#anyway happy bushmedicine friday i'm gonna hopefully rb bushmed art until i hit post limit tonight

[aprofessionalwithoutstandards]

ok so like pitch me bushmed. like explain why i should ship it. give me the juice. im intrigued but not convinced rn (please)

Okay so full disclosure: Sniper and Medic are two of my favorite characters and I like mushing my favorite characters together like dolls. I genuinely identify heavily with Sniper tf2 and use him as a representation of myself, and Medic tf2 is a guy I think is really hot and over the years have actually developed like a little fictional crush on. Also my real girlfriend identifies with Medic, so I'm Sniper and she's Medic so we're bushmed irl. I liked bushmed before this, but my more recent surge in interest in it IS bc of this relationship

HOWEVER there is stuff about bushmed, flat and on paper and without any personal stuff, that makes me really like them! I think Medic and Sniper are two guys who are obviously "different" from "normal people" (everyone in tf2 is "different" to a degree, but even among tf2 characters Medic is seen as a sadistic megalomaniac and Sniper is seen as an anti-social recluse [see: how Demo talks about him when he thinks he's not there in comic 4]), in VERY different ways. I think it's not Really that Medic "doesn't realize" that he's different, at least not all the time, but that he's grown to not let it bother him, and I think that would be a really nice really positive impact on Sniper's life. Also there's the obvious element of Medic reviving Sniper in comic 5, which he CHOSE to do, because he wanted to have Sniper back. I don't actually think this "imbalances their power" or anything, I think it makes Sniper supremely grateful to Medic and Medic immensely proud of Sniper and if they weren't into each other before it kinda makes them rethink things. I also just love that element of experimentation as a form of romance thing that Medic ships always get in relation to Sniper - I've seen a couple people say that they think Medic is "too weird" for Sniper, but I disagree! Sniper's probably not as into the hard science of it all the way someone like Engie or Demo would be, but he's still Into watching Medic test the limits of both of their bodies and if anything, enjoys the attention. Romanticizing and eroticizing "unusual" parts of the body and "unusual" interpersonal acts can be suuuper nice when ur a freak, and I think Sniper would appreciate having something like his autopsy scars or his sharp teeth being romanticized or eroticized. I just think someone like Medic, who is like So openly unabashedly weird and horrible and incredible, Really has the potential to bring out a lot of good things in Sniper. They have such a lovely freako scientist/freako test subject relationship. I think I've called it "sexy Frankenstein/sexy creature" in the past and I stand by that. Just adore them