ofuck this account is still active uhhh uhhhhh uhhhh thanks for the posts *runs
I'm glad you like them!! A lot of those posts are from when I was a kid just getting into TF2- looking at them again is reminding me of fun times. I'm actually just getting back into TF2 now, and it's so awesome that you're enjoying those posts! Happy blogging!!
PLEASE. gimme your scout thoughts NAOOOWW GIMME GIMME GIMMEE
THIS IS THE BEST ASK ANYONE HAS EVER SENT ME. Buckle up cause I have a LOT of Scout thoughts. Some of these are supported by canon and some of them are just random ass headcanons but fuck it we ball. Under a read more cause it is gonna get long.
The more he brags about something, the more insecure he is about it. To me he reads as deeply in need of validation and when he's out here flexing and talking about how hot he is it's largely in hopes that someone will agree for once.
That said I don't think the ego is entirely an act. He does think he's hot shit. He just ALSO really really really needs to hear someone else say it cause he's starved for affection.
Not to be a scoutpauling enjoyer on main but I think he calls her all the time for no reason. Calls her to tell her a joke he thought of or to brag about whatever he's just done or to awkwardly ask how she's doing and then say "yeah, me too" no matter how she responds. And she's usually too busy to really engage him but she wouldn't pick up if she didn't want him calling. And she does usually pick up.
Middle school dropout. I do buy into him being dyslexic but I also think he just isn't very educated. It was more important to get a damn job. His family is huge, his mom is single, and I am no longer certain whether I'm joking when I say Spy didn't pay child support.
I think he calls Medic 'Ma' sometimes and it started 100% as a joke, like when teenagers call their teacher 'Mom' on purpose, but now it's just Something He Does.
Sometimes I see people write him and Soldier as not getting along and I totally get where that's coming from but it's not my truth. To me they are best friends who chase each other around the base with BB guns and make campfire food and root beer floats together and get too hyped for the 4th of July (Soldier likes the America of it all, Scout likes the candy and fireworks, they both like American marching band music) and like. They have fun together. They egg each other on.
Blinks in photos. Every. Single. Time.
He claims he’s good at cleaning but he is not. If you ask him to wash dishes he will rinse them, if you ask him to sweep or mop he will not do anymore than makes the place Look clean at surface level, etc etc. He’s the same way with cleaning himself. He counts rain as a shower and swimming pools as baths.
The exception to that rule is his ma and Miss Pauling, he cleans up pretty nice for them. They're also the only people he'll wear a suit for.
If he knew Spy was his dad he would be mad about it. He would not call him Dad. He would probably try to use it for comedy but not because he actually thinks it's funny, just cause he uses humor to cope. And uhhh he would go from "that guy's a prick" to "that guy ruined my life and I am never speaking to him again." sorry for not thinking he would forgive and forget right away but he deserves to be angry at least at first.
Speaking of. I think the scoutpauling and spydad dynamic is so funny. Imagine you're the spy and you abandoned your son as a toddler and then not only does said son end up back in your life as your obnoxious ass coworker but he's dating your boss. And he complains to your boss about how hard his life was growing up fatherless. And your boss knows you're the deadbeat dad her boyfriend got fucked over by. I would be SWEATING.
This man LOVES comic books but he skips over big chunks of text and words that take too long to sound out. When that happens he just infers from the pictures what’s going on. Secretly he really wants someone to read his comic books aloud to him and do silly voices and help him get better at spelling/phonics but he would NEVER ask. He’s not a little kid anymore, he doesn’t need to be treated like one.
I think sometimes he flat out refuses to take his shirt off for anything and when this happens it is always because he’s been bleeding so heavily from his chest, back, or side that his shirt dried into the scab and now it would hurt like hell if he tore it off. However this is also the only time that anyone actually encourages him to take his shirt off because nobody cares about his abs and shoulders but they do care a little about making sure he doesn’t get super infected and die.
Swears he isn’t scared of escalators but that’s a lie, he thinks he’s gonna trip and get shredded.
Not licensed to drive but knows how. His driving is insane off roads, people die if they get in a car with him off roads, but when he's on a road he actually drives very well cause he knows he can't afford to get pulled over. A cop sees him speeding and suddenly he's being taken in for countless charges of murder and possession of illegal firearms and who knows what else.
And of course, he hates the Mets and the Yankees <3
bro were literally the only zhannascout enjoyers in the whole world thats crazyyyyy
tf2 shipper ppl need to get on it!!!!!!!!
YES they are literally the most "never shuts up" and "i have no idea what he's saying but i love him anyway (:" couple.She picks him off the ground and gives him a shake saying look at this amusing little man i found isn't he great
(in response to your tags in response to my tags LOL) youre so big brained i love ur spydad thoughts. i love it when fictional characters are just the absolute worst to each other and play mind games instead of talking about whats bothering them... ITS... YUM :3
i really wish i had some extra headcanons pertaining to spydad to give as well but my brain is only drawing up blanks for this :((
NO YOU GET IT. I also love when fictional characters are awful and bad at communicating. And I especially love parent/child relationships in media so I think about Scout and Spy more than I should.
As far as extra headcanons, you may not have any but I have something. I think Scout does a bit with most of the mercs where they’ll be a tiny bit nice or helpful and he’ll respond with “wow I love you so much. My life would be so great if you were my dad.” And he does this in part because it’s funny when he says that shit to his friend/coworker and they have no idea how to react but also in part because it makes Spy SO uncomfortable and he thinks that’s funny. Neither one of them is gonna blatantly break the unspoken contract of Not Admitting They Know so he can push it a little and make Spy suffer on purpose.
Also if I may project a little. I think Scout is like me on that English isn’t his first language but it’s the only one he speaks. He was fluent in French as a toddler, Spy spoke to him mostly in French before leaving (and based on the flashback he has in the comics it was a weird situation where he didn’t leave until Scout was a few years old) but then once he left there was no one around to speak French to Scout and he lost it all. So now he kinda vaguely understands more French than he should but he doesn’t remember most of what he once knew and his accent sucks if he tries to speak. Luckily he thinks French is a stupid ass language and would much rather make fun of it than study it <3
YES HELLO FELLOW BEN ENJOYER!!!! Or should I say benjoyer…. We should talk about this. And about TF2 and about how your day went. I put Still Fighting It on my spy and scout playlist and then deleted the whole playlist cause they don’t get to be that kind of emotional. I also put Draw A Crowd on my Scout playlist cause it’s so him. If you can’t draw a crowd draw dicks on the wall. Also F10-D-A but that was self indulgent. He would appreciate the phrase “f’ed in the a with a d” but he can’t read music so he would take forever to get the joke.