#roger talks

Bro sniper will stand up after not moving a single muscle for 9 hours straight, he cracks more than his back

As for the rest scout seems hyperactive so yeah joint cracking, soldier probably does that menacing neck crack thingy and medics back breaks 538350 times a day lollll

First off thank you!! That’s a very nice compliment

And 2nd yes I have cosplayed engineer!! I don’t have a non stupid looking picture but here’s the gunslinger I wore:

I went to Gold Coast Supanova con in march :>

I think the best fit for the au would be to have them able to speak, but also able to roar/call, and maybe when they yell or get excited the roar blends in with their speech. In battle you would mostly hear roars. I think there’s a lot of potential with characterisation in the roars, though. Maybe it’s seen as a sign of low intelligence to use your call instead of speech, so those who have been ‘raised right’ would be very eloquent and not use their call too often. Examples of this would be Engie and spy, and possibly sniper? Anyone who doesn’t just yell and scream in the actual game. There are also intelligent characters who roar because they are excited often or just don’t care about politeness, such as medic, heavy and demoman. And then of course, soldier scout and pyro just roar whenever they want.

As for the sounds of the calls, I have a few ideas. Medic and the other bird-esque dragons would have calls resembling bird noises or chirps, from a trill/scream as you described, to the obvious eagle cry from soldier. I actually had a very interesting idea for sniper - a cassowary call. Please look it up if you haven’t already, that bird is basically a dinosaur.

Solid, large dragons such as heavy and engineer would have booming, thundering roars, which engineer puts to maximum effectiveness by using it scarcely. Kind of when a nice teacher starts yelling and everyone is scared shitless.

Scout sounds like a Deadly Nadder from how to train your dragon. He just does. Spy sounds like this too, but in order to not sound like scout, he prefers to hiss. Demoman has a very vocal shriek, pretty much his charging yell, but with a bit of whalesong mixed in. (I thought it would be cool ok)

Heavy’s wings are cut up for a few reasons. I think that during the war and his escape from the camps he was in there would probably be a very high chance of injury. Another reason that’s probably not as effective given that he’s an ice dragon is frostbite. Also, for class purposes, a lot of the classes like scout and soldier emphasise being fast and being able to ‘fly’ and having every dragon have this ability would make it less meaningful. Heavy can use his wings to power jumps but mostly would stay on the ground and stick to his strengths, which is his .. strength. Lol (also I’m thinking something about ubercharge being able to restore his flight for a few seconds but I’ll see how that goes)