Over the Garden Wall Why Did Greg Turn into an Edelwood Tree? Theory (The Fangirl) 

And Greg also became *mentally* unhealthy because he was upset that he wasn't a good leader or brother.

Yeah this is my guess too, the kid was dying of hypothermia and the edelwood transformation was representative of his body giving out

The woodsman said to stay healthy in mind and body and greg was never gonna give up hope so the beast just had to weaken his body

I think the black turtles are the mistakes of the people turned into edelwood trees. I know I’m really late but please reply if you wish for me to elaborate

@@shrekwazowski8199 I'm interested, do elaborate!

OR Tamago Ok so this may be a bit long and there may be some more evidence that I haven’t found *The dog became a monster when eating the turtles:* The dog is later seen to be the dog of Beatrice. Beatrice made a mistake, causing her family to be unable to care for the dog, harming the dog. The dog now goes crazy when confronting a mistake (eating a turtle) as he did in episode 1. *Auntie Whispers only gets mildly affected:* Auntie Whispers, as we see, eats the black turtles, but not the shell. She can take in parts of mistakes and doesn’t take the whole thing, as she has grown to know how to not freak out after a mistake but instead only be mildly affected (her appearance). *Greg was seemingly okay with the black turtles:* Greg had made a mistake by stealing the rock facts rock, but he always hid it. He didn’t tell anyone about the rock facts rock. However, Greg was scared in episode 1 and 7, the two episodes where he is confronted by things that were affected by black turtles. Maybe Greg is afraid that Old Lady Daniels would be affected by his mistake and she would get mad at Greg. I found this a bit interesting. *Wirts reaction to the turtles:* Though Wirt is always scared, the affect is interesting with the turtles. He was especially scared of the dog and Auntie Whispers. However, Wirt isn’t as scared of the dog. This is one of the episodes where Wirt blames Greg for everything, hinting that he’s trying to hide his mistakes. In episode 7, Wirt becomes more worried and you can see that he is trying to help Greg a lot more, maybe fearing that he may loose Greg after loosing Beatrice. Wirt is beginning to realize that his mistakes are affecting himself. *The dogs eyes after eating the turtles:* The dogs eyes in episode 1 after eating the turtles resemble the beasts eyes in episode 10. This one is pretty simple. That is pretty much what I remember right now, but I may add on if I find anything more later and if you find any other connections please tell me!

You are very welcome!

TheMightyMeatball it was never there in the first place. it is explained in the graphic novel that her father told her not to go into the woods. I believe she heard the beast singing and became curious so she went anyway where she saw the beast and screamed dropping her cloak. Her father heard her from the house and ran into the woods. As he ran in, she had been running out and got into the house. They missed each other completely and the beast lied saying he had taken her soul but was willing to make a deal and that he could put her soul into the lantern if he could keep it glowing. In his grief, he never returned home until the end of the show for fear of going into an empty home without his daughter while she was so scared she didn't dare leave and waited for her father.

oh, thanks for explaining ^-^

Anytime. I want to read it but I had been just as confused and googled it. XD

You got suckered into creative progression which diminished, not enhanced the story. Some background, the original "Tome of the Unknown" is more like a crazy dream than what the story became. The graphic novel after takes some ideas TOO far, and invariably leads to absurdities. Like the daughter stayed in the house her whole life? Never confronted by the Beast, and wondering who that aimless wandering oaf was carrying a lantern wearing her father's stuff? The creator is also a creative author of Adventure Time, a great series that started out small and went off on quite the successful tangent where the world was post apocalyptic and etc. Let's stop the story at "Over the Garden Wall" the film, where it is simple, and best. Besides, other magical creations are tied to the Beast. The skeletons fall lifeless still after the Beast is destroyed. Just as an example. So why should the woodsman's daughter be so mundane?

In the comics it explains how she came back while the woodsman was away and she was never in the lantern. So when she sees him after opening the door, she thinks that he came back finally. And he did

I actually haven't heard that theory before (I try really hard to stay away from other theories until I know I'm done talking about something, otherwise it's impossible not to get influenced by what other people said). But, I think the turtle issue is a possibility, but it's not quite strong enough for me. That would suggest that the turtles are really the Beast, and he would really only need to posses a new person if the lantern went out - which would make the Edelwood trees less significant to the Beast's needs over just holding people captive to take over. We know he's not doing that because we see the Woodsman grinding up the trees. And, why not have a dozen different Beast's if the turtles can posses humans like that? What was the demon-form of the dog living off of, since it didn't appear to be the lantern? No, the turtles have a connection to the Beast, but I don't think they create him.

The Beast doesn't really need anything, that's another fallacy. The Beast is more like the Devil and the trees are just ONE perversion that manifests the Beast. Notice how perverted it is, these things that should be beautiful and living are really dead and tragic, and the cursed spell the woodsman is under causes them to end in a fire. Ground down for their oil, to fuel a lantern, that surely has no real power or else the Beast would not have given it so perversely to an old man to keep care of.

“Stay hearty in both body and spirit and you shall be safe from him.” Greg was unhealthy. That’s why he became an edelwood. People are looking too far into it I think

He gets under my skin and scares me in ways that an adult shouldn't admit to lol

but that's what he is meant to do

Kat Lu 's AMV It makes me think if the beast is the devil it debunks the dante's inferno theory cuz the devil in the book is frozen up to his nips in the frozen lake in the 9th circle

He has a beautiful voice

holy...

Greg and Wirt both share the knowledge of the Frog's name, "Jason Thunderberger".

IDNeon357 I know I’m late but it’s Funderburker

kiko20082001 I know I’m late but it’s Wirt

I have a theory that the happy ending never happened. I don’t believe that Greg turned into an edelwood, but I think that the way the unknown works would affect it. I think the unknown works where if you go to an area that no one has been before, that area didn’t exist before and you are creating it with it being filled with your interests (this was influenced by something Patrick McHale said). Maybe when Wirt and Greg went into the dark they were going to a place no one had gone before, and they also had an interest in getting home, causing that part to be created. The “real world” still works the same as the unknown (not coughing while drowning, having the frog be physically affected when it shouldn’t as the unknown is most likely purgatory, etc). Wirt also had an interest in getting Sara to fall in love with him, shown at the end of the show. Greg had an interest of bringing his rock facts rock back to Mrs. Daniels, which he does. There is a lot more I have to this theory but this is an overview

He was running low on pieces to grind before he found out the truth. There's only so many Eadlewood trees.

@@TheFangirlWatches im brazilian, so i dont understood everything you said, lol but i think you're saying that the eadlewood was expiring, right?

Anal wood trees