We aren’t entirely sure if Pyro is human, or a reanimated blob of flesh gifted to the world by Merasmus
Either way, Pyro is the highlight of the team
Sweet, bubbly, and deeply unnerving- they’ve got it all!
Pyro NEVER takes off the suit. Ever. At night, they put a onesie on over the suit and curl up in a nest of spit and dog hair
They don’t have a dog tho…
Pyro (if human) is autistic and makorly nonverbal. They have always been dismissed for lack of vocal communication and so wearing their mask makes the silence much easier
When they mumble, it isn’t actual words, just stims and sounds of excitement
PYRO CAN READ MINDS. ALL OF THEM.
There is an idea that nonverbal autistic folk have telepathy. I’m being deadass right now and heavily recommend looking into the topic. Shit is crazy
Pyro is telepathic and seems to know everything about everyone. The only times they are blind-sighted is when in a large group, the buzzing of thoughts gets too loud to decipher
They love Engineer because he is A. Kind and B. Thinks the absolute most heinous shit
Engineer is fucking crazy and Pyro loves it omg he is obsessed. Not romantic but like a bug in a jar and Pyro feels spiritually connected to the bug
It makes them sad that the others fear them :(
Pyro vision (in a serious interpretation) is a dissociative world combined with crushing mental illness
Pyro vision (in a silly sense) is lala land from a shroom trip that never ends. Take your pick on which is canon!
Also Pyro can talk to animals and send them telepathic signals to clear out pre fire
You’ll never see this bitch with a messy room, he deep cleans it every night just before showering. 100% uses bed mist and yankee candles. Sleeps in button up pajamas with matching pants. He has those silk sheets that he’s always used and cleans them every week. No MEALS will enter his room. He’d bring in things like cookies with coffee or a croissant with tea but nothing huge. His room smells heavenly compared to everyone else’s.
Sniper
It smells like smoke but there’s no fire, why. He definitely tries to keep a clean space but he’s always busy. He’ll do this thing where it gets really messy, like really messy and then he suddenly deep cleans it. Hasn’t washed his bedsheets in years tho. Dirty coffee cups are everywhere, the counter the bed the glovebox. He kinda just lives in his own little world, he would like to keep it clean if he had the time but again he’s a busy man.
Scout
Where do I even start. He has the most teenage boy bedroom ever-it’s like this bitch never grew out of his messy room phase. Crushed cans of Bonk everywhere, beanbag chair, posters of playboy models all over the wall, action figures, and a pile of dirty laundry just chilling in the corner. Does clean his room but it’s gonna take a LOT for him to be willing to do that. It smells like axe body spray and sweat.
Pyro
My little princess 💕 has the most Girlypop child bedroom ever. Literally never gets messy, the messiest you’ll find it is a pile of my little pony figurines on the floor. Even then they still clean it up, a princess cleans after themself. The only merc that has ever seen their room was scout, immediately shut the door when he saw pyro have a tea party with their plushies. Has never invited anyone over to his room but if they wanted to join in on a tea party they’d be so happy.
Medic
He doesn’t have a bedroom, all he has is his desk. Yeah he almost never sleeps but when he does it’s on his desk, probably the most comfortable thing he’s laid on in years. Like sniper, he tries to keep his area clean but is a busy guy. The most he’s ever decorated his desk is using his favorite mug that says ‘world’s best surgeon’ as a pencil cup. Which he bought himself.
Honestly, my main headcanon that Blu Pyro is actually insane, maybe not like Medic, but you get my point(probably). Maybe Blu is also colorblind? That would explain if he'd actually kill his teammates.
I think that they both do have provision, but Red only sees rainbows and hearts while Blu occasionally sees the gore of the battle, and doesn't seem to mind.
Outside of the battle they're both creative with what they do, as people say 'silly'. But actually they have an illness. Most likely - schizophrenia. I can see them both seeing Spies occasionally, or just weird stuff, well, cute to them, but when they tell their engineer about that he goes like 'welp, alright kid.'
About their gender? I don't know. Most likely male, their mumbles is more on a 'low' voice side(though anyone can make hudah mmh sounds). Like if we'll compare Classic Pyro and Blu/Red Pyro, we can see that Classic is a woman and it was told that Classic was the only ever woman hired, so that makes us think about our Pyro. But I'll still use they/them for them.
(Also please, if you'll ever draw fem!Pyro make 'em chubby, not skinny as hell like some do.)
Back to other headcanons. They're both very creative as i said and love their team! Though Blu creeps their team more because they sent their team to respawn quite a bit times (especially Spy).
I'd bet Pyro is one of, if not the most loyal in the team, while you can't exactly rely on them since their provision, they'll still try their best to listen to you and help, even if you won't understand them.
I feel like they do burn stuff, but by accident, and then get sad by it, especially if it's a present from someone. A curious mind can lead to homicide(real).
Hey here’s some Pyro headcanons that nobody asked for!!
Under a cut because 1. It’s long and 2. It contains triggering topics (CA/CSA/Medical abuse/etc) Anyway PYRO HEADCANONS FUCK YEAH:
-His real name is Javier
-He was born to Mexican parents somewhere in the Southwest United States, maybe Arizona
-His folks were very neglectful of him and horribly abusive to eachother and he regularly saw them beat the shite out of eachother/throw things/scream at eachother, and the only attention he ever got was of the same like
-He was 3-4 when his folks died, his dad shot his mum right in front of Javi and then shot himself and left Javi there in the aftermath of it
-He was alone in the house with his dead parents for days before anyone found him, then finally got stuck in an orphanage
-The orphanage was worse than home, it was run by a guy named Mr. Oskar who was physically and sexually abusive to Javi and the other children
-He first started showing pyromaniacal tendencies around this time
-He set the orphanage on fire when he was 6 years old as a means of escaping the abuse; Mr. Oskar “didn’t make it out” (with Javi’s help, but nobody knew/suspected this), and Javi got sent to another orphanage where he was also treated cruelly but at least he escaped Mr. Oskar
-Lived at the orphanage until about age 11 when he was taken into foster care; never had been adopted or fostered before that due to “behavioural problems”
-The foster family was the first people who had ever been nice to him and he totally didn’t know how to react; he nearly got sent back for coming on to the dad (he didn’t know anything else, and being raised by Mr. Oskar he thought this was expected of him); the dad was more understanding than the mum and let him stay, BUT
-Their bio kid was super jealous and mean to Javi, so Javi stole his chemistry set one day while the family were out (they didn’t take him on outings because they thought he was “too unstable” and their kid always whined about how “embarrassing” Javi was) and he accidentally set the house on fire with it
-This time really was an accident, and gave Javi his first bad scars, mostly on his hands but also on his face, and partially blinded him in his left eye
-He was in hospital for a while, then the family sent him back to the orphanage without even saying goodbye and it totally shattered his trust
- He ran away from the orphanage as soon as he got out of hospital, and he was big enough and looked older enough to pass as an adult (and his scars freaked people out enough) so people didn’t bother him’
-He lived on the streets for months before falling in with a group of hobos who lived in an abandoned subway tunnel, where he met a girl named Tandy
-Tandy was only a little older than him but a lot more mature, and the first person who genuinely showed him kindness and accepted him. He adored her
-He lost his “girl virginity” to her at age 15; this was also the first sexual experience he’d had where the other person didn’t hurt him.
-He stayed in the tunnels until age 18, where he got rounded up by chance by the cops and stuck in a state institution. (He also never got to say goodbye to Tandy or his other friends, and that fact haunts him to this day)
-These were very bad years; the place was filthy, and, like the orphanage, they could do whatever they wanted to the patients, and did. Javi was subjected to ECT here which left huge gaps in his memory and exacerbated his behavioural problems
-They particular enjoyed blasting him with a fire hose or holding him down in ice water, and of course just beating him senseless
-This went on for literal years before he found a way to escape, again by fire: he managed to get as hold of a Zippo (one of the orderlies dropped it while beating on him) and he set the curtains in the day room on fire
-Unfortunately he didn’t think his escape route through and got caught in the fire, which spread extremely quickly, and left him and many other people trapped due to the barred windows
-He got badly burned this time, particularly on his right shoulder where a burning beam fell on him; he barely escaped that, and only did because he’d put on bulk by then (and sheer determination)
-He managed to get outside and climbed the fence (sustaining lots of cuts from the wire on the way), and escaped into the woods before finally collapsing from his wounds
-Medic found him by chance on the side of the road, naked and badly burned and sick from smoke inhalation
-Medic took him in and nursed him back to health, which took many long months and required a lot of Heavy’s help because Pyro was either unconscious and very difficult to move, or conscious and terrified and thus reacted violently whenever approached or touched
-Over time he grew to trust Medic and Heavy though, and Medic reaallly had a soft spot for him and treated him very gently (Medic voice: “That doesn’t leave this room!”); they were the first adults that were ever kind to him, and Pyro grew to idolize them
-He was still very childlike in his thinking and mannerisms (then even moreso than now) and he basically adopted Heavy and Medic as his dads; and they treated him like their kid
-He needed a LOT of rehabilitation, he basically knew no boundaries about sex/anger/anything but they were very patient with him
-He tried to run away a couple of times when he got in trouble with them because he thought they’d send him back to the institution, but Heavy always found him and brought him back (carrying him under his arm like a flour sack)
-He eventually grew to trust them and believe them when they promised they would never send him back there, that this was his home, and he absolutely adored them and started calling them “Papa” and “Vati”
-They were this weird little family for several years before any of them joined on with Mann Co
-In fact Heavy and Medic were the ones that convinced Mann Co to hire Pyro, since they thought he was too unstable (yes, even Saxton Hale) but finally conceded he did have a unique skill set and they liked that he obviously had no qualms about setting people on fire, lol
-Heavy and Medic also liked that it gave him an outlet for his pyromania (since they were forever having to snatch matches out of his hand in the house, even though they tried to give him an outlet like burning leaves or building the fire in the fireplace)
-He quickly became friends with Scout, much to Medic’s chagrin (he calls Scout “That detestable boy”)
-He sees Scout as his “cool older brother” (even though Scout is younger than him, lol) and his attitude towards pretty much anything Scout suggests is “You son of a bitch, I’m in”
-He also became very close to Engineer, and they’re basically husbands now
-Engie is the only person besides Heavy and Medic (and Tandy) that he ever told about the sexual abuse; when he told him Engineer called him “darlin’” for the first time and Javi burst into tears and Engie held him while he cried
-Engie still calls him “Javi”, which drives Medic crazy (but Pyro loves); Medic calls him “Javier”, and Heavy calls him “Little Pyro”
-They’ve all seen him plenty of times without the mask and even without clothes (in the shower obviously, but he’s also very free with nudity because a lot of boundaries he still doesn’t understand) and they’re used to his scars and his voice, which is weirdly-pitched and hoarse and scratchy due to scarring from inhalation burns
-He’s the closest with Engineer, Medic, Heavy, and Scout, but he’s friends with all of them and pretty much everybody there fucks everyone else, lol
I really like the headcanon where Pyro is a freckled ginger with burn scars n stuff. It's like... Super fricken cute and it fits him.
I also kind of have a headcanon of my own... It's a seceret though :3
But I'll give you a headcanon for something other than appearance!!
The mercs don't really know much about Pyro, the only ones who really know anything are Medic and Engie. I see Engie as a father-figure to him. He designed and built Pyro's mask not only for gas and fire protection, but also to help him see because he is blind (he burned his eyes in an accident). I think he is also autistic, because he has a whole entire world in his head that differs from reality. Plus he is non-verbal, so that makes sense (Though I do like to think he knows sign language). Since Pyro is usually wearing his suit, it dulls any sensations from physical contact, so on the rare occasions when he's not wearing his suit, the only physical contact he gets would be from Medic during physical exams. Nothing weird, just normal routine exams.
So, I have this little story idea that comes to mind. I've forgotten how to add a "read more" section, so... Send me asks if you want to hear it! It's Pyro x Scout~
He is, he won’t mean to hurt you, but he’ll be moody and playing with his lighter when you two get into it and next thing you both know is that you're on the floor, your forearm burned, and him standing above you guiltily.
Who is emotionally stronger?
He is, ever since he was a young child he’s been tought to hide how he feels because what he feels doesn’t matter.
Who is physically stronger?
It depends, sometimes he is, like he can win at wrestling and stuff but you’re the one who has to open the water bottles and peanut butter jars.
Who is more likely to break a bone?
He is, not like a leg or anything, but like his hand (because he won’t stop fighting people).
Who knows best what to say to upset the other?
You do, while John is much more closed off and rouged you’re more open and gentle when it comes emotional situations.
Who is most likely to apologise first after an argument?
You are, John’s stubborn, he’ll know he’s wrong immediately but he won’t apologise
Who treats who’s wounds more often?
You do (because John won’t stop fighting people).
Who is in constant need of comfort?
He won’t admit it but he is.
Who gets more jealous?
He does.
Who’s most likely to walk out on the other?
He will, he constantly believes that he doesn't deserve you and will try to leave in a Remus Lupin-esque fashion.
Who will propose?
You do, he’s trying to leave and you kind of just blurt out “Marry me.”
Who has the most difficult parents?
He does. While neither of you two talk to your parents his past still has a stronger hold on him then your past has on you.
Who initiates hand-holding when they’re out in public?
You do (because otherwise his hand ends up in your back pocket).
Who comes up for the other all the time?
John does (because he liked cuddling).
Who hogs the blankets?
You do, John doesn’t need them because due to his mutation he’s always warm.
Who is better at cheering the other up?
John. While you’re better with words John knows just what to to make you smile.
Who’s the one that playfully slaps the other all the time after they make silly jokes?
You are (because John tells the worst fucking jokes ever).
Who is more streetwise?
John is.
Who’s the shyest?
You are.
Who boasts about the other more?
John does. He’s in love with you and wants everyone to know how amazing you.