Walumancer

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**Walumancer** (often just referred to as **Walu**) is a veteran Generation 2 Tagger on TF2Tags, joining all the way back in June 2015. He is the Wahfather of the mysterious organization known simply as the Wahfia. He has an odd fetish for the character Waluigi from Nintendo's *Mario* series, and his Wahfia reflects that.

## History

Walumancer came across TF2Tags after about a year of playing TF2, trying to find something clever to name his Strange Rescue Ranger. After finding a name he liked, he completely forgot about it until June of 2015, where by chance he stumbled on the site again, and decided to make his first post, which he has since deleted.

### The Creation of the Wahfia

On September 30th, 2015, Walumancer's English teacher asked everyone to put the name of a hero on the whiteboard. As a joke, he put Waluigi, his lord and savior. Eventually he had to explain why Waluigi was a hero. Through ~~some serious bullshit~~ his persuasion skills, he was able to convince the entire class that Waluigi is a hero to all. After the class (seriously) erupted in applause and cheers, Walumancer become a spokesperson for the man in purple, preaching his superiority to all who will listen. Eventually, he named his followers the Wahfia, and named himself Wahfather. To this day, he still preaches Waluigi's greatness, though has stopped on TF2Tags after a relatively short span of preaching. Despite this, many Taggers, both active and not, are in the Wahfia, as well as some non-Taggers that found their way to his organization.

### Wah's Own

On October 14th, 2016, Walumancer made a controversial item set, stating that he needed to get something off his chest. He began by stating that he has had a lot of fun on TF2Tags, and that he had made some very good friends, citing Player 1 + Player 2, Blast, and Egg-Z as his three closest. However, he noted that there was one Tagger that he outright despised. He called out Relk Cehi for being an up-his-own-ass stick-in-the-mud, who always had to make it known that he had disliked something the community was doing (such as a BrantSteele simulator), who missed submissions more than he critted them. He stated that he would follow Ulysses to the ends of the Earth before even spitting in his direction. This set was initially met with backlash, as Relk at that point was universally respected by the community for having the highest amount of points on the site. Despite attaining a negative score, Walumancer kept the set up on principle. The set spawned an Epic Rap Battle of TF2 between the two men, created by Makin' Bacon.

A few months later, on December 27, 2016, this set would turn out to be his most important submission in his tagging journey. Numerous Taggers got together on the community Discord server owned by Ouill to discuss various things on the site. Eventually, Relk came up as a topic of discussion. Many third generation Taggers praised Walumancer for his set and the bravery it took to post it, as Relk was not as favorably seen by third gen Taggers. As a joke, Bonkspenser (a second generation Tagger who happened to be there that night) typed for everyone to critbomb Walumancer. And so, the legend was raised from Epic to Hale's Own, which he and everyone else that night referred to as "Wah's Own". Many Waluigi-related memes were shared that night, with Walumancer sharing some of his personal creations from his Tumblr days. Taggers present for this glorious ascension included Makin' Bacon, Llux, Ass Ketchup, and Kotov.

### Feud With Relk

After previously making his disdain for the man known, Walumancer criticized Relk for erasing all misses from a low-quality Tag and critting it again by editing it to reset its score. This sparked an exchange on one of the Discord servers which eventually saw Pudis come in, in support of Relk. Walumancer told him it was not his argument to partake in. This, especially following the argument as to whether or not Relk is a first generation Tagger (he totally is), caused Pudis to missbomb Walumancer for over 2000 points under the alias "Literally Satan", putting him under the rank of Wah's Own. Through the actions of Proto Kirby, Walumancer was able to regain his status within the day, which Walumancer remains grateful for. Site Moderator and Wahfioso Fancytag refused to ban Pudis for his actions, citing the fact that he was sick of the feud between Walumancer and Relk, a sentiment that many other Taggers echoed. Pudis would soon leave the site for good, and was later kicked from the Discord server (though later returned in November of that year). Relk willingly left with him, though remains on the site. These men will most likely never settle their differences.

### The Tagpocalypse

In the final year of TF2Tags's life, Walumancer did as much as he could to ensure that TF2Tags went out with a bang.

#### Wahfia Raids

To celebrate the 18th birthday of the Almighty Wah, Walumancer led the Wahfia in a site-wide raid, where nothing but Waluigi-related tags were posted for a few hours, concluding with 7 pages worth of tags. This event, known as the Purple Raid, was the most activity the site had seen in months, most likely due to the impending Tagpocalypse. Later that year, Walumancer would lead the Wahfia in another raid, this time to celebrate his own 18th birthday. The Raid of Age, as it was dubbed, was not solely Waluigi-focused, though Waluigi tags did abound. After a few hours and nine pages of tags, the Wahfia had once again breathed temporary life back into TF2Tags. A couple days before the site closed for good, Walumancer launched the Final Raid, which was was not only the least Waluigi-focussed, not only the most participated (including non-Wahfiosos such as Marmot), but the largest, with over 15 pages of some of the memiest Tags ever made. Relk stated following this raid that everyone who participated should be ashamed of themselves. Nobody cared.

#### TF2Tags Summer Sendoff

During the week of August 5th to August 11th, Walumancer hosted an event he called the TF2Tags Summer Sendoff, where everyone would spend a week playing TF2 together as a sendoff to the site that brought them all together in the first place. Though the participants were mostly Taggers from the Wahfia Discord server, he managed to get others to join in the festivities as well, including Crimson Blitz, Meta Breakers, TheOnlyGuyEver, Banannixx, Ulysses, and John Kennedy (half of whom have since joined the server). TGRobert wanted to join, but the community backlash made him get rejected.

#### The Final Week

During the final week of TF2Tags, Walumancer proposed one final series, entitled The Final Week, which would be a collaborative effort of any Tagger who wished to tell a story in the context of the prologue set Walu posted, which involved Hon-Hon from beloved series Hon-Hon and Sneky explaining that a city with all the Taggers has been isolated from the rest of the world, and is to be nuked off the face of the Earth in a week, with rival factions each in a scramble for power. Many stories were told by many Taggers, such as Blast, Proto Kirby, and Egg-Z, and the series concluded on the final day of the site's life.

#### Makin' Bacon's Ascension

As one final "Fuck you" to his only real enemy on the site, Walumancer rallied the Wahfia into a secret plan that would unseat Relk as the Tagger with the highest amount of points. Since critbombing was not a bannable offense, the plan was to critbomb a Tagger with a high score steadily over the year before critnuking them on the final day to cement them as the best Tagger. The original candidate to unseat Relk was the now-deceased Twelve Hour Respawn, as it would be a memorial in celebration of him. However, though he was in second place in site rankings, he didn't have enough tags to make this viable, and so the candidate became Makin' Bacon, the Tagger in third place who remains highly-respected in the community. The plan succeeded, and Makin' became the highest-ranking Tagger, effectively "winning" TF2Tags. Though Fred Fuchs, who never approved of this plot, nearly ruined it by critbombing Relk back to first mere hours before the site died, Walu himself was able to bring Makin' back to the top.

## Style

Walumancer's normal tagging style mostly consisted of looking at various items and waiting for instant inspiration to strike. This had the effect of either working out very well, or very mediocrely. What he is mostly remembered for, however, is the sets he made. Walu has a passion for telling stories, and often made sets that told little stories (like a parody of the opening of *John Wick* where Waluigi has his pet Piranha Plant stolen and taken to Smash, or many instances of NTF2Tags invasions during April Fools' Week). His most prized creations are the two series he made, TF2Tags Survivor (a Brantsteele Survivor Simulator starring Taggers that Walu created a narrative for) and The Final Week (see the subsection in History).

## Relationships

During the era of TF2Tags, Walumancer had a mindset of liking anybody in the Wahfia and disliking any enemy of said organization, while being neutral to all others. However, the latter part of the mindset eventually broke, calling these non-Wahfia Taggers "Warios". The following relationship descriptions only apply to the TF2Tags era. For more up-to-date information, see Walumancer's Tags.tf page.

### L'Étranger

L'Étranger was the first Tagger Walumancer had any significant interactions with. When Walumancer first created the Wahfia, he was still finding his footing as a Tagger. Tranger was the first Tagger to join the Wahfia, by requesting it on one of his Tags. Walu of course let him join. Though the two did Wahfia-related things for a brief period, Tranger left the site after he drew too much ire from the small controversies he started. However, he eventually returned to the Wahfia as an active Tagger in February 2020.

### Player 1 + Player 2

Player 1 + Player 2 became Walumancer's first real friend on TF2Tags. He joined the Wahfia not long after L'Étranger, and by request he was named Walu's second-in-command, doing his bidding on the site on occasion. The two often talked over Steam chats, where they (in P1P2's words) roleplayed like faggots, usually in relation to Undertale, which both men were obsessed with at the time. However, P1P2 eventually drifted away from Walumancer, and eventually left the Wahfia altogether. Walu still holds a special place in his heart for him, however.

### EGG-Z

EGG-Z was Walumancer's second friend on TF2Tags, as well as his second and current second-in-command of the Wahfia, a position now known as Wahnsigliere. Eggz was often coming up with various ideas for the Wahfia and TF2Tags in general with Walumancer, often including alternate universes such as NTF2Tags and Rule63Tags, which both men look back on nowadays with both nostalgia and embarrassment. Still, the two continue to be close friends.

### Blast

Blast completed Walumancer's trinity of first friends on TF2Tags prior to the Wahfia's explosion in members (though he didn't join until said explosion). The two talked through comment sections of tags every now and then, and quickly realized they had much in common, including Blast's favorite topic of interest, professional wrestling, as well as the same mental disability, Asperger's Syndrome. They became fast and steady friends, and remain so to this day.

### Legownz

Legownz was one of the original Taggers to join the Wahfia following the Krazy Weegee explosion, and before leaving the site was on very friendly terms with the Wahfather, even gifting him his (albeit inaccurate) representative item at the time, a purple Ye Olde Baker Boy, which Walu remains grateful for to this day. They have not spoken since Legownz left the site.

### Floro Sapiens

Walumancer and Floro Sapiens became friends almost by accident. Though Floro himself was never part of the Wahfia, he often sent Walumancer various Waluigi-related materials, including time trial runs he made (he is a competitive Mario Kart player, you see). One thing he sent to Walu was a completely-custom hitsound pack for TF2 that replaced hitsounds with Waluigi sound clips, which Walu continues to use. They eventually got into talking about France and French politics, and eventually hit it off, speaking through Steam every so often. However, Floro has since disappeared from the community, and though he has been invited to the Wahfia Discord server many times, he has never stayed long.

### Relk Cehi

Walumancer's biggest enemy in TF2Tags is naturally its (former) most successful Tagger, the famous Relk Cehi. Both men outspokenly hate each other. Relk finds the entire idea of the Wahfia to be idiotic, and dislikes when Taggers create content that should belong on the Steam group, which just so happens to be a key facet of Walu's style. Walumancer, on the other hand, hates Relk's outspoken dislike of any unconventional tag or item set, and cites that the Steam group is not only dead, it was never alive in the first place. He believes that because it isn't hurting anyone and most generally don't garner a large amount of crits, people should free to do this. He also believes that even though Relk had the most tags AND crits he deserves no respect. Ironically, both men are confirmed to be autistic.

### Pudis

Pudis and Walumancer never really spoke much to each other, and until one fateful day were on neutral terms. Alas, when Relk and Walumancer's feud spilled over into the Discord servers, Pudis firmly sided with Relk, and eventually got so fed up with Walumancer that he missbombed him out of Hale's Own. Walu has since referred to him as "Relk's Turkish Bodyguard" and refuses to talk to him. Fortunately for Walu, nobody else likes Pudis either.

### Dr. Dos

Walumancer was heavily critical of the site's owner, Dr. Dos. He often criticized Dos's inactivity, lack of passion for his own creation, and his borderline tyrannical attitudes. He was appalled when both Sensible Haircut and Floro Sapiens were permanently banned for making jokes about transgenderism and feminism, respectively, and declared him an enemy of free speech. He, much like Digi, was a huge advocate of site moderators because of this. At one point, Dos called Walumancer out directly for his "tweet tags" (tags that don't relate to a joke, rename, or purpose other than discussion and announcements), an action that only stirred the Wahfather's dislike even more. The day after Dos's farewell address, Walumancer responded, giving his final thoughts on Dos. In summary, he thanked him for creating TF2Tags in the first place, but sharply criticized much of the farewell address.

### Others

Walumancer generally holds friendly attitudes towards the rest of the community. His passion for this community and website has given him a sense of respect towards all involved, so much so that he's writing a book about them!

## Trivia

* He is currently writing a book series based on TF2Tags, titled *RagTag*. ~~It used to be an RPG that he and a bunch of others were working on but holy SHIT things got out of hand and then it was a visual novel and then it wasn't because art sucks so it be a novel now fellas.~~
* He has invested 651 hours into TF2 over eight years, which isn't much compared to others.
* Walumancer's collection of Waluigi-themed merchandise includes:
	+ A Waluigi amiibo
	+ A Waluigi plush
	+ A Waluigi hat
	+ 3 Waluigi shirts
	+ 3 Waluigi minifigures
	+ A Waluigi throw pillow
	+ A Waluigi book
* Even though Waluigi is his favorite video game character of all time, his favorite video game series is *Fire Emblem*. This often comes into conflict with other Taggers, as *Fire Emblem* isn't anywhere near as popular with them, mostly due to the series's over-representation in Super Smash Brothers.
* Walumancer's former rep item was the Vintage Ye Olde Baker Boy, which was immediately tossed aside when the Plumber's Cap was added to the site. He even made a set about it, though it has since been lost to history.
* Walumancer professes to be married to Marie from Nintendo's *Splatoon* series. Due to his mysterious and sarcastic nature, people have a hard time telling how serious he is being. Insult Marie around Walumancer at your own peril.
* Walumancer is a bit of a gun nut, and it is his dream to own a gun collection. He is mostly partial to pistols and revolvers, especially those manufactured by Colt.
	+ His favorite gun is the M1911, and if nothing else wants to own at least one for personal protection. Other handguns he wants include the Colt Single Action Army, the Colt Python, Colt Anaconda, Nagant Model 1895, Makarov (really), Walther P38, Walther PPK, IWI Jericho 941, and the Webley Revolver.
	+ The first gun he ever shot was the Smith & Wesson M&P 2.0, which he also wants to own one day. That same day, he also shot a Smith & Wesson AR-15.