#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.

[rctchild]

really  LONG  CHARACTER  SURVEY.    RULES.  repost ,   don’t  reblog  !    tag  10  ! good  luck  !    TAGGED. thanks for inflicting this on me @exspiravitae​    TAGGING. oh god no

BASICS.

FULL  NAME :   malkhaz millward NICKNAME :   mal; often referred to as “boy”, “child”, various other references to his young age TITLE :   the boy from southshore ; “young blood” AGE :   14 perpetually BIRTHDAY :   april 14. ETHNIC  GROUP :   forsaken undead of lordaeron NATIONALITY :   horde / forsaken LANGUAGE / S :   gutterspeak/forsaken ; orcish ; common ; a few words of thalassian. SEXUAL  ORIENTATION :   he’s a child ROMANTIC  ORIENTATION :   bi RELATIONSHIP  STATUS :   uh HOME  TOWN / AREA :   brill, tirisfal glades CURRENT  HOME :   n/a (traveller) PROFESSION :  outlaw rogue/mercenary ; primarily takes work for the horde & occasionally neutral party.

PHYSICAL.

HAIR :   short, shaggy dirty blond. EYES :   blank, white & glowing with ghostlight FACE :   round, childlike. didn’t really get to mature much before death. LIPS :   pale & cracked COMPLEXION :   freckled ; acne & maggot holes cover his face. BLEMISHES :   the above acne & maggot holes, alongside several spots of discolouration around where bone peeks through flesh. SCARS :  bruises & cuts like a rotting fruit beneath his leather armour. most notably, a large patch of particularly rotten, greenish skin covering his chest & midsection with visible stitches holding it to the rest of his flesh. TATTOOS :   n/a HEIGHT :   5″1 WEIGHT :   god help me i don’t know. light, for his age. i’ll edit this when i find it from a previous meme BUILD :   frail/skeletal FEATURES :  idk what i haven’t already detailed above. young and sweet as a child, but not quite lacking in the grotesque and the nastiness of undeath. ALLERGIES :   light ; all holy magic burns him, though it can still heal him. USUAL  HAIR  STYLE :   shaggy, messy & tangled. it hasn’t seen a hairbrush in years. USUAL  FACE  LOOK :   blank, wide-eyed. not quite innocent. USUAL  CLOTHING :   common white shirt & pants / dark leather armour, with long cloak & cowl

PSYCHOLOGY.

FEAR / S :   being buried ASPIRATION / S :   to champion the forsaken ; to be regarded as a hero. POSITIVE  TRAITS :   ambitious / curious / soft-hearted / loyal / political NEGATIVE  TRAITS :   bratty / impulsive / self-critical / dwells on the past / ambiguous morality MBTI :   esfp-t ZODIAC :   aries TEMPEREMENT :   sanguine SOUL  TYPE / S :   helper ANIMALS :   eagle VICE  HABIT / S :   typical undead cannibalism & bloodthirst, nbd FAITH :   doesn’t subscribe to anything reverently, but does follow the main guidance of the cult of forgotten shadow; that is to say its main three virtues, & what they mean for the forsaken. there is potential for him to properly involve himself in that faith within the right set of circumstances. GHOSTS ? :   yes AFTERLIFE ? :   yes REINCARNATION ? :   yes ALIENS ? :   yes POLITICAL  ALIGNMENT :   horde EDUCATION  LEVEL :   ...what even is schooling in azeroth. uh, average up to whatever azerothian youth gets up to 14 years old. after that, his education is housed strictly in forsaken culture & history, as well as all his rogue stuff.

FAMILY.

FATHER :   jurian millward MOTHER :   annemarie millward SIBLINGS :   n/a CHILDREN :   he IS a children. EXTENDED  FAMILY :   undetermined NAME  MEANING / S :   possibly “beautiful/elegant/youthful” in gregorian. in azeroth it would likely have a pretty different meaning. HISTORICAL  CONNECTION ? :   ‘khaz’ refers to the titan khaz’goroth in dwarven. it’s noted that human names can occasionally derive from dwarven tongue (or the two cultures just straight-up share names between the two languages), so it’s likely malkhaz as a name in azeroth has its roots in dwarven history or folktale.

FAVORITES.

BOOK :   some classic forsaken reading probably MOVIE :   n/a 5  SONGS :     what do you think azerothian pop would be like. i bet you anything goblins would invent it. the alliance likely gets bright, cutesy fluff while the horde would favour party music with the occasional stupid novelty. DEITY :   like many forsaken, mal is more of a heretic ; he will, if anything, actively seek to anger/irritate a higher power just to say that he did it. HOLIDAY :   hallow’s end. MONTH :   october. SEASON :   fall. PLACE :   tirisfal glades. WEATHER :   rain, particularly in the dead of night. SOUND :   silence, the kind before a brutal murder. SCENT / S :   petrichor & dead bodies piled on top of one another. TASTE / S :   blood & humanoid meat. FEEL / S :   mud under one’s feet. ANIMAL / S :   cats, particularly big cats (ie; lions & tigers, etc.) ; bats, wyverns, plaguehounds, pretty much any of the lordaeronian national animals. NUMBER :  13 COLORS :   blue, faded purples, black & dark grey.

EXTRA.

TALENTS :   rogue work ; dagger proficiency, makes excellent use of a grappling hook & he is a clever little bugger in battle. BAD  AT :   most creative pursuits / for some reason most animals don’t like him. ironic, since mommy was a hunter and her lioness adored him. TURN  ONS :   no TURN  OFFS :   no HOBBIES :   tailoring, traveling. TROPES :    Undead Child / Creepy Child / Creepy Cute / Not Growing Up Sucks / Break/Corrupt the Cutie / Teens Are Monsters / Don’t You Dare Pity Me! / Took A Level In Badass / Dark Is Not Evil / The Kindness Of Strangers / Teens Are Short / Youthful Freckles / Conflicting Loyalty / Expecting Someone Taller / Momma’s Boy QUOTES :   “tenacity… ambition… power. these are the virtues the forsaken need to survive.” / “no one’s innocent in war.” / “sure, i’m never gonna be too old for hallow’s end candy & winter’s veil presents, but i also know greatfather winter’s a guy in a suit & i can’t find any friends my own age.”

FC INFO.

MAIN  FC / S : chandler riggs as carl grimes in the walking dead, because i couldn’t find anyone better. ALT  FC / S :  did you know teen actors are actually really hard to find? OLDER  FC / S :   n/a YOUNGER  FC / S :   n/a VOICE  CLAIM / S :   n/a GENDERBENT  FC / S :   n/a

MUN QUESTIONS.

Q1 :   if  you  could  write  your  character  your  way  in  their  own movie ,   what  would  it  be  called ,  what  style  would  it  be filmed  in ,  and  what  would  it  be  about ?          

    it’d be basically the “rogue one” to warcraft’s star wars. a side story in the universe, for a baby budding hero among the undead ; structured similarly to the first warcraft movie, with the horde plot & the alliance plot colliding, except much less tedious about its exposition in the first third. also the alliance main character would be his mommy.

Q2 :   what  would  their  soundtrack / score  sound  like ?          

   grunge-y rock music about darkness and violent thoughts and defiance ; or just some simple music-box-esque melodies with poetic lyrics about internal conflict. and probably remixes of the background music that plays in tirisfal.

Q3 :   why  did  you  start  writing  this  character ?

   because i have always loved the forsaken. i only played a trial back when wrath was newly a thing and remember literally nothing about vanilla wow, but i think i realized at some point early on when i properly joined the fandom that the forsaken have a) always been my favourite undead from anything ever, in that they’re everything i’ve always wanted to see (zombies with an actual culture of their own, with a matriarch and a dark outlook on life but still having fun doing their thing) and b) those brief, very faded memories of the forsaken from back then have inspired how i draw undead characters. notably in the shoulders and the ribs, i think. maybe the hands too idk. i remember the first time i tried drawing a forsaken when first entering the fandom, and it felt like i’d done it before but god help me i would never be able to confirm that. but it felt so natural to me anyway. ... uh, anyway, mal in particular. um, out of the oc concepts that i had, he felt like the one that would be the easiest to throw at people and dump wherever to interact without needing to stretch too hard to force interaction.

Q4 :   what  first  attracted  you  to  this  character ?          

   he is my oc and i love him. he’s smol, cute, and i can get a variety of character flavours out of him from the sweet, inspired child to the nasty, flesh-eating monster.

Q5 :   describe  the  biggest  thing  you  dislike  about  your  muse.        

    muse for this brat keeps avoiding me. B’T he also keeps developing in my head before he has any reason to change. i basically have his character arc plotted before it can even happen, or before i can even be sure of what’ll happen as the plot goes on.

Q6 :   what  do  you  have  in  common  with  your  muse ?          

   he’s an inch shorter than me, so, uh, both smol. brown eyes, though his haven’t been brown in a long time. personality-wise, we both kind of go at our own pace which isn’t really slow but also isn’t quite the progress we want or need it to be.

Q7 :   how  does  your  muse  feel  about  you ?          

    i’m p sure he’d just kind of tolerate me because i’m living and human and would probably insist on trying to cuddle him if my hatred of kids (or my common sense... or my sense of smell) doesn’t take precedence over my love for my baby. probably best-case scenario for me tbh in that he’d be okay with me rather than trying to straight-up kill me lmao :’3

Q8 :   what  characters  does  your  muse  have  interesting  interactions  with ?        

   everyone tbh??? but especially sylvanas, anduin, jaina, thassarian ; & on the oc side of things, euanthe (also artan & mitun but particularly the former thESE TWO ARE IDIOTS), kal’rokh, the stuff with aquler is starting out strong, mar...

Q9 :   what  gives  you  inspiration  to  write  your  muse ?        

    i will figure that out someday, and exploit it so that i’m not sitting here with TWENTY DRAFTS & doing none of them. 8′)))

Q10 :   how  long  did  this  take  you  to  complete ?

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