Who is Woolly the Adventurer's Amanda?
A cartoon sheep named Woolly makes an appearance with Amanda in the television series Amanda the Adventurer. Amanda and Woolly seem at first to be the typical couple you'd find in any children's programme. But as the dark, unsettling legend starts to come to light, we see him making a valiant effort to restrain Amanda—even risking her fury. So, who is Woolly exactly?
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Now, let's examine Amanda the Adventurer's Wooly by pressing play on that cassette.
How would you describe Amanda the Adventurer Woolly?
Woolly seems to be befitting his species in the early cassettes; he's timid and embarrassed, letting Amanda take the lead while contributing mostly in the form of replies to her. He serves as the voice of reason as well. This is made clear right on when he tells Amanda that they shouldn't use knives or the oven without parental supervision. However, as the game goes on and Amanda becomes more unpredictable and dangerous, this becomes a more defining aspect.
Woolly seems quite nervous, and at times even afraid of Amanda. He usually clams up, not responding and looks away when Amanda (or you, the player) says anything that offends him. However, he keeps trying to keep Amanda composed and the presentation on course. He does, however, sometimes behave out of character, trying to rebel against Amanda and even speaking to you directly via the TV screen.
He does show the player/viewer goodwill by asking for your confidence, offering advice on how to assist Amanda, and even acting as a friend. But others in the community think that his good intentions are only an act and that he is actually one of the real bad guys because of the sinister underbelly that characterises the terror in the game. Which leads us to our next query.
Who is the Woolly of Amanda the Adventurer?
Depending on how you understand the game, there is an obvious answer to this issue as well as one that is completely ambiguous.
Let's start with the simple solution. Game character Woolly, originally spelt Woollie in previous iterations, is a fixture in the Amanda the Adventurer series. We're not sure whether he was a part of the live-action original series, if he took the place of another character, or if Hameln created the character from scratch when the programme was animated.
The truth is that we are really ignorant of the more intricate aspects of the situation. Given the strong hints that Amanda is actually the daughter of the original actor and creator of the show, Rebecca, who is imprisoned in the tapes, as well as the fact that Woolly reacts to events and circumstances similarly to Amanda, it is obvious that he is also probably a soul trapped in the show with Amanda. But to whom?
One early hypothesis is that Woolly is Amanda's sibling. This was very well-liked during the game's demo, and it became even more popular when the Game Theorists released a video in which they discussed it. Though the community usually feels that the events in the first demo aren't canon in the final release, the game has advanced much since its beta.
Furthermore, there is no indication in the entire Amanda the Adventurer game that Amanda has a brother. The only meaningful reference to Amanda's family history is found in a lore tape, where Sam says he adopted Amanda when she was very young and that despite everything, she is still a very kind and optimistic girl. We don't know what traumas she has had, but there is still no indication that she has siblings. Given the way Woolly and Amanda sometimes communicate, it seems natural that some of you continue to subscribe to this hypothesis.
The idea that Sam is really Woolly gained popularity thanks to the second Game Theorists Amanda the Adventurer video. The final publication has a good deal of circumstantial evidence to back this claim. First off, Sam vanishes just before the TV programme completely fails; this is probably because Hameln silenced him after he expressed disapproval of the way the show was becoming. It's possible that Hameln imprisoned Sam within the cassettes in the same way that Amanda vanished later in life.
The way Woolly tries to keep Amanda calm and safe—guiding her away from potentially harmful things or improper topics—also lends some credence to the Sam idea. But given the way he says things like "we" shouldn't use something without a parent, there are gaps in this notion. The angry-eyed barn seems to wheeze and stare right at you when you tell Amanda that the daddy rooster is named Sam in the Petting Zoo episode, leading some to theorise that Sam is really the barn. But Woolly gets agitated too when she hears that name.
Lastly, a widely held belief is that Woolly is some kind of industrial factory created by Hameln to prevent Amanda from leaving the game world or from uncovering their purported abduction plot, which involves hypnotising children, and their apparent attempt to grow demons. There are other contributing elements as well, such Wooly's efforts to hide Amanda's secret from us and his apparent desire to maintain the status quo in order to keep the show running. Many theories also believe that he is acting suspiciously and that, despite his seeming malice, he is attempting to win us over with his actions.
But there are problems with this idea as well. For example, why would Woolly attempt to rescue the viewer and why would Hameln want to stop Amanda when that seemed to be the plan from the beginning? Moreover, what type of employee would want to be stuck in this kind of hellspace? These questions are largely influenced by hypotheses like an employee witnessing the horror and developing a conscience, the owner of Woolly not fully realising the gravity of the situation until it's too late, or them being an unwilling participant coerced into the tapes, among other theories. However, it is really further conjecture without solid evidence.
Other hypotheses include the appearance of the "detective" in the closing scene of "The End?" and the entry of Kate, the librarian and your aunt, into the game as a last-ditch attempt to halt the evil from spreading. However, as with a lot of game components, all of these notions are mostly speculative and up to your own interpretation. Until we receive that sequel with more detailed information, things will probably remain this way.
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