Wyler

Wyler is the het ship between Wednesday Addams and Tyler Galpin from The Addams Family fandom.

Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe
Wednesday breaks out of therapy and arrives at the coffee place Tyler works at. Tyler is having trouble with the espresso machine and is startled when Wednesday abruptly shows up. He asks if Wednesday has a habit of scaring the hell out of people to which she responds that it's more of a hobby. Tyler quickly figures out that Wednesday is a Nevermore student. Wednesday says she needs a quad over ice since it's an emergency. Wednesday explains what a quad is when Tyler is unable to make it. Tyler tells her that he knows what a quad is, and he points out that they only have drip since the espresso machine is broken. After learning the instructions to the espresso machine are in Italian, Wednesday takes the manual and requests tools. Tyler is taken aback by Wednesday reading Italian, and Wednesday says that it's the native tongue of Machiavelli. Wednesday attempts to make a deal where she fixes the coffee machine and Tyler makes her coffee and calls a taxi. Tyler tells her that there are no taxis in Jericho but she could try Uber. Wednesday says she doesn't have a phone since she refuses to be a slave to technology, and she asks about trains. Tyler informs her that the nearest train station is half an hour away.

Wednesday recognizes the problem the espresso machine is having, and Tyler asks if she has an espresso machine at home. She tells him she built a steam-powered guillotine at the age of ten since she wanted to decapitate her dolls more efficiently. Wednesday gets worried looks from Tyler, who says Grim Reaper Barbie makes total sense. Tyler thanks Wednesday when the espresso machine starts working, and he comments he had never met a Nevermore kid who got their hands dirty. The two introduce themselves to each other, and Tyler offers to drive Wednesday to the train station to show his appreciation. After seeing Wednesday is quick to leave, Tyler tells her that he doesn't get off work for another hour. Wednesday bribes Tyler twice, but he refuses and tells her she'll either have to wait an hour or find someone else to drive her. Wednesday walks away and sits in a booth.

A group of guys from Pilgrim World confront Wednesday. Tyler tells them to back off, but one of the Pilgrim World boys as well as Wednesday herself tell Tyler to stay out of it. Wednesday single-handedly takes down each of the boys and tells Tyler that she learned her moves from her uncle. The sheriff, Tyler's dad, walks in and asks what's going on. Tyler says that the guys from Pilgrim World were harassing Wednesday and she put them in their place by herself. Tyler's father finds out Wednesday is an Addams, and he says that her dad should have been put in jail. Wednesday leaves after Nevermore's principal finds her.

Tyler looks through police files and finds Wednesday's father's file. Later, Wednesday uses Enid's laptop to call Tyler. She writes the number on Thing's hand and gets it to break into Tyler's home. Wednesday says that she's desperate when Tyler brings up how she said she didn't want to be a slave to technology. She asks if Tyler is still willing to help her escape to which he says he figured Wednesday would be in solitary after what happened earlier that day. Wednesdays tells Tyler about the mandatory Harvest Festival that she'll be using as a cover and that she can make it worth Tyler's while if he's willing to drive her to the train station. Tyler says he'll drive Wednesday free of charge, and he tells her that he wishes he was going with her as he too wants to leave the hellhole town he lives in.

At the Harvest Festival, Tyler and Wednesday meet behind the parking lot when the fireworks start. Tyler gives Wednesday her father's police file. Wednesday stares at the file, prompting Tyler to ask if she's okay, and she says that she is not used to people engaging with her. She adds that most people see her and cross the street. Tyler says that she's not scary but rather kind of kooky, but Wednesday tells him she prefers the term spooky. The two run into the boys from Pilgrim World. Tyler grabs Wednesday's hand, and they run away. Wednesday bumps into Rowan, and Tyler catches her as she falls and has a vision. Tyler urges Wednesday to leave, but she chases after Rowan. Rowan is about to kill Wednesday, but Tyler, as the Hyde, saves her by killing Rowan.

Woe Is the Loneliest Number
Tyler finds Wednesday as she’s leaving Dr. Kinbott’s office, where he tells Wednesday that he is also legally required to attend therapy sessions. Wednesday makes a joke about the pair being ‘a couple of teenage tearaways.’ Tyler chuckles and asks Wednesday about what happened at the harvest festival. Wednesday tells him that everyone believes she made everything up about Rowan being murdered, but Tyler assures her that he does believe her before disappearing for his therapy session.

Wednesday goes out to the woods, looking for any evidence left behind that Rowan was murdered. Tyler appears behind a tree and grabs Wednesday, covering her mouth with his hand and hiding them from view of his father, who is also scouring the woods with his dog, Elvis. Tyler explains he didn’t want Elvis to pick up on her scent, and pulls a bag of coffee grounds from his pocket, which he used to throw Elvis off their scent. Wednesday thanks him. Tyler assumes Wednesday thinks it’s weird that he’s also out stalking his dad, but on the contrary Wednesday reveals she consistently stalks her parents too. Tyler asks Wednesday what really happened at the festival, promising not to tell his dad. Wednesday admits she thought Rowan was in danger, but she was wrong: Rowan used his telekinesis to try and choke he to death. Tyler is confused why he would do that, and Wednesday doesn’t know either. She goes on to reveal that the monster came out of the shadows and gutted Rowan before he could kill her, and she is still trying to figure out why it saved her. She has a vision after finding Rowan’s glasses and picking them up, and when it’s over Tyler is concerned, asking Wednesday if she is okay.

Friend or Woe
During Outreach Day, Wednesday leaves her assignment at Pilgrim World to look for Tyler at The Weathervane. Xavier reminds her that Tyler is ‘bad news’ but Wednesday insists who she speaks to is her business. Xavier stalks off, and she asks Tyler to help her locate the old pilgrim meeting house out in Cobham Woods. Tyler warns her it’s mostly a ruin, and that the place is kind of sketchy and used as a crash pad for squatters and meth heads. He asks her what this is all about but Wednesday is tight-lipped. Tyler remarks that she’s becoming obsessed with the monster in the woods, and Wednesday teases him by asking him if he’d rather her develop an obsession with horses and boy bands instead. She thanks him for the help, and Tyler offers to take her to Cobham Woods after his shift at The Weathervane. Wednesday declines because Weems would ‘hang, draw and quarter’ her if she missed the statue dedication, and as enticing as that sounds, she’d prefer to keep a low profile. She insists she knows her way around the Great Outdoors, and Tyler jokes about her being a Girl Scout. Wednesday tells him she could eat Girls Scouts for breakfast, and leaves Tyler looking bemused.

Woe What a Night
Out in Jericho, Tyler bumps into Wednesday and says he doesn’t want to ask what trouble she is in this time. Wednesday assures him it’s nothing she can’t handle, and laments his father’s particularly frustrating form today, warning Tyler to avoid him. Tyler then asks Wednesday about the Rave’N dance that weekend at Nevermore, and Wednesday questions if she is the only one not obsessed with this stupid dance. Tyler asks her if this means she isn’t going to the dance, and Wednesday hesitates before admitting she was ‘forced to ask someone as an act of self-preservation’. Tyler is confused, and asks her who she’s going with. Wednesday tells him she is going with Xavier Thorpe, and Tyler seems disappointed. He begins to walk away, telling Wednesday he hopes she and Xavier and have fun. Wednesday is confused about why this news has upset Tyler, who remarks that that is kind of the problem. He goes on to say: ‘Call me crazy, Wednesday, but you keep giving me these signals.’ Wednesday insists it’s not her fault that she can’t interpret his ‘emotional Morse code.’ Tyler offers to spell it out for her: he thought that they liked each other, but now she’s going to the dance with Xavier and he has no idea where he stands with her anymore. He questions if he is in the more-than-friends zone or just a pawn in some game she’s playing. Wednesday concedes that she is dealing with a lot right now, and that she needs to prioritise. Tyler is not mollified by this explanation, however, and sardonically tells her to give him a call if he ever moves up her to-do list. He leaves Wednesday looking somewhat abashed, and she tells Thing not to say a thing about what just happened. Thing, eager to restore some harmony between Tyler and Wednesday, types up a note for Tyler, pretending to be Wednesday and inviting him to the Rave’N. He leaves it in the tip jar at The Weathervane, and Tyler is all smiles when he reads it. Later that night, as the Rave’N is starting, he turns up at Wednesday's dorm room. He knocks at the door and she opens it to reveal him dressed in a white suit, ready to take Wednesday to the dance. Wednesday is surprised to see Tyler, who explains he got her invite to the dance and correctly infers that Thing dropped it in the tip jar. Tyler admits that after their last conversation he wasn’t sure if he’d ever get to speak to Wednesday again, but her note was so genuine and sweet, it totally took him by surprise. Wednesday, stoic, agrees that it took her by surprise, too. Tyler reveals that he’s glad he came, and asks her if she needs a few more minutes to get ready. Wednesday slams the door in his face and immediately berates Thing for sending the invite. However, she softens when she sees the black dress she’d been eyeing in a shop window earlier, realising that Thing stole it from Uriah’s Heap.

Once ready, Wednesday heads down the stairs to meet Tyler, who is  mesmerised by how beautiful she looks in her dress. He starts to tell her this, but Wednesday interrupts, suggesting she looks ridiculous and like a classic example of female objectification for the male gaze. Tyler finishes his sentence, telling her softly that she looks amazing. He adds: ‘I mean it, Wednesday. You look beautiful.’ A rare occasion, Wednesday is rendered speechless by his compliment. Later, Wednesday is sitting alone in a room across from the dance hall. Tyler finds her there, and she reveals to him that Xavier told her what Tyler did to him last year, that Tyler and his friends assaulted Xavier and destroyed his mural last Outreach Day. Tyler is dumbstruck, but admits her finding out was inevitable. He sits next to Wednesday and explains that he would be lying if he said it was an accident or only half as bad as it sounds, and he concedes that Xavier could’ve made things worse for Tyler than he did. Wednesday asks him why he did it, and Tyler admits he is still trying to figure that out. He opens up to Wednesday, revealing he got sent away to a boot camp where he realised that that is not the version of himself he wanted to be: a bitter townie that blames everyone else for the shitty hand he’s been dealt. He acknowledges he did a terrible thing but insists he is not a terrible person. He seemingly expects Wednesday to be angry or disappointed in him, but Wednesday scoffs, asking him if he really thought she was going to judge him over some lousy prank. She tells him she would’ve taken it further, and Tyler chuckles and asks ‘what, like putting piranhas in a swimming pool?’ Wednesday is surprised Tyler knows this, and he admits he may have done a little digging on Wednesday after they met. Wednesday tells him she’d do it again, and Tyler smiles, confessing he knew there was a reason he liked her. Shortly after, they head back to the Rave’N, where they dance together and Tyler is clearly impressed by Wednesday’s kooky dance moves.

Quid Pro Woe
Wednesday is in The Weathervane reading about Crackstone, when Tyler joins her at her booth with a coffee he made especially for her. Happy birthday is written in the foam to celebrate Wednesday’s 16th birthday. He admits to Wednesday that he’s been working on it all week. He also hints that he was the one who delivered the cake she received for her birthday earlier in the episode, revealing he went with a ‘98% dark chocolate ganache’ knowing Wednesday’s preferred colour palette.

Tyler is all smiles, but Wednesday remains her usual laconic self, so he encourages her to get a little more enthusiastic, asking ‘don’t you like a day that’s all about you?’ Wednesday asserts that every day is all about her, this one just comes with cake and a bad song. A little confused but not discouraged, Tyler asks Wednesday on a date, more specifically a ‘non-birthday, song-free dinner.’ Wednesday tells him she has a tight deadline and switches the topic of conversation to Gates Mansion, having seen it in a psychic vision. She takes out a drawing of the place and asks Tyler if he’s seen the place before. When he’s visibly confused, Wednesday irritably takes back the drawing and mutters that it doesn’t matter. Tyler, picking up on Wednesday’s particularly sombre temperament today, asks her if he did something wrong, because ever since the Rave’N she has been kind of ghosting him. Wednesday is silent and Tyler takes that as confirmation of her answer. He leaves the booth.

Later that evening, Tyler sees Bianca at The Weathervane. He has Wednesday’s Snood, her birthday gift from Enid, in a bag, and asks Bianca to return it to Wednesday, who left it behind earlier. Bianca asks Tyler if he is Wednesday’s boyfriend, and Tyler, looking downcast, says he is definitely not her boyfriend. At Nevermore, Wednesday calls Tyler using a payphone and tells him she’s reconsidered his offer regarding the non-birthday dinner. Tyler is delighted and asks her when she is free, and Wednesday confirms that he should meet her outside Nevermore’s gates at 8 o’clock that evening. After the phone call ends, Tyler’s dad tells him he should steer clear of Wednesday Addams, and that she is the type of girl who is going to get him hurt.

Later that evening, Wednesday and Tyler (along with Enid), meet outside the school gates. Both Enid and Tyler are confused and angry, because Wednesday told each of them a different story: Tyler thought this was supposed to be a date, and Enid thought this was a girl’s night out. Wednesday just tells them there has been a change of plans, and tells Tyler to start driving.

They head out to Gates Mansion, and neither Tyler nor Enid is thrilled by this turn of events. Wednesday tells them she didn’t want to celebrate her birthday with dinner or a surprise party, but she wants to break into Gates Mansion instead. Tyler tells her that she should have just said that in the first place rather than trick them into this, but they both follow Wednesday inside the old mansion anyway.

While investigating the mansion, Wednesday and Enid are cornered by the hyde and only just manage to escape. However, Wednesday heads back to look for Tyler. They find him outside, bleeding from a wound on his chest that appears like claw marks. Wednesday kneels beside him, taking note that he is wounded. She asks him if he can walk just as Xavier arrives and hands Tyler his scarf to cover the wound. Wednesday takes it and presses the scarf to Tyler’s chest. Later, the group are inside Tyler’s living room, where Wednesday is gently applying sutures to Tyler’s wound. He jokes with her, saying ‘thanks, doc.’ Tyler’s dad finds them there and asks what is going on. Shortly after, he forbids Wednesday from seeing Tyler again.

If You Don't Woe Me by Now
Wednesday is at The Weathervane with Uncle Fester, who thinks Tyler has clocked him as a criminal when Tyler heads towards their booth. Wednesday explains to her uncle that he’s not interested in him. Tyler gives Wednesday a quad on the house, and Wednesday introduces him to her uncle. Tyler sits down next to Wednesday when he realises she’s looking at a book with illustrations of hydes, and she doesn’t move away despite typically not enjoying close contact with others. Tyler confirms that is the monster he saw at the Gates Mansion the other night. Wednesday reminds Tyler that his father give him explicit instructions not to be near her, but Tyler tells Wednesday his father isn’t here and he’s on a break. Wednesday further divulges that a Hyde needs to be unlocked by someone - its master. While the pair are poring over the pages, Sheriff Galpin arrives and catches Tyler with Wednesday. The two of them get up to face Tyler’s dad, and Tyler takes the heat off Wednesday by explaining she was trying to keep her distance and that he was the one who sat down with her. Donovan accepts this and hands out flyers to Tyler to put up in The Weathervane: they are Wanted posters featuring a CCTV picture of Uncle Fester in disguise. Galpin leaves, muttering to himself, and Wednesday thanks Tyler for covering for her uncle. Tyler hints at Wednesday about rescheduling their date. Wednesday tries to make excuses, but Tyler interrupts, telling her that after what happened last time, he figures she owes him. Wednesday admits she can’t sneak off of campus again, so Tyler offers to come to her instead. They arrange to meet at 9pm at Crackstone’s Crypt.

Wednesday heads out for her date with Tyler, but insists to Thing that it is not in fact a date but a ‘quid pro quo for almost getting Tyler disemboweled.’ When Wednesday meets Tyler outside the crypt, she reveals the last time someone tried to throw a party for her here, it didn’t go as planned. Tyler hands her a black rose and guarantees this surprise won’t make her pass out cold, but insists she close her eyes. Wednesday reluctantly agrees and Tyler guides her inside the crypt. He tells her she can open her eyes, and Wednesday finds the crypt has been transformed: it is now adorned in fairly lights and candles, complete with popcorn and a film projector. Tyler jokes about nobody having taken Wednesday on a picnic inside a crypt before, and starts playing a movie on the projector, warning Wednesday to ‘prepare to be horrified’. They settle down together to watch the film, and Wednesday is indeed horrified when Legally Blonde starts playing. Tyler chuckles at Wednesday’s alarmed and disgusted expression. When the film is over, Wednesday tells Tyler it was ‘torture’ and thanks him. Tyler gives a wry chuckle and walks over to Wednesday, finally admitting that he wants the two of them to be more than friends. Wednesday tells him he’ll ‘snap out of it’, but Tyler insists she stop discounting his feelings. Wednesday asserts she is not friend material, let alone more-than-friend material, and that she will ignore him, stomp on his heart and always put her needs and interests first. Tyler is not discouraged and sees that she might be deflecting. He tells Wednesday that her pushing him away is not going to work, so Wednesday reminds him that she almost got him killed, and Tyler reminds her that he survived. Wednesday says that was just beginner’s luck, but Tyler is adamant he is tougher than she thinks. Wednesday seems out of excuses, so Tyler edges closer to Wednesday. Wednesday warns him that he’s making a mistake. Tyler concedes that he probably is, but leans in to kiss her nonetheless. Wednesday responds by leaning in to kiss him too, but the pair are broken apart when Sheriff Galpin and the cops shows up, looking for Uncle Fester. Galpin is surprised but proceeds to pretend he didn’t see the two of them there and walks out, taking the other cops with him.

Later, after Wednesday has helped Xavier get arrested for being the Hyde, Enid asks about how Wednesday’s date went with Tyler, but Wednesday reveals it was interrupted. Enid hints that Tyler is working the late shift at The Weathervane and that Wednesday should go and see him to celebrate.

Wednesday arrives at The Weathervane, where Tyler reveals his dad told him what happened with Xavier being arrested. Wednesday says it has made her re-evaluate things, for example who she can trust. Tyler is confused and asks Wednesday if that means she is now ready to be more than friends. She takes several tentative steps towards him and initiates their first kiss. Wednesday leans back, hesitating, but Tyler brushes a thumb across her cheek and kisses her back. However, a few seconds later, Wednesday is paralysed by another psychic vision, and Tyler catches her before she falls to the floor. Wednesday’s psychic vision reveals that Tyler is in fact the Hyde, and she immediately races out of the coffee shop and back towards the school.

A Murder of Woes
Wednesday meets Tyler out in the woods. Tyler explains that Thing gave him her note, and he’s surprised she wants to see him again after running out the other night. Tyler thinks this might be another date, but Wednesday says it’s a surprise. He walks over to her, seemingly about to kiss her, but Wednesday shifts. She tells him that romance was the last thing on her mind when she came to Nevermore, but when Tyler kissed her, it opened her eyes and suddenly it all made sense. She goes on, revealing that Xavier had warned her about Tyler but she didn’t listen. Tyler alludes to the irony of that, considering Xavier is locked away for murder, but Wednesday insists ‘ironic’ would’ve been framing Xavier for murder while the real Hyde helped her put him away. Tyler is evidently confused, and seems hurt when he realises what she is suggesting: that he is the Hyde. Wednesday thinks Kinbott is his master, however, and she questions him on why he killed her since Hydes are typically loyal to their masters. Tyler denies it, calling the theory ‘nuts’, but Wednesday goes on detailing how Tyler got away with murder without rousing suspicion. Tyler tells Wednesday she sounds insane, and insists he isn’t a monster. He wonders why she would even risk confronting him alone if she truly thought he was the monster, but members of the Nightshades then reveal themselves, appearing out of the shadows. Tyler tells Wednesday this is a sick joke and tries to leave, but Bianca used her siren powers on him.

Tyler wakes up in Xavier’s art studio, tied to a chair in chains. Tyler continues to claim his innocence, insisting he is a normie, but Wednesday pulls out a picture of Nevermore’s fencing team during the time her mother captained it, and points out Tyler’s mother in the picture. She discerns that Tyler’s father fell in love and married an outcast. Thing stole Tyler’s mother’s medical records, which reveal she was also a Hyde and her nature had been unlocked through the postpartum depression she suffered following Tyler’s birth. Ajax receives a text from Enid alerting him that Thornhill is suspicious about what is going on, and Wednesday starts pulling out various torture devices from her bag. She tasers Tyler in the neck, and the others, freaked out, leave. Bianca insists they go to Weems, but Wednesday is convinced she won’t help, so Bianca leaves Wednesday alone with Tyler. Wednesday continues questioning Tyler, who is growing more distressed by the minute. She grabs a hammer, but just before she can hurt Tyler, Sheriff Galpin arrives to put a stop to it.

At the police station, Wednesday questions Galpin but Weems insists they leave. Tyler convinces his dad to let him speak to Wednesday. He approaches Wednesday tentatively, and she asks him what exactly he wants. He tells her he wants to ask a question: ‘what does it feel like?’ Wednesday, this time the one who is confused, asks him ‘what does what feel like?’, and Tyler clarifies: ‘to lose.’ He takes several more steps closer to Wednesday, revealing how when he first became the Hyde, he would wake up naked and covered in blood with no idea what happened. But over time, he started to remember everything: the sound of his victims’ screams, the fear in their eyes, a fear so primal he could taste it - and it was ‘delicious.’ He grabs Wednesday, whispering in her ear that she has no idea what is coming. He pulls back, and there are tears in his eyes and a pained expression on his face, perhaps suggestive of his feeling some regret or guilt, but when he turns to walk away, he is smirking. Wednesday is left alone and seething.

When Wednesday realizes that Thornhill is in fact Laurel Gates, she confronts her in the Nevermore conservatory, revealing that she knows how Thornhill began her grooming of Tyler by at first revealing the truth about both himself and his late mother being outcasts. Wednesday correctly deduces that Thornhill then proceeded to use the hidden cave to keep Tyler captive in order to unlock his Hyde by using a plant derive chemical, Wednesday also realizes that Tyler was subjugated to torture and brainwashing in order to render him a willing slave to Thornhill. It is unknown if Wednesday knew to what extent Thornhill abused Tyler or if she felt some degree of concern once she knew the truth of how he became the Hyde.

Wednesday later wakes up in Crackstone’s Crypt with Tyler, except this time she is chained to the ceiling. Tyler comments on the ‘deja video thing’ they have going on, in reference to their previous date in the crypt. Thornhill orders Tyler to wait by the boat, and Wednesday tells him to listen to his master and be a good little Hyde. He is silently angered by this statement, probably because he knows deep down it’s the truth, and shoves past her and exits the crypt.

Later, while Wednesday is out in the woods, she comes face to face with Tyler once more. Tyler mentions that Laurel (aka Thornhill) said Wednesday was dead, and Wednesday tells him she’s felling much better now. Tyler walks over to her, commenting that she is ‘like a cockroach’, and Wednesday quips back saying flattery will get him nowhere. Tyler grabs the front of her blazer and tugs Wednesday closer to him, and she warns him whatever he plans to do won’t end well for him. However, Tyler quickly begins to transform into the Hyde before her eyes, and grabs her in a chokehold, ready to strike. Enid, now in werewolf form, saves her by knocking Tyler out of the way, and Wednesday falls to the ground. Enid and Tyler fight while Wednesday runs off back to the school. Sheriff Galpin later finds Tyler (as the Hyde) out in the woods. He realizes that the monstrous figure is his son and proceeds to shoot him in order to wound him. Tyler is then knocked out by Enid. He’s left lying naked and bloodied on the forest floor. His father comforts him in his arms.

It is later revealed that Tyler is being driven to Willowhill, a psychiatric hospital where his mother was (and may still be) a patient. He is wrapped in chains but begins to transform into the Hyde while inside the van. It is unclear whether he escaped or not.

Fanon
Wyler, while not as popular as Wenclair, has become a fairly well-known ship, with fans enjoying theorizing about a potential enemies-to-lovers storyline between Wednesday and Tyler in season 2. The ship is backed up by various articles stating that, despite Tyler's reveal as the Hyde, an attraction still lies between them. Other fans have speculated that Tyler’s true nature was suppressed by the Hyde due to the abuse he endured by his master when unlocking his Hyde. Besides Wenclair, Wyler is also rivaled by Wavier.

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