#tf2 engineer headcanons

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I headcanon that Engineer is more introverted than most of the other mercs realize

Image: Cut-out of Pardner Polo (Monday) from Steam Community Workshop

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Engie headcanons for @sad-catbrick

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Collects rocks! But not in the way where you go out and buy them, but in the way where he sees a shiny rock somewhere while he’s on a mission, picks it up and pockets it.

Collects ornamental knives and keeps them on a shelf in his workshop!

Cooks really good bacon and makes a mean biscuits and gravy!

Has a small succulent named Harry that he’s been spoiling for years now.

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How would the mercs react to finding a member of the opposite team severly injured and defenseless outside of the respawn area and possibly beging for help?

A/N- This one's real long. All together it's around 1400 words. Welp, hope you enjoy!

Mercs finding an injured enemy team member outside the respawn zone.

Tw. injuries, blood, smoking, implied murder in Medic's one.

Scout- 

Being shot in his arm, he decides to leave the battle grounds to find a medkit. He wanders off almost to the end of the battle zone before he finds one. He quickly patches himself up, takes some pain killers and reloads his scattergun with new ammunition. However, when he's ready to run off back into the fight, he hears whimpers coming from somewhere behind him. He looks around and sees a crumbled figure outside the "safety zone".

Jeremy swallows his saliva and looks closer, realizing he knows this person, and it is someone from the opposite team. He doesn't know what to do at first. He shouldn't care about them, Mann.Co would come pick them out of here after the fight anyway. But upon leaning in closer, Scout realized the scars on their body look very bad. He swallowed hard, and stepped out of the respawn area. They heard him and looked up. Their eyes widened and they began to shake. 

- Hey, it's okay, uhm...let's get you to your Medic!- He said. Before the person's shock ran out and they could reply, Jeremy crouched and delicately placed his arms under their back and legs. He struggled a bit to lift them, but he finally managed to do that. Some of their blood stained his already red shirt. Making sure to keep his promise, he took them right to the enemy Medic. 

Soldier- 

He was pretty close to the end of the safety zone, chasing after a sound that he could swear was a spy's footsteps. He ended up stepping out of the respawn arena. The footsteps he thought were a spy's actually belonged to a person that was now looking right at him with a hand over a huge scar on their stomach. 

- Please don't...don't shoot me.- They managed to mutter out. 

Soldier lowered the shotgun in his hand, tilting his head at them. 

- Please...help me get to my team. 

- Is this a trap, maggot?!- He asked, raising his voice. 

- No, please...I'm losing blood.- The person kept on saying. Soldier sighed, and extended his free hand out to them.

- Okay...- He mumbled under breath as they took his hand into theirs. He kept an eye on them as he led them towards their team's base. 

Pyro- 

They saw a squirrel and followed it out of the safety zone. While observing the animal, they heard noises behind them. They looked around, ready to attack, when they saw an injured enemy that looked clearly afraid of them. 

He ran off, and didn't seem to be coming back for some moments. Until he came back with a medkit in his hands, and slowly patched up the enemy without saying a single word. 

Demoman- 

Escaping away from an angry Soldier, Tavish ran out of the respawn area to take some deep breaths. He smiled under his breath, trying to come up with a plan to fool the Soldier. But while busy wondering, he heard somebody call out his name softly. He looked down, to see one of the enemy team members on the ground before him, scars all over their body. 

At first he didn't know what to do, but he swallowed hard, and got an idea. 

- MEEEEDIIIIC! 

Heavy- 

Misha gets those awful headaches sometimes during battles, and they're bad enough that he needs to take breaks to fight them. During one of those breaks, he came towards the end of the battlefield arena and calmly stayed there for some minutes, trying to clear out his mind. Suddenly, he heard cries for help coming from somewhere further outside of the respawn area. 

He knew that he could probably help, and so he began to follow the sound. Wasn't exactly expecting to see one of his enemies begging him for help. But Heavy has his honour and he takes pride in the enemy. And so he threw them over his shoulder, even though they kicked and screamed for him to let them go, and carried them to their team's base without saying a word. 

Engineer- 

He was just building a " nest " behind his team's lines. He set up the dispenser, and was slowly putting out the teleporter exit, when he heard slight sobs coming from somewhere at the end of the battle zone. He looked around to find nothing, so he went back to working. But the sobs didn't stop, and it made him anxious. He decided to follow the sound and see what, or rather who, causes them. Trying to figure it out, he came across one of the enemies laying down in their own blood. Without thinking, he knew he needed to help. Although, his body was already a bit worned out from setting up his buildings, and he didn't have the energy to carry the wounded. He ended up dragging them by the legs towards his nest, where he used the dispenser to patch them up. 

Medic- 

After a big Überfail, Ludwig was just running away from the enemies, trying to lose them. Eventually he ran out of breath, and decided to hide outside the battle zone. He stayed in the shadows for some minutes, he heard footsteps running past his hiding place, and exhaled deeply. However his breath was followed by someone else's. He spooked a bit, looking around. Then he saw one of the enemies laying there, so scarred it was a surprise they weren't dead. 

He looked at them confused, but then an idea appeared in his head. He forcefully brought them up to his eye level, and with no comment threw them back into the safety zone. They painfully landed on the ground, letting out a small yelp. Ludwig smiled under breath as he took out a saw from under his jacket. He was sure gonna get some revenge on that team. 

Sniper- 

Finding a good sniping spot is hard. Half of the time Mick ends up behind the respawn area, and his teammates need to yell at him to come back. This time was no different, as he settled himself between some rocks and didn't plan on moving. As he fixed his scope, he lit up a cigarette to keep him company. 

Suddenly, he felt a hand on his back. He yelped, the cigarettes fell out of his mouth and his rifle crashed to the ground. He looked at whoever was touching him, only to realize it was one of the enemy's mercenary. He analysed them confused, seeing how worn out they looked, and how their clothes were blood stained. 

- You need my help, mate?- He asked, raising an eyebrow. He received no answers, only a nod. And so he stood up, sighing delicately. 

- Stay here, I will get my doc to help. 

Spy- 

When disguised, he usually uses the outside to sneak behind the enemy lines. Yes, that is cheating, but not like anyone ever found out yet. 

And this once, disguised as a Soldier, he slowly worked his way towards the enemy base, swinging his butterfly knife in hand. However, he was stopped by a voice. 

- Soldier? Soldier, please! I need help...- Someone yelped out. He looked towards them, finding himself a bit taken off guard. It was in fact someone from the other team, and they believed he was their teammate. Killing them now would be easy, but respawn doesn't work here and he would...

Thinking about it for a moment, Spy decided he will play his role correctly. He took the wounded into his arms, sloppily had to pretend to be as strong as Soldier, and somehow managed to take them up to their base. Without saying goodbye, he put them against the wall, gave them a small wink and disappeared back into the mist, hoping their team will take care of them. 

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Could I perhaps get engineer, sniper and demoman with an autistic S/O who got really overstimulated and Is Not Okay? I need,,, for purposes.

Yes, yes you can!!!

Demo, Engineer, and Sniper with an overstimulated autistic S/O:

Demo:

Demo recognizes that his S/O is overstimulated pretty quickly. The base is always messy regardless of any attempts to clean it, there’s a lot of noise, especially chatter and gunfire during the day and even moreso at night during complaining or celebrating with the entire team.

“Ye alright? Ach, who am I kidding, ye look right terrible at the moment, love. No offense.”

He takes his S/O to somewhere quieter, probably his room as there’s at least some sense of familiarity and homeliness there for he and his S/O.

As someone who needs quiet to focus on tinkering without blowing something up, he’s got some ways of keeping the room from just being the equivalent of another hallway thanks to the paper thin walls.

If it still doesn’t help, he sticks by his S/O’s side and refuses to move away for the others until they’re able to process things more clearly again.

If they’re stimming to try and release the tension and overwhelming energy of the situation, he’ll literally just start mirroring them and stimming as well.

If they need something to focus on that isn’t their surroundings, he’s got a large amount of folklore and myths he can talk for hours about instead of whatever jabbering caused them to be overwhelmed in the first place.

Engineer:

Once he figures out what’s going on, he quickly tries to diffuse things and get his S/O to a place where they feel more comfortable.

Engineer commands a lot of respect, and most of the mercs know not to challenge him when he puts on a genuine serious face and asks for things to be done.

Quiet down, hush now fellas, can one of ya’ll get S/O a blanket? Hm? Yeah, they said somethin’ to hold would do.

Does his best to balance their current needs with social interaction; since he’s aware that taking them out of it entirely might cause them to break down further.

Instead, he lassos in the conversation and quiets things down as much as possible, then reduces the amount of stimuli by sending a glare to anyone making more noise than necessary.

As for sensations, he’ll hold his S/O’s hand if it helps, usually with his normal hand unless they prefer the feeling of metal, wiring, and electric circuitry to focus on. Warm or cold, his hand envelops theirs and acts as an anchor.

If anyone dares pipe up about it or anything else related to the situation, he’ll keep his cool. That is, until next time they need his help on the battlefield.

Sniper:

While he doesn’t necessarily understand a lot about it, Sniper is still very familiar with needing and wanting his space, where things are just how he wants them. Regardless of if he consciously realizes it or not, he might actually be the best person to go to about it when his S/O is having a rough time and is overstimulated.

At first, he’ll probably try things that help him calm down, but if a lukewarm cup of coffee and a polishing kit don’t assist—or taking a hike into the nearest area empty of people—then he’ll start quietly asking questions while internally panicking.

He doesn’t want to overwhelm his S/O further, but he also wants to fix or make the situation a bit better for them. Afraid that he’ll make it worse, he kind of ends up awkwardly throwing ideas at the wall to see what sticks.

Whatever ends up appearing to work first is what he doubles down on, before trying to branch out from there. If his S/O manages to calm down a little, he thinks, then they can help him help them a little more too.

It’s a very slow but sure process, and he gets there eventually. By the time he figures out what works, it’s probably far past when they were too overstimulated to function. After that point he’ll know what to do and is much quicker and more confident about lending a helping hand.

If they’re getting overstimulated and it’s just the two of them, he’ll do his weird too-long-legs thing and hug them to him in a way where they’re closed off and safe in his arms. He’ll end up a bit flustered about it later, but they calm down a lot more quickly that way since he’s able to just shut them off and ground their brain to the hug instead of what’s bothering them. It’s not foolproof, but it’s shocking how often it works.

This was a lot of fun to write! I hope I got this right and did well with the prompt, haha. Personally going with what would be nice when I’m overstimulated, though I don’t believe I’ve shut down fully because of it. That must suck a lot when it happens :(

The last one about Sniper is a personal tidbit I think would work really well on me, because I imagine what he does is like a really comfortable tight hug where noises are kinda shut out and the pressure would kinda keep you from moving y’know?

It’s like the ultimate “calm the FU—“ move and I love it but it also looks like it’d be really comfortable ;—;

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POV: Engineer is a sore loser

Image: Tex Support from Steam Community Workshop

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Headcanon: Engineer tends to overcomplicate things

Image: Prof. Issions from Steam Community Workshop

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POV: Engineer ships his electronics

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Anger headcanons

Sniper

Easy to annoy - hard to anger

He can ignore annoyance to a certain point - then he will just get up and leave

When he finally gets angry he gets really nasty. He rarely yells, but his insults will drip with venom

Then he will drive off in his van. He needs to be alone to calm down

If he realizes he was in the wrong, he will drive back to you but not leave the van. He really hopes you approaches him first

If you don’t, then he will slowly get closer to you by putting a table outside with two chairs. One for him and one for you

If that still doesn’t work, he will start to take other stuff out from the van. First he gets coffee. Waits to see if you approaches. If not, he will continue to get one item at the time to make the table look more inviting. First sugar. Then cake. Then candles. Then the radio. Then blankets.

When you approaches he will not talk about the fight. For now he will just try to make it up to you.

It’s first when he’s sure you’re no longer mad at him he will apolegize

Soldier

Yell now - think later

Soldier is in contact with his emotions but is terrible at recognizing them. So he interpret any negative emotion as anger

Sorrow, sadness, embarrasment, hurt, uncertainty are all feelings Soldier can’t tell apart

That also makes it hard to apolegize if he later realizes he was in the wrong

He need someone patient to tell them apart

Engineer

Unknowingly bottles up his feelings

It might seem like something small sets him off and that he goes from 0-100 in a second but that’s only because he doesn’t even realize he had been bothered for a long time

He yells, slams the door and locks himself inside the workshop where he angerily tinkers away at something

He usually ends up making a toaster

During the tinkering he calmes down and realizes what was really bothering him

He will be embarrassed and quietly ask for forgiveness and present you with a new toaster