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Scout and Miss Pauling friendship is one of my fave things to think about but I think a lot of people look over the more complex parts (as complex as fucking. TF2 lore gets) like Scout feelings for Miss Pauling are genuine and he's mostly just really lame about it rather the internally a creep but Miss Pauling doesn't owe liking him due to that, even if you go in the transfem Scout route. I think there have to be a talk and a lot of awkward feelings but i think after a while they would be good friends. Sorry to ramble here in your askbox I just wish this dynamic was explored more in the fandom without outright dismissing character traits of either of them.
No yeah ur literally so right n I've def talked before about how this is the ONE vaguely complex canon character thing I get to be snotty about and that I think like. there are Implications(tm) if you choose to make it so that Scout was NEVER attracted to Pauling ever (usually bc "he's gay") or Pauling is actually attracted to men and now she and Scout can date!! like I'm trying not to be A Hater but I rlly do think a lot of people just haven't deconstructed how they think about men (for the sake of the intentions of the source material, Scout will be a man in this post) who are attracted to women, especially the "loser who gets the girl in the end" archetype. If Scout is attracted to Pauling, he is not in any way owed her reciprocation, EVEN IF she were attracted to men. And people have friends that they're attracted to who don't reciprocate for whatever reason and they manage to work it out. The actual canon Scout/Pauling dynamic (which is that he's really into her and thinks she's into him but she's not and he's lame) IS very funny, but if you want to imagine any sort of closure for these characters it has to involve him coming to terms with it and like. learning to deal. I am SO happy that there seem to be absolutely zero hints of Scout and Pauling actually hooking up at the end of the comic (but what do I know) bc I am SICK of every piece of media on the planet feeling the need to shove a man and a woman together because he likes her and therefore deserves her. This is like, tf2 level nuance! It's extremely simple! Idk this is such like. a common relationship thing that happens in real life and if people can't handle it when cartoon hat people do it idk how they'd handle it if it were happening to them or to one of their friends
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OHHHHH SHIT
I RANDOMLY LOOKED UP WHAT TEAMS THE MERCS ARE CANONICALLY ON, AND I FOUND A SUPPORTED THEORY THAT LITERALLY DESTROYS HOW MOST OF THE TUMBLR FANDOM PERCIEVES TF2
https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/88d9zo/theory_are_the_mercenaries_of_red_and_blu_the/
Wyll just all smiley and Astarion is full on weeping but claiming “I’m not crying!! I have mascara in my eye is all!!”
Ulder Ravengard's opinion of Wyllstarion would be. Okay, he's not okay with it. Astarion is clearly adept at manipulating people and Ulder is worried that that's what he's doing to Wyll. And Astarion's a fop and the Ravengards do not have time for fops.
But Wyll clearly loves this man and can Ulder say anything? Does he have the right? He hasn't been present in Wyll's life for years. Is he being too overprotective by worrying like this? Is he not being protective enough by not trying to break off the relationship?
And he stresses right up to the actual wedding day because he's not sure if he's about to watch his son marry the wrong person. Only to witness Astarion proceed to cry through the entirety of the vows.
So, something I learnt the other day. So, you know how dinosaurs supposedly can't see you if you stand still? Well that myth is based on real-life lizards/etc and how eyes in general work. So, once my dad starts infodumping, here comes some other cool information. We, humans, can in fact, also not see something unless it's moving. We fixed this by having our eyes constantly shake. And then our brain compensates for us, so we don't have to have shaky vision.
What if aliens don't have this? Like. What if they find out when one of us was looking at something in the distance, and they walk around this thing that's in front of them, and the alien is confused so they bob their head and oh, there's a thing there, but how did the human know that, and then we explain and they're like, horrified.
Humans are apex predators. They can hunt in packs. They can hunt in pairs. They can hunt on their own. They're persistance predators, which is unheard of. They get stronger when they're mad or scared. They have this thing called 'body language' which acts like a type of hivemind, even if they'll claim it isn't. And. They can see you. When you're not moving. They can still see you. If you ever find yourself in a fight against a human, for whatever reason? Run. Run as fast as you can. And hope, pray if you have a religion, that they won't follow.
me shaking the bars of my enclosure begging my friends to play multiplayer bg3 with me (they either say it’s expensive or have finals 😭)