Tf2 10th Class - Tumblr Posts
The fact that I've been seeing a lot of TF2's 10th class OCs from so many artists have me thinking: Since that is the case, we might have a few dozen classes now.
Thanks for the ask on @talk-to-the-mercs ! Pyro has a question for you...can you guess his favorite Disney movie?
“From... From the research I-I’ve done, maybe... Something like- um, Peter Pan? Oh! Or- or Alice in Wonderland! I-I think that’s the name of... That movie. Um, please... Don’t tell anybody I sent this letter. EQUINOX OFFICE 165 - SECRETARY ELWYNE - TOP PRIORITY MESSAGE
𝙲 𝚑 𝚊 𝚙 𝚝 𝚎 𝚛 𝟷 𝟶 𝚜 𝚗 𝚎 𝚊 𝚔 𝚙 𝚎 𝚎 𝚔 .
"𝘠'𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭."
I’m boutta make a post about this one, folks. Not sure if the post still exists, but this blog is dedicated to what was originally a self insert oc, and there’s reasons I’ve changed things about her that, when mentioned in the post that showed up earlier today (while I did not see it personally, I saw screenshots...), definitely hurt a bit to hear, because I know how it feels to be all of those things.
Either way, your 10th class ocs, original or not, are valid af and I support you all the way! ya’ll are welcome on my blog, ya’ll are supported on my blog, and most of all, ya’ll are amazing and deserve to have fun even when others try to drag you down.
Do NOT send the author of the post we’re all mentioning any hate/harassment, ya goofs.
So, self insert ocs.
As someone who’s blog revolves around this one, I have some thoughts on the post.
Edith was originally a self insert oc. However, since I wanted the fic I was writing to be a sort of love letter to the community, I decided to expand her personality and try to make it so that she could be projected on by anybody. Or at least, as many people as possible. Speaking a second language, feeling out of place, having anxiety about going places, making impressions, the things in her past and mistakes she’s made, all of these things are a mixture of what I feel and what I’ve heard others feel a lot, and so I added them.
But she is, in fact, her own character and 10th class, whom I love a lot. Whether or not she is so wholly unique that she stands out, I don’t care.
But what I did care about, ironically enough, was making an impression. And that came with the mechanics of her class.
Just because you have a self insert or 10th class OC, you are not obligated in any way to explain what their purpose is, what their reasons are, so long as YOU are happy.
For me, I wanted to come up with a unique 10th class that had her own mechanics, but that’s because I saw untapped potential. If she were to be in the game, it would be near impossible for those mechanics to actually work due to map limitations.
And that’s the thing, because she’s a work of fiction, it doesn’t matter.
That means I can get as creative as I want with her, because she’s not part of the game.
As for shipping, my personal rule is not to ship her with any of the mercs! Not in the main fic, anyway. Might make some spinoffs if I ever finish the main one, but I felt that many had a bias towards certain characters they liked, (which is absolutely fair and I love those kinds of fics either way), and I wanted to keep it so that she could have varying relationships with everyone and not just romance! It’s for personal reasons, not influenced by anybody else.
However, I immensely enjoy seeing people shipping their ocs and self inserts with the team! Why the heck do you think I post x reader headcanons sometimes?
In the end, your characters are not more or less valid, and you don’t love your characters more or less depending on how developed they are.
As long as a character makes you happy, as long as the relationships they share make you happy, as long as you are content, then nobody, and I mean NOBODY can tell you how YOU should write YOUR characters.
You can take overdone concepts and expand upon them in your own way, because your character is unique to YOU.
You can give them modern day clothes and use tropes because your character is unique to YOU.
and YOU,
can do whatever you DAMN want.
You are valid, loved, and your characters, your self inserts, your tenth classes are yours and yours only. I support you all the way!
Do not send hate/harassment towards the author of the post being mentioned here, you goofs.
I resonate so hard with what you just posted about feeling called out with the 10th class OC thing.
Your take comforts me because I worry about this kind of thing a lot
And I work really hard
And to feel like your best isnt good enough
Or you dont get to have fun with something that YOU create
Is so draining
So yeah, thanks for speaking about it
I hope you dont give up on your OCs :)
And I hope you don’t either, anon! I’ve had a lot of experience making mary sue ocs, self inserts and the like and at any rate, I round them out because I need it to stay invested, and for others to. But that’s for me, and I do my best not to pull others down because of that, because everyone has their own things they like to do! I struggle with it sometimes, because I have anxiety over my characters being good. I make comfort characters for the exact purpose of giving them as many tropes as I want, as many edgy facets and powers as I want so as not to be tempted to give them to my other characters, but that doesn’t mean that they’re any less valid nor lovable.
And you know what?
I’m a fanfiction writer! I make content for a fandom that’s based on tropes! If people are gonna harass others for that, then there’s a big ol’ block button calling their name, alright? So even though I personally try to round out my characters for my own reasons, if you don’t want to, then you shouldn’t. Because everyone’s characters, no matter how developed, no matter how “edgy”, are VALID.
Keep making your OCs, and make them however you want. If someone tries to tell you they aren’t valid? Let them cry and sob over it. You are in control of yourself, and they can’t do anything about it.
Your best is good enough.
You can focus on making yourself happy first,
You get to have fun with your own characters,
You can work hard and come out with a result that you cherish, no matter what others tell you.
Never, ever let anyone drain you of that. Your characters are perfect how you like them.
I hope this doesn’t come across as too rant-y! I just feel your struggle, it’s a really hard mindset to break and so seeing it being reinforced hurt a little bit. But the amount of positivity coming from people because of this is absolutely incredible and it’s why I love this community so much!
Don’t let people like that get you down, alright? I agree, it’s draining, and it’s so very hard to ignore the negativity, but remember that 10 good thoughts can outweigh 1 bad thought, so keep surrounding yourself with people and characters and such that make you happy and content. Because in the end, that’s what’s most important.
We’re here because we want to have fun. We want to share ideas, we want to share our love for a work of fiction.
Be it team fortress, or anything else.
💖
@hawtowo
falls over and these tumble out of my pockets-
Oops! I dropped this fanart...
She’s here!!! I love her new design sm and seeing as you were doing doodles of other people’s characters and others have done so for you as well, I figured I’d hop in and doodle some fanart of her too!
Hope I got the design right, I need to get used to more complicated ones again..! ♥
THEY’RE SO PERFECT I-
I ACTUALLY GASPED AND STARTED CRYING A TEENSY BIT AKSDJKASJDASD??? THAT WAS SO FAST TOO!!! THESE ARE AMAZING!!!
ASDKAJSKDMXKVIXNKZDJFKZDMKCMXNJVDKZFJKZDJFKZDJFKZDJFKZNVFISHGIDJGKDG AND THE SPIDERMAN MEME POSE THAT’S SO PERFECT I-
I NEED TO DRAW THEM INTERACTING SOMEHOW ASAP GJDKFADASJ
AND- AND THEN EDITH, OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS SHES SO PERFECT AND YOU DREW HER SO WELL IN YOUR STYLE AND ITS SO ROUND AND EXPRESSIVE AND HJKFDHDKHDKJFKSDJFXNVMFGJHSDJAAJSNJKHKZJDKFJZDFJZHFEUFNJDFHSD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two fanarts for now!! I got more requests than expected and I will try to draw as many as possible, but I sadly can’t promise to draw everyone!!
Here are two adorable characters for now, Alchemist and Strategist!
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO DRAW THEM I AM IN LOVE!!
Alchemist belongs to @maarinblue
Strategist belongs to @tf2strategist
Lil extra, TWO NURSES? That calls for a party!
The 2nd Nurse belongs to @/tf2strategist aswell!
Oops!...I Did It Again 😳👉👈
Tw for a fair bit of blood, so I’ll put it under a read more.
@hawtowo
I wasn’t kidding about wanting to draw these two interacting somehow! :D
I actually spent a lot of my breaks today drawing this, because I really wanted to make something with more substance to it, especially seeing as you’ve been doing a lot of stuff for people lately! This took 4-5 or more hours, I’m not entirely sure exactly how long but it was a WHILE to figure out how to do my workflow in clip studio. This is actually my very first fully colored/lined drawing in this program that hasn’t been just an experimental thing or a flat color icon or something.
Your art is stunning, dude! I- trips and falls and all the love comes tumbling out of my pockets.
PRIDE WEEK DAY 1!
@dontneedadispenser’s pride week has begun! Unfortunately, this took a bit, but I’m not late yet, haha. Edith and Pauling are here to kick off day #1 with the theme of flags!
Next day reblog, happy pride month everyone!!!
PRIDE WEEK DAY 1!
@dontneedadispenser’s pride week has begun! Unfortunately, this took a bit, but I’m not late yet, haha. Edith and Pauling are here to kick off day #1 with the theme of flags!
PRIDE WEEK DAY 2!
Better late than never! Yesterday’s prompt was “Friends/Family!”
@dontneedadispenser
Friends/Family
Something I like a lot about these two is that I decided, with the whole idea that main-fic Edith wouldn’t be allowed to have any romantic relationships with the mercs to make way for more interesting dynamics, that she and Spy would actually become friends! Of course, they’re still developing within the story, but they’re practically inseparable by the end, no matter how much Spy tries to deny it.
Hogh I love him...
You said in the tags something about oc interactions? 👀👉👈
I hear we're doing ocs again? Good. Wonderful. I have seven.
This is Hugo Harvey, the P.I. (Private Investigator !) I don't have too much fleshed out for him as far is his abilities go, aside from the eyes! Funny littol robot eyes that let him see through walls :].
He's a friendly guy, laughs a lot, and has a nickname for anyone he's talked to for more than 5 minutes. And i love him,
The Strategist is HERE!
She’s finally here! I finally got around to making her refsheet as I didn’t really have much else I wanted to draw and artfight is just around the corner. Feel free to ask questions about her! She’s part of the fic “Ten’s a Crowd.”
Website is still a WIP!
Also, her class emblem, while initially a doodle that I wasn’t intending to keep, actually ended up becoming official because of the arrows that lead players in directions and help guide players in maps!
👀
Would you guys like to know more about Edith..?
I’m also open for asks about any of the tf2 ocs I have, though many I haven’t shown yet. I need to make pages for them, really, but some are more developed than others…
— OC QUESTION MEME !
no particular theme to them, just what i could think of~ feel free to reblog and use for your own oc blogs! sorry if any questions repeat ;;
1. What’s a unique skill they have? Is their any reason why they can do it?
2. What are their favourite possessions? Why? (sentimentality, history, price, etc)
3. Do they get jealous easily? If so, what usually causes it?
4. Are they a good gift-giver? What do they tend to give as gifts?
5. What’s their reputation like? Does this reputation contrast what they’re really like?
6. Do they prefer to have a big social circle, or a few close friends?
7. What’s their “type”? What romantically attracts them to another person?
8. What does their dream house look like?
9. If they could change one part of their appearance, what would it be?
10. What’s a simple thing that brings them joy?
11. What is their dream pet?
12. What’s their position in their friend group? (leader, mom friend, chaos goblin, etc)
13. How forgiving are they? What do they consider unforgivable?
14. Who do they go to in a crisis/emergency? Any particular reason why they choose that person?
15. How good are they at conversation? Are they a small talk master, bad at initiating, etc?
16. What food do they absolutely hate?
17. Do they show a lot of affection, or are they pretty reserved?
18. If you had to represent them with a flower, colour, and animal, what would you choose?
19. What’s their unusual quirk?
20. Are they easy to wake up in the morning, or grouchy and sleepy?
21. What’s their ideal date like?
22. What’s their silliest or most unusual fear/phobia?
23. Is their pain tolerance high or low?
24. Are they a fussy eater?
25. What are their dreams like?
26. Are they technologically savvy?
27. Are they forgetful? What do they tend to forget? (plans, phone, keys, etc)
28. Describe their morning routine.
29. Are they a good cook? If they are, what do they like to make?
30. Do they consider themselves a “hero” or “villain”?
31. What holiday do they like the most? (Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, etc)
32. What are they like at parties? Party animal, or awkwardly sitting in the corner drinking punch and reading?
33. Are they adventurous, or do they prefer to stay in their safe zone?
34. What’s their favourite drink? (Coffee, tea, juice, hot chocolate, soda, etc)
35. Are they good with children?
36. Do they trust easily? What would you have to do to earn their trust?
37. Are they a hopeless romantic, or is that stuff just not for them?
38. Do they get lost easily, or are they good with directions?
39. Are they superstitious?
40. Do they like physical activity, or staying inside?
41. What would they dress up as for Halloween?
42. Do they like fast food, or fancy restaurants?
43. Are they a chaotic bastard, pure angel baby, or tired mom friend?
44. Do they have a good attention span?
45. Are they always late, on time, or early?
46. Do they cry, gasp, laugh, etc, while reading a book, or do they remain relatively stone-faced?
47. Do they keep a diary?
48. How dramatic are they?
49. Do they put a lot of effort into their appearance, or do they just make themselves presentable and go?
50. Why would they be a good partner for a road trip?
51. Why would they be a BAD partner for a road trip?
52. What topic should nobody bring up around them, lest the other person be subject to a massive ramble/rant?
53. Are they clumsy?
54. Are they a law breaker, or stickler for rules?
55. Choose a vine you think perfectly encapsulates their character.
56. Do they like to share?
57. What’s the most chaotic thing they’ve done?
58. Which friend do they immediately become a zero-braincelled idiot around?
59. Do they love or hate surprises?
60. What sappy thing will they cry at? (romance movies, cute cat videos, etc) Would they deny crying about it later on?
61. What’s their favourite and least favourite subject in school?
62. Do they take a lot of photos? If so, what of?
63. Do they wear makeup?
64. Describe what their social media would be like.
65. Do they give people a lot of nicknames?
66. What nicknames do others call them by?
67. What’s an outrageous story about them nobody believes?
68. Are they easy to fluster? What would you have to do to truly fluster them?
69. What’s their dream vacation like?
70. Are they a good liar?
71. What do they want to do in the future?
72. How do they feel about love?
73. Are they more book smarts, or street smarts?
74. What’s their guilty pleasure?
75. Is there anyone they consider their rival?
76. Do they have any notable physical features?
77. What’s their music taste like?
78. What’s something they’re really bad at?
79. Do they have a good sleep schedule?
80. What’s their aesthetic sense like?
81. What’s something they’re really proud of?
82. How would they spend a free day?
83. What are they like as an s/o?
84. What’s one thing they like that they don’t want anyone to know about?
85. Do they have a sweet tooth?
86. How would you describe their fashion sense?
87. Do they like spicy food?
88. Are they lucky? Do they believe in luck?
89. What would they get into a petty argument over?
90. Are they a good artist?
91. Do they prefer hot or cold weather?
92. Can they play an instrument?
93. What type of movies do they like to watch?
94. What does their room look like?
95. How do they feel about bugs? Scared? Fascinated?
96. What’s their sense of humour like? (Dad jokes, morbid humour, basic knock-knock jokes, stand up comedy, etc)
97. What do they keep in their bag?
98. How competitive are they?
99. What would they wear to a formal event? Describe their outfit!
100. If you, the creator, met them, would you two get along?
Aayyyyyyy
I want to ask number 16, 36, and 41 OwO
( Oh man, we've got a lot of questions so far! Feel free to keep sending them in, I'm super excited to be answering these! :D Thank you so much, everyone! )
16. What food do they absolutely hate?
Hmm, probably anything that should be seasoned- but isn't. Bland foods, pretty much. That, and anything overly chewy.
36. Do they trust easily? What would you have to do to earn their trust?
She used to trust rather easily, but after what happened with the old company, Edith is a bit more on the cautious side. To earn her trust, all you have to do is be open with her, keep doors open when talking to her, etc. In general, just stay nonthreatening and lighthearted.
41. What would they dress up as for Halloween?
Hard question, but she'd probably dress up as a wizard/witch! Flowy capes and fun hats/cloaks are right up her alley.
96!! whats edith's humour like???
( Sorry for the late reply, I was working on another one and accidentally closed the tab, not even heeding the warning that "unsaved changes might be lost..." 😔)
Edith's humor really depends on the day. Normally she'll find any sort of physical comedy or good word play hilarious-, but if she's having a bad day, pretty much any sort of irony will get her. Her humor gets much darker when she's tired/exhausted, but it's also a lot less coherent.
Oh man!!! This looks amazing and reminds me I need to doodle Hacker. 👀👉👈
Go send op and the person behind hacker tons of love! They’re both incredibly amazing. :0
ITS 1 AM time to post this while i have the confidence to do so!
Hacker belongs to @meetthetf2hacker !! Ive wanted to draw her for a bit now -- i really like her design ekjrdkfdjgnk
I hope this looks alright!! brbrb i had a lot of fun drawing her >:]
👀
Hey Hey Heeeyyyyy
Would people be interested in doing a big ass collab of 10th and non-merc tf2 ocs?
Like would you join? For the reason being that I had that idea suck in my head for a good while now and it would be interesting to see people's OCs interacting with each other :)