When you cant stop making art with your OC apart from the fandom and not smth directly related to the media itself so you feel like you're deranged in the whole community
I love them so much 🥺
by Maxim Evdokimov
I wonder what Mae got up to this Harfest 🎃🍂
realizing that TF2 and creating art about it is the only thing ever in my whole life that got me feeling like I'm actually doing something worthy, actually creating and feeling myself a human, after all.
I’m almost certain this has been made before but
If I can’t have a good day nobody can.
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so do i look...
LIKE HIM?
Soon you might get why
Monday #StudyBuddies mapcrunch warmup 60 min - 30 min - 30 min
I redrew my Engineer princess because I felt like the original illustration didn't convey my concept sufficiently :)
Here are all the mercs I've drawn so far together:
commission for @eternityservedcold
Got a lil self indulgent with this one chat
Geek
So much more convenient to be a homebody-hikki in a today's new dystopian world, isn't it?
Out of the entire cast, Scout is, funnily enough, the one who reacts the least to anything scary or traumatizing.
A lot of people depict him as this guy who's the scaredy cat, asshole, angsty one of the team, when a lot of the time? He's... actually a really cool dude (if a bit energetic).
In "Jungle Inferno", it's Spy who runs when there's an odd noise, and it's Scout who continues forward. While it could've been because Spy's voice actor didn't make an appearance, it's oddly symbolic to their characters.
In "MvM - The Sound of Medicine", when Heavy, Soldier, Scout, and Pyro are surrounded by Demobots, as Heavy and everyone else are blown up and Heavy's head lands on Scout's stomach, he doesn't even react. He just... looks at Heavy's head and let's his own head fall back in defeat.
Even in the comics as he's being choked out by everyone on the team, he kinda just accepts it without being nervous or anxious, he doesn't even flinch when it happens, just a sort of, "aw man, this shit again? Sod off!" reaction.
He acts immaturely, sure, but he's never like, a kid about anything? He's acts like an immature adult, but it's never immature-immature, even when he moves on from Pauling, it's both out of respect for both her and himself.
He's really respectful about it, actually, and Pauling isn't disgruntled or even annoyed, even she knows he never meant any harm, only that he was a hopeless romantic. And even in the duration of his crush, he actually respects her a lot, even if he doesn't go through with his plans to hang out with her.
If we're assuming here, the guy grew up with his mom. He's been respecting women since day one, he knows just how much of a charmer he can be because he grew up under his mom's care. Scout's awkward as hell, but he knows not to push it with women.
A lot of people want Scout angst or try to make him out to be the asshole but like, he really just does not give a shit. In fact, he's likely the only one out of the entire cast who copes with his problems like any normal human being.
Conclusion: Scout isn't angsty, a scaredy-cat, or an asshole, he's just a really, really complicated and paradoxical character who is, unfortunately, extremely bastardized by everyone in the TF2 community. It's a shame too, he has such a unique personality.
I restudied the TF2 characters to remind myself of their personalities and mannerisms, and now that I'm looking at Demoman again, he's strangely a tragic character:
He lost both his parents due to an explosive HE set off; afterwards, he loses his eye because of a cursed sword, then becomes a drunk when his real parents take him in after pretty much abandoning him. And it's obvious in his voicelines that he's really depressed.
Then, every Halloween whenever Medic puts his eye back in, he loses it AGAIN. And Medic, after eight years of putting his eye back, literally REMOVES a part of his brain that helps him remember things, and now he's going to have to live his life just forgetting things ("thank you kindly, stranger!" Reference to a comic panel because, LIKE, WHAT?)
In comic 7, he just looks sad when he sees the better "demoman" (it's not stated but it is heavily implied the man's something of a demoman) in both the statue and the portrait in the hallway. Or impressed, either way, he's envious of that "demoman."
He pretty much doesn't live up to his family tradition either of losing both his eyes after 30. Meaning that he was never a good Demoman. He doesn't even WANT to be a good Demoman, especially since he keeps asking Medic to put his other eye back in.
AND HE ISN'T EVEN ANGRY ABOUT EVERYTHING I JUST EXPLAINED. He has every right to be a villain, or at least an antagonist. But instead he took the sword, doesn't hold it against Medic for erasing his memory, he takes care of his blind mom even after abandoning him, and he just drinks his problems away instead of lashing out.
I know the writers didn't intend this, but he's just so tragic.
I drew so many mercs I actually ran out of blue ink