Well This Is Awkward

Well this is awkward 😅💕

Lovely characters by @quazies 🩷

Medic is so fucking head over heels for Heavy I cannot even begin to explain it to you holy crap

Like seriously ok just compare Medic’s behavior towards Heavy in Meet the Medic to his behavior towards literally everyone else in Expiration Date and the other shorts. Lots of touching, lots of big smiling, lots of laughing and joking, versus no touching, tight-lipped “I’m going to die” or “here are the facts about tumors” smiles that go away shortly after they happen, and zero laughing and joking save for when he finally gets a little breadmonster to play with (and knows that he’s not actually going to die). And even then, Heavy is the one who pulls him out of a stupor and calls him to action during the fight in the final scene.

I’ll get detailed later because I’ve always meant to analyze Medic’s body language in Meet the Medic and compare it with other appearances but seriously just LOOK.

Mario gets back up.

If you look closely in the third & fourth gifs, Mario looks like he’s about to cry/is crying. The poor lad, he’s absolutely terrified, in absolute pain and feels so very alone.

@pianokantzart @multicolour-ink thought you both might like this

Heavy & Medic relaxing after a hard day’s work. Heavy’s tired and Medic’s drunk.

Well, um, yes. I mean who doesn’t love the chemistry between these two, I mean, look at them! Well done, Valve, you win ><

NUMBER 1 MAN!!!!!!!!!!!

The way a character moves and expresses themselves in the context of varying environments and situations helps develop the viewer’s understanding of their personality in ways that exposition simply can’t. With animated characters, gestures, body positioning, and expressions can be exaggerated or restrained limitlessly to achieve a limitless range of effects on how we perceive them.

Here are my favorite expressive, character-defining framings and body positionings of Medic in Expiration Date.