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Tower defense simulator and tower blitz head cannons

Notes before, planter aka gay ppl is canonical in this and is in a relationship freezer, I’m gonna use the placeholder Gaylord bcus I don’t remember if areon is with freezer or only speedrunner bcus I’m dumb and have the brain capacity of a goldfish

Anyways!

All the towers live together in a fairly large containment building that originally was left abandoned after the appoqolypse that left the main group(tower defense simulator towers) with their zombies, and with the secondary group(tower blits towers) with the malevolent alien race[originally they were peacefull, complacent in not harming the humans as long as they gave them whatever supplies they asked for, it was a draining one sided peace treaty but it worked untill the appacolypse stared taking affect on the world and became an pandemic, the alien grew angery at the broken treaty and began to attack, makeing the td towers look for a place for protection, as the tds towers were and eventually they found the abandoned building which the tds towers had just found, and were renovating, after some talks to fill the other sides in on what happening on their ends tds let the td towers stay and help as they were just as out of luck as they were, leading to them making a large truce and fight alongside one another] they built the house together after meeting and constantly do work on it as they fight off zombies, aliens and all around survive in a post appoctopytic world together

Relationship wise most of the towers get along, most notable being that captain and commander act as tho they were long lost friends, very close very quickly, captain talks way more than commander does, though com makes up for it by being louder and well, more informative, cap tends to get lost quickly in his alerts and com has to take over sometimes if cap cant get the right info out fast enough
(tds)Freezer is an interesting case, as he pretends to not have a partner despite having one. Freezer tends to rush off during breaks and avoids combat training[my explanation for his low damage output, never going to the training that would raise such stat] to go and meet with Gaylord, their partner in the other group of trainees they often use excuses such as a lost phone or hat or sometimes even missing gun to get out of training and visit, however after Dj, whom was also sneaking off at the time, caught him wandering the halls and followed along without freezer knowing, DJ inevitably spread the news around quickly, but since the reason was so innocent in nature most towers simply forgot or didn’t care enough to make him stay during training[cap n com simply got fed up with the lame excuses they would just shoo him off before he could opt out since they knew he had the knowledge to still be an asset to the team] freezer doesn’t know this, however, and honestly thinks that his excuses and sneaking around are really good when in reality it’s not.
On the note of freezer, some more stuff about him, I like to think that his body temp is on average around 10 degrees lower than the average human alongside trapper and (tb)freezer(fun fact: on the opposite spectrum of this, pyromancer has a body temp of around 10 degrees higher than the average human) because of this, when he’s in a hot room he can quiet literally steam up, it also means that his skin is frigid to the touch, something that startles medic every time she does his post-mission examinations as she thinks he’s lost circulation due to the paleness and temp, its become a running joke between them and keeps the air light even if he does need medical attention

With this, he fucking hates (tb) freezer. Classic case of movie sibling rivalry despite not being siblings, (tds) freezer met (tb) freezer the day after the rest of the group made the truce, as he had been out on a supply run with a few others for the night and didn’t know till spawning out the next morning. Freezer despises tb[what ost of the other towers call him due to the same names, tb doesn’t mind it too much though since he’s understanding of the situation. Because freezer is older that td by about a year he let him keep the name out of respect] freezer has no real reason to dislike him btw, he just doesn’t, and td mirrors this dislike as they keep up a permanent rivalry to be better than the other behind the scenes

Now, someone other than freezer plural-
Scout, and slinger,
Starting with slinger bcus I love he<33
Slinger is one of the younger towers, and get upset easily if others don’t give them much respect, sadly, they were 15 when the apocalypse started, meaning that it never got its diagnosis’s before the idea of medicine like that faded, they have bad ADHD, and mild autism but was never medicated for it, and since traditional ADHD meds don’t really exist and autism is untreatable in a medicinal fashion, it means he’s kina sol and has to deal with it. He’s been in the building for around 4 years and over time he’s gotten better at controlling himself with help from medic and domino{i totally didn’t make a self insert for tower blitz no couldn’t be me} he tends to talk pretty fast and get fixated on random things quickly to a scary level, more notably, his slingshot,[i like to think that before he found the slingshot he was a mele tower with a shank, but while on a supply run they found an old Walmart type store and in said store one of the few not ruined things in the toy aisle was a high-quality slingshot and it quickly became a comfort item and his biggest fixation, going to a point where he learned how to make slingshots with better shots and better ways to shoot them with what things etcetcetc]
He’s also really fast, physically fast, and can climb really well, and has the best depth perception out of everyone in the building entirely
I’ll add some stuff about domino later
Scout is somewhat similar, scout has more mild ADHD and loves talking about random stuff with slinger, which he calls sling most of the time, they are practically inseparable and are very close to one another, scout has really shitty depth perception funny enough(mostly because he needs prescriptions but ya know. apocalypse?)
Scout is kinda bossy and in a year older than slinger which the two fight about sometimes,
Paintballer is also their brother, who is older by 1 minute and while not being related by blood, you could probably confuse domino and scout for being siblings to
Scout despite having terrible eyesight goes to target practice every day and is getting better at his aim even without the glasses he needs, and got o good he could easily dual wield pistols in which he does a lot of the time as that’s what he’s most skilled at and is considerably better than some other towers

Here’s the stuff about domino btw,
Domino would be a tower blitz oc, their main thing would be a leeching move, a domino effect, they would hit the front of a wave and a pretty strong poison would hit the first zombi, around 10 damage, and as the attack spread back along the enemies it would progressively get weaker, 1st enemy -10 hp 2nd -9 3rd -8, etc and stops at 0 obviously, the attack itself would just be a beaker of various chemicals that he throws at the main ringleader and it trails back
Domino is also dateing slinger, why? Because fuck you that’s why/j
Domino and slinger are just happy together, domino listens to slinger talk about slingshots and slinger listens to domino talk about lost media, domino has a fascination for old games and medias that were lost in the Apocolypse, of course, some still exist but a lot of mainstream broadcasting sites do not such as things like Reddit and Newgrounds, things that survive on person to person interaction and input
I might draw them later but I’m to tired to continue writing this rn(its 4 am lol)

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OK SO BASICALLY
THE BUNKER YEAH?

Ok unrelated to clank or anyone else, the bunker is just a really old war bunker that I believe the first few players (mostly like the top leaderboard people in-game) found in the woods a long time ago and decided to turn into a home, they would leave for supplies sometimes and leave anonymous posters around cities and towns that just had a location, and if followed would lead to a bunker hatch with a boldly covered door, and people had a choice to stay or leave, after a long time there were enough foodstuffs and at one point a small farm made in the bunker that made it to where they didn't have to leave anymore, and thus started the civilization of the bunker
Of course, as more people came in more unique items were brought in, and as people died or left these items were sold bought edited, etc etc, and as time went on things like level 5 was made, and yeah yeah more time more stuff you get it

This is like years from them but there's people who come in and are chaotic fuckers, so there are people who are so off the walls they get signs put up, signs are just printed out posters saying “hey! This person can do this thing here” its why there's a sign up by card giver man that says “please direct all vomit to the floor, refrain from throwing up on the cards or card handler” the signs are everywhere, many are just jokes to, but still none the less fun to see.
There are a few main categories or signage too, the ones behind the entrance ladders to the bunker there's a few and they all say the same things, just “close the door on your way in”
There's also more vomit related ones more or less saying, “don't vomit on the shopkeep or other various professionals here” and there's a newer category that has spawned only because of clank and technically brian
Clank is my oc, while brian is a friend of mine oc, they are very much gay to0gether but we don't talk about that-
Anyhoo, clank is the high end of the energy spectrum while brian is the total opposite, this doesn't stop the pair from getting into trouble everywhere they go
Thus starts the brank category.
This is more or less like the list of things dr. bright cant do, courtesy of Xander for that idea lmao
The signs are more or less settled into a few subcategories
Kissing
Brian cannot _____
Clank cannot ______
The first is more or less self-explanatory, brian and clank just getting n trouble for making out in certain halls or high traffic areas and being in the way while doing so, leading to a sign saying “don't kiss here plz you block the walkway” the second is just brian getting in trouble for stuff and
as time went by signs getting posted so he would stop, he doesn't have very many signs, the most prominent brian only signs tho are just saying not to smoke weed in certain areas
Clank cannot signs are also self-explanatory and are practically everywhere. There are jokey signs and more serious ones telling clank to stop being a nuisance to the general bunker dwellers however 90% of them are just telling clank to stop blocking the halls when he's being gay with brian

Also, there is exsactly 1 staircase that has been professionally redone by someone that no ones figured out who thats just
Jairs.
Thats all the hcs for now lolz