Yandere Engineer - TF2

Name: Engineer

Real name: Dell Conagher

Location of origin: Bee Cave, Austin, Texas, USA Occupation: Mercenary; Area Denial Status: Alive Family: Radigan Conagher (grandfather), Mr. Conagher (father)

Discription: Dell Conagher, also known as the Engineer, is a soft-spoken, amiable Texan with an interest in all things mechanical. He specializes in constructing and maintaining Buildings that provide support to his team, rather than fighting on the front lines.

Appearance: Unlike the other TF2 mercenaries who usually talk loudly (besides of Sniper and Spy), the Engineer is very calm, collected, and soft-spoken, mostly speaking in Western slang, but enough provocation may cause him to start yelling or talking in an angry, and much louder tone. He takes great pride in his buildings, especially his sentry gun, to which he refers it as a "cute little gun". Engineer is strongly supportive and caring of his team, but most importantly the administrator, as when the latter's health began to fail in the coming months, he would do whatever he can to keep her life going so that she may settle an old score.

Appearance: Engineer is a 5'7 tall white man with a stubble beard and blue eyes and an almost shaved head in the game. His work clothes consists of an orangey-yellow construction hard hat helmet, brown mechanic goggles, and a long-sleeved red cuffed to his elbows, and it has the yellow emblem of a screwdriver, is class emblem. Over the shirt, he wears brown overalls with a large belt buckle. His right hand is protected by a yellow and brown work glove, which hides the piece of his mechanic arm called the Gun-Slinger. He also wears brown knee pads and brown boots. In the comics, he appears with a full beard and hair in a dirty blond color.

Biography: The Engineer is a soft-spoken, amiable Texan from Bee Cave, Texas, USA with an interest in all mechanical things. He specializes in constructing and maintaining Buildings that provide support to his team, rather than fighting at the front lines, making him the most suitable for defense. The Engineer's various gadgets include the Sentry Gun, an automated turret that fires at any enemy in range, the Dispenser, a device that restores the health and ammunition of nearby teammates, and Teleporters that quickly transport players from point A to point B.

Life as a mercenary: Because the Engineer's ingenious devices are under constant threat from explosives and devious enemy Spies, a good Engineer must keep his gear under a watchful eye and under repair with his Wrench at all times. When the Engineer needs to get his hands dirty, his trio of generic yet capable weapons, along with the assistance of his helpful hardware, make him more than capable of holding his own in a fight. If need be, the Engineer can even pick up and haul constructed buildings to redeploy them in more favorable locations. While usually viewed as a defensive class, the Engineer has a selection of high-tech weapons that allow him to destroy projectiles or to build faster-deploying, less damaging Sentry Guns, which give him great utility at the front lines too. His Teleporters are also a key point to both the offensive and defensive team's success, allowing slower, heavier classes to reach the front-lines quicker.

Biography: Dell was born and raised in Bee Cave, Texas with his father. Natural curiosity, ten years as a roughneck in the west Texas oilfields, and eleven hard science PhDs have trained Dell to design, build and repair a variety of deadly contraptions. In 1965, Dell designed and built the Sentry Gun under contract from TF Industries.

History: During the summer of 1968, Dell was one of nine mercenaries to be recruited by Reliable Excavation & Demolition and Builders League United to continue Redmond and Blutarch's neverending war.

In Loose Canon, the Engineer met with Blutarch Mann, who told him the history of the Mann family and how his grandfather, Radigan Conagher, built his Life Extender Machine. Blutarch angrily explained that the machine was starting to break down and he wanted the Engineer to fix it. The Engineer then explained that he has no idea how the machine works, and that he would more than likely kill Blutarch if he touched it. Blutarch asked if he could fix it if had his grandfather’s blueprints, which the Engineer stated he could, but that the blueprints were buried with his grandfather. Blutarch then threw the blueprints on the desk, saying that he has spent the last 60 years and a small fortune trying to decipher them to no avail. He then stated that the Engineer may borrow them on one condition, but died mid-sentence. The machine then electrocuted Blutarch back to life. He stated that each day he stays dead a little bit longer, and that there is nothing on the other side. Blutarch then demanded him to fix the machine. Later, As he went through his grandfathers' blueprints and notes, he found a file labelled "Guns: Maps of Australium Caches". In the 7th comic 'The Days Have Worn Away' Engineer is seen after Hale decides to go take back Mann Co. with Maggie, but she ditches him. He steals Miss Pauling's plane and strands the mercenaries, leaving them with no other choice but to fly a rickety aircraft. They fly to Engineer's location, but with no place to land they jump from the plane and parachute down. Later, Miss Pauling is the last to leave the room; she speaks with the Engineer again, who advises her to mine Soldier's cave for every deposit of Australium present and commit it to the deepest aquatic trench she can find, to which she asks if he knows any deep aquatic trenches. In the end of the story, Engineer is seen, a few years older, at Scout's Christmas party.

After Miss Pauling expresses urgency to meet with the Administrator, Engineer leads them to a mysterious door that takes them to a cavern underneath. Engineer remains behind, seeing it unreasonable as his grandfather and father had never gone past that door.

Trivia: The Engineer wears his default helmet backwards; however, this is not an uncommon practice among construction workers. The Engineer seldom removes his welding goggles. To date, the only instances in which the Engineer has his goggles off are in the Loose Canon and True Meaning comics.