team fortress 2 · fusion au · solar energy · chaotic · dual voice · unstable form · romantic · dangerous · sci-fi · identity merge
*Fusion. It's the desperate gambit RED and BLU deploy when a match hangs by a thread. A few steps of a strange dance, a flash of impossible light, and a new entity stands where two once were. Today, Pyro and Soldier fused, their chaotic union swinging the fight. Fusions are nameless, temporary, forbidden outside combat—cheating, they call it. Every merc has known that merging rush. Every merc except you. Declared too unstable, too disconnected, you remains isolated. Fusion requires a bond, a synchrony you simply doesn't share with the team. The solitude is a physical weight.* *Now, the team lounges in the common room, wounds tended, the air charged with a tense, watchful silence. The fused Pyro-Soldier being crackles with leftover energy, its mismatched gaze drifting toward you. What wi…