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Name: Wallace Wells
Canon Origin/Series: Scott Pilgrim (a mix of movie and comic canon with comic taking precedent when the two conflict)
School Year: 6th
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Out of school living location: Tinworth in Cornwall, England.
Blood status: Pureblood
Personality: If Wallace isn't the one spreading the gossip then he's hearing it. He doesn't really feel bad about this aspect of his personality. "Don't tell anyone." is usually replied to with "You know me." while he sends out a mass text. He's really probably the last person you should tell anything you want to keep a secret, but along with this he has a good listening ear and it shows. He gives off the aura of someone who is kind and understanding and who you would want to listen. He genuinely seems to care when you're talking about your troubles, and he genuinely does care about his friends even if he does have a funny way of showing it.
This is usually through catty crass commentary, gently making fun of their poor life decisions and browbeating them into making better ones. You know, being a professional sassy gay friend.
Wallace is gay. Did we mention he's gay? He's also pretty darn gay. His type are rugged action movie star types, and guys with glasses. He's also something of a recruiter. Also if we didn't make it clear, he's gay (the comic mentions this at least once a volume if not several times every volume). In addition to that it's rare to see him in a bad mood, seemingly perpetually optimistic and cheerful even in the face of certain doom - though that could be all the alcohol he drinks. He's certainly a happy drunk in any case.
He's pretty driven, all things considered. Wallace doesn't seem too troubled when it comes to throwing people under the bus if that's what he feels he has to do. He's more than willing to look out for his friends, just as long as it doesn't really involve TOO much self-sacrifice on his part.
Canon Background: Wallace Wells
Scott's Roommate
25 years old
Rating: 7.5/10
Pretty Darn Gay
Wallace is not a main character of Scott Pilgrim, but more on the peripheral. As his textbox explains in a very meta fashion, he's Scott's Cool Gay Roommate. He's mostly there to make bacon, gossip with Stacy Pilgrim, get drunk, and tell Scott to either breakup with his fake high school girlfriend or to get it together and fight those evil exes. In fact, this is 90% of what he does for all six volumes. The other ten percent is him playing Hero Support for other characters by making catty commentary at their enemy while they fight (See: Ramona vs. Envy) or hit on Scott and/or any other male character. Especially those with glasses.
Him and Scott met in College, and Wallace kind of shoved friendship upon Scott. Likely because he thought he was cute, and Wallace is a bit of a recruiter - the scene is very reminiscent to showing how Scott became friends with Lisa, a girl he met in high school. Wallace got along swimmingly with Scott's parents and hated Scott's evil bitch of a girlfriend, Natalie V. (ENVY) Adams. When college was finished and Scott moved out of his parents' house, him and Wallace moved in together. Scott doesn't go into how it happened in canon, but when asked he does admit the story is "pretty gay". And it is quite likely that he does mean gay as in homosexual. Either way, Scott and Wallace come to share one crappy-ass hellhole of an apartment together, of which everything in it just about belongs to Wallace (the contents of it that belong to Scott are shown to later fit into one box and two garbage bags) which also only has one bed that they share. Wallace is also the one with the job while Scott played in Sex Bobomb. Wallace went to shows when he could in moral support, but he thought they sucked.
To be fair,
they did.
When Scott started dating Ramona and got into the whole fighting the evil ex-boyfriends thing, Wallace was a main supporter of his endeavors, urging him to do the legwork and find out about them, fight them (whether he wanted to or not!) and played cheerleader. This usually involved a lot of snarky comments while hanging out in the apartment and not wearing pants. He also got drunk a lot and slept with a lot of dudes. Wallace was quite successful in his life.
About midway through the comic, Scott and Wallace have to move out of their hellhole apartment. Wallace heavily implies that he is going to move out with someone else or on his own, though the tells Scott that if he wants Wallace to stay, he will. Scott gets it together and moves in with Ramona, which Wallace expresses relief over. Because he was totally lying about being able to stay, he had already signed a lease for an apartment with his new boyfriend Mobile. He also forms a bond with Ramona based on mutual hatred of Scott's ex-girlfriend Envy, whom Wallace always refers to as a horrible evil bitch. He assists Ramona in her battle against Envy with his catty commentary which functions as good as any MMO buffing spell. Unfortunately he has to use the bathroom before the fight is finished, and then Ramona starts taking hits (Scott saves the day, so Ramona is okay).
Really that's all there is to Wallace. He's not a main character so he doesn't go through any huge character development arcs. Theoretically he's getting on with his life in the background, like all the other characters are. The last we see of him he's cheerfully drinking with his friend (the other Scott - also gay) and is there to cheer on Scott's victory against Gideon. Win!
Background (AU!Canon; HP): The Wells family are high-class British purebloods that can trace their family line back for several hundred years. Much in the case of the Black family and just about every other pureblood line, their boast of blood purity generally involves ignoring and disowning those that break that line. Wallace's father is William Wells, the current 'head' of the family. His mother is from Canada - Quebec to be exact - and has a pureblooded line that can be traced back to the country's first settling. This means that Wallace is, without a doubt, Fucking Classy. His life is not very exciting. He has no elaborate or touching coming out story - Wallace was never in a closet to begin with and when he (unsurprisingly) got his Hogwarts letter he attempted to convince the sorting hat that he should go into Ravenclaw because obviously that's where the smart boys were and smart boys all wore glasses (when you're eleven this makes sense).
In his first year at Hogwarts he held the same "nicest racist in the room" views on blood purity that his parents held - he never considered whether or not he believed them, he was just parroting his parents like children do at that age. This made him more than slightly insufferable, especially since he's also always been a sassy gay friend and part-time gossip monger. By his second year though someone finally explained in a way he could understand that being pretty darn gay but also a racist is more than slightly hypocritical. Oh.
Wallace examined his priorities and actually spent that year researching the whole Pureblood/Mudblood thing in places that were NOT his parents and realized that yeah, he was kind of being a huge douchebag. While he isn't gung-ho over equal rights for all bloods now, he's stopped being an unintentionally racist dickwad (aside from the occasional slip of the tongue because he's not thinking) and states that he is a few years into recovery of it. He's also working on converting his parents, who are much like him just going with the flow and not really thinking about the implications of blood purity (a much safer option as his father works for the ministry's financial department). He figures they'll listen when he brings home a muggle-born boyfriend. As-is he is quite enjoying the new amount of eyecandy it is opening up for him by way of muggle media.
Last summer he landed an internship with the Daily Prophet, which sparked an interest in journalism. He saved up and intends to move out into his own apartment this summer, though his final career goal still is (and has always been) to be the rentboy for some rich old pervert. Goals, he has them.
Other than that there have been no real significant events in Wallace's life. Really, it's pretty uninteresting aside from making out with guys and doing okay at school. That's possibly why he loves meddling so much in the lives of others. He means well.
As far as school goes he's best with charms (specifically domestic ones) and potions and isn't that great at offensive spells (he can make a shield like nobody's business, though). He's more hero support than a hero. He also has something of an alcohol problem. Yes, at 16. He claims to just drink socially. So he goes to a LOT of parties.
How would your character fit in to each House?
Gryffindor: Volume 3 mentions he has "low moral fiber" so the chivalrous Gryffindors might not be the best place for Wallace. All the same he can be pretty courageous when it comes to going up to bat for his friends as long as too much pain for himself isn't on the line.
Hufflepuff: Well, he puts up with quite a bit of freeloading. Shit, look at what he put up with for Scott, he's gotta have a high BS tolerance if you're his buddy. He'll say all the right words and be very kind and go to hell and back for you (as long as it doesn't involve a lot of self-sacrifice. As La Ponte states in Club Dumas, "Imagine this was a Western. As your friend, I would take a bullet for you, but only in the shoulder.")
Ravenclaw: Wallace actually pays attention in class and has relatively good grades overall thanks to actually studying subjects he's not that great in. As stated before as well, he did try to argue his way into Ravenclaw as he likes boys who wear glasses.
Slytherin: Wallace is PRETTY conniving. He wants what's best for his friends and he's 100% certain he knows what that is, and if it means tricking them and browbeating them into doing it well then so be it. They deserve the discomfort for disagreeing with him. He's pretty good at reading people and while he claims to use those powers for good, he does get pretty manipulative with them. Or makes catty remarks during their fights.
Sample Journal Entry: As much great fun as it's been owning one of these and watching all of you go back and forth with your dirty laundry - and I do love it I mean really I haven't read the gossip column in the Daily Prophet in like months, it's nothing compared to this - it seemed high time to make my fashionably late appearance at this party. Can we also get another Student/Teacher scandal because I personally loved that assembly. A+, would attend again.
Hufflepuff, Slytherin, I expect a totally awesome game from you hotties and ladies. Though if the Beaters could get into a catfight in the mud that would really make my day.
Speaking of things that make my day has anyone seen the previews for that new Chris Evans movie? I want to have his adopted babies.
Sample Interaction Post in Third Person: Wallace snapped the journal in his hand closed, stowing it away in his bookbag along with his writing supplies. Sure, it probably looked a little suspicious hanging out in the hallway and just writing, but he flashed an unassuming smile at anyone that was staring - oh, especially that Gryffindor hottie, he got a bit of a longer smile.
Wallace made the mental note to figure out if he was straight and if so just how straight he was, but that could wait until later. He had other things to see about that were slightly more important than a new snogging buddy. But only slightly.
Staking the halls with a bounce in his step and a song in his heart it didn't take Wallace long to locate his target. A classmate of his, just a year older. AKA illegal booze provider. Wallace easily caught up to him, sliding an arm around the other guy's shoulders.
"Hey guy, fancy meeting you here, boy do I have a proposition for you..."
Name: Wallace Wells
Canon Origin/Series: Scott Pilgrim (a mix of movie and comic canon with comic taking precedent when the two conflict)
School Year: 6th
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Out of school living location: Tinworth in Cornwall, England.
Blood status: Pureblood
Personality: If Wallace isn't the one spreading the gossip then he's hearing it. He doesn't really feel bad about this aspect of his personality. "Don't tell anyone." is usually replied to with "You know me." while he sends out a mass text. He's really probably the last person you should tell anything you want to keep a secret, but along with this he has a good listening ear and it shows. He gives off the aura of someone who is kind and understanding and who you would want to listen. He genuinely seems to care when you're talking about your troubles, and he genuinely does care about his friends even if he does have a funny way of showing it.
This is usually through catty crass commentary, gently making fun of their poor life decisions and browbeating them into making better ones. You know, being a professional sassy gay friend.
Wallace is gay. Did we mention he's gay? He's also pretty darn gay. His type are rugged action movie star types, and guys with glasses. He's also something of a recruiter. Also if we didn't make it clear, he's gay (the comic mentions this at least once a volume if not several times every volume). In addition to that it's rare to see him in a bad mood, seemingly perpetually optimistic and cheerful even in the face of certain doom - though that could be all the alcohol he drinks. He's certainly a happy drunk in any case.
He's pretty driven, all things considered. Wallace doesn't seem too troubled when it comes to throwing people under the bus if that's what he feels he has to do. He's more than willing to look out for his friends, just as long as it doesn't really involve TOO much self-sacrifice on his part.
Canon Background: Wallace Wells
Scott's Roommate
25 years old
Rating: 7.5/10
Pretty Darn Gay
Wallace is not a main character of Scott Pilgrim, but more on the peripheral. As his textbox explains in a very meta fashion, he's Scott's Cool Gay Roommate. He's mostly there to make bacon, gossip with Stacy Pilgrim, get drunk, and tell Scott to either breakup with his fake high school girlfriend or to get it together and fight those evil exes. In fact, this is 90% of what he does for all six volumes. The other ten percent is him playing Hero Support for other characters by making catty commentary at their enemy while they fight (See: Ramona vs. Envy) or hit on Scott and/or any other male character. Especially those with glasses.
Him and Scott met in College, and Wallace kind of shoved friendship upon Scott. Likely because he thought he was cute, and Wallace is a bit of a recruiter - the scene is very reminiscent to showing how Scott became friends with Lisa, a girl he met in high school. Wallace got along swimmingly with Scott's parents and hated Scott's evil bitch of a girlfriend, Natalie V. (ENVY) Adams. When college was finished and Scott moved out of his parents' house, him and Wallace moved in together. Scott doesn't go into how it happened in canon, but when asked he does admit the story is "pretty gay". And it is quite likely that he does mean gay as in homosexual. Either way, Scott and Wallace come to share one crappy-ass hellhole of an apartment together, of which everything in it just about belongs to Wallace (the contents of it that belong to Scott are shown to later fit into one box and two garbage bags) which also only has one bed that they share. Wallace is also the one with the job while Scott played in Sex Bobomb. Wallace went to shows when he could in moral support, but he thought they sucked.
To be fair,
they did.
When Scott started dating Ramona and got into the whole fighting the evil ex-boyfriends thing, Wallace was a main supporter of his endeavors, urging him to do the legwork and find out about them, fight them (whether he wanted to or not!) and played cheerleader. This usually involved a lot of snarky comments while hanging out in the apartment and not wearing pants. He also got drunk a lot and slept with a lot of dudes. Wallace was quite successful in his life.
About midway through the comic, Scott and Wallace have to move out of their hellhole apartment. Wallace heavily implies that he is going to move out with someone else or on his own, though the tells Scott that if he wants Wallace to stay, he will. Scott gets it together and moves in with Ramona, which Wallace expresses relief over. Because he was totally lying about being able to stay, he had already signed a lease for an apartment with his new boyfriend Mobile. He also forms a bond with Ramona based on mutual hatred of Scott's ex-girlfriend Envy, whom Wallace always refers to as a horrible evil bitch. He assists Ramona in her battle against Envy with his catty commentary which functions as good as any MMO buffing spell. Unfortunately he has to use the bathroom before the fight is finished, and then Ramona starts taking hits (Scott saves the day, so Ramona is okay).
Really that's all there is to Wallace. He's not a main character so he doesn't go through any huge character development arcs. Theoretically he's getting on with his life in the background, like all the other characters are. The last we see of him he's cheerfully drinking with his friend (the other Scott - also gay) and is there to cheer on Scott's victory against Gideon. Win!
Background (AU!Canon; HP): The Wells family are high-class British purebloods that can trace their family line back for several hundred years. Much in the case of the Black family and just about every other pureblood line, their boast of blood purity generally involves ignoring and disowning those that break that line. Wallace's father is William Wells, the current 'head' of the family. His mother is from Canada - Quebec to be exact - and has a pureblooded line that can be traced back to the country's first settling. This means that Wallace is, without a doubt, Fucking Classy. His life is not very exciting. He has no elaborate or touching coming out story - Wallace was never in a closet to begin with and when he (unsurprisingly) got his Hogwarts letter he attempted to convince the sorting hat that he should go into Ravenclaw because obviously that's where the smart boys were and smart boys all wore glasses (when you're eleven this makes sense).
In his first year at Hogwarts he held the same "nicest racist in the room" views on blood purity that his parents held - he never considered whether or not he believed them, he was just parroting his parents like children do at that age. This made him more than slightly insufferable, especially since he's also always been a sassy gay friend and part-time gossip monger. By his second year though someone finally explained in a way he could understand that being pretty darn gay but also a racist is more than slightly hypocritical. Oh.
Wallace examined his priorities and actually spent that year researching the whole Pureblood/Mudblood thing in places that were NOT his parents and realized that yeah, he was kind of being a huge douchebag. While he isn't gung-ho over equal rights for all bloods now, he's stopped being an unintentionally racist dickwad (aside from the occasional slip of the tongue because he's not thinking) and states that he is a few years into recovery of it. He's also working on converting his parents, who are much like him just going with the flow and not really thinking about the implications of blood purity (a much safer option as his father works for the ministry's financial department). He figures they'll listen when he brings home a muggle-born boyfriend. As-is he is quite enjoying the new amount of eyecandy it is opening up for him by way of muggle media.
Last summer he landed an internship with the Daily Prophet, which sparked an interest in journalism. He saved up and intends to move out into his own apartment this summer, though his final career goal still is (and has always been) to be the rentboy for some rich old pervert. Goals, he has them.
Other than that there have been no real significant events in Wallace's life. Really, it's pretty uninteresting aside from making out with guys and doing okay at school. That's possibly why he loves meddling so much in the lives of others. He means well.
As far as school goes he's best with charms (specifically domestic ones) and potions and isn't that great at offensive spells (he can make a shield like nobody's business, though). He's more hero support than a hero. He also has something of an alcohol problem. Yes, at 16. He claims to just drink socially. So he goes to a LOT of parties.
How would your character fit in to each House?
Gryffindor: Volume 3 mentions he has "low moral fiber" so the chivalrous Gryffindors might not be the best place for Wallace. All the same he can be pretty courageous when it comes to going up to bat for his friends as long as too much pain for himself isn't on the line.
Hufflepuff: Well, he puts up with quite a bit of freeloading. Shit, look at what he put up with for Scott, he's gotta have a high BS tolerance if you're his buddy. He'll say all the right words and be very kind and go to hell and back for you (as long as it doesn't involve a lot of self-sacrifice. As La Ponte states in Club Dumas, "Imagine this was a Western. As your friend, I would take a bullet for you, but only in the shoulder.")
Ravenclaw: Wallace actually pays attention in class and has relatively good grades overall thanks to actually studying subjects he's not that great in. As stated before as well, he did try to argue his way into Ravenclaw as he likes boys who wear glasses.
Slytherin: Wallace is PRETTY conniving. He wants what's best for his friends and he's 100% certain he knows what that is, and if it means tricking them and browbeating them into doing it well then so be it. They deserve the discomfort for disagreeing with him. He's pretty good at reading people and while he claims to use those powers for good, he does get pretty manipulative with them. Or makes catty remarks during their fights.
Sample Journal Entry: As much great fun as it's been owning one of these and watching all of you go back and forth with your dirty laundry - and I do love it I mean really I haven't read the gossip column in the Daily Prophet in like months, it's nothing compared to this - it seemed high time to make my fashionably late appearance at this party. Can we also get another Student/Teacher scandal because I personally loved that assembly. A+, would attend again.
Hufflepuff, Slytherin, I expect a totally awesome game from you hotties and ladies. Though if the Beaters could get into a catfight in the mud that would really make my day.
Speaking of things that make my day has anyone seen the previews for that new Chris Evans movie? I want to have his adopted babies.
Sample Interaction Post in Third Person: Wallace snapped the journal in his hand closed, stowing it away in his bookbag along with his writing supplies. Sure, it probably looked a little suspicious hanging out in the hallway and just writing, but he flashed an unassuming smile at anyone that was staring - oh, especially that Gryffindor hottie, he got a bit of a longer smile.
Wallace made the mental note to figure out if he was straight and if so just how straight he was, but that could wait until later. He had other things to see about that were slightly more important than a new snogging buddy. But only slightly.
Staking the halls with a bounce in his step and a song in his heart it didn't take Wallace long to locate his target. A classmate of his, just a year older. AKA illegal booze provider. Wallace easily caught up to him, sliding an arm around the other guy's shoulders.
"Hey guy, fancy meeting you here, boy do I have a proposition for you..."