Le Traître en Bleu

She slipped through the door of the morgue, feeling the chill in the room and immediately honing in on the single full drawer. “That’s right. He came here, after the war. Made a new life for himself; pretty young, actually.”

Incredulous and already muttering curses under his breath, he pulled out the slate where the body was supposed to be and found only a stain of dry blood caking the plastic shroud. Well, more like several stains, and most of them arranged in what looked like finger-written capital letters and a crude stylized smiling face: 

S  U  C  K  E  R  S  : - )

Still, she was well-dressed, even for the late hour. Purple sun dress with a print of white daisies. “I did,” she replied, waiting for the sheriff’s directions. “We haven’t spoken in a few months, but were pretty close before that. I’m his only point of contact in the state, too…” she always had the right words to get bodies released.

>tfw The Beard has already fandubbed the most recent comic and the music and voice acting is so perfect and adds so much to an already tense, dramatic comic

The sky was dark and clear like a crystal, stars winking in and out of sight above the small town. Pierrot waltzed out of a shop, paper bags comfortably nestled in the crooks of his arms. Now that he was free to roam about, he was also free to return Emmerich’s many little shows of love and prepare a little surprise for him; in the bags so far he had piled candles, a handful of ingredients, and of course a little surprise for his soldier in the form of red and black lingerie that he was sure to appreciate…

“So you’re the French fag?”

Pierrot paused, casting a thin glare over his shoulder at the group of – five, six – eight men already fanning out behind him. Eight men, some smoking their cigarettes with their hands deep in their pockets, some gritting their teeth with glares that would have made milk curdle. Such a welcoming committee, all for him? What a honor.

He quietly set the grocery bags down against the side of a building and noticed just how casually everyone was in a rush to get back inside their house, or dive into a shop or a secondary street. How typical. “Well,” he sighed, straightening his jacket, his knife flicking to life out of nowhere. “Are we going to fight or are we going to just stand around all day?”

Think about it. When his team disbanded, Medic went to pursue his passion: medicine. He did so by joining TFC, in order to gain access to black market animal organs and funding for his experiments. He even experimented on the TFC guys just to satisfy his curiosity. He doesn’t care what team he’s on, as long as he can do experiments. Which is why we see him being ‘evil’ despite him not siding with anyone, when in reality he’s just aloof. For Medic, teams/comrades/ethics come second, medicine comes first.

But then we have this scene, TFC Heavy barging in and saw that Medic’s bringing Sniper back to life. He got mad and says things like these.

Medic brought Sniper back to life after he’s been dead for 6 hours. It’s certainly a breakthrough in modern medicine. Medic is good at it and he knows it, he calls himself God many times, for accomplishing things that are impossible.

But TFC Heavy doesn’t see that. He thinks Medic is useless, always causing trouble for him because Medic didn’t follow his orders. Furthermore, TFC Heavy always berate Medic, calling him with racist slurs and never acknowledge his achievements. He also doesn’t appreciate Medic healing him, when he swatted the Medigun off.

How long has Medic endured such treatment? 6 months? Despite being detached from human feelings, it even wears him down. I think it speaks volumes that Medic feels happy when he sees Sniper, his old teammate.

And even though his old teammates attitudes towards him aren’t special, they didn’t berate him like that. They didn’t try to control him, and heck they need him for uber and heals deep down they respect Medic for that.. (They even got better - take for example Soldier especially, he isn’t racist anymore especially after he went to Heavy’s.)

I think it’s a big deal when the most uncaring person in the team take insult from TFC Heavy’s nasty treatment. Him swatting away the medigun is probably what broke the camel’s back.

Lastly, look at Medic’s face in the last panel. Do you recognise it?