Wilt

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Originally Posted by jekylljuice

He may show a little more self-confidence in future episodes, and signs of being on the road to recovery, but as I've said before, I hope his character flaws will still remain pretty much intact - they're what makes him so special, after all.

Even if all of Wilt's anxiety problems were rooted in his "failure" to live up to Jordan's expectations (and it's liable that not all of them were - we still don't know exactly what Wilt went through in his eight-year period of independence, after all) I imagine that it would still take time to undo all the damage that has been done. It has been thirty-odd years, after all, and while gaining some much-needed closure in his relationship with Jordan might have brought him some sense of relief, his insecurities would probably have become pretty deeply ingrained within his behaviour and thought patterns during that time. They're not likely to clear up over night. I 'd lived (although for most it unknowingly) with OCD for a comparatively mere eight years before I took any action about it, and one of the first things they told me was not to expect any instant improvement, given the length of time I'd been experiencing it for. One of the most difficult compulsions I've been having to shake, interestingly enough, is the compulsion to apologise for every tiny little thing that may have gone wrong.

Obviously, none of that need apply to Wilt, who is, after all, a fictional character (unfortunately ), not bound by the limits of human pyschology, and I guess we'll just have to wait for Season Five before we can know for sure. But I'm just giving some reasons why, even after the events of GWH, Wilt could plausibly retain his loveable neurotic self.

Fictional or not, I don't see why the issues of human psychology would NOT apply to Wilt, since they sure seem to apply quite well to the other characters on the show! Wilt, as well as the other IF's, were, after all, created by HUMANS, and intergrate themselves into human culture, and definately appear to suffer from all the emotional problems that can afflict us. Wilt is probably even moreso to have to go through all the same process of healing, that "it's gonna get worse before it gets better" phase, because he's more intelligent and complex, more like an adult human, than most of his fellow IF's, so his emotional issues are likely to be more complex, too. He's had this burden of guilt and pain bottled up inside him for 30 years, and like you said, there's no telling what else he's been through that we don't know about, and he's not just going to become all well and better overnight.

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