tucker: no. he's not the WORST, it'll be atleast somewhat edible, but he's still not allowed to cook. ever. like, ever.
church: yes and he's very valuable to them for this alone. they would have already starved in blood gulch without him. maybe not the best food but when you're on blue team, it is.
caboose: ok predictable but absolutely not no way in hell he can cook. he tries to help but they all have to usher him out (emphasis on everyone, he's a big boy)
wash: this one's a less common but honestly no. he's been in the military since he was 18 he cannot cook food for shit. i've already made a post on this but he's tried before for the blues and like. that was literally the closest he's ever been to death in his life, and he's a FREELANCER. he's not allowed in the kitchen without active supervision, and you would not believe the amount of protein powder this man has
carolina: also no. you think she had the time to learn how to cook? you're funny. i think she's learning, but it's a slow process, a very slow process. leave it to carolina to know everything but how to cook
tex: i mean, yeah, why not. she knew as a person and a robot. i like to think she made caboose sandwichs in the early seasons (because i love tex/caboose as a duo)
kai: yes and it concerns her that nobody else knows how to. and not just like knows, she's REALLY good at cooking since she's been cooking since she was young. she's blue teams savior (except she's never there so theyre still in distress LOL)
honorary doc: yes but he's not a big help to blue team because he's vegan everything. he told them he can cook and they let him. they were very disappointed when he started very delicately explaining how he substituted just about everything out of a typical dish for something vegan. (and it wasn't even good either, like he makes the food so bad other vegans would rather eat a fucking burger than his food)
How did Burnie Burns create one of the most evocative portrayals of what it means to be a woman character in a male centric show, the idea of being made into a projection of a memory to the point where you are never allowed to be your own person, the idea that all they’ll remember of you is your failure, and how it is programmed into you, being not a person but a memory, to always try and always fail…. That had to have been on accident
I think one of the most deeply hilarious things about Red vs Blue is that Beta/Tex was based on Church/Alpha's memories of Allison. This foul tempered, foul mouthed, incredibly violent woman is who Leonard Church was obsessed with???
Like, this isn't who she was, this is how Leonard remembers her. And by all accounts, these aren't his bad memories of her, either! This is what he loved about her! Fucking hilarious. By sheer virtue of the fact that nerds in 2003 thought a mean, crude girl was hilarious they invented one of the most hilarious guys: "Obsessed With My Dead Mean Wife"
Rewatching rvb and season 2 Tex is so fucking funny in retrospect. You see in the prequel seasons that she’s an insanely deadly fighter, and chooses to remain silent, cold, and aloof to all the freelancers. She never talks to them, and she’s actually an incredibly powerful and intelligent AI in a robotic body. Unkillable and inhumanly intelligent.
Fast forward a couple years and she’s in season 2. All she does is sit around and fight with the Blues. She fought fucking space pirates and jumped off a fucking building, beating ever single other freelancer in combat, but is killed within DAYS of meeting the reds and blues. By DONUT.
She’s literally the most skilled and deadly freelancer, and spends s2 giving meditation sessions to a bomb, being scared shitless by an alien, and bickering with her ex boyfriend and his dumbass friends.