#she is not scouts mom in this

[dragonroilz]

meet the female spy. she came from Spain, highly recommended to Mr. Maxis and told that she would be a worthy member of the team. an incredibly learned individual, the spy speaks every major language in Europe, along with several others. she can attribute this to her childhood escapades.

the spy was a problem child, unable to stay with one foster family for more than a month. not because of any sort of issues at home, but rather because of a wanderlust that she could not satiate from simply staying in once place. her attempts to avoid being brought back into the foster care system caused her to become secretive and hidden, finding herself in unsavoury places all across europe and the british isles that required her to do work that was not always within the law. her skills were later recognized by Team Fortress and brought onto the team in which the mercenaries are a part of.

despite her haute tastes in fashion, the spy is generally courteous to the other members of her team but is not hesitant to put certain mercenaries like the scout in their place. she values individuals who are able to complete their tasks with accuracy and efficiency. the mercenaries meet that bar with flying colours.

[smuby]

miss pauling likes hot moms pass it on

[askfordoodles]

Ok, fellow Emmrichmancers, I need to defend my girl Harding here for a bit, cause she's been getting some disdain and eye-rolling for being the supposed 'discourse-mouthpiece' (ie. being the only one calling out the age gap thing).

Listen, ... when she first brings it up, that's what it SOUNDS like she's doing. Harding has a tendency to struggle with wording things well, she's life-smart, not book-smart - so that first banter does read as though she's worried FOR Rook in that patronizing way like a parent or older sibling, who thinks they know better... (heck even Emmrich potentially falls into that trap during the argument)

but then there's follow-up banter and it becomes clear that, no, she's not worried Emmrich might be taking advantage of poor innocent younger Rook; it becomes increasingly clear she's worried about HIS feelings. She's always addressing her concerns to HIM, and worrying about how they're "going too fast" (even IF he's made the promise to Rook to move slowly during their first dinner-date).

Harding's making observations about how he's becoming noticeably "mopey", she can TELL something's worrying HIM. (mind you, not even Rook seemed to have picked up on this)

And in turn he's very honest with Harding about how, despite defending himself against Davrin's juvenile jabs and appreciating/enduring Taash's sentiments and all that jazz, the age gap thing DOES secretly bother him. (the fact that he doesn't start moping straight away suggests that Harding was right, they DID go a bit too fast and Emmrich especially, was blinded by the honeymoon-phase so to speak). He does end up genuinely thanking her for her concern and advice, to try and think ahead about the relationship.

(Although sadly it still takes their potential impending deaths for him to reach their crisis-stage of needing to address his worries and I could do a whole essay alone on how he chooses to handle it, but others already have, so not now)

Say what you will about her, out of all their mutual friends, Harding was the ONLY ONE to see the pre-battle argument coming from A MILE AWAY, and she was trying to gently warn them; to try and nudge her two friends to have a serious talk about the consequences ahead, rather than blithely avoiding it.

tl;dr: Harding's got that serious emotional intelligence, and y'all best RESPECT her relationship advice.

[doctorsiren]

Part 6

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[quotidianish]

Mom-mercs! Ma, mama, maw, and mum.

[okaydiscount]

Scout and his Ma :]

[trypo-p]

You'll never guess what's been rotting in my brain recently. There's probably a lot more rotting in there than just TF2, Emesis Blue and Medic honestly, considering the mental illness.

original scene/screenshot:

[vnynv]

[sweats] m-ma'am...

[mozzcho]

I wanted to draw Scout's mom again with the dress that Mai designed for Christmas. Plus a little interaction with Miss P and finally a tender family moment with her little son.

[rexscanonwife]

Mama Scout loves her babies! 🥺🫶💖

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[rowrowronnie]

this started out as brush practice and then it devolved into my scout’s ma was a spy au whoops

[smuby]

scouts ma for the au i have in my head. there aren't two sets of moms for each scout there is just one single ma which makes her special <3

[redgearsmovin]

mm genderbend sketches

[racmune]

personal notes on miss pauling's model for my own art, thought id post it tho cause someone might make use of it too. (plus miss paulings unwrap from the 2023 dev repo leak for color picking schtuffs) hope you enjoy

[gophergal]

In which Scout only has one photo of her mom

(pf)

[okaydiscount]

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scouts ma