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Just to make a point, every time I finished a panel of this I would export it as a PNG on the perceptual setting and use it as a color reference for the next panel

IT'S BAD

PLEASE CHECK YOUR COLOR SETTINGS

EDIT: If you're still having problems, it might help to switch from "Save/Save as" to "Export (as a) Single Layer". Just. Make SURE the box labeled "Expression Color" is set to RGB. I've been messing with this all day, and it looks like this combination of settings will allow exported PNGs to maintain their colors perfectly. To you. So far both Discord and Toyhouse still only display desaturated images and I cannot for the life of me figure out why

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"Hey, kiddo. Ya look like shite."

"Thanks, pal," Scout mumbles. "That makes me feel a lot better."

"Don't do sarcasm, you're bad at it." Demo clambers down next to him--Scout looks up and sees actual, real-live worry in his face buried under his usual expression of barely-tipsy ambivalence, so he looks back down. "Who hit ye with a bus today?

"… It's stupid."

"Most problems are." Scout suddenly has an arm around his shoulder and he's pulled in until they're pressed against each other, and there's a crooked pinky in his face. "Won't laugh. Promise."

Scout sighs and completes the pinky-swear. "I figured out who my dad is."

"Oh," Demo says, simply.

"… Oh?"

"I was thinking a, dropped my ice cream cone, got splashed in a puddle, someone said my shirt was ugly, sort of situation," and Scout crosses his arms, so he shuts up. "But that's… er… serious. You alright, laddy?"

"Geez. Don't ask me that."

He doesn't respond to that, just kind of looking off in the distance with this look of why did I say that, an expression Scout's grown very familiar with out of him recently.

"Turns out, Spy's been blackmailing Engie, so…" He sniffles and wipes his nose, and tries not to wither into his shoes. "Y'know. Engie's been blackmailing Spy back. And I guess everybody found out except for me, and nobody bothered to tell me, 'cause no one… no one ever tells me anything, for some frickin' reason," he says, and despite every time he holds his breath, shuts his eyes closed tight and tries not to think a sob wrenches its way out of him, betraying him.

“Oh, Scoutie,” and suddenly Scout feels about a thousand times sicker.

“And, I mean, you know. I know you know. Ma knows, Miss Pauling knows, Saxton Hale’s probably reading it in his fucking daily newsletter—everybody knows except for me.” The front of his shirt looks like he stood in front of the exit tube of a waterslide. He can feel them both reaching that limit, Demo winding himself tighter with every word, staring straight up into the middle distance like he saw a fucking ghost, but the words just keep coming out of his throat, against his will, spilling out onto the pavement in front of him. “‘Cause why would anybody tell me? Why would I need to know that Spy’s my fucking, one-hundred percent, bonafide—"

“Scout, I’m sorry,” he finally interrupts, in the hushed kind of whisper that says he really means it, and Scout kicks himself for even giving him a chance to apologize. “I’m so sorry. I didn’t—“

“It’s--it's fine, pal.” Scout’s relieved to find out that feels mostly true. “I’m not mad at you.”

“That still disnae give it an excuse—“

“Seriously,” and he hits him with a look to say I mean it, and he’s crying too so Scout looks away really fast. “This’s my—this is my time to sit here and be a sadsack, and kick rocks, and cry, okay? You are not gonna, gonna monopolize this, tryin’ to apologize to me.”

He feels in Demo’s full-body shudder that he tries very hard to stifle another stupid sorry, and eventually comes up with: “Right.”

“And you’re… not Spy, or Engie, or… Medic, so… I don’t give a shit. I dunno how you would’ve told me.”

Demo doesn’t respond to that.

Moving on, then. “I just… like… how’re you supposed to feel? Y’know? Biggest goddamn mystery of my life, and the whole time I’m, y’know, I’m like if I ever find him I’m gonna strangle that motherfucker, or I’ll…” He pauses again to whimper a little and wipe his tears, and Demo’s arm tightens around him, pulling his head onto his shoulder. “I’ll call Ma and let her come strangle him herself.”

At some point smart fingers start rubbing circles into his back, and it almost makes him want to start crying for a completely different reason.

“But it’s just Spy. Lame-ass, prissy, fuckin’, loser, stupid-ass Spy. It’s been him the whole time. So what do I do with that?”

"Kill him," Demo says, simply, and that's starting to sound pretty good right about now.

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WOOOO CONGRATULATIONS!

GUESS WHO GOT THERE PC SETUP FINALLYYYY

FINALLY I CAN PUT OUT FICS LIKE I WANNA AND PLAY GAMES MORE AHHHHH

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Tf2 headcanon of the day 2

most are weary about coming out to Soldier, he’s never said anything homophobic but he’s got this red blooded American thing in everything he does so no one’s really sure how he feels about it. Until some asshole actually says something homophobic and he ends them with his shovel, yelling about his how his mothers taught him to beat the hell out of bigots

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finally back on the grind

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DAY 50

Collab with a friend 💗

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snack boy

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I'm interested in the gradual development of Miss Pauling.

Originally an almost incidental character in the Team Fortress 2 comics alone, no official model existed for Miss Pauling for the longest time. Her first appearance was in the WAR comic from 2009, two years after the game's release. She is mentioned by name, but you can tell her character isn't nailed down here yet. They probably aren't even sure if they're going to reuse her at this point. The Administrator herself isn't even fully developed yet.

Despite the tangential nature of her character, she made regular appearances in the TF2 comics, always executing the Administrator's will, though not much was really established about her personality or characteristics beyond being hardworking, extremely competent, and very loyal.

Around this time, the fans started making their own models to use her in fanworks, though with not much to go on in regards to her personality, there weren't many people taking an interest in her. The few times she did appear in fanworks, she was often relegated to just being the token girl character.

In 2013, Valve released Ring of Fired, the first of seven full-length Team Fortress 2 comics that would end up being the main source of character development and plot progression for the universe. And Miss Pauling was there as one of the lead characters, although her characterisation was still rather thin in this first issue.

The big moment here is the Love and War update. In 2014, seven years after the game's launch, the short film Expiration Date was released, the 15 minute video supposedly being a pilot for a potential TF2 tv show. That tv show never happened. However, Miss Pauling was one of the lead characters of the video. It finally gave Miss Pauling an official 3D model, which was notably somewhat different looking from her comic appearances up to this point, as well as a canonical voice.

It also established several defining traits to her character: she was extremely neurotic, kind of awkward, a bit silly, and she had a knack for gallows humor. These traits were heightened with the following Gun Mettle and Jungle Inferno updates, which gave her a bunch of voice lines where she talked to the player characters and let her kookier side show.

These traits would make it back into her characterisation in the comics going forward, finally reaching Maximum Pauling. She became the true Main Character of the TF2 comics, usually being the main perspective character, as well as being the character with the heaviest choices to make as the plot reaches its climax.

While Miss Pauling still to this day doesn't physically appear in the Team Fortress 2 videogame, she has become one of the most important characters of its surrounding universe, and you'd be hard pressed to find a fan who doesn't really like her. It's been fun to watch her develop from an incidental lore character to the unofficial tenth member of the main cast. I'm a huge fan of her.

Okay end of post

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Looks like nobody's coming

I didn't have the energy to finish it because i work at work ╥﹏╥

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Out of the entire cast, Scout is, funnily enough, the one who reacts the least to anything scary or traumatizing.

A lot of people depict him as this guy who's the scaredy cat, asshole, angsty one of the team, when a lot of the time? He's... actually a really cool dude (if a bit energetic).

In "Jungle Inferno", it's Spy who runs when there's an odd noise, and it's Scout who continues forward. While it could've been because Spy's voice actor didn't make an appearance, it's oddly symbolic to their characters.

In "MvM - The Sound of Medicine", when Heavy, Soldier, Scout, and Pyro are surrounded by Demobots, as Heavy and everyone else are blown up and Heavy's head lands on Scout's stomach, he doesn't even react. He just... looks at Heavy's head and let's his own head fall back in defeat.

Even in the comics as he's being choked out by everyone on the team, he kinda just accepts it without being nervous or anxious, he doesn't even flinch when it happens, just a sort of, "aw man, this shit again? Sod off!" reaction.

He acts immaturely, sure, but he's never like, a kid about anything? He's acts like an immature adult, but it's never immature-immature, even when he moves on from Pauling, it's both out of respect for both her and himself.

He's really respectful about it, actually, and Pauling isn't disgruntled or even annoyed, even she knows he never meant any harm, only that he was a hopeless romantic. And even in the duration of his crush, he actually respects her a lot, even if he doesn't go through with his plans to hang out with her.

If we're assuming here, the guy grew up with his mom. He's been respecting women since day one, he knows just how much of a charmer he can be because he grew up under his mom's care. Scout's awkward as hell, but he knows not to push it with women.

A lot of people want Scout angst or try to make him out to be the asshole but like, he really just does not give a shit. In fact, he's likely the only one out of the entire cast who copes with his problems like any normal human being.

Conclusion: Scout isn't angsty, a scaredy-cat, or an asshole, he's just a really, really complicated and paradoxical character who is, unfortunately, extremely bastardized by everyone in the TF2 community. It's a shame too, he has such a unique personality.

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ok

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Wait no I forgot Valentimesday AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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sending this randomly as i need to tell someone!

22yo female here, never played tf2, but has a sudden and gross interest in the characyers, lore, and ofc getting railed by them 😭 just wanted to say you are one of multiple blogs i've decided to follow in hopes of reading some silly 😝 and 🥴f r e a k y works. you write beautifully and i cannot wait to see more!

- 🍒 anon

Eyyyy welcome to the freak club 🍒 anon! I highly recommend checking the game out if you get a chance. Its free and doesn't require too much processing power to run. You should find that POV audio about getting railed by the entire team, it sounds like it'd be right up your alley 👌

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371 anonymous

Dog collar when?

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Heavy doesn’t like getting teased too much..