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see you around, rvb
#'you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you' or whatever#but not just church's love for tex#the love the reds and blues have for each other#that the freelancers had for each other#etc etc etc#do you ever think about how caboose spent months all by himself trying to build epsilon a body#and telling him stories about their adventures#rvb is a ghost story AND a love story (what's the difference) disguised by a thin veneer of halo armor and stupid jokes#red vs blue#rvb#rvb19#rvb restoration#why is this always has been image I found online so crystal clear#rooster teeth#in the middle of making this I saw a restoration spoiler so i'm going to go lay facedown on the floor now
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i loved you so much it was making me sick
#red vs blue#rvb#rvb fanart#rvb tex#agent texas#rvb church#leonard church#freshly minted#me fighting for my life trying to figure out what tags people use. ok.#anyway the relevance of going to scotland to this moment or this art is questionable at best but u just need to trust in my beautiful mind#what i was mostly thinking about is what tex would look like. and then what epsilon tex specifically would look like. and coming to the#conclusion that i dont think i will ever come up with a face for her. always just a hint of something blurred through the glass.#i love you deadalive nothing girl who isn't.
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HES ALIVE!!!
Dounut and Doc is the best thing that could've ever happened to me
IM SO HAPPY I didn't realize how good of a dynamic Donut and Doc are
#rvb#rvb donut#donut rvb#red vs blue donut#donut red vs blue#doc rvb#red vs blue doc#doc red vs blue#rvb doc#Rvb is making me bipolar#Like I would be so happy then I'd start crying next I'd be cursing out Washington#I just love Donut Doc Tex Church Caboose Tucker Simmons Grif Sarge Lopez Carolina York North C.T AND MOOOOOORE#im so happy#Never seen a case when a spring lock actually saved someones life till now#if you haven't watched rvb GO SEE IT AND DONT LOOK AT SPOILERS.#red vs blue#rvb spoilers
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restoration is good (TO ME) because after 12 years we finally get to see carolina gather the clarity to understanding tex. just as carolina was beaten down, when we don't have sarge or wash to guide us, it happens.
tex saves us. the woman who failed defies fate and saves the day.
#tex's whole story was about not being her own person and she was forgotten as if that was true#but it's not true. i think caboose being the one to choose tex over church. to remember tex as her own person#to have cared enough about her. to remind us that tex was never just church's ex or just a freelancer or just a bamf#but that she was someone who was cared about. who was loved. she cared so much only to be abandoned#and yet. and yet. the reds and blues didn't see it that way. she was a part of them. despite it all they were her friends#and i'm so happy that we got to see the show itself be reminded of that. that tex was her own person.#she was valued and she was loved. i think carolina seeing tex return made her understand this.#carolina got to see the tex she never allowed herself to see: a tex who cared about her friends.#a tex whose strength was those around her. the allies she made. carolina sees herself in tex.#and it finally allows her to let tex go. carolina says goodbye for the first time and it's to tex.#the last remnant of her mother and she lets her go.#idkidkdikddidkddk carolina and tex make me wanna chew on glass or something i cannot believe burnie burns came in clutch at the last second#to give carolina and tex that closure. to give tex an ending on her own terms. that's why restoration is GOATed it's flawed but it's earnes#like....BURNIE BURNS??? of all people??? giving us closure on carolina AND tex at the same time??? BURNIE BURNS??? it sounds made up andyet
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look ive been getting so caught up in the misogyny of tex but i am always thinking about the scene where church forgets her bc like
the world is already ending. church is 100% positive both he and tex are going to die in there and he is fully prepared for that moment. and so the moment of him forgetting her isn’t actually him erasing her from the narrative or killing her himself to break the cycle or anything like that.
it’s him promising to let her go. to stop bringing her back. to finally let her stay dead and stop dragging her back to a world she doesn’t actually belong in. he’s finally returning her agency to her, by letting the ghost that he has resurrected time and time again finally rest.
#these two…#constantly torn between the fact that she was just an extension of him and how horrible that is#and also how she and him were so in love and deserved to be able to retire together and spend the rest of their lives bickering and in love#augh too many thoughts too many thoughts i could literally write an essay analyzing them and their story i can’t handle it#they were made for each other (they made each other)#rvb#red vs blue#rvb church#rvb tex#rvb chex
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Ok but whose up to discuss the implications this has on tuckers and church’s relationship
#not art#rvb trailer spoilers#sorry i keep thinking about jt#its so. werre do fucked#dude DUDE#im like sick and dying rn but i cant stop thinking about chucker#i am seriously considering making that metatucker chucker charm now#i just.#fuckkk#to me tucker and church are so incredibly interesting when you dont boil their rs down to two guy friends#theres something terribly going on and which churchs tragic love life cycle?#tucker being an outsider to that. hes not tex. hes tucker. and that makes it so much worse when he gets stuck in the cycle too#i beg my inbox is open for chuckering#im just a bjt ill rn so i cant explain fully oops
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Eh, I was in a weird experimental mood. Have this. Dubbed 'Who Are You?' Pretty sure I've said this but I love characters that either are not human or beyond human... because existentialism is fun to think about.
My monitor makes this look 3-D which is awesome.
#rvb#red vs blue#rvb simmons#I just think that he probably had a bit of a crisis after the meds and hype wore off#realizing that perhaps becoming a cyborg wasn't as cool and dope as he thought it was gonna be#cause i mean come ON if anything he should have been able to throw a fucking punch or catch one from Tex#like my poor boy just got all these 'enchancements' but none of the benefits? i call bullshit - Sarge builds weapons of mass destruction#shit maybe this bitch has a bomb in him if he dies... I dunno#but srsly this boyo should have been punching and kicking metal with his new metal#Also I will never not shut up about him being able to make a hologram of himself - even if it just mirrors his movements#that shit would have been epic to see in a fight and useful too#I love every fic that has capitalized on his Cyberness SO fucking much holy hell#. . . > . > Okay and also like hear me out - I think because of how his system works and how he's not like pure human anymore...#I think if (Any version of) Church were to have linked with him it would have been different than how the Freelancers or Tucker had him#I have an idea or a fic... >.> I have Many Ideas for Many Fics but specifically one about this concept. Toying with it.#Random AF but YALL - I always felt his “fax ass” was more like a Tramp Stamp - it's just a port that looks like a disk drive#so anymore morse code is fun ;3
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Mmmmm, Church has his whole beautiful speech at the end of season eight about letting love drift away and trusting that it'll come back to you, but even as he says the words he clearly hasn't internalized them. He still spends all of season nine desperately pursuing Tex through the memory unit, he still believes that they're meant to be and he just needs to catch her. By the end of season nine he finally gets it, letting her go for real, and I just adore that moment so much. I love that Church is such a deeply flawed character, who talks the talk of character development before he's able to walk the walk, if that makes sense. He knows the lesson he's supposed to learn, but it takes him a bit longer to actually change his behavior. It's Tucker of all people (but of course, memory unit Tucker who's really an extension of Church's subconscious) who's able to point out that actually chasing Tex through deeper and deeper layers of a failing memory unit is the exact opposite of letting her go and trusting that she'll come back. After that, he's a little more free. He'll never forget Tex, of course, but he's accepted that his memories of her aren't as important as her autonomy as a person. And then, at the end of season thirteen, when he's given one last opportunity to relinquish control and trust the people he loves to handle everything, he finally takes it.
#yeah maybe i'm a leonard loser church fan#maybe i have thoughts and feelings about this man#red vs blue#rvb#leonard church#agent texas#rvb epsilon#rvb alpha#rvb beta#my analysis
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Last post is SO real Carolina really is what people want Washington to be. Like. Washington never got a redemption they just adopted him he never "earned" anything he was sort of saved by the reds and blues not really giving that much of a shit if he's an objectively bad person or not (he is btw, for all people talk shit about his resilience or whatever, his main driving trait post-epsilonization is VERY consistently selfishness and eventually unwarranted self righteousness, even if that manifests in superficially selfless ways).
Carolina however had to actively come to grips with her treating the reds and blues as disposable and worthless even though they'd have been fine just hanging out with her, she drags them into her business and then gets angry and defensive when don't take to being pushed around without knowing what they're doing it for. When they decide not to come with her to the Director's hideout she feels abandoned, and it's them eventually coming around to help anyway that makes her realize her problem is that she is scared to care about people not just because she's scared to lose them but because she doesn't see anyone as her equal- She never had, and then couldn't afford to when Tex came around, repeatedly compounding her own self-imposed isolation, convincing herself she didn't need anyone else until there was no one left. People she was responsible for! Who left her because she wouldn't let them do anything else! Like. It's the reds and blues who saved her, because they always saw her as an equal, because they came through for her in a way no one ever had after she'd treated them like shit.
And then during the chorus trilogy, the true warrior simulation shows that her worst fear is regressing to that past version of herself that got the freelancers killed, who would have gotten the reds and blues killed. She loves them and she chose to be a better person for them... But she's a girl so nobody cares. This is to say nothing of her dynamic with her family (and Church) and particularly Tex who saw her for what she was and wanted to save her but (in line with a lot of things that happened to Tex) was put in the exact position that would mean she never could. Fuck you Carolina is awesome
#talk#long post#rvb#Not to make a levi lost his whole squad type post but people make posts like this about male characters 24/7 I'm allowed to be a little#annoying if its for women
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one of my favorite parts of rvb is the portrayal of unconventional heroes with non heroic motives because none of the characters of our antagonists are good people to a fictional standard. they’re also not bad people in this exaggerated fictional sense. they’re conventionally dislikable, Tucker is annoying, church is bossy, grif is lazy, simmons is a kiss ass, caboose is a moron, wash ok I dont have anything bad to say about you but he’s definitely not a good person he’s a buzzkill I guess, donut is overly stereotyped tk an absurd amount, sarge is perfect love you, tex is edgy.
it’s like they said ‘let’s take a group of people with such a large array of this guy fucking sucks as a concept, and somehow to a large demographic make them the best characters and the most human characters they have ever fucking seen in their lives’. rvb isn’t about heroes, it’s about a bunch of shitty, selfish (with some exceptions) people who keep getting roped into saving the worlds while trying to do what benefits them most, in which in the end, typically doesn’t end up benefiting them and I think that’s the bow ontop
I’m not saying rvb is perfect, it’s just as flawed as the characters and I think that’s what makes it so important to me
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Tucker wasn’t there when Church died. Well, when he died the first time. When Alpha died, he should say. When his Church died.
It was weird to hear about it, even weirder to see a part of him running around like that moment of time didn’t happen. Because Tucker knew this wasn’t his Church, he spent way too long bickering with him in Blood Gulch to not know the differences between his best friend and his amnesiatic copy, but the similarities are uncanny. Sometimes he’s tricked into thinking it’s actually his Church, only for him to misremember the details of a story they lived through, only for him to forget Tucker’s name, only for him to look blankly as Tucker chuckles an inside joke under his breath.
And then Kinda-but-not-really-Church dies again, stuck in a memory unit and swept away by the UNSC, their newest recruit spray painted to look just like him. It’s not quite as fucky as when Not-Church was walking around acting like Real-Church, but Tucker still does a double take everytime he hears the wrong voice speaking behind a light blue helmet.
And then Carolina comes around, takes them through hell to get Not-Church back, except he’s different. He’s more like Tucker’s Church. He cracks inside jokes, starts calling Tucker by name on the first try, remembers Blood Gulch as well as the rest of them. For a moment, Tucker thinks he’s gonna be reunited with his best friend, that he’s actually going to have him back and get to talk to him like old times and not have this gaping hole that Church left when he died.
But he doesn’t get that. Of course he doesn’t. Because the universe just loves spitting in Tucker’s face, loves giving him a taste of what he wants before taking it away. It gave him a son, and then killed him, and then brought him back and then forced Tucker to send him away so he didn’t get dragged into a fucking fire fight over a stupid alien artifact. It gave him a home, a place he loved and hated more than anything and then sent him away, gave him a job he loved and hated just as much, and then he was back on his bullshit with his team, fighting Tex and a giant ex-AI possessed freelancer the size of a truck.
It gave him his best friend and then took him away again and again and again.
It didn’t even let him be there when he died, didn’t even let him grieve before throwing another copy at him to deal with.
He didn’t even get to say goodbye. He never gets to say goodbye.
#rvb#red vs blue#lavernius tucker#rvb tucker#rvb church#leonard loser church#tucker angst because what's worse than knowing the person you adored died and you'll never see him again?#not as he was#not as you knew him#he's gone and everyone pretends like he's not#ain't that a bitch
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(tags by @lafaithreine)
this is hilarious but unfortunately i don’t think either of them would be smart enough to figure out that that’s NOT what’s supposed to happen during sex
chucker would have freaky ai brain sex if they could 😔 -⚡
someone in the tags also said chucker. you all get me
#tucker doesn’t want to admit he doesn’t know something about sex so he’s just like. oh yeah that happens every time.#yeah chicks LOVE when ur brains meld into one as you orgasm. it’s the best part#church ALSO doesn’t want to sound like he’s stupid about sex and also that kind of matches up with his vague memories of sleeping with tex#so… yeah sex is PROBABLY like two people becoming one and completely lost in each others minds and bodies. sounds about right#chucker
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Thanks for all the kind words about our Simmons!
Meanwhile, stuff about RvB S19 Spoilers under the cut.
I want to start out with the movie definitely felt like they tried to put what love they could in it, but with time constraints, Rooster Teeth being shut down, and budgeting, a lot of character development and general awareness of where the characters would be left where they put them suffered. But Church and Tex reuniting with her being made of the memories of how she wanted to be remembered was beautiful.
I would talk more about how other characters felt completely sidelined, and it was definitely hurtful that Donut got basically nothing even if he was a part of the main team (literally just make an excuse about his armor. Or hue change him in editing. Not like it hasn't been done before) but I feel like most of it's already been said by others.
My most important note is: If Simmons is now the leader of Red Team.... what Red Team? What war? What people is he leading? His "leadership" developments consisted of: Running at the Meta, being called 'sir', and throwing something really well. He hadn't even displayed leadership qualities before he was handed the torch here, unless you count previous seasons where he still didn't manage it well, and realized it was a part of his own issues with authority.
I know it's all over already, but it would've worked better if he had been helping out as a leader earlier on, and properly earned it, achieving some sort of small victory against the Meta even if they were still beaten back for Carolina and Tex to take charge in combat. He'd learn that the position was exhausting, and that he would be done when their war ended. Maybe even funnel it into a different occupation. Go home with Grif. It's over.
#rvb#red vs blue#simmons rvb#dick simmons#grimmons#rvb spoilers#rvb season 19#rvb s19 spoilers#rvb restoration#restoration spoilers
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Chex week will be happening from October 13th through the 19th!
And with that, we also get the official announcement of the prompts!
There are no limits or rules to how these can be interpreted. You can go as literal or as artsy or silly as you want with them, the skies the limit!
Day 1: Memory
As they always say: memory is the key. Maybe it’s a simple reflection on the past, maybe it’s the fact that they’re the literal manifestations of someone else’s memories, a reflection of a once great love… or perhaps Church just forgot to close the damn cabinet again.
Day 2: Fluff
Our favorite doomed duo is no stranger to angst and tragedy… so let’s give them a break! Let them enjoy some domestic bliss for once, and spend time in each other’s company without the overbearing burden of being doomed by the narrative. Just this once.
Day 3: Family
These two found their own little family inside of a box canyon, consisting of idiots and morons but they are their idiots and morons… or perhaps you want to go further back in time to when there was just Leonard and Allison and a beautiful baby girl and the future seemed so much brighter… or maybe Church and Tex just adopted a cat
Day 4: AU
Now they’re medieval knights fighting to save the kingdom! Or maybe Church is the super grumpy coffee shop barista with a crush on the cool tattoo artist across the street! Or maybe it’s the same story we all know… but that one moment played out differently… the universes are infinite!
Day 5: Cycle
History repeats itself, time is a flat circle, however, you want to put it there’s no denying the cycle of Leonard Church and Agent Texas. A story destined to be repeated again and again until it finally breaks… or perhaps they’re just teaching Caboose how to ride a bicycle, who knows!
Day 6: Goodbye
Don’t say goodbye… I hate goodbyes… but at the end of the day, you have to let go and say those dreaded words. You have to accept that some people are truly gone. Or sometimes you just don’t get to say those words at all… or maybe… well actually I don’t know how to make this one silly
Day 7: Free Day
Make whatever you like! It can be anything and everything, maybe expand on a previous idea, create a whole new world, or make something sad or silly or soft! This is your day to shine!
As said before any and all content is welcome in this event! Art, fanfic, meta, analysis, playlists, memes etc! If it’s Chex I’ll take it! My only rule is NO AI GENERATED CONTENT!
The tags for this event will be #chex appreciation week and #chex appreciation week 2024
#agent texas#leonard church#red vs blue#rvb#rvb chex#rvb church#rvb tex#rvb Allison#allison church#rvb the Director#the director#rvb alpha#rvb beta#rvb epsilon#Chex appreciation week#Chex appreciation week 2024#info post
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at the end of the day church and tex are pygmalion and galatea and we just have to accept that. like the story of the sculptor who fell in love with his own art
bc she really is just his own creation that he loves and wants to love him back and wants to be whole but she’s.. not. she’ll never be anything outside of him, she’d never exist if it weren’t for his imagination (since she isn’t truly allison she is his concocted version of her) and because of that she can’t be human
he loves her as some fucked of version of loving himself (he loves who he was when he was with her and loves that he created her and that she is wholly his)
the difference is that alpha is no god, no aphrodite, and he cannot create life, he can only fragment himself which is why they do not get the happy ending of pygmalion and galatea, they instead are doomed to repeat and echo the agonies of the people they mimic
#this is what makes tex's story a sexist one bc she cannot exist outside of the context of church#BUT ALSO it is the reason that church has to be the one to forget her#she cannot leave/die of her own agency bc she doesn't have her own agency#she is bound to him and him setting her free and promising to forget her is his way of finally recognizing his part in her story#as her creator and (therefore) tormentor#she can only live a half life/a cursed life and by continuing to keep her alive or bring her back to life he is continuing her agony#and therefore he is the only one who can actually let her go and THATS why her death means so much to me#she DESERVES death bc her life is hell#i love them but theyre so tragic okay#i also was SURE pygmalion and galatea had some sort of tragic ending when i started this post but ??#they literally just like get married and have a kid so good for them i guess#theres probably some symbolism about how she wanted to be human too which... i cant get into itll make me too sad#rvb#red vs blue#agent texas#leonard church#rvb tex#rvb church#chex#rvb chex
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In general up until like season 11 most of the women in the show are very one dimensional and they're often ignored until they can move along the guys plotlines. They’re also focused on a lot less. Aside from like. Carolina. The girls are all shelved over and over. Kai just got straight up removed for like 7 seasons. Comparing the girls to Redteam. Both are part of the plot but aren’t the main focus of the story, but red team gets fleshed out dynamics, diverse characters, multi faceted personalities, even Donut the guy whose personality is “gay jokes” gets hobbies and friends and interesting interactions. And the girls get. The angry one. Died to further the plot. Party girl. Hell Tex gets killed over and over to give motivation to the Churches. A lot of the depth and complexities of the girls has to be made up by the viewer. And while there are good women leaders in the show, there are like no girls who are allowed to have character development sans Carolina. They’re not allowed to make mistakes or grow from them. Their shows of emotions aren’t taken seriously by anyone around them. The girls are for the most part not allowed to be anything but perfect. When they make any mistakes they're immediately made out to be the bad guys. South is literally designed to be hated for traits that she shares with people like Sarge and Church. Ct is killed to give Wash trust issues and as a way to push her bf guys existence into the story and explain desert!ct. In general I absolutely love the girls and think they deserve better than what they got. For the person (tried to @ them but tumblr wont let me?) in the comments of one of my posts who asked me to explain why i think the way rvb women are written isn't good, thanks btw /gen. I love excuses to write out my thoughts <3
#rvb#red vs blue#kaikaina grif#rvb kai#rvb sister#agent connecticut#agent south dakota#rvb tex#agent texas#agent carolina#mikeys rvb rambles
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