#potentially idk i was trying to do bright colors but not sure if i properly committed to that

[helielune]

my reaction to seeing mob's actual irises is apparently to not draw him with irises

[tf2-hellhole]

can we get some fluffy tf2 headcannons? giving you full creative liberty over this one! :)

Idk if you meant tf2 x reader headcanons or just general head canons, so I did two sections for each merc; the first point is a general headcanon, the second is X Reader.

sorry this took forEEEEEEEEVER, I was just experiencing burnout and working on a prize for a contest on my server (BTW WE HAVE A NEW DRAWING CONTEST GO CHECK IT OUT)

Scout:

Scout is actually really self-concious about his intelligence. He’s not very bright and he knows it, and it makes him feel horrible. He had flunked out of high school and struggled in most of his core classes. He honestly feels really stupid and he hates when people point it out. But luckily for him, a lot of the other mercs understand what it’s like to be looked down upon and empathize with him. Quite a few of them help him relearn the skills he never mastered in school. Engie helps him with math, Spy sometimes helps him with writing, and even Pyro has him read children’s books to them to improve his reading.

Scout absolutely loves little casual dates. Stuff like going out to eat lunch, going to the movies, maybe just cuddling up in his quarters and watching a movie. He tries to plan one every week. His dream date is taking you back to Boston to meet his family and go to a Red Sox game. But obviously, since you’re both in New Mexico at the time, he’s going to have to shelve that dream for a few years.

Soldier:

Soldier is an excellent raccoon dad. At first, the other mercenaries thought they’d all end up dead by the end of the month when he first found them. But surprisingly, they are are very well cared for. They’re all fed regularly and basically have his entire assigned quarters to themselves. He loves every single one of them dearly, even the ones that hiss and scratch him every time. The raccoons, at least some of them, are kind of like weird, quiet dogs, and actually get along pretty well with most of the other mercenaries.

Soldier is a surprisingly very physically affectionate partner, and he’s not at all opposed to PDA. He loves hand holding, cheek kisses, cuddles, the whole nine yards. Whenever he’s particularly excited, he loves to run up to you, scoop you up into his arms, and press a hard, sloppy kiss to your lips. Of course, he’s careful to not hurt you, but he’s a very intense, emotional guy and he needs to express all that love he has for you!

Pyro:

Pyro is and excellent listener, so they’re a person a lot of the other mercenaries depend on to vent. Demo often comes to them to vent about his emotions, Scout, Sniper, or Medic will rant about what’s bothering them, and even Engineer will talk about his stress. And of course, Pyro doesn’t understand a lot of what is told to them, but they’re still happy to help them feel a little better, and they would happily do it a hundred times over to make their friends feel better.

Pyro has a hobby of baking and making candy/treats, and they love sharing everything they make with you. When they first gave you a treat, you honestly thought it’d be burnt or bad in some other way. But to your surprise, it was amazing! They’re actually and excellent cook, but they just love making sweet things the best. They’ll make you just about anything you could ask for without hesitation, but they’re best at making anything sweet.

Demo:

Demo obviously has the potential to pretty emotional when he’s drunk, there’s no doubt about that. But on the off-chance that he’s sober, he’s actually pretty sweet and considerate. Though he still is a rough-housing joker, he’s much more considerate of his friends’ feelings and has deeper and more meaningful conversations with them. He often likes to go to bars with his friends and co-workers on ceasefire weekends, having lots of fun conversation, drinking together, and generally causing chaos around town.

Demo, to put it simply, doesn’t like himself. He’s critical of everything, from his skills to race, because people have always put him down about them. His mother told him he’s lazy and unskilled too many times to count, just everyone makes fun of his eye, and many have made fun of his skin color. But you make him feel so much better about himself. Just the fact that someone so kind and gorgeous is actually with him makes him feel like he’s not as horrible as he thought. There’s been a couple of times where you’ve accidentally almost brought him to tears with a sweet compliment or show of affection, because he never thought in a million years that someone would love him and care for him like you do. He feels so blessed that he has someone like you.

Heavy:

I know the fandom’s decided that Engie is the Team Mom and makes the food, but I also think that Heavy cooks a lot too. He makes all of his own food, so he often makes a lot of extras to feed the team because a lot of them just eat junk food and Medic’s always complaining about their eating habits. Heavy often takes like half the food for himself (he does have a huge appetite and loves food, so he likes to take a lot) and just boxes up the leftover portions and leaves them in the fridge for the team to take. He says he’s only doing it because they can’t work properly if they’re unhealthy, but he also does it because he cares about their health. A little bit.

At first, you wouldn’t think Heavy’s the most cuddly guy. But surprise, he actually loves giving and receiving physical affection. He just doesn’t show it often out of respect for your boundaries, and doesn’t do it around others. His absolute favorite thing is to cuddle you against his chest. Sometimes it’s when going to sleep, or cuddling on the couch, or maybe just a quick hug. He just loves the feeling of your head resting against his chest and your arms trying (and failing) to wrap around his torso. It makes him feel like you’re safe. Nobody could ever get you when you’re wrapped up in his arms.

Engie:

You’d think Sniper’s the only nature nerd on the team, but Engie absolutely loves the outdoors, as well as animals. It’s because his father would often take him out camping every couple of months. It was often the only time he would get 1-on-1 time with his usually very busy father. So he does love the great outdoors, especially that of his home state. He especially loves animals. He was raised on a farm and helped take care of lots of injured wild animals with his mother. He absolutely loves pets and would like to have many when he retires. His dream is to have is own ranch, with horses and cows and a bunch of dogs and the whole shebang.

Engie absolutely loves playing the guitar, so of course he loves playing for you. He learns all sorts of sweet love songs to sing to you. He’s an excellent player and actually has a pretty decent singing voice (think Johnny Cash, he kinda has that singing style). I hope you like country music, because that’s all he’s going to sing to you until you give him some requests or he finds out your favorite artists or genres. You can tell how happy he is every time he gets to surprise you with a new song he learned, and he’d be a giddy, laughing mess if you sang along with him.

Medic:

You’d think this guy takes horrible care of his birds because of the environment he keeps them in, but his birds are actually exceptionally well cared for. He buys them only the best and most expensive bird food, gives them super high-quality water with vitamins n stuff in it, takes them to the vet regularly, the whole shebang. Yeah they get a little dirty from sitting around in his lab, but he always gives them a little bath at the end of the day to get all the blood and guts off.

Medic is honestly such a playful partner. Of course, around his co-workers he’s a little more professional; he still gives you soft touches, a kiss on the cheek, or a big smile, but that’s about it. In private, however, he’s such a sweetheart. He’s always sweeping you up into big hugs, kissing all over your face, and calling you all sorts of adorable nicknames in a variety of languages. It comes as a surprise, because you’d think he’d be a little more formal, but that’s really only for special occasions. It honestly brings him so much joy to have someone like you by his side, and every day he’s going to make sure you know just how grateful he is to have you in his life.

Sniper:

Sniper is an incredibly independent and self-sufficient man, but he’s also secretly a real mama’s boy. He loves his parents dearly and has a particularly close relationship with his mother. As well as sending them money every month, he sends them all sorts of gifts, letters, postcards, and souvenirs. He also makes sure to call them regularly. He goes home every couple of months to visit them, and one could see that he loves helping around the house and chatting with his parents. His mother loved gardening, so his number-1 favorite thing to do is help her in the garden.

Despite Sniper’s obvious lack of knowledge on self-care, he takes a lot of time out of his day to make sure you are happy, healthy, clean, and well-fed. He doesn’t hound you like a helicopter parent but he likes to ask how you’re feeling, if you’re hungry, stuff like that. It feels nice to know you’re taken care of or take care of you himself. If you switch it around and try to take care of him, however, he’s honestly baffled as to why you would care so much as to make sure he’s doing well. He does absolutely love the affection and attention he gets out of it though, it makes him feel loved.

Spy:

I’ve mentioned this before, but I have a head canon that Spy has a dog. Her name is Charlotte, and she’s an elderly Chihuahua. One would think he’d buy a French breed, but he found her out in the pouring rain one day and fell in love with her fluffy ears and spunky personality. She’s now 17 years old, extremely frail, missing most of her teeth, and extremely aggressive to anyone other than Spy, but he loves her dearly and pays for all of her medical expenses without batting an eye. And of course, she expresses her thanks with lots of kisses.

Spy loves dancing, and knows all kinds of dances, from flamenco to ballroom dancing to the Charleston to, canonically, disco. So of course, he’s dying to share all of the most romantic dances he knows with you. He’d love to actually teach you how to dance, rewarding you with kisses every time you finally get a move right and laughing softly when you make mistakes. But in reality, he just wants to use it as an excuse to dance with you against his chest and smother you in affection.

[williusnillius]

Final Space, Season 1; A Review

My sister recommended this series to me so I said what the heck let’s watch it. And then I did watch it...and now I’m reviewing it.

yeah

no spoilers, I’ll only go in depth into examples from the first two or so episodes.

Final Space, Season 1; A Review 

Final Space is about a prisoner in space named Gary and his sudden acquisition of a bioweapon+ he dubs Mooncake. Right off the bat you can tell he’s lonely, impulsive, and never fails to respond to anything with a quip or one liner. 

I mean it, I’m sure Gary has more lines than the rest of the cast put together. 

All that’s fine and dandy, and we go along on his adventure to protect Mooncake. And that’s where problems start coming up.

The storytelling runs flat, well not flat, maybe vertical? It tries to tell too much too fast, leading to things being introduced and resolved in the same episode without time to become invested in anything. Avocato is introduced end of episode 1 as a bad guy? Oh he goes through a whole redemption arc within the first half of episode two. Things like that happen and feel like a core problem with the show, it needs to learn to pace itself.

And this lack of pacing causes another problem, there’s no time for character motivations, or maybe the writers didn’t think they were necessary? Or maybe they thought motivations would be more obvious, idk, I’m not them. Characters just do things or create connections because of nothing, it just happens. Gary sees Quinn and tries 2 or 3 pickup lines? Time to send her video messages without response everyday for 5 years. I was excited at that one, hoping it was going in a direction of Gary’s loneliness and personality led him to fall in love not with a person, but the idea of a person, but no. He just becomes like that. Avocato tries to betray Gary, a dude he met half a day ago, so he can get his son? Nevermind now he’s saving Gary and risking his son, who was the whole reason he was doing anything. These things definitely have motivations, Gary is an impulsive individual and maybe something ties him down to Quinn after that first impulse. Avocato could have thought Lord Commander was going to double cross him after anyway, or had no need for him anymore, or would have been miserable even if he got his son back, or whatever, but we don’t get any of that. Instead of motivations, people just act and we are expected to sprint along and match pace.

Which is what Gary’s nonstop stream of lines helps cover up. I actually like that part of Gary, I feel it’s an interesting look into his psyche and how he really is a lonely individual. Maybe he feels empty, never wanting silence to fall lest the people near him see him for what he thinks he is, a boring nobody and leave. Maybe it’s something else, but whatever it is it’s a strong personality trait and as long as it makes sense there’s no problem with it being there. The only problem, other than the lack of development Gary and the  other characters get to make more sense of their characters, is that Gary fills up the show with noise and advances the story, distracting from the lack of details we feel we need to properly follow the story. This leads to his already somewhat annoying character becoming a scapegoat for issues with the show, which leads to him being more annoying which makes watching the show an even worse time because you’re watching a show with a protagonist that just irritates you and the story is rushing past and the characters aren’t being developed but you can see there’s potential and ugh.

I don’t think he’s overly annoying but that’s how I imagine some people feel.

Now that isn’t to say the characters aren’t good. I’m interested in Gary and why he is who he is, same with Avocato and his motivations, and same with the rest of the cast. The characters themselves are good characters, the problem is they’re rarely expanded or delved into. The best example of this would be Avocato’s son, in my eyes. There’s actually some development in his character, and we see how he’s flawed, how he grows, and really get to understand who  he is and what he’s thinking.  We connect to him and ultimately become more invested in the show. Which is good, duh. I would go more into detail about this but spoilers.

Now what Final Space does well, even does great, is visuals and audio. Background art is a jam, often consisting of bright strong colors glowing to add to the fantasy of space. From the interior of the ship to civilizations, the art adds to the comedic sci-fi feel of the show through its vibrancy and style. The foreground has a bunch of neat details, like at the start of episode 2 where HUE injects Gary with brain exploding liquid and you see Avocato’s eyes moving accordingly and then his reactions, even when he’s not really the focus of the scene. Or, what I really want to reference but can’t, when there’s the scene with an explosion on the ship and at the end you see one character walk forward as the camera pans toward them removing everything else from the shot, but if you notice Gary actually also slowly steps out of shot which drives home the emotions running around and the situation of this scene that is annoying to not spoil.

And with that scene is some great music, with a slow buildup beforehand that turns into a haunting melody, reminding me of the sort of scenes that Rick and Morty have, with an episode ending with an eerie melody to complement the scenes. It also incorporates a lot of good small sounds such as the notes softly beeping in the background as we enter Lord Commander’s street-city planet...thing in episode 2. It adds to that sense of wonder that Gary feels combined with how we feel, him finally entering a civilization again and both of us arriving at a new alien city.

One more thing that was done extremely well was camera work. In a show where most of the time you’ll only be showing two characters talking, it’s hard to stand out with your camera direction, but Final Space showed up when it counts. Gary running toward the camera to grab his helmet in episode 1 was intense and the transition it led to was extremely enjoyable. It also lends to some visual gags such as in episode 2 while trying to escape, with the spaceships dipping out because nobody wants to be in the line of fire.

What Final Space has is potential. The story is good, the art and visuals are good, the staff are active with their community and have talked about issues such as slowing down future seasons and character balancing. It has the components, it just needs to fix it’s storytelling and find out how to put everything together to give us the author’s vision. I don't think Final Space is a good show, but I definitely think it can become one.

Final Space, Season 1: 2/5

Oh and the scenes at the start of each episode was a cool concept.