#in the flo

[dimeadozencows]

My personal understanding of the situation

[quixoticprince]

Remember how Miss Pauling said she'd spent her whole life to help the administrator....

She didn't even know what she was helping with, but she wanted to be by her side, until she learned how deeply personal and self destructive the whole thing was... and in the end there never was going to be a 'place' set for her :^(

I'm so sorry Flo 😭

[dcminions]

FLO MILLI at the 2024 VMAs

[bu99erfly]

MEGAN THEE STALLION & FLO MILLI ROC STEADY, 2024

[inbarfink]

[slimeyououtsstuff]

[welched]

florence welch looking ethereal for new york times style magazine, 2024

[theeblackbombshell]

Flo milli another modern Bombshell

[tinasnowz]

MEGAN THEE STALLION & FLO MILLI via IG | November 27, 2024

[demilypyro]

I'm interested in the gradual development of Miss Pauling.

Originally an almost incidental character in the Team Fortress 2 comics alone, no official model existed for Miss Pauling for the longest time. Her first appearance was in the WAR comic from 2009, two years after the game's release. She is mentioned by name, but you can tell her character isn't nailed down here yet. They probably aren't even sure if they're going to reuse her at this point. The Administrator herself isn't even fully developed yet.

Despite the tangential nature of her character, she made regular appearances in the TF2 comics, always executing the Administrator's will, though not much was really established about her personality or characteristics beyond being hardworking, extremely competent, and very loyal.

Around this time, the fans started making their own models to use her in fanworks, though with not much to go on in regards to her personality, there weren't many people taking an interest in her. The few times she did appear in fanworks, she was often relegated to just being the token girl character.

In 2013, Valve released Ring of Fired, the first of seven full-length Team Fortress 2 comics that would end up being the main source of character development and plot progression for the universe. And Miss Pauling was there as one of the lead characters, although her characterisation was still rather thin in this first issue.

The big moment here is the Love and War update. In 2014, seven years after the game's launch, the short film Expiration Date was released, the 15 minute video supposedly being a pilot for a potential TF2 tv show. That tv show never happened. However, Miss Pauling was one of the lead characters of the video. It finally gave Miss Pauling an official 3D model, which was notably somewhat different looking from her comic appearances up to this point, as well as a canonical voice.

It also established several defining traits to her character: she was extremely neurotic, kind of awkward, a bit silly, and she had a knack for gallows humor. These traits were heightened with the following Gun Mettle and Jungle Inferno updates, which gave her a bunch of voice lines where she talked to the player characters and let her kookier side show.

These traits would make it back into her characterisation in the comics going forward, finally reaching Maximum Pauling. She became the true Main Character of the TF2 comics, usually being the main perspective character, as well as being the character with the heaviest choices to make as the plot reaches its climax.

While Miss Pauling still to this day doesn't physically appear in the Team Fortress 2 videogame, she has become one of the most important characters of its surrounding universe, and you'd be hard pressed to find a fan who doesn't really like her. It's been fun to watch her develop from an incidental lore character to the unofficial tenth member of the main cast. I'm a huge fan of her.

Okay end of post

[cawcawrobinjay]

[wocina]

[vedajuno]

one of the better parts of the comic finale for me is finally confirming that Pauling and Scout’s friendship status is, in fact, “she calls him a dummy and then they fist bump”

[critzkrieg]

can you imagine if the woman you trusted so much to the point where you lied and manipulated and killed for her without ever questioning it for years suddenly turned into dust in front of you without explaining her motives and you just have to walk back to the office break room covered in her ashes

[a-lost-crow]

Idk how much I got right so take it with a grain of salt

[troublemakergalaxy]

get you a girl who can go from this

to this

in ONE comic alone!!!