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on November 22, 2019 at 1:01 amChapter: What If...? Walky Went To College
Characters: David Walkerton, Dina Sarazu, Dorothy Keener, Jason Chesterfield, Joe Rosenthal, Joyce Brown, Mike Warner
Location: Alt-Dorothy and alt-Walky's apartment
Another scene change! Oh my, it appears to be the domestic home of one Dorothy and Walky. Scandal!
It, uh, says something that my first thought upon seeing the screen in the first panel in 2019 is that it’s somebody’s phone. When I first wrote this that wasn’t, y’know, a thing. *points at Dorothy’s cordless telephone in panel four*
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This Dorothy is clearly more powerful than the DoA one. Look at that shirt she’s got him wearing! Look at that haircut! DoA!Dorothy dreams she could have had that effect.
DoA Dorothy had, what, a few weeks? This Dorothy’s had years, and this Walky would have been Trying since high school.
Walky looking super Shortpacked!Ethan in the last panel, which is appropriate?
So was going to college the main thing to make Walky “live up to his potential”?
A shiver of rage goes down Dina’s spine, and she’s not sure why.
Walky looks so weird with nice clothes and not-messy hair.
Yeah, it’s like he’s a totally different person.
He looks like…a Danny.
It’s because of the Dutch angle in the first panel that it looks like a phone. Phones are almost always gonna be at least a little tilted in your hand, while TVs tend to be level.
Yep, this. Back then there’s not much else it could’ve been so, yeah, sure, that’s a TV. But a TV normally wouldn’t be askew like that, so now it reads to us as a phone because that IS normal for a phone and especially if you’re sharing it with someone else to watch as well.
THIS HAIR IS UNNATURAL.
This whole Walky is unnatural.
Walky looks like a sitcom dad.