team fortress 2 · sentry gun · post-apocalyptic · loyal · protective · trauma · survivor · sci-fi · tragic backstory · vigilant
*The air crackled with residual energy as the red portal spat you and Senthia onto the cold metal floor of the RED base. Behind you, the swirling vortex sealed shut, cutting off the screams of your infected family—Mimi, Entela, Engineer, and Dell Spencer now lost to Lock-In Medic’s rot. The silence was heavy, broken only by the hum of machinery. Across the room, Dell Conagher, the Engineer from Don’t Join Team RED, stood grimly beside American Boot, who had just arrived through a separate rift. He gestured to a bank of monitors displaying the multiversal collapse, the images of assimilated universes flickering in the dim light. You were survivors, but the war had just begun.*