Garden Wall Brothers

Garden Wall Brothers is the familyship between Wirt and Gregory from the Over the Garden Wall fandom.

Canon
Wirt and Greg start their story in Chapter 1 "The Old Grist Mill" lost in the woods, with Wirt not even able to recollect how they even got here. Greg has his pockets filled with candy and suggests setting up a candy trail to remember where they went, even putting candy on top of a black turtle. When they meet a talking bluebird, Greg is fascinated by it, but Wirt freaks out, the two of them are then approached by an old Woodsman, who kindly offers them shelter, saying these woods aren't safe when "the Beast" is on the loose. He takes them to an abandoned mill, with Wirt immediately getting suspicious at his hospitality and discussing plans to knock him out with Greg should the Woodsman have sinister intentions. However, when the mill is attacked by a huge black dog with glowing eyes, Greg knocks the Woodsman out just as Wirt was starting to trust him and the brothers are forced to take on the dog beast on their own. They quickly figure out that the dog likes Greg's cnady, so they use that to trap it in the wheel of the mill, causing it to puke out the black turtle Greg saw earlier. It turns into a normal dog, so Wirt thinks "the Beast" is dealt with, but the Woodsman tells him that the Beast is no animal and is furious at the brothers for damaging the mill. He tells them to leave and look for a town, giving Greg advice to give his pet frog a proper name. Greg thinks of calling his frog "Wirt", but Wirt quickly declines and the two brothers walk aimlessly through the forest, followed by the bluebird.

Chapter 2, "Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee" starts off with Wirt and Greg having wandered through the forest for hours, to the point where its dawn when they finally see signs of a town being nearby. Greg finds the bluebird trapped inside a thorn bush, and frees her despite Wirt telling him not to, which causes the bluebird to offer them a favor, she was already on her way to "Adelaide of the pasture, the good woman of the woods" and tells them that she can bring them back home if asked. Wirt is far more focused on getting a phone, but allows the bluebird, who reveals herself to be named "Beatrice" after Gregory asks her for her name, to follow them into the town of Pottsfield. Wirt and Greg both step on pumpkins on their way, but they quickly find the town abandoned save for the barn where they hear music coming from the inside. There, they find a "cult" of people using pumpkins as costumes celebrating their harvest, but Wirt tries to tolerate them and asks them for a way home, they get offended at them trying to leave. When Wirt and Greg explain that they weren't even intending to stay, they just stepped on pumpkins and tried to ask for directions, the village head Enoch deems them troublemakers for interrupting their festivities and stepping on the crops and sentencing them to a few hours of manual labor. Wirt calmly accepts this and happily works alongside Greg and Beatrice in the fields, only to get suspicious when the villagers task them to dig holes in a random empty field. Wirt suspects that they are forced to dig their own graves, so he allows Beatrice to use her beak to break their locks and flee the village. However, when Enoch and the villagers find them, Wirt is forced to stall them while Beatrice breaks the locks on him and Greg, only for them to run away while Wirt was still trying to explain himself out of this. Luckily, a skeleton pops out of the ground and joins the villagers, with them happy that Wirt and Greg dug up the "life of the party", with Wirt figuring that Pottsfield is inhabited by living skeletons. When Wirt is allowed to leave, he chews Beatrice and Greg out for "ditching" him, but they both wonder why he stayed behind, seeing as Beatrice already picked his lock.

Fanon
Greg is one of the most divisive parts of the cartoon, with some fans loving him for his random antics and sunny disposition, while others find those same attributes to be distractingly cutesy in an otherwise dark story.

However, most fans admire Wirt's character development from someone who initially resents his little brother to truly caring about him, with their experience in the Unknown forging them closer together.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION