If Emesis Blue really is a Dream, I love the fact that BLU Medic sees RED the way he does.
Think about it, BLU Medic is a Catholic who knows he’s mentally ill and is trying his best to keep it under control. RED Medic is a megalomaniac who likes the challenge of playing god and made a deal with the devil.
And beyond that, BLU has other personalities that he doesn’t understand [who freak him out] and hallucinates them from time to time.
That’s the actual reason he didn’t attack RED immediately, he thought it was one of them from afar. It has to be trippy and difficult to deal with that guy IRL in battle with the personality issue.
And even if BLU doesn’t know it, if he thinks his other personalities are demons or something, they still act like people. Angry, revengeful people, but not monsters. This picture is such a good representation of the difference between the two. RED is feral and messing with powers he shouldn’t…. For fun. Fixing respawn failures is not “for fun” it’s meant to save mercenary lives. So RED would be Monstrous.
He’s still red hued even in this blue room, skin and hair too, like a demon. And given he joined Classic team in hunting his own crew and BLU mercs, it makes sense that he’s literally two-faced.
Something else that’s interesting is that BLU Medic’s eyes are only ever black/brown as the funeral version, and he has hallucinations that make that personality look demonic.
But again, funeral Medic acts like a human person that’s 100% done with BLU Corp and their lies, not a cryptid. He’s not actually evil like Ludwig thinks.
But RED Medic is criminally insane in ways that transcend other Gravel War mercs, and that’s disturbing to someone like BLU.
O no he crumchy
He just put Scout’s body in a coffin as respectfully as he could given the circumstances. RED Medic brought their team’s sniper back to life and there’s no way BLU hasn’t heard about it post-comics. He didn’t want RED touching Scout, even if it could bring him back. He doesn’t trust that maniac, and that’s 100% valid. Why?
BLU team doesn’t know RED personally. What they’re like at their base, living with each other. They don’t know that RED Medic was infiltrating Classic, not truly joining them. They don’t know what he was doing in the early 40s or how close he is with RED Heavy. And here’s the proof:
BLU Medic doesn’t know that this is BLU Heavy; he knows that he’s at RED base, and wouldn’t have a reason to believe that this isn’t RED Heavy. Especially after what happened to Scout. So from his perspective, RED finally pushed nature too far and it blew up in his face. Resulting in RED Heavy loosing his mind and attacking.
That’s also why he hesitates to run away from the big Hoovy; he might be in hearty agreement with defeating RED Medic and leave BLU alone. But that’s not the case, and so the context changes from “this guy no longer serves RED” to “this guy has lost the plot altogether, he’s just attacking anybody’.
We, the tf2 fans know that this isn’t how RED Heavy acts; he actually didn’t question Medic’s loyalty in comic 6 and was ride or die, so if anything he’d still be docile to RED. But nobody on BLU team knows that.
And BLU’s doctor believes that something terrible will happen to RED if he doesn’t stop messing with the powers that be, even though he has no idea about the demonic deal.
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Y'all know I can't resist r63 so behold! Women (and Pyro)
Bonus doodles (including femHeavyMedic and some commentary) under the cut!
Solly has a mullet, here's a better view of that without her headband
Obligatory HeavyMedic, feat oblivious sapphic Heavy and gremlin lesbian Medic
Demowoman taking a snooze
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Medic looks kinda like Miss Pauling and I didn't realize that until the HeavyMedic doodle. Damn. Oh well I'm not changing the design she's just going to look like an older evil Miss P
Pyro is the same as always, the only difference that they're obsessed with Dinosaurs and the team started out defaulting to "she/her" for them
Scout's necklace is a locket with a single, blurry, worn photo of her mom in it. She would never be able to identify Spy using it, but it means a lot to her
In the specific AU(s) I have in my brain, the only characters who've been swapped are the Mercs and anyone who would need to be swapped for the sake of keeping the logic consistent. So, Scout's Ma is her dad here and Heavy is the oldest of four sisters. However, Miss Pauling is still a woman. I have a specific reason that boils down to "it's funnier"
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Tf2 shipping. And the like. In the mood to ramble about some characters today so expect my take on the Swordvan dynamic under the cut ! Heavymedic thingy in the tags. Man I can’t stop talking about these hat guys.
Won’t be as long as the heavymedic breakdown I typed last time but I think their dynamic is also pretty silly, not exactly the tragic type yknow. Sniper’s a wet cat man, pathetic, eats anything he finds blah blah, but when demo and him first meet degroot’s under the impression that Mundy is somehow very cool. He has the shades, he doesn’t talk much, he shoots people from far away, and he’s Aussie. Doesn’t get sexier than that, apparently. Mundy finds that out from Jeremy (third wheel) and freaks. Avoids Degroot for the next month. Only makes Degroot fall harder (”man. He’s so independent and always knows what to say.” Meanwhile Mundy says shit like “chuck a u’ey”). Shenanigans ensue
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