Walter Darling

Walter Darling is an original character created by Wensleydale Cheddar. He appears in various "South Park Aargh" episodes as an episodic/background character. He is the father of Fiona McTeagle and South Park's local dentist. He is known to hate Americans, especially Randy Marsh, his neighbour, with whom he shares an intense rivalry.
==Appearance==
Walter's body is shaped like an average South Park adult male. He has short blond hair, resembling Sean Testaburger's. His small moustache appears to be a darker colour than his hair and his bushy eyebrows are black for some reason. His most common attire is a white shirt, blue trousers, green jacket and similarly-coloured tie. He always appears to be wearing a monocle. When outside for a long time, he tends to put on his black bowler hat and gray overcoat.
==Personality and Traits==
Walter claims to be a perfect English gentleman. He comes from a lower-middle class family but still attempts to behave like a nobleman and to uphold his family's honour. In spite of his background, he is first and foremost proud of his nationality, revealing a condescending manner when speaking to locals in South Park, especially Fiona's friends. However, he doesn't blame them for being what they are - in his eyes being born an American is not a sin, proved somewhat by blaming Cartman's obesity on his nationality.
Like many adults in South Park, Walter has a habit of taking everything too far, especially when it comes to his rivalry with Randy. He has a competitive nature which often embarrasses his daughter, whom he frequently ignores in order to participate in his next scheme.
Nevertheless, when other adults are involved, Walter is shown to be perhaps the third most aware of the stupidity of his peers' antics (after Sharon and, arguably, Gerald) and is usually the one to let the lampshade hang. However, he remains passive and usually just sardonically comments on how idiotic Randy's plans are, akin to Craig's stance towards the boys. Despite this, Walter tends to miss the greater point and just nitpick about the details, like his daughter.
Walter sometimes reveals a somewhat sadistic nature, shown when he apparently tortured Butters off screen with the drills in his surgery. This may be justified as he wanted to find our where his daughter was kidnapped, although he forgot about her just as quickly as he began the investigation. He also hates being called "Darling" by Randy and the others.
==Character History==
Walter's past is so far relatively unknown. One flashback in "People Spouting Howdy Neighbour" reveals that he once lived in South Park as a child, although the duration of that stay remains unknown. His circle of friends seemed to consist of Randy, Gerald and Stuart. Just before the events of "Fiona" he and his daughter moved back to the titular mountain town, not knowing that he would be the Marshes' neighbour, as Jimbo and Ned's house probably was where Marvin Marsh, Jimbo and Randy had previously lived. Walter then took over the local dental surgery and proceeded to start the Great Snowball War along with Randy Marsh.
==Family==
*Fiona McTeagle:
Walter's relationship with his Scottish daughter hasn't been very well specified yet. Fiona's father doesn't seem to feel as strongly about Scotsmen as he does about Americans, but it doesn't appear to affect their relationship in any way. Walter, sometimes consumed with neighbourly competition, tends to sometimes forget that he even has a daughter, although Fiona seems not to mind it, as it gives her more opportunities for her stealing escapades.
==Relationships==
===Randy Marsh===
: Main Article: Randy Marsh
Walter and Randy share an intense rivalry ever since they were nine, similarly to Cartman and Kyle. However, their frienemyship tends to be played for laughs a lot more than the boys. At the end of "People Spouting Howdy Neighbour" it seems that it has become one-sided, as only Walter was shown to hold a grudge against his neighbour. Nonetheless, in the next episode they proceeded to argue with each other as if Status Quo ensued.
===Sharon Marsh===
: Main Article: Sharon Marsh
Although Sharon and Walter have not yet interacted in one scene, Sharon's reaction to Randy mentioning him coming back to South Park suggests a friendly relationship between the two. Sharon seems to be oblivious to his and her husband's constant antagonizing.
===Jerome "Chef" McElroy===
: Main Article: Jerome "Chef" McElroy
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===The boys===
: Main Articles: Kyle, Stan, Cartman, Kenny, Butters
Walter treats the five boys with a sort of a patronizing manner, partly due to their nationality and partly because of their age. He seems to think Kenny "has all the makings of an idiot" thanks to his temporary obsession with ball jokes during the Great Snowball War. Cartman suspected him of being a pedophile, although this suspicion has probably now been cleared.
===Pip Pirrup===
: Main Article: Pip Pirrup
During the Great Snowball War Walter, elated to see someone from his homeland, made Pip his second-in-command.
===Gerald Broflovski===
: Main Article: Gerald Broflovski
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===Stuart McCormick===
: Main Article: Stuart McCormick
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===Stephen Stotch===
: Main Article: Stephen Stotch
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==Quotations and Catchphrases==
*"Americans... [spits]"
*"I know how to make people feel pain, you see. I'm a dentist."
*"Typical!"
*"Jolly good."
==Trivia==
*His name is a pun on "Walter Raleigh" and a reference to the character Captain Darling from "Blackadder Goes Forth".
*The characters that most influenced Wensleydale when creating this character were Basil Fawlty, Madame Fanny and Ben Harper.
==Creation==
He was originally going to be Scottish and unintelligible to the reader, but that proved to be unfunny and hard to do in practice (Wensleydale knows neither Gaelic nor Lowland Scots), so his whole concept was changed. In practice he is the reason why "People Spouting Howdy Neighbour" took so much time to make (shame on him).
Category:Original Characters