#team fortress 2 7th comic

[skyebirdie]

TF2 7TH COMIC SPOILERS

Hey TF2 fandom I feel like we’re not talking about this part of Saxton Hale maybe continuing the whole cycle of the war by telling these two to “work out the details”

CAUSE LIKE… BIDWELL AND REDDY

BIDWELL, REDDY

B, R

BLUE AND RED

[tf2thoughtdump]

Some things I noticed in the 7th TF2 Comic

I’m pretty sure this is Scout’s mailbox we’re looking at so it’s safe to say he’s probably been married at least three times if we’re to take his mailbox to heart, and all three times he’s combined the last names. Willis-Mitchell, Willis-Graham and finally Willis-Gibson

At Jeremy’s home, Spy stares longingly at a portrait of Scout’s mother

Better look at the picture:

Bronislava is a hippie

Edit #3: Why is Bronislava a hippie, I’m confused now but I feel like Sniper has something to do with it

She’s also taking all the polaroids and the first photo she thought of taking was

Beautiful

EDIT #2: YANA IS HOLDING UP A MISTLETOE OVER SNIPER FOR BRONISLAVA

Edit #1: This is Medic’s hand bringing in the baboon

[owlfluffy]

my type is hot single dads actually

[dissentersbedamned]

[trypo-p]

in the end, the true tenth class was us all along <3

[local-hyena]

OUT ? TF2 COMIC ISSUE 7 IS OUT ?? AFTER 7 YEARS ???

Dear Arceus what a perfect news to end this exhausting week

[proxolagist]

[sketchy-mf]

[fexjam]

hi herbert...

[troublemakergalaxy]

the face of a woman who just lied so fucking hard and is actively holding a lie behind her back

[satin-polar]

Your Honor, that's his daughter

Saxton not beating the allegations

Mann in Blood Hale at Heart

[voidshrub]

I'm never recovering from this y'all. Look at them

[hell-in-a-handbasket1]

TF2 Comic 7 spoilers

LOSING MY MIND TF2 IS LITERALLY ABOUT THE POWER OF LOVE

ITS ABOUT RAGE ITS ABOUT OBSESSION ITS ABOUT LIVING FOR SOMETHING UNTIL ITS ALL YOU ARE AND THEN ITS GONE AND YOU NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO

OBSESSED WITH JUST … ADMIN AND MS FLORENCE PAULING. THERES A REASON ONLY ONE OF THEM ARE NAMED

ADMIN SPENT HER ENTIRE LIFE JUST DEFINED BY REVENGE. SHE ONLY LIVED SO THIS MAN WOULD SUFFER. SHE DOESNT EVEN REMEMBER WHY, SHE JUST HATES BECAUSE THATS ALL SHE IS.

AND THEN MS PAULING. SHE LIED AND CHEATED AND KILLED FOR ADMIN. IF MANN WAS ADMIN’S WHITE WHALE, ADMIN WAS MS PAULING’S CAPTAIN AHAB. THERE WAS NO MS PAULING WITHOUT ADMIN.

BUT THEN SHE WATCHES HER MENTOR, HER MOTHER, HER BOSS, HER OWNER, HER RAISON D’ÊTRE …. SHE WATCHES HER CRUMBLE TO DUST. WHILE SHE’S HOLDING BACK THE ONE THING THAT COULD SAVE HER. MS PAULING DIDNT KILL ADMIN THROUGH HER INACTION, ADMIN ROTTED AND CHIPPED HERSELF AWAY LONG AGO.

MS PAULING AND ADMIN WERE BOTH WOMEN THAT LOST THEMSELVES TO OBSESSION, BUT ONLY ONE OF THEM MADE IT OUT.

AND YOU KNOW WHY SHE MADE IT OUT?

THE POWER OF MOTHER FUCKING FRIENDSHIP BITCH

ADMIN WAS COMPLETELY ALONE. MS PAULING HAD THE TEAM, BUT SHE WAS EXPLICITLY *FRIENDS* WITH THEM [NOTABLY ENGIE AND SPY]

THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MS PAULING AND ADMIN WAS LOVE

[ajaxgb]

I'm not even slightly normal about the Administrator's backstory.

LOOK AT THIS FUCKED UP SHIT

She has tortured this man in ghoulish agony for literal centuries. Literally everything that ever happened in the game and comics was to sate her need for revenge and SHE DOESN'T EVEN REMEMBER WHY

Were her parent killed in a break-in? Drowned as aristocrats? Poisoned for their inventions? SHE HAS NO IDEA.

Nothing matters but revenge. Nothing had mattered but revenge since long before Zepheniah died. And not just getting the revenge and then living well! She tried that! She won!

And it wasn't enough!!

She'd bent her life around revenge. It was all she had left. To crush those that wronged her. To destroy everything they loved.

For her entire life, it was the only thing she cared about. How could she move on with that purpose removed? She had everything she could want and absolutely nothing to live for.

And then...

A light in the darkness.

(she's still wearing the noooose oh my god)

TRUE revenge. ETERNAL revenge. The revenge she needed. A revenge she could have and have and have, forever. A monomania she maintained for 150 goddamn years.

150 years of torturing this crusty-ass zombie man(n) because she has literally nothing else going on in her life.

God she's so insane and fucked up (I love her)

[smolkeno]

Sorry Miss Pauling, Scout can only afford spanish bread and coke...

[trypo-p]

TF2 ISSUE 7 SPOILERS //

Alright alright I know everyones going crazy over the ending of the comic (I am too) but I don't see this moment talked about enough and how beautifully done it is.

We start with the Administrator: The man who took everything from her is finally dead. She reigns victory. She is now living alone in peace, leaving flowers for each and every gravestone that was left before Zepheniah Mann's passing. The gravestones left before him are carved out beautifully, time and effort put into each and every one of them. The Administrator even lays out the roses so they look like they're grown out around the gravestones.

And here we have Zepheniah Mann's grave. A slab of rock with only his initials carved into it. The other gravestones are large, extravagant, and have their full names carved into them. Zepheniah's remains small; little thought put into it.

The gravestone wasn't even for him in the first place. It was for whichever of his son's died first, whichever one failed him. He himself didn't put much care into the gravestone, so why should he deserve anything better? In the end, he was treated the way he treated others. He was the failed son.

The Administrator leaves the stems of the roses out for him. She just places them there, no thought put into it seemingly. But there is SO much thought in this very moment. She had everything planned out from the very beginning.

Every day, she watched as the man grew older and older. She was there for his passing, and as far as we can tell, she caused his death. She leaves out roses for each and every grave, except for his. She leaves the stems. To her, he doesn't deserve the flower, he deserves the thorns. They aren't placed with care like the other flowers had been, they are simply put down. She gives him exactly what he deserves.

The atmosphere has suddenly lost that beautiful lighting and vibrant colours, the sky has become more gray and dreary. The Administrator is waking up more devastated, putting less time and effort into her daily life. The stems are turning brown, wilting under her eyes. She cares less. She seems relatively unaffected by the things around her. She gets stung by a bee, but doesn't seem to care. However that last panel says everything. She's growing tired of doing the same thing day in and day out. The cycle of depression is a tiring one. Soon enough you realize: is it even worth it? After all of this, after I finally got the one thing I wanted. But what now?

The scene is now almost completely devoid of colour. The weather is gloomy, and the Administrator looks like she has been bedridden for a while. She has taken the gravestone into her bedroom, now having to wake up to the reminder that he's dead and gone, she got what she wanted. But at what cost? There's nothing left to do anymore. She set herself out for one goal and one goal only her entire life. What was the point anymore?

There's so much to unpack in these panels, I doubt I've even scraped the surface of this. She's lost all emotion, the next few panels showing that she doesn't believe there's a point in living anymore. It's a terrifying thought, setting your entire life up to do one specific thing, getting that thing done, and then having nothing else left to live for. It's such a well-done portrayal of how depression can destroy you from the inside out.

Revenge is sweet, but it has a bitter aftertaste.