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I saw this picture on twitter and i was like hell yeah *w*

#marsh stuff #tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 fanart #tf2 sniper #tf2 spy #sniperspy #knife party #bloody suit #old man yaoi #GOOD LORD #Its been a steaming minute since i drew sniperspy wew #IM QUITE SATISFIED WITH HOW THIS TURNED OUT #i need to get more creative with back grounds #and be less shy with shading #YET the lineart is good which im happy about #same with the coloring #starting to get used to digital

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soldier is the pastor (literally)

#tf2 #omg theyre so cannon it hurts #scout say hullo to yer new dad #he looks very happy for them what a good sport

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I LOVE THIS SOOO MUCH AHHH. WHAT A TREAT AS A DENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL❤️‍🔥🦷❤️‍🔥🦷

♪♫♬ I am Your Dentist ♪♫♬

was thinking about little shop of horrors and then putting the mercs in situations so here ya go!!!!

(rambles and an extra doodle under cut)

ok ok ok so i reaallly love little shop of horrors, its one of mty favorite movies... like i may or may not have named a scattergun "Audrey II" with the description as "Heal me, Seymour!"... uhm yeah and anyways ive been thinking about the dentist scene and realized, hmmm, this is like sooooo medic coded (i mean medic is like nicer and stuff but its the vibes yknow?)

and then i just spiraled from there. lol.

so i think sniper HAS to be Seymour, im mean it fits songwise too "suddenly sniper" right? and i put spy as Audrey mostly for the outfits? but honestly any of the mercs could be Audrey... like maybe demo heavy or engie. and since medic is obviously the dentist then heavy could be the masochist patient, but i feel like scout would fit a lot more since theyre both so talkative. and then for the 3 singers honestly any of the mercs could work too, or like throughout the movie they rotate with the mercs who dont take a main role i guess. oh and engie could be mr. mushnik? the cast in this movie is pretty small so its hard to pick which mercs to put :/

so yeah :> if i could animate in sfm i would soooooooooo animate scenes from this movie with the mercs i think thatd be pretty cool

#tf2 #medic #imagine medic being your dentist #from experience dentists are fucking weird #medic would fit right in #would love to work w him bc hes medic #but in reality if i worked w someone like him id kms

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WHAT U ON NO ONES BEEN NORMAL ABT THESE MEN FOR THE PAST 16 YEARS OR SO

When I look like an innocent cutecore artist but I jumpscare you with a thrist trap :P ✨

Also for those wondering why Sniper wasn't there I just wanted to draw Demoman more 🤭 Sniper will have his moment one day

#SINCE THE MF RECESSION BRO #NO ONES BEEN UNCLINICAL ABOUT THESE DUDES

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nothing just Sniper, because I miss drawing this sopping kitchen rag

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 sniper #marsh stuff #idk he buzzed idk #tf2 fanart

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Why Spy and Sniper are opposites (and why they understand each other)

(A Team Fortress 2 meta.)

I had this in my drafts half-written for a while and then felt motivated enough to finish it up after seeing @gobbogoo's excellent meta about the professionalism aspect of Sniper and Spy's relationship.

I love foil characters. In my mind, what can make a foil compelling is when the two characters are opposites in many ways, they are also, at their cores, the same in the ways that really matter. When you get right down to it.

Mechanics (Or Far vs Close)

Sniper and Spy were literally made for each other.

In-game, Sniper and Spy are designed to counter each other. The Sniper vs Spy Update introduced multiple weapons for both Sniper and Spy that were designed to undo specifically the Spy and Sniper classes. They were introduced day-by-day in a comical, "Your new toy may counter mine, but now my new toy counters that!" fashion. Sniper's Razorback shield prevents Spy backstabbing him. Spy's Ambassador allows Spy to kill Snipers wearing a Razorback, and so on.

When you play as Sniper or Spy, different gameplay styles emerge from their different strengths and weaknesses. Sniper works well at a distance, behind the rest of his team, because his primary weapons are long range. Spy works well close up because of his ability to instantly kill with backstabs. And Spy's disguises can be more convincing if he's where the enemy team is, so he works well when he's ahead of the rest of his team.

Dirty vs Clean

Sniper roughs it with his (Cosy Camper) backpack and his camper van. Spy wears Louis Vuitton suits (or rather, "Louis Crabbemarché"--TF2 universe's counterpart), as mentioned in The Naked and the Dead comic:

Sniper urinates in mason jars and throws them as a weapon (Jarate). Spy has a special knife (Your Eternal Reward) that kills so cleanly, it instantly removes the body. Spy calls Sniper "filthy" as an insult in-game. It's something to cast scorn over, to Spy.

Spy: "You disgust me, filthy jar man!"

Alone vs Together

Sniper loves his job as a sniper for RED (and BLU). His job makes him stronger when he's at a distance from his team. Therefore, while he's not totally isolated from people, he doesn't mind being alone. He works well like that when he's working.

Sniper: "I love this job. Sunshine's free, bullets are cheap, and everybody's got a head."

Spy's Rally, an alternate Meet the Spy audio recording (as I wrote before), illustrates how Spy values teamwork and believes that it goes against the natural order of life.

Spy: "Disorder, the natural state of nature, is cheap to create, costly to overcome. [...] Nature abhors a team, gentlemen. And together, we bold few, we unnatural brothers, are going to seize Mother Nature by the throat."

Sniper finds strength in being alone. Spy finds strength in being together.

Out of vs In the Spotlight

When there was a irl figurine of Sniper being sold, Valve's blog released a post written by Sniper ("Well, Now I'm a Statue", 11 December 2012). He explains that he hates that his happened, as it goes against his wantiness to stay out of the spotlight.

Sniper: "It probably wouldn't surprise you to learn that a professional assassin like myself tends to be… discrete about things. We keep to the shadows. We avoid the spotlight. We don't host bloody dinner parties, is my point, and we don't make big bloody statues in effigy to our bloody selves."

Despite being an operative who has the ability to literally turn invisible, Spy has a flair for theatrics. He likes spectacle. In Expiration Date, when Scout apologises to Spy, Spy wants him to repeat "You're better than me," line over the PA system so that all the other mercs hear it.

Inexperienced vs Experienced in Romance

Sniper is never shown to have experienced romance and it's possible he never did. Sniper, despite his character being inspired by Crocodile Dundee, an adventure romance comedy, doesn't have a love interest. Sniper's "kangaroo wife" line is a made-up insult by Soldier.

Soldier: "I will send my condolences to your kangaroo wife."

In Meet the Sniper, we see him call his parents when he gets access to a payphone. His parents whom he sends postcards to (we see this postcard in the Sniper vs. Spy update). And it's his parents that the Administrator threatens the safety of to keep Sniper in line. It's his parents that are Sniper's priority of keeping protected. Not a girlfriend.

As essayist Kayla explains in a video meta about the mercs' past relationships, Sniper grew up in Australia, where (in the TF2 universe) the country's culture and people value large muscles due to Australium metal exposure giving Australians super-strength, as explained in the Catch-Up comic:

Security locks are punch-based (as Saxton Hale demonstrates to Miss Pauling in The Contract comic). Kids are expected to get into fist fights with each other. Meaning that Sniper is "not attractive by conventional Australian standards" in the TF2 universe (again, observation by Kayla in the video meta).

Spy on the other hand, is characterised by his past relationship with Scout's mother and it's one of the few things we know about Spy's past. Spy has an in-game line about liking his romances "in groups of six." When Scout needs advice on asking Miss Pauling out on a date, he goes to Spy for help (keep in mind, Scout doesn't know Spy is his father at this point). He has a reputation among his team that he is experienced in romantic relationships.

Spy: "I like my teams like I like my romances: in groups of six."

Where Sniper and Spy are Similar

Being Discreet and Valuing Secrets

In the TF2 comic The Naked and the Dead, we find out that Sniper knows that Scout is Spy's son. By this point, Scout doesn't know (or is heavily in denial about it). We know Sniper knows because when Sniper and Spy come across Scout dying in a hallway, Sniper leaves Spy to have a private moment with Scout, when Spy tells Scout that he's his father (or rather, Tom Jones is his father, because Spy can't bring himself to tell the whole truth).

Sniper is discreet in leaving them alone, because he never explicitly says that he knows (or what he knows) in that scene. It's mainly left unspoken. He only says one word, and Spy knows what's he's going to say. And Sniper chooses to leave because he knows that this secret is important to Spy and Scout.

Spy ability to be discreet and valuing secrets inherently comes with his job. His disguises only work as much as his ability to act like the person he's pretending to be. Spy also values the secret of his identity so much that we don't ever see him without his mask. The SFM model of Spy mask less (where we see he has hair) is a fan-made model that the fandom has collectively accepted. It has not been shown in any official Valve works. In Meet the Spy, he's always wearing his mask in the various Top Secret photos. There's also a Miss Pauling contract line for Spy in-game where she tells him that he should wash his mask. He canonically doesn't take it off.

Miss Pauling: "Spy, just between you and me, you should really wash that ski mask. Like once. There's visible stink lines coming off that thing. Anyway, I need a favor."

Kinda ironic, since Spy values cleanliness.

Are Both Willing to Put Themselves in Danger to Save One Another

Despite their differences, when they're on the same team (or even when they're still on opposite teams but have come together against a greater enemy, like in Mann vs Machine), Sniper and Spy can work together to save each other.

In the comics (The Naked and the Dead), Spy gets shot in the leg and is about to be killed by Classic Sniper (from the first Team Fortress game) while trying to infiltrate a building to save his team, but is saved by Sniper.

To do this, Sniper had to run up several flights of stairs, break down a door, crash through a window, scale the side of a building, and then climb silently into the room Spy was in. While naked and bleeding. Sniper was willing to put himself at great personal risk to save Spy.

They Both Experienced Loneliness Just Before Joining RED/BLU

I imagine that, one day, Sniper and Spy will figure out that they are not so different. If they knew about each other's pasts, they would notice a certain similarity.

Sniper's backstory (his description on TF2's website) is that he was a "tracker of dangerous game" in Australia. He would have spent a long time on his own, in the wilderness, isolated from people. He lived on a farm with his parents, not in the cities. In the comics (Blood in the Water), Sniper explains that he grew up with kids who wanted to fist fight, while he would climb up trees out of their reach and throw stones at them. He didn't fit in.

He calls his parents in Meet the Sniper, but they don't like the line of work he's in. Which upsets him, because he wants their approval.

Spy's backstory is that he had a love, Scout's mother, and ran away from her. We don't know the details of why. But we do know that he and her are still on good terms. Spy and her are seen together in Valve's promo animation for the Second Annual Saxxy Awards:

Spy appears to still love her, as at the end of Meet the Spy, he takes one of the photos of them together. Notably, the most chaste photo of the pile--it's of the two of them holding hands, walking away together.

I think that's insight on what he would have wanted in another timeline. But he ran away on his own, leaving a woman he loved (and still loves) as well as his baby son. He left his family.

This is what their lives were like before the Gravel War.

It's also worth noting that they both joined RED/BLU. They all chose a line of work that many would not, and this gives us insight into their character. Whether it was for the money, or for the chance to fight, or to combat loneliness, both Sniper and Spy found themselves working for RED/BLU.

In Conclusion

Sniper and Spy are opposites in many ways, but when you get right down to it, their cores are the same.

#tf2 #i love these 2 fucking idiots #did u know they have a safeword #FUCK HOW PRECIOUS IS THAT #old man yaoi is real

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Standards (OC)

Check out Steri’s info here if you want ^^

"Are you dressing up for war?!" was, no joke, what a surgical dentist I worked with told me when i was suiting up before an implant procedure. It hasn't left my brain since, and I figured this would fit better in this context lol.

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 fanart #marsh stuff #tf2 sniper #tf2 medic #tf2 oc #tf2 oc art #in my irl situation it wasnt bloody #suiting up is what you usually SHOULD do #doctors just say the damnest things #tf2 comics #GOD I MISS DRAWING SNIPERR #and im also a dadbod medic truther cant u tell

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i finally finished this... i can die now..........

here is the reference picture, which is a poster for the movie Re-Animator (1985)

#tf2 #SIIIIIICK

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put together this really crappy ref of p2 dude's face from various angles.. mostly for myself and a friend of mine but idm sharing.

put it together using pureref (a program i recommend if you want to overlay your reference images over your drawing program)

im gonna be fucking real i dont know from what addon is the playermodel i have a bunch of dude PMs and he's not listed in any of them lol

#postal #reference #you can tell he cries hard a lot by the salt burns around his eyes #my peepaw baby

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smiling’s a good job, mate

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BOOM OC ART runs away

Well I had a ball making this!!! I guess look forward to Steri stuff :p and medical mal-practice. I HOPE YOU LIKE THEM BC THEY'RE SO PRECIOUS TO ME 8)

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 fanart #tf2 headcanons #marsh stuff #tf2 oc art #tf2 oc #they existed initially to quell with my disgust on how potentially dirty medics lab is #also a way to vent my frustrations about working in a clinic and with surgical dentists #now theyre precious enough to earn a full-colored oc profile

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A little practice with the line😮

#tf2 #reference

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my favorite ways I’ve noticed people stylize sniper’s face

#tf2 #im definitely B i love :3 sniper heeheeee #he got a big lower lip BUT not an underbite so he pouty #been a hot minute since i last drew sniper

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More crappy fem snipes renders yipeeee

Not a single bit of weight painting was done on this day.

#tf2 #my HEART #she’s perfect

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Engie and Pyro took a road trip to Texas for the Solar Eclipse :D

I wanted to get this out on the day of the Solar Eclipse, but I got into a depressive slump this week... But I didn't want to scrap this because the idea was cute to me. Can't be arsed to draw a background, so imagine they're in Texas okie?

the coloring is still shite to me, so any feedback and tips are welcomed :) using Krita

#tf2 #marsh stuff #team fortress 2 #tf2 fanart #tf2 engineer #tf2 pyro #gawrsh theyre so cute #i love their dynamic #so comforting eh #nothing like drawing your comfort characters to get by #their relationship is so pleasant

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better call MEEEEDIC! the incredible circumstances in which a sniper works for a spy. instead of jarate, mike has pimento cheese sandwiches, which makes him closer to heavy. gus has a boxcutter. saul pockets only those with huge killstreaks and runs away to nebraska after they die.

#SCREAMING ON THE TOP OF MY LUNGS #MY FAVOURITE OLD MEN CROSSOVER #u have no business with making him the sniper ;w; #mike is literally my favourite character in the whole series HY HEART #saul is so fitting he goes through the toughest shit to fix everyones messes #tf2 #breaking bad #better call saul #WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE #and brain rotting

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“i love BONK, sniper!!!! I LOVE BONKKK!!!!!!”

#YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #tf2 #smiling friends