#māori sniper

[number1yisuchongfan]

A kiwi bunny🐇🥝

This is a piece that relates to my Prince Sniper of Aotearoa AU but instead of being a normal Prince Sniper of New Zealand AU… it’s Māori cuz I hc him (and his bio family) as Māori.

It’s a very fun au that I’ve made some more art for, and I’m willing ask any questions (about him, the au, his design, etc.) about it and I’m open to any criticism; since I’m not Māori.

My main universe hc of Sniper is that he’s Māori (hence why he doesn’t have full Moko) that was raised in an Aboriginal Australian community and Scout is Costa Rican-American just so you know. Here’s them right here:

(Scout isn’t Māori; he just Sniper’s consort/lover (Bill-Bel and Lar-Nah weren’t fans of Scout that much))

Close up under the cut

They’re so cute Omfg- dies on the spot

[fru1tt0ast]

guys i think i successfully have achieved being insane about media again... it's so nice to not worry about some random guy thinking you're cringe... i was scared to draw things beacsue i was worried he would hate me forever. but now i don't have to worry anymore because he DOES hate me forever but it's fine because idgaf and i'm so much happier and i'm at peace with myself and i don't literally want to die every time i get a notification on my phone anymore. i love being happy. i know who my real friends are and i don't have to ever worry about people like him ever again.

[voicedbychrispratt]

I FEEL SO NORMAL AND NOT HOMOSEXUAL ABOUT WHAT IVE CREATED

this is officially my blue sniper

[pregnantsecondo]

LIKE LOOK AT HER AND TELL ME SHES WHITE SNIPERS INDIGENOUS

[quotidianish]

REMAKE: here!

I LOVE OCTOPODS RAHH RAHHHHHHHHH EYAHH… I also love tf2…. Hence….

species and seperate version under cut!

Scout (Common Octopus)

Soldier (East Pacific red octopus)

Pyro (Flapjack octopus)

Demoman (Glowing Sucker Octopus)

Heavy (Giant Pacific Octopus)

Engineer (Coconut Octopus)

Sniper (Māori Octopus)

Medic (Ghost Octopus)

Spy (Mimic Octopus)

everything is to scale!

[dinoburger]

9 masks based on the mercenaries + alternate team designs

some notes on inspiration under the cut

Soldier

Chinese war mask

camouflage (paint, netting and "scrim")

Scout

based on Hermes (Greek bronze and marble statues)

Pyro

wood Indonesian boar mask

Heavy

porcelain mask

matryoshka

Engineer

scrap metal and leather

cowboy themed

Demoman

Celtic masks

Scottish thistle

Medic

wood/fabric German festival masks

Spy

art nouveau inspired (treated papier mache)

Sniper

wood masks inspired by Aboriginal and Māori art respectively

metal eye holes inspired by Ned Kelly

fern and flowering gum

I want to note that while tribal masks were an inspiration, I didn't want to directly copy or draw anything resembling Māori face tattoos on Sniper's face, so I just left it roughly hatched with his sideburns more referencing a generic New Zealand fern. I understand that tribal masks and tattoos are very important and more so just want to respectfully acknowledge the culture than misuse it.

[asexual-cat-furry]

TF2 nationality headcanons

(I think of RED and BLU as separate characters, who might just happen to look/act alike)

RED Scout - american (Boston, MA) (his ma has irish ancestry, from Galway - I saw this headcanon somewhere and I love it)

BLU Scout - filipino-american (NYC)

RED Soldier - american obv (Atkins, AR) (I know that he's supposed to be from the midwest but I don't care. I headcanon that his dad is from Idaho and his mom is from Ohio. Also I think he's like 25% native or something because I think it'd be funny/interesting if he's not 100% White American™)

BLU Soldier - american obv (somewhere in Virginia) (he was raised by eagles in the Appalachian wilderness, so he barely speaks coherent english)

RED Pyro - chinese (somewhere in the south, but spent most of their childhood homeless in Shanghai) (they never told anyone and it's unlikely they ever will. The only people who know are Pauling and the Spies, but none of them will tell) (I know it's a popular headcanon but I never really saw them as mexican, sorry)

BLU Pyro - irish (Dublin) (their muffled voice is made harder to decipher due to their hardcore irish accent. BLU Demo can understand it best)

RED Demoman - scottish (Ullapool) (literally canon)

BLU Demoman - scottish (Glasgow)

RED Heavy - russian (somewhere in far eastern Siberia) (his family doesn't look white, especially Zhanna, so I think they're probably some kind of siberian people)

BLU Heavy - ??? (swedish? belarusian? idk man)

RED Engie - american (Bee Cave, TX) (I hc the Conaghers as a whole to be a mix of white & latino, so the Engies speak spanish as a second language and often just switch to it to exchange praise/insults/advice without others noticing)

BLU Engie - american (Bee Cave, TX) (RED Engie's cousin although doesn't have the Conagher surname actually)

RED Medic - german obv (Stuttgart) (jewish, although his family probably converted to christianity many years ago and either way they're not particularly religious, Medic is actually the "most religious" of his immediate family but that's just because he knows Satan exists)

BLU Medic - british-greek

RED Sniper - new zealander, half-māori (born in Auckland, raised near-ish to Perth)

BLU Sniper - australian, half-aboriginal (somewhere in the outback in Queensland) (the half-aboriginal thing is also a headcanon I saw somewhere and happily adopted)

RED Spy & BLU Spy - french (Paris) (they're twins)

Edit: Dang it I forgot the tags

[iaminsideyourwalls]

Sorry for the ask so soon after my first one, but really, I would love to hear about any head canons you'd like to share! :O Do you have a favorite merc?

Don’t apologize for asks, I love asks! I even put it in my bio.

You couldn’t ask a parent to pick a favorite child could you??? ;_; (although I do think about sniper every day.) I’ll give you a headcanon for all of them then.

Scout

he retained some French from when he was little. He’s not good at it in general but is a lot better at understanding it than speaking it. He can eavesdrop on Spy but can’t conjugate être. I also like versions of Scout that speak Spanish when people hc his mom as Latina.

Sniper

one of my all time favorite headcanons is Māori Sniper. Also, if you’ve seen this blog you’ll know i believe he’s an autistic king.

Engineer

I know a lot of people tend to portray him as a tender, kind, empathetic guy but I genuinely don’t think he’s ever felt empathy or genuine compassion in his life. Sure he knows how to act sweet and polite and soft and nonthreatening all the time but no matter how long you’ve known him, if you get in his way he’s already designing a new machine in his head to blow you away into the last century.

Demoman

Objectum Demoman is one of my all-time favorites. For real. I will genuinely ship him with eyelander, idgaf.

Soldier

I really love trans soldier headcanons. His transmasc swag is off the charts. It’s hard to come up with hcs for Soldier because he’s so fucking wild you could put him in any situation and it could be true. Lived in a diving bell for two years? Sure. Favorite food is un-husked kernels of wheat? Absolutely. Replaced his dick with his big toe so he could use it to walk? I could go on.

Heavy

during and after he obtained his phd in Russian literature he published a number of fiction books under a pen name. They’re all tasteful romances with subplots of political intrigue. They gained high critical praise and are still moderately popular in bookstores in Russia and some neighboring countries. all the royalties from sales go to his family. He’s also an autistic king.

Pyro

I don’t have many headcanons for pyro because I like keeping the whole mystery. I don’t wonder what’s under the mask or come up with possible names because I think the whole of the character is that mystery. But I will say that as great as unicorns and rainbows and cupcakes are, there’s really nothing Pyro loves more than hanging out with Engie in his workshop and pretending to help.

Medic

as far as my own headcanons, I have a lot. Here’s some. He does not have a driver’s license—he taught himself to drive by stealing a car. He’s insecure about his voice but he talks too much to really care. He’s always wanted a motorcycle. He puts drugs in his morning coffee. He doesn’t like classical music, he listens to the top 40s on the radio and sings along. The peppier the better.

One of my favorite Medic headcanons I ever heard was that he only has medical training as a veterinarian and I think that’s hilarious because it could absolutely be real.

Spy

He’s smart but he’s not as highly educated as he wants people to think. He never went to a university and maybe never even finished school. Just like Scout, he’s so damn good at what he does that he can afford to be more concerned with appearance and showing off than anything else. They’re both committed to making people see what they want them to see and nothing deeper.

[johnwicklover1999]

the world needs more mixed māori sniper lest i kill myself

[ask-the-tf2-mercs]

Aussie or not, I’m sending you things from New Zealand. Do what you want with them.

(This box has some Māori style carvings of good luck inside)

-🍇

Sniper: I never said I wasn't gonna hoard these gifts like some sort of goblin. I'm just sayin' I ain't a kiwi. That being said.. I'm still gonna hoard these gifts like some sort of goblin.

[number1yisuchongfan]

Pls pls PLEASE tell us more about your prince sniper au!! I’m already obsessed bc him and scout look so handsome🥺

I’m happy to explain!

Okay some background information:

So it starts with the moment when Bill-Bel gets into an argument with the original (mostly white) ministers of New Zealand about how even though he, a Māori man, saved all of New Zealand from “magma and nuclear war” they refuse to let him join the council and make him a minister.

They tell him because they’re sick of living down there and that’s he’s not worthy of being on there.

In his frustration, he manages to rally up the Māori iwi (tribes) of New Zealand and many of the white New Zealanders, into making him into the king.

He changes everything once he’s in control. The white New Zealanders or Pākehā get sent off to live in their own space within Aotearoa and the Māori get to having the majority their land back.

The next 29 years is quite peaceful, the local nature and wildlife grow in population back to pre colonial times and so does the Māori people. They bring back old ways of life and traditions along with more high tech gadgets (because canonically New Zealand in tf2 was made of extremely smart people).

And now onto the Sniper and Scout part of your question:

And then coming Sniper or I should rather say Mun-Dee Taumata.

He’s next in line and has only really ever known of being a Royal and living like the way he does, in a giant palace with guards always protecting him making him extremely sheltered and honestly very calm person.

He isn’t allowed to go out alone, but Mum-Dee finds his ways, always sneaking out to visit his kiwi, who’s named after the Māori goddess of loyalty Hinekepea, in his family’s Royal Aviary. She tries to protect him and gets angry whenever he comes back smelling like one of the ladies that Bill-Bel set him up with.

Oh, I should mention that the minute he turned 18; Bill-Bel was trying to get him wife so he could make an heir (no matter how many times Mun-Dee explained he was gay)

Then in the summer of 1972, out appears Mann Co. reps (All of RED Team + Miss Pauling and Mr. Bidwell) to try to make an agreement with the Aotearoa government on if they can used some of the Australium they own.

They didn’t know of the change of the government and when they arrived they were shocked to say the least. Scout especially.

The Māori people held a welcoming ceremony or a pōwhiri for the first ever manuhiri (visitors) to their home in 40 years with gifts, dance, music food, and of course, get a personal welcome from the Royal family. Mun-Dee had been extremely excited, and when he was about to do a hongi (which is we’re you touch noses together and do a handshake in welcome) with Scout, he slapped him.

It was a misunderstanding, Scout thought Mun-Dee was going to kiss him so he did some unnecessary self defense.

And that was the exact moment Mun-Dee got his first ever real crush on anyone.

And they eventually get together, Spy tries to blackmail Scout into marrying him quickly so that if Bill-Bel died mysteriously; Scout can be married to a king for political reasons. Scout just wanted Mun-Dee for who he was.

Scout meets Hinekapea and she almost kills him, more like jumped onto his back when he had been trying to make out with Mun-Dee. He leapt off and as soon as he was off of him, Hinekapea got onto Mub-Dee’s chest and made some angry sneezes at him. Mun-Dee had just thought it was cute and apologized to her for bringing Scout without warning.

Here’s a lil comic for when Hinekapea, after having a specialized kiwi home (like a catio almost) put in Mun-Dee’s room so he could always see her, treats Scout:

[rubin-therubix-loverofblorbos]

Me, making Sniper Māori casually: Im going to fucking kill myself what am I doing people hate stuff like this.

My detailed Māori Sniper redesign: I'm a fictional character and it might be a little cooler if I was a person of color. There is not much Māori representation in characters that have fans, and I think it's pretty cool to delve more into my Immigrant from New Zealand plotline. Nobody cares about people making representation in popular media. Pursue your cool headcanons, mate.

Me, tears in my eyes: Thank you Sniper from Team Fortress 2.

[dirtbagalien0]

māori sniper with da tā moko for today. based on a neat headcanon my gf has, that sniper is māori :-D had a bit of trouble drawing the tā moko but it was overall rlly fun and i enjoyed learning about it!!

[batskulldrag]

Finish the mother fucking series Valve. Give us something else to talk about, or we'll just keep talking about these men's titties.

Sniper's not white and I can prove it.

First, his bio mom is not white, she is darker than the other characters:

She is darker than Bill-bel over there.

She's darker than Miss Pauling.

And now onto Sniper himself. He is also darker than the rest of the characters:

He is darker than Soldier, Spy and Bill-bel.

Now, here's where the title gets involved. People of color tend to have darker nipples due to a higher amount of melanin in their bodies. Which is what causes a darker skin pigment in the first place. And we see in the comics:

Sniper has dark nipples.

Soldier, who is supposedly white, has light nipples

Therefore, we can all safely head cannon Sniper as Māori, Aboriginal or anything else that we like.

[anxious-ace]

New Au (TF2: Respawn):

Disclaimer:

In this au, the respawn machines are up and running

Because the respawn machines are up and running, there's no need for clones, and thus the 2 teams are separate people

As the 2 teams are separate from each other in the AU, they have different names and stories (the mercs I'll be talking about are the red team unless specified) 

Not sure if them being separate from each other is true in canon but this AU rocks with it (it's less confusing that way, more work sure but less confusing)

Also, the time period has been shifted from the '60s-70s to 2024 so keep that in mind 

Let's get into the ideas:

Sniper is Māori (indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand), no one knows though (white passing with a tan from Australian outdoors)

He also has 4 cousins (2 sets of twins, one set is older than him and the other is younger)

Sniper is an only child so the cousin thing is to give him someone to spend time with (as he’d probably be kinda lonely)

Actually, he'd keep to himself either way (as he does)

He’s been dealing with some, sleep problems, thanks to the respawn going wacky (there’s “another red spy” walking around, and let's just say, it's not good)

(I mean it doesn't seem to be human)

No one knows why it seems to be only him that's dealing with this but hey, it hasn't killed him yet (seems friendly enough)

(he is kinda paranoid so that's probably part of it)

Pyro is albino (this is me trying to keep him as ambiguous as I can)

(Also it's my au so I can do what I want)

Medic’s name is Marius Ludwig (Mr. not Dr. as he lost his license)

Blue Medic is Fritz (gotta love Emesis blue) Schädler

Like Pyro, Spy’s name and place of origin are unknown (I say as if I didn't spend most of my free time in between classes trying to come up with names and places of origin)

Let's see: yeah I'm not posting that yet because I want to keep their main characteristic which is mystery (but I have stuff written down in a separate list for later)

Scout’s name is Jeremy (canon) Prince (my au, this is because I think it’d boost his ego, which could be why he thinks of himself as one now that I think about it)

The reason the respawn machines are up is because both Engineers got alerts that Gray Mann was planning on sending his robots (the teams got time to prepare so might as well build the things that’ll keep the war going by endlessly respawning)

Cheaper than constantly cloning them but still, Jesus Christ

Also, the respawn machine might be why Snipers a bit, off, so Medic and Engineer have to figure that out and deal with the robots

I think the idea I have for the creation of the Spy copy is that something was leaking from Spy’s machine while he was still in it, the leaking created an eldritch copy of him, the copy escaped before he could tell anyone, and now its somewhere in the base

(I really should do a comparison of the 2)

Also, the respawn machine showed Sniper some shit and now he can't sleep (he and Spy were respawning at the same time)

When he first saw the Spy copy, he thought he was just seeing things so he didn't say anything

(paranoia + sleep deprivation isn't a good combo)

The team has what they call "base pets" or “the (animal) crew” that just kinda hang out on base while the mercs are working

(Archimedes and Lieutenant Bites are prime examples)

But going off of this, Sniper has a hunting/service dog named Lana

(he got her back when he hunted with the Mundy's, before he went off to work for Mann Co.)

The team knows about her and she's even a part of the crew (he took her with him when he went to work)

The breed is either a labrador retriever, a bull arab, or a mix of both breeds

(I think the mix would be better at solving the indecisiveness so I'm going with it)

Engie and Sniper were weird about each other when they first got to Mann Co. (they knew each other from before and couldn't believe that the other person joined this kind of thing, they didn't get that vibe about each other when they met)

Sniper's parents are still alive because I've already given him enough problems as it is (phobias, general paranoia/anxiety, insomnia, all mercs have PTSD of some kind so that counts, and more) and he needs some happiness

(and also I love them too much to just kill them off like I can’t bring myself to do it)

I feel like whenever they don't have any direct orders from Mann Co., the mercs will just give themselves/each other things to do

like Medic or Engineer will need supplies but they’re also busy, so they’ll ask whoever’s available to get it for them

(it's usually Sniper as he has a van and I don't really think he has much to do except for being on the lookout so it makes sense)

They will sometimes ask Spy to go with him just so he isn't in his smoking room all-day

The only ships I've really thought about are Engie/Sniper and Medic/Heavy (mostly the former)

Engie and Sniper met in college (Engie was studying abroad for whatever reason), Sniper was eating alone (as he does) and Engie was like “fuck it, let's talk to the loner”, they got talking and exchanged names, numbers, and other info (and so a beautiful relationship was formed because someone gave a lonely kid a goddamn chance for once)

I want to say they’ve been dating for like 8 years (so they've been together for about 4 years when Mann Co. sought them out)

(this is probably why they were weird about each other when they first joined)

Spy, Sniper, Engineer, Medic, and Heavy were all sought out by Mann Co. for their skills and had no choice but to join because of it

On the other hand, Soldier, Pyro, and Scout all joined on their own accord (Demo did too kinda but he was mostly pushed by his mom)

Sniper is allergic to rabbits and certain kinds of alcohol

He's also selectively mute and easily overstimulated/overwhelmed so he has moments where he just spends the day with Pyro or Heavy (as they’re pretty quiet too)

The reason Sniper constantly wears sunglasses is because his eyes are photosensitive (bright lights give him really bad headaches)

This is because of migraines and an eye surgery he had when he was younger

I'll probably be making “identity sheets” in lieu of their files at some point but I need to gather the rest of the canon lore I want to use and find a good template to put the information in

Hold on, was anyone going to tell me that Sniper was canonically suffering from multiple organ failure, or was I just supposed to find that out through a Reddit post about Red Jarate?

Link 1: There's blood in my Jarate: r/tf2

Link 2: TF2 comic page about Jarate

Since Respawn takes place in 2024, I had to figure out when Soldier was barred from joining the army

I took his age (45) and subtracted 18 (when he would've been able to join the army) and got 27

Then I subtracted 27 from 2024 and got 1997 as the year he was barred

But I realized that I had to figure out what war he might have been barred from and to do that I looked up a list of wars from 1990 to 2002, I also had to make sure that the US was actively fighting or at least sending troops

The answer I got was the Afghan civil war (1996-2001) which was between the Islamic State of Afghanistan (supported by Iran and India) and the Taliban, the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan, and al-Qaeda (supported by Pakistan)

America, the UK, Canada, and Australia joined after 9/11 on the side of the Islamic State of Afghanistan so it works

So yeah Soldier was barred from joining the army sometime around 2001

There's an original character called “the Contractor/Informant” that I'll probably be designing soon (I'm also working on her character sheet which will be posted after this goes up)

She works with Miss Pauling to make sure that the information on the contract is right, that the mercs actually get them and get them done

She also has burns on her left arm and near her right eye (references to Kate’s prosthesis) either from a work incident or one involving a Pyro (so still a work incident)

Either way, this injury is part of the reason why she's not a merc (she might’ve been at some point but I have to figure it out)

Sniper was in nature documentaries and he was also doing some kind of commentary-type deal before working for Mann Co.

Scout worked at both KFC and McDonald's before joining Mann Co., he also did some professional baseball games but he got pulled from them at some point

Sniper's parents are housing a kid named Javier who is about 6 years old

Now I still need to figure out the reason why they're housing him or what's going to happen next (like are they going to keep the kid or will Sniper and Engie adopt him?)

(the second is likely but they need to figure out how to balance it with their jobs, and if their bosses would let them in the first place)

Sniper can determine whos who just by their footsteps (something he learned in his childhood) and can mimic them convincingly

Pyro might be the only one who actually knows whos a Spy or not (good for spy checking)

I feel like since Sniper, who was a literal infant at the time, was in a fucking spaceship that landed in someone’s yard, he’d be a literal spaceship baby (termed coined by Scout during a discussion about this) and most likely would've made at least national news

(because come on, if I found a fucking baby in a goddamn spaceship and it landed in my yard, I wouldn't shut up about it)

Now I wonder if his birth parents would've reported him missing or not, probably not given how self centered they are but i have some hope that they would

Engineer made a program with the sole purpose of keeping pyro distracted while hes working

[ao3feed-tf2ships]

After Contract Life

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/50184019

by idontunderstand_writing

Sniper and Scout finally have peace. No more contracts, no more fighting; just them, a farm, and a future that could be peaceful for them.

Sniper deals and comes to terms (for the most part) with his complex relationship with his identity, Scout has his own problems with being a parent now, and well.. their kids gotta deal with being seen as weirdos by everyone around them.

Words: 2241, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Team Fortress 2

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M, Other

Characters: Sniper (Team Fortress 2), Scout (Team Fortress 2), Original Team Fortress 2 Character(s), Other Character Tags to Be Added

Relationships: Scout/Sniper (Team Fortress 2), Other Relationship Tags to Be Added

Additional Tags: Drabble Collection, Post-Canon, Autistic Sniper (Team Fortress 2), Scout Has ADHD (Team Fortress 2), Trans Scout (Team Fortress 2), Identity Issues, Aboriginal Australian Sniper (Team Fortress 2), Māori Sniper (Team Fortress 2), Costa Rican-American Scout (Team Fortress 2), Australian Slang, Domestic Bliss, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Non-Explicit Sex, Family Shenanigans, Sniper finally gets a real family, Author Projecting onto Sniper (Team Fortress 2), (we share struggles with our identities and i project hard onto him), Inappropriate amounts of Dilf Sniper content (Scout wants him so badly), me too honestly, Unplanned Pregnancy, twice!, References to The Dreaming | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Spiritual Beliefs

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/50184019