#fun rvb thinks

[sharkface-daydreams]

No, but, OK- Chilchuck and Church would literally be that joke of not liking each other until the moment they both tell everybody else to shut up at the same time and they share a moment- "We are the same... finally, somebody who GETS me". Tex is legit impressed with the union work Chilchuck has set up, she wants to get in on this, does he need a bodyguard?

Laios and Caboose are vibing. Laios also thinks Locus is So Cool, and they're both socially inept in opposite ways, but in the sense that it kinda fits together.

Tucker is over there trying to hit on Marcille and Falin, no need to be jealous ladies, plenty of him to go around, and he'd never want to ruin such a great friendship, just gals being pals. Kai is also flirting by she Knows.

Grif wants Senshi to adopt him (and Senshi is 100% cool with that, this poor boy is so hungry), and he has to ask Simmons- "Dude, is this how you feel about Sarge? Like, all the time?". Simmons is trying to math-hack all the fantasy rules.

Carolina just killed a dragon (what, like it's hard?). Wash is like- "Well, at least nothing is gonna run over me here in wacky magic land", and then the first car in this world ever hits him. Doc is having a FUN time learning about all the weird flora and fauna here, O'Malley is already trying to become some combination of dark wizard/necromancer (but he's not good at it).

Donut meets Evil Aslan, and is just- "OK, I'm just gonna skip ahead and kill you right now. I've been through this song and dance with demon-gods, I know how it goes".

Lopez can eat living armor. like, just "raw" or whatever.

There. RVB-Dungeon Meshi crossover. I got that out of my system

ok it's still airing so my watch buddy won't watch with me yet and i have yet to sit and read the manga so im taking notes

chilchuck is a chad, got it.

caboose immediately gets a new friend, that tracks XD <3 love that for him

simmons is me in an isekai, i hate this, thank you <3

of COURSE carolina kills a dragon. of course <3 i love that for her ('what like it's hard?' elle woods has done so much for this world thank u goddess 🙏) but wash omg 😭⚰ it would happen to him. someone invents THEE first like motorized soap box derby car and itjust fuckin. smashes his kneecaps and keeps going RIP king 🙏

i love. i love all of this. question for you though. i love the implications of Lopez eating living armor raw which i know nothing about. does this count as cannibalism do you think? or do you think lopez sees himself as the ghost within the shell, separate from his armor? (or do you hc there's an android in the armor? :o i do when it's convenient for fic alsdkjflkfd)

also. this makes me think of something i want to share finally. (ill put under a cut bc adding 13 pics is a lot)

a long time ago when this picrew was first available (it's only patreon now i think? ppl kept stealing the assets💢 and such so the artist got understandably mad and took it off picrew site :( i made... RVB RPG PORTRAITS!!!! (they still have an rpg maker one but its very different)

also dont kill me but its taken me 3 years to realise i didn't make tex 😭

Red Team:

Blue Team: (had to put Church between them or they'd fight ☺)

And the mercs <3

[venln]

still posting abt rvb and being active about it in online spaces in the year our lord 2024 feels like this

[harbingersecho]

grif's surgery but just a little more... obvious?

I actually rly rly ADORE frankengrif but I don't have an in-show reason why he'd have extensive long-term allogeneic skingrafts on his face 😔

[koipalm]

i like the idea that locus is touchy

[joltning]

just realized im of the rarer donut opinion? that he does the innuendos on purpose? (not even cause he thinks they’re funny he just thinks everyone else’s reaction is) because I think it’s a way funnier interpretation to think this guy who’s usually really innocent is just fucking with people on the smallest scale possible

[leonardalphachurch]

putting up some decorations for all the ppl coming back to the rvb fandom

[takomakiii]

the fact that we'll never get to see these two be friends is one of the greatest tragedies of the 21st century. anyways who wants to read my essay on the futility of literally everything they did during pfl and how sad it makes me

[justtkatt]

Totally not thinking of how Wash is already a hardened soldier by the time he gets into pfl but the reason why he seems alot dorkier during it is because he became comfortable with the other agents and trusted them

[high-voltage-rat]

One of the more niche things about writing RvB fic that I love to chew on is the weird overlap with Halo lore. Because in most cases it's never openly stated whether the Halo canon applies and you have to decide what makes sense based off the box of scraps you have and what's shown on screen.

Like. The MJOLNIR armour they all wear is, in Halo canon, unusable by a normal person without their bones being shattered and muscles or ligaments being torn, let alone having the mental processing and reaction time to function. But in RvB, it's worn by simulation troopers, who almost certainly wouldn't even qualify for the augmentation needed for its operation in Halo lore. But then after the loss of a set of armour, the UNSC launches an investigation into project freelancer- they go on an entire extremely dangerous mission with the primary goal of recovering lost armour. So clearly it is cutting-edge, important, dangerous enough to warrant that kind of treatment. But then later, an entire planet of people wear the armour despite being an outer colony abandoned by the UNSC to fend for themselves.

So the questions remain. What do we chalk up to a limitation of the engine, a limitation of the machinima medium? What do we carry over from Halo lore? What do we treat as RvB-specific room for headcanon? What do we regard as an oversight by writers who didn't think anyone would think this hard about things?

Do we treat the reds and blues as spartans? What about the freelancers? If they had the ability, would some of these characters actually have been normal people in poorly fitting marine armour?

There's just so many questions like these to play around in, and I find that a hugely enjoyable part of RvB fandom.

[sharkface-daydreams]

mistletoe has a lot of fun applications and implications.

consider for example: Kai gets a cute set of lingerie that is entirely made of mistletoe. the implications are "kiss me all over" 😏

Tucker hangs some from his belt. Carolina decides the implication is that mistletoe now means "punch here".

Donut hangs some in every doorway of red base. He’s offended when everyone treats them like deadly traps. The game is no longer "the floor is lava" and instead is "mistletoe is a deadly laser beam". Simmons argued for hours to define the space the mistletoe commands to only within a vertical cylinder area directly beneath the leaves so there’d be SOME way to avoid it.

Grif now dodge-rolls through doorways. Simmons is skinny enough to edge through with his stomach sucked in. Donut somehow has Spidey senses for when someone's under the mistletoe and Locus' genius idea of using active camo to escape the laser comes to naught.

Lopez’s visor is acquiring an impressive amount of kiss marks.

Sarge decides the only way to defeat this evil is to eat it and ingest its powers of compulsion. It takes far too many of the others to keep him from eating the poison plant.

[agentark]

I love season 8 of rvb because you can feel how excited they were to really show off using original animations

[hipstersoulgushers]

soldier boys.

[citrineoleander]

wow you guys weren't lying about about restoration being weird and kinda bad

[nevada-got-screwed-over]

Actually I don’t think I’ll ever forgive how Wash’s disability and subsequent ‘cure’ was handled.

[koipalm]

love the idea that locus has no idea how to flirt or even address his feelings and washington just is not at all interested in his issues. in my head its like this

(both sitting at a table, wash eating peacefully before locus sat down)

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locus: have you ever slept with a man?

wash: okay im out