William would always fight against also. William wants freedom and now so does the host version of him.
OOC: There is a part of me that wants to write Caleb now, perhaps on my \W/ multimuse, because them making him a father and that whole story has made him very interesting to me. Not that he wasn’t interesting before, just watching him and how much he cares for her and his wife is making me🥺
fi·del·i·ty /fəˈdelətē/ (n.) the degree of exactness with which something is copied or reproduced. Westworld (2016– ) 2.04 “The Riddle of the Sphinx” × 2.10 “The Passenger” × 4.04 “Generation Loss”
OOC: As much as we love some of the hosts, I am starting to understand why William noped out about them.
OOC: William is over here like... I could use a coat... and maybe an electric heater... pls... thanks... an old man like me needs to thaw out a bit....
