Fru-Fru-Brigade

We're a Bunch of Weirdos

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Hi! We're a fairly diverse plural system with various origins and interests! ADHD, autism, likely BPD. Uhm... Yeah, gonna work on this a bit more soon?



dizzy-h-slightly-voided
@dizzy-h-slightly-voided

Man. The whole "Mimi-Sentry" meme is just ... I don't even know how to describe how I feel about it. (proceeds to describe my feelings at length)

Like on paper, nearly every individual element is perfectly logical within the context of Team Fortress 2's gameplay and setting: 1. Engineer makes a robot daughter, because of course he does -- there's no way he would have kids the biological way if he could build them instead; 2. it also makes perfect sense that his robot-daughter would be a killer robot, because both Engie specifically and Team Fortress 2 as a setting are Like That; 3. given that TF2 is "a milieu where the major source of comedy is seeing the protagonists regularly have hideous violence inflicted upon them for no reason", the hypercompetent killer-robot-girl fits in by being a cause of said cartoonish violence, thus bypassing the concerns about accidentally pandering to gross dudes who like to see women get hurt (or, well, this is the case in most of the videos I've seen at least); 4. if you're really generous, you can even say it makes sense that she's an anthropomorphization of a sentry gun, since that's the kind of thing Engie's gonna be building regardless; and 5. I just like robot-girls and killer-robot-girls in general ...

... except, she's an ambiguously-teenage Smug Anime Girl. Her mouth is a decal which changes as needed, and the rest of her face moves in exactly the way that metal doesn't.

Like. It's just the most incongruous thing. No matter how many individual elements fit, the character is aesthetically not a Team Fortress 2 character. It multiplies all the points that do fit by zero. The origin was the usual dumbass knee-jerk "You know what would make this better? This one specific anime character archetype I have the hots for!" nonsense. I both love it and am annoyed by it. This is incredibly stupid, 10/10. I'm going to keep making and reblogging posts about it (positive).


phantasmaCora
@phantasmaCora

not in on TF2 stuff beyond some of the basics of the canon story, but... fascinated by the idea of a character who is legitimately "combat doll"core outside of actual Empty Spaces posting



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