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“Man I love wearing my generic Soviet wool hat and heavy coat in a stuffy submarine while shooting torpedoes at a fast-moving boat.”

Artist: me, my art.

Imagine yourself as a Scottish adjutant placed under (literally) a superior who won in Korea only with her giant cannons.

Very bad sketch with shit perspective and anatomy enjoy.

No, Shinji is not the patriarch, Asuka income mogs him by a factor of 3. What did you expect? She’s a STEM major in the post-apocalyptic reclamation project.
Creator: Me

Alt. Universe where NERV and its assets got appropriated by the Japanese State and Shinji becomes a pawn they keep stacking medals on.

Order of the Rising Sun recipient.
JSSDF Subaltern
National Hero

Sometimes I like the imagine certain premises in a more grounded world. Obviously, TF2 doesn’t adhere to the natural realities of our world, because fundamentally, it’s a cartoony shooter (and I’m in no way criticizing that).

But if we are to take the idea that Heavy was a person who escaped the GULAG camps, I find it hard to believe his family can live the way that they do. So I thought instead of how he could eke out a life for himself and his loved ones, in tandem with history.

Heavy escaped in December 1941 from the camp, but a violent uprising isn’t the only option he had. If we say Heavy can wait out another year, he can be enlisted into a penal battalion (shtrafbat). The program was carried out under the overarching infamous Order No. 227 in July of 1942.

This fits the motivations and character of Heavy perfectly, he’s a strong, dutiful man, who loves his family. The reward for him was simple: re-entry into Soviet society through redemption in meritorious service. That’s easier said than done, joining, fighting, and then surviving the shtrafbat-system would be almost impossible for a typical man. The attrition rate for these units was so serious it’s not even funny. Estimates say, at worst, one in TWO soldiers in these units could be killed in combat, and that’s because they were used for plugging gaps, the worst missions and frontal assaults. So to say Heavy quite literally went through hell on earth killing Nazis to “redeem” himself to save his family quite frankly makes him an unequivocal badass in my headcanon.

I see him going into a State University, getting a graduate degree, and teaching Russian literature in school, becoming a doyen in his field. That is until, his Mother or someone gets cancer, he has to escape to the US because of bureaucracy gatekeeping medicine – and that’s how he joined, Team Fortress.

Like the title says, this is what I imagine the Foundation was like during the Cold War.

Everyone else has already started meme-ing about the implications of Gameoverse’s premise. Contrasting the cartoony funny kitty with the serious gritty action genres.
It led me to wonder, what tf is Kit and Kaboodle doing if it involves a game where the enemies are less cartoonishly evil. Every Sniper Elite game has the character kill a high-ranking dude or an Axis super weapon. Structurally, Kit has to indirectly help Fritz.

Uniform consists of:
Dark beret
White dress shirt
Dark tie
Dark heavy wool single-breasted tunic with cloth belt. Breast pockets with scalloped flaps.
Nu-7 patch on left shoulder, fourragère of his respective unit on the right
Service stripes, because this is a US Army veteran, on the cuff because other distinctions can be placed above.
Lapel bears the foundation’s collar devices
Slacks constructed of the same material of the tunic
Dark dress shoes, natural leather.

You know, the lack of a uniform like this is such a loss for the SCP universe, it’s a paramilitary, the MTFers and all security forces need their dining and walking-out uniforms. Considering you know, they probably serve for life.

Before you call me things, I will very clearly state this first: I do not intend to insult the men who wear these uniforms, and only have the utmost respect for them. In fact, I knew one of the honor guards personally, and he agrees with me, they look ridiculous.

Now you could argue from the point that compared to the rest of the former Soviet republics and Russian satellite states, Mongolia actually has the most unique honor guard unit among them that reflects its national identity effectively. The latter part is where I’d beg to differ. There is a line between making a military uniform by incorporating cultural symbols and just creating a costume for historical larp.

Let’s take a look at the Greek uniform in image two, this the honor guard of a fellow ancient civilization. Looking at it, you might say that Mongolia and Greece are comparable in terms of pride in their culture, but I consider the Greek uniform better because it is functional and backed up by historical usage in actual (relatively recent) combat situations. It is an undeniable part of their military history and warfare, therefore, a valid cultural symbol. Whereas the Mongolian uniform is essentially the fake fabrication of the 13th century, with a considerable amount of gold that does not need to be there.

I’m not insulting my nation because I think we should conform to international conventions. It’s simply because of this one salient fact: This is the unit that greets foreign diplomats and world leaders, who are accustomed to ordinary and smart uniforms instead of whatever we’re currently using. They will think more or less about our country based on this exception.

If we want a modern Mongolia I can’t see why the uniform committee can’t make something more modest and meaningful rather than relying on the bastardized name of a proverbial empire that collapsed centuries ago. Even a plain deel works, add some militaristic features onto it, and I’d consider that an improvement.

“Ya see da commies, for a little while they issued their hero stars with a plain red ribbon, and I have one here… it’s da REAL deal.”