The Great State Herself

RvB thats it. thats the blog

[leonardalphachurch]

also this has been said before but tex being failure bc the director thinking the fact that allison DIED AT WAR is a failure on her end so fucking insane and funny. like can we talk about what this says about his character. we all know churches love to self sacrifice but the director literally says that he thinks that he would have been willing to give up his life for the war. when leonard church dies for the cause it’s a heroic act of sacrifice but when the supposed love of his life does it it’s indicative of her failure. okay. okay okay. let’s kill this guy with hammers.

[rubykgrant]

(and then he makes a like 2 fake wars in which people often get very hurt/traumatized, from soldiers to enemies to bystanders, and die at least a few times, which is way more than the number zero, which is how many people should be dying in a weird game of "corporate sabotage tag" and also "capture the flag EXTREME version". those deaths were "necessary" though, unlike Allison, which was a failure and very tragic and unfair. OK)

[orbitingrook]

Sarge reads Fifty Shades

[pity-poison]

I’ve reached S12 of Red vs. Blue and am genuinely saddened to see how flanderized Caboose has gotten. I rewatched S1 recently, and some clips from other seasons littered between, and really miss that conceptualization of his character.

I’ve been writing him in a fic for months now and based my dialogue on early to mid Blood Gulch stuff, and feel like this isn’t the same character anymore. It’s disheartening, to say the least.

My partner did warn me about this, and I’ve seen stuff about it in advance, but it’s nonetheless saddening to see this fucker (arguably my favourite of them all,) go backwards instead of forwards in his character development.

I’ve been struggling to finish this fic for a while, but am now feeling a bit less motivated than before because…. What is ‘in character’ for him if he’s very abruptly an entirely different dude? How do I write that? Have I been writing it poorly all along if this is the most recent memory people have of him? Girl heeeeelp

[sanitizedsav]

is this anything part 2 ft. tex and chrovos

[jade-kyo]

Everybody shut the fuck up and watch this cute Tucker-Caboose interaction omg I love them so much

[transbajablast]

I LOVE LATE SEASONS TUCKER HES SO PRECIOUS AND GOOD AND I LOVE THE TEAM SUPPORTING CABOOSE YTEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[positiveoatmilkmotel]

They’re so sweet 😭😭

[janknabobfdi-xxxnitrodarkxxx]

[fuck-you-blue]

Do people notice that Caboose has a mean streak or ...am i the only one that noticed? ( its Joel's personality shining through)

Like... he unprompted called someone a slut. killed Sarge because he assumed that would make Church happy.

He is really snarky once he realizes the Red team isn't a threat to him. Is snarky towards Tucker until the writers forgot that he's not supposed to be a manchild... I'm not bitter about how Caboose is written in Season 11-13... no

The point is that Caboose is not a pure, soft boy ... he's capable of being just as mean as Church or Simmons. It's just that he usually chooses to be nice and polite over that compulsion.

[positiveoatmilkmotel]

It’s like the “tough guy with a secret soft spot” trope, flipped on its head. Caboose is a soft guy, who is also a crazy, cold-blooded, buff, baby-hating, trigger happy, beast.

Actually you know what, he is literally a textbook yandere, I never use that word but it fits too well here. Literally everytime he shows affection he ends up killing someone 😭

[fuck-you-blue]

Someone gets it

[hiveswap]

I'm starting a collection. Idk what the aesthetic is. Blorbocore

[janknabobfdi-xxxnitrodarkxxx]

[p0ltus]

It's insane to me how people will still blame South for "overreacting" or "letting jealousy ruin her relationship with her brother" when Connie literally tells the audience The Director is intentionally pitting people against each other to stir the pot. Did you just not pay attention?

South wasn't "jealous" she was being intentionally and strategically punished while North was being favored and praised because THE DIRECTOR. IS. A. BAD. PERSON.

He is experimenting with these people. People like Wash and North don't understand that because they're the ones getting favored. Wash tells Connie she's "overreacting" and that "The Director is helping us!" because that's genuinely what he believes at that point in time. There's also a later clip of North talking to York where they DO start to question what's going on only AFTER evidence of internal corruption is thrown right in their face instead of being told to them second hand.

(I cant add more videos so ill transcribe my clips from here on out)

York: When the cops and the military started shooting at us, yeah, I find I just keep coming back to the same question in my head. Over and over again.

York: We're the good guys, right?

North: Of course we are!

York: You don't sound so sure of yourself.

North: No... No, I suppose I don't...

They only become aware of the problem when the problem is right in their face because The Director is manipulating all of them. Hes putting blinders on them. That's how situations like this work. Those who live comfortably won't understand the mistreatment of those below them because they're in a higher position. In this case, The Director has created an artificial hierarchy which separates and isolates the people he really wants to pick apart and fuck with.

The Director is intentionally doing this as CT says. He wants to drive a wedge between the "good" Freelancers and the "bad" Freelancers and part of that is making sure his top dogs don't see how their colleagues are being blatantly mistreated. If they knew, his little fucked up psychological experiment would backfire.

All of The Freelancers were victims in some way. Trying to say "South was just jealous!" or trying to imply North, York, or Wash had some kind of superiority complex proves you didn't pay attention. The Director was the puppet master. He played with The Freelancers like toys.

North and York don't start to question who's really in the right until proof of The Director's corruption is right in front of them. The cops and the military shooting at them is NOT GOOD. If they were really doing good, that wouldn't happen. They hadn't questioned it before this because as CT says in the previous clip, The Director is intentionally using and manipulating The Freelancers and cherrypicking what they get to know.

He's pitting people against each other. That's why the leader board exists. It's a way to make people hate each other. To create artificial hierarchy within his agents so they start to blame each other. Its to create a sense of competition and shame among these people depending on what number they’re at. Its a manipulation tactic. This includes doing things like treating the higher ranked agents better than those below. The Director treats people like CT and South like shit intentionally. Yes he paints it as a punishment for things like South being reckless at the beginning of season 9 but it's deeper than that. He demotes her on the leaderboard and berrates her in front of her colleagues to embarrass her. He is praying on her inferiority complex to see how she’ll react. Its all part of the experiment.

Wash, North, and Yorks obliviousness doesn't come from "having a superiority complex" it comes from the fact they're only seeing what The Director wants them to see. From the surface level treating these "worse" Freelancers more harsh seems normal, it's standard military procedure. But The Director isn't just criticizing them for not being "the best". Hes intentionally punishing them and embarrassing them in front of their peers so they start to hate the others. He is creating artificial rivalries. Only the people being affected by it notice which is why South and CT are so "mean." THEY’RE IN A LOSING GAME. THEY KNOW THEY WERE FUCKED FROM THE START. THERES NOTHING THEY CAN DO.

The Director treats the higher ranked Freelancers like he treats Alpha. He intentionally keeps them in the dark from what's really going on. Alpha only knows what The Director wants him to know. That's the same with his highest performing agents. When Alpha splits, his fragments are blatantly mistreated but he doesn't know that because The Director won't let him know that. The lower level Freelancers are also blatantly mistreated but the top rankers don't know that because The Director won't let them know that.

When the Freelancers are going to retrieve Connie's armor Connie literally tells Carolina "The Director is playing you, don't you see?" She tells Carolina to her face The Director is manipulating the agents and Carolina still can’t see that for herself because she is still under The Director’s thumb.

In ANOTHER clip where Tex watches the video CT left her along with the files, CT says:

CT: “I never could shake the feeling that something was wrong with the program. The secrets, the lies, the manipulation. Smoke. All of it obscuring a big damn fire.”

Here is when CT finally uses the word manipulation itself to describe what The Director is doing to them. Her metaphor about smoke is her way of explaining how The Director would keep them all in the dark in order to keep them obedient, but also to get them to distrust each other. Part of the goal of Project Freelancer is psychological experimentation. The Director is using these people like lab rats not just for his AI obsession, but also to study how these soldiers will cope/react when he tries to turn them against each other.

They are ALL victims. Its not “South is a bitch wah wah” or “North thinks hes better than his sister” or “CT only left because she knew she wasn’t good enough to be a freelancer”. They were being abused. ALL of them. The Director is an evil, sociopathic man who only cares about his own self gain and research. He just wants Allison back. He sees no value in the lives of his agents. It’d be nice if more people would realize that instead of doing the exact same thing The Director did and trying to paint one freelancer as worse or better than the other.

TLDR: Fuck that sad poo lookin cocksucker.

[grifalinas]

Never forget that the majority, if not all, of the fragments of the Alpha exist because of how much Alpha cared

Never forget that the quickest way to get Alpha to fragment himself was to make him think that he’d failed to protect people

Never forget the absolute despair in Alpha’s voice when he saw Caboose get killed- despite how much he complained about him

Never forget how hopeful he was when he got sent back in time and thought that he would get to stop Flowers from dying

Never forget that the reason Church was so cranky and irritable all the time, the reason he said he didn’t need friends, the reason he kept people at a distance, is because he was made to believe that the people he cared about were getting hurt and killed because of him and that he did his damnedest to peel away all of the parts of himself that made him care about those people so that it would stop hurting, and in the end he still couldn’t help caring

[janknabobfdi-xxxnitrodarkxxx]

[slyvester101]

Donut remembers how Caboose was back in Blood Gulch, even if everyone else forgot.

He remembers when he's snark back to Church's and Tucker's digs, always surprising everyone with his clever comebacks. He remembers when nicknames were said with affection, when Private Biscuit was a light-hearted tease instead of a sign of forgetfulness. He remembers when it felt like the only person in the world who could understand him, who he felt like he could actually talk to without getting made fun of or bullied, was Caboose.

He remembers when Omega came and fucked up Caboose's head, remembers watching Caboose slowly loose himself as Omega tore through his head in a rage, unsatisfied with the mind he decided to inhabit. He remembers the first time Caboose looked at him and asked what his name was again, remembers feeling choked up at the idea of all the days they spent together, all the jokes they made, was wiped away.

He had smiled and given his name again, voice forced to stay steady as he reintroduces himself to his best friend.

Donut remembers never getting that relationship back, remembers Caboose slowly slipping further into his memory problems, injury after injury jostling his brain until there's barely anything left of Donut in Caboose's head. He remembers the sting of realizing that he was never getting Caboose back, that as close as he could get to him, it would never be the same as Blood Gulch. He remembers feeling guilty for missing a version of Caboose that will never come back.

He remembers missing him anyway, hiding the ache in his heart with a big smile whenever he stands next to the man he once knew like the back of his hand, that he could read with a single look, who knew him back just as confidentially.

He remembers it all, even when Caboose doesn't.

[maned-wolf-caboose]

Every time I see Caboose being infantilized, an angel loses their wings. THAT IS A GROWN MAN!!! He’s got heavy brain damage from multiple different sources over years, and he is childish, but he is not a child. And honestly, to me his childishness comes from heavy detachment from reality due to the brain damage.

People will also just ignore parts of his character to infantilize him, like the fact that he’s amazing with robots (repairing Freckles and making Church bodies) or has pretty good emotional maturity once he can accept what’s going on (the portal scene during Season 15 and Caboose’s Guide To Making Friends).

[veeranger]

shotgun is a stupid name. its like saying gungun. its a gun that shoots i sure fucking hope so bro

[veeranger]

fuck you for being funny about rvb on my post 

[awnrii]

collection of freelanceswap doodles because I’ve been missing it lately. do yall still remember them

[mylo-space]

every day i wake up and think about the implications of North telling Washington he was, "only out for a few days this time, after they removed it". because at first it's, like, Washington and Epsilon go nuts, Washington gets sedated, Epsilon comes out and Washington wakes up in recovery, right? right? because surely Washington going nuts in the medbay is cause enough for alarm, but then North says that and you realize: WRONG. the phrasing implies that Washington was conscious again at some point between the implantation--"I'd like to speak with him when he wakes up," says the Director--and waking up with the Dakotas. and then he was sedated again, possibly multiple times, for possibly days at a time. and when they finally decided to remove Epsilon, it resulted in one more bout of unconsciousness that lasted (only) a few days (THIS TIME). what happened to Washington and Epsilon wasn't a one off "My AI Lost Control of Itself" thing; they really tried to MAKE that pairing stick. and when it didn't, when Washington and Epsilon inevitably woke up and went nuts, they'd just put Washington under again. the doctors most likely took Epsilon out after the suicide attempt, and who knows how many times the Director and Counselor tried talking with Washington before they got to that point. North and South are probably only in the room with Washington because it's their turn on Wash Duty (Watch Duty, haha.. anyhow-), they probably had freelancers on rotation watching Washington because he and Epsilon were going ballistic every time he woke up, and doctors are trained for a lot but they aren't trained to deal with that shit. man, EVERY DAY i wake up and think about Agent Washington and Epsilon.