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Current mood:
[Spoiler] For years People theorising, joking and talking about the 10th class
We all though it was him
But this whole time, This. Whole. Time.
It was him. He was here this whole time.
TF2 ISSUE 7 SPOILERS //
Alright alright I know everyones going crazy over the ending of the comic (I am too) but I don't see this moment talked about enough and how beautifully done it is.
We start with the Administrator: The man who took everything from her is finally dead. She reigns victory. She is now living alone in peace, leaving flowers for each and every gravestone that was left before Zepheniah Mann's passing. The gravestones left before him are carved out beautifully, time and effort put into each and every one of them. The Administrator even lays out the roses so they look like they're grown out around the gravestones.
And here we have Zepheniah Mann's grave. A slab of rock with only his initials carved into it. The other gravestones are large, extravagant, and have their full names carved into them. Zepheniah's remains small; little thought put into it.
The gravestone wasn't even for him in the first place. It was for whichever of his son's died first, whichever one failed him. He himself didn't put much care into the gravestone, so why should he deserve anything better? In the end, he was treated the way he treated others. He was the failed son.
The Administrator leaves the stems of the roses out for him. She just places them there, no thought put into it seemingly. But there is SO much thought in this very moment. She had everything planned out from the very beginning.
Every day, she watched as the man grew older and older. She was there for his passing, and as far as we can tell, she caused his death. She leaves out roses for each and every grave, except for his. She leaves the stems. To her, he doesn't deserve the flower, he deserves the thorns. They aren't placed with care like the other flowers had been, they are simply put down. She gives him exactly what he deserves.
The atmosphere has suddenly lost that beautiful lighting and vibrant colours, the sky has become more gray and dreary. The Administrator is waking up more devastated, putting less time and effort into her daily life. The stems are turning brown, wilting under her eyes. She cares less. She seems relatively unaffected by the things around her. She gets stung by a bee, but doesn't seem to care. However that last panel says everything. She's growing tired of doing the same thing day in and day out. The cycle of depression is a tiring one. Soon enough you realize: is it even worth it? After all of this, after I finally got the one thing I wanted. But what now?
The scene is now almost completely devoid of colour. The weather is gloomy, and the Administrator looks like she has been bedridden for a while. She has taken the gravestone into her bedroom, now having to wake up to the reminder that he's dead and gone, she got what she wanted. But at what cost? There's nothing left to do anymore. She set herself out for one goal and one goal only her entire life. What was the point anymore?
There's so much to unpack in these panels, I doubt I've even scraped the surface of this. She's lost all emotion, the next few panels showing that she doesn't believe there's a point in living anymore. It's a terrifying thought, setting your entire life up to do one specific thing, getting that thing done, and then having nothing else left to live for. It's such a well-done portrayal of how depression can destroy you from the inside out.
Revenge is sweet, but it has a bitter aftertaste.
Yknow what? The administrator wanted to serve mad cunt for her final minutes of life just to look like she did the day they met and remind an exhumed corpse man she won. I can respect the fuck out of that
might be a good opportunity to compile the references I've been making myself - these are the newest ones, some are a bit scrappy/incomplete, I intended to make different busts for different eras but only some characters have these.
Happy for anyone to reference these if they want. Obviously it's very much to my particulars, and Bette for instance is entirely a fan design.
speculative timeline: above the line are canonical dates, below the line are speculations and points related to what I was writing. Funnily enough, I think most of this is still viable.
Finally it is completed:
THE TEAM FORTRESS UNIVERSE TIMELINE!!
with minimal theorising and guesswork.
*THE (un)OFFICIAL, CANON SOURCED, AT LEAST 98% ENTIRELY ACCURATE TEAM FORTRESS TIMELINE (TFT)* By Jevilowo of Tumblr dot com (apologies in
(I made a new google account for this lol)
It's actually ridiculous how long this took me, but I'm VERY GLAD I perserveared and completed it! READ IT NOW!! if you have time. Hehehhehehehehe its 10pm.
(Oh ueah @shephardofthedamned you wanted to be @/ed on this back in like July HERE YA GO)
edit: TIMELINE IS NEW AND IMPROVED, UPDATED POST COMIC 7