#why is archer built like such a brick shithouse

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thinking about these guys again. and doodling them <3

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My TF|2 characters/OCs/loadouts/whatever

So ever since my buddy james bought me Titanfall 2, all the loadouts I’ve played with have always been named characters who’ve had themes, and specific ways I’ve played them. Over the 100 or so hours I’ve dumped into this game thus far, these characters have sort of started to solidify and be their own thing, and so this post is basically me canonizing that and laying out the cores of who these people are and what they do in the titanfall universe.(They mostly do the same thing at the end of the day, but its the details of how thats interesting.) 

If you’re interested, it’s all under the cut.(if it weren’t this post would be stretching your dash SO much. it gon b long)

I’m gonna go in order of their creation, starting with:

Sheila!

This is Sheila. She was the first pilot I ever made in TF|2, and she’s still around to this day. The core idea when I conceived Shelia was a single sentence: “She’s big, likes the color pink, and really enjoys making things explode.” And she’s still all of those things. Big. Sheila is built like a brick shithouse. She stands at a only mildly intimidating 6 feet 4 inches tall, and weighs in at 210lbs. And thats when she’s not geared out for combat. Sheila is, far and away the beefiest human character I’ve played in TF|2. How else could she carry the LSTAR, the Archer, fifteen rockets for it, and still be flying all over the place like you do in game? She benches fully loaded riflemen for shits n giggles. You might be wondering, why does she use cloak then? Invisibility seems out of place for her, you might be thinking. Well you’d be wrong. Being invisible is the best way for her to get up onto the backs of enemy titans, steal their batteries and blow them the fuck up. That is how harcore she is. If the archer isn’t cutting it, she’ll just turn invisible and do the work by hand. 

Sheila has 7 confirmed titan kills in the 4 years of her service with the 6-4, the frontier faction she’s sided with the most often. She pilots a semi-custom stryder class titan, A northstar; outfitted for out of atmosphere maneuvering. When sheila isn’t working with some group of people or other, she lives inside her northstar, flying from place to place, warping with a jury-rigged jump drive a friend threw together for her.  She keeps her northstar in very good condition, but the cockpit always smells like sweat, no matter what vain attempts anyone makes in cleaning it out.

Now we’re onto my first and so far only phase shift pilot: 

KZ-7413

This is KZ-7413 (”You may call me Kaz.”) KZ-7413, as you may have guessed by the scheme of their name, is a ex-titan. They were a stryder class titan, a Ronin, to be specific. But one really bad day, and the better part of an enemy ion’s laser core later, the old ronin’s data core was heavily damaged, and their former pilot, killed in action. Thats when a 6-4 engineer who was leading a scavenging/clean-up operation stumbled upon Kaz’s short-circuiting remains, and had an idea. After many months of research and work, the 6-4 finally had a functional human surrogate test platform for what was very experiential technology at the time, the phase shift drive. Originally this is all Kaz was ever meant for, but at the behest of Kaz themselves, they were outfitted with a more suitible for combat HFI-m style chassis, and began basic training. One of the first decisions Kaz made as an independent entity, was the style of chassis they were installed into, and what weapons they began training with. 

Last but not least, we have me.

Literally it’s just me personified in the titanfall universe.

Yep. If I were I pilot in TF|2, this is what I’d be running. Save the helmet. and the shaggy neck thing. Either way, I began my military service as a sniper for the militia, and I like to think I preformed decently well in that regard! but the higher-ups realized that my spatial intelligence wasn’t so good for doing the complex calculations that precision rifelry requires, and was much better suited to flinging myself between buildings like a monkey on steroids. And boy were they right! Of course my personal choice of sidearm is a remnant of my sniper days. My B3-E can drop a man sized target from a hundred meters in the right hands, and my hands are correct quite a bit if I do say so myself. The Sidewinder SMR (pictured,) is my general “make these big ass robots go away” tool. And you know what? it works pretty well! I’m not gonna lie to you though, I get the most mileage out of my data knife. I have a squad of at least 7 former IMC specters following me around and doing my bidding at any given time, and I have at least 20 of them stashed away in my hideout, keeping the place running while I’m gone. I’m pretty much an honorary member of our fleet’s acquisitions team. Half the reason the 6-4 keeps me around is because I’m so good at getting behind the enemy and turning their robotics against them. 

In all my days of service for the 6-4, I’ve earned exactly one measly titan kill. But I’ve destroyed or effectively disabled, at least, 350 specters, 149 Stalkers, and 7 reapers. Also I have 15 confirmed pilot kills, only 7 of witch were not earned with my knife. 

What can I say, I like to stab things. 

Oh! and, my titan:

Northstar 

I call her North for short, but her designation is AG-5791. She’s how I do most of my robot smashing, other titans included. I’m not the best Northstar pilot, but damn does that plasma railgun know how to put the fear a god into just about any motherfucker out there. Shot the left arm clean off of an enemy ronin in just the last mission I was on. That was a fun time.

Alright so thats it! These are all the characters who I haven’t dropped entirely or not played recently. there is one honorable mention I’d like to make though, and that is _ (literally his name is underscore, but it’s just the symbol and nothing else on all official documentation, of witch there is very little.) The 300 year old russian man who uses his space AK with parts originally made in 1947.  Is he actually 300 years old? No one knows. but he does have shockingly clear recollection of events that took place 300 years ago. anyway, that’s all the TF|2 I didn’t have the time for. hope you liked it!