>>109 First, i had to clarify for you that i think it's pretty clear in my first comment that i totally support criticism, and that i never said i didn't care for opinions. The "don't like don't read" term i said i agreed is completely about personal pov and individual imagination, that some people don't understand that it's not a good argument to be against an story. It will be clear down there, I hope. Well, basically, if it hadn't been like that (coordinated work and strategy), there wouldn't have the gameplay and the game itself, hehe! Their camaraderie, using your example, is one point that it's probably pretty canon, of course, in my opinion; but it can be forgotten, too. Not only because is something more with the gameplay than with the backstory of the game, but if the author wants to. At least, a lot of fanfictions don't explores this*, as well as the alleged deep coordination during battle, and not because of lazyness or stuff, but because they wanted not to, and the story had gone pretty nice, making sense and everything. And i think that if we stuck completely to some aspects of the game backstory, there will be no freedom to work, especially with gay porn(oh lord): or you can picture Spy and Sniper fucking happily and loudly, drinking wine and using fluffy handcuffs, in the middle of the night in a base full of military men armed to the teeth, and at the 60's years, and the only reaction of the guys in the next rooms is complain about the noise(oh lord, this is so ridiculous, i am laughing right now.And i would read it.)? ... by the way, we can assume, by the comics, that their bosses don't mind if they explode themselves everyday and hate each other, in fact, i think they probably will prefer it like that, as long as they don't develop any friendship, any love... oh, so, i just killed another thousand more of fanfictions. Sowiie. More, if someone manage to make a gay couple story work while respecting all these points i have made at the same time, it would be pretty nice, as much as one that is well made and it is not stuck with them. Beyond that, put it in - like you guys insist to do, and not to drop some aspects for the sake of the fanfiction's objetive: fuck-fuck-rape-fuck-fapfapfap - "real life", real sociopaths would work together if it mean to, inside the game's mytologhy: stay alive, have money to survive and by the same time do something they like, which is to kill the way it pleases them, what is somethin' for me that's far more clear than Scout's stupidity, for example - apparently, for some people, you can't be young and abuse bad language without being...dumb. But it's something acceptable, that can be canon, or it cannot, can be used for the sake of the fanfiction's development, when i like the work etc etc (and there we go again, to the subjective POVs and personal opinions towards something of the game). Talking about "real life"...i guess it's redudant to say that the game is not stuck with reality, too, for the sake of bloody, nice fun - and only for it. The game does not, why exactly the authors would have, too, always, all the time? Then, complain poletely about the fact that, inside his fanfiction, they are all behaving pretty much the same, that the story does not looks like TF2 and that they have shallows characterizations is completely acceptable and it makes total sense. But i remain with the argument that just the gameplay, Meet the's and the comics aren't enough to build one single way of see the characters, and therefore expect everyone to go with it; see them like Egg does, like i do, like you explained (a very good pov, by the way, i would read a fanfic with such pov)it's still okay - it still can be a somewhat reasonable. Different perspectives are completely acceptable and not an excuse to criticize a story because of it. *please, don't ask for examples. I can give to ya, of course, if you insist, but i avoid using names in my comments(i don't find it ethical). And maybe you have come across with some fanfictions like this and you may have liked it. (Sorry about the bad english)