Wayward Vagabond

## Online Information

### Typing Quirk

ALL CAPS AT FIRST BUT LOWERCASE AFTER HE ACCIDEntally hits the caps key. otherwise, he uses correct punctuation.

The **Wayward Vagabond**, referred to in short as **WV**, is a black Skaian exile from the beta humans' session.

## Profile

### Appearance

WV wears grayish brown tattered rags that cover one eye and a mayoral sash made of black cables  and the label of a "MAYO" can with an "R" added to the end with red chalk .

### Personality

WV is a simple, gluttonous character. Initially, WV is rather rude  and commanding , but eventually learns human etiquette  from a book and becomes much more polite  (comedically so, in fact). Despite this, he is still childish. he  eats  everything , regardless of its edibility, and gleefully takes on the imaginary role of Mayor of Can Town .

WV enjoys the concept of civil democracy and being a mayor  and hates kings . He believes that a mayor should not ever relinquish their mayoral sash  under any circumstances.

#### Typing Quirk

Initially, WV types in all caps . However, this may have just been because caps lock was enabled on his keyboard, because after accidentally hitting the caps lock button again  and disabling it, he does not re-enable caps lock. Aside from typing in all lowercase, WV uses normal punctuation.

## Relationships

### Peregrine Mendicant & Aimless Renegade

WV thinks the Peregrine Mendicant has a lovely complexion . He has a crush on her and spends much time competing with the Aimless Renegade to win PM's affections. After first meeting, AR tries to kill WV and PM for trespassing on a crime scene that he's investigating, but he relents after seeing WV has a pumpkin with a picture of Becquerel drawn on it. Afterwards, the three share food and become friends.

## Biography

### In the Medium

* WV apparently harbors some painful memories  regarding the barcode on his wrist. He carries with him a trusty knife , which is actually an old mailbox flag.

### Exile

* WV wanders the desert wasteland  of post-apocalypse beta Earth, a few hundred years  after the meteors fell. His rags become tattered and dirty.
* He eventually finds the command station  at the former location of Rose's house. He uses the terminal there to talk to John Egbert in the past, giving him unhelpful commands .
* After interacting with John for some time, WV accidentally discovers a hidden supply of food cans  and a book called *Human Etiquette* .
* Without a can opener  to open the cans, WV settles for creating a city diorama out of the cans . He names the city Can Town and appoints himself as its mayor.
* He explores the station some more and finds four miscellaneous objects : a jerrycan filled with motor oil, 12 sticks of Crayola brand chalk, a nugget of uranium, and a nugget of amber with a firefly trapped inside. WV eats the uranium  and two sticks of green chalk .
* The still-living firefly is installed in Can Town's town hall to represent the light of democracy .
* WV spends some time drawing roads , residential  and commercial zones , a blue sky  with many planets , and a far-off veil of darkness .
	+ WV seems to have forgotten much of his life in the Medium, such as what imps are  (if he ever knew in the first place).
	+ WV thinks he made up the details of Can Town's surroundings, but in fact, most of these details mirror Skaia and the various celestial bodies visible from its surface. The checkerboard terrain, blue sky, and yellow planet represent Skaia and Prospit. The four other planets represent the lands of John, Rose, Dave, and Jade. Finally, the purple planet in the veil of darkness is Derse.
* The gear logo on the jerrycan seems to peel off between pages 701  and 702 .
* WV presses the Tab key  on the terminal's keyboard and reveals a hidden supply of Tab soda . He eagerly drinks much of it , having not had anything to drink in some time .
* He experiments with the terminal some more, eventually entering in the HOME command , disabling the terminal and activating a countdown.
* He sets up some cans in a pretend military formation, creating a chess board out of them . He plays chess with the cans for about 4 hours , leaving mere minutes left on the countdown.
* He leaves the room and a grate closes over the exit ladder , trapping him inside the station. He then discovers the station has two other rooms, one of which being locked . He enters the only other unlocked room .
* There's an appearifier in this room . WV presses the appearify button and summons a pumpkin with a picture of Becquerel's face carved into it . After fiddling with the controls, he summons some items from the other room, and eventually frees the firefly from the amber . He names her Serenity.
* WV appearifies the grate keeping him trapped  and attempts to escape the command station  with all of his possessions (the pumpkin, ruler, trusty knife, and many cans). However, he falls off the ladder and doesn't make it out in time. The countdown runs out.
* The station launches out of the ground  and takes WV to the Frog Temple . However, WV cannot descend to ground level because the command station is too tall, and there is no way down.
* Serenity conveniently finds a bundle of cable  on top of one of the temple's spire's. WV attempts to appearify the cable, but the appearifier somehow got reset  to April 13th, 2009. John's birthday package to Jade is appearified instead of the bundle of cable. Attached to the package is an envelope addressed to WV ("Mister Mayor") in Jade's handwriting. The envelope contains a drawing telling WV to meet with the  Peregrine Mendicant (who happens to be nearby) and give her the package. The envelope also contains a second envelope addressed to PM .
* WV sets the appearifier back to his present time and appearifies the cable . He uses it to repel down the side of the command station with Serenity and all of his possessions.
* WV spots PM, but before he can give her the package, he is attacked by the  Aimless Renegade from inside the Frog Temple.
* He takes cover behind a large rock with PM. There, he's able to deliver the package  and envelope as instructed.
* WV is tossed around  in the chaos. Through his scope, AR sees the drawing of Becquerel's face on WV's pumpkin. This causes him to immediately surrender .
* Night falls. The three carapacians bond over WV's Tab soda and cans of rations  that have been opened using PM's sword.
* While AR goes back into the Temple to get stuff to cook the food with, WV offers to show PM the command station terminal  that lets him send messages to John. They go into the station through one of the holes blown in the side. The hole takes them to the third room in the station that was previously locked. There's a strange machine inside, but the station is low on power so they don't investigate what it does.
* They find John  in the middle of the events of [S] Act 4 ==> . However, PM's interests are instead drawn to the pictures WV drew  on the wall in chalk. She compliments the drawings, and WV gives her the chalk  as a gift.
* WV smells AR cooking food  and leaves the station to investigate. AR has made a campfire  using gunpowder and parts of empty crates. They cook and eat the food from WV's cans.
* WV uses the empty food cans, Tab cans, mailboxes, the Becquerel pumpkin, and the *Human Etiquette* book to create a new imaginary town  called Exile Town to get PM's attention. AR builds a militia for the town out of gun rounds.
* A command station resembling an egg suddenly appears in a crackle of energy  in the sky. The Windswept Questant teleports from inside .
* WV and AR create a crown for WQ  made of metal from the empty cans, as a gift. However, when they give it to her, she gives it to PM .

## Trivia

* For some reason, WV knows about John Cusack  and Persia  (or Persian rugs, at least).