#rvbspoilers

[crimsonxe]

tmw RvB Zero gives a potential LT of “2 rivals that are orphans (technically East isn’t fully an orphan, since her dad is still alive but the way its presented makes it come across as fitting within the bracket) coming together to form their own family.” (One/East) and “enemies to lovers” (Phase/One). Though there’s always the option of OT3 :D

Loving this show so much xD

[whimsical-writer]

RVB 15.13

Everyone please look at this beautiful Carolina screenshot I got when the episode first came out last week.

This is now my desktop background.

[officialao3fandomlastforever]

RvB s15E18

Not a time machine. 

A massive Drill...

I am a little disappointed but eh, that’s okay.

BECAUSE THERE’S STILL A CHANCE WASH WILL LIVE! GO LOCUS GO!

“YOU. HURT. MY. FRIEND!.” Caboose, honey, you did so well. 

Vic, never change. 

Sarge, that plan is stupid. Awesome! Now we know what the Blues and Reds are up to.

AND GRIF.

AND TUCKER.

AT THE TEMPLE&BIFF FIREPIT.

Grif, you have grown so much off screen. I’m so proud of you. Wish I could have seen it.

“Now THAT’S a pep talk!”

AND WE ARE HEADING TO EARTH! SWEET!

Things that still worry me.

Did Doc go with the Blues and Reds to Earth?

Where’s Lopez?

Why isn’t Donut talking?

Are they going to go get Sister?

Will Locus get Wash to a hospital in time?

Tune in next where where it’s 5 hours of me screaming in joy and/or fear at the results.

We’re so close to the finale.

[hezart]

... Wait, you mean this isn’t how this scene went?

And Heza continues to get away with fudging Halo Armour. Hurrah.

[whimsical-writer]

hi yes this is a call out post for Joe Nicolosi, the current lead writer for Red vs Blue because WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT. THE. FUCK. WHY. OH MY GOD.

[whimsical-writer]

RVB 15.16

uM WOW SO I HAVE THINGS TO SAY BECAUSE OW MY HEART

Sarge working for the Blues and Reds is just so upsetting but he’s so desperate for that military structure. 

But can we talk about how disgruntled and upset he is that Simmons has joined yet? He wants his team with him. I’ve no doubt that, in the end, Sarge is going to choose his family over the Blues and Reds and a silly promotion. 

Sarge instantly recognizing Grif’s walk. SARGE KNOWING GRIF JUST BY HOW HE MOVES.

also on my second rewatch I noticed that the music playing is louder when the camera is directly on Grif, rather than when they’re watching Grif through the monitor. 

But he’s also singing his own music as he “sneaks” around, and references Metal Gear.

Conclusion: Grif is a dork.

TUCKER’S “Fuck you” TO TEMPLE. TUCKER’S SO MAD. 

Also FUCK Temple’s “We’re all adults here! ... Agewise, at least...”. Like HE LOOKS AT LOCO. FUCK U TEMPLE YOU ASSHAT.

And geez all the taunting he’s doing. Simmons has hope for a rescue and Temple just crushes it.

“GRIF!” “SIMMONS” -EYES EMOJI-

GRIF IMMEDIATELY APOLOGIZING TO EVERYONE. “Everyone, Simmons, I’m sorry I left like that.” LIKE OH MY GOD.

HE THINKS HE’S A BAD FRIEND. GRIF IT’S OKAY, YOU’RE OKAY.

Tucker’s quiet little “stop it” as Temple laughs at Caboose thinking Church is still out there. ;;

I think Tucker worked out that Church’s message was fake a while ago now. AND HE’S TRYING TO PROTECT CABOOSE FROM THAT KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE HE KNOWS IT WILL CRUSH HIM.

Temple. Playing the full message. No music playing, just Church calling for a plumber.

Again, kudos to the machinima team for putting so much emotion into freaking head turns! Simmons and Grif turning to look at each other, Donut just staring at the speaker, Tucker going from looking up to staring dead ahead.

AND THE FUCKING SLOW ZOOM IN ON CABOOSE’S FACE. JUST URG.

TUCKER STARING AT TEMPLE. YOU FUCKING KNOW HE’S SEETHING WITH RAGE AND GRITTING HIS TEETH AND WANTING NOTHING MORE THAN TO FUCKING DECK TEMPLE.

And CABOOSE. STILL. TRYING. TO. HOPE. THAT. CHURCH. IS. OUT. THERE. 

Guys Caboose is my favourite and just and just and just he’s so important to me and the way Temple is treating him...!

GRIF TELLING TEMPLE TO LAY OFF. GRIF BEING PROTECTIVE OF CABOOSE. JUST FUCK ME UP

Okay so like, YES, the Reds and Blues need to treat Caboose as an adult with agency, rather than how they have.

bUT NOT LIKE THAT. FUCK YOU TEMPLE. YOU ASSHOLE.

Tucker is SO FUCKING MAD guys. Like imagine if this had been an animated sequence. He probably would have slammed his hands against the cell bars. 

Uh oh I want to animate that now

Loco sounding terribly guilty about tricking Caboose. ;; Out of all the Blues and Reds, he’s so far been my favourite? I hope he switches sides oh god please. Loco and Caboose have so much in common and could probably help each other so much.

Fuck you Bucky. That’s now how you use that.

TEMPLE LYING THROUGH HIS TEETH TO SARGE. UUUURG. Sarge please your team needs you. ;;

GOD JOEL’S VOICE ACTING WHEN CABOOSE IS UPSET AT NOT BEING ABLE TO SAY GOODBYE.

GUYS THIS MADE ME CRY. LIKE THIS ISN’T INTERNET EXAGGERATION. I CRIED. CABOOSE IS CRUSHED. TUCKER IS TRYING TO COMFORT HIM AND GENTLY EXPLAIN THAT YES, CHURCH IS GONE AND PROMISING TO MAKE THEM PAY. HE’S SO THERE FOR CABOOSE. THESE TWO WENT FROM HATING EACH OTHER TO TUCKER BEING PROTECTIVE AS FUCK OF CABOOSE. HE WILL NOT LET ANYTHING HAPPEN TO HIM IF HE CAN HELP IT. AAAAAH.

ALSO LIKE

AS SOMEONE WHO DIDN’T WANT CHURCH TO COME BACK BECAUSE IT WOULD CHEAPEN THE ENDING TO SEASON 13

FUCK!!!!!!

I’M SO UPSET.

HE ‘S GONE.

FOREVER.

FOR REAL.

GONE.

DEAD.

Tucker’s anger at Grif though. He’s seeing what he thinks was their only hope fuck up big time. He’s upset and angry and lashing out. Tucker being e m o t i o n a l. ;;

“Uh a pretty fucking sweet diversion” YOU’RE GOD DAMN RIGHT IT WAS. YOU FUCKING NAILED IT GRIF. YOU HELPED YOUR FRIENDS!!

WASH AND CAROLINA. THERE THEY ARE! IT’S BEEN SO LONG! 

THEIR VOICE. THEY SOUND SO TIRED. A+ VOICE ACTING JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

ALSO WASH AND CAROLINA DOING THE TORTURE TALK. TRYING TO KEEP EACH OTHER AWAKE AND SANE. JUST FUCK ME UP WHY DON’T YOU.

W a s h  s o f t l y  e x h a l i n g  a s  h e  s t a r t s  f a l l i n g  a s l e e p

“Well, I’m hallucinating again” HE’S BEEN HALLUCINATING. HOW LONG HAVE THEY BEEN DOWN THERE? HE’S SO NONCHALANT ABOUT IT. HOW MANY TIMES HAS HE HALLUCINATED? WHAT HAS HE HALLUCINATED? SHIT CAROLINA’S PROBABLY HALLUCINATED TOO.

ALSO LOCUS. YOU ACT SO COOL. BUT YOU’RE KIND OF A DORK. COMING OUT OF CAMO RIGHT THEN TO BE ALL DRAMATIC. 

Locus, sweetie, you’re a deadly motherfucker who did try to kill these guys before. I think until you make new friends, everyone is going to assume you’re there to kill them.

IN CONCLUSION:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[whimsical-writer]

I had a fic idea last night and when I woke up about an hour and a half ago unable to sleep I decided to write it.

Spoilers for RVB 15.16 under the cut! The episode will be open to the public in a few hours. 

When the smell hit him, the memory flash it conjured was so strong that his footing faltered and he was brought to a halt. He saw bodies all around him, many human, many alien. They don’t know when they’re going to get off this hell hole of a planet. The bodies were left to bake in the sun and the smell of rot and decay was enough to make anyone choke and throw up. Alien, human, it didn’t matter, the smell was the same. His helmet did little to filter it out, but he still refused to remove it as the smell was so much worse without it, and his stomach was already churning at the site of particularly mangled body with flies buzzing around it. Why hadn’t they been picked up yet? The Covenant had already left this planet, the fighting had stopped, yet still his squad and others were still down here, still forced to sit among the rot and the decay and the smell and Felix had already taunted him for being sick despite throwing up twice himself and why were they still here-

‘Stop it’ Locus forced open his eyes, the sites of the battlefield fading, his chest loosening as he remembered to breathe. He was in a lower level of an underwater base, standing just before the doorway of a circular room, not back in the Great War. He steadied his feet, took a breath, and walked in.

The sight of a clean room with clean power armour on display so sharply contrasted the smell that for a moment Locus wondered if he was still disassociating in some way. But no, there, there was Agents Washington and Carolina’s armour! So where were the Agents themselves? Locus hadn’t seen them in the cells on the security feed…

“Wash- Wash?!”

Agent Carolina. The armour wasn’t on display, she was still inside it. Which meant Wash was too. They looked ready to fight, but were unable to move?

‘Armour lock.’  Locus realized. Then he glanced at the other suits of power armour, all in similar poses of attack. In that moment, he realized what the smell was.

On some level, he realized he had no right to be horrified. He committed many atrocious acts, killed so many just by his own hands let alone the thousands more he killed via orders. This was a room with a dozen or so people, a minuscule fraction of the number of people he had killed. He had seen death before. He had no right to be horrified.

That didn’t stop the ringing in his ears as his heart gave a rather painful thud. Even at his worst, Locus had never liked dragging out someone’s death- not that that redeemed him in anyway- and had constantly argued with Felix over the correct way to deal with enemies. The idea of be stuck in your armour, the very thing that was supposed to keep you safe and alive, chilled his entire being right to the core. He could only imagine the panic, the fear, and the hopelessness of those within as they slowly died of dehydration. He wondered which of the captors was sick enough to come up with-

“Just… a little rest…” The voice of Agent Washington snapped him from his thoughts once more and reminded him of what he was here to do, and who he was.

“You don’t get to rest Agent Washington. Not yet,” he said as he stepped forward and dropped his camo, revealing himself to trapped Freelancers.

He was Locus, a mercenary set out to fix the wrongs he had committed before he would submit himself to his fate.

He was Samuel Ortez, the man who had no right to be horrified or offended by the atrocities committed by others.

[whimsical-writer]

RVB 15 Episode 10

SPOILERS ABOUND BENEATH THE CUT

KAY SO

CREEPY LOCKDOWN ARMOUR ROOM. FUCKING AWFUL. EVERYONE’S AT RISK FOR LOCKDOWN

Except not.

Because

A certain Blue doesn’t handle change very well

And didn’t upgrade his armour

and still wears his old helmet.

Back in season 6, Church comments how Caboose is still wearing Mark V armour, while he and the others have the newest model. Then, in season 8, during the fight with Tex in the off-site storage facility, FILSS locks down everyone’s armour to stop the fight and, because Caboose had the old armour, he was unaffected. 

Now in season 11, we see Caboose in a new helmet, but Wash remakes his old helmet. If Caboose has the new armour plus his old helmet, he could still be susceptible to armour lock. 

But it would be a GREAT way to bring back a fun little bit of obscure lore.