THE BUTCHER

who is this fuckin guy?

butcher is a 50 year old man from hungary. it's unknown where exactly he's from, what his birthday is, or even his full name.

he's currently a mercenary, working for Reliable Excavation Demolition, or the RED team,
stuck in a constant pointless war over a... pile of gravel?

whatever. he loves what he does and he's damn good at it.

i'm not particularly happy with this reference anymore but i don't feel like redrawing it lol

CLASS INFORMATION

in actual tf2 gameplay he'd be really fucking annoying tbh.

he's got 175 health, 200 when overhealed, and is about the same speed as soldier. he's a defense class, but he could probably be played as offense and support too.

PLAYSTYLE

butcher deals best damage in close range. most of his playstyyle would be about disrupting the natural flow of the game, countering turtling engie's and camping heavies the best. while the hook doesn't pull revved/crouching heavies up super far, it's enough for a teammate to get a finishing blow. a butcher and spy/demo/soldier working together could devestate engineer nests in moments.

butcher's hook also helps with positioning, having the ability to fling his teammates into places that would either be very tricky or straight up impossible to get to otherwise.

butcher is countered by fast classes like scout, or classes that deal their most devestating damage in close range, like pyro or an uncrouched heavy.

THE SHOTGUN

your run of the mill shotgun. there's not much to say about it.

THE MEATHOOK

this is the crux of what makes butcher butcher . it's a meathook attatched to his belt via a long chain (ala sanford madness combat). he has the ability to throw friendly players a certain distance and reel enemy players close to him to deal nasty damage with the shotgun.

THE CLEAVER

it doesn't function like scout's sorry. it's just a regular ass knife.

he definitely has an unlockable melee that's a chainsaw though, that goes along with a leatherface (texas chainsaw massacre) cosmetic set.

BACKSTORY

as stated, butcher hails from hungary. but how did he get to new mexico? what brought him here? how did he become a butcher in the first place?

butcher is actually carrying on the family business, as his father was a butcher before him! taught our dear butcher everything he knows, severely traumatizing him in the process. oh yeah the cannibalism stuff he got from his dad also. it was the 1930's, in the midst of the great depression, and animals were expensive. they needed to sell something. butcher was introduced to the family business at the ripe age of 14 and eventually took it over when his father got too old to work.

this didn't last long though, as butcher's business was eventually investigated by the police and he was forced to flee hungary.

so, he came to america, set up shop,

and continued doing the same damn thing.

eventually, this store got investigated too, but not before catching the eye of the people at TFI. he was employed to provide fresh meat for the mercinaries, and was hired as a merc himself when his shop went under. he sold animal meat to TFI by the way. the people meat thing kinda became a side job once the prices of animal carcasses went down post-depression.

butcher believes that everything he does and has done is perfectly normal. well, he is aware that killing people is usually bad, but he has his ways of rationalizing things. through a mixture of denial and repression, he's not particularly aware of just how badly he'd been traumatized.

how well does butcher get along with the rest of the mercs?

he tends to creep some of the mercs out. this'll have rows with each merc + the tf3 guys soon i prommy i just gotta figure out how to format that

uh imags

this is just all the art i've made of him. there's a lot more on his toyhouse. these aren't sorted by date either (yet) i've just kinda slapped em all in there.