#rvb o’malley

[polkasharks]

I was giggljng like a fucking madman nearly the entire time I drew the O’Malley one that’s pretty ironic huh. This is the type shit I spend my time on

[w3llf4ll]

⚠️ BLOOD/GORE CW ⚠️

Thinking about O’Malley and his issues with being human.

Stills under the line break.

The gif is having issues so I might try reuploading later.

This was originally meant to be a mini comic, but I went too hard on the rendering. Oops.

[squidshop-art]

caboose as pyro in your tf2 universe is so adorable holy SHIT

TY!! on the topic of my rvb tf2 au i might as well share some doodles i made for it

[kade-is-here]

Can you do a omalley stim board?

RvB O’Malley Stimboard, requested by Anon!!! :] Safe /srs

!!!HEADPHONE WARNING—ROCK MUSIC!!!

Length: 1 minute

Requests are open!

[joltning]

rewwtch anon is back, yknow i wasnt too fond of donut the first couple times i watched but the o malley v donut fight is soooo peak its so well done its singlehandedly made me like donut it shot him up like 3 levels (i payed attention to the fight this time)

i may not like s16 but that fight is so good. It’s the peak of what s16 stands for. Goofy, chaotic, random, with serious stuff interlaced. that’s my jam. even if s16 did shit all with that. no other rvb season could pull off donut fighting doc with the american flag on the moon (even if it should be a white fl

[doxxed0367]

Does anyone in the rvb community know how long Doc was infected with the Omega AI for? Im curious

[i-give-u--art]

(click for better graphics) Me???? Forgetting to post my finished possessed Caboose art?? Never!!!!

[dgknightblue]

Screen shot this again.

[major-comet]

i think it’s really funny how post-pfl wyoming, gamma, and omega all decided that now that they were done committing like, Big League War Crimes, it was time to go be a comedic minor league villain for a while and be a nuisance to some of their boss’ other employees. they’re not their coworkers, but certainly employed by their boss.

and i respect the hell out of that

[daydreamerdrew]

“Red vs. Blue in Halo Reach Fire Fight!”

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

“Oops! Sorry about that big explosion!”

“SORRY IT WASN’T BIGGER!”

Doc’s turn for the GW2 au! Did i make him a mesmer almost solely bc I wanted to give him support rifle (shoot your allies to heal them! Trust me!) ? Maybe! If the shoe fits and all that

[banamine-bananime]

i think it’s really amazing how we’re 3/3 on systems in rvb having their own o’malley. omega not only is literally brain-computer virus man serially infecting whole bases of sim troopers, but he committed to the bit so hard that the very concept of o’malley appears to be virally memetic to the point he’s like an inevitable comorbidity with DID in the rvbverse

[w3llf4ll]

I don’t remember what this was going to be labeled with.

Something something, weight of your sins? Something something sharing a pastry boyfriend? I don’t know.

[clocks-are-round]

i think they would be best buds but find it extremely awkward at first

~~i mayyy have a work-in-progress fic where they meet :3 i’ve posted some snippets of it here on tumblr before~~

the perpetual question in everyone’s mind: would omega and o’malley try to kill each other or would they make out

[clocks-are-round]

it’s very fun writing unreliable narrators. only letting the audience be told outright what the narrator believes to be true. or wants to be true.

but a shortcoming of it— although it’s par for the course— is worrying that readers won’t see what i left hidden between the lines. not knowing what’s too blatant and what’s not obvious enough. because of this i think sometimes the characters come across as a bit more “tsundere” than initially planned, insisting “no it’s definitely not because i’m (x adjective they’re in denial about)” in an attempt to make their self-deception more clear.

like i was rereading the three months o’malley epilogue— minor spoiler warning i guess. i’ll only be talking about one sentence and doing character analysis related to it—

he says when he was born he was inexplicably angry, threw a tantrum that shorted out the power of the MoI, and barely remembers the event.

i wonder if readers will understand omalley is describing a serious anxiety attack— one that he either mostly repressed or was hampering his ability to make long term memory in the moment— that he demeans as a “tantrum” because he’s so used to a specific negative self-image that “anxious” does not fit in to. he does not believe he could have been the victim of an “anxiety attack” because he is the “attacker”. my guy woke up to existence and immediately had a meltdown over all these intense emotions he could not fathom the cause of. (*slaps director and counselor and then points over at alpha and all the fragments* look you gave them anxiety! and so so much repressed trauma)

he was treated like a machine/tool with little to no personhood by everyone but those who were friends to him and like many other fragments had internalized that “only purpose is to be helpful— ambitions and dreams? yeah i don’t get to have those. im the [single emotion/concept] one and that’s all i’ll ever be” for a long time. and any deviation from that directive was being “faulty” and a flaw rather than acknowledgement of being more “human” than the higher-ups wanted to admit.

it didn’t help that he was the “angry” one. the “problem” ai, the “destructive” one. he ended up embracing it, but internalizing that kind of self image fucks you up.

i just have a lot of thoughts and feelings about omalley ai still. a lot comes from headcanon, but those headcanons were influenced by what scraps we get in canon material.

When it comes down to it, I guess I can always explain my thought process elsewhere, like i did here. I am my primary audience first and foremost so I think with that kind of thing, as long as I understand, that’s what matters most.

[joltning]

day 17: free space