#mark temple

[joltning]

dumb doodle but if they were gonna fuse any shisno characters together it shouldn’t have been jax and dylan it should have been genkins and temple and let him be the villian for 3 seasons because the amount of cunt from a shapeshifting gay theatre kid would have saved any bad writing immediately

[bugsontoastt]

its about time i've drawn him

[agentbuckshot]

worst flight ever of all time

[calhanx]

dude wear brown contacts im serious

[kandyarts]

I’m noticing some sorta rvb renaissance going on here so I guess now’s a good time to post my art uhhhhhh

[karvviie]

mark temple you will always be gay

[originally posted march 2022]

[the-headless-horsedude]

[fischiee]

rvb au where when grif shows back up in s15 temple loses it and abandons his evil plan to become a weird half-companion where he keeps following grif around and trying to get him to run away with him

[magnificentcoffeehottub]

IS HANGOUT TIME

helOOO GOOBS FREND AGAIN

[leonardalphachurch]

temple’s active choice to be a villain is so interesting to me because. like. i’ve joked before “temple was literally right all he had to do was not be a serial killer about it” but that is, of course, the whole point of his character. he’s not just the villain who’s right but also kicks puppies, he’s CHOOSING to be the villain who’s right and delights in kicking puppies. i think he very easily could have gone the route of seeing himself as a hero? like “i don’t care if you don’t approve of my methods, i’m the good guy, i’m liberating people, i’m fighting against a corrupt system” because he kinda is that— and he does have some amount of self righteousness but. he is very explicitly, intentionally, deliberately the villain.

and like, yeah. of course. characters like temple are the villains. you’re disrupting the status quo? you’re fighting against the establishment? you want to dismantle the system??? no, it doesn’t matter how many good points you have. you’re evil. you’re the bad guy. you’ll always be the bad guy. and having temple be aware of this, be genre savvy enough to know that he’ll be seen as the villain and embrace it? it’s soooo. GOD. you could’ve really written something actually compelling there couldn’t you.

temple is the perfect character to analyze the concept of “villain who’s right but has to be evil about it so we can root against them and uphold the status quo” because he, diegetically, is that. he’s choosing to be that. he is purposefully invoking that archetype. but instead of deconstructing it they just played it straight. at the end of the day he is just the villain who’s right but also kicks puppies. and it’s sad! it’s sad it ended up like that. at least we have this.

[w3llf4ll]

Revealing my magnum opus: Holy Ghost AU (name… under construction)

BLURB CW: Mentions of gore/decomposition, and canon-typical violence

ART CW: Suggestive Themes, Robot Blood(?)

αChurch doesn’t get erased, not completely. While he was projecting his consciousness into Washington’s neural implants when the emp hit, his core is still buried in Blood Gulch. While Temple is starting up his freelancer hunt, he finds information about The Alpha’s human host… and where it’s buried. He digs up αChurch, an ai that’s been stuck in an abandoned base for years at this point, alone and deteriorating, but still more whole than the fragments ever were, trapped in an unmoving decomposed corpse. He digs him up, has his teammates make him an ai body, and team up with a mutual hatred for the freelancers and the project, especially Washington in αChurch’s case. Please please please ask me about this AU! I’d be so happy to elaborate!

@rvbrarepairweekdos

My Commissions Are Open You Should Check Them Out (u really cant beat $5 - $10 halfbodies)

[valveorangebox]

Shout out to male manipulators

[hipstersoulgushers-art]

What if scenario, temple knows it’s a Time Machine, shenanigans proceed

[joltning]

Ok ok swap au??

Simmons 🔁 Temple

Griff 🔁 Biff

Where Simmons starts killing the Freelancers cause Carolina killed Grif

And Temple becomes a cyborg to save Biff after he gets crushed by a tank

:3

(My brain rot is real please help me💀)

sorry I had artists block all day today

[kandyarts]

Thinking about pre-villainmode Temple

[karvviie]

(they match each other’s freak)

my thoughts on sharkface/temple under the cut:

Sharkface and Temple have similar character motives and morals. They're both hellbent on getting revenge on PFL for killing the people that they cared about, except they go about getting this revenge in different ways.

Sharkface experiences the death of his teammates indirectly. He hears about it while going through physical therapy and recovering from the injuries he sustained in season 9. He wants to get revenge in a direct way (fighting them head-on). Conversely, Temple watches Biff die explicitly in front of him and gains his revenge in a less direct manner (freezing agents and leaving them to die, or getting the other blues and reds to do the dirty work).

Also, while Sharkface is always clearly coded as a villain (physical appearance, dialogue, actions, etc), he doesn't refer to himself as a villain, but rather just a person who is rightfully angry and out for revenge.

Temple on the other hand, while also being just as angry and vengeful, is introduced in the opposite way. While it is left mostly vague as to whether Temple has malicious intent in the beginning, he actively wants to present himself as a theatrical villain (calling their base a "lair", having evil monologues, his search history "how to villain")

I’d like to think that if they had ever met, their goals would align perfectly for a team-up, but their methods of getting revenge probably wouldn't work out unless they figured out a compromise. there's no way of telling if they would actually get along, but they could have an interesting dynamic since they seem so different (sharkface is fearless and actively seeks violence and physical combat, temple is cowardly and delegates more violent tasks to others, which honestly could be complementary to one another) but have a lot of similarities (a flair for the dramatic) which could potentially allow them to work together really well.

tldr: they're two guys who are super angry, super dramatic, and want revenge on the same people. if they teamed up, their personalities would either make them hate each other or make them get along really well.