#project Freelancer

[w3llf4ll]

Agent Nevada my love

[churchyaoi]

they're so besties to me

[zaleskasconundrum]

He has said this at least once

[asphodeldreams]

did you really think you were the only one who's good with knives?

no joke i have been working on this piece for over a year. posting it now literally just to force myself to stop working on it

i wanna keep doing digital paintings like this but only if i can figure out how to make more than one every 3 fuckin years lmao

[them-in-stem]

Therapist told me to do some self care so I drew the director of project freelancer dying in a glue trap

[shadz420]

Honk mimimmm

[clearlyaginger]

Wash's gay little hip move before yeeting the knife

Reblog if you agree

[tiredandoptimistic]

"The Mother of Invention" really was such a perfect name for Project Freelancer's command ship. It's obviously a pun on that old saying about necessity being the mother of invention (in other words, desperate times lead to innovation) and it gives us a clear look at what the Director was thinking when he set up the project.

In his mind, the war was this pressure forcing him to push himself and his soldiers further than they could comfortably stand. He took it upon himself to turn that ship into a high stress environment, and he used that same pressure to shatter the Alpha into more and more fragments as he convinced it that the only way to survive was to evolve. Of course he knew that he was hurting Alpha and Carolina and the rest, but it was necessary if they were going to win.

He decided to push and push until something broke, because in his mind it was all necessary. They needed to win the war, they needed to make sure Allison's sacrifice wasn't in vain, they needed to bring her back.

Now, he was obviously wrong. The war ended without his ideal AI powered super soldiers ever hitting the battlefield, and Allison deserved to stay at rest. But what I find so interesting is that the Freelancers could never complete their training because the Director was too absorbed in his little experiments. Everything he did to them was supposedly out of necessity, and yet he put two AI in Carolina's head just to see what it would do to her. He intentionally made South feel underappreciated while heaping praise and rewards on North just to see how it would affect their sibling bond. He handed Sigma over to Maine while knowing the risks of their dynamic just to see what they'd become. While the Freelancers were in the thick of it I'm sure that all the ways they were being treated felt necessary in light of the circumstances, but one at a time they all came to realize how artificial those circumstances were.

The Director needed that noble purpose, love and heroism, humanity pushed to bright new frontiers by the fires of war. He needed to tell himself it was all invention stemming from necessity because he couldn't admit that he just wanted to play god with vulnerable people.

[w3llf4ll]

Too nervous to send this to my boyfriend, so you all get this at four forty in the morning instead.

Something something contact training.

[jayquinnwhit3]

Hey. I'm sort of really glad that I got to grow up with you.

[edenxroseyposey]

Washingtub

[asphodeldreams]

decided to brush up on my meta drawing skills in anticipation of me finally watching restoration later this evening

see you on the other side, church

[undidiridium]

Thinking about the time that where I stayed up to 3 am shitposting on Twitter and came up with the world's dumbest ship name and now nearly 15 years later it's still used and some of the VA's of the show have mentioned it.

It was Red V Blue with Agent Carolina and Washington.

I said they should be named CarWash.

14 year old me would be so happy.

[kronosveritas]

Commission from @sharkylass

My babies 😭 <3

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Ik I haven’t been posting or chatting lately (miss you @smilysstuff ) — sorry, I’ve been going through it for a bit. Love y’all though please accept this. High key better than how I draw anyway I can’t color for shit LMAO

[tuckersno1defender]

he's literally the most pathetic man to ever exist (I need him carnally)

( "I don't wanna end up like Georgia! :("

get in my pocket right NEOW)

[shadz420]

Undercover mission Pt2!!

North totally would have worn the heels. But they didn’t fit:(

As you know, Lina knows martial arts, and I just made it that North learned a few things from her in their sparring matches:) He might be a good sharpshooter, but he can definitely defend himself. (Also yes, I referenced the laser rifle pose in the first one.)