#the administrator tf2

[troublemakergalaxy]

okay the sequence of the administrator getting progressively really old frame by frame was cool as hell.

[inbarfink]

I’ve said it elsewhere but although the idea of Silas Mann being Zepheniah’s brother that he not only killed, but totally wiped off the Mann Family History seems to be a pretty popular Headcanon/fan-theory (and often also paired with the idea that the Administrator was his daughter and that this is what originally sparked her eternally burning hatred for Zepheniah).....I personally can’t bring myself to buy it.

First of all, the one confirmed image of Silas Mann in life is in this Mann Family Portrait

Which doesn’t seem to have been retconned out of the comics, considering it literally appears as an actual physical object in “The Days Have Worn Away”

This picture shows him as an aging man alive at the same time that Zepheniah was old and dying and the Administrator has already been working for him for decades. On the most basic timeline level, him dying before the Administrator became the twins’ governess obviously doesn’t make any sense.

(Even if we were to assume the Silas in this picture is some ghostly apparition, he’s just too old to be a brother Zepheniah killed when they would have both being young-ish men and/or the Administrator’s father)

And much more importantly for a story whose big thematic point is “the lore was ultimately Meaningless, what matters is the characters”, the idea of Zepheniah hiding the fact that he has ‘bested’ his brother and instead pretending he’s an only child just feels flat-out Out of Character for me with the way “The Days Have Worn Away” characterizes Zepheniah.

Zepheniah sees the act of killing your own sibling for fun and profit as an inherently noble act and a prove of one’s worthiness and determination. He talks about his father and grandfather’s dead siblings, without technically legally admitting that they killed them, but heavily implying it and clearly admiring them for it.

And he very very heavily insinuated to his new governess that her goal is to raise his more ‘worthy’ son to engage in fratricide.

The whole point of him saying he’s an only child ‘sadly’ is because he thinks it’s unfortunate he never got to prove himself by killing a sibling.

So the idea that he would somehow draw a line at mentioning the brother he himself defeated, that he wouldn’t mention it as to not.... tarnish his good name (even though he is proud of his ancestors’ fratricide and brags about it) or to give himself farther legitimacy as the worthy Mann Heir (even though he views being ruthless enough to kill your own sibling as the ultimate proof of being a worthy Mann heir) or to just not discuss his crimes with a total stranger (even though his explanation of his father and grandfather’s deeds didn’t technically incriminate them of anything and he also pretty clearly admitted to her that he wants his kids to be raised to be brother-killers) is just… it just feels totally antithetical to how Zepheniah is written in this comic.

However, I actually don’t think this totally deconfirm the “Administrator is the daughter of Zepheniah’s brother out for revenge”.

After all, Zepheniah is not the only possible Unreliable Narrator of this flashback. The Administrator is the one telling the story.

And the Administrator totally forgot what Zepheniah did to make her hate him so much.

And while it’s implied that he might’ve been responsible for her parents’ death in some way, it’s also implied the specific details have become hazy and unclear through the years….

So, like, if the Administrator is the daughter of Zepheniah’s dead sibling (It being Silas still doesn’t really make any sense timeline-wise so let’s call this Hypothetical Mann ‘Barshnibnab Mann’, okay?)… Would she remember that? Would she remember any detail about Zepheniah having a sibling if her own familial connection to that sibling was wiped away by the waves of time?

Maybe Zepheniah did tell her “Ah yes, and I became an munitions magnate after I took over the company from my sibling Barshnibnab who died under very unfortunate and mysterious circumstances lol” but because she has forgotten everything about her parents and her original motivation she just flat-out forgot it and misremembered that Zepheniah was an only child?

I think that works a lot better with the themes and the characters�� personalities. Really emphasizes how the Administrator’s hatred has become such a singular and twisted thing, that it literally wiped away all memory of the people whose loss was the source of this hatred. Her quest of vengeance didn’t just drag down, like, the entire world for the last hundred years - it basically wiped out all possible memories of her parents. Really shows how it turned from revenge to just Fuck This Guy In Particular.

If Zepheniah killed a sibling, he would have wanted it memorialized as a proof of his own cutthroat ruthlessness - but the Administrator’s hatred is the one who wiped them from history as collateral in the way of her burning loathing.

[roughsketch2010]

Hey why the hell does this evil lady from all the merge mansion ads I’ve been seeing look weirdly similar to the administrator from tf2??

[azmodeusjay]

Wip of The Administrator and Miss Pauling

[n0isaac]

Some comic 7 panel redraws i did. I still can’t believe that comic 7 is a real thing that exists.

[galactic-murmaider]

𝓥𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓶𝓸𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓽, 𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓭𝓮𝓶𝓾𝓻𝓮 💜✨

[sir-broken-bones]

Longing, yearning, obsessing, just to lose it all

[valvesmashorpass]

[cooler-ian]

MISS PAULING GAY AS HELL!!!!

(insane pansexual rambling under the cut)

IF THAT WERE ME AND THE ADMINISTRATOR WAS ALL UP IN MY FACE LOOKING DESPREATE AND INSANE AND EXITED AND TIRED AND INSANE I'D GO INSANE!!! ME AND THAT DYING MAN AND HER ALL NIGHT EVERYWHERE ON EVERY PIECE OF FURNITURE!!! YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND!!! NOT ONLY WOULD I GIVE HER THE ROCK ID SHOVE IT DOWN THAT CORPSES THROAT FOR HER SO SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO GET HER HEAVENLY MAGNIFICENT HAND DIRTY!!- AND WE'D KISS INFRONT OF HIM SO HE HAD TO WATCH US WHILE HE SUFFERS!!! THEN WE'D KISS HIM AS WELL!!! MISS PAULING NEVER LOVED THE ADMINISTRATOR!!!!!

IVE BEEN SILENTLY OBSESSED WITH THE ADMINISTRATOR FOR 17 YEARS!!! IM BREAKING MY SILENCE!!?? ADMINISTRATOR KINNIES RISE UP 😭😭😭

[dappercat123]

Ok but can we appreciate how much of a dedicated fucking hater the administrator is!? It’s astounding

Poopy Joe died for this.

[troublemakergalaxy]

NO SHE'S COVERED IN THE DUST THAT THE ADMIN LEFFFTTTTTTTT????????????? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. OH DON'T DO THIS TO ME.

[swamp-gremlin]

oh wow i cant belive i never posted this one-

i think i made this like right after the 7th comic dropped and honestly if you aren't in my head 24/7 its incoherent- or it only makes sense when you read the comic i made, which i think you should do

[diegutless]

Going on about if the cover for the 7th comic is Elizabeth (helen) and her parents then I’ve been thinking about what if Elizabeth the day of her parents death left off on a bad note. Like for example if little Elizabeth was being sent off to another school and was mad, or if her father was going to get another job which meant she couldn’t see him etc etc.

Something like that which could the moment her parents are killed there is no goodbye- the last feeling she feels towards them for whatever reason is anger then immediate guilt and sadness. But that’s just my theory, I have a bunch of scenarios in my head that I think I’ll post here at some time when their sorted out ^_^

[gravitytrips]

tftober days 22 and 23: The administrator and Australium

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Propaganda under the cut.

The Administrator:

she's an old lady playing both sides and she's very cool

Shadowheart:

Literally serves the evil goddess of Darkness who wants to destroy all life, but she also has freely chosen religious amnosia. BUT! She's also capable of being a sweetheart and will actively not have a good time if you kill the innocents and party with a bunch of Goblin cultists.

[inland--empire]

Shitty The Administrator aesthetic. Because I am deranged.