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POV: You're york
This is probably gonna be the last teaser till i finish the thing:P
Amazing commission I got from forever ago by @punzoclown that I just realized I never posted
TUCKINGTON MY BELOVED
I never posted this because right around that time I fell off the face of the earth and did NOT post on tumblr for a while, but LOOK! HERE THEY ARE. THE GAYS.
I love them. Also, punzoclown is very talented and incredibly cooperative to work with on these sorts of things, highly recommend. Sharkylass was really great too. Highly recommend them both.
(Wash isn’t as short here as I typically like to draw him, but that’s on me for forgetting to be more specific lol)
IT’S BACK. IT’S BACK.
I’ve always loved Agent North Dakota, but my fondness for him is only becoming stronger the more I think about him.
(Quick break from my regularly scheduled Tuckington bullshit but I just have to get this out there. I apologize in advance if any is wrong, this is just a collection of my thoughts on North. More art coming soon)
Because, hear me out. North was assigned Theta as his ai due to his kind and nurturing nature as a person. When theta can’t sleep instead of “pulling him” (taking him offline) North stays up late with him, sometimes walking the halls of the Mother of Invention while talking to him to help him fall asleep. If that doesn’t work, you know he stays up with him all night. ALL NIGHT.
This already seems incredibly selfless and kindhearted, but it’s actually even more selfless than you’d think, because the agents are shown to almost all be quite scared of the Director, including North. The Director is also shown on multiple occasions to not care about the AIs feelings (which isn’t surprising, considering how he treats the Alpha). North stays up with Theta because he wants to be there for him, and make him feel better, but this is actually incredibly risky because it means that any training he has to do the next day he will be doing without having rested at all, and FILSS (the project freelancer onboard computer system) has been proven to be able to track even the slightest difference in reaction time and other factors during training (think of that scene when Carolina was training martial arts with the holo targets over and over again) that would inevitably be impacted by not sleeping at all, so this means North probably has to push himself ridiculously hard just so he doesn’t fall behind in stats, regardless of how crazy exhausted he probably is.
Even so, if he’s missed enough sleep I bet there have been times that his stats for that day’s training dipped slightly and the Director probably yelled at him and criticized/berated him for who knows how long. And North wouldn’t have been able to offer any sort of explanation in his own defense because he knows that if the Director found out what was going on he would most likely order him to pull theta on the nights where he can’t sleep, which North had previously told York makes theta even more scared.
In addition to this, he may actually be one of the smartest of all the freelancers, or at least the most perceptive/best judge of character. Why? Because he started to figured out what was going on with Project Freelancer before almost ANY of the other agents did. Correct me if I’m wrong, I haven’t watched these seasons in a while unfortunately, but he/York were the first ones out of all of them to figure out that the Director was lying to them about the “insurrectionists”, the first to suspect that the Alpha was being tortured, and the first one to question whether Project Freelancer were actually the good guys.
I bet that’s part of the reason that North was trained to be a sniper. I mean, yes. He was probably chosen for the sniper specialist position in Freelancer due to his incredible natural/pre established skill at the ability from his regular military duty too, but most likely a lot of his sniper training was DONE at Project Freelancer. I bet this is because the Director wanted him to be an agent due to his incredible combat sense and sharpshooting ability, as well as the fact that he had a twin who was also being recruited (and the Director is a sick son of a bitch, so he wanted to do his experiment about driving one of them crazy, which as we know ended with north being killed), but he still feared North’s natural intuition and compassion, as well as his moral compass, which were much more in tact than that of some of the other freelancers (Maine or Carolina for example), and he wasn’t really holding something over him to bait/keep him there like he sort of did with Wash (based on the guidebook). Initially, yes, North fell for the Director’s bullshit and thought that the Freelancers were the good guys, but even though he probably had fewer direct interactions with any of their enemies than ANY of the other top agents since he was a sniper and a stealth operative, he STILL was one of the first to figure out what was going on. Because he’s likely smarter than many of the others, and he’s a good person- and that’s what the Director forgot to take into account when trying to completely brainwash his agents (and almost succeeding).
ALSO, I mean, come on. The guy can DUEL WIELD SNIPER RIFLES WITH PINPOINT ACCURACY. In season 10 episode 19 (I think?) when he, Tex, and York are breaking into the Mother of Invention and trying to free the Alpha, he shoots SEVEN rockets out of the air that were fired by a LAU-65D/SGM-151 missile pod, meaning that upon being fired all the missiles fly into the air in crazy, unpredictable curving directions before converging on their target with heat seeking accuracy (so, aka- they aren’t just traveling in straight lines, their movement is random at speeds in we can safely assume are at LEAST excess of 100mph, because according to most statistics I can find on the internet, average rocket launchers shoot projectiles at around 294 meters per second (657.659 miles per hour), though we can assume these ones are slower than that based on eyesight, but still probably above the 100mph mark. And he shoots all the missiles in the span of only a couple of seconds before they can hit Tex, their mark.
This is while he is DUEL WIELDING sniper rifles! So not only is his accuracy INSANE, his reaction time is arguably even BETTER.
And the missiles he hit were not only traveling incredibly fast, but aren’t even large targets, or moving in straight paths, and he manages to destroy them all before they find their mark. BECAUSE he’s using two sniper rifles as well, I feel the need to point out that he also can’t use the scope on either one of them, so his accuracy to hit SEVEN targets traveling in RANDOM patterns, THAT FAST, is all just with his eyes, not any sort of scope or ironsight. Of course, it’s assumed that Theta is helping him to some extent somehow, but like, Theta doesn’t control his movements/aim or anything, and doesn’t increase his reaction time. Also, we at least know he verbally didn’t have time to ask Theta to do too much to help him before those missiles were fired since it happened so ridiculously fast.
CONCLUSION/TLDR: god DAMN he’s good.
Commission from @sharkylass
My babies 😭 <3
(Alternates below the fold)
Ik I haven’t been posting or chatting lately (miss you @smilysstuff ) — sorry, I’ve been going through it for a bit. Love y’all though please accept this. High key better than how I draw anyway I can’t color for shit LMAO
Base (just to demonstrate the eventual vision) is FINISHED
These aren’t the real colors, the screenshots messed them up a bit but whatever, here are the two potential versions of the card base, one has some additional darker colored bg details alongside the gold elements in the border.
I’m thinking of doing two versions of the deck, one basic one with everyone just pretty much looking professional and uniform in design wearing their armor, and a SECOND deck with each individual drawn without armor/helmets, all in distinctive poses with their real body types and stuff 👍
Text at the bottom is where the tarot card name and number is gonna go lmao
✨HELLO RVB FANDOM I AM ASKING FOR YOUR GUIDANCE✨
I don’t know if any of you know much about Tarot, but I am in the process of drawing an rvb tarot deck and these are my thoughts for which character should be assigned to each of the major arcana cards.
Included in parentheses after the character are some trailers generally associated with that arcana (to my understanding)
Please feel free to let me know in comments/tags if YOU think these fit/what fits better so I can potentially make the deck!
_____________ {arcana below fold} _____________
💙 Fool- Caboose (new beginning, fresh start, risk, a chance, new cycle, originality, fearlessness, travel, innocence, being green, trickster, acting foolish)
❤️ Magician- Tex (talent, skill, power, magic, control, manifest, tools, mastery, willpower, focus)
💙 High priestess- CT (intuition, feminine wisdom, hidden knowledge, secrecy, initiation, receptivity, spirituality, the inner world)
❤️ Empress- Allison (feminine power, abundance, fertility, pregnancy, marriage, creativity, receptivity, pleasure, mothering, nurturing, giving birth)
💙 Emperor- The Director (Order, structure, authority, power, boss, masculine, father, ownership, autonomy)
❤️ Heirophant- Sarge (tradition, structure, teacher, mentor, counselor, religion, dogma, advice, status quo, organization, conformity, rules, church, obedience)
💙 Lovers- Grif and Simmons (romance, partnership, love, choices, duality, opposites, union)
❤️ Chariot- Shiela (triumph, directed willpower, control, direction, movement, progress, vehicle)
💙 Strength- Carolina (strength, inner power, self control, calm, endure, willpower)
❤️ Hermit- Epsilon (inner wisdom, solitude, withdrawal, quiet, teacher or guru, research, seeker)
💙 Wheel of fortune- The Triplets, or the Chorus Rebels??? I can’t decide (luck, change, a turn of events, karma, movement, shift, improvement, fate)
❤️Justice- Doc & O’Malley (fairness, court, justice, balance, weighing options, seeing both sides, consequences, integrity, honesty, truth, law, middle path)
💙 Hanged man- Temple (sacrifice, letting go, faith, suspension, waiting, hang-ups, martyr, illusion, surrender)
❤️ Death- Felix (ending, transition, transformation, release, change, severance)
💙 Temperance- Lopez (moderation, balance, healing, alchemy, middle ground, patience, blending, harmony, guardian angel)
❤️ Devil- Meta/Sigma (bondage, materialism, negativity, slavery, addiction, stuck, jealousy, deviance, excess)
💙 Tower- Kimball (chaos, disruption, tearing down, rebuilding, uncertainty, blow, enlightenment, unexpected change, overthrow, revolution)
❤️ Star- Donut (hope, optimism, healing, balance, spirituality, health, well being, peace, wishes, vulnerability, success, balance)
💙 Moon- Wash (intuition, illusion, deception, darkness, reflection, fear, subconscious, dreams, difficulty, fear, imagination)
❤️ Sun- Tucker (optimism, success, joy, birth, happiness, health, inner child, energy, enthusiasm)
💙 World- Rooster Teeth Founders? Or Blood Gulch? Or RVB kill switch? (completion, ending, success, travel, closure, graduation, Universe, freedom, environment, rebirth)
https://www.thetarotlady.com/tarot-card-meanings/
^^possible link for meaning reference
<<I have individual assignments for nearly all the minor arcana too, but that would be far too long to post here>>
FNF
…Friday Night Freelancer?
Jesus Christ am I in any fandoms that didn’t die like ten years ago? lmfaooo
(By the way I know this is messy and ridiculously random, I drew the whole thing in like 14 seconds at 4:30am, leave me alone 💀 hahaha)
✨HELLO RVB FANDOM I AM ASKING FOR YOUR GUIDANCE✨
I don’t know if any of you know much about Tarot, but I am in the process of drawing an rvb tarot deck and these are my thoughts for which character should be assigned to each of the major arcana cards.
Included in parentheses after the character are some trailers generally associated with that arcana (to my understanding)
Please feel free to let me know in comments/tags if YOU think these fit/what fits better so I can potentially make the deck!
_____________ {arcana below fold} _____________
💙 Fool- Caboose (new beginning, fresh start, risk, a chance, new cycle, originality, fearlessness, travel, innocence, being green, trickster, acting foolish)
❤️ Magician- Tex (talent, skill, power, magic, control, manifest, tools, mastery, willpower, focus)
💙 High priestess- CT (intuition, feminine wisdom, hidden knowledge, secrecy, initiation, receptivity, spirituality, the inner world)
❤️ Empress- Allison (feminine power, abundance, fertility, pregnancy, marriage, creativity, receptivity, pleasure, mothering, nurturing, giving birth)
💙 Emperor- The Director (Order, structure, authority, power, boss, masculine, father, ownership, autonomy)
❤️ Heirophant- Sarge (tradition, structure, teacher, mentor, counselor, religion, dogma, advice, status quo, organization, conformity, rules, church, obedience)
💙 Lovers- Grif and Simmons (romance, partnership, love, choices, duality, opposites, union)
❤️ Chariot- Shiela (triumph, directed willpower, control, direction, movement, progress, vehicle)
💙 Strength- Carolina (strength, inner power, self control, calm, endure, willpower)
❤️ Hermit- Epsilon (inner wisdom, solitude, withdrawal, quiet, teacher or guru, research, seeker)
💙 Wheel of fortune- The Triplets, or the Chorus Rebels??? I can’t decide (luck, change, a turn of events, karma, movement, shift, improvement, fate)
❤️Justice- Doc & O’Malley (fairness, court, justice, balance, weighing options, seeing both sides, consequences, integrity, honesty, truth, law, middle path)
💙 Hanged man- Temple (sacrifice, letting go, faith, suspension, waiting, hang-ups, martyr, illusion, surrender)
❤️ Death- Felix (ending, transition, transformation, release, change, severance)
💙 Temperance- Lopez (moderation, balance, healing, alchemy, middle ground, patience, blending, harmony, guardian angel)
❤️ Devil- Meta/Sigma (bondage, materialism, negativity, slavery, addiction, stuck, jealousy, deviance, excess)
💙 Tower- Kimball (chaos, disruption, tearing down, rebuilding, uncertainty, blow, enlightenment, unexpected change, overthrow, revolution)
❤️ Star- Donut (hope, optimism, healing, balance, spirituality, health, well being, peace, wishes, vulnerability, success, balance)
💙 Moon- Wash (intuition, illusion, deception, darkness, reflection, fear, subconscious, dreams, difficulty, fear, imagination)
❤️ Sun- Tucker (optimism, success, joy, birth, happiness, health, inner child, energy, enthusiasm)
💙 World- Rooster Teeth Founders? Or Blood Gulch? Or RVB kill switch? (completion, ending, success, travel, closure, graduation, Universe, freedom, environment, rebirth)
https://www.thetarotlady.com/tarot-card-meanings/
^^possible link for meaning reference
<<I have individual assignments for nearly all the minor arcana too, but that would be far too long to post here>>
Boyfriends
Not a very serious post just some silly little sprite designs (without armor) for an 8bit RVB video game I started making and will probably never finish
Blerghhhhhshhgshsj I know I finished the design I did of Church’s sprite too but I cannot for the life of me seem to find it rn
✨👙Buy a swimsuit calendar to support your local project freelancer organization today! 👙✨
(This idea came to me in a vision. Might draw all of them but here’s some York for now... He’s rocking the pose and he knows it lmfao 💀✨)
(Bonus colored version below the fold)
From which, there is no recovery.
Them (part 2) (mostly freelancers >:P)
Self indulgent (unfinished) cat Washington doodle because I can >:)
(The others put a bell around his neck because normal Wash has very quiet footsteps already, and cat Wash would be silent and accidentally scare the shit out of them)
(Caboose put the bow on his tail because he got excited and likes kitties and thought it looked nice. Ultimately, he was way too excited and wholesome about it for Wash to turn him down)
Variation of the boy because I feel like it 💛🩶🖤
Cleaned up version of the Agent Georgia/Agent Utah sketch I did for Joltning
The earlier one was much messier since it was a sketch, but I wanted to clean it up because I loved the Tuckington thing that Jolt did for me 👍
(Might post the full one later but for now, here, have these two iconic freelancer gays lmao)
Don’t worry, this is simply a gift, we’ll be back to your regularly scheduled Tuckington BS soon ;)
HELLO EVERYONE TIME FOR A SILLY RVB HEADCANON
North used to cook pancakes for all the Freelancers when he could occasionally get his hands on the ingredients. It was never easy to get the stuff he needed or to make them on the Mother of Invention, but he didn’t mind because everyone (even South and Carolina) always lit up when he made the pancakes for them, and it was one of the only periodic/consistent bright points in their lives, as small and insignificant as it might have seemed on the surface. pancakes are still Wash and Carolina’s favorite food to this day but it’s not something they really talk about due to the emotions connected with the memory.
(More below the fold)
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Bonus:
Wash naturally wakes up earlier than the reds and blues, so he tried to remember how North used to do it so he could make them pancakes one morning, but he completely botched it. Embarrassed, he disposed of the remains of the scorched confections before the reds and blues woke up so they wouldn’t know about it and acted like nothing happened, but he stayed up all of that next night trying to get the recipe right. When the soldiers woke up that morning it was to the delicious scent of pancakes, which a very tired but happy Washington was just finishing preparing for them. Even though there weren’t perfect and were shaped a little lopsided, everyone loved them and ate together, having a great time and very appreciative of the surprising gesture.
It was a very bittersweet moment for Wash, and though he didn’t let the others see, he teared up from the memories of his old friends/family enjoying the same treat back on the Mother of Invention. It was happy crying too, though, because he knew that North would have been proud of him.
Carolina is the only one who understands the real meaning behind the gesture, and even her prickly demeanor softens at the memories that morning, as in that bittersweet moment she chooses to sit back and remember the good things, like York always sneaking her an extra pancake and the freelancers actually feeling like real people for once instead of just weapons. She doesn’t say anything, but nods to Wash to tell him that he did a good job, and the entire group enjoys the loveliest Saturday morning that they’ve had in a while.
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(Bonus bonus…… after that, Wash discovers that he actually really likes cooking because it makes him feel good to make people he loves happy. He is god awful at it, though, and asks Grif to teach him in secret, then after weeks and weeks of lessons, cooks Tucker a genuine meal and he’s amazed and it’s amazing and wholesome af)
Concept for a funny Tuckington AU I came up with the other day:
Essentially- the first time you make contact with your soulmate directly with your skin on theirs, it leaves a permanent mark for the rest of your life.
And so basically the concept of the fic was that since they're wearing armor literally almost all of the time, Wash and Tucker in the fic have known each other for quite a while since they originally met and took down project freelancer, but had never physically made contact skin/skin.
But then one day they're just arguing like normal, and get in a particularly bad argument (Idk what it’s about), and they happen to just be inside of blue base and not wearing their armor, and Tucker just like, fuckin’- SLAPS Wash in the face AS HARD AS HE CAN.
And Wash is immediately pissed and is going to punch Tucker in retaliation but then sees that Tucker is just completely frozen in just pure shock and mortification like the complete dumbass he is, and Wash is still pissed and is like “WHAT?! WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT?!”
And Tucker just kinda closes his eyes and is like
“Oh you've got to be fucking kidding…
.... You're going to fucking kill me.”
And Wash is still pissed off from the fight they'd been in, but now he's also incredibly confused, so it takes him a second to understand, but then it just slowly sinks in to his mind why Tucker is acting weird and he's just like “....... No...” And just like kinda touches his face and is like
“there's...
... I mean...... there's no way that......
…tell me I don't have a…”
And Tucker just kinda awkwardly has to inform him that yep, he now has a permanent marking in the shape of a hand print right on the side of his face (and Tucker has one on his palm). Chaos ensues.
I have more ideas about this too including some for Grimmons and Yorkalina, plus Tucker and Wash trying to hide their very obvious marks like the awkward morons they are lol
(sorry if this has been done before, I’ve never seen it hahaha)
BACK TO NORMAL ART POSTS NOW I SWEAR
🎶Come onnn Carolina, have fuuun Carolina 🎶
(She has a face tattoo of the Roman numeral for 12 because North Carolina was the 12th US state and idk it felt like a vibe. Plus I’ve been watching too much Arcane)
Might do a colored version later, we’ll see how the vibes are. I h a t e coloring with a passion… you don’t understand…
So, uh.
Uh.
Yeah I don’t have any explanation here. Not even gonna try to defend myself with this one. Saw a post about femboy hooters and thought this would be entertaining so I colored my last drawing a little…. differently. THIS ISN’T MY USUAL CONTENT I SWEAR
(….. If you listen real, real close, you can hear Tucker having a heart attack in the background…)
The boy, for my first post… Yes I forgot the scars but eh I’ll fix it later lmao
(Hello rvb fandom)