Wavier

Wavier is the het ship between Xavier Thorpe and Wednesday Addams from the The Addams Family fandom.

Canon
Wednesday attended Xavier's godmother's funeral since his godmother was friends with her grandmother. Since they were age ten and they were bored, they decided to play hide and seek, and Xavier hid in his godmother's casket but found himself unable to get out as it was headed to the crematorium. Wednesday heard muffled screams and figured Xavier's godmother had somehow cheated death and was trying to claw her way out. She hit the stop button to stop Xavier from being cremated.

Wednesday's Child is full of a Woe
Xavier witnesses Wednesday's fencing matches against Bianca. Later, Wednesday met Xavier after he saved her from being crushed by a stone gargoyle by Rowan's powers. When they met at the hospital, Xavier told her that she didn't have a good concussion and that she has a pretty big bump. Wednesday told him that the last thing he remembered from before being unconscious was having a huge feeling of rage after losing against Bianca. Xavier agreed that losing against Bianca make you fell like that. Wednesday also told him that when she saw that gargoyle fall on her she though that atleast her death would be creative,until he saved her. Then Wednesday asked him why did he saved her and Xavier answered that it was just a instinct thing. Wednesday joked saying that he was possessed by an strange chivalry and he only did that in order to get her "eternal gratitude". Xavier asked her to at least thank him and she told him that she didn't want him to save him from the start. Xavier tells her that she couldn't let that thing crush her and Wednesday replied that that would have saved her herself, to which Xavier says she hasn't changed and he was returning the favor. When Wednesday doesn't recall his name or what he's talking about, Xavier recalls what happened when they were ten years old.

They met again at the Harvest Festival. Wednesday was at a booth blowing up balloons for a panda, hitting the target every time. Xavier joked that if he continued like this he would end up taking all the pandas, and Wednesday sarcastically replied no because pandas don't group in herds and prefer solitude. Then Wednesday told him that he was waiting for someone and Xavier asked him "who was the lucky guy... or the lucky girl". Wednesday replied that it was none of his business, until Tyler arrived and Xavier left.

Woe Is the Loneliest Number
Wednesday is instructed by Principal Weems to try out some of Nevermore’s extra curricular activities. She finds Xavier practicing archery, and he asks her if she’s ever shot a bow and arrow before, to which Wednesday replies ‘only on live targets.’ This earns some raised eyebrows from Xavier, but he continues to give Wednesday an archery lesson nonetheless. When he asks her if she has any questions, she switches the topic of conversation to Rowan, who has mysteriously emerged back at Nevermore unharmed despite Wednesday witnessing his murder the night before. She interrogates Xavier about the last time he saw his roommate, and he confirms the last time he saw Rowan was at the Harvest Festival. Xavier quickly switches the conversation once again, this time to the topic of Wednesday and Tyler. Wednesday insists there is nothing between her and Tyler and that he was only at the Harvest Festival to do Wednesday a favour by driving her out of town. Xavier advises Wednesday to steer clear of Tyler because he and his friends are 'a bunch of jerks'. Wednesday is unimpressed and implies Xavier has had his life handed to him on a silver platter. Xavier quips back with 'girls in glass houses…', as Wednesday is also from a wealthy family, but she just calls Xavier an ‘elitist snob’ before shooting her arrow and an apple right into the middle of the target, showing off better archery skills than Xavier.

Later in Thornhill’s botany class, Xavier invites Wednesday to sit at the open spot next to him… if she can stand sitting that close to an elitist snob. Wednesday doesn’t reply but sits next to him anyway. Xavier brings his sketch of a spider to life at their table and sends it scuttling towards Wednesday. He prompts Wednesday to admit she’s a little impressed by this. Instead, she proceeds to slam her hand into the table, destroying the animated spider. Xavier closes his sketch book, evidently disappointed.

That evening, Wednesday breaks into Rowan and Xavier’s dorm room, looking for a book she saw in one of her psychic visions. She waits until Xavier disappears into the bathroom for a shower before she begins her search. She finds his sketch book on his desk, which contains a drawing of four ravens, a sketch of the gargoyle that almost killed Wednesday, and finally a portrait of Wednesday. Wednesday pauses, confused by this, but moves on to continue investigating the dorm room. Just as she is about to leave, someone knocks on the door and Xavier exits the bathroom. Wednesday quickly hides under Xavier’s bed, where she and Thing listen in on Xavier’s private conversation with his ex-girlfriend, Bianca. Bianca reveals that Xavier was worried Rowan would do something to Wednesday and he has been keeping a close eye on her as a result. However, Bianca questions Xavier on if there is another reason why he has been following Wednesday around, implying she believes Xavier has a romantic interest in Wednesday. Bianca asks him what he sees in her, and Xavier suggests his interest in Wednesday might be because she hasn’t tried to manipulate him. Bianca insists she and Xavier were good together, but Xavier is unsure about this and wonders if that is just how Bianca wanted him to feel. Bianca warns Xavier that Wednesday Addams is not the girl of his dreams, but rather the stuff of his nightmares. She leaves, and Wednesday and Thing share a bewildered look.

Friend or Woe
Wednesday is ambushed by the Nightshades, a secret society, and Xavier suggests they invite her to pledge, reminding the rest of the society members that she is a legacy as the daughter of Morticia and Gomez Addams, who had been Nightshades members when they were students at Nevermore. Wednesday, however, declines the offer, insisting she is not interested in joining the Nightshades.

Later, during Outreach Day in Jericho, Wednesday approaches Xavier, who is staring at a blank wall. When Wednesday asks him why he’s staring at a blank wall, he reveals it wasn’t blank last Outreach Day. Wednesday thinks Xavier is still stewing because she rejected his invitation to the Nightshades, believing she is just ‘cannon fodder in whatever cold war’ Xavier is waging with Bianca. She then tells Xavier she has more pressing matters on her mind: like tracking down the monster that killed Rowan. Xavier scoffs, reminding Wednesday that Rowan was expelled. They bicker and Xavier stalks off, but Wednesday follows him, pulling out the Nightshades journal she stole from the library. Xavier tells her she can now add ‘thief’ to her resume, but also admits he has seen the book before, a couple days before the Harvest Festival, open on Rowan’s desk. Wednesday tells him that Rowan threw him against the wall with his telekinesis, and when Xavier asks her how she knows this, she lies and tells him it was a ‘lucky guess’, when in fact she had seen it during a psychic vision. Xavier admits it is weird that Wednesday is in the book considering it is 30 years old, and mentions Crackstone being in the picture with her. He reveals to Wednesday that Joseph Crackstone was basically Jericho’s founding father. The pair then head to the bleachers together to watch Weems and the Mayor give their speeches.

Wednesday later visits The Weathervane, where Xavier is working his outreach assignment with Tyler. Xavier offers Wednesday a coffee but she declines, saying she is there for Tyler. Xavier appears downcast at this, and reminds Wednesday that he told her Tyler was bad news. Wednesday asserts that who she speaks to is her business, and Xavier walks off dejectedly when Tyler appears.

Xavier surprises Wednesday when he finds her out in Cobham Woods during a downpour, following a particularly disturbing psychic vision. He asks her what she’s doing, and she tells him she was following the monster. Xavier appears much more receptive to the idea of the monster being real this time, and asks Wednesday if she saw it and if she has a death wish. Wednesday says she has learned that the monster is human, and attempts to show Xavier its tracks in the mud as proof, but the rain has washed them all away. Xavier scoffs but insists he is trying to keep an open mind about the monster. They start walking together beneath Xavier’s umbrella, and Xavier confesses that Wednesday might be right about Rowan being dead after all, after texting him and catching him out with a lie. Xavier asks Wednesday to be honest with him about why she was out at the old pilgrim meeting house in the first place, and Wednesday is surprisingly candid with him, telling him she was trying to learn more about Crackstone. Xavier thinks Wednesday was also trying to use her psychic abilities, and when she asks him why he thinks she has any, he parrots her earlier words to him: ‘lucky guess.’ He reveals his father, Vincent Thorpe, is also a psychic. Xavier gives Wednesday some advice about her visions, telling her they can’t be trusted, but Wednesday thinks he’s just mansplaining her power. Xavier reveals his father, the ‘expert’ would warn Wednesday that psychic ability isn’t rooted in logic, but triggered by emotions, and emotions are not exactly Wednesday’s strong suit. Wednesday doesn't take kindly to this advice, however, and walks off into the rain, leaving Xavier exasperated.

Woe What a Night
During botany class, Xavier seems uncomfortable and tells Wednesday that he tweaked his back while fencing. He teases her about the upcoming Rave’N dance, although Wednesday asserts that she’d rather stick needles in her eyes. Xavier suggests she could invite someone to the dance and have a little fun, but Wednesday is distracted when she notices he has a large, fresh scratch wound on his neck.

Suspicious and unconvinced that Xavier got the scratches from fencing, Wednesday and Thing spy on him as he leaves his art studio. Wednesday sneaks inside and finds it littered with paintings and drawings of the monster that attacked her and killed Rowan at the Harvest Festival. Upon this revelation, Wednesday admits Xavier has suddenly become much more interesting to her, and steals a couple of his drawings before hastily exiting the studio.

However, Wednesday is cornered by Xavier as she leaves, and Wednesday asks for a tour of his art studio, pretending she hasn’t already been inside. Xavier awkwardly declines and asks her why she was looking for him, but Wednesday lies, telling him she wanted to go over Ms. Thornhill’s homework assignment. Confused, Xavier reminds her that Thornhill didn’t give them any homework, and  as Wednesday panics internally, Xavier comes to the conclusion that she is there to ask him to the Rave’N. Wednesday goes along with it and asks him to the dance, using it as an opportunity to ‘get up close and personal with a potential serial killer.’ Xavier, unsuspecting of Wednesday’s ulterior motives, is thrilled, and agrees to go to the dance with her, admitting that he thought she would never ask.

Later, Wednesday, continuing her investigation into the monster, sneaks back into Xavier’s art studio, except this time he catches her inside. He asks her what she’s doing there, but Wednesday queries him on how he knows what the monster looks like and if the paintings are actually self-portraits. Xavier denies he is the monster and is angered by Wednesday’s insinuations. He reveals that the monster has been haunting his dreams for the last couple of weeks, and that he can’t block it out, so instead he paints it. He discloses that one of his paintings of the monster reached out of the canvas and took a swipe at him, leaving the scratch marks on his neck. Wednesday says she thought he was able to control his ability, but Xavier admits that he can’t control his paintings of the monster. Wednesday remains highly suspicious, however, especially considering Xavier also drew the location of the monster's lair in the woods. She pulls out one of his drawings she stole earlier, and Xavier realises she had been in the art studio earlier and had lied to him about why she was there when he caught her outside. He’s furious when he also realises that she only asked him to the dance to cover for herself, and asks her if she even cares about anyone or anything at all, before demanding that she get out out of the studio. Wednesday, nonplussed, leaves.

Xavier appears stunned and hurt when Wednesday arrives at the Rave’N with Tyler Galpin instead. As she grabs the two of them some drinks, Xavier approaches her and admits he can’t believe she brought Tyler. He insists that she doesn’t know what Tyler did to him, and Wednesday asks him to enlighten her. Later, Wednesday informs Tyler that Xavier told her how he and his friends assaulted Xavier and destroyed his mural on Outreach Day.

While watching Wednesday dance with Tyler, Xavier asks his date, Bianca, to use her siren powers to make him forget about Wednesday. Bianca is angered by this, reminding Xavier that he broke up with her because he thought she was manipulating him with her siren song, and now he is asking her to use it to help him get over another girl. She storms off, and Wednesday later finds her sitting alone. Bianca reveals to Wednesday that Xavier broke up with her because he could never fully trust her, and Wednesday looks uneasy at this. Bianca goes on to say that she also could never trust if Xavier’s feelings for her were real or not, and tells Wednesday she is lucky because she doesn’t care what people think of her. But Wednesday, perhaps recalling Xavier’s earlier outburst and frustration with her, admits that she wished she cared a little more.

Quid Pro Woe
Xavier surprises Wednesday on her 16th birthday, along with Enid, Bianca and some of the Nightshades, bringing out a cake that Xavier designed for her.

Wednesday is observing the ‘fire will rain’ message burned into the school lawn, when Xavier approaches her, looking to extend an olive branch. Wednesday says she didn’t realise they were back on speaking terms, and Xavier tells her that showing up to her surprise party should’ve been a hint. He wants to know about her latest psychic vision, but Wednesday is stubborn and implies she is not ready to speak with him yet and that she hasn’t ruled him out as being the monster. Xavier tells her she knows where to find him when she she changes her mind mind and wants his help. He stalks off and Wednesday watches him leave.

Wednesday’s obstinate determination to avoid Xavier doesn’t last long, as she comes to him for help later that evening. She finds him in his art studio and Xavier jokes that she’s come to him for some drawing lessons. She shows him a drawing of her own, a place from one of her visions. Xavier shows her a drawing of his own of the same place, and Wednesday ask him if he recognises it. He confirms that it is the old Gates Mansion, which he passes when he goes running. He asks Wednesday why she wants to know, but before she can answer, Thing pulls away a sheet covering another painting. It is revealed to be an intricate painting of Wednesday playing her cello. Wednesday walks over to observe the painting, clearly stunned. Xavier, embarrassed that Wednesday has seen the painting, tries to explain. He reveals that after the dance, he wanted to forget about her, but he couldn’t, so he started painting and this was the result. He shares with her that he can hear her when she plays and using his ability, he brings the painting to life. The portrait of Wednesday begins to play the cello and sombre music fills the studio. Xavier confesses that he can tell how she gets lost in the music and it’s the only time he feels he gets to see the real Wednesday. Wednesday, however, is speechless, seemingly captivated by his painting. After a few moments she turns away, barely glancing at Xavier before walking out of the studio.

While Wednesday is out at Gates Mansion with Enid and Tyler, Xavier arrives at her dorm window, intending to talk to Wednesday about the painting and assuming she is mad about it. Finding the dorm empty, he climbs through the window and questions Thing about Wednesday’s whereabouts. Thing presumably tells Xavier where Wednesday is, as he arrives at Gates Mansion to find her with Enid and Tyler, who is wounded. Wednesday is surprised to see him and asks him where he came from, but Xavier just hands Tyler his scarf to cover his wound.

At the Galpin house, Wednesday is busy patching up Tyler’s wound, and Xavier looks a little jealous. Tyler’s dad arrives at the house and informs the school that they are off school premises. Wednesday manages to convince Weems not to expel her, but she also ensures that Xavier and Enid are spared from being expelled too.

If You Don't Woe Me by Now
Wednesday heads to the Nightshades Library in search of Nathaniel Faulkner’s diary. She finds Xavier already in the library, but he refuses to tell Wednesday why he’s there, telling her that since he’s an actual Nightshade he doesn’t have to explain himself. He asks her what her excuse is for creeping around in the middle of the night, and she reveals she is researching the monster. Xavier tells her there is nothing in the library matching it, suggesting he was probably doing his own research on the monster before Wednesday arrived. They bicker, and Xavier airs his frustrations about Wednesday giving him nothing but suspicion and lies. Wednesday argues that Xavier has always been right there whenever the monster has attacked. Xavier begins to walk away, saying he didn’t realise that proximity was a crime. But Wednesday continues to argue, citing Xavier’s many drawings of the monster without having actually seen it as another reason she is suspicious of him. She goes off on a tangent, putting together a story of how Xavier could have killed Eugene so he wouldn’t spill his secret. Xavier is hurt and offended that Wednesday thinks he would hurt Eugene. He starts closing the gap between them and asks Wednesday why he hasn’t killed her yet if he really is the monster. Wednesday hesitates before admitting that for some reason she cannot fathom or indulge, he seems to like her. Xavier, clearly stung by Wednesday’s accusations, quips back with ‘what’s to like?’ before turning away and exiting the library.

Moments after Xavier leaves, Uncle Fester appears out of the shadows, apparently a witness to the whole thing. Wednesday asks him how long he’s been lurking in the library, and he says ‘long enough to feel the tension between you two’. He raises his hands and sparks of electricity sizzle between his fingers as if to illustrate his point. He tells Wednesday ‘you could cut it with an executioner’s axe.’ Before Wednesday can respond, Thing distracts them both.

Still convinced Xavier is the monster (which she now knows is called a ‘hyde’), Wednesday sets out with Uncle Fester to follow Xavier during his impromptu meeting with Kinbott, his therapist. She tells Xavier that she knows what he is now, but he demands that she stay away from him. Unknown to Xavier, Uncle Fester has placed a tracker on his bike so he and Wednesday can follow him. Wednesday watches him through a telescope as Xavier meets Kinbott near the lake. He warns her that he had a dream where she died, and the two get in Kinbott’s car. Wednesday, however, perceives this as Xavier preparing his next victim.

After Kinbott’s death, Wednesday is more convinced than ever that Xavier is the hyde. She hides in his art studio, waiting for him to arrive. When he does, he turns on the light to find her sitting there, a knife in hand. He scoffs, telling her to stay out of his space. Wednesday plunges the knife into a chair, telling him he left it in her room after almost killing Thing. She questions him about Kinbott, and Xavier realises she has been spying on him. Tired of putting up with Wednesday’s games, he starts to play along, picking up the knife with a flourish and declaring that he is the villain in Wednesday’s fantasy. He slowly twirls the knife between his fingers as he divulges to Wednesday that his father thinks his son’s mental health is a PR problem that needs to be managed. He elaborates on how his father wanted to keep his troubled son out of the tabloids. He moves closer to Wednesday, making it clear that he wasn’t in her room and that he doesn’t care whether she believes him or not. Wednesday walks away and Xavier sighs in frustration. Wednesday, still convinced Xavier is responsible for the murders in Jericho, removes a sheet hiding a painting from view, which is revealed to be one of Kinbott with claw marks and scratches lining her face. She interrogates Xavier further, asking why he has items belonging to the hyde’s victims in his art studio along with ‘stalker images’ of her. Xavier is confused and aggravated, insisting someone planted all those things there, but before he can defend himself further Sheriff Galpin and other police officers burst into the studio and arrest Xavier. Xavier yells at Wednesday, claiming that she framed him and that he’s being set up. As he is escorted away, he tells her bitterly that he should have let Rowan kill her.

A Murder of Woes
Wednesday meets Tyler in the woods after a psychic vision reveals he was the hyde all along. She admits that Xavier warned her about him but she didn’t listen. She tries to tell both Sheriff Galpin and Weems that Xavier was framed, but no one takes her seriously. She then sneaks into the jail to visit Xavier, who is locked in his cell. She reveals to him that she knows he is not the hyde and and that Tyler used her to frame him because he is the actual hyde. Xavier asks Wednesday how she knows this, and she confesses that she saw it in a vision when Tyler kissed her. Xavier, stung, scathingly retorts that he’s glad Wednesday was getting some action while he was falsely accused. Wednesday relents that she should have believed him, but presses him for any information he might have on the hyde due to their apparent psychic connection. Xavier gives her a withering look, and tells her that she ruined his life, and trying to be her friend just got him locked in a cell and accused of murder. Wednesday insists ‘this isn’t about us, Xavier’. Xavier remarks that Wednesday is toxic and just makes things worse. He tells her to leave town because that’s how she can save everyone. He orders her to leave, and after a moment’s hesitation, she exits the jail.

Xavier, after being freed from a police car by Thing, arrives at Nevermore during the showdown with a resurrected Crackstone. He aims a bow and arrow and yells at him to stay away from Wednesday. He shoots his arrow at Crackstone, who uses magic to redirect it straight back at Xavier. Wednesday, saving Xavier’s life much like he saved hers in episode 1, shifts into its path and takes the arrow in her shoulder. Xavier runs to help her, reaching out a protective hand, but she insists that she’s fine and that he has to help get other students out of Nevermore and to safety. Xavier hesitates, but does as she says, rushing to assist the remaining students out of the school.

As Wednesday and her fellow Nevermore students prepare to leave for a premature winter break, she catches sight of Xavier, who waves in greeting, and heads up the stairs to join him. She tells him she hears he’s a free man now, and Xavier reveals all his charges have been dismissed. He apologises for the things he said to her in the cell, but remarks that being her friend should come with a warning label. He also admits that he doesn’t know a lot of people who would take an arrow for him, before he hands her a small black box complete with a black decorative ribbon. Wednesday opens it to find a smart phone inside. Xavier welcomes her to the 21st century, and mentions that his number is already in there. Wednesday says he shouldn’t expect her to call him, and Xavier, amused, tells her he would never expect that, but he’d settle for a text. When Wednesday doesn’t respond, he asks her if she knows what a text is, and she gives him a peevish look. Xavier chuckles and Wednesday bids him goodbye before descending the staircase. Xavier, practically beaming, asks Wednesday if she’ll be back next semester, but is left hanging.

Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe

 * Xavier takes off his fencing mask to watch as Wednesday walks across the room.

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Wavier is a pretty popular ship within the fandom. It is rivalized against Wenclair and Wyler. After the revelation of Tyler being the beast, many people speculate that Xavier will be Wednesday's final love interest. It is currently the 3rd most popular ship within the Wednesday fandom in AO3.

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