The Origins of the White Weewoo

     An opinion article scattered with ~some~ factual evidence found throughout Neopia (and beyond).

     Let’s start from the beginning, shall we? We must first examine the precursor to the White Weewoo, that is, the original Weewoo. The OG if you will.

     Not much is known about the ever elusive Weewoo, with its origins tracing back to October 10, 2001, which coincidentally enough happens to be the exact day I started writing this article. No joke. If I could insert a timestamp image of my article here, I would.

     We celebrate 20 years of the Weewoo, which was named such after the rather haunting melody discovered on Krawk Island. A chorus of Weee..Woo...could be heard all over the Island at Dusk. With a soft golden-brown downy fur, a greyish face, and yellow feet, the Weewoo is mainly nondescript.

     Classified upon their discovery as a Pirate Petpet, they were quickly put to the test to see what they could be used for. Gotta love exploitation, am I right?

     However, after spending some time aboard pirate ships, it turns out they weren’t good for much, other than sitting on pirates shoulders as they pilfered around Krawk Island because of one solitary reason:

     They couldn’t fly.

     They were basically useless! They couldn’t fly up to the topmast and act as a lookout, trilling down below if there was another ship on the horizon, they couldn’t move quickly enough out of the way during a great storm and had to be shut in down below in the bridges, nor could they fly and attack an enemy’s face and use their feet to pluck eyeballs out.

     Completely exasperated with the Weewoo, the pirate that discovered the first one was left with no choice but to basically cart the thing around with them everywhere. However, the little thing was so cute that it eventually had every pirate on the ship wrapped around its yellowed-webbed feet.

     The Weewoo became a part of the crew, a family member if you will. The Weewoo could be found in some of its favourite spots such as the hammock strung up between two posts, or in the galley with the cook helping to clean up the floor with stray bits of food that had fallen.

     Hey, maybe it was good for something after all.

     The Weewoo’s trill was also sometimes used as a lure for enemy pirate ships. An adventurous pirate would usually climb up one of the tallest masts on the ship and sit there perched for hours with the Weewoo, encouraging it to send a chorus out into the wind. Just enough of a sound to interest any other ships along the horizon. The ship would lead from a distance their prey into one of the more dangerous parts of the surrounding waters of Krawk Island. Sea creatures of all kinds would rear up and pull enemy ships down into the unknown.

     Woah, Weewoos could actually be quite devious little things without even realizing it.

     It wasn’t until later that one pirate, (many debate and try to claim credit for this), began creating and reading navigational charts aloud around the Weewoo as they studied the half-written sea charts, and the Weewoo miraculously had a knack for them!

     They would hop around the giant navigational table and move around various figures that the pirate had placed in speculation of land with a definitive push of the object towards a slightly different location.

     Initially stunned, the pirate moved the piece back to where it had originally been, but the Weewoo was adamant and moved it again, cooing softly at the pirate and blinking up at them with hooded eyes.

     The pirate gave in and allowed the Weewoo its way, knowing that the captain was going to make him walk the plank for sure, if it was wrong.

     Turns out it wasn’t wrong.

     So this went on for some time as the pirates began sailing further and further away from Krawk Island, all thanks to the Weewoo’s exceptional navigational skills. The pirates took a shine to the Weewoo when it kept correct about where to go next.

     The Weewoo got so good, that one day it ended up picking up one of the writing instruments and drawing lines themselves on the map! It’s said that the captain dropped their entire cup of Piratey Fruit Juice that day onto the floor in shock. And listen, the captain never wastes Piratey Fruit Juice.

     This somehow eventually progressed with the original pirate who discovered the Weewoo’s navigational skills, deciding to teach the Weewoo how to write.

     Who woulda thought a pirate knew how to read and write, and would ultimately become a teacher? Not me, that’s for sure.

     Eventually Neopia’s largest newsletter, The Neopian Times, got wind of the well-written-Weewoo, (heh, pardon the alliteration there I couldn’t resist), and asked the pirates and the Weewoo to submit an article for the newsletter along with a one-on-one interview and photoshoot revealing to all of Neopia the first intelligent petpet, (I know right, how crazy is it to interview a petpet?).

     You’re probably thinking to yourself, but where does the White Weewwoo come into play? OR better yet, when.

     Because you’re right, it’s not the original brown-ish Weewoo that we’re so familiar with associated with the Neopian Times, but rather it’s a White Weewoo.

     The Weewoo’s learning of the navigational skills and writing took place over the span of a couple of years, and throughout this time had gathered a rather...exuberant fanbase. This group of Neopians (wait are we Neopians? Or are our Neopets the Neopians...an article for another day, I digress); were for some reason desperate for a White Weewoo. The belief was that this Weewoo was going to be the best at everything, and therefore if it were white, it could also be used in other activities as well, like combat. It could be so bright, it could be used as a weapon in the battledome to blind their opponent. Or to distract Dr. Sloth from attempting to accomplish one of his crazy schemes. It was deemed that white was a colour that represented goodness, innocence, and purity. This Weewoo was the best and brightest for all of Neopia!

     So it was on October 27th, 2003, when the over-excited fanbase decided to steal the Weewoo in the middle of the night before the big interview and photoshoot the next day, and brought the Weewoo to a pool, where the trembling thing was tossed in a bucket full of white paint.

     So basically, a White Weewoo is just a dyed Weewoo.

     Well that was anticlimactic.

     Wee...woo?