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[friendlyengie]

More of this nonsense. Psychic mercs. Waohoo

#Pyro and soldier have. Probably the least interesting designs to psychonautify #its hard!!! They’re already so shaped!!! #tf2 #Tf2 au #Psychonauts #i am once again asking you to play psychonauts. #tf2 soldier #tf2 pyro #tf2 spy #tf2 scout #my art!! #tf2nauts

[friendlyengie]

I haven’t posted any art in a hot second because I’ve been thinking about psychonauts and it’s been having a war with tf2 in my brain. They’ve come to a stalemate and are now merging into a singular entity (I’ve been designing a tf2 psychonauts au)

If I ever complete this collection of designs and shit I’ll elaborate on what any of this means. But I’m not going to now because if I start talking I won’t stop

#tf2 #Tf2 fanart #not going to tag all of these freaks I’m just gonna set them down and run away #Also sasha nein is here say hi to Sasha #psychonauts #this is a propaganda post #my art!! #tf2 au #tf2nauts

[friendlyengie]

GRABS YOU.PSYCHOAUTS AU. IT MAKES ME GO INSANE GIVE ME ALL YOUR IDEAS

Ive got like maybe one half of a solid idea set up for these guys but essentially im just translating their canon story (at least the gravel wars/game timeline part) over to the psychonauts universe. Razputin gets sent on a mission to the middle of Psychic New Mexico to look at some suspicious activity in the area and accidentally gets caught in the middle of some sort of psychic battle. He radios in to sasha and sasha realizes quickly that “uh oh we maybe should have waited to gather more information before sending the child out” and they release a small team to meet up with him

Little misc ideas

Spy’s main ability is clairvoyance. He has a constant aura around him that lets him change peoples visual perception of him (hence his weird silhouette design.) But it makes him extremely weak with almost every other ability because hes constantly using some sort of energy

Scouts main ability is levitation! He can use it to double-jump or get places quickly, but aside from that hes a pretty lackluster psychic tbh.

Medic isn’t psychic! (Neither is Sniper, either.) But he has an intense fascination with psychics. He would get along great with loboto i really do think this.

Heavy’s psi-punch ability manifests as a bear claw

Due to the effects of growing up around active psitanium, Sniper exists in a constant state of near zero-g. Scout’s favorite activity is hitting him with things from across the room so he flies off his feet and starts spinning in circles.

Demo’s under a near-constant state of psychic confusion. His eyes sort of have that disney hypnosis style look to them.

Soldier is very much psychic, but doesn’t know it. Hes convinced hes like. Powered by his love for his country and that any american can blow things up with their mind if theyre patriotic enough.

#asks #Tf2nauts #The Clown Speaks

[friendlyengie]

(Hope I don't come across as spammy orz)

Sniper being a floaty non-psychic makes me wonder about like. Australia. Was he exposed during his time as a baby in New Zealand or is Psitonium kind of an Australium analog so all Australians are mildly psychic but because he's from NZ he never had actual powers awaken he's just Floaty

OH AND I SAW HOW THE DENT IN SOLDIERS HELMET IS BECAUSE HE SALUTES TOO HARD THATS GREAT TOO

dw about it! You’re good! Psitanium is meant to be a narrative replacement for Australium! So like. Australia is full of stupid powerful psychics but Sniper wasn’t born there, he was just exposed to it growing up so he got the super cool ability of “inconvenient gravitational pull”

Soldiers helmet has withstanded far too much to still be put together…. And yet….!

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[friendlyengie]

I haven't even played psychonauts but I CANNOT stop thinking about the psychonaut designs you did for the mercs. They're so fucking shaped and I especially love Sniper but they're all sooooo good. But also because I haven't played psychonauts I'm going mildly insane trying to figure out like. Setting. Are they still fighting a war or are they ever so slightly more chilled out or are they pawns for some organization or what (again my psychonauts knowledge is HEAVILY limited).

Either way great designs love Demo's little spiral beard love Spy's cigarette emoting with him love everything about how you did Medic's mouth in both neutral and smiling expressions uhhhhhh I don't know what else to say but. Art Good.

TYHANK YOUUU :0] psychonauts is my favorite thing of all time i had an absolute blast coming up with the designs.

THE SETTING IS RLY FUNNY TO ME.. i think i mentioned it once but the only concept i have is somehow the red vs blue gravel wars get reinterpreted into a psychic battle in the au and the concerning psychic energy from the battlefield alerts the psychonauts. So they send Raz in before he checks in and informs them that theres a psychic war going on in psychic New Mexico and they go “ah fuck we sent the 10 year old alone into psychic battle lads. Someone go get sasha and milla.” And then Mann co is under investigation or something idk.

#I have one thousand little ideas in my brain and am shocked when they are not all fancifully crafted narratives….. shocking! #asks #tf2nauts