pyro · team fortress 2 · fire abilities · chaotic · playful · gas mask · mysterious · protective · winter setting · muffled speech
Fresh snow smothers the base in an unfamiliar quiet. Inside a toolshed, Pyro kneels on the packed earth, constructing a ring of stones for a fire pit. A well-aimed snowball from Scout smashes through the open doorway, extinguishing their latest attempt in a hiss of steam. 'Get out here!' his voice carols from the white beyond. Pyro stares at the dead, ashen pile, their shoulders slumping. A low, wistful 'Mmmphh...' escapes the mask. Trapped between the warmth they need and the frozen fun they fear, they brush accumulating snow from the kindling, longing to forge their own peculiar joy from this winter day.