Alright team, here's a recap: This is a contest to determine who amongst you will take the top of the leaderboards and be hired at TFI! Simply put, whoever gets the most votes gets to move on, and whoever doesn't... Well. They'll be put down swiftly and cleanly. :}
So, mann your stations, because here are your next contestants! Vote for your favorite mercenary who you want to win the TF2 OC Contest! - P
WHO SHOULD TFI HIRE?
The Detectives
The Magician
Voting ended onNov 16, 2025
OC INFO UNDER THE CUT!
We highly encourage you to take a peek to make your decision!
The Detectives
@hawki-doodles
Image credit: @/hawki-doodles
MEET THE DETECTIVES!
The former spies from a bygone, much more classical era- right around the beginnings of the respawn machine. After some totally unrelated, absolutely humane experiments that played around with the concept of technological immortality, they unfortunately met their untimely ends allll the way back in the year 1935. However, TFI just can’t seem to keep these guys down! Following a malfunction in the respawn, the spies fell from their respective rooms and into the current year of 1970! Much to the Administrator’s (and their own) dismay. According to Administration, falling comatose for 35 years doesn’t nullify an unfulfilled contract! With no real homes to return to and the Spy positions already filled, the old timers were repurposed into more of a subclass known as the Detectives.
Their roles have shifted from disguising and deceiving to investigating and revealing. Spy keeps breaching through your defenses that you just can’t get your hands on? Using his magnifying glass- or in Vasya’s case, sparkly perfume bottle- the Detectives can mark their enemies and make them noticeable to even your most oblivious teammates. This may apply to a few things: Got an Engineer constantly shifting his builds around different corners? A pesky Pilot in the sky? They can mark those too, revealing their locations long enough for your team to either destroy or avoid. Their melee weapons, additionally, may not do too much damage but if they manage to get close enough to an enemy without getting their necks wrung they can stun larger foes to either give the offense time to roll in and handle it or give the Detectives just enough time to slip away to safety.
Meet the Unit! They couldn’t appear more different if they tried. Detective BLU, for instance, tries his best to be a very straight-laced, serious man by his own standard. He hides his name, face, and personal history with some kind of obsessive secrecy in an era where this information no longer matters. He holds his team to a moral that seems to only be found in his own head these days, judging his teammates on their ethics one moment just to turn around and start picking locks at his own base- but that is okay because he sees himself above these criminals, he must be. Surely. His distance and cynicism often makes him hard to approach, but he seems to prefer it this way. He’d rather observe than be involved anyway.
Detective RED, better known as Vasya, is everything that her BLU counterpart isn’t. Bright, theatrical, and completely unbothered by any rules that are pushed on her. She presents herself much more openly, thrives on attention, talks enough for the both of them, and carries herself with the grace of a con artist that’s never been caught (and doesn’t plan to be). Vasya is quite the skilled thief, snatching up whatever catches her eye- whether that be a sparkling valuable or something to merely pester BLU. Needless to say, the law is the least of her worries and she gets along quite well with her team! Perhaps someone could learn from her.
The Magician
@honeypuddiing
Image credit: @/honeypuddiing
The Magician is a flamboyant trickster who treats every battlefield like a stage and every fight like a performance. Derian inherited a love for spectacle; is childhood fascination with carnivals and his beloved aunt’s vibrant performances shaped him into a showman, but her death drove him toward darker paths. That obsession led him straight into the hands of Merasmus. Freed accidentally, Derian emerged equal parts charming performer and bitter escapee, ready to spin war into his grandest act yet.
[i.d.: @honeypuddiing and @hazardtoons's red magicians pulling out wet floor signs with a dramatic flourish, honeypuddiing's the magician from his magician cape and merpati from an undersized carpet bag. they both intend to use it as a weapon. /end i.d.]
[i.d.: @hazardtoons's blu magician awkwardly strikes a cute pose as offscreen extreme violence happens. she says: "...hi". /end i.d.]
we have not one, not two, but three (!!!) whole magicians in this years @tf2occontest! thats a lot of magicians! go check their polls out ^^
💬 0 🔁 10 ❤️ 11 · The Magicians! VS Ripley Aguirre "The Pilot" · (Full matchup list here)
Alright team, here's a recap: This is a contest
💬 0 🔁 6 ❤️ 6 · The Magician VS Venya Vasilievsky (YLW Soldier) · (Full matchup list here)
Alright team, here's a recap: This is a contest
Alright team, here's a recap: This is a contest to determine who amongst you will take the top of the leaderboards and be hired at TFI! Simply put, whoever gets the most votes gets to move on, and whoever doesn't... Well. They'll be put down swiftly and cleanly. :}
So, mann your stations, because here are your next contestants! Vote for your favorite mercenary who you want to win the TF2 OC Contest! - P
WHO SHOULD TFI HIRE?
The Magician
Venya Vasilievsky (YLW Soldier)
Voting ended onNov 7, 2025
OC INFO UNDER THE CUT!
We highly encourage you to take a peek to make your decision!
The Magician
@honeypuddiing
Image credit: @/honeypuddiing
The Magician is a flamboyant trickster who treats every battlefield like a stage and every fight like a performance. Derian inherited a love for spectacle; is childhood fascination with carnivals and his beloved aunt’s vibrant performances shaped him into a showman, but her death drove him toward darker paths. That obsession led him straight into the hands of Merasmus. Freed accidentally, Derian emerged equal parts charming performer and bitter escapee, ready to spin war into his grandest act yet.
Venya Vasilievsky (YLW Soldier)
@ylw-soldier
Image credit: @/mxcrowave
The YLW Soldier is a strange fellow. For one, he's not even American. For two, he won't shut up about astrophysics when prompted, so it might be wise not to mention stars or black holes or Pluto around him. For three, he looks the same as he did 20 years ago, which is more than a little bit suspicious.
Venya happens to be a rocket-jumping madman who dyes his hair every other week like a comic book character and hits his enemies upside the head with traffic signs. Yet, for some reason, he's managed to capture the hearts of many, and you may well be among them.
