>>194 Hehe, thanks. I put a lot of thought into vignettes like that, and whether or not I'm overdoing the characters' experiencing (and expressing) emotions, given the situation they're in. Admittedly, there's limited canon to go by and most of the characters' emotes are taunts, but they don't seem to be incapable of human feeling when it comes to their interactions with one another, so... I've always imagined that they get along about as well as you could hope for a team of nine mercenary killers. I can never quite buy a "team group-hug" story where they're baking cookies and giggling about who's shagging who, but I don't think I'm stretching things too far to show them having feels. I try to limit my use of the same phrases too frequently, but I guess it must happen. When I've got a group of several adult men together, I start running out of different ways I can refer to each one in a manner that won't confuse the reader. It's not meant to suggest he's inferior to his teammates or anything, he just is literally the shortest member of the group. If the phrase really bothers people a lot, I could change it in the hardcopy, but unfortunately there's no editing these threads. I remember someone describing their first experience playing Sniper with the phrase "constantly on fire". Nobody really likes burning, but the flyweights like Engineer and Sniper get it worse. 125 HP isn't much of a buffer... >>195 For what it's worth (on the technical side of things), he's supposed to be suffering extensive second-degree burns. I mostly read about treatment when I was doing my research, and the thought of nerve damage only occurred to me later. I'm not actually sure if second-degree burns destroy the nerve endings.