As I look at the pictures of CBS twins,I notice that on pic where Gabe fingers are cut off and he doesn’t react surprised about it,he just says “oh?” Does Gabe got the ability to not feel pain at all?
Oh he sure does feel pain and the picture in question is on a more humorous side (somehow in the context of cut of fingers)
It is at the same time not that far of.
Both of them do have an stupidly high pain threshold and their own way of shutting said pain out in certain circumstances.
For example, Mike in a fit of rage may run the danger of breaking every solitary bone in his hands in the process of smashing someones skull in and not notice it for quite a while with the adrenaline pumping.
Gabe on the other hand, would be in a completely different headspace, in which he is almost detached from ‘himself’ and the pain of his own body. A form of questionable trance if you will. In case of the picture in question, in an TF2 combat situation, he very well might actually first realize that injury when he snapped out of it. Or no longer could grab his weapon of choice. Or eventually bleed out for that matter.
Blessed be the respawn. And at the same time, said respawn surely had a massive effect on this blatant lack of self preservation. They do and did act a little bit less careless when outside. IF… they would be allowed to, which they aren’t, so there’s that.