#I adore TF2...

[marionmorse]

Ohh my absolute goodness..

side note, one look at Heavy and Medic on the character lineup at the teamfortress.com homepage tells you EVERYTHING about their marriage

Anyway, the god... damn... I can't get over... just, Engineer TF2 and the duality of his character. Like, he's one-hundred percent someone to pull on gator skin boots, a ten gallon, get all yee-hawed up for a night out at the dance hall. But then go home and infodump about hotchkiss drives, stress-strain curves, and reflow soldering.

There are some specific competitive lines that comes to mind that are JARRING to hear in his honeyed-up Texas voice along with shit like "hooo-whee, makin' bacon!" and "START PRAYIN', BOY." Maybe that's just a huge part of the appeal to his character, but think about his BUDDIES, too.

Medic is probably quite familiar with American stereotypes pre-Gravel Wars, doesn't expect much from a bumbling rural southerner with a generic set of tools upon first glance. but.., he's a bit BLOWN AWAY when Engie gets all inquisitive about the ins and outs of the medi-gun. Wants to look into how the serum works as a mechanical component, the powering and logic behind it all, even overwhelms med's (limited) level of delicate mechanical knowledge. his arc is all, "okay, so, this little guy might be a bigger-brained fella than I expected!" The punting of med's early-day ego and subsequent forging of their friendship is just so... ourgh... I love characters and arcs and stories and growth and...

Also, Soldier! The all-American Ultra Yank who doesn't see eye-to-eye with Engie at first. They've both got contrasting leadership qualities when it comes down to it, fr, a- a- and, AND, soldier HATES nerds. Engie's a nerd. Big time. It takes a while for that mutual love respect to build up, you know? do you catch my drift? I'm just rambling now.

ALSO also, Engineer himself going from the more introverted, lone-wolf type we see in Meet the Engineer to a sort of leader, the level-headed de-escalator we see in Expiration Date. The guy who feels for and loves his team, but no doubt brings out the 'Texas' in 'em all. It's kinda cute. I imagine he taught everyone square dancing at some point, 'cause how else would they know?

In the end, I just love to think of Engie as being one of the cornerstones of the team's overall culture. i mean, he's a solid family guy - cooks the breakfasts, fixes the (practical) problems, heck, plays music, tells stories, keeps 'em together when times are tough. We ALL know that some of him has to rub off on the team he bunks with for years. Not in a father-figure way, nahh, but certainly in a Dad Friend way. Big difference.

(Can you tell who my favorite character is yet? (demo, actually. And Heavy. come to think of it, the defense trio is the love of my life. My boys. (I could write and MLA-formatted essay about the balance of culture and personality within the Tuefort Nine, citations intact.)))

[homkamiro]

Biliard shenanigans

[cheebuss]

thanks Baz for saying that she's the Door Stuck video you're absolutely right

[iianian69]

heavy and sniper smiling at scouts joke

[frootertooter]

I love this bird to death and back

[asenok-openok]

One day scout will understand that spy worried about him anyway

Even if it doesn't look like this at first sight

[magpye-xio]

I may have been intrested in Selkies lately... so I threw my beloved ocs into a Selkie au hehe

Augh I'm gonna explode

[oldaccount-cheese-n-crackerjacks]

My favorite SniperScout content is when they’re taken under the wing of HeavyMedic, aka the older gays of the group. Heavy kindly telling Sniper it’s ok to allow himself some happiness over complete professionalism (something he to had to realize once)

And Medic is there to lobotomize the internalized homophobia right out of Scout’s head (or just talk about it I guess, not as fun but…)

[sesameowo]

More Pootis goes missing sketches!

[queddadraw]

[bazzas-baitshop]

Looks like I'm not going to get to paint anything else for a while.

(Acrylic paint on those silly 10cm*10cm canvasses. Nightmare, let me tell you.)

[dobythealpaca]

LOOOOK WHOS HEREEE WAAHGGG I LOVE HIMM!!!! 💜💜💜💜

@/niblets-criblet wonderful medic plushie!!!

[homkamiro]

The kiss runs in the family

[papasdelalibertad]

Soldier: You look beautiful!

Spy: don't say stupid things...

[gophergal]

low effort, but a heavy was requested

[wolfram-but-art]

Oooughhh

Ouuhhhh

You are not immune to the bean invasion ouhhhh

squishmallow creature, i hold it dearly, thank you Pensive