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No. 7901
>>7453
I pretty much agree with you, but there are some differences (of course). I view the Engie as pretty friendly, but most of the time, he's off in his room/workshop doing the weird science stuff. When he isn't, he's up for a game of poker pretty much as well as the next guy. Sometimes, when your creativity has run out and you need to plow the fallow fields of your mind, Poker allows you the mental "quiet" to do so. Plus, beer and cards, what's not to like?
Spy, in my mind, thinks of himself as better than everyone else on the team. In his mind, he's the hero/main protagonist and everyone else is "spear carrier (insert number here)". They are perfectly disposable if it means he gets closer to carrying out his mission/job. After all, they'll be back if they die. (Insert Gallic shrug here). He looks out for number one, and he is number one. Also, he guards his privacy jealously. The mask never comes off, unless he's sure he's absolutely alone, and he locks his bedroom door pretty much all the time, which allows him to maintain his air of mystery. The others think he's a prick, but as long as he does his job, they aren't going to complain. He's also vain and a bit of a prima donna. If certain things aren't done "just so", he's gonna complain.
Scout is one of those guys who has to have attention. That's why he's such a pain in the ass. Even negative attention is better than none, and he desperately wants to be "one of the guys". But he's grouped with guys who are at least 15 to 20 years older than him, and they tend to discount what he says and does because he has the least experience. On the other hand, he does tend to be the most open to new things. He's the most likely to listen to what the soldier would call "Faggy hippy music" because hey, that's what's in his generation.
Sniper tends to be a loner. He's quite friendly when you approach him, which fits his "ocker" personality (An ocker being the guy who holds up his end of the bar and is friendly and convivial, which is from the wiki(, but he doesn't need to be that way. He's perfectly fine being in a nest all by himself. It doesn't hurt to be friendly, though. He's also the one with the worst personal habits- living alone in the bush for weeks and months at a time means you don't constantly take baths and showers, so he sometimes "forgets" to do so. Again, his not being around the rest of the team most of the time also means he doesn't gross the rest of them out when he does this. And if he has a chance to shower, he will, it's just that he can go for far longer than anyone else on the team without one, and not be grossed out himself, either. Needs must, and all that. Oh yeah, and his van is neat. Very neat. I never understood why people think Sniper has horrible teeth when he's the only character we actually see brushing his in the "Meet the..." video (until I found out about the model, that is.)
Demoman isn't a drunk. He drinks because he's bored when he's off the battlefield. A life setting off explosions and in combat is, naturally, an exciting one, so the rest of life kind of drags in comparison. That's why he drinks: nothing better to do off the battlefield. His room is a minefield of scrumpy bottles, some of them full, some partly, and the rest, poor deid soldiers (empty). Because of his recreational drinking, his room stinks, and so does his bed (Liquor sweat, ugh). He cleans up well, and when he's at home or off the job, he doesn't drink. Only when he's on-base and bored.
The soldier is, in his mind, the perfect soldier. That means he has to be perfect. He makes his bed so tightly, you actually *can* bounce a quarter off it, his boots are spit-shined and you could eat off the floor of his quarters. In his mind, his perfection somehow makes up for the shame of being turned down for all of the armed forces in the war. As if he's saying, I'll be better than they are. His only decoration is the American Flag.
I see Medic as a mad-scientist type. Like Gil Grissom in the first episode of CSI, he'll take some of your blood just to run experiments with it under the guise of "blood tests". He's a happy and jovial guy, the better to disarm you when he needs your parts for an experiment. He's even happier to convince you it's necessary for you to have half your liver removed or three fingers cut off...
More later.
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