Fun Little Theory

[TheTraditionalGentleman]

So I was talking to one of my friends about Webber, and he had an interesting thought. His theory is that the spider that ate Webber might have been an old spider, and that's why Webber grows a beard. I'd never thought about that. I had always assumed he grew a silk beard because he is basically a human/spider hybrid, and if humans grow a beard and spiders make silk, it could make sense that he would grow a silk beard. HOWEVER . . . 

 

Webber is obviously very young (my guess is about 8) and I personally haven't seen many eight year olds who grow full beards. Maybe it's just where I live, but at least to me that isn't really the norm. But, what if old spiders grow beards in the DS world? What's that you say? If old spiders grow beards why haven't we ever seen them before? Well, my inquisitive friends, that might very well be due to the insanely short life expectancy of the spiders in the DS world. If you are farming them, you'll quickly notice that it only takes a few rounds of trapping them before no more come out of the nest. We can infer from this that none of the spiders inside are big enough/matured enough to fight, and so they stay inside. From this we can assume that you just culled an entire generation of spiders. The only ones old and big enough to defend the nest. They definitely aren't on the top of the food chain here, and on average, they probably don't get much of a chance to live long enough to grow a beard. 

So, maybe, just maybe, it was an old spider that ate Webber. It doesn't really shed any new light onto his lore at all, but I personally am really beginning to think this is the case. Does it make absolutely any difference? Not at all. It is kind of fun to think about? I think so.

 

* and on a side note, if the spider was old, then it might have had digestion problems. Maybe that contributed to Webber's title "The Indigestible" . . . . 

 

[Mobbstar]

How did the spider eat an entire 8-year-old in your opinion?

[DVGMedia]

generations of spiders what about the spider warriors then since they inhabit the same above ground nest. Thinking like this i feel that spider warriors are actually male while the regular spiders are female but small spiders are infertile ensuing that they are just drones kinda running like a bees nest with the queen making all the babies and so few males (the warriors in this case) which only spawn in lvl 2 and 3 nests. Wo in the start the spider egg you can get is a baby queen that over time grows out of its nest and all the spiders that spawn from it are just there to protect the queen egg. how i feel spiders work in ds

as for webber.... hmm he just didnt fit and the spider just has a very elastic stomach  and well the silk could just be residue of the spiders duties of constantly working on the nest so that is why it builds up. it just so happens to build up in the beard area just cause that is where the nether regions of the spider are.

 

[PillsStealer]

There's a High chance that there is a child inside the Spider

• He says quotes as "Like mother used to make before this happened!" "Like father used to wear." "Mum always said I should take a cap with me." "Mum used to handle all of our sewing."  "My father kept goats." Referring to his parents.  
• He also mentions his collection of toys,"We could keep our toys in it!" "It looks like my old toy chest!" "Another toy!" "Yay, a new toy!" A reference to his toy collection.
• The reason why he grows a beard is because the spider is growing the beard, not the child himself. You can tell the spider's alive because it blinks. He also says pronouns as We, I, we're , us, etc.

We'll find out in the upcoming lore about Webber!

[CaptainFun]

9 minutes ago, PillsStealer said:

We'll find out in the upcoming lore about Webber!

wait, will we? 

[Maslak]

The Webber's chin is the old spider's butt - spider is too old to control silk production, like it's with urine when it comes to humans.

"It came from a spider's butt"

[TheTraditionalGentleman]

8 hours ago, Mobbstar said:

How did the spider eat an entire 8-year-old in your opinion?

I'm not entirely sure, but if you compare the relative size of the spiders to the players, they are at least half the size of Wilson. Wilson is a fully grown male, and if we go off of Maxwell's comment "It's mostly digestive tract" (or something like that) we can assume that they are mostly stomach and mouth.  I don't think it would be too unreasonable to think that a spider that big could eat an 8 year old, especially considering that they would be about the same size (think of a giant snake in the jungle, with its stretching stomach). As to where the spider came from, I have my older thread on my theory on Webber's origin (which I can't find for the life of me), but the basic gist is that Webber's father was some kind of scientist/alchemist and he had been experimenting on a spider (which is why it got so big) and it escaped the lab and ate him (or at least got the drop on him) while he was asleep.

[Mobbstar]

Just now, TheTraditionalGentleman said:

if we go off of Maxwell's comment

For completion's sake: "It's mostly digestive system.", "Shhhh! It will wake up hungry.";

[Machine Reaper]

The biggestion question is how come Spider from the "Shadow" world came and ate Webber's head?...In real life we know Goose/Goose don't come from the north...

[Soto8969]

It didn't ate the head, he ate the whole body!.

[TheTraditionalGentleman]

On 4/17/2016 at 5:18 PM, SepiaPaper said:

The biggestion question is how come Spider from the "Shadow" world came and ate Webber's head?...In real life we know Goose/Goose don't come from the north...

 To state an earlier post: 

I have my older thread on my theory on Webber's origin (which I can't find for the life of me), but the basic gist is that Webber's father was some kind of scientist/alchemist and he had been experimenting on a spider (which is why it got so big) and it escaped the lab and ate him (or at least got the drop on him) while he was asleep.

 

Just a theory, but to me it would explain how a DS spider got into the normal world

[Machine Reaper]

4 hours ago, TheTraditionalGentleman said:

 To state an earlier post: 

I have my older thread on my theory on Webber's origin (which I can't find for the life of me), but the basic gist is that Webber's father was some kind of scientist/alchemist and he had been experimenting on a spider (which is why it got so big) and it escaped the lab and ate him (or at least got the drop on him) while he was asleep.

 

Just a theory, but to me it would explain how a DS spider got into the normal world

You either keep up with whats being thrown at you or just keep elaborating on how come it was thrown at you in the first place.

[TheTraditionalGentleman]

On 4/20/2016 at 9:52 PM, SepiaPaper said:

You either keep up with whats being thrown at you or just keep elaborating on how come it was thrown at you in the first place.

I'm afraid I don't follow

[BananR_ManR]

Well... Technically Webber is a zombie, right?

To unlock Webber you have to place his skull in a dug up grave, which you receive after killing a few spiders. Then lightning will strike the grave, reviving and unlocking him.

Since the very first we ever saw of Webber was in skull form, we can confirm that Webber (Or the spider at least) must have been dead for a REALLY long time. 

 

[Machine Reaper]

4 hours ago, TheTraditionalGentleman said:

I'm afraid I don't follow

It means that what the Devs have given you to play with and what information they have given about it, you can use that and the rest you can come up on your own.

[AnonymousKoala]

On 16.4.2016 at 7:33 PM, PillsStealer said:

There's a High chance that there is a child inside the Spider

• He says quotes as "Like mother used to make before this happened!" "Like father used to wear." "Mum always said I should take a cap with me." "Mum used to handle all of our sewing."  "My father kept goats." Referring to his parents.  
• He also mentions his collection of toys,"We could keep our toys in it!" "It looks like my old toy chest!" "Another toy!" "Yay, a new toy!" A reference to his toy collection.
• The reason why he grows a beard is because the spider is growing the beard, not the child himself. You can tell the spider's alive because it blinks. He also says pronouns as We, I, we're , us, etc.

We'll find out in the upcoming lore about Webber!

Erm...Even the wiki confirms he is a child, not "potentially".

On 16.4.2016 at 7:56 PM, Maslak said:

The Webber's chin is the old spider's butt - spider is too old to control silk production, like it's with urine when it comes to humans.

"It came from a spider's butt"

...I can now never look at webber the same way.

On 17.4.2016 at 2:18 AM, SepiaPaper said:

The biggestion question is how come Spider from the "Shadow" world came and ate Webber's head?...In real life we know Goose/Goose don't come from the north...

Goose Goose. Heh. I was always under the assumption the spider ate him AFTER he entered the DS world.

 

What really bothers me though is the spider queen. She IS the nest. WTF happens in there until its a queen.

[TheTraditionalGentleman]

On 4/26/2016 at 9:37 PM, SepiaPaper said:

It means that what the Devs have given you to play with and what information they have given about it, you can use that and the rest you can come up on your own.

Ah, that makes sense  

[Mobbstar]

On 25.4.2016 at 1:57 AM, BananR_ManR said:

Technically Webber is a zombie, right?

Technically Anybody is a zombie. Anybody can resurrect in the wonderful nightmare of Don't Starve. Death is irrelevant.

[BananR_ManR]

8 hours ago, Mobbstar said:

Technically Anybody is a zombie. Anybody can resurrect in the wonderful nightmare of Don't Starve. Death is irrelevant.

True, however its slightly more apparent to Webber, as he is first discovered on the island in skull form, where as a character like Wilson was just tricked by Maxwell to going there.

Yes, you can be revived by touchstones, meat effigies. etc, but Webber was the first.

[AnonymousKoala]

2 hours ago, BananR_ManR said:

True, however its slightly more apparent to Webber, as he is first discovered on the island in skull form, where as a character like Wilson was just tricked by Maxwell to going there.

Yes, you can be revived by touchstones, meat effigies. etc, but Webber was the first.

No, as in lore wise you really don't die.

Remember the 10000 dead willsons promotional art? As well as the official timeline? Willson dies a couple of times. I'll bet he doesnt even know to revive for the first few times

[TheKingDedede]

Wait, 10,000 dead Wilsons? When did that happen?

[BananR_ManR]

39 minutes ago, AnonymousKoala said:

No, as in lore wise you really don't die.

Remember the 10000 dead willsons promotional art? As well as the official timeline? Willson dies a couple of times. I'll bet he doesnt even know to revive for the first few times

Yes, but I doubt any of the other characters died before going on the island. What makes Webber unique is that you have to physically revive him yourself- when he died, he stayed dead. Why wouldn't you have to do that with any of the other characters? (Excluding DST)

And as for timeline, the fact that any character can find Webber's skull simply by killing spiders could show that Webber wasn't exclusive to his own timeline. You don't find any of the other players skulls from playing. (although most characters do have their own skulls in the player files, but we never really see them.)

[AnonymousKoala]

29 minutes ago, TheKingDedede said:

Wait, 10,000 dead Wilsons? When did that happen?

Promotional art.

The timeline approves this anyway

[Bebbit]

BE QUIET WITH YOUR LOGIC.

 

...i bet the beard is made of spider spit

[Mobbstar]

1 hour ago, BananR_ManR said:

Why wouldn't you have to do that with any of the other characters?

Survivors stay dead without meat effigy magic. They can revive the characters, They probably just forgot about Webber. This still does not explain why burying the skull revives him, though.

1 hour ago, BananR_ManR said:

Webber wasn't exclusive to his own timeline. You don't find any of the other players skulls from playing.

There's a lot of skeletons in your average DS world. Besides, Webber's skull does not appear again after unlocking him, so maybe They remove it by "unlocking" Webber as a plaything.