#fishask

I’d love to hear more about him! Whatever you wanna share I’d love to hear!

Thank you so much! A lot of stuff got finally written out on his artfight profile which I had a lot of fun with, but I'll ramble a bit of other facts for you :]

He's very good at playing the piano. A lot of hand dexterity based skills come very easy for him, as the muscle memory came built into him as a clone. He's very proficient in of course, butterfly knife tricks, but also slight of hand and card tricks.

For a long time he finds himself completely unable to show his teammates his face other than Dell, and their team's Medic (but after the spyhead incident he has difficulties feeling safe around Medic again for some time). Of course if he ever needs to go out around town, he would go without his mask, but that's around strangers and he considers it more like playing a character.

His teammates know him more personally, however much he tries to maintain an air of detached formality around most of them. Showing his face and telling people his name is a vulnerability that makes him incredibly nervous and requires a lot of trust. The third teammate to see his face was Scout, not long after he revealed the fact of being Scout's parent to him.

I personally consider a lot of his behavior to be rooted in OCD, an obsession with the fact that if people know him too well they'd use it against him, only relieved some by the compulsive need to hide himself. He also has cleanliness obsessions that result in hand washing compulsions (and is why he tends to wear gloves often).

Also, he's actually not that bad of a parent! Syl has been looking out for Scout since day one, subtly taking hits for him on the battlefield and backstabbing enemies before they can get to him. Dell, from his backline position, noticed this and it was part of how they first started seriously talking to each other. The others didn't trust Sylvain very much initially due to his secretive and withdrawn nature, but Dell could tell he had some connection to Scout and also was very much secretly rather caring. Syl feels incredibly guilty for what happened with Scout's mother and how Scout was raised without a father (even though he had no real say in it as he is a clone and this is all implanted memories).

i just thought this was cool. your fanfic quite literally started my obsession with the blu spy decapitation plot and i keep thinking about it

hi! im okay. I was taking a break originally in early april for health reasons bc i ended up in the hospital again, then once i got my creativity back i got caught up in my other tf2 project Severed Fortress, and then in the attempt to take a break from that and work on my other projects like kmmd again, my chronic health issues got worse again :[

I felt like thinking about spy torment today so I started kill me and I’m only a tiny bit in but can I just say? Holy fuck. This line. It’s so good. It’s so medic. Thank you. I love it and I hate him so much already.