ssso, the thing about the character I'd like to play (this one) is that he went through a massive amount of backstory-dependent character development between 12 and 17, nearly all of which was off-screen, which means... his canon interactions don't really showcase the same personality he'd have had as a kid. (like, as a 17 year old he's basically a textbook Hufflepuff, but at 11 he probably would have been a Gryffindor instead.) The thing is, since he's a. severely lacking in self-awareness, and b. really really easily influenced by his surroundings, there's honestly very little indication of what he was like as a kid, since he himself isn't cognizant of the change but there would clearly be a LOT of it, so I would be starting off on largely headcanon and then grow him through and inevitably end up with someone COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the 17 year old Wil in canon, because that five year window of development would be replaced by entirely different experiences that probably wouldn't change him as drastically and very certainly not in the same ways.

basically, while he would still be very like how he was as a kid, there is no canon material of him as a kid and it's pretty much impossible to write him into a Hogwarts AU while keeping his behavior recognizably similar to how he acts as a teenager.

given that, I would still be interested in playing him with the differences and am mostly just wondering if he's even appable :|a