#project Freelancer

[kronosveritas]

Amazing commission I got from forever ago by @punzoclown that I just realized I never posted

TUCKINGTON MY BELOVED

I never posted this because right around that time I fell off the face of the earth and did NOT post on tumblr for a while, but LOOK! HERE THEY ARE. THE GAYS.

I love them. Also, punzoclown is very talented and incredibly cooperative to work with on these sorts of things, highly recommend. Sharkylass was really great too. Highly recommend them both.

(Wash isn’t as short here as I typically like to draw him, but that’s on me for forgetting to be more specific lol)

[churchyaoi]

they're so besties to me

[zaleskasconundrum]

He has said this at least once

[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.

[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

[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.)

[justtkatt]

Freelancer break time

The main freelancers!!! omitting tex

I realized I’ve never actually drawn all of them, so I wanted to give it a go for one of my school assignments!

[major-comet]

the hill that i will absolutely die on with rvb is that its so much funnier if we imagine that gamma really did figure out how to send church back in time.

obviously the rest of the reds and blues didn’t travel through time from the bomb, that’s presented as being ridiculous even in s3 through tucker’s perspective. i love the idea of vic hearing about their ideas and being like “well fuck. i guess we’re doing time travel now.”

church traveling through time and causing all of his own problems, however, is beautiful. guy who loves to blame other people for everything suddenly confronted with the fact that he’s the source of his own issues. wonderful. mwah.

but just. i love to imagine that the way that gamma and wyoming used the temporal distortion unit in blood gulch was just something they figured out how to do. time travel and time loops. no one else had ever even conceived of it being used like that - the way the meta used it was the way it was actually designed to be used.

and i have to imagine that this left the director and price completely baffled. like, what do you mean one of our agents managed to invent time travel. what do you Mean by that. how the fuck did he do that.

they had to lie through their teeth and say “yeah that was totally us. it was all a simulation and those idiotic sim troopers fell for it. psssh, of course time travel isn’t real. how stupid of them to think that.” because the alternative is admitting to the unsc that alongside all of their fucked up and evil experiments, one of their agents managed to invent time travel. no, we have no idea how he did it. no, you can’t ask him about it. because he’s dead. no, you can’t talk to the AI either. no, we don’t know where the AI is. probably pulled into that whole meta fiasco we’ve been worried about, honestly. whoopsie daisy.

[them-in-stem]

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

[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.

[jayquinnwhit3]

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

[w3llf4ll]

Why the fuck are there so many tiny variants in Maine’s armor. Anyways, screencap draw over to learn how to make his shapes better. The way I draw armor is pretty flat so I might do more screencap draw overs to practice how to make it look like it’s got depth?

Ft. My husbands little doodle of Wash

[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

[shadz420]

Tex is very disappointed in her husband:(

[justtkatt]

Me when strong women freelancers

Some recent sketchbook pages! I’ve been trying to do more dynamic poses with more muscular body types, so why not draw some freelancers?

I like to headcanon each of them have their own specialty with training and combat. Carolina does MMA, Tex does boxing, and South does body building!