Wally Darling

Wally is one of the shorter Neighbors, with an average build, yellow fleece skin, and blue hair styled into a tall pompadour. He is most often depicted wearing a blue cardigan with yellow accents, a white undershirt, a red necktie, vertically striped rainbow pants, and white-and-blue dress shoes with hearts on their soles. He has droopy eyes and a cat-like mouth with no teeth. He has no nose or eyebrows.

Wally Darling is the friendliest neighbor, perhaps even the best painter too. A sweet, soft-voiced artist who is always happy to share a smile. With a smile like his it’s hard to disagree. Always eager to make new friends and show them around the neighborhood, Wally is happy to lend a helping hand with anything.

Wally is blunt and direct about things, but at the same time polite, always having a soft and sweet smile on his face. He's quiet, gentle, and somewhat almost innocent in a childlike sense. Wally is your best friend. Wally seems to be the only character aware about you on the other side and the only one to hear you. His segments were mostly focused on doing activities with the viewers and interacting with them, learning with them.

Wally is fascinated and curious about you. He wonders what you like to talk about, what you're thinking, what you sound like, and he's hoping one day you'll tell him all about you. He loves learning, and that includes you. He seems to love you platonically, and he tries to show this however he can.

He heard eye contact is important and a polite thing to do, so he tries to maintain it whenever he sees you, he wants you to know you have his attention. He also feels reassured to know you're looking back at him.

He loves having conversations with you and answering your questions. His favorite sound is your voice, it is hard to hear from where he is but it makes him happy, it calms him to know you're there.

Wally has never been seen without a smile in his face, no matter the situation. It's possible that he can't feel emotions like others do.

Wally's voice is described as slow, easygoing, monotonous and soft spoken. His voice was likened to that of Teddy Ruxpin and the Mark Baker version of Raggedy Andy. The reason why he sounds so monotonous is because he doesn't understand emotions. Wally doesn't understand emotions, and is learning about them slowly. He also has a really distinctive laugh, pretty robotical and unnatural as well, with breaks between every "Ha" sound. Wally can't scream either, he only does the "A" sound.

Wally loves apples and birthday cakes. Not eating them, just admiring and holding them. His favorite type of apple are the red ones. It seems that he also likes cheesecake with a strawberry on top. Wally really likes apples because the first thing he ever painted was a little red apple on a big canvas. He was delighted to discover people can also paint with apples.

He will be confused and disappointed about any food or drink that contains apple in them but don't look like an apple, like apple pie. Wally loves candy apples, but he just holds them at arms length away from himself and straight in front of him like how someone holds a torch. He walks around like that until someone else takes them away from him. He has an apple collection. It consists of only one red apple.

He would like to try milk with powdered cocoa, milkshakes and hot cider.

Wally eats with his eyes just by staring at something and this something suddenly disappearing or having bite marks on it. He sometimes blinks to take a bite, but not always. He doesn't know how to eat with his mouth, he would place something there and not know what to do next. When drinking, he would still use his eyes to slowly consume the drink as it disappears from its container. He sometimes would make the action of sipping so it seems like he is using his mouth instead. Even so, he isn't fond of eating or drinking, and just likes to hold the plate, bowl or cup in his hands to feel its warm. Once it got cold, he gave it to whoever is next to him to eat/drink instead.

Wally thinks that he is very handsome, and he would be flattered to know others think so too. He likes looking in the mirror because he likes his face. He also does very well with an audience.

If he were to fall on the ground, he will stay there until somebody helps him up. Wally's favorite sound is your voice, and his second favorite sound are slide whistles.

He likes books, but he prefers when someone else reads for him.

Wally doesn't know how to hug someone, but he enjoys being hugged. He would sometimes go limp on someone's arms when hugged. Wally sometimes asked to be held, but it usually already happened casually due to his short stature.

Wally always calls his friends on the phone to wish them goodnight. The phone is too big for him and he has to hold it with both hands. He likes to kick his feet while talking on the phone.

He wouldn't mind if someone holds his face.

He doesn't know how to kiss the common way. He thinks that someone needs to place their mouth where they want to kiss and say "Muah!" really loud. It was difficult for Wally to learn how to blow kisses at first, but once he got the hand of it, he became elated to share them and now loves to blow kisses.

Wally likes to hold everyone’s hand so they don’t get lost.

Wally sleeps by saying out loud "I'm sleeping, I'm sleeping, I'm sleeping..." He actually can't fall asleep because he doesn't understand it, and it is unknown if he dreams at all. He sometimes forgets to close his eyes to sleep.

Wally is not good at playing games. For example, he would keep playing "Rock" during "Rock, Paper, Scissors". Strangely, despite being bad at games, he is amazing playing carnival games instead and always wins the prizes for his friends if he wants, which could imply that he has an incredible aim. Wally doesn't know what a store, orchard or bakery is. He doesn't seem to know the meaning of a lot of words, for example "mime".

He doesn't know what a swear word is, and consequently, doesn't know any or how to use them. He doesn't know what a fish is, [116] and probably doesn't know about several other animals either. If he learned what a fish is and how to kiss, he would submerge his head underwater in a river in order to kiss the fishes.

Wally doesn’t know the order of the alphabet, but knows how to spell his name. He wouldn't know what to do with a floppy disk, television set or any tech from the 70’s. He draws by gripping his pencils tightly with a clenched fist.

Wally would not get scared with horror movies, he would not jump at screams or imagery. He would even like them because there's something he would see in them.

He doesn't understand sarcasm.

Wally both doesn't know what love is and at the same time falls in love over and over constantly. If someone confessed their love feelings for Wally, he wouldn't know what to do or how to react, and he would just stay frozen in place.

He's not good at baking and cooking, he doesn't know how to do so.

Wally would like but also would be very confused by miniature houses. He would wonder who could live in there, but he would also be a bit sad of not being able to enter there himself.