Insanityloss - INSANITY !!

aayyy

me when I complete ignore all of my other ocs just because I got extremely attached to my recent one

i love love love when artists put a bunch of effort into like human anatomy and facial features and light rendering and drawing fabric folds and shadows and texture and then when they draw a gun they do this

ケモミミモドキのひみつ - [akai sashimi]

Your life means EVERYTHING. You serve EVERY purpose. You should love yourself… NOW!

oh ,,, thisis so heartwamring ,,,, I forgot abotjr that ,,

tahnkyyou grape ,, my dearest moot 🫶

genuinely forgot I exist here,,, but uh,,, height comparison sheet!! or something!!! also a new freak!!!

meet king's justice !! Or king in short :) , a very silly fella added to the blinded crew!! (yes that's what I'm calling them .)

here's a small render of em

aightb,,, imgonna die now , yipyip

I almost forgot to share this , but anyway,,,

THEM!! because I've been neglecting these silliest a lot 💔

o , my sweeties ,,, forgive me for I am about to put you further into the underground 🙏 bittersweet calls for me 😈🙏

their askblogs!!

nurses : @medicalfoxes

aviators : @warangels

TF2 in Historical Context: Spy's Background

It goes without saying that Spy is incredibly mysterious and we know fuck all about him, other than that he at some point had an affair with Scout's mother, and Scout was the product of that. However, I think we can extrapolate some stuff about his backstory nonetheless

Firstly, we learn in Comic 6, which takes place in 1972, that Scout is 26-27 years old. This puts his birth year at 1945 or 1946, right after the end of WWII. I say '26' bc uh. Babies gotta grow yk

This puts Spy's latest possible birth year at around 1927. Probably a little (but not much) earlier, for reasons we'll get into. It is fair to assume that Spy was already a spy by the time he met Ma, because there's no other reason for him to have been in Boston in 1945 really

I can't be the only one who was kinda surprised that Spy looks much younger than I expected without his mask - he's less noticeaby greying than Heavy and Medic too. He's either got an insane botox routine (which wouldn't be ooc lol), or he's younger than the two of them.

In my last post I concluded Heavy was around 52 in 1972, and 59 in 1979. If Spy is slightly younger, that would make him in his mid 40s in game, late 40s in Comic 6 and early to mid 50s in Comic 7.

So. Given Scout is 27, that means that Spy would have met Ma when he was in his early 20s. On a related note, given she already had 6 children before they met, she's also probably quite a bit older than him lol. Seems like both he and Scout have a thing for Moms

All this to say, I think 1924ish is a good approximate birth year for Spy. This would make him 15 years old when WWII broke out and just 16 when Germany invaded France in 1940.

Onto historical context: France was the first modern nation in Western Europe to introduce universal military conscription, which wasn't phased out until 2001. Conscription did take place during WWII (and WWI), but Spy was almost definitely too young to be drafted.

We don't know which region of France Spy is from, so we don't know whether he grew up in the zone libre, which was free from Nazi occupation, or in Vichy France, the puppet state headed by Maréchal Philippe Pétain established by the German occupying force.

Given Spy's age and the context of the Nazi occupation of France, I think it's most likely he entered the world of espionage by joining the French Resistance. Resistance fighters were highly diverse and came from different sections of society, but young people were esp useful.

After the war, a national myth arose in France that overplayed the size and breadth of the Resistance forces, whilst underplaying or ignoring the degree of collaboration of some parts of the country with the Nazi occupation. This came to be known as Résistancialisme.

Something I always think about with the European mercs is the question of how they ended up in the USA in the first place. Given Scout was born around ~1945, Spy must have left France after it was liberated in September 1944.

I feel like if Spy were a member of the Resistance, this shift in the collective memory of the resistance in France may have been one of the reasons he left the country. Either that or he found himself good at working undercover and fell into working internationally.

Thank you for the kind people on tumblr that said nice things about these designs, it motivated me to try draw them again 😭 full body this time

does anyone wanna liek . make a tf2 based group chat and talk about their silly tf2 ocs,, . im rewlaly lonely and would love some friends that also have a concerning addiction to men in war loop .