TF2 Headcanons

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headcanon: engie doesn't like to take off his goggles because he hates eye contact and they make him feel more secure

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headcanon: since redmond and blutarch are twins, they only ever hire twins to kill each other. thats why the mercs look the same across teams

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your mobile header never fails to make my day

its a really good image T-T heres the post its from so u can love it in hd

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Picture this..... Autistic soldier! Special interests: Explosives, raccoons! Favourite thing: Bucket! Favourite texture: Hat, it’s hard and makes clunk noises

love that!

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anyway here’s all the tf2 genderbend stuff i did sans the lengthy post talking about why i both hate and like the concept

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are you implying that scout would not absolutely LOVE getting hugged by engie... because i must disagree . hes probably so used to being the baby of his family and hugged at the drop of a hat that he gets super touch starved on the base and engie's hugs are like a memory of home......

you are highly correct and under no circumstances did i intend to imply he dislikes the dad hugs but that boy has TOOTHPICKS for arms just like his dad and hes got a BABY grip!

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thank you so much for autistic engineer rights 😭😭😭 he’s one of my biggest CCs ever and as an autistic person it means the WORLD to me to see other people hc him this way!! do u have any hcs relating to his autism to share? 👀👀👀👀

LICHRALLY we are an autistic rights household here 😌 these are just some bits off the top of my head that i think are epic,,,

definitely the type to get an idea in his head and not drop it till its done, has the most fun telling medic or heavy about his projects because they’ll understand what he’s talking about the most, but he can make conversation with spy and pyro’s nice to have someone who will just listen 

modifies almost everything he owns to have stim potential if it doesnt already,,, bouncier workchair, alternating surface textures on tools, wiggles harmlessly or vibrates and hums when he pokes things,,, everything he builds has to be able to withstand him wanting to touch all its important bits before anything else

sometimes this means the shit doesnt actually do anything and is just to look cool or make really good noise… helps him focus… also means he’ll sometimes start taking something apart that isnt his like the kitchen toaster

goggles and hat are cus he’s light sensitive 😎

he tries not to be super bothered by noise since its so hard to find a quiet moment on base, wears earplugs in the field sometimes but he cant stand them inside… tends to have him staying up real late just to get some moments to himself

definitely prefers really smooth mechanical textures to stim on over uneven ones, but theres somethin real special about kicking dirt and patting trees… hes texan so he never takes his shoes off outside in case theres ants

tends to get a little too technical in his terminology without realizing, so hes used to backing up and explaining or dropping it when someone starts looking confused… medic and spy are both trying to encourage him to keep going more often :)

gets pretty frustrated when he’s interrupted or someone touches his stuff,,, he has a very specific system and Its About The Piles. if something isnt where he left it he gets rather agitated cus usually he needs that shit on a timer

tends to give Very squeezing hugs, gets a little disappointed most people wont return them, but heavy demo and medic all very much do and he loves his team!!!

hums or whistles country songs a lot…

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Im constantly conflicted between the idea of ‘all the mercs are basically adults they have enough competence to cook for themselves’ and the idea of ‘scout once put a can of spaghetti-o’s on the stovetop, unopened, and nobody has ever found where the lid wedged itself after it blew apart’

scales of cooking capabilities chart

can cook the REAL shit: engie, spy 

can cook edibly: heavy, demo, sniper 

knows how to use a stove and nothing else: scout, soldier

absolute random tossup: medic and pyro

engie was raised southern farm scientist style and you cant be an epic scientist if you dont also know how to cook the good shit... got that warm home vibe and he always starts acting like a dad when its his turn to make food

spys spent the last fifteen years paying attention to cooking advice and knows what words mean because if he cant make soup with a roux the right fucking way then hes obviously a scrub. only wrench in the plan is nobody else on the team knows what the fuck roux means

heavys mom is scarcity cooking queen and he knows how to cook like that but not a whole lot more... sgood tho, easily tasty russian jewish shit he just isnt familiar with spices...

demo can fluctuate into real shit territory but only if he’s not piss drunk and he’s not trying to make the Extreme Scotland dishes. medics the one most willing to eat his haggis

sniper can make food but only really basic food or shit he killed himself. only one at this tier who knows how to properly take out bones

i absolutely agree scout explodes the can but he knows what to do once its out of the can... not a lot beyond that, hes got a handle on really easy breakfast food but hes never heard of oregano in his life and thinks somebody made it up as a joke

soldier can use a stove and that does not mean he should

medic knows how to make edible german and jewish style food but he cannot be allowed to improvise heavily or he starts wondering if he’s allowed to cook his leftover organs and if anybody will eat them... heavy eats them :)

pyro was asked to help sniper grill once and charred the food into dust. engie asked for help a different time and it was fantastic, and no one knows why

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These are some jumbled up things that I’ve said in discord but still my feelings about heavymedic :’’)

Heavy and Medic’s canon relationship has this fucking trust and closeness that barely anyone can get right and it makes me sad to see that it just kinda got lost in the comic

You've got this,, quiet Stoic man who's very much controlled by his own past and trauma and is just so afraid of it happening again, and he fights for his family and keeps to himself and he OF ALL PEOPLE befriends this bright and colourful man who lives in the moment and he makes him laugh so much and he's so unafraid when really he probably has just the same hurting as him deep down and it's just UGH POETRY

I can imagine them getting together. It just comes out of nowhere, all of a sudden the most fearsome giant guy on the team is actually chatting to someone, like actually TALKING to them, and its the strange doctor that everyone is Equally afraid of. They’re a power couple from the very start.

And Heavy can hardly believe it himself, but slowly he realises that Medic isn't this perfect ray of freedom and happiness, as much as he'd like to be, he gets nightmares and days where he's quiet and he has things he doesn't want to remember and they just develop this deep understanding with each other and they're there for each other  

But the creators went out of their way to have Heavy hold Medic at arm's length and have Medic not return the gesture at all. Its so jarring to see heavy have such a reaction to his death and such a lack of reaction to his return 

Not even a hand on his chest to feel his heartbeat or touch his face to feel the warmth return to it, he didn't even pinch himself to make sure he wasn't imagining Medic in place of someone else.

it’s just sad to see such a wasted opportunity for some closeness between two men in media

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Apparently at some stage Valve was pitched these amazing designs by Drew Wolf and considered adding female variations of the Team Fortress 2 characters. For some reason failed to recognize how awesome this would be.

A shame because many of these would have really elevated the standards of video games and perhaps inspired certain other titles to work harder.

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hi ive sitting outside for like an hour watching the sunrise here's the mercs at 5 am

scout: passed out from a sugar crash or it running if he was being responsible. he likes the birds more than the sunrise, but it's pretty and whatever

soldier: he IS the birds and everyone Will know that. hes a fan of the clouds when he notices, and the other birds, of course

pyro: the sun is like the first big fire, so the sunrise is probably even prettier to them than anyone else. they like it a lot, sometimes the other mercs walk by them

demo: he'll sometimes get on kicks where he messes up his sleep schedule and just sit outside drinking water if he's got a headache. birds are his least favorite part then, but he likes the gradual colour changing

heavy: eight hour sleep every night no exceptions. unless he's feeling anxious that is, and sometimes he calls his mama cus it's evening for her then, sits outside to ground himself in the dirt. morning dirt is best dirt

engineer: he's a stay up late night working kind of guy, rarely gets to see the sunrise, but he occasionally pulls total all nighters to see it. loves the horizon the most, but it never holds a candle to texan sunrise

medic: also a stay up late at night working type, and he's usually much more interested in doing something with the morning brightness, but he'll pause and glance out his window and so am appreciative little huff. it's just science bro,

sniper: absolutely awake, absolutely outside and weirdly far from base. he can't name what he likes best about sunrise because he likes all of it. except getting bugs up his nose

spy: awake sometimes and not others, very similar to demo like that, but when he does step outside for a morning smoke he tends to spend a lot longer than he means, just staring. loves all the gorgeous layers, the streaks, the colour on the clouds and the ground. hates that it gets all fuckin moist in temperate places tho, hes got good shoes to keep

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For the headcanons on depression, consider: Sniper always drives off and retreats into the bush to be with nature. He has a really bad habit of isolating himself. Meanwhile Medic gets super bad insomnia worrying, huge bags under his eyes, he tries all kinds of medications to sleep but still just tosses and turns. As for Scout, he can actually get lowkey kinda like... mean almost? He gets very braggy and easily offended, because he just feels so sensitive when hes sad

OH these are great

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I got something for how Engineer deals with depression: working way too much. Engie is an honest person, but he tends to bury himself in work when he has depressive feelings. Though, even that coping mechanism can be difficult to manage when his depressive episodes become just too much. That’s when he’d confide in mercs that he trusts most, like Pyro. It’s hard for him to open up though, as he wants to seem as stable as possible. But he’s getting there!

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Hey everybody! 

We’re gonna kick off Pride 2019 with a whole event dedicated to Trans Fortress! Inspired by @transfortress, we welcome everyone to draw their favorite TF2 trans headcanons and tag it with #trans fortress 2! Edits, fics, headcanons, and icons and such are always welcome, of course.

Happy pride 2019! Trans rights!

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Support classes as SSBU spirits 

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a bunch of stupid shit the mercs have probably been caught doing by Miss Pauling:

Heavy eating a stick of butter thinking it was cheese but not wanting to back out

Medic showering fully clothed with 20 pigeons 

Sniper, Heavy and Demo all falling asleep at the same time during a team briefing 

Spy climbing into a vent and then shouting in surprise when the air circulation turned on and alerting everyone to his position

Medic's birds getting into the pantry and eating Everything

Scout calling him mum and putting on voices pretending to be other people to tell her what a good job he'd been doing 

Engineer just saying a string of words and everyone else just nodding but not understanding any of it

Scout losing 20-0 to Pyro on pong

Spy going off on a tangent during a team brief and forgetting what he was talking about and just sitting down

Demo and Soldier getting caught throwing candies into each other's mouths at increasingly ridiculous distances

Sniper getting into an argument at 3am with his dad over the phone and waking everyone up because he forgot about timezones 

Heavy and Medic laughing too hard at 3am when they went to make hot cocoa in the kitchen 

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