Tommy seemed to struggle to think of him as having been a villain until after his death, whereupon he started calling him a 'wrongen' and a 'bad guy' much more freely. While he recognized his flaws, however, he still expressed faith in the "real Wilbur" from before his downfall, stating that he didn't want to let him down and even calling L'Manberg his own "unfinished symphony," implying that he felt like he was following in Wilbur's footsteps and wanted to finish his nation in his stead. After the Disc Confrontation, he and Tommy briefly conversed with what is presumed to be Wilbur’s spirit. While Wilbur’s words were mainly aimed at Tommy, he voiced pride in Tubbo as well, and Tubbo was pleased to hear from him. During the war, Niki constantly told everyone she believed that Wilbur no longer had a moral right, and should be stopped, but her loyalty stayed after discovering the TNT in the building and not warning anyone. However, after Wilbur's detonation, their relationship has been forever soured. After his death, Niki convinced herself that he had run away and was still alive. After being forced to see the truth, Niki began to spiral out of control and she followed in his footsteps, saying 'it was never meant to be' and destroying L'Manberg. Though he paid little mind to his physical state initially, he appears to have at least shed his old ways of letting his body fall into disrepair, readily accepting his need to clean. He had a wide variety of plans he intended to complete - despite showing interest in letting Tommy into his project, he refused to properly explain it to him, implying that Wilbur is once again mirroring his old ambitious tendencies. It is highly likely that these plans are fake, and do not really exist - Wilbur appears to be struggling to find a new place in the world.

Now intending to create a free nation and not just a business, Wilbur logged onto the server on July 29, 2020, to be greeted with a gift of blaze rods from Tubbo. [74] He invited Tommy to see him in the Camarvan, dissuading him from wearing armor and explaining that he was starting a revolution, not a war. Wilbur voiced a desire to build a nation in which he could brew drugs without repercussions, reassuring Tommy that they were on the right side of history. As he set out the baseline for the nation he hoped to form in revolution, Wilbur likened his and Tommy's new stance to George Washington and Alexander Hamilton from Hamilton, a 2015 musical.

It's not clear what stance Wilbur has clung on to after thirteen years of death, and it's entirely possible that his previous ideas have completely shifted once again. He seems to continue to value personal freedom above all else, eager to re-claim his own life, but it's not clear yet how this changed perspective will alter his opinion on corruption and power. Wilbur's current intention is to "live life to the fullest."

Despite his problems, Wilbur was never open about anything he struggled with, preferring to keep his mental health under wraps. As the first President of L'Manberg, Wilbur suffered heavily from the stress of leading the new nation (and presumably from the lasting trauma of the War for Independence, as it is incredibly unlikely that Tommy was the only one to experience lasting symptoms of PTSD around the Final Control Room) - in his own words, he would scream and cry into his pillow whenever he wasn't behind a podium. [19] Even before being defeated in the election by his own hubris, he had severe trust issues, and appeared to fear losing the little control over the nation that he had. [50] These would display clearest in his refusal to let even well-meaning non-Europeans into L'Manberg and his attempt to rig the election in his party's favor. [18] YOU'RE GOING TO KILL CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST!" - to Tommy, arguing over his possible resurrection. Wilbur appears fond of his father, and is thankful for being killed, but does not share his ideas on authority, and generally disagrees with him politically. Wilbur made his first YouTube channel when he was eleven under the username settings66. Wilbur constantly made the channel seem more popular by encouraging others to create other accounts under the same username. [26]

In the early days of L'Manberg, Wilbur wrote letters to Philza, telling him briefly of his experiences with his new L'Manbergian friends. As time progressed, Wilbur sent letters less frequently, until he eventually stopped. This led Phil to come to find him in L'Manberg, only to find him about to destroy it. [84] Wilbur consistently hid the truth from his father, most likely out of a sense of shame. Despite his outward human appearance, it has been implied that Wilbur had blue blood before his transition into Ghostbur, further proving his inhuman nature. [8] It's not clear if this is true, because his resurrection skin implies red blood. The “Blue” that was handed out by Ghostbur, however, was always a solid, opaque blue color and has never been seen in its initial transparent form. Does Wilbur soot have Aphantasia? As a fan of literature and an advocate for the preservation of history, Wilbur writes and signs a significant amount of the plot-important documents on the server, both during his first life and after it. Though they were once preserved on the server, as of the Doomsday War, most (if not all) of these books have been destroyed. When prompted for more people to apologize to, Wilbur thought of a second person, asking for Tommy to accompany him. On the way there, he explained the situation that Phil had told him, praising Phil’s advice to him and offering a task to Tommy.