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Depression, by @archbowmistress

It was a gloomy day… Respawn was malfunctioning at the moment, so both teams were kinda on break…

Unfortunately though, it malfunctioned during a match…

It happened all so sudden that some people had their lives taken… Including the closest possible friends of our lovable, now broken Engineer…

It happened on a normal match of Dustbowl, our Engineer was just trying to be the normal team player, as usual… His friends, Sniper and Pyro, ran past him giving him either a small smile of a possible, professional, victory or a giggle from a young child going exploring.

Engineer smiled back in return while going back to build his teleporter.

Everything went as expected, constant kills streaks from one person, a few dominations, and the occasional taunt upon ones death…

Then… Worry began to grow inside Engineer.

He felt like something is broken, it was like an internal notifications system. None of his buildings needed repair or refilling of ammo, in fact they were already destroyed by that Backstabbing Snake…

Then he realized…

The Respawn.

It was malfunctioning, and even if it was only broken for a few seconds… those seconds cost everything.

Close by, he saw Scout get punched to death by a RED Holiday Punch Heavy. Normally extremely funny and embarrassing, but was now very ironic and morbid.

Next, he saw Soldier get Market Gardened by RED Soldier. He was not even using the Market Gardener! (Random Crits are Fair and Balanced!)

He then saw Demoman get blown up by a RED Pyro by deflecting his Sticky Bombs at him, and boy, he wished to have both eyes with him to see them…

He saw Heavy get backstabbed by a Spy using a Spy-cicle when he was about to eat his Sandvich. He then had a look of horror and froze.

Literally just beside him, he saw Medic die by a Sniper while he was about to get a life saving Uber-Charge.

He hasn’t seen Spy yet, probably preparing to backcap supposedly…

Then his heart sank into the deepest depths of his very soul.

He saw Pyro die by trying to deflect some incoming pipe bombs from Sniper, but failed… Ending both lives.

And what’s even worse?!

He taunted them like he was going to get round two of dominating them…

Respawn by now has already finished “glitching” but for WHAT…

Engineer went charging towards the RED team, cheering for their job well done…

He immediately punched RED Demoman right in the head, picked up his Sword, decapitating RED Soldier and Medic. Shooting RED Heavy using his Frontier Justice.

He grabbed the leg of RED Scout, attempting to try and double jump behind him, but ultimately failed and was slammed against the hard, warm ground.

Then he used the Scattergun of RED Scout and shot a Rancho Relaxing Engineer behind the point.

He was about to cry when he found RED Pyro and Sniper. He decides to pull it behind his thoughts and killed them with no question…

RED Spy was actually in the background, cloaked and in a way, shocked on what Engineer just did.

He then had a small feeling of curiosity and went to their respawn room… Expecting BLU team to congratulate him on having that victory-saving killing spree… But only BLU Spy was there, beside Engineer, who was breaking down.

RED Spy’s team just came back from respawn to get revenge, but found no one in the point. They all quietly go near the spawn room gate and hear someone sobbing painfully. They peeked a bit and found the room empty except 2 people…

The Administrator decided to be a jerky beef and just now she announced that nearly the entire BLU team is  dead, because of a Respawn glitch.

Days past and Engineer was never the same…

The Administrator hired new people to take the places of the deceased ones, but it was just not going to come back like old times.

Only Spy was able to try and “comfort” him most effectively cause he was there went it happened.

Sometimes, he get dreams and hallucinations about all of them and never getting a minute of sleep.

Poor Engineer… He truly was shattered into a million pieces and left to slowly get drifted apart…

A few years later…

Engineer was in the spawn room of Viaduct, it was the anniversary of the event, he was just crying like what he was doing for the past years… Never moving on…

While he cried, he remembered the sweet and hilarious memories he shared with them, playing chess, dancing in the middle of battle and getting drunk at one point. Boy, he missed them too much to think them as happy memories as of the moment…

He was breaking down even more until he felt a hand on his shoulder, he turned around and see his Best Friend, Pyro comforting him with his sweet ways…

Engineer was too happy to even notice the little cigarette on his mouth and just continued crying but with happiness in a way.

BLU Spy stared at his teammate while he is being comforted by a Disguised Spy, who he asked to do him this favor… He looked at Engineer once more and finally had a genuine smile as he was “together” with his Best Friend again…

Let’s just hope Engineer won’t try to kill him later…

We’re told this is a trio of firsts for @archbowmistress-- first SFM, first one shot, and first submission.  Coulda fooled us!  Consider yourself kudos’d!

That said, depression is something both of us deal with, along with about 300 million other people worldwide, so this... resonated.  Red teared up seriously (Ugg not so much, Ugg solid stone!).   This is a really good depiction of how the shadow just creeps in and siphons even your little joys out. Fortunately, friends are the best support network ever (even if one of them is a Spy...)

Red here:  Engie has always struck me as the sort of guy who just kind of takes things in stride and doesn't get too rattled by anything, so it's nice to see him given a new layer of complexity. I have to admire the dedication it took to create a story around such a difficult topic--it's handled really, really well.

Depression is always hard to write about, so here’s some sunshine to balance it out.

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