#xcom commander

[purple-nautilus]

[ionjuno]

This doodle had a 99% chance of not being posted.

[pyritewitch]

Time and Place:

John 'Central' Bradford: -finishing off the twelfth viper and scraping off the last remains of visera off his blade- "That seems to be the last of them in the area. It'd be best to scout down further and see what lays ahead. Commander, your next order?"

Commander: "Marry me."

John 'Central' Bradford: "Sir, we're on a mission. Please stop joking on the main channel."

Commander: "Sorry, my bad." -switches to private channel- "Marry me."

John 'Wife' Bradford: sighs

[through-worlds-and-time]

how the fuck did i forget to upload this. anyways. the commanduh........ (pose reference by albanenechi)

[etherealvoidechoes]

Before XCOM 1. Back in more innocent times. While off-duty, Thaddeus enjoyed visiting mechanics and lending a hand with repairs. Especially if it dealt with the jets. The closest he'd ever get back to flying. Thanks a lot, Asaru.

He gets a little mouthy with his superior, who isn't too happy he's getting part of his uniform dirty. And is annoyed that some idiot nearly broke a million-dollar part by not paying attention.

[artfully-ellikiins]

1991 called. It's asking, "how is your family doing now, Commander?"

Diane is 15 here, with her younger brother Owen, her father Percy and her mother Adriene. The last family photos before they all fell apart. Although Percy looks intimidating, Adriene is really the powerful one in the family. The Whittakers have all the connections from the top brass of military and politicians through Percy, and richest of the rich business contacts from Adriene. And for that, Adriene is always trying to portray the ideal family to keep up with the Joneses. Owen here is tired of standing still and looking pretty for a picture, so staring into the abyss is the best the Whittakers can get him to behave for a photo.

To answer 1991's question: They are almost all certainly dead. Percy died in 1993 of pancreatic cancer, Adriene would be 96 in 2055 and Owen has either been turned to goo from the Elder's gene therapy clinic because he is simply related to the Commander, executed for simply being related to the Commander, ... or in stasis somewhere for... simply being related... to the Commander.... Yikes.... I want to throw a shout out for the Sims for always being a great tool for me to build characters before I draw them lmao

[leonilakot]

Order for one person for the game X-COM 🐍

[ellikiins]

An inside joke for myself.

Some brief lore:

I did say Diane Whittaker was based off my childhood Sonic OC (Maria), who went through so many dramatic rewrites since her inception in 2004 (I was 9 and loved SA2). In playing XCOM (2012) for the first few times, I created my idea of who the Commander was. As a woman, the Commander should be a woman, too. Stepping in this role, I noticed her personality taking after Maria (both military girlies, obvs). Thus her physical appearance was inspired by an adult Maria Robotnik, her uniform based off my OC's uniform at the time.

I couldn't invent someone new for Fallout 4, so I stole Diane for it. An alternative universe where a Diane grew up to a happy, healthy young woman because she had no family heartbreak and trauma in her youth... to then find it in her adulthood instead as result of the Great War. Oops.

Shh, ignore my childhood Sonic phase and her love for Maria Robotnik, because this could go back even deeper...

Sorry if confusing, just keeping it a brief info dump to share my inner thoughts with the outside world.

I think if I were to update Maria again, she'd be a light yellow, but I wanted to keep her "lore accurate" lmao