I Love The Idea That Friendly Fire Is Enabled And Mercs Of The Same Team Can Hurt Eachother So To Spy

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Good post op

(Also I can doodle him perhaps maybe tomorrow?)

(I need to finish something for a collab first oh shoot I forgot)

(But still... Merasmus...)

(Might do some general headcanons in the meantime or finish one of the Merasmus requests from earlier..!)

Thank you for the Merasmus posts, he needs more love! :]

Heheh thank you! I'd love to do actual art of him one day instead of just rebloggin him, but I'm not very good at drawing (especially old dudes like merasmurray) so. Maybe some day.

Though I can share some headcanons! This is a bit of a common one but I do like to think of him as transmasc

Also, Merasmus sometimes will play DnD with the more willing mercs (after much pushing from Soldier)! He uses his magic to make fun effects and stuff. He isn't happy about it, but he secretly thinks its fun

Hogh I love him... 

You said in the tags something about oc interactions? 👀👉👈

I hear we're doing ocs again? Good. Wonderful. I have seven.

This is Hugo Harvey, the P.I. (Private Investigator !) I don't have too much fleshed out for him as far is his abilities go, aside from the eyes! Funny littol robot eyes that let him see through walls :].

He's a friendly guy, laughs a lot, and has a nickname for anyone he's talked to for more than 5 minutes. And i love him,

Could I please get some headcanons for Engie and maybe Spy with a smol, touch starved ball of anxiety S/O with abandonment issues? They always want to be holding the merc's hand, or hugging them, you get the idea. Whenever they have to be separated for long periods of time, there's a signing chance of the merc coming back to S/O wearing their clothes because "It smells like you."

Spy & Engineer with a touch starved, anxious S/O

Spy

At first, he’s fine with giving his S/O extra attention. Spy himself is used to being in close quarters with others when they ask, but doesn’t tend to prefer it.

That being said, having his S/O there all the time begins to get exhausting rather quickly, so Spy very likely tries different ideas to have some alone time every so often- be it a plushie, weighted blanket, assurances that he will be back-- seeing as he knows he’s an untrustworthy individual, it doesn’t hurt to reassure.

After realizing that it wouldn’t work all the time, he made the decision to either take his S/O with him, or stay with them.

Of course, it’d be a mixture of both, but while he was initially exhausted by all this, he learns to love it and does it because he feels better seeing his S/O smile.

His S/O is so nervous, he honestly wonders how they thought he was the right choice- but he doesn’t mind. Though, he does try and train their confidence- as well as training them in self defense in order to help alleviate anxiety from trying to look far into the future towards things they don’t know will happen or not.

Being a romantic though, he enjoys toying with his S/O’s touched starved nature. Seeing his light touches while training in a waltz-like fashion send shivers down their spine, or returning to the base invisible, the only knowledge of him having arrived coming from a kiss by a walking ghost.

Engineer

Absolutely bonkers over his S/O. His S/O means the world to him and he is going to show it no matter what. As shy as he is about romance, he’s very genuine and upfront when it comes to asking about their wants, needs, etc.

Crafts a lot of gifts for his S/O to keep them company while he’s gone. Machines or stuffed animals, whichever makes his S/O happier. Maybe even makes some cute devices to contact each other with even easier besides just by phone. 

While he’s a bit of a workaholic, he’s not opposed to having his S/O around him, be it sitting in his lap, standing behind him with their arms around his shoulders, etc. Though, if he’s doing something more dangerous like welding, he definitely tries to keep ‘em at a bit more of a distance. That, or he tries to bring his S/O into his activities to keep them engaged and by his side, but he’s very, very cautious about doing so. Can’t have them getting hurt, not on his watch!

Coming back from battle to see his S/O wearing one of his hoodies from his work with administrator, or a pair of his overalls that are, of course, way too big on them, he can’t help but melt right where he’s standing. He’s just thinking to himself over and over, “G-d, you’re adorable...”

Definitely makes sure to “accidentally” leave out his most comfortable clothing when he has to go somewhere after that. Usually things like his work hoodies, plaid shirts, stuff like that. He’s a blushing mess about it too, because he knows for a fact he’ll come back to his S/O wearing it.

Oops!...I Did It Again 😳👉👈

Tw for a fair bit of blood, so I’ll put it under a read more.

@hawtowo​ 

I wasn’t kidding about wanting to draw these two interacting somehow! :D

 I actually spent a lot of my breaks today drawing this, because I really wanted to make something with more substance to it, especially seeing as you’ve been doing a lot of stuff for people lately! This took 4-5 or more hours, I’m not entirely sure exactly how long but it was a WHILE to figure out how to do my workflow in clip studio. This is actually my very first fully colored/lined drawing in this program that hasn’t been just an experimental thing or a flat color icon or something.

Your art is stunning, dude! I- trips and falls and all the love comes tumbling out of my pockets.

I KILLED MEDIC

ONE OF MY MEDIC CREWMATES IN STARBOUND I MADE INTO LUDWIG AND,, WE WERE WITH A RESEARCHER OF MINE CLEARING OUT A HUGE GANG OF NOVAKID OUTLAWS AND I LEAD HIM INTO A SPIKE TRAP ON ACCIDENT 

THAT WAS ONE OF THE LONGER

“NOoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”s IVE LET OUT IN STARBOUND

YALL I MUST AVENGE MY DOCTOR

HE’LL RESPAWN IN MY SHIP, BUT WE CANT JUST GO GET HIM BACK WE’VE GOTTEN THIS FAR >B,(

I mean.

reblog this if your icon could kill a man

I resonate so hard with what you just posted about feeling called out with the 10th class OC thing.

Your take comforts me because I worry about this kind of thing a lot

And I work really hard

And to feel like your best isnt good enough

Or you dont get to have fun with something that YOU create

Is so draining

So yeah, thanks for speaking about it

I hope you dont give up on your OCs :)

And I hope you don’t either, anon! I’ve had a lot of experience making mary sue ocs, self inserts and the like and at any rate, I round them out because I need it to stay invested, and for others to. But that’s for me, and I do my best not to pull others down because of that, because everyone has their own things they like to do! I struggle with it sometimes, because I have anxiety over my characters being good. I make comfort characters for the exact purpose of giving them as many tropes as I want, as many edgy facets and powers as I want so as not to be tempted to give them to my other characters, but that doesn’t mean that they’re any less valid nor lovable.

And you know what?

I’m a fanfiction writer! I make content for a fandom that’s based on tropes! If people are gonna harass others for that, then there’s a big ol’ block button calling their name, alright? So even though I personally try to round out my characters for my own reasons, if you don’t want to, then you shouldn’t. Because everyone’s characters, no matter how developed, no matter how “edgy”, are VALID. 

Keep making your OCs, and make them however you want. If someone tries to tell you they aren’t valid? Let them cry and sob over it. You are in control of yourself, and they can’t do anything about it.

Your best is good enough.

You can focus on making yourself happy first,

You get to have fun with your own characters,

You can work hard and come out with a result that you cherish, no matter what others tell you.

Never, ever let anyone drain you of that. Your characters are perfect how you like them. 

I hope this doesn’t come across as too rant-y! I just feel your struggle, it’s a really hard mindset to break and so seeing it being reinforced hurt a little bit. But the amount of positivity coming from people because of this is absolutely incredible and it’s why I love this community so much!

Don’t let people like that get you down, alright? I agree, it’s draining, and it’s so very hard to ignore the negativity, but remember that 10 good thoughts can outweigh 1 bad thought, so keep surrounding yourself with people and characters and such that make you happy and content. Because in the end, that’s what’s most important.

We’re here because we want to have fun. We want to share ideas, we want to share our love for a work of fiction.

Be it team fortress, or anything else.

💖

This could go two ways:

Internal organ rearrangement speedrun

or

Internal organ addition speedrun

you’re stuck living with your icon for a month have fun

PROFESSIONALS HAVE STANDARDS

Sir please brush your teeth I am begging you please sir, sir ple

Next day reblog, happy pride month everyone!!!

PRIDE WEEK DAY 1!

@dontneedadispenser​’s pride week has begun! Unfortunately, this took a bit, but I’m not late yet, haha. Edith and Pauling are here to kick off day #1 with the theme of flags!