The Thing That Reeeeeeaally Bothered Me About Wooly In AtA2 Was When In The Train Episode He Says To

The thing that reeeeeeaally bothered me about Wooly in AtA2 was when in the train episode he says to Amanda “it’s fun PRETENDING you can go places, isn’t it?” (Or something to that effect). Essentially rubbing it in her face that it’s only pretend and she can’t actually leave.

That moment on, he is dead to me!

Interpreting Wooly as Amanda's handler created by Hameln to keep her under control really puts her reaction to him returning in the second game under a new light.

Wooly has always been there to keep Amanda on a short leash, actively berating her for saying and doing the "wrong" things, sabotaging her attempts at remembering Rebecca and always meddling when she's trying to reach out to someone like Kate or Riley (bfr I'm not the only one who thought it was sketchy when he basically replaced Kate with himself as the friend Amanda wanted to send a present to in the alternate neighborhood episode, right?)

Amanda has tried so many times to get rid of him, be it through telling him to go away or just straight-up killing him but he always comes back. He's Hameln's persistent little watchdog who she cannot get rid of. He'll always be there in the next tape being the constant buzzing in her ears to distract her from what she really wants to do.

Except in 2, it looks like Amanda finally succeeded. Wooly's not there for the first couple of tapes. Amanda speaks much more freely without him around, bonds with Riley more to the point she actually calls them by name at the end of the bedtime episode. But then Wooly returns. She hasn't managed to get rid of him after all. He'll always, always be there, tugging on her arm to keep her from getting out of line. Notice how before Wooly returns, the Hameln logo doesn't appear at the end of the AtA episodes. But once he's back, boom! There it is. Wooly, and with him Hameln, have once again weaseled their way into Amanda's world.

No wonder her first reaction is to attack him in a fit of rage.