God It's Like Really Late And I've Been Having The Thoughts About Him Again - Tumblr Posts

I think a lot about those couple panels we got of Demo in the first comic. Demoman himself is a character I find to be interesting and really like playing around with more complicated ideas and concepts, so obviously I'm gonna take note when we are handed this on a platter.

It cuts away from a little gag scene to show us that Demo...hasn't exactly been doing the greatest for the last six months. The room is dark. Drinks and snacks litter the floor. It doesn't look like it's been cleaned in weeks.

It's been six months since they were all laid off. The only friend that Demo has now is the Eyelander, who he spends watching soap opreas with nonstop. It's a miserable life from the looks of it. He doesn't seem happy. He's still drunkenly babbling on about how he's been replaced with robots. He's clearly affected by this whole thing, something reaffirmed with the next page where we see this.

Sunken eyes. Stained shirt. Robe. Unkempt beard. Sweatpants. He doesn't look too great. Literally in the next page too we also learn that he's put on some weight (Soldier says: "Hello fat Demoman!") and just...yeah.

There's quite a bit of storytelling here. I don't really wanna brush it off as just: "Oh haha isn't it funny how Demoman is an alcoholic?" because I don't really get that impression here. The only bits of humor is when his mother hits him over the head with a cane because he couldn't hear the doorbell and the Eyelander's quips.

Stuff like this is really interesting to me. It makes me think about Demo's character more, especially when here it's portrayed in a very straightforward way. Demo is drinking away his sorrows. His life doesn't really have a meaning since he lost his job. All he does is drink, eat chips, watch TV, bicker with his talking sword, deal with his mother, then sleep. Rinse and repeat for six months.