Shoutout To Soldier Tf2

"A while ago, the headmage warned me not to keep too many gargoyles because the floors might cave in... But in my opinion, the actual problem here is the durability of the floors. I hardly think I deserve to be reproached."

"There were a lot of gargoyles around the campus that needed repairing. It was a lot of work to carry each of those back to my (club?)room to do repair work on them but... He told me he didn't even ask me to do that. What a rude man."

????????? 😭😭😭 Even with such a bratty nonsense attitude he's so cute?! And isn't their interaction kinda like a dad telling off his son?!

i’ve talked to people about this exact thing before, but what i normally bring up when people go “medic hates his team and wants to kill/torture all of them” is he literally took time and resources out of his day at HIS detriment for no reward to revive sniper. and despite this, i’ve seen people write medic as torturing his own team in genuinely horrific ways and not the funny cartoon ways that tf2 likes to treat things. oh yeah this also usually is comorbid with “medic is a nazi” and we already had a whole ass situation with our blog on that topic -🚙

EXACTLY !!! I have my own post abt this that I miiiight go try to dig up but it basically boils down to the fact that all the experiments Medic does on his teammates are directly positive or at least neutral. He put the baboon heart into Heavy (and everyone else) so he would be able to withstand the ubercharge, which is extremely beneficial in battle. He revived Sniper for 1.3 billion dollars because he LIKES Sniper, because he WANTED to revive him, even while he was technically working for the tfc team who pretty explicitly DIDN'T want him to revive Sniper! And he did it anyway! The canon explanation for Monoculus is that Medic kept surgically giving Demo a second eye, a thing that Demo WANTS, even though it repeatedly ended pretty badly for them (yeah there's the brain-scooping thing but like. whatever. has to be done). In that scene he says he put a little brain inside Demo's leg, which might not be something directly positive but is at least harmless in its weirdness. I cannot think of one time in canon where Medic tf2 is shown maliciously experimenting on his teammates (he does it on other people but like of course he does) intending for it to be harmful to them. Because believe it or not he does, in fact, have friends whom he likes. The whole point of him actually is that he's SUPER useful to have "on your side" BECAUSE he's so potentially violent, but once ur like. cool with him he's not gonna do any of that to you! (Or if he does it'll be to make you really good at something)

AU where Miguel gets hung up on the nonlethal Canon Events instead.

"Miles you need to kiss someone while hanging upside down. I don't know why this is important but it is."

"Also have you ever shoved a ton of rubble off yourself? That's important too."

"If you ever come across an alien trying to turn itself into a costume, you have to put it on and then take it off later. You'll figure out why."

I don't know how you can look at sans' pacifist arc which is all about letting himself care about the future again and rekindling that ember of hope he never truly lost in the shape of this tiny, sensational, cosmically terrifying human kid in order to finally move on from his past life and fully live the life he has NOW with his new friends, trusting said kid with his story, letting them know it's okay (sans with a lot of people you don't recognize. you and sans with all of your friends. it doesn't matter, he looks happy)

...and then go "i think post pacifist frisk would hate him".

that adds nothing to the characters and it's so needlessly mean spirited it becomes straight up cheap. hate him for what? not keeping his promise in full? letting them die? this kid fought a god and won, frisk doesn't give a crap about dying! the only times they react to death in any capacity in canon it's:

1) someone else's death (which they caused)

2) a way to make their opponent feel bad and stop fighting

3) after flowey takes their SAVE powers.

this kid gets beaten to death by asgore an uncountable number of times and they still trot over to gerson in the epilogue to be like "is he a goat? is he immortal? okay but what if he adopted me, could he adopt me? i'm very adoptable you know". be real now.

tell me more about miguel and how they did him dirty

Miguel O'Hara aka Spider-Man 2099 was a part of the 90s Marvel effort to create future and edgy heroes for the 1990s. There were heroes like Doctor Strange 2099 and Hulk 2099, but Spider-Man 2099 is the only one who kept any real interest past the 1990s.

His origin comics were the first three issues of his 1992 run. We open with Spider-Man of the future! He's cool, in a black and red suit (yes the inking just looks off, it was originally black and red.) In the year 2099, Alchemax, the company everyone remembers from Into the Spiderverse, owns nearly everything. Including the cops. The police are no longer state owned, but instead owned directly by the corporation itself. It's also implied very early on that the US government in 2099 is ALSO owned by Alchemax.

Pictured above is Miguel O'Hara.

Lyla, Miguel's holo-agent (who he did NOT make but that's the least of our Spiderverse woes at this point) plays messages for him. It's quickly understood Miguel doesn't communicate, likes to isolate and ignores his problems until he HAS to deal with them.

We find out later in the comic that this man, Tyler Stone, has seemingly drugged Miguel with a drug called Rapture, an incredibly addictive future drug that binds to your DNA and it's impossible to lose the addiction. Tyler drugs Miguel because after all of the really awful scientific experiments and inhumane things Tyler's made Miguel do at Alchemax, Miguel decided to quit. But Stone doesn't want Miguel to leave the company, so he drugs him.

Later, muuuuch later, we find out this guy is his biological dad.

Pretty awful stuff.

This guy is Gabriel O'Hara, Miguel's half-brother. He doesn't trust Alchemax or any of the genetic experimentation they've got going on. He knows his brother is involved, and he doesn't want his brother involved anymore. It's interesting to note that Gabriel, after telling his brother how disappointed he is in him, says he still loves him. But Miguel doesn't want to hear that (super well-adjusted not depressed man here, you see) and turns it off.

Miguel in the comics is a geneticist and studies biology. He famously doesn't do well with technology. And so what solution does he find to his drug problem? Biology.

(You can see how saying he's an unnatural Spider is going to start being a problem. At least, depending on what your definition of the word "natural" is.)

In the comic, we flashback a bit to pre-Spider-Man 2099 times to figure out exactly how Miguel got like this.

Miguel is the head of the Genetics Division of Alchemax and isn't exactly the most popular guy around (he's very self-entitled and self-assured). The entire purpose of their project is to recreate Spider-Man in the year 2099, to become the perfect lapdog to Alchemax to keep the city in "order."

Miguel O'Hara at this point is pretty much the worst of the worst, tbh.

Sure, Miguel wants to genetically recreate Spider-Man. But they aren't ready for human subjects, and Tyler Stone and his co-worker Aaron Delgato (actually kind of important for later) push ahead on the project. Long story short, their test subject dies and Miguel quits.

Tyler doesn't like that so he drugs him.

Miguel doesn't want to be addicted to Rapture the rest of his life, or at Tyler Stone's mercy either, so he decides to try to rewrite his genetic code to get rid of the Rapture addiction.

Delgato, who hates Miguel, was also still in the lab, and decided to rewrite his DNA even further to put him as half a spider. His intention was to kill him, but Miguel survives and becomes genetically half-man, half-spider.

Across the Spider-Verse seems to directly go against this both with whatever drug Miguel is injecting into his system and the fact they say he cannot shot organic webs, but instead tech-based ones. This would lead us to assume his talons and fangs are also a result of his "Spider" potion.

When in reality, Miguel now permanently has fangs, and has to mumble whenever he talks to loved ones. He CAN retract his talons, but only if he's actively thinking about it. He shoots organic web out of the top of his wrists. Those fangs? He can paralyze people with them, just like a spider bite could.

So with more and more confirmation that this adaptation of Miguel is not "really" a spider, it shows how little time they took to look in his comics.

It's concerning as well because it seems as if the only backstory they want for him is the made-for-the-movie daughter, and not his brother (pictured above), his mother or even Dana or Xina, two of his love interests/childhood best friend in Xina's case. It shows us that there many not have been any research into the character besides seeing that he can be a "scary" adversary to Miles.

I'm also going to link a previous post I made about Miguel and Gabriel's home life and domestic abuse that directly impacts how Miguel interacts in his world, and probably how he engages with the other Spiders. If it was at all discussed.

I wish to be perceived as “that thing over there”

Infatuated with weird gender vibes. Reblog if you have weird gender vibes, want weird gender vibes, are also infatuated with weird gender vibes, or would like to have your brain surgically wired to a biohorror mecha.

me: my soul is dark and black nothing brings me joy

*five asks klaus to do the duet with him*

me: THEIR JUST SO CUTE OK

When a fic doesn’t fit my head canons but it’s well-written

PART TWO!!!

OKAY WHERE DID WE LEAVE OFF

OKAY RIGHT

- HEAVY AND SCOUT ARE SO BROTHER CODED

- scout used to having older siblings like immediately clings to heavy for any form of normalcy when they all start out. and Heavy, used to being the older brother and a protector or sorts, absolutely takes the role on without much thought

- there is so much to say about their dynamic but I cannot find the words to describe it they are so so special

- scout definitely perches on heavy’s shoulders just whenever, whether it be for a split second in battle to tell him about something up ahead or to use him as a springboard; or just when they’re having calm days at the base and he wants to talk to someone

- immovable object vs unstoppable force type dynamic. scout is quick, fast on his feet and is the type to think while acting, so he sees no problem with charging headfirst into danger and making up a plan while adapting to his surroundings. For as well as this works, it doesn’t always work well when needing to plan as a team. So heavy is usually the one who is able to chill scout out, usually by blocking him from running or just grabbing him and then suggesting he hear out the others first

- scout has trouble with reading and that much is obvious, and it’s mostly accepted among the fandom he can get a little embarrassed by it. heavy 100% understands the frustration of words not making sense, seeing as English is not his first language and he isn’t as proficient in it as he is in Russian—so he goes out of his way to be patient with scout and makes sure he doesn’t feel undermined by his attempts.

- I think heavy being into literature and scout being dyslexic has a lot of potential for their bond. heavy being very cool headed for the most part out of battle while scout is very hyperactive in and out of battle also has a lot of untapped potential!!

- Heavy kinda acts as a rock for scout. He’s patient and willing to explain and talk things through without making Scout feel like he’s being belittled or something of that nature. I think that heavy keeping a cool head is what kinda helps scout level out his temper, since he starts to mimic the behavior of others he’s with (possibly a thing picked up from spy shh).

- that being said, on the battlefield they absolutely are hectic together. scout thrives off the emotions of others and seeing heavy thrilled and pumped over bloodlust and fighting reflects onto him. I think scout always ends up circling back to heavy to provide support if he isn’t the one getting the intel.

- they workout together. heavy goes on jogs with scout just because scout doesn’t like doing it alone and scout will do weight lifting with heavy in return and ramble about Tom jones and try to get heavy to translate the songs into Russian.

- and!! Of course!! Never forget that Heavy thinks scout is funny!! A lot of the mercs do actually!!

- anyway they’re bros :)

- Demo and Scout are such a fun duo and I want more art of them being silly

- I think with scout being very passionate and openly emotional with his manner of expression is something he can get very embarrassed about if others react negatively to it; which is why he likes talking with Demo since Tavish is almost as equally expressive and passionate in his outward appearance.

- they both tend to exaggerate their words and stories which is why I totally see them as regarding the other as one of the more “fun” mercs, because they can keep up with one another.

- demo slurs his words and so does scout and they both talk fast, so there’s no need to worry about slowing down!!

- on a more intimate perspective; I can very much see scout confiding in demo a lot since demo would be the type of person to take him more seriously than others. demo knowing what it’s like to not be believed and brushed off, i think he’d make sure scout knows that he is always listening 100% and will believe what he tells him(even if it’s really outlandish).

- also, scout likes drinking with demo. I dunno what to tell ya. he just does. demo is loud and emotional and scout loves that, because he too is loud and emotional. and demo won’t treat him like he’s stupid.

- demo is totally the type of person to open a bottle, see scout staring and then offer a sip. scout almost always hates what demo is drinking and will get his own alcohol (usually some type of whiskey mixed with soda) but he will always try whatever demo has, even if he knows he hates it.

- I can see their type of affection for one another as being insults and just listening.

- Scout is very touchy and will lean or hang onto demo, and demo being touch-starved and even more touchy will welcome this with open arms.

- OKAY SO CONTROVERSIAL OPINION?? I see engie and scout dynamic as being very mixed.

- of course they care about one another; but I see this dynamic as being both very loving but also having a lot of miscommunication.

- like, yes I could see scout seeking out a father figure in engie, as I both love and hate this idea. however I do regard scout as the type of character to not want a father figure.

- I see scout as seeking validation from others, especially those in higher positions or those he looks up to—even more so if they are masculine due to the lack of a father figure in his life. But I do also think he would be the type of person to realize if he was subconsciously regarding someone as a father figure and immediately attempt to distance himself from that person out of fear of being hurt and just plain discomfort.

- so while I love the dynamic of engie being somewhat of a dad figure, I do think if that dynamic were to happen it would take a lot of time and communication.

- that also brings up the fact that part of me wonders on whether or not engie would really take scout seriously. now, I love engie, I do, but he is very much two-faced in the sense that he puts up a front. That doesn’t mean that he isn’t as sweet as he can come across, because I do believe he very much cares for others, but I am just unsure on if he would view scout the way scout needs and wants to be viewed.

- I can see him very much regarding scout similarly as he regards pyro. By that I mean more as having the mentality of a child. Now, I one hundred percent support him encouraging the “childish” interests of Pyro and Scout, but there is a difference between understanding that and believing something else entirely.

- Engie knows that both Scout and Pyro are adults, and obviously he can and will treat them as such. I do believe that he can understand them in a way that others may not, and provide a familial like comfort for them. (Scout’s inner child desperately needing comfort and Pyro probably being in a similar boat.)

- but I don’t think scout would appreciate that “comfort” all the time. he absolutely craves attention and validation and comfort, but he doesn’t want to be seen as a child for wanting those things. I can see him both clinging to engie and also pushing him away rather quickly.

- he wants that comfort but he wants to be seen as an equal too, which is where I believe miscommunication could fall in on both sides. I’m not sure how well I’ve explained this idea, but yeah!!

- I think they’re good friends but their relationship needs a lot of work before scout really trusts and relies on engie without it feeling very surface leveled.

- ANNNNND NOOOOOWWWW spy.

- oof ah okay, uhm. I struggle a lot when it comes to spy and scouts dynamic, both because I love spy but I also despise him. as a person with daddy issues i tend to flip flop with their dynamic.

- i want to say scout and spy have a good one, and for a good portion of the comic and videos and stuff they do!! but i do wish more of the trauma scout suffers from an absent parent was explored.

- I so so so support scout and spy making up and rebuilding a bond, but i also think scout deserves the right to be angry and unforgiving. I may be bias since there is the very likely chance that spy left due to work and safety of his family (but then how come he can connect his lover safely but not his kid?).

- scout i 100% believe was very lonely growing up despite the fact he has seven older brothers and a doting mother. he may have felt very isolated being the youngest, and still being in a household full of kids, he probably didn’t get as much solo attention as he needed growing up. he acts out in search of attention and validation, which comes across as very annoying and rather childish to others at times.

- I know that spy very much cares for scout and looks out for his well-being, but i think it’s also valid to point out that he can be rather cruel to him as well.

- not to say that scout is any better when it comes to politeness, but scout genuinely seems to actually look up to spy. I find it unfair to say that scout hates spy or spy hates scout, because it isn’t true.

- I think spy may act harshly towards scout out of fear of getting too close. He doesn’t want scout to be hurt. He doesn’t want scout to be disappointed in him. He probably hates the way they share similar habits or have the same eyes, because he doesn’t want scout to be like him. And he doesn’t want the reminder of the kid he wasn’t there for. And scout is very much the same way in acting harsh out of fear. They parallel one another.

- Scout knows spy is his father, he just doesn’t want to accept it, and I believe it’s out of fear. He doesn’t want to accept that truth because it will bring to light something he doesn’t want to confront. He doesn’t want to break what respect and care he has for spy, and he doesn’t want to push him away. But also the fact that spy doesn’t bring it up, may leave scout believing spy would be disappointed or even hate him for being his son if the matter came to light.

- basically, both of them care for one another but are very much terrified of that care.

- but I also think scout deserves to get angry without his feelings being diminished. he deserves to punch spy in the face and then get a nice hug.

EXTRA

- scout and miss Pauling are dork gossip besties, that is my favorite interpretation of them.

- scout and the other scout would just vibe. similar households but also major differences. both are goofy, love their teams, and need therapy.

- i love the interpretations of biromantic asexual scout and aroace scout. I think either way he deserves love whether it be romantic or platonic, but always always deserves to love himself.

- very much an asexual scout supporter!!! I just get those vibes from him!! like feeling like he has to exaggerate his desire for a relationship and stuff because that’s what’s expected from guys his age, right? CUE SELF DISCOVERY AND SELF WORTH!!

LOVING your scout thoughts. Tell me more im sitting and listening and kicking my legs back and forth and giggling like I'm on the phone

BRO SHDHSGSHfaHWGSGS FOAMING AT THE MOUTH

Okay okAY I have like so many headcanons for Jeremy Scout and like my own interpretation of the other scout I couLD GO ON FOR DAYS

Anyway!!! Dynamics!! ‘M gonna talk about that and just,,, stuff about scout I like and headcanon,,,

- scout is a lot smarter than people give him credit for and I will fist fight anyone about that. he is smart intelligence wise and emotional wise.

- I see a lot of scout having ADHD; which I believe 100%, but I do believe he is also autistic. I don’t see a lot of people bringing up that idea, but as a person with autism, he just gives off the vibe.

- also scout slurs his words together because he talks too fast. everything he does is fast. so sometimes he needs to be reminded to slow down a little.

- I love love love the idea of scout and pyro being bffs, and not like the same way scout is bffs with sniper. I mean like in the sense they kinda get each other without really getting each other. They’re both underestimated and perceived as less than their worth (both being babied and seen as dumber than they are at times)

- they are both childish but not children! they can color together and make comics together and scout will collect rare plushies to trade with pyro because they cAN HAVE INTERESTS THAT ARE DEEMED CHILDISH WITHOUT BEING CHILDREN

- and I don’t care what anyone says!! pyro and scout hold hands and scout does not mind because it helps pyro keep themself grounded!!!

- pyro and scout will go to one another if the other can’t sleep and they’ll just watch crappy movies and giggle and half the time they don’t even talk they just enjoy each others presence

- scout and sniper are the friends that one talks and one listens. they are best friends in the sense I think scout treats sniper like how he treats his brothers

- scout will just gangle himself around this jungle gym of a man because it is fun and there is a primal urge to climb anything tall. sniper is desensitized to it and will just let scout do whatever.

- like sniper is the friend that scout feels comfortable enough to let out all his stims and stuff around. he could just doodle on sniper, fiddle with his fingers, yank his hair, touch his face, bite his hand, and sniper will just allow it because he knows scout doesn’t even really think about doing it, it just happens. he won’t tell scout to lower his voice or slow down, he just lets him go wild, y’know?

- scout and soldier are two of my most favorite characters and they are both so so loving and I need more people to realize this!!!!!!

- I saw this headcanon (I forget by who) that scout got his dog tags from soldier and it is like my favorite things.

- scout and soldier, I don’t see their relationship as brotherly but more like closer than friends, they have a kinship that can’t be explained by words. like they’re good friends where it’s almost brotherly almost mentor-y, but it’s not.

- I think scout looks up to Soldier while also thinking he’s an utter buffoon. Like he thinks Solly is so cool and so amazing but he’d never say that, cause Solly is insane and oblivious to a degree. Despite this, both Solly and scout are so emotional in their own ways and I think that’s something they have in common. They’re both intelligent but not in ways that is conventional.

- also of course they both beat each other up but I think it’s more of like just a thing they do. Solly going after scout i could see as a form of “cuteness aggression”, in the sense that he cares about this silly guy so much he doesn’t know how to handle it.

- I think Soldier just picks up scout in a fireman carry just because he can and then scout tries and fails and Soldier just keeps encouraging him

- I don’t care what anyone says; Soldier is scout’s number one supporter even if he sounds aggressive in his positivity

- “KEEP IT UP MAGGOT!!! I BELIEVE IN YOU!! LETS GO TWINKLE TOES!! ONE TWO ONE TWO!!”

- I could go on about these two for days they are such goobers

- MEDIC AND SCOUT IS JUST A SILLY DYNAMIC AND I LOVE IT

- they’re both silly guys and both have weird fascinations with pain. the guy who wants to explore it in a sense of science and the guy who doesn’t think twice about it before charging headfirst into it. they’re besties.

- “medic finds scout annoying” “scout finds medic scary” NO!!! THEY’RE BESTIES. medic adores scout since he’s the one constantly volunteering to be first for the experiments!! heavy is the first volunteer? NO ITS SCOUT!! Scout volunteers for all the experiments!! Helpful and just for fun ones!! and he’s in perfect shape and age, so why wouldn’t medic deem him as the perfect test subject???

- both medic and scout have a flare for dramatics and absolutely adore rambling. you cannot tell me they wouldn’t talk all the time. scout will pace around the lab as medic does work and just ramble about his day, his thoughts, any ideas for experiments he has that he thinks Doc could pull off.

- I can see both scout and medic as the type of people who just cannot sit or stand still for more than a few minutes. Medic can handle it better, but even he gets restless being still.

- I love both the interpretations that medic loves touch and the interpretation that he hates touch. I see it more as medic adores touch in the sense that he must be the one to initiate it or on certain days he feels more touch adverse. With this in mind I believe that scout is very similar in the sense he loves touch but also can really hate it other times. So I like to imagine that they just y’know poke at one another :)

- I like the idea of them being bros that acknowledge their equal desire for comfort from touch but also the occasional adversity of it. So I think they’d do like platonic cuddling and stuff just because

I WILL DO THE OTHERS AND THEIR DYNAMICS WITH SCOUT IN THE NEZT POST BUT I MUST EAT