Wilbur Soot

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"Tommy, I've been waiting... for over a decade... in near darkness... This is my sunrise. This is MY sunrise. This is MINE!"

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In-game name: WilburSoot
Preferred name: Wilbur

"I'm sorry for a lot of things, but... Tommy, that doesn't mean I'm not gonna try it again."

The founder and leader of L'Manburg, exiled after losing the election to Schlatt. Wilbur was the voice of reason, able to come up with entire speeches on the fly, and one of the few people able to reign Tommy in. His mental health spirals over time, and when it's finally at its lowest, Wilbur begins plotting to blow up Manburg (L'Manburg under Schlatt's rule) in a well-intentioned but misguided attempt to demonstrate that he believed the values he built the nation on no longer existed. While he seemed to have abandoned his plan at first, he eventually went through with it anyway, declaring himself in favor of complete anarchy. He was Killed Off for Real by Philza at his own request during the Manburg-Pogtopia War, but later returned as Ghostbur, an amnesiac ghost looking to make amends. Months later, Dream would bring Wilbur Back from the Dead. He currently has Tommy close by his side and is currently The Rival to Quackity and Las Nevadas through Paradise, his burger van.

Wilbur was deceased, and roamed the server as Ghostbur. He lost his first life when he was killed in the Final Control Room, his second when he was shot by Punz while escaping after Schlatt's election, and his last when he was killed by Philza at his own request after he blew up L'Manburg. Wilbur was later revived by Dream, with an unknown amount of lives.

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Acquired Situational Narcissism: By the time of the Election Arc, Wilbur has become way too complacent with his own power and arrogantly underestimates his political opponents, expecting that he'll win without much of a fight.
Afterlife Express: Wilbur and Ghostbur's personal limbo is a train platform, and the dead arrive and leave on the trains. This is a Company Cross Reference to his album "Your City Gave Me Asthma", or more specifically, his song "Jubilee Line".
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Wilbur often cooed over Fundy around the time of the L'Manburg War for Independence, which Fundy was very visibly embarrassed by. While this was Played for Laughs in the first half of Season 1 (with Wilbur recounting those times in his Season 4 livestream "Into Pogtopia" while talking to Fundy), it's later revealed that this drove a wedge between the two's relationship... and Fundy appearing to side with Schlatt during the Manburg Rebellion didn't help at all.
Ambiguously Bi: He had a son with a salmon woman (which Makes Just as Much Sense in Context), but may not be as straight as he initially seems, especially since he flirted and made out with Quackity during Niki's birthday party before the ultimatum to blow up Manburg was brought out, and their relationship was described to be "borderline romantic" at one point. Wilbur the content creator himself eventually also specifies that his character isn't explicitly portrayed to be any sexuality in particular, meaning it is entirely possible that his character can experience attraction to men. After his resurrection, Wilbur plays into this even more, saying certain things that make people wonder, both in- and out-of-universe, if the character's attraction should even be considered ambiguous at this point, even prompting speculation the two might have had amorous relations with each other at some point in time.
Wilbur: (in private, after Quackity denies him citizenship to Las Nevadas for being too unpredictable) Tommy, he chal lenged me! Did you see him? Did you see the look on his eyes? God, it was cool! It was cool! (beat) I was about to say it was hot, but that would be wrong. Look, Tommy, it was–
Tommy: Have you– listen, before we keep going, you don't have a crush on Big Q, do you? 'Cause I think he was like–
Wilbur: I have a complicated relationship with Big Q that I don't think is at that level yet.
Ambiguously Human: Although Wilbur is often assumed to be human, the fact that neither of his biological parents are confirmed to be human (his father being a semi-immortal Winged Humanoid and his mother's identity being another question altogether) makes this a lot less clear-cut than it initially seems. What doesn't help is that Wilbur himself is somehow able to reproduce with a fish to conceive an anthropomorphic fox.
And I Must Scream: Wilbur was trapped in the afterlife, where his personal limbo takes the form of a train platform where he could never leave, for thirteen and a half years.
Anti-Hero:
- He became this during the Pogtopia arc, with Sanity Slippage contributing to his plan to blow up Manburg in its entirety. He seemed to be getting better, especially after the Pogtopians got L'Manburg back... until he detonated L'Manburg anyway, despite desperate pleas from Philza, in an attempt to take his own life while seeing himself as a Villain Protagonist.
- He shows some shades of this even before Pogtopia. The whole reason he forms L'Manberg is because Dream refused to let him and Tommy sell "drugs"^note and he uses shady means to try and keep control of L'Manberg during the election.
Arc Words:
- "Chekhov's Gun", which he repeated multiple times throughout his spiral in Pogtopia, to the point of having a crossbow named after the literary term as Ghostbur.
- "[X] is a smart man" similarly recurs throughout his spiral as Wilbur becomes consumed with paranoia that all of his allies are going to betray him.
The Atoner: According to his stream on March 15, 2022, Wilbur's establishment of Paradise and all those endeavors post-revival was all him attempting to live again and earn people's forgiveness, but he expresses doubt in whether people actually forgave him. This is further backed by his content creator counterpart citing "Eight" by Sleeping At Last as the character's musical inspiration.
Wilbur: I'm– I'm trying so hard and nothing seems to be getting better, and I think there just might be something wrong with me and I– I don't know how I can get people to forgive me, I don't know– but– because they say they do and I just don't believe that they do...
Back from the Dead: Was resurrected by Dream in response to Tommy's attempted assassination of Dream in the prison.
Badass Longcoat: Dons one after being exiled from L'Manburg.
Bestiality Is Depraved: Fundy's origin story is a very awkward topic that is met with disgust from others, to put it lightly. Even if Sally was said to at least be sentient enough to have a job as an accountant, which means this qualifies as an Interspecies Romance...
Fundy: Uh, basically [...] I wasn't alive during these times, but I think, um... Wilbur fucked a salmon.
Jack: Wow, you really– that's disgusting!
Betrayal by Offspring: As far as Wilbur was aware his son had betrayed him for Schlatt, Fundy even claimed to not have any relation to Wilbur while in the same call as him. The look on Wilbur's face alone showed how deeply it hurt him. Wilbur only learned much later that this was all part of Fundy's plant to spy on Schlatt and he holds no loyalty to the new president, however things were still rather tense between the two of them.
Big Brother Instinct: Though his relationship with Tommy has been rocky, Wilbur cares about the kid immensely.
- When Tommy tells him about the abuse Dream inflicted on him in Exile (more specifically about the part where he was almost Driven to Suicide from the abuse), Wilbur has a dissociative Imagine Spot where he breaks into the prison to beat the everloving shit out of Dream — causing this to border on Knight Templar Big Brother at times — and later sets up a scheme to free Tommy from Dream's control by making Dream destroy the discs (actually fake discs, but Dream didn't know that).
  Wilbur: (blowing his way into Dream's cell in his Imagine Spot) Dream, I only have a few moments, so please, grant me this respite. (kills Dream in one hit) DREAM! THIS IS THE END FOR YOU! (kills Dream in one hit again) DREAM! (kills Dream in one hit for the third time) I WILL NEVER — NEVER — TAKE WHAT YOU DID! (dives down the water hole after Dream to kill him again) YOU. ARE. SCUM. (kills Dream in one hit as he falls from his respawn point above the hole) YOU ARE SCUM BENEATH MY FOOT. I WILL DO THIS– (kills Dream again) FOR THE REST OF YOUR SENTENCE. YOU WILL NEVER SEE THE END OF THIS. (looking genuinely anguished) YOU BASTARD!!!!!
- It's confirmed in his lore finale that Wilbur has seen L'Manburg as an extension of Tommy since it was first founded, and when he said it, he meant it that way in every sense possible.
  Wilbur: I feel like any time I've tried to protect L'Manburg, it's– just– been because I wanted to keep you safe.
Black-and-White Insanity: Since being exiled to Pogtopia, Wilbur's worldview has been cleanly split in half, between "heroes" and "villains". This is most clearly shown in how he treats both Dream and himself.
- In Pogtopia, Wilbur initially considered himself the hero, and Schlatt the villain. However, after hearing that Schlatt was planning to hold a festival in Manburg meant to be a nice event for his citizens, Wilbur realized that taking Manburg back from Schlatt wasn't as morally white as he'd first assumed, leading him to come to the conclusion that Schlatt was the hero and he was the villain. Even when the festival turned out to be a front for Tubbo's execution, Wilbur had already leaned so hard into becoming the best villain the server had ever seen, that he didn't even consider walking back on his stance.
- After regaining Ghostbur's memories, Wilbur was initially furious at Dream because of his treatment of Tommy in exile, and even outright told Tommy that he would've murdered Dream on the spot if he'd been there instead of Ghostbur. However, after being saved from the afterlife by Dream, he seems to disregard the horrific abuse Dream put Tommy through and outright proclaims him a hero, giving a long speech about how his quest for power wasn't for power's sake, it was to prevent the rest of the server from filling the power vacuum Wilbur left behind. It's later retconned, as when Tommy mentions it Wilbur is unaware of what Dream did to him… and then rapidly shifts to trying to murder him once he finds out.
Black Bead Eyes: When comparing to his other servermates' skins, Wilbur's simple bead-like eyes make him stand out.
Bookworm: Wilbur has displayed a persistent interest in literature throughout his presidency. As Tommy negotiated L'Manberg's independence with Dream, Wilbur asked Fundy to read him Ozymandias, a classic poem about the fall of a kingdom. He also kept and collected many of the written books on the server (such as POG2020's old election politics, war documents, and L'Manburg's "Decree of Independance").
Broken Pedestal: After being resurrected, Wilbur comes to regard Dream as a hero (which is admittedly partially a product of his own intense self-hatred)... until he finds out about Exile, at which point he rapidly shifts gears to trying to end his hold on Tommy and clearly wants him dead for it.
Bungled Suicide: During the Manburg-Pogtopia War, Wilbur attempted to murk himself while blowing up L'Manburg with the Button. This failed because he pressed the button while being confronted by his father, Philza, who shielded him from the TNT blast with his wings. In spite of this, the entire thing still ended with Wilbur indirectly dying from suicide at Philza's hand instead of directly by his own.
Character Tics: Wilbur often builds a block up when saying what he has to say, especially to Tommy and Tubbo. It's implied to be a coping mechanism of a remnant from the L'Manburg era, like giving a speech on a podium to convey a mask of confidence.
Chronic Self-Deprecation: It has been indicated on multiple occasions that Wilbur has a very negative view of himself ever since his spiral. This is very prominently seen in Season 3, when he straight-up starts crying when Ranboo tells him he's not inherently a terrible human being, believes that people think he hasn't suffered enough to atone for his past mistakes even after he spent over 13 years in solitary confinement after dying from assisted suicide, and thinks of Tubbo caring about L'Manburg enough to rebuild the country he himself founded as "probably the best gift [he'd] ever been given".
Cigarette of Anxiety: Throughout the bulk of his spiral in Pogtopia, Wilbur occasionally dabbled in substance abuse, including smoking and vaping.
Corrupt Politician: During the Election Arc, Wilbur demonstrates a propensity for very shady political tactics. He initially tries to rig the ballots so that POG2020 will be the only party, and towards the end of the election he tries to get Quackity to pool votes with them if they lose to Schlatt or COCONUT2020, which Quackity rejects since Wilbur and Tommy freely admit they will only do so if they both lose the election, and not under any other circumstances.
Cynicism Catalyst: Eret's betrayal of the revolution triggered the beginning of his mental spiral and paranoia.
Dark Reprise: Wilbur wrote the National Anthem for L'Manburg, which he performed when the Declaration of Independence was signed. He sings it again when he's watching from exile as the walls of L'Manburg are torn down.
Death Seeker:
- With the conception of the plan to blow L'Manburg up, Wilbur displayed dangerously suicidal tendencies, taking action with absolutely no regard for his personal wellbeing. At the peaks of his spiral, he often refused to wear armor, even in high-danger situations, and would regularly let himself go hungry, without caring to eat.
- Continued after his death, with him saying multiple times that he'd rather stay dead than be returned to life.
- Finally averted when he's fully resurrected by Dream. He acknowledges that he previously wished to stay dead, but finally being revived has given him a new will to live after being rescued by the train station he was trapped in for 13 and a half years.
- After the events of Hitting on 16, however, with actions from refusing food (or only eating food with low saturation) because he thought he didn't deserve it to making self-harm and/or suicide-related "jokes", it's heavily implied that he's started to relapse. It's somewhat subverted in his finale that while Tommy initially suspected that this is the case, Wilbur's plan really was to literally "go far away"... either that, or Tommy managed to talk him out of it.
Despair Event Horizon: Crosses the line somewhere during the Pogtopia arc, culminating in him deciding Manburg is already lost and to just blow everything to kingdom come.
Disease Bleach: His white hair streak is revealed to be from stress and not the revival.
Disproportionate Retribution: After feeling more then a little slighted by Quackity asking him to become vice president of Las Nevadas and their ensuing argument afterwards, Wilbur decides to get back at him by attempting to blow up Quackity's horse right in front of him... only for his plan to wind up backfiring horribly.
Divine Parentage:
- Downplayed. Wilbur's biological father Philza is very long-lived man with wings and his title as the Angel of Death may be literal, however, Wilbur seems to be a normal human lacking any divine traits (aside from... possibly that). The same thing applies to Wilbur's son Fundy, who, outside of having prophetic dreams and being born a fox, is also rather average.
- It also helps that Philza the content creator has apparently canonized his wife, Kristin, as the goddess of death in-universe, so the only question left to ask is whether Wilbur is Kristin's biological son in canon.
Face–Heel Turn: Wilbur teeters on the edge of one after a Sanity Slippage that leads him to believe that not only is he the villain, but that he must embrace it. It's only "teetering on the edge" because there were signs that he can still be convinced to turn back before he actually starts committing the acts he's threatening to, but is ultimately played straight in the end when he goes through with detonating L'Manburg.
Fallen Hero: After being exiled from the country he founded, Wilbur goes through a mental spiral which results in him becoming Type 3, believing that the beliefs that L'Manburg stood for no longer existed, and plots to blow up the country.
False Reassurance: His idealistic speeches failed to carry for the most part.
Fatal Flaw: Wilbur's paranoia and self-loathing all conspire to worsen his mental spiral. His paranoia that everyone is against him and his self-loathing belief that he's the villain all push him into destroying L'Manberg and his subsequent assisted suicide.
A Father to His Men: Downplayed. The citizens of L'Manberg respected him, and he is Fundy's father, but he tended to act more as an older brother figure to his fellow L'Manburgians, especially towards Tommy. This became averted following the Pogtopia arc and his growing instability.
Foil:
- To Tommy. They were both leader-figures of L'Manburg, who were then exiled and led to believe that everyone had abandoned them. In their rage, they each started on a path that would lead them to a Face–Heel Turn, and worked with Technoblade to plot the destruction of L'Manburg. When Wilbur realized he was becoming the bad guy, he chose to embrace that fact, fully going off the rails and committing himself to his goal of destroying his life's work. Meanwhile, when Tommy realized he was becoming the bad guy, he was absolutely horrified with the person he was about to become, and immediately left Techno's side, rallied everyone together to defend L'Manburg, and started planning to make amends and turn his life back around. After Wilbur's revival, the two are similarly contrasted by their opinions on morality — both started out with Black-and-White Morality during the early days of L'Manburg, but while Wilbur descended into Black-and-White Insanity during his mental spiral in Pogtopia and never looked back, Tommy has since experienced Character Development and currently views the server with Grey-and-Gray Morality.
- To Techno. While Wilbur prefers to use his skills as a wordsmith to make a point, Techno believes that violence is the only universal language that people are willing to listen to. However, Techno is willing to make a speech or two if the situation calls for it.
- To Ranboo, to the point where Wilbur even points this out in-universe. Wilbur puts his nation and morals over everything, including people. He believes that the only way to gain any influence in the world is through either violence, the threat of it, or careful manipulation. Ranboo, meanwhile, puts people over everything, including nations and morals, as evidenced by the fact that he's friends with the Anarchists while being married to the ex-president of L'Manburg. He's relatively pacifistic, and is generally very amicable with everyone he meets, only considering people "evil" if they've directly harmed him or his friends and family. Wilbur fundamentally does not understand this worldview, suspects Ranboo of being a master manipulator (since everyone seems to like him regardless of their affiliation), and calls him a pushover and a follower for his belief that Dream is a fundamentally bad person, believing Ranboo to just be going along with what everyone else thinks, while Ranboo considers Dream to be evil because he tortured Tommy and nearly had Tubbo killed.
- With Eret. Eret started out as a traitor to L'Manburg but eventually sided with its remnants in the Manburg-Pogtopia War, while Wilbur was the founder of L'Manburg (and thus loyal to the nation) but was the 'traitor' in Pogtopia. Both had somewhat understandable reasons for their respective betrayals, but their betrayals heavily affected those around them as well. Both of their character arcs have also revolved around the words "It was never meant to be", and in the current day, both of them are, at least to some degree, The Atoner. However, in spite of these similarities, one core difference divides them — Wilbur's betrayal was done with no intention on hurting anyone other than Schlatt and himself, while Eret's betrayal got their "brothers" massacred.
Founder of the Kingdom: The founder and first President of L'Manburg. The main reason he got the latter title was because he declared himself that while writing the second "Decree of Independance", as their military's General during their War for Independence, and no one objected to it.
From Bad to Worse: Based on the brief time we hear of him in the Afterlife, it appears his time there hasn't done any favors for his mental state, believing that his and Tommy's deaths were a benefit to the server.
Graceful Loser: When Schlatt wins the L'Manburg Elections, Wilbur peacefully steps down and holds Tommy back from doing anything irrational to go against it, even if he doesn't seem all too happy about the results himself.
Wilbur: Tommy, we're citizens tonight. Just listen to Schlatt.
Gone Horribly Wrong: His plan to get back at Quackity by killing his horse almost literally blows up in his face when Tubbo ends up on the trap instead of the horse. It gets worse when a distrustful Quackity refuses to let Wilbur near the trap and leading to Wilbur being able to do nothing but watch as Ranboo takes Tubbo's place and intentionally sets off the lethal trap. It's later revealed that Wilbur blames himself for it.

Heel Realization: Wilbur has one when he begins reciting the L'Manburg Anthem as he is about to press the button to nuke his former nation. It causes him to abandon his plot to nuke the nation (at least, for now), and also allows Tommy to reason with him further.
Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: How Fundy was conceived between Wilbur, a presumed human, and Sally, a salmon, is never explained. Don't worry, we don't get it either. This is even lampshaded by Ranboo before he joined the SMP, saying that if he got elected as President of L'Manburg, one of the things he would do was finding Sally and figuring out "how the heck THAT happened".
Hypocritical Humor:
- After Tommy makes one too many Hamilton references, Wilbur declares, "We are not LARPing Hamilton!" He then proceeds to make at least 50 Shout-Outs to the play within an hour.
- Wilbur's final words to Tommy before leaving the Dream SMP lands are "Don't trust those Americans"... which he says after revealing that he was born and raised in Utah of all places.

I – W

I Just Want to Be Normal: He shows shades of this, after his revival. According to his content creator counterpart, Wilbur finds Quackity intriguing because he treats him like a regular human, though it's unknown exactly how much of his fascination stems from his possible attraction.
WilburSoot: (in a Reddit comment) Maybe this is why Quackity is so intriguing to Revivedbur. Someone to keep him going, run him faster.
Someone who looks at him, not as "insane" not as "evil" or a "freak" but rather just unpredictable. Human. This is exciting for Revivedbur. He feels human again.
Improperly Paranoid: In the Pogtopia arc, Wilbur was completely paranoid about everyone except Tommy either turning on him or dropping him once he's no longer useful. This carries across to after he dies and is brought Back from the Dead as well, where he talked to Phil about imagining him having a spatula put through his skull while building the burger van before Phil forced him to interact with Ranboo. His content creator counterpart eventually even confirms in a Reddit comment that his character "was suffering from intense paranoia and delusions".
The Insomniac: He reportedly did not sleep during his exile in Pogtopia.
Interrupted Suicide: Zigzagged. Wilbur was fully aware that he would likely die in the button room when the explosives went off, and would later directly ask to go down alongside the nation. When he actually carried out the button plot to destroy L'Manburg, his father, Phil steps in... only for Wilbur to press the button anyway. But when the explosion fails to kill him, due to Phil protecting him, he tells his father to kill him in his despair.
Jade-Colored Glasses: He initially believed in pacifism and fighting with words as opposed to violence. After Eret's betrayal, though, his naïvety as the leader of the L'Manburgian revolution became shattered, and after the war, his mental health spiraled, and as he saw Quackity enter the world of the SMP with the same naïve idealism as he himself had once had, he advised him that to gain power and truly help others on the server, one must be willing to use violence of any means to achieve it.
Jerkass: He develops into this during his mental spiral, as he starts to lash out his mental health issues to everyone around him, especially Tommy, who was the first to join him in Pogtopia courtesy of them being sent into exile together. A prime example of this would be him, normally a pacifist, encouraging Techno and Tommy's fight in "the Pit" after Tubbo got executed.
Large Ham: Wilbur is very prone to long, dramatic speeches.
Laughing Mad: After his decision to destroy Manburg, Wilbur randomly lets out high-pitched giggles.
The Leader: Wilbur was the leader of the L'Manbergian revolutionaries, and was a calm and serious general who can make up clever, passionate speeches on the fly. It's deconstructed during the Manburg Rebellion Arc, where it's frequently pointed out that after L'Manberg officially became a country, Wilbur lost all ambition and became complacent, content to step in to avert potential crises and nothing more. This feeds into Wilbur's self-hatred, which only worsens his mental spiral after being exiled.
Locked into Strangeness: He gains a white lock on his hair after he is revived, though it is later revealed to be from stress.
Meaningful Name: This is most likely unintentional, but it's funny that a man surnamed 'Soot' would eventually bomb his country to ashes.

Mirror Character: With Quackity, both as this and as a foil. Both of them started out as Wide-Eyed Idealists who are more skilled with words than with weapons and have broadly good intentions for the server, but eventually went through a Trauma Conga Line which caused them to take a level in cynicism and go into a mental spiral to become a Well-Intentioned Extremist. It is heavily implied that Wilbur saw himself in Quackity, then a Naïve Newcomer, during the elections, and therefore advised him that becoming a Well-Intentioned Extremist was the only way to gain power to truly help the people around them, because he didn't want history to repeat itself; and Quackity's message to Wilbur after the latter's passing indicates that he is consciously deciding to follow in Wilbur's footsteps. It is also all but outright stated by Quackity out-of-universe that his character arc was meant to mirror Wilbur's, and throughout their respective spirals, both of them have low opinions of themselves formed from their respective Trauma Conga Lines (whether it's implied or outright stated) and are highly prone to Psychological Projection onto others. In a lore stream in late May 2021, Wilbur goes as far as to claim that he and Quackity were like yin and yang, which, other than sounding suspiciously homoerotic, goes to show that Wilbur as a character believes that they are foils to each other. However, Quackity does actively carry out 'violence over diplomacy' thing unlike Wilbur, who just talked the talk but never quite walked the walk (the explosion of Manburg/L'Manburg was not designed to kill anyone but himself, for one); and though both characters' spirals stemmed from trauma, Wilbur's struggle is more closely related to a fear of failure and what contemporaries call "gifted kid burnout", while Quackity's likely stems from relationship trauma, a fear of abandonment and being forgotten, and a desire for a sense of belonging.
Mister Seahorse: According to some claims, it was Sally that fucked Wilbur, who then gave birth to Fundy through his amputated toe. Given how convoluted the Dream SMP canon is (including all other versions of the Sally story, which involve Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action either way), the fact that Wilbur once very openly asks to have biological children with Quackity (yes, this actually happened), and Wilbur's own biology being a question in itself due to his complicated parentage (for instance, his mother is a fridge or a goddess or God-knows-what, take your pick), it's hard to straight-up call this version of the story invalid.
Mobile Kiosk: The burger van that Wilbur and Ranboo operate out of after they become business partners.
Never My Fault: After Schlatt exiles him and Tommy, Wilbur begins blaming Tommy^note and his political opponents over it, ignoring that the election only happened because Wilbur wanted to consolidate his own power, and that he was the one to bring in Schlatt to endorse POG2020. Tommy quickly calls him out on it and points out they have more important things to do than throw the blame around.
Nice Guy: Wilbur starts off as a kindhearted, noble man who cares deeply for his friends and his country, even if he is occasionally willing to stoop to shady political tactics. This is subverted as he becomes increasingly cruel after being exiled as he goes into a mental spiral.
Non-Action Guy: He is not known for being good in a fight, and initially believed that peace and diplomacy is more powerful than war and weapons. His pacifistic belief might have crumbled after seeing them fail in the Crapsack World that he lives in, but it's heavily implied that part of him never truly gave up on diplomacy.
Wilbur: I'm not a fighter, I'm a writer.
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Wilbur's lore finale alleges that he's from Utah, but his accent is very clearly southern English.
Not So Above It All: When he's not being serious, Wilbur has quite the childish streak. After banning Eret from L'Manburg he tells him that he "smells and is bad", and he signs the second Declaration of Independence like this:
Wilbur: As we gaze upon the swaths of redwood trees. The great hills to our south and the walls that have protected us for years. I, as the now President of L'Manburg, hereby state: YOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! SUCK IT, GREEN BOYYYYYYYYY!!!
Oh, Crap!: A minor one, but after Tommy calls him out on lying about the "Project Nevadas" book, Wilbur is visibly shaken for a moment, one of the few times since his revival where he's caught off guard.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- Wilbur's strength lies in his words. He's the speaker of whatever group he's in, he's written some of the most dramatic speeches in the server's history, and he's generally always got a comeback to everything. However, after Jschlatt revokes his and Tommy's citizenship to L'Manburg and has them chased out, Wilbur is so shocked that he barely says anything for about twenty full minutes. He even lampshades this later.
  Wilbur: I'm... genuinely, did you not– I went speechless! That is the first time, I was live in front of 30,000 people, completely speechless. That's the first time that's EVER happened.
- A similar incident happens during his confrontation with Eret on his 19 May 2022 stream. At the start of the conversation, Wilbur was ready to give his apology and leave, and after Eret counters the apology, he barely even tries to stand up for himself and has been keeping a distance from Eret the whole time. Given Eret was the very same cause of his Cynicism Catalyst (read: betraying him and his family and having them massacred), and had been asking for an apology for him "leaving" (i.e. dying from assisted suicide), it's not hard to see why he seemed a lot quieter than normal — but it wasn't shock like the last time, it's fear.
Papa Wolf: Even after reaching the peak of his mental spiral arc and having officially hit rock bottom, the one thing that seems to momentarily snap Wilbur out of it is watching Schlatt insult Fundy.
Wilbur: Alright, no, no, that's it! I don't give a– Dream I don't care about what you have to say, Schlatt, are you ready to die?
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: He gives a brutal one to Tommy when he goes to duel Techno in the Pit, pointing out how Tommy lets his emotions rule this and that it makes him unfit to ever be president. It's made all the more cutting because he isn't entirely wrong in his criticisms.
Tubbo: I'm not an advocate of violence. I believe everyone should get along.
Wilbur: I mean, that's very mature of you Tubbo, that's very mature. I'm sure– unfortunately, Tubbo, Tommy isn't as mature. You see, that's why he can't be President. He's too– he follows his emotions too strongly. He gets too angry at things. He doesn't– look at him, look at him, even after you said that you've forgiven Technoblade, he's still gone into the Pit to fight him in hand-to-hand combat. This is a man driven by his emotions, not by political goals. Look at him. I say Tommy throws the first punch. I wanna– I wanna see this.
Rebel Leader: Is this for L'Manburg, both as a war general and founder of the country during the War for Independence, and as the de facto leader of Pogtopia during the Schlatt administration.
The Rival: Wilbur formed Paradise, a small settlement comprised of Fort Big and later the Ranvan, with the mindset of directly contesting with Las Nevadas and its burger restaurant, Tubburger.
Resurrection Sickness: Implied. In The Wilbur Van, Wilbur throws a rock to break a pane of glass, only for the rock to "bounce back across the room" [sic]. Considering Quackity, also similarly a Non-Action Guy, managed to break the glass just fine moments later, it indicates that either Quackity took a level in physical strength, or Wilbur just got more physically frail post-resurrection.
Sanity Slippage: Wilbur's gradual fall into being an Anti-Hero (who sees himself as a Villain Protagonist) is accompanied by his sanity taking a large hit. His general paranoia of everyone but Tommy is cranked up, and starts planning to blow Manburg sky-high with everyone still inside, despite Tommy's heavy protests. Even his voice starts to sound more panicky and unhinged. It is later revealed that his spiraling mental health and fall into paranoia began as early as the L'Manburg War for Independence, after Eret's betrayal caused him to abandon his ideal of "words over weapons".
Shell-Shocked Veteran: As mentioned above, Wilbur's mental health was on the decline even back during the War for Independence, which had left him traumatized. Wilbur, a man who is very much not a fighter, found himself in the role of a general and experienced the infamous betrayal from one of his comrades, Eret, the deaths of himself and his friends, and only won thanks to Tommy giving up his discs. He hid how badly it affected him in front of others during his presidency. His mask slowly chipped away during the election, momentarily dropping it in front of Quackity during their heart-to-heart several days before Election Day, and permanently dropped it a few days into exile.
Sherlock Scan: Wilbur performs one on the remains of Purpled's UFO.
Wilbur: Look, I know– I know about TNT, my man, and this is– this is the work of TNT.
Tommy: Why? Y– How... How would you know that?
Wilbur: Because who's leaving– Okay for a start, okay, half-slabs are more resistant to TNT-blasts than the rest of the materials that Purpled's base was being made out of, hence why there are a mere seven floating half-slabs, the detonation was done from the center to the north and south of the build by the looks of things, and left the half-slabs untouched due to the fact that they're higher TNT resistance. This is TNT! Someone– Someone is a copycat!
Start My Own: Wilbur formed Paradise soon after being denied Las Nevadas citizenship by Quackity.
Signature Instrument: Wilbur plays the acoustic guitar.
Small Town Boredom: Revealed to be his backstory in the finale; he was "bored of life" after being born and raised in Utah and working in a gas station for 16 years, and hopped on a boat to sail to the world of the Dream SMP for a new life.
Sophisticated as Hell: During the L'Manburg Elections, Wilbur had this to say during the Presidential Debate:
Wilbur: If it pleases the court, I would like to say my opponent was talking shit!
Stepford Smiler: As the President of L'Manburg, he hid his mental health issues and trauma from everyone else. He drops the act during the Pogtopia arc as his feelings of betrayal and having literally lost everything he has worked for because of his exile cause these pre-existing issues to worsen by a thousandfold.
Suicide by Cop: It is stated that Wilbur's death at the hands of his father was an assisted suicide following a severe mental spiral. Considering that Wilbur insisted that everyone watching wanted him to die while begging Phil to stab him, and that Ghostbur considers his death a happy memory because "everyone didn't like [Alivebur]", it's fair to assume that Wilbur had felt a lot of self-hatred following his exile. Fundy himself confirms that his father's death was by all means a suicide during the Doomsday War, amidst his own mental spiral.
Fundy: I've tried bonding with Wilbur only for him to commit suicide by blowing up L'Manberg and dying by the blade of his own father.
Then Let Me Be Evil: A combination of feeling betrayed by his friends and family, a mental spiral, and his own "realization" that the conflict with Schlatt isn't as black and white as he thought results in Wilbur deciding he should embrace being "the bad guy".
Wilbur: Okay, me and you, we both agree we're right. We're in the right, here.
Tommy: I mean, yeah, I'm always in the right, so...
Wilbur: Then let's be the bad guys. Tommy, what– Why not? Why not? Look, it's– our nation's gone! Our nation's far behind us, Tommy! Let's blow that motherfucker to smithereens.
To Be Lawful or Good: Early in the Pogtopia arc, Wilbur struggled with the idea if he was right in trying to fight back against Schlatt and reclaim L'Manberg, since Schlatt was democratically elected and overthrowing him would make him a evil tyrant. Even after embracing his status as a "villain", his old morals would still hold him back, such as the day after the Festival when Tommy locked himself, Wilbur, and Quackity in the button room, which ended with Wilbur backing down from pressing the button since he didn't want to put the others' lives at risk, enabling Tommy to reason with him. Unfortunately, by the end of the war, his mental state had degraded enough to no longer be held back by his old morals.
Took a Level in Jerkass:
- During his time in Pogtopia, he starts acting a lot meaner to his allies, especially Tommy, though this is most likely due to his mental health taking a hit during that time.
- A subtler example occurs even before his exile. During the Election Arc, Wilbur engages in some very shady political tactics in his efforts to win the presidency, trying to rig the election and later to pool his votes with Quackity in case they both lost to Schlatt or COCONUT2020. It foreshadows that he had already begun to spiral even before Pogtopia, but had been keeping it under wraps.
Tragic Hero: Wilbur is a genuinely noble and principled man who is cast out of his nation after losing his presidency to the tyrannical Schlatt. As a result, Wilbur goes into a mental spiral caused by a combination of his self-loathing, and prior mental health issues and unresolved trauma that pushes him to destroy L'Manberg, the very thing he created and fought for, and dies from suicide in the aftermath.
Trauma Conga Line: Wilbur started out as a songwriter and Non-Action Guy who initially believed in pacifism and fighting with words as opposed to violence, and created the nation of L'Manburg as a physical representation of his beliefs and ideals. However, during the War for Independence, he found himself in the role of a general and was betrayed by his war comrade, Eret, in the Final Control Room, where he, his two teenage friends, and his son were mercilessly slaughtered, and only won the war thanks to Tommy giving up his prized discs Cat and Mellohi to Dream, the leader of the Greater SMP.^Context After the revolution, his naivety became shattered, triggering the beginning of his mental spiral and paranoia, which he hid how badly it affected him in front of others during his presidency. Eventually, after holding a democratic election for L'Manburg, Jschlatt won unexpectedly and immediately revoked his and Tommy's citizenship, prompting them to Run or Die... which was how he lost his second canon life, after he was shot in the back on Schlatt's orders. After being exiled to Pogtopia, Wilbur became even more disillusioned and believes that the values that he founded L'Manburg on no longer existed, and begins to plot to blow up the country to kingdom come, while taking his own life through the explosion. When that plan ultimately fails as he detonates the country in the Manburg-Pogtopia War, as his father, Philza, tries to talk him down and protect him, he ends up begging his father to end his life, to which he reluctantly complies. Despite this, not even death is the end of the road for him, as he spends what felt like thirteen and a half years in the Afterlife (taking the form of a train station platform that he couldn't leave) before being brought Back from the Dead... and although he evidently does not want to return to the Afterlife, he still retains the delusional worldview about good and evil he developed during the Pogtopia arc.
Unreliable Expositor: Played for Drama. Wilbur lied to Phil in the letters he sent him about the Pogtopia situation because he didn't want to admit that he was suffering to his father, and didn't want him to worry. Instead of telling his father the truth, Wilbur said he won the election but gave the position of president to a trusted friend and left to make a new nation. Phil then believed, as a result of the misinformation from the letters, that Tubbo was the one committing atrocities as the head of government (rather than Schlatt) and thus devoted himself to destroying L'Manburg as an anarchist in the Doomsday War, thinking that government corrupts good people.
Unstoppable Rage: Subverted. After learning of what happened at the end of Exile, Wilbur zones out and has an Imagine Spot where he breaks into the prison to kill Dream several times with his bare hands for what he did to Tommy, and when he snaps out of it, it's implied that he fully intends to act on that revenge fantasy. The only reason the trope is subverted at all is because Tommy informs him Dream has already broken out of prison, so the revenge fantasy can't even physically happen as he imagined it, which prompts Wilbur to devise a plan to try to "get Tommy out of Dream's control".
Unwanted Revival: Before his revival, any discussion of it usually involves him explicitly stating that he doesn't want to come back to life, believing death to be the best state for him. Subverted when he is actually revived, where he embraces life again.
Verbal Tic: When speaking to someone, Wilbur continuously uses their name in the middle of his sentences.
Villain Protagonist: Played with, and heavily at that. Wilbur, amidst his spiral in Pogtopia, believed himself to be the "villain" of his own story as a result of Black-and-White Insanity; in actuality, he's a Shell-Shocked Veteran Anti-Hero with an extremely low opinion of himself and copious amounts of mental health issues. Even his "claim" to villainy, i.e. blowing up (L')Manburg, was by all means a suicide attempt, considering he tied the remainder of his self-worth and idealist/pacifist beliefs to the nation he founded.
Well-Intentioned Extremist:
- Even with his Sanity Slippage, Wilbur's primary goal was still to remove Jschlatt from power in Manburg. That said, his main method of doing so revolves around blowing up the nation itself simply to keep Jschlatt from having it.
- He also speaks of this trope when advising Quackity during the elections, in that one must be willing and able to use violence of any means, including extreme ones, to gain power in order to help others and truly do good on the server.
What You Are in the Dark: Wilbur mentioned that he had visited the button room several times alone, but for one reason or another, would back out and leave. After the war, Wilbur was finally ready to press the button and was going to do so alone, until his father Philza confronted him... not that it mattered in the end, since he still ended up pressing the button to blow the newly-reclaimed L'Manburg sky-high.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: Wilbur began as one when he first started L'Manburg with barely any clue how to run a country and wholeheartedly believed communication and peace would triumph over violence. This was before he was forced to fight a war for his country's independence, betrayed by a war comrade to be mercilessly slaughtered, and watched his friends and family die in front of him.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He evolves into this during the Pogtopia arc, where he undergoes some major Sanity Slippage (or at least, stops hiding it) and plans to blow Manburg sky-high during the Manburg Festival, destroying everything and killing everyone inside, and eventually succeeds at destroying the country he created during the Manburg-Pogtopia War. At the same time, he also had his worldview shattered by Eret's betrayal during the War for Independence, causing him to abandon his pacifism and idealistic beliefs, and L'Manburg ends up becoming a casualty in his donning of Jade-Colored Glasses as he believes that the values and beliefs he built the country on no longer exist.

Alter Egos

Ghostbur

"I sowed the seeds of peace, and yet I'm the one who pays for war."

In-game name: WilburSoot
Preferred name: Ghostbur

"I know I'm forgetful, I know I'm an amnesiac and I know I'm the comic relief in all your stories, but I STILL FEEL THIS, I still FEEL things! And I try my best to make sure no one else feels it!"

Ghostbur, full name Ghostbur Boo, was the amnesiac ghost of Wilbur Soot who roamed the server to try to make it a better place, in order to atone for his alive counterpart's actions. He's only able to recall happy memories, and as a result, is a very childish and upbeat person. He tries to distance himself from his past self as much as possible, talking about his past self in the third person, and insisting that he's not the same person he was when he was alive.

Ghostbur lived in a sewer in New L'Manburg, and pretty much spearheaded the reconstruction. After Tommy's exile, he went with him to Logstedshire to keep him company, though he couldn't exactly comprehend what was happening, and remained under the impression that they were going on vacation. However, Dream told him to go into the woods after Tommy asked him to hand out the invites to his party, where Ghostbur proceeded to get lost for a good while, before being found by Technoblade.

After returning to New L'Manburg right after the Doomsday War and finding the place completely destroyed, Ghostbur came to the conclusion that everyone needs Wilbur back. He asked Eret and Philza for help, and together, they are trying to find a way to bring Wilbur back to life. However, when he returned to the server after a two-month absence and saw everyone's apprehension towards bringing Wilbur back to life, Ghostbur has become a lot more hesitant.

Due to already being dead, Ghostbur had no canon lives, and thus couldn't be killed by normal means. However, Dream's revival of Wilbur meant that Ghostbur disappeared, and Wilbur later claimed to have seen Ghostbur enter the Afterlife before being revived.

Alternative-Self Name-Change: He insists on being called "Ghostbur" instead of "Wilbur". When talking about his past self, he will alternate between "Wilbur" and "Alivebur", and generally considers himself to be a separate person.
And I Must Scream: According to Wilbur the content creator, Ghostbur's version of the Afterlife is Wilbur's train station, except darker and damper (keep in mind that Ghostbur hates water). By time time six months have passed for him, he's been spending his time mostly squeezing his eyes shut and pretending someone came back to get him out and take him back home. Unlike with Wilbur, who had no contact with the outside world, Ghostbur gets to see what the people he loves are saying about Alivebur's return on the dot matrix boards... and apparently, Phil's response absolutely broke his heart.
The Atoner: Though Ghostbur does not remember what he did when he was alive and why everyone is angry with him, he wants to make amends with the people Wilbur has hurt.
Back for the Dead: After being Put on a Bus after Wilbur's failed resurrection, he returns in time for Wilbur's successful resurrection, which causes his mind to be overwritten by Wilbur's.
Bad Liar: Ghostbur does not like lying, and becomes extremely uncomfortable and hesitant whenever he is forced to lie. He also has a lot of trouble keeping his cover stories straight, like when he told Dream that Tommy wasn't at Techno's cottage, but when Dream asked who wrote the to-do list, Ghostbur happily told him that Tommy wrote it.
Bestiality Is Depraved: Wilbur's relationship with Sally the Salmon clearly had an effect on his mind — even though he's dead, Ghostbur continues to have a sexual attraction to salmon. Expectedly, this makes his family very uncomfortable.
Bookworm: Much like his living counterpart, Ghostbur had a continued interest in literature, collecting every book he found in his now-destroyed personal library. He was fond of reading them to people he liked, even if he didn't remember the context behind some of them.
Character Catchphrase: When he gives others "Blue", he often says, "Calm yourself, have some blue."^note Tommy re-iterates this to Wilbur after his resurrection, who was highly confused by the situation and felt Locked Out of the Loop, since he had not yet recovered his memories as Ghostbur, proving that it was Wilbur/Alivebur who was present at the resurrection shrine as opposed to Ghostbur.
Characterization Marches On: For maybe a day or two after his debut, Ghostbur's identity was pretty straightforward — Wilbur as a ghost. Later appearances reveal that Ghostbur is more than just Wilbur, but that he is almost a different being entirely.
Death of Personality: Ghostbur is an offshoot of Wilbur, who stayed in the mortal realm to deal with Wilbur's unfinished business. When Wilbur was revived, Ghostbur immediately died, and Wilbur even claimed to have seen him on a train riding into the Afterlife.
Demoted to Extra: Ghostbur disappeared shortly after his first resurrection attempt. Part of this was due to Wilbur taking a break for mental health reasons, but even after his return, Ghostbur remained absent until after Tommy left prison, a good two months later.
Despair Event Horizon: It's indicated by Wilbur the content creator that he crossed it at some point during the first six years he experienced in the Afterlife.
WilburSoot: (in a Reddit post) The last sentence ghostbur saw on that board was "who's ghostbur?" Said by an unfamiliar name he's never met before.
This should have caused him to break even more but sadly ghostbur is already as far numb as he can possibly be.
Did You Think I Can't Feel?: During Doomsday, Ghostbur calls out Philza for destroying the nation that he put so much effort into rebuilding, and for not recognizing his feelings as valid because he's "a comic relief character".
Do Not Call Me "Paul": Ghostbur does not like it when people call him "Wilbur" (though he still lets Tommy, Techno and Phil call him that on occasion), as he does not like being equated with who he used to be.
Driven to Suicide: After the Doomsday War^note, Ghostbur asks Tommy to bring him back to life, which basically causes a Death of Personality in Ghostbur. Do bear in mind that Ghostbur himself is the spectral form of a suicide victim. Eventually Double Subverted as the resurrection fails and Ghostbur takes a break from the server's drama... only to be Back for the Dead when Dream revives Alivebur when Tommy tries to break into Pandora's Vault to kill him.
Forgotten Fallen Friend: According to Wilbur the content creator, in the three months after his Death of Personality, the dot matrix display which shows Ghostbur what living people are saying about him is "getting more and more sparse with communication". The only one who hasn't forgotten about him, however, is Tommy, who still frequently speaks highly of Ghostbur.
Friendly Ghost: He's essentially the embodiment of many of Wilbur's pre-spiral traits — his loyalty, his patience, his desire for peace, etc.
Ghost Amnesia: Ghostbur only recalls positive memories of his life, and only forms new memories when he's happy. His memory loss seems to be semi-selective, though, as he sometimes refers to events he claims not to remember later, and told Tommy about how one day he tried really hard to recall what he did and then forgot the entire rest of that day. This indicates that his memory loss is likely not (entirely) caused by him being a ghost, but more due to the trauma he'd endured, which his brain responded to by blocking out negative or traumatic memories.
Guilt Complex: According to one of cc!Wilbur's Reddit updates, Ghostbur believed Friend's "death" at Skeppy's trolling hands was caused "due to his negligence", despite the fact that he's literally dead and could do nothing to prevent it while in the afterlife.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: It's heavily implied throughout Ghostbur's appearances on the server that he didn't have a particularly high opinion of himself or his living counterpart, but one of cc!Wilbur's Reddit posts updating everyone on how Ghostbur is doing in the Afterlife gives us enough insight on his thoughts to confirm this.
WilburSoot: Maybe it's for the best that everyone forgets him anyway. He only had two jobs after all and he blew them.
Hesitant Sacrifice: While Ghostbur was originally eager to reenact Wilbur's demise and be killed in order to bring back Wilbur, he quickly became very scared once the situation actually presented itself, having it finally sink in that if Wilbur came back, Ghostbur would be gone for good. After a long while, he sadly concludes that he needed to be killed if it would bring back Wilbur, because the server was in need of a ruler who could be strong and guide everyone, which Ghostbur simply couldn't do. He then quietly asks Philza to kill him once more while facing away and holding his Blue, his only request being that it was quick.
Hope Is Scary: Heavily implied in Wilbur's update on Ghostbur in limbo posted on November 20, 2021.
He hasn't checked the dot matrix out of fear. The room lights up whenever it updates and Ghostbur scrunches his eyes up as tight as he can until the light fades a few hours later.
I Hate Past Me: Played for Drama. Ghostbur hates being reminded of the things "Alivebur" did, and will shut down anyone who tries to talk to him about it. Despite not remembering what he did in life, he's aware that his past self was a "horrible" person, and is quick to reassure anyone who mentions it that they're not the same. He's even told Phil that one of the happy memories he remembers from his life was when Phil ran him through with a sword.
Ghostbur: It was a good memory!
(Beat)
Phil: ...really?
Ghostbur: Yeah, 'cause you finally put an end to Alivebur! And everyone didn't like him.
Iconic Item: Ghostbur constantly hands blue dye (which he simply calls "Blue") to anyone he thinks is sad. He claims it starts off clear, then slowly turns blue as the sadness gets sucked out. It should be mentioned that none of the Blue Ghostbur hands out has ever been clear, revealing that Ghostbur has so much baggage that the Blue fills up as rapidly as Ghostbur can procure it.
Innocently Insensitive: Because Ghostbur can't process negative emotions, he can't tell when he's being insensitive towards other people's issues. He told Fundy that if he couldn't remember some of the times they had together they probably weren't worth remembering, and often casually brings up the fact that Phil stabbed him to death in front of Phil, despite Phil still carrying a lot of trauma from that event.
It's All My Fault: According to Wilbur the content creator, Ghostbur considers the events leading up to his death to be his own fault, and will never be able to forget how he failed Tommy that day. A later post updating him on how he's doing in the Afterlife two and a half months later follows up on this, indicating that Ghostbur might have a Guilt Complex which partially manifests as this mentality.
Kill It with Water: Ghostbur melts when he comes into contact with rain or snow.
Kill the Cutie: The resident upbeat, friendly ghost who loves his pet sheep and wishes to atone for his living counterpart's past crimes? Yep, he's recursively dead. And his suffering doesn't end there either.
Literal Split Personality: Wilbur's mind has split into two beings after his death. Alivebur, or the Wilbur who entered the Afterlife, seems to have retained all of Wilbur's traits that developed during his spiral — his paranoia, Black-and-White Insanity, and tendency to hide his true feelings, for instance. Ghostbur, or the Wilbur who remained in the real world, seems to have retained all of Wilbur's traits that he repressed in his spiral — his loyalty, compassion, patience, and pacifism. It's later shown that Wilbur/Alivebur and Ghostbur possibly have two different souls, and that reviving Wilbur would kill Ghostbur (and vice-versa). Alternatively, it's also possible that the two 'alter egos' are two split halves of a single soul, as both 'alter egos' clearly show Wilbur's mental health problems before his third death and eventual revival (e.g. Death Seeker/suicidal tendencies and self-loathing), and have a shared love for L'Manburg.
Loss of Identity: Wilbur the content creator states that after 16 years in the afterlife, Ghostbur is gradually starting to lose track of his positive memories as well as his already-lost negative ones.
Manchild: Ghostbur can't retain any information that would make him upset, with the result that he is extremely innocent and childish. He often assumes anyone doing anything wrong is just playing a game (for example: when Phil was spying on the Butcher's Army's assault on Techno, Ghostbur assumed he was playing hide and seek), and can be easily tricked or manipulated.
Our Ghosts Are Different: Due to the limitations of Minecraft, Ghostbur essentially behaves like a normal player, meaning he can't fly, teleport or walk through walls. However, Ghostbur claims he can hover slightly above the ground, and that touching rain causes him to melt. Out of all the ghosts, he's also the only one to have amnesia, though it is suggested that it's because of the trauma he had endured in life, rather than anything ghostly.
Ghostbur: I got the short end of the spectral stick, as it were!
The Pollyanna: Because he is unable to remember or retain anything negative, Ghostbur is a very upbeat and childish person, often doing whatever he can to make people happy. He's also extremely trusting and gullible, as he can't fathom that someone would ever lie to him. While he tries to refrain from doing anything that would make people upset, he can be easily tricked into doing them.
Rage Breaking Point: When Ghostbur finds out that Phil helped blow up L'Manburg and indirectly killed his pet sheep friend, he calls Phil in tears, asking why he did what he did. When Phil tells him that it was to send a message, Ghostbur flies completely off the handle.
Ghostbur: You knew friend was in your house!
Phil: (dismissively) He's got infinite canon–
Ghostbur: (crying; furious) YOU KNEW FRIEND WAS IN YOUR HOUSE!
Phil: He's got infinite canon lives!
Ghostbur: YOU KNEW– STOP, STOP, STOP! YOU KNEW FRIEND WAS IN YOUR HOUSE! YOU KNEW EVERYTHING EVERYONE OWNED WAS IN THIS TOWN!
Scars Are Forever: He had a scar from being stabbed by his father, and reportedly, it still caused him pain.
Stepford Smiler: Despite appearing to be very cheerful and calm, Ghostbur had said that, in his own words, that his existence was pain, and he tries to hide his melancholic side as much as possible, repressing his sadness.
That Man Is Dead: Almost literally. Ghostbur insists he's not Wilbur, and often speaks of his living self as if he's a whole separate person. In fact, if Wilbur is to be believed, Ghostbur has an entirely separate soul, as Wilbur apparently saw him in the Afterlife as Wilbur himself was leaving.
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: A cheerful and loving ghost who attempts to atone for things he did in the past when he was alive, and he is functionally killed by Dream just to bring Wilbur back. His fate in the afterlife ain't any better either.
Trademark Favourite Food: He has said that his favourite food is salmon. Which is... concerning, giving his track record with them.
Trauma Button: He is distressed by the sounds of explosions from TNT, fireworks, and creepers.
Trauma-Induced Amnesia: It is heavily implied that his dissociative amnesia (selective memory loss) is due to the trauma he had suffered throughout his life.

Other

L'Dog

Wilbur's dog, who guarded the top floor of Pogtopia and is most likely later killed, but not by Sapnap.

Not Me This Time: If rumors of his death are true, then he is the only pet in Season 1 to not meet his end by Sapnap.
Uncertain Doom: L'Dog may or may not have been killed by either Ninja or Fundy. As he was never nametagged, there is no way to know for sure.

Friend

Ghostbur's pet sheep, which he dyed blue. His name is stylized as "friend". Friend died when Ghostbur accidentally hit him with an axe, but Phil claimed that friend has infinite canon lives, and a new version of Friend was returned to Ghostbur by Dream. Friend was resurrected by Dream and kept in his attachments vault until Tommy and Ranboo retrieved him, and was located in the Bee n' Boo Hotel. Tommy kept him as a pet after Ghostbur's death, before Friend was killed by Skeppy on accident. After that, Friend is resurrected again, until Wilbur convinces DreamXD to grant him the wish to reduce Friend to having a single canon life, so that he can kill friend and send him to Ghostbur. As a result of this, Friend is currently deceased, and has reunited with Ghostbur after being brought to him by Connor.

all lowercase letters: Friend's name is stylized with a lowercase "f". However, one of the "incarnations" of friend has an uppercase F.
Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Friend's coat is bright blue. Wilbur thinks of Friend as weird because of this.
Ambiguous Gender: As with other Minecraft mobs, it is unclear what gender, if any, Friend is. Friend has been referred to by multiple different pronouns, but most default to using he/him.
Cessation of Existence: Implied, given that it was never said Friend was in the afterlife. Later subverted as it is confirmed that Friend has infinite canon lives and thus cannot go to the afterlife, and even when this is revoked by XD, Friend is seen Together in Death with Ghostbur.
Resurrective Immortality: Since Friend has infinite lives, he will always come back as a blue sheep if he is killed.
Shoo the Dog: Upon visiting Pandora's Vault, Friend was kept in the nether entrance hall of the prison, with Ghostbur promising he would be back for him. When Tommy was forced out of the prison after his attempt to kill Dream failed, with Ghostbur "dying" in the process of reviving Wilbur, he comes across Friend again in the entrance hall.
Sweet Sheep: Friend was Ghostbur's pet sheep and is beloved by several members of the server.
Together in Death: The Stinger of Wilbur's lore finale shows the Afterlife Express dropping Friend off in Ghostbur's train platform limbo.

"My name
is Wilbur Soot,
King of Kings,
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair
Nothing beside remains round the decay
of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
the lone and level sands stretch far away
but I never did quite forgive myself."

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