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fischiee · 2 months

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the best part of rvb is when they refer to tex by he/him pronouns for like 2 episodes and church just rolls with it

#im ignoring the part where after church says she everyone freaks out bc shes a girl thats not canon. to me.#they're just like “he's so badass i can't believe he stole your girlfriend church he's so cool” and church is just like yeah ok sure #he was playing the pronoun game just thinking “did she change her pronouns???”#bisexual church has been canon from day 1 fight me about it #rvb #red vs blue #agent texas #leonard church #rvb chex

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eastgaysian · 5 months

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i loved you so much it was making me sick

#red vs blue #rvb #rvb fanart #rvb tex #agent texas #rvb church #leonard church #freshly minted #me fighting for my life trying to figure out what tags people use. ok.#anyway the relevance of going to scotland to this moment or this art is questionable at best but u just need to trust in my beautiful mind #what i was mostly thinking about is what tex would look like. and then what epsilon tex specifically would look like. and coming to the #conclusion that i dont think i will ever come up with a face for her. always just a hint of something blurred through the glass.#i love you deadalive nothing girl who isn't.

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high-voltage-rat · 1 year

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something I do appreciate about red vs blue is its particular brand of “came back wrong”. you were brought back, but you’re just a memory of the person you’re supposed to be. you’re just the expectations of them. you’re just the pieces everyone else saw and remembered. you’re tough like the original, but you’ll always fail no matter how tough you are, because the original failed, too. you’ve got a personality like the original, but it’s not quite right because you didn’t actually live the life they did. there’s this person you love- who you would kill or suffer or die for- but you don’t know why, you just know you’re supposed to be together because that’s what you were made for.

#thinkin abt tex and epsilon at 4am on a thursday #anyway thinkin about the fact that tex and church were never *actually* together outside of blood gulch #she tried to save alpha. she failed. he didn't know who she was and she was forced to leave him.#but realistically? he'd never met her before. because she wasn't allison and he wasn't leonard #they were both just copies that knew who they were supposed to be #and epsilon never met tex. he only had the copy based on alpha's muddled memories.#and then when he brought her back... she was just even more wrong because she was a memory of a memory #and even with all of alpha's memories #epsilon wasn't alpha. he was someone different because he'd been through different things #alpha didn't remember what was done to him. epsilon did. alpha didn't know what he'd lost. epsilon did.#alpha lived his life. had relationships with the reds and blues. epsilon just remembered it.#and with that in mind you have to wonder...#what did tex actually remember? who did she think she was? what did she think the director and alpha were to her?#because epsilon had alpha's memories but beta didn't even have that.#anyway yeah roommate agreed to experience rvb with me and we watched seasons 1-10 together and hooboy #I'm back on my bullshit #red vs blue #rvb #Agent Texas #tex rvb #Leonard Church #church rvb #epsilon rvb #alpha rvb #beta rvb

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koipalm · 3 months

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i like the idea that locus is touchy

#locus and his weird obsession with wash.... well i think its funny #wash is having fun hes just embarrassed locus is so touchy LOL #red vs blue #agent washington #samuel ortez #rvb locus #locus rvb #rvb #wash rvb #my art #locuswash #washlocus #uhhhh idk if theres a shiptag for them or what it is.....#you might ask me why hes wearing boxers over his bodysuit. well because i didnt think about it.#sorry to my lovely followers. here is art of something u did not follow me for. hope uou enjoy #should i tag this as suggestive? not sure how to not get flagged for smth #locington

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smilysstuff · 6 months

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Thinking bout making an Inverted AU, just imagining everyone's personality being the opposite-- already biting my nail thinking of how I'm gonna approach Sarge's inverted self💀

This already looks cursed-(forgot to add Tex, but we already know she's wearing white armour 😭)

Did Simmons first, according to Google apparently the opposite of Ginger is Ash Green

What did I DO to him.

#red vs blue #rvb #Rvb au #Rvb Simmons #Rvb inverted au #Simmons with Tucker's color 💀💀💀#Friend said Inverted Tex would be a cottagecore queen help me #And it dawned on me that Tex would suck but actually achieves her goals #Alpha's success #Already thinking about how I'm gonna do this with the other characters (evil cartoon villain hand rubbing)

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leonardalphachurch · 10 months

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

#rvb #red vs blue #*repurposes my tags on the lolix post to here*#did you have fun in your other fandoms. did you enjoy your time spent with a piece of media that loves you #did you even think about the children. your blorbos. when you ABANDONED US for the hotter and newer model #you think you can WALTZ back in here like NOTHINGS WRONG #LOOK AT YOUR BLORBOS. THEY GREW UP WITHOUT A FATHER.#that part doesn’t have to do with ppl leaving the fandom. most rvb characters just have daddy issues #AND YOU LEFT THEM AGAIN #WITHOUT EVEN SAYING *GOODBYE*#and so now you return here. on the day of my daughters wedding. to ask ME for MY analysis?#AND YOU DIDNT EVEN THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS WOULD DO TO THE BABY???? *holds up junior*#anyway. welcome back lol

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skipitty-bop · 3 months

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I'm so tired of seeing people say RvB sucks like okay sure there are a couple bad jokes here and there, but thats like, it.

Red vs Blue is such a beautiful, beautiful show. The writing in every season is incredible, every single character is unique and lovable in their own way, just the amount of stories and plots there are is absolutely astonishing.

Every single story is heartwarming and emotional and suspenseful and captivating and hilarious and everything I could ever want from a piece of media. From sci-fi, to comedy, to tragedy, Red vs Blue is an all around amazing and beautiful show

If you really do think RvB sucks I dont want you here 🗣️

#literally writing this im boutta cry #i love red vs blue so much #maybe its just because its my special interest but i really do think its such an amazing show #and people should stop being so negative about it #for me❤️#red vs blue #rvb #rvb grif #rvb simmons #rvb sarge #rvb donut #rvb lopez #rvb tucker #rvb wash #rvb carolina #rvb caboose #rvb church

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starburstdragon · 1 year

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Guys Who Are Multiple Guys Tournament, Semifinals

Evelyn

The alternate Evelyns are incredibly relevant to the way the movie plays out, and the movie itself is about love and identity and individuality and all those things, so she’s got the vibe. My friend suggested her :)

Church

“He's an AI copy of a scientist that was tortured into splitting himself into pieces, each of those pieces are different characters with their own names and identities. Although one is basically a copy of him” - User submission

#evelyn eeaao #evelyn wang #everything everywhere all at once #eeaao #rvb church #church rvb #leonard l church #rvb #red vs blue #guys who are multiple guys tournament #bloomposting #maybe its really obvious to everyone but for me its 4am and i dont wanna go to sleep so im thinking about it like ive cracked the secrets #of the universe but like. hey has anyone else ever noticed that the name evelyn sounds a lot like 'everything'? crazy #anyways if church makes it to finals should i put in the bighuge user submission instead of the one ive been using #its very tldr if you like. dont care about it. but its a lot more comprehensive about his whole deal

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washilon · 1 year

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i got into red vs blue at the beginning of this month and i'm not normal about it. here's the culmination of three weeks of pure unbridled Insanity

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ehhgg-art · 10 months

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the bond between a queer kid and their favorite straight ships can be something so strong…

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fischiee · 2 months

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the lack of communication in red vs blue drives me up the wall like what do you MEAN the reds and blues (and wash!!!) don’t know that the director is carolina’s dad!! they don’t know about tex’s history!! they don’t even know that epsilon tried to blow himself up in wash’s head!!!!!

#uhhh i might be wrong about them not knowing abt tex and epsilon but they certainly don’t know the full story #but im fairly certain church only told Wash (who already knew abt tex) and i think Wash only told alpha and maybe caboose #also i am aware that it’s possible that they have talked about it off screen but that’s very.. not likely i think #considering church made a comment like ’you’re lucky her mother’s not here to hear you say that’#and the whole church not knowing tucker was black and everything #these motherfuckers simply don’t talk and it drives me up the wall #rvb #red vs blue #leonard church #agent carolina #agent washington #the director #rvb epsilon #agent texas

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illusion-of-sea-axes · 16 days

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This came to me in a dream.

Argingtina (Argentina) works as a ship name for Sarge/Washington/Carolina

#red vs blue #rvb #dreams are weird #im... not sure why this happened in my dream #i just remember seeing like. a news post about a soccer player from Argentina and it was like.#'she demands shipping and i do too' which like. confused me even in the dream #i think the post was like. from Grif somehow?

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high-voltage-rat · 28 days

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Actually I'm still thinking about it. Another interesting way in which RvB is anti-war is the way that the Director fills the role of a villain and antagonist (especially in the Recollections trilogy, where he's a faceless villain we never see but is responsible for everything that happens).

In his memos to the Chairman, the Director emphasizes his sense of duty and obligation to the military- he becomes irate for the first time when he feels that it's being implied that he was derelict in his duty... or that the work he did out of that duty is being criticized for being against the military's interests. He also talks about Allison's death in a way I find... interesting.

"You see; I never had the chance to serve in battle. Nor did fate provide me the opportunity to sacrifice myself for humanity as it did for so many others in the Great War. Someone extremely dear to me was lost very early in my life. My mind has always plagued me with the question: If the choice had been placed in my hands, could I have saved her? [...] But, given the events of these past few weeks, I feel confident that had I been given the chance, I would have made those sacrifices myself... Had I only the chance."

The idea of sacrifice is central to the way he talks about his wife's loss, to the way he talks about the war in general. He talks of sacrifice with a sense of veneration- that it's something he aspires to do, that he longs for. There's a few ways we can interpret "I would have made those sacrifices myself"...

-That in Allison's place, he thinks he would have laid down his life too.

-That if given the chance, he would have given his life to save hers.

But most interestingly...

-That he would have sacrificed Allison's life for the continued survival of humanity, if that was what duty called for.

...And personally, I think all 3 are true.

In most war media, the Director's perspective on sacrifice is very common. Sacrifice is glorious and heroic- to die in battle is an honour- and it's the only way to ensure the group you serve survives. This is a tool of propaganda- nobody wants to go to war just for the sake of it, you have to give them a reason that the risk of dying or being permanently disabled isn't just acceptable, but desirable. Beyond that, most people don't want to do things they think are immoral- you have to convince them it's important, a necessary lesser evil. You teach them to sacrifice their morals, too.

The way they train soldiers to follow orders and to kill, is to convince them that they, and the people around them, and the people they care about, will all die if they don't. It's drilled into your head from day one. It's the way they ensure their commanding officers won't shy away from sending their men off to die. The message is constant- sacrifice is your duty, and duty ensures your people's survival.

In the Director's eyes, the damage Project Freelancer caused was his sacrifice. He never got the opportunity to sacrifice himself during the war- so he sacrificed others, as military brass do. The Freelancers- including his daughter. The countless sim troopers. Any people he considered "collateral damage" on missions. And when the opportunity to do so presented itself, he sacrificed a copy of himself- Alpha- and he sacrificed a copy of Allison- Tex.

The very thing that derailed his life- the loss of his wife- he made it happen again. He put her copy in dangerous situations, let her exist in the position of constant repeated failure, created the circumstances that would eventually lead to her death. He put their daughter in deadly situations that nearly killed her repeatedly, provided her with impossible expectations leading to self-destructive behaviours in the name of duty, implanted her with two AI knowing they could cause her permanent harm. He was confident he "would have made those sacrifices himself" because he did.

The Director is the embodiment of the military war machine. As an antagonist, he is a warning against buying into the glorification of sacrifice. He's a condemnation of the idea that one should be willing to do anything to win a war- that duty to the military is the thing that ensures survival... All the messages that are pushed to ensure recruitment and obedience of soldiers.

He's a reminder that swallowing the propaganda leads to you doing terrible things... and in the end, you're a broken man left mourning the losses that you suffered even as you repeated them, convinced that it was all necessary.

#late nights with ali #ali watches rvb #not video games #rvb #red vs blue #leonard church #the director #director rvb #idk why I'm so fixated on thinking about the anti-war interpretation of rvb right now but I'm apparently going ham #it's just so fucking. wild to me. listening to the director's messages in S6 always has me thinking 'oh man this guy ate the propaganda up'#the OPPORTUNITY to sacrifice yourself??? homedog you sound like the kid in high school who brags he's joining the army as soon as he's 18 #to be clear: a lot of my thoughts on this stem from the fact that I come from a military family. I spend a lot of time with people who...#...bought in to the military propaganda and indoctrination. I see an amplified version of their perspectives reflected in the director.#to the military man sacrifice is the highest calling. sacrifice of your life. sacrifice of your morals. sacrifice of your wellbeing.#the things the director did were all in line with that fucked-up form of sacrifice.#and that they're portrayed for the evil they are is an important protest against the war machine's messaging.

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glassedplanets · 1 year

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what in the hell makes you think i'm going to ask for it?

#red vs blue #agent washington #screencap redraw #got to recreation w/ blue (red team) in their big watchthrough a few days ago and i am STILL thinking about wash's no.1 babygirl moment #this was very different for me!!!!! wow #every so often i get struck by the urge to do dramatic/intense lighting and this was the most dramatic i've attempted i think #onward etc etc #rvb tag #man if i could go back in time and show 2013!me that i could draw this i think 2013!me would faint

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joltning · 2 months

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sorrryyy this week gave me creativity block :( my ideas…will come to fruition………

#”caboose is dying” this ain’t about him #saw that post with the old man vs how person who only knows how to draw people in their 20s draws them #and have been thinking about it ever since. That’s ME..!!!/!!! 😭😭😭😭 girl how you draw middle aged people #rvb #red vs blue #church rvb #rvb church #leonard l church #rvb caboose #caboose rvb #micheal j caboose #rvb tucker #tucker rvb #lavernius tucker #doodles

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leonardalphachurch · 1 year

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redemption in red vs blue, specifically with wash but we see shades of it in carolina and locus too, is portrayed not as something that is earned, but that is given. it is ONLY through being offered forgiveness and compassion that these characters are able to improve. wash kills, attempts to kill, takes hostage and generally antagonizes the reds and blues; carolina threatens and endangers them; locus attempts genocide. but wash is offered a safe haven, carolina is offered rescue, even locus is offered humanity by wash and santa. they don’t earn their forgiveness, they don’t even say sorry. they don’t deserve this compassion. they don’t deserve to be redeemed. but it is only through being shown this compassion that they are able to be.

i don’t know. it’s just. kind of radical. anti carceral? to say not only is there no one who is unworthy of redemption, but the way to redeem them is not to wait until they come grovel to you, but for you to go to them.

when wash is given a prison cell, he turns into a villain. when wash is given friendship, he turns into a hero.

#honestly. thinking about the way rvb treats redemption made me change my stance on redemption stories #red vs blue #rvb #agent washington #analysis #yeah i wrote this instead of continuing the lieutenant stuff. sue me. actually just remind me to write it later

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