I Hate When People Cannot Differentiate A Character From Their Relationship With Another Character. There

@dreary-giraffe

This is a good question! And the answer is: I think the community made up the 'Fritz' part. Pretty sure that's what his name is in Emesis Blue (which is, incidentally, the video that reached up from my Recommended list and violently dragged me back into this fandom, hahah).

But as far as I know, the only name we know canonically is 'Ludwig,' and we're not sure if it's his first or his last name.

HOWEVER:

This sign is featured in the Man vs. Machine map 'Rottenburg.'

According to the wiki, this is a blurb from the official update that included this map:

"The second of our Two Cities finds the mercs defending the Medic's vaguely European hometown of Rottenburg — a sprawling village famous for its centuries-old traditions of 1) chasing the next in the resident lineage of mad doctors out of town with torches and pitchforks whenever they swapped out too many super-charged baboon hearts,"

Huh. Interesting.

Now, this is just conjecture, but this implies two things:

Ludwig is his first name, and his last name is Humboldt

HIS ENTIRE FAMILY LINE IS LIKE THIS

Of course, it's also possible that he was unrelated to whatever local mad scientist there was when he was a kid, but he decided 'hey, I'd like to do that too' and then grew up to eventually take over the pharmacy for himself. There are plenty of mom-and-pop type places that are operated by someone whose last name isn't actually on the sign.

So until Valve says something, we don't really know what his last name is - this is just an extremely strong hint.

For the purpose of this blog, though, his name is Dr. Ludwig Humboldt. I haven't yet decided what Misha's last name is.

Speaking of Misha... apropos of nothing, but here's a shot from the supply room in the same map.

(Hahaha floating syringe. Why is it floating? Because players aren't supposed to be able to look at this room from this angle. When viewed from above, you don't notice it's floating.)

Anyway, I saw someone else once point out that our boy Ludwig is fucking obsessed with making diagrams of Misha. He studies him like he's the perfect specimen.

What's that? You want a close up of the diagram? Of course!

"This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like." -- Ludwig, probably

Anyway, as you can see, we unfortunately can't read the text when we zoom in. (EDIT: Actually, yes you can, at [this link]!) But I do have to note that it is hilarious that the ammo pouches and bandolier are part of the diagram, as if they're an essential part of his anatomy. That is also literally just an A-posed model they loaded in and slapped a skeleton on top of.

I choose to believe Ludwig made this diagram in Blender himself.

my favorite interpretation of tav from BG3 is that they’re just a dumbass that somehow has incredible luck. they make poor decisions yet somehow still manage to survive and help people.

Sorry not the best at writing but this idea has been stuck in my mind.(loosely based on a few other post's as well)

Imagine humans have been in space for a bit and are a well recognized specie's.

One of are most interesting things is that we look almost identical to another species who looks very similar to humans younglings. It's also known that this similar species struggling with being able to actually get pregnant or give birth. So younglings are very few in-between and fiercely protected and loved by they're entire race.

Just to also add more to this.

This species is a lot bigger and heavier then humans.

But here's the actual scenario. There's a crew in space and two of the look a likes and a teenage human start to bond over time. And the reason why the teenage human is in space because there parents didn't care and the look a likes start to develop a almost parental bond with the human.

And one day the look a likes see a class about humans and decide to take it to learn more about there human crewmate. And are horrified to learn that there companion even in humans terms are still considered a child. And after the class rush to find the human and ask if the class is true and are even more horrified to learn it is.

And so the look a likes decide to take over the parental roles for there human youngling. The human is oblivious at first but eventually catch on and honestly is over joyed to learn this.

I just think it'd make a really neat found family story :]

I've been trying for hours to figure out how to use particle systems to make a medigun beam in Blender. I think I was actually getting pretty close when... this happened... whatever the hell it is.

I don't know whether it looks more like blood/guts or some kind of very huge weird fruit. But I knew as soon as I saw it that I had to let Ludwig play in it like some deranged cat kneading a squelching blanket of undefined gore.

shoutout to soldier tf2

I just think he’s neat :)