Wilardo Adler

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### Relatives

Unnamed mother
Unnamed father
Gramps (adoptive father/grandfather)

### Weapon

Gun (default/primary)
Knife (secondary)
Lighter (secondary)

## Personal Status

### Status

Alive (common bad ending)
Alive (Ashe's route)
 Deceased (Wilardo's route)
Deceased (Sirius' route)
Alive (Noel's route)
Alive (Bonus Stage)
Alive (Sirius' Conclusion)

## Physical Description

### Eye Color

Black

Wilardo Adler (**ウィラルド・アードラー**; Romaji: ***Wirarudo Ādorā***), is a playable character in Witch's Heart. He is stoic and expressionless towards everyone through most of the story.

## Appearance

   Wilardo wears a dark red/maroon sweatshirt over a black shirt, along with plain black trousers. He also wears a red pendant with a gold chain, similar to the one that his adoptive father wore. His hair is navy and short, and he has bangs covering his forehead and a red ahoge, which is apparently natural. He has a red and gold hair accessory on a lock of hair, the right side

## Personality

Wilardo is quiet in nature, and a very private individual, as he likes to keep things to himself. He keeps a mysterious aura about him and no one in the mansion learns too much about him, even in his own route.

He is shown to be a fearless character, presenting no sign of any surprise upon being informed of their current condition in the mansion, and even shooting a monster with his gun whilst keeping his usual, disinterested face. He also uses “Ore” to refer to himself, which is one of the rude ways to refer to yourself in Japanese and is seen as “Yakuza” speak. Because of his bold personality, he appears to be generally relaxed and tends to take things at his own pace. This is very likely a result of his immortality.

Despite his cold façade, he is kind at heart, particularly to Claire. He seems to worry about her well-being, as shown when he criticized her decision of protecting Invective in his scenario, and displaying concern when he notices her swollen eyes after crying. His desire for his wish outweighs this most of the time; however, he is seen hesitating during the climax of the Bonus Stage, and makes a last minute decision to protect Claire and stop Ashe.

He struggles with trust issues and he sees this as a hindrance, as he judged Claire's ability in trusting others easily to not be a bad thing. This is obviously caused by how Gramps took advantage of him in the past, placing on him the curse he's looking to lift, but evidently enough, Wilardo seems to not actually hold any kind of grudge against him. He is even seen wearing Gramps' pendant, thought to be a memento from someone who used to be a parental figure for him.

He is wise, sometimes giving advice to other characters. He usually stays in his lane and is respectful to other people, never prying into their lives or talking bad about them.

## Relationships

### Gramps

Gramps is Wilardo’s adoptive father figure. He is often insulting him and calling him an old geezer, but they have a close bond. After all, Gramps did name Wilardo after his dead son. Even though Gramps purposely led Wilardo to picking the Dark Lily, he doesn’t judge him, as he came to understand his pain.

### Claire Elford

Wilardo seems to have a lot more resentment about killing someone than Ashe. This is because he isn’t as desperate and he has accepted the past. He definitely shows care for Claire in certain scenes, such as when he protected her in Sirius’s Conclusion. They have quite opposing personalities, but he isn’t as rude to her as Sirius.

## History

   At the start of his route, Wilardo reminisces of his past: getting cursed upon picking a very beautiful flower, the Dark Lily. He later realized that a flower that beautiful was not of this world, and that it was cursed and demonic. At that point in his life, he deeply regretted his decision of doing such an act.

Thus, his main motive for visiting the mansion is to lift the curse - his immortality.

Wilardo currently has a job of preserving flowers and selling them. Claire wonders why of all jobs, he had to pick one that involved them. It also happens that the flowerbed Claire enjoys to be in is Wilardo's main source of the flowers he processes and sells.

In the bonus stage, it shows that Wilardo's mother was a prostitute that had gotten pregnant with him and abandoned him. He's never met his mother or father and lived life on the streets until he encountered a man who took him in and gave him the name "Wilardo" after his son who died long ago. Wilardo calls him Gramps. Gramps, however, had the curse of the Dark Lily which meant that no matter what he did, he couldn't die unless he finds, boils, and drinks the Dark Lily - however, only someone other than him can pick the flower, and whoever does will be cursed in his stead. As Gramps kept this crucial information from Wilardo, they searched together for the demonic flower. Together they roamed around here and there and cared for each other as if they were a real family. Eventually, they found the cave where the flower resided, and so Gramps asked Wilardo to go in as he himself couldn't pick it. Seconds after Wilardo found the Dark Lily, Gramps began to feel guilty and told Wilardo to come back out, but it was too late and Wilardo had already picked the flower. The next morning when Wilardo woke up, he found a pile of clothes - Gramps' remains - alongside a note telling Wilardo about the curse that had now been placed on him. At first, it didn't really affect him, and he was still young so he lived normally. Over time, however, people began to chase after him. Some people thought he was a monster and wanted to kill him, but, of course, he couldn't die. Others even wanted to run tests on why he never aged or died. Eventually, after decades, and soon centuries, of this cycle of torment, abuse, and watching others live and die as he's left behind, Wilardo began seeking a way to lift his curse. Heeding the legend that the Witch's Heart can grant any wish, he came to the witch's mansion in hopes of finding the treasure to wish for his own death so that he could finally rest in peace.

## Etymology

* The name **Wilardo** means "**will**", "**desire**", "**hard**", "**hardy**", "**brave**" or "**strong**".
	+ The name **Wilardo** is from **Norman Origin**.
		- **Wilardo** is a unisex name.

* His surname **Adler** means "eagle.
	+ It is from **German and Yiddish Origins**.

## Trivia

* His theme color is red.
* According to vgperson, his name was likely meant to be 'Willard'. However, his name had been written in the Roman alphabet multiple times throughout the original game, so it could not have been changed.
* IZ has stated that the woman and baby which appear during his story in the bonus stage are not his lover or child.
* It is unknown how old Wilardo was when he was cursed, but Sirius states that he appears to be about his age (22).
	+ He is the oldest of the Human Side characters, due to his immortality. Also, it's stated that he's already lived about 500 years.
* It is believed that the pendant he wears is from the Gramps he knew long ago, as in his sprites he is seen wearing the same one.
* It's very likely that his appearance is a reference to Willard H. Wright from Umineko no Naku Koro ni. They share the same red ahoge, and Wilardo's original name, Arkwright, sounds similar to H. Wright.
* Wilardo somewhat likes alcohol, & dislikes sweet food.
	+ He is not really that interested in food, but anything edible is fine by him.
* Wilardo won't sing if there's no reason to, but he'll sing if people push him to. He's not a good singer, as he's the type to sing in a very monotone fashion.
* He has the highest alcohol tolerance out of the main humans.
* Some strengths of Wilardo include his physical ability, as well as that he's pretty knowledgeable in general. However, a weakness of his is that he's not good at being amiable or hospitable.

## Gallery

Click here to be redirected to Wilardo's image gallery.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://vgperson.com/posts.php?p=witchsheartnotes
2. ↑ https://privatter.net/p/4934874
3. ↑ https://peing.net/ja/q/6fd1cd96-9b5c-480f-877d-3efa2e2151cd
4. ↑ https://peing.net/ja/q/29a38556-5fae-42d7-af1a-44cf0d79cb6d
5. ↑ https://peing.net/ja/q/5116a80a-8a75-4fa3-bb0a-1f7be5557ed3