LISTEN LISTENNNNN. THIS GUY WOULD HAVE CHOSEN A MORE ARTSY/PERFORMANCE TYPE CAREER IF HE HAD THE CHANCE. I'M SO SURE OF IT
The reason he didn't of course as we all know is that he was in Survival Mode for most of his life and once he started getting hired for spy jobs and assassinations he was in too deep to just stop and chase after his dreams. We all know this because it's true yes yes.
But anyways look at this idiot. This doofus
He treats backstabbing like a form of art I hate him I hate this guy. Not to mention this man LOVES to be SO dramatic. Look at his speech in Meet The Spy that gets him killed. Look at the unused one. Look at this bastard
NOT TO MENTION HIS VA MONOLOGUING IN SANDVICH SAGA. (Which is not canon to tf2 but FUCK YOU I DON'T CARE)
Speaking of Sandvich Saga:
Which brings me back to: Give this poor man a canvas and some paint or something. Do you think maybe he used one of his first paychecks to see like an opera or something, and while watching suddenly felt an ache and internally went "god I wish that were me. I want to do that." Do you think he spends his off time travelling to see his favorite stageplays and performances and wishing so bad to be on the stage one day. Do you think he dreams of getting private lessons to learn to do ballet. I think he'd genuinely love ballet. He's got the grace he's got that dramatic flair. Someone get him off this damn war and let him dance he needs to be free
Do you know how much I LOVE that comic? IT'S SO GOOD SO SO SO GOOD
We get to see a glimpse of Click's inner workings! How his mind operates!! His complicated relationship with himself and the other pinks and what it is to BE a pink!!!! Is he just like them? Are they all the same?? Is HE the horrible one??? Is he not horrible ENOUGH???? WHO KNOWS!!! And the 'I miss my department' like MANS DOESN'T WANNA BE THERE!!! HE DOESN'T WANNA THINK ABOUT IT!!!! HE HATES IT HERE CAUSE INTERACTING WITH THESE GUYS MAKES HIM THINK TOO MUCH💕💖💕💖
Like, what if they're all the same? Then Click isn't special and he's just another darkner abiding by the rules of his code.
What if the others laced the candy platter and he didn't? Then Click is too soft, they'll eat him alive out there! How is he going to survive!!
What if he's projecting and nobody else even thought of lacing the candy? Does that mean he's just a horrible person in general? Is it not just a pink thing and more a HIM thing?
And then the visuals, the zooming in into the one piece of candy among all the others in the candy platter as he does Thoughts™
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DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY I LOVE HIM DO YOU GET WHY I WANT TO INJECT HIM DIRECTLY INTO MY BLOODSTREAM THIS IS WHY HE'S MY FAVORITE ADDISON HIS WRITING IS IMMACULATE
I agree! That was my RP blog, please, tell me about Spy torture
:OOO YOOO hi there :3 So I. Usually don't talk about stuff like this here on my main blog, but yknow what I'm gonna do it anyway cause it's my blog and I do what I want. And I don't have people to ramble to on my nsfw. So uhh for anyone else reading tw for whump and torture talk I guess lol, putting it under the cut vvv
ANYWAYS SO LIKE I'M SOOOO NORMAL ABOUT SPY AND PUTTING HIM IN SITUATIONS RIGHT. He's my fave and I love pushing my faves to their limits!! He's LITERALLY a spy. He's the kind of guy that gets caught and interrogated extensively to reveal information. WHY aren't people tying him to a chair and pulling out teeth and fingernails and threatening to cut off his fingers or poke his eyes out or something??? Anything???? He's likely been trained to withstand torture, wouldn't it be great to explore that?? Wouldn't it be even better to get him to break??? I want him to end up CRYING I want him to SOB I want him to BEG. People love talking about Seeing That 50 Year Old Man Covered In Blood Crying and then they don't do anything about it... please... Please I want him to end up desperate I want him to reach his limit and to break his composure...
I have to learn to make really good art to up those Spy Torture numbers djsjjfksds
I saw you commented on my Spy Distress post, but I'll mention it again, taking away Spy's voice in various ways is sooo important to me. In my mind, that's what GETS to him. Losing his voice (whether it's in a rough, messy way like cutting off his tongue, or a cleaner, sterile and cold way like straight up putting him under and surgically removing his vocal chords) terrifies him to no end. That's his most important tool in his arsenal. That's very likely how he started his life of crime in the first place. Sweet-talking, lying, seducing, manipulating his way in and out of situations. His voice is everything to him. Take it away. Take it away from him and fuck him up :) And honestly the more I think about it, taking away any of his senses in a permanent/semi-permanent way will probably scare him too. He operates his best when he's using all his senses to be aware of EVERYTHING around him. Take some of them away, then!!! And this is stuff I like to imagine for when he's out on contracts and doing jobs outside of Teufort, but like...
I'm surprised people don't use the mercs' perks and abilities more to fuck up the spies? Imagine catching him and having Pyro on standby to set parts of him on fire for each question he doesn't answer. Imagine just how EASILY Heavy can break EVERY single bone in his body. Engineer has a god complex and is quite the sadistic fellow (I mean. They're all sadistic. But shh) And I've seen in ONE art and ONE fic the use of a sentry for torture purposes. Tie that guy up against a sentry and threaten to kill him on like a ceasefire day or something!!! Maybe the barrels are hot after firing for so long and if you position him right you can sear his skin when it comes in contact with the metal!!! We don't have to talk about Medic because there's already some Medic doing fucked up stuff to Spy, but I do like to highlight the medical whump anyway. And the act of sawing his head off his body without putting him under anything beforehand. That's cool. There's just so much potential!!! So much!!! Spy is based on those James Bond type of movies and series, and we don't have any works putting him in weird contraptions and machines?? It's just such a shame!!
This got WAY longer than I initially thought it would be djskkds oops. But like yeah I like Spy Getting Hurt a normal amount. And it's kind of annoying to me personally that Scout, gets 90% of the torture while my beautiful old man wife that is a LITERAL SPY barely gets anything... can we stick a bunch of arrows in HIS stomach for once? Can we grab HIM by the chin hard enough to bruise it? Can we tie HIM up and make him cry? It's already out of character for Scout to break that fast (in my opinion) so people can't use that excuse on him, just. Just TORTUTE THE SPYYYY PLEASEEEEE
Addi oc lore!!! For the only proper addi oc I have!!! She's a purple addi and her name is Mobi L. Addison (ahaha so creative I know-)
Putting a cut here cause this is. Long
As her name suggests, she does mobile game advertising! The really obnoxious and weird and annoying kind <3 Very energetic, playful and excitable before the Incident :)
Okok so. Lore. Mobi was part of a small department of 3 ads. Her, a pink and an orange. They did smaller scale campaigns and stuff like banners in less populated websites and such. One day their orange addi got a sweet deal from a big company that would have him work at a different part of town. It was a lot of cash, and the other two encouraged him to take it. With a bit of hesitation he did, and they had a celebration and everything. Big promotion day!!!
Their orange left, and for a while he'd send texts, emails, and his sum of money to take care of bills and pay off the house and such. Then... texts became scarce, he became busier, and the money trickled to a stop. He didn't come back for the vacation they had planned months in advance. He just. Left them. What a dick >:/
Realizing this, Mo and Locke (the pink, also nicknamed Lucky), both upset but not having a lot of time to process the abandonment, had to take extra work from wherever they could to keep the house, pay bills, and keep their sales up. It was very stressful, but they were able to stay afloat for a good while. They were able to keep positive about things and even grew closer together as friends! Locke was. Clearly interested in being more than friends, but Mo was very oblivious of her advances and only saw her as a friend (she didn't know until waaaaay later, but she's aroace). And things were good! Until the INCIDENT MWAHAHAHA
So one day, Mobi did her usual morning routine, said goodbye to Locke as they went their separate ways to work until sundown, and then when she came back, Lucky wasn't home yet. Which is weird!!! Because she comes home hours before Mo!!!! Mobi sends a few texts, no dice. She makes a few phone calls, straight to voice mail. Oh no.
Like how all missing persons' cases go, eventually there's a police search, posters go up, several restless nights... After long hours of waiting for something, anything, the only thing that is found is Lucky's car parked in the grass somewhere way out of the outskirts of the city. It seemed like she was planning to return to it, because she'd left it running, and they found it out of battery. That's all they know about her, and that's all Mobi will ever know about what happened to her. (Maybe. I might let her know in the future I'm not sure.)
But you get to know!!! Heck yeah!!!! So!!!
Lucky was trying her best to help Mo out and lighten the load a little, y'know? So she may or may not. Gotten into some. Reeeeally shady business. But!! It paid well!! It totally wasn't running errands and occasionally clesning up the dirty work of a company that may or may not maybe perhaps mayhaps. Abduct people to use as snuff film props. Ahaha. Noooo. Definitely not that. Uhm. Well anyways you can guess how that ended up for her. Once she made one too many mistakes and wasn't as useful as before, well!!
At least there's a tape with evidence of her on-camera death somewhere out there. Maybe that's how Mo finds out, actually!
Anyways. So obviously Locke's disappearance leaves Mobi incredibly devastated. She barely has any time to grieve though, first she has to move out of home into a smaller apartment, she can't pay everything off by herself now. For a while, she doesn't work, sales get low, and she just. Doesn't know how to cope with this at ALL.
So!! How DO you cope with this AND work to pay rent and keep yourself alive?? Simple! Work yourself to death!!!
Mobi very healthily decides she's going to keep her mind off things by working herself until her circuits fry off. Very normal. So she goes to this big video advertising megacorp, takes as many jobs and errands as possible, and works as much as she can until she passes out from exhaustion. She becomes a veey reliable asset to the company, at least...?
Her only sustenance is coffee, energy drinks, anything that can keep her awake for as long as possible. She doesn't take sick days, she doesn't take vacation days, only works. And she enjoys it, in a way! After a month or two of initial struggles, she finds her rhythm and doesn't stop. Eventually, she forgets Locke. But she doesn't stop working! And she stays like that. For like ten years. Super exhausting, she's NOTHING like the fun, excitable addi shw used to be. She got to work for a big shot for a little while at least! If you get to see one of his old commercials, you might see her as a background actor in a few! Nowadays she mostly does video advert work, graphic design, banners, all that good stuff everyone absolutely hates. (Fun fact she loves targeting Berdly, her ads annoy him so much)
So this cycle happens for ages until there's a new addition to the company that changes everything for her. See, Mobi doesn't have friends. She doesn't have time for friends! She just works!! And then this GOOF of a yellow ad joins and brightens up the place so much, that she can't help but look their way and smile. Videon the silly goof. The plinko. (Listen I was so deep into Bright's addi lore here, I couldn't help myself-) Fun fact I chose Vid specifically for this because canonically they take a job where they aren't as home as often after the whole Spamton disappearing thing. So yeah
Mobi likes this ad, they're loud and playful and love hanging out and goofing off on stage, off stage, mischievous little shit. And it... snaps Mo out of her routine little by little. She starts interacting with them, saying hi when they come in, laughing at their stupid jokes, thinking 'wait that'd be so funny' when they suggest they do something clearly dumb. Why do you want to dump all those pounds of glitter on the actors for this commercial. No, get away from the glitter, gET AWAY-
So Mo warms up to them, and she starts conversations with them!! They start out casual until Vid makes one of those suggestions, and Mo can't catch herself when she gets excited and adds onto it. And oh god suddenly they are friends. Oh god oh no. We are so doomed guys. The more she hangs out with Vid, the more that playfulness and energy returns to her. She starts dropping a few of her dozens of jobs to take WEEKENDS off. Dear god her co-workers look at each other like she grew a second head. But she loves it. She loves hanging out with this new friend, talking to them, doing dumb stuff like pour a bottle of bubble bath into a fountain and running away from a disaster that ends up on the newspaper the next day (they never got caught). She likes inviting them home! Crashing at their place and meeting their department! Accidentally thrashing the place with them! (They did get caught and had to do all house chores for the next month. Still worth it.)
Finally, they get to that level of friendship where you can open up to one another about Life and Philosophy and Problems and Stuff. So they do, and Mo remembers that 'oh yeah. I never really grieved my friend's disappearance. I'm gonna cry for an hour now.' And she does, and Vid does too, they bond over their lost friends, talk about them, reminisce about their happy memories turned sour. Vid gets to talk about Spamton without any BLUE GUMBALL BITCH BOYS SHUNNING THEM ABOUT IT ahem huh what what was that. Uh. And Mobi gets to remember her fun times with Lucky, and share how much she hates that orange addi that I never bothered to name! This is when she learns she's aroace also. And Vid informs her Lucky obviously had a huge crush on her. Oh! Welp! Something new to process, hopefully properly this time.
Okay this is getting real long. I don't have much after this, except for the idea that Vid could offer helping to find anything they can about Lucky, any info at all, just to try and help her get some closure. She offers the same for them and Spamton's missing case. They wouldn't find anything Spam related, but they would find a lead for Lucky. And it leads them to perhaps a dangerous ARG-type rabbit-hole where they find documents of Lucky's involvement with the snuff film company, a copy of the tape of the film involving her death, and maybe even enough evidence for the authorities to launch a big investigation that saves dozens of missing ads and bringd closure to hundreds more. I like that, I think I'll make it canon. Like a buddy-cop thriller type thing or something idk.
Ok wow that was a lot. That's all I have/remember of the Mobi lore!!! Thanks for reading all this way if you did!! Woah!!!! I'm starving I'm gonna go eat BYEEEE
OH AND I SHOULD ADD HER REF SHEET TOO LEMME JUST
There we go!
( @emiplayzmc @yanderespamton78 and why not, @turntableart @solalunar-eclipse I told you guys about this but I don't remember how much so uhhh ye :3)
Ok so Candied Circuits amirite (banger title also I am very proud of it)
(I was talking to emi about it thru tags and I felt like rambling a little about it :3)
So it would have been very much a Scrollon-centric fic, though I've thought of a few iterations that added a character or two for some extra Thought Experimenting. I had two more or less concrete iterations in mind: Either one, a smaller one-shot based completely on the hemoglobin post scene, or two, a 2-3 chapter long fic involving Cinna's story in Scrollon's POV, somewhat.
Short summary on each!
Idea one: Scroll goes out at night to catch an unsuspecting addison, drags them back to his bakery, scraps them, preps and eats them. Pretty self-explanatory, haha.
The idea here though would be that you get to hear him think, plan methodically, ramble about his addi biology knowledge and see him cook! There would have been a recipe section with a list of ingredients, and the reader would be able to follow the whole baking process! The descriptions would be really appealing :)
And when it came to finally eating his bake, the reader would also be able to catch that glimpse of feeling he's been wanting to experience this entire time. Just this super short sense of... euphoria? This THING he keeps trying to reach and can almost grasp but it disappears JUST as he thinks he's finally getting it. Oh well, there's always next time.
This fic would be very descriptive :>
Pros and cons of this idea:
Pros: Someone gets fully scrapped, death cool. Cutesy baking scene with an eerie atmosphere.
Cons: Kinda short? No Cinna :(
Idea two: This one is admittedly a bit more vague for me, but it would follow Scrollon's thoughts during Cinna's disappearance right after he thought he killed her. And some other branching-out thoughts of consecuences if his actions are brought to light, what his next move should be, etc etc. I'm a firm believer that Scrollon planned to kill two birds with one stone by killing Cinna, to both have another addison in his stash for later and also to try throw off suspicion over his department in a 'oh dear! our darling cinna has gone missing too! who could be doing this, I hope everyone gets found soon!' Kind of way, yknow? And it would be really interesting to just have him think while he idly bakes about what he should do now and how to keep things in control.
So anyways Cinna escapes, many thoughts occur, something something about keeping her missing arm as a reminder that she's out there. But then Scrollon finds out Cinna is BACK and she's ALSO eating people and she has a CREW, and so he's kind of irritated, more thoughts, tasteless simulacrum reference.
Things get more vauge as I go, but the idea is that at the end, he finds out that Cinna is out to get him, and that... makes him uneasy.
Pros: Okay so I'm gonna go on a little side-tangent here. So you know that one buks art of Scroll and Everette cuddling and Scroll wonders "Am I prey..." "No..." "I'm poison :3" (which. Btw. Super cool way to see how he interprets love. Or whatever closest he feels to love.) I love that. Because it's a little glimpse of how he sees things, and I think it applies well to the 'takes metaphors literally' thing. Well there would have been more of that in this iteration of the fic, and would have had heavier predator vs. prey theming. At the beginning there would be some stuff along the lines of "Scrollon is predator, Cinnemon is prey." And it would turn around on him in the end with something along the lines of "Cinna has a pack. Cinna hunts. Cinnemon is *predator.*" and a pause, "Scrollon is prey." And you'd just get a little dread... at the very least you'd get the sense that Scrollon has to be very cautious, and careful about what he should do next.
Side-tangent over, this whole thing is the pro. OH and Cinna. Cinna is always a pro.
Cons: Still vague imo? No real scrapping scene... no fun baking a Man scene... :(
Both ideas had stuff I wanted to incorporate, so looking back at both, I think I'd combine them, honestly. It would be something like Cinna disappears -> Scrollon kills, bakes and eats a man -> Scroll finds out about the Rainbow Café (I REMEMBERED THE NAME WOOO) and ofc in between all of that, we'd get all that juicy character exploration mainly on Scrollon :)
I hope none of that was confusing and made Complete Sense my brain is now Air
Anyways if I remember something else about this I'll rb with the additional info, but I think that's it! I wish I got to develop this a little more before the motivation went away, but ey, what can ya do!
(@emiplayzmc @jevajoy tagging ya both cause you two really like the scrollman and I thought you might like this/get something out of it, as small/vauge as it is :3)
