A Little Emesis Blue Headcanon
I always thought Fritz’ reaction to burnt Spy was… interesting.
Now, he’s obviously shocked to see it. But I have a theory that he wasn’t just thinking about past respawn failure victims and their injuries when he saw Spy.
I think the plague doctor means different things to different mercs, because they’re sharing a nightmare. And in Fritz’ POV, the plague doctor is a nightmare version of his silent personality. They both move eerily smoothly, they both don’t speak, and despite the quite personality having no mask, he doesn’t emote much.
There’s a lot of fire imagery around Dr Ludwig in this movie.
There’s candles on the casket he’s trapped in, and the Plague doctor is the only person around to put them there. The fact that he put so many on a rickety wooden casket implies that he wants the candles to burn down and set the casket on fire. Causing burns everywhere.
Yet again, we see something evil with a mask, using fire to attack Fritz. Note how the M burn is on the right side of his face and very close to his eye.
You know who else has a mark under his eye?
The quiet one. It’s under his left eye. Something must have happened to it, otherwise he would have equally red bags under his right eye.
In addition to Fritz having the burn on the other side and more of his cheek, the eye injury can’t be credited to the roulette scene. All the worst carnage was on the back of Ludwig’s skull because of the placement of the gun barrel.
So what happened to funeral Medic?
When Fritz sees the plague doctor, he’s always in the dark. He also seems capable of controlling shadows. This leads me to believe that the quiet Medic must be able to visit Fritz in his inner world.
In DID [formerly multiple personality disorder], there’s something called a headspace or inner world. Personalities can interact with each other and sometimes, the Core personality which is what Fritz probably is.
Inner worlds vary a lot in how many settings there are, if there’s fake townsfolk like NPCs, and how much the personalities can control their environment.
My best guess at the moment is that wherever Fritz was when he encountered the quiet Medic in his inner world, it was very dark and the quiet one had powers related to the dark.
Maybe most of the other personalities can’t access the part of the mind where Fritz is at, but the quiet one can. That might help explain why he thinks he’s schizophrenic and is so afraid of the personalities being evil.
Let’s be real, funeral Medic is very off putting even to the audience; imagine that but it’s using your face. Now imagine being Catholic and believing in demons. You probably have a light in your hand, because it’s dark, right?
I think Fritz saw this for the first time and threw a lit candle or lantern directly at his face. Leaving the red scar under his eye and making Ludwig afraid of the quiet one coming for revenge.
That would explain why Plague doctor was reaching towards his face and making smoke/shadows creep around. It would explain why Pyro chose to brand him on his face. And it would explain the look he gave burnt Spy.
”It’s you!-Wait no, he healed.-And I don’t smoke, who’s this guy?”
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can u draw my waf emesis blu heavy and I holding hands? (I'm a stick figure don't worry about draiwngme)
abit late since i was talking to my brother mb
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Team Fortress 2
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Heavy/Medic (Team Fortress 2)
Characters: Heavy (Team Fortress 2), Medic (Team Fortress 2), Blutarch Mann, Scout (Team Fortress 2), Spy (Team Fortress 2)
Additional Tags: Emesis Blue (Team Fortress 2), M (Fritz Lang), Period-Typical Homophobia, Canon-Typical Violence, Catholic Guilt, heavy loves medic so much, Medic's Emesis Blue characterization, Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort
Summary:
When a child murderer rips apart 1930s Berlin, Medic is forced to confront things about himself he'd rather forget. Luckily, Heavy is by his side.
(Based off of the films Emesis Blue and M, directed by Fritz Lang in 1931).
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