How Would The Mercs React To Someone They Know Really Well (like Family) Coming Out To Them As Genderfluid??
how would the mercs react to someone they know really well (like family) coming out to them as genderfluid?? ur writing is 😔👌 btw
Thank you so much! I hope I wrote this well, if you’d like me to make a change or two let me know!
For simplicities sake, I’m going to go with close friend that they’d consider family, knowing each other that well.
Also, the pov changes halfway through and I don’t feel like rewording it; I’ve realized I like doing second person a lot so I hope that’s alright!!!
Scout:
“You drink gender???”
Jokes aside, Scout may have a bit of trouble wrapping his head around it at first. For him, it makes a lot of sense, but it’s a change that takes time for him to adjust to since he has a habit of speaking before he thinks.
Still, Scout always makes sure to ask their pronouns whenever they show up, and is unabashedly loud and proud whenever gender comes up in conversation.
He constantly makes positive comments that reaffirm whatever they choose to go by for the moment. It can get a bit overbearing at times, but he means well.
Soldier:
Immediately picks them up and swings them in a circle while hugging them. “AFFIRMATIVE! That you are, and I LOVE you for it!”
Probably the loudest about it, but if they aren’t out yet to certain people, he’s surprisingly loyal and will make a vow of silence if it means not outing them if they don’t want to be outed.
However, if someone tries to pick a fight? It’s on. Soldier will send them flying into orbit for the people closest to him.
Incredibly supportive, proud, and energetic about it.
Pyro:
Pyro completely understands from the get-go, even if they can’t say it through the mask.
To show they care, they immediately envelop their friend in a hug and shower them with love and acceptance.
They use crayons to draw their close friend, give them gifts and flowers, and overall do their best to show they care.
Will show up with a fire axe if anyone tries to purposefully misgender their friend or try to instigate a fight. They’re yelling muffled insults at whoever dared try and fight their best friend.
Demo:
Gives his friend a clap on the back, with a huge smile on his face.
“Took ye long enough!”
He always suspected, but didn’t want to ask out of fear of scaring them into deciding to come out too early, or making them uncomfortable.
Obviously, “took you long enough” is a lighthearted joke, and he’s fully willing to support his friend—practically a sibling—until the very end.
Always asks what they’re going by today before he ever uses pronouns, and sticks to them from the get-go. If he ever does make a mistake, he immediately corrects it and moves on without making a scene, as much as he breaks over it later out of embarrassment.
Overall, probably the best one to come out to first. He’ll provide a shoulder to lean on when they’re sad or unsure, maybe even insecure; but will always step forwards in defense of them whenever possible. He knows not to cause a scene unless they’re truly upset over someone misgendering or teasing them so as not to upset them even more. He will, however, exhibit a cold anger not commonly seen in someone with such a warm and friendly demeanor when it does happen.
If he can cause a scene over it, you bet there’s going to be fireworks.
More beneath the cut:
Engineer:
Wholly accepting of this! Does a similar thing to Pyro where he just wraps his arms around his friend and hugs them tightly; although in a much warmer and softer manner.
Wipes a tear from his eye.
“Proud o’ ya, real proud…”
He’s humbled by the fact that they came out to him first. Plans a barbecue as a celebration, maybe even buys a few gifts! It’s a huge deal to him that somebody so close to him came out like that, and he’s going to make sure everybody else feels the same way too.
He has a metal arm. If somebody fucks with them, he will not hesitate.
Heavy:
Heavy is perceptive. He picks up on it immediately, but like demo doesn’t ask out of respect.
He immediately socks someone in the jaw if they purposefully use the wrong pronouns, or make an offensive joke about his friend.
If it’s an uncomfortable comment or joke, he exhibits the same caliber of cold anger, but to an extreme. Seeing as he’s like a personal bodyguard in terms of intimidation factor alone, him hovering behind you with a stormy expression is enough to scare most people off.
Is always open to talk to them, and is a great listener. He’s great at offering an interesting subject or topic, maybe a book and tea if they need a distraction from dysphoria or somebody getting to them.
Rather serious about it, Heavy won’t tend to make light hearted jokes about the topic of gender, instead taking a very open but grounded approach to it.
“It does not exist. Is too narrow. Little person can use whatever works best.”
Medic:
“Ah! Let me add that to your file… I assume no surgery, then?”
He’s not disappointed by the prospect of not being able to trans your gender, but also gets to work on other ways of affirming your own!
Doesn’t really treat you any differently, but will work on an experiment to let you change your appearance based on what makes you feel best in the background.
Gives you the option of using it, but lets the topic go otherwise unless something is wrong or if you bring it up; regardless of if he’s giddy to know if it works or not.
Very chill about this stuff. He’s probably one to the better/best people to talk to about it, but know that he also won’t provide much comfort as much as he will facts or potential solutions.
In fact, he almost comes across as distant until he suddenly drops a shockingly down to earth suggestion or a really, really good idea to help you out. Nothing too crazy, it’s almost uncanny.
Thing is, he’s just been dealing with gender problems for… His entire life? He’s already far enough along in his own that he’s perfected his methods of staving it off.
Even if you’re not feeling dysphoria, (or you are), it doesn’t matter to him as long as you can get through it safely.
Sniper:
It takes Sniper a little bit to get used to it, to be sure. It’s not that he doesn’t care, he’s just not used to dealing with the unexpected.
He feels guilty for it being unexpected to him. He sees you as somebody very, very close to him; he feels dense for not noticing it sooner.
As soon as he settles into it, though, expect him to be as loyal as a dog. Any mistakes he silently corrects, and if somebody gets in their way, they’ll be meeting a jar of piss to the face.
Honestly, Sniper probably begins to have some of his own self realizations soon after, but it takes a long time for him to come to terms with that one.
Ends up shyly asking you for advice eventually.
Spy:
He already knew. I mean, what did you expect?
He is, however, surprised that you decided to come out to him first. If anything, he’s a bit prideful.
Emotions masked well, he pours the two of you a drink (whichever is your favorite) in a fancy wine glass, and raises his own, offering cheers for the occasion.
Clink!
Definitely calm about it, but tones down his snark temporarily. He knows how nerve-wracking it must be; although there is humor to be found that you voluntarily told your secret to the man who knows just about everything about everyone. Whether or not that trust is misguided, he can’t exactly say.
If you aren’t out to the others yet, or anybody else for that matter, the secret is safe with him. There’s no doubt that Spy is the best with pronouns, seamlessly switching between preferences depending on whether you’re in a safe space or not.
It’s also the easiest way to know if you’re really, truly safe as well; because his heightened awareness of his surroundings means that he can tell if he might out you even when it seems like the coast is clear.
Even if you don’t care about being out to anybody, Spy makes sure to subtly ask if he’s good to use your pronouns in any given situation outside of what you may be accustomed to. He doesn’t slip up once. Not once. Literally never—
The Spy may be stinky, but words are his forte. He can curse you out in 12 different languages including French but you know damn well he’ll use the right pronouns while doing so!
Phew, this one took a while. I hope I did alright on this one! I apologize if there’s any glaring issues or mistakes in this one, I worked on it over the course of what, a few months?—with lots of breaks in-between.
Thank you to everyone for being so patient! I hope to put out more content sometime in the future, but I know that I’ll likely be slowing down like this as I deal with life stuff and other hyperfixations.
I might make another post with other hyperfixations that I might be up to making headcanons for! Feel free to request those too! :D
More Posts from Tf2strategist and Others
The Strategist is HERE!
She’s finally here! I finally got around to making her refsheet as I didn’t really have much else I wanted to draw and artfight is just around the corner. Feel free to ask questions about her! She’s part of the fic “Ten’s a Crowd.”
Website is still a WIP!
Also, her class emblem, while initially a doodle that I wasn’t intending to keep, actually ended up becoming official because of the arrows that lead players in directions and help guide players in maps!
I RETURN!
I was originally going to do some Merasmus themed headcanons based on the ones in my inbox for October, but it came and went, and while I'd still love to do them, the motivation is low at the moment.
HOWEVER.
Seeing as I can't seem to find a good place to advertise TF2 commissions, Tumblr appears to be a good place to do it. But since I have no examples yet, or at least barely any, I'd like to make a thread for example collecting instead.
These will NOT be first come first serve!
After 3-5 sketches have been completed, there will NO LONGER BE FREE SKETCHES AVAILABLE!
Here's what I'm looking for:
A loadout of your TF2 character/oc/what have you. Preferably using the TF2 loadout website! That way, if you give me a link to the loadout, I can see it from all angles and have an easier time drawing!
I am not looking for original designs to draw at the moment! (AKA food mercs, aus, etc.) But characters made from loadouts are perfectly fine!
Rules:
✔ = YES & ✖ = NO
NO:
✖ NSFW/Kink artwork
✖ Overly complex designs
✖ Bare chested / overly revealing cosmetics (ex. burly beast) (For comforts sake!)
✖ Overly in-depth requests
YES:
✔ Asking for slight variations in detail
✔ Asking for specific expressions (within reason, and I would prefer to have some creative freedom!)
✔ Mechanical parts ( So long as it is simple, and is a pre-existing cosmetic! )
Keep in mind that I may be better at drawing some mercs than others, so this also serves as practice!
I'm still working out prices for these, but generally they'll be halfbody/bust sketches, colored/uncolored depending on complexity. There's no way to dictate what quality of art you will get, it just depends on what sort of example I'm looking to make.
To enter a loadout:
reblog or reply with your loadout link, a short description of what you're looking for/any extra details that you'd like, and whether or not you'd be interested in seeing commissions from me!
Woah wait what?! No wonder the chat wasn’t showing up... I was planning some stuff with them.
Deleted or deactivated?
I’m not going to speak for them, there’s many reasons that it could be but perhaps anxiety surrounding the blogs? I don’t want to speculate though.
If you’re reading this, we hope you’re okay! Please be safe, we’re worried about you. 💖
Does anyone know what happened, to @talk-to-the-mercs? The blog is gone for for some reason. And the creator’s prersonal tumblr (@aggressive-positivity-network) is gone too?? They didn’t do anything against the rules, as far as I know.
If you’re reading this, I’m not mad or anything. But it’s a bit weird to just suddenly disappear…
Alright, I'm doing it.
Today at 3PM EST on this freshly made Discord server I'll be going through Heavy's voicelines, reading them with my thickest Russian accent, talking about Russian phonetics, and answering any questions you guys might have.
DON'T MISS IT! Here's the DIscord server link again! Join, chat, tell your friends! If a decent number of people shows up, I might make it a regular thing.
Another Medic headcanon
Medic is a surprisingly good singer! He whistles and murmurs lyrics to himself a lot, so it’s no surprise he’s a fan of tunes, not just those of his birds.
When you’re someone who has to go to drastic measures to get the organs, bodies, and medical equipment you need, (including grave robbing, mind you), coming up with ways of convincing your peers becomes essential to the job.
Spy may be a master of disguise, but Medic is more of a deception and manipulation kind of guy. Of course, normally he would never be careful, caring little for the well-being of others, but at times he has to sacrifice that to act more like a ‘professional’ and a ‘doctor’, not to mention ‘not a hired killer’.
So he used his vocal range to his advantage! Medic can easily switch from a smooth baritone to pipsqueak within seconds— from softer than feathers to a harsh yell. He uses it to sell a character that isn’t his own.
Speaking of yelling, Medic is DEFINITELY into releasing his stress by screaming death metal. Without a guitar, he learned how to shred. With a bonesaw. With the amount he has to deal with on a daily basis, can you really blame him? Besides, he enjoys it.
But away from that, what about his voice is really so special? Surely being so distinct in appearance would detract from the show he puts on and the shock factor of switching to a much more agreeable and polite character.
Well, that’s when confidence comes in. As somebody who outplayed the devil himself, it’s safe to say Medic knows how to get what he wants. Outsmarting is one thing, but that requires planning that truly isn’t possible all of the time. So he improvises. That’s how he keeps the mercs alive away from respawn and brings people back from the dead.
Naturally, this gives him an air of authority. He learned exactly how to demand what he wants, be it exotic animal organs, tools, or anesthetic, he knows it all. Sometimes all it requires is the threat of being on the receiving end of the vitasaw, others it requires charm and beguiling charisma to have his way.
Well, either way. Not even spy can figure out exactly how he does it.
Maybe you should ask the birds. They’re always watching.
𝙲 𝚑 𝚊 𝚙 𝚝 𝚎 𝚛 𝟷 𝟶 𝚜 𝚗 𝚎 𝚊 𝚔 𝚙 𝚎 𝚎 𝚔 .
"𝘠'𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭."
Fanart of a beautiful moment :)
(did the mercs ever change appearance save for the splits? if so i can fiX IT i just wasn’t sure)
@talk-to-the-mercs has a rlly good story goin on! Might put some posts I make here into context bc i reference it sometimes-
YOOOOO SNIPER welcome back mate! it's been a while, innit? we all missed you something terrible! how're you feeling?
Sniper: [giggling]
Engineer: Whatcha laughin’ about, Snipes?
Sniper: [laughing] Batman.
Engineer: That anesthetic is really hittin’ ya hard, huh?
Sniper: Nah, barely scratched me...I gave ‘im the ol’ one two...
Engineer: When’s this stuff gonna wear off?
Medic: A few hours to a day, depending on zhe pain and functionality of the heart.
Scout: Maybe we can tote him around like on Weekend at Bernie’s.
Demo: People’d talk. Besides, he doesn’t look dead, just drunk. Drunk out of his skull, sure, but still alive.
Scout: Eh, he looks more stoned. Actin’ stoned, too. Yo, Sniper, what’s two plus two?
Sniper: Water.
Scout: [snickering] Yeah, friggin’ high as a kite.
Engineer: Don’t mess with him, Scout, he’s been through enough.
Heavy: Heavy missed you, Sniper.
Sniper: [mumbling] A’course you missed me. I’m the best bloody shot this side of down under...
[END OF TRANSMISSION]
How would medic react if i'd steal his bonesaw? Just wanna know because of several reasons-
He’d laugh it off, probably. Just make sure to keep one eye open next time you visit, especially if you plan on sleeping... He has plenty of bonesaws to spare. I mean, why have one when you have the possibility of losing it! Multiple is always the better option, right?
Anyways, enjoy the new organs sewn into you anon!
Reasons to love Heavy TF2
(Hey if anyone has the source of whoever posted this particular gif of meet the heavy, let me know and I’ll update!)
I wasn’t kidding when I said I was overwhelmed with love for heavy for no particular reason. Heavy appreciation post with additions from suggests discord server members! :]
Makes very very good sandwiches and is able to share with others, very generous and kind
protects everyone at all costs
Russian
has a PhD in Russian literature
incredibly intelligent yet also muscle man
brawny and bear-like
could crush a man then hug you gently
very huggable, 100/10
cares a lot for his family
worries over his family a lot, but gives them the benefit of the doubt when they say they’re okay and can do things on their own
encourages his family members and teammates to practice self care, be strong, pursue their goals, etc.
reads a lot, would be nice to read together with him in a dimly lit room by a fire
could pick you up with one hand
you’d have to be picked up or be on a ladder to kiss him (very positive trait)
trains a lot and is serious about his job
team player, great at getting things done
reliable in anything, especially knowledgable in subjects and great at doing heavy lifting
allows birds to sit on his gun despite being very particular about its appearance and who is allowed to touch Sasha.
trusting of everyone, and also trustworthy because of it.
not afraid to try new things or put his trust in someone who others may not want to (Ex. Medic)
gentle giant in general, could pet doves without much trouble despite having such huge hands
large hands, probably calloused from how hard he works!
Also wears very cool gloves.
very muscular!!! Can carry around Sasha and his other miniguns despite them being incredibly heavy and expensive to fire
patient as well!!!
mother hen instinct, probably makes a mean soup for those who have colds
can probably also bake very well because of his culture and upbringing-
he is the heavy weapons guy what’s not to love!!!
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TF2 fanblog! Based on the 10th class fic "Ten's a Crowd", AKA Meet the Strategist! Mostly general headcanons, artwork, and fic info here. READ REQUEST RULES PLEASE! ♥
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