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Got any ADHD and Autistic headcanons for scooty booty?

yes i do 😌 seems like this is a popular interpretation of scout because, well, duh lmao and i absolutely love it.

scout's obvious and well-documented hyperactive motormouth personality aside, here are some more subtle traits that i find fun to write and think about:

- the reason why he can just talk endlessly is because he just makes instant connections in his mind between all the things he talks about in ways that aren't really clear to anyone but him. i always lovingly call him stupid but really i think his brain works very fast and the only reason he isn't "smart" is because he just isn't interested in being smart, because that's for nerds and he's not a nerd. he strikes me as the typical kid whose teachers were like "if only you applied yourself jeremy :(" lol

- drawing in his sketchbook is one of the few things for which he can sit still and hyperfixate on for hours on end i think.

- he's a touchy-feely guy which i joke about by saying "he has no object permanence so he needs to hold on to whoever he's talking to" but i just think he likes running his hands through different textures. feels good.

- while im sure they both feel a wide range of emotions quite intensely, in contrast to sniper who represses his emotions and pretends they dont exist, scout just expresses them so much, and that's his way of processing the way he feels, for better or worse. he's dramatic! he loves to complain!

- he has this uncanny photographic memory and really, really good spatial orientation/awareness. he'll take one look at a map and immediately understand where things are and where he's going, and i think that's an understated but very important part of his job that he actually doesn't really brag about because to him this is a normal ability...

- he can probably recite any random baseball stat from the past 50 years out of a corner of his mind in a second, which he insists isn't a "nerdy" thing to do because it's sports. yeah righto nerd lol

- i don't know if this counts BUT i find it extremely fun: scout is a superstitious person... something he might have carried over from watching/playing baseball (especially since he'd be a red sox fan living in the curse of the bambino era) and there definitely are certain things he just has to do for good luck before running into the battlefield.

that's it for now! thank you for asking 🥰

gonna be a bit self indulgent and ask if you've got any more autistic sniper headcanons? im autistic as well so im just blasting him with self projection beams lol - @gross-magpie

wonderful request! blasting characters with self-projection beams is what they're made for pretty much imo. anyway, i think these would fit a bunch of autistic traits...

- genuinely think sniper is a creature of habit. idk he seems like he's got very specific routines that he'd probably get extremely grumpy if he got interrupted or just couldn't do them or whatever.

- somewhat connected to the previous thought but i feel like he's absorbed and built a lot of his behaviour and base personality from people he looked up to when growing up, like his dad or an older classmate or a crush. i actually have so many thoughts about how sniper perceives himself lol

- i think a bunch of other people also have this headcanon but him having a special interest in nature and animals in particular? good shit. i can see him be very very passionate about australian birds and he probably routinely misses hearing magpie songs in the morning... i would too tbh. anyway he'd talk about this stuff for ages to anyone he's comfortable enough with :)

- super deadpan, to the point where people who dont know him are fully unsure if he's joking or dead serious lmao. i think that can also lead to him accidentally insulting people or being perceived as too blunt?

- goes non-verbal when actually upset and that probably freaks the fuck out of scout whose first instinct when conflict arises is to like.. talk through it?

- feels like he spent his entire life studying people's facial expressions and social cues in order to not make a fool of himself lmao, i think he's generally good at recognising patterns so every social cue is part of a pattern but anything new that falls outside of what he already knows he goes ????????????? what's goin on here

- he seems like he got told he has an "old soul" a lot as a kid on account of being very reserved and quiet hmmm

feels like i could be going more specific but i also often end up fleshing out my headcanons a lot more when im writing stories lol

Right right i forgot to mention that i'd die for Pyro no questions asked. Your pyro is amazing and she is very much poggers

lol thank you XD i am so happy to know everyone is enjoying my girl.

here have a thing i never posted

MERASMUS PONY

MERASMUS PONY!!!!

i really like how he came out. he looks really cool tbh