#only practical espionage

most of these are spy. I love spy. Okay. okay.

spy is such a pussy. like. oh my god. He acts all distinguished and held together and cool but he is the most sopping wet, pathetic, scaredy-cat of a man. Pain tolerance? None. Bravery? None. he fakes it. all the time.

Spy's death screams are so funny to me. they sound so much more in pain than everyone else and idk how to describe it. He genuinely sounds more agonized than everybody else. if u were to torture him i think he'd either ask u to kill him instead or he'll die from the pain. cyanide over culling 👅. His pain tolerance is literally zero. The reason why he has emergency-cyanide in his molars is because he literally would rather die than withstand torture. At All.

if spy's tired enough bro will just. Let you do anything. even if he could he wouldnt. turn that mofo into a spy sandwich he'll just look at u judgingly like 'wtf just happened' [the spy sandwich bit is a Reference to a Post I Saw. love that post. good post.]

Spy's personal phone [if he were to have one. This is a hypothetical. We're in like the 70's.] is one of those old pink flip phones, a joke-gift from Scout's mom. At the time, he was too enamored to react any kind of negatively about it, and over time he began to unironically like it. He will not admit his fondness of the thing, that is if anybody even sees it. He is already secretive enough of it. Plus, why would his coworkers need to know about his personal phone? They're there for business, not mindless chatter.

For style points, it would even have like a little pink puff ball attached to it via a small chain.

Spy is very protective of his valuable personal items, but otherwise he isn't actually very stingy.

Spy grew up in a poorer family, and all his life strived to live a luxurious, comfy life. Contrasting to the Engineer, who obviously lived pretty comfortable because of his family's professions. Despite that, though, he didn't care for such over-the-top luxuries.

Less of a HC and more of an observation of his character, but spy is so fucking cringefail. He is a spiteful, and lowkey childish, man. I think this should've been shown more in the comics. He failed sometimes but never cringefail

For blue spy: Hates the cold. Because he's skinnier he's more susceptible to it too. Not fun. [the fridge really messed him up in this department]

Engineer isn't the greatest at mental health advice. Unless you're physically sick, he probably will suggest some weird extreme-yet-efficient solution. Always because it's what he'd do, and he doesn't always understand why one wouldn't want the most efficient solution. Having a bad fever? He'll prolly be like the worlds best caregiver. Getting bullied? More Gun intensifies.

He is so father material. His buildings, especially sentries, are like his little mini children and regards them very dearly. Scout, the 'fatherless bastard' he is, probably imprinted on Engie because of this. Local illiterate bastard can't resist also local madman's fatherly charm. More on the new happy found-family at 7.

Engineer is probably the only one to know what was under Pyros firesuit at some point in time. I like to imagine pyro is also yet again a victim of his fatherly charm.

I say was because of my own perspective of pyro being that they were definitely a person at some point, but over time, not even god himself knows. Schrodingers cat type shit. Once they're in the suit, whose to say they're the same as before?

in general. my 'hc' (?) of pyro is that they're everything and nothing at all, all at once, under that suit. They could be a person, they could be an alien, they could be like that one fuckin godzilla suit analog horror where their body has become the suit. Who knows, I sure dont. But somehow?? Engie did. At some point.

-the awesome sauce anon

There is a reason you are the awesome sauce anon theses are fucking amazing

Also thank you for not saying Engie is bad with sickness and stuff he absolutely knows how to deal with physical sickness, too many others get that wrong.

The BLU spy thing is super interesting, because most people don’t really think about the fridge, and if they do, they think it was just annoying to him. But if you think about it being in there was probably traumatizing.

He probably wakes up and checks if his body is still connected to his head just because he dreams about what Medic did to him.

I also really like your take on Pyro, I feel like we need to humanize them more sometimes. I love how you say they were a person but now they don’t even know what they are.

Spy is in his redemption arc fr

He’s trying to be a good dad now <3

Engie's like. ' OMFG this guy is such a bad fucking teacher but it's funny to see him try. '

and spy is like ' heh I'm being such a good teacher, he's learning so fast '

YES omg BABDJDJAKJSDJSKDKG

I feel like Spy's the same way with Engineer's inventions,,,of course there's always that risk of dying but to die by your lover's inventions is so romantic <333

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i feel like Engineer would be a lot more careful with Spy then Medic is with Heavy though, like doing whatever he can to make sure Spy wouldn't have to go through respawn.

By when it comes to Spy. That bitch will not stop correcting every little small bit of fucking detail he can.

Spy HATES this.

Absolutely

I see their relationship as a funny romance between a head over heels worrier seducer and a Normal Functional Person with a big heart.

Absolutely fucking REAL oh my godddddd

Spy is absolutely obsessed with this man to the point where some consider it religious meanwhile Engineer is just a sweet old[ish] man

“H-hold on now, partner. I appreciate the affection but I ain’t all that special.”

Spy helps Pyro, and Engie is like ' FUCKING FINALLY HES BEING A /GEN GOOD DAD, BUT TO THE WRONG FUCKING PERSON. '

SADHUAIOSHDU CMON SPY ASHDUJHLAHSU