Soldae

"*Wanna see a magic trick?*"

Soldae (Nicknamed the "Half-Magician Soldier" or "Hat-Powered Soldier") Is a RED Adventurous Soldier TF2 freak created by the Youtube User, GregoryTheGibusD0ud.

His battle theme is any variation of Boss Theme - Shantae.

## Appearance

Soldae wears the Ghastlierest Gibus, Coldfront Curbstompers, Jupiter Jumpers, and the Ghoul Gibbin' Gear. Sometimes during battle, he can be seen wearing other unique hats.

## Involvement

Currently Soldae's origin is unknown, but for now he is also known as the greatest magician to ever exist in 2Fort, as he is shown showing magic tricks to other Freaks nor Mercenaries and is also known to protect his home, 2Fort. He lives in a unique kind of house where the only entrance to it is a door out of nowhere, which can be only summoned by Soldae (or possibly anyone).

## Personality

Soldae is a very cheerful and adventurous person as he is very friendly to other mercs or freaks just to show magic tricks to them. However, he is highly protective of 2Fort. Because originally this was his home. There is no origin of how Soldae went to 2Fort and decided to live in there but nevertheless he is very protective of 2Fort and keeps trying his best to keep away enemies from destroying 2Fort, such as his greatest rival. Risky Demo.

## Powers

**Soldae**, for obviously being a magician. He's known to cause real magic and it may be used for entertainment or for actual battle. He can use the following kind of magic:

* **Teleportation** - Self-explanatory title, he can use this to trick the opponent or to basically just escape the fight or a kind of disaster.
* **Transformation** - **Soldae** can turn into anything he can basically want, for example. He can turn into a heavy in which grants him superhuman strength, or he can turn into. Paper...There's no real use of turning himself into a paper version of him for actual battle but its somehow useful for disguising or for hiding in certain places.
* **Spellbook** - Ditto, self-explanatory. He can shoot any magic projectile such as a Lightning bolt. Is not used much since he isn't really good at aiming with it.

Speaking of having magic, he has the unique ability from wearing hats into giving him weapons. Actually, every hat gives him a unique weapon. But i'll not explain every single one of them. Heres 5 examples:

* **Stout Shako** - Originally given by Demopan, this hat gives him a frying pan in which reflects any projectiles, this also grants him the ability to do a chargin' targe to the enemy, dealing massive knockback and damage.
* **Soldier's stash** - Granting him a rocket launcher and gunboats, he gets a massive explosive resistance and also has the ability to rocket jump.
* **Lord Cockswain's Pith Helmet** - Grants him the cow-mangler 5000 but missing the righteous bison, for some reason. This allows him to charge a large shot in which it may cause a dangerous amount of damage, but may take several seconds to charge. So usually he'll do this attack in certain spots the enemy couldn't see him.
* **Killer's Kabuto** - This grants him a katana (Half-Zatoichi) and also allows him to do a chargin' targe. But this time, even more deadlier and faster than the **Stout Shako's** charge. This also makes him almost invulnerable whilst charging.
* **Chieftain's Challenge** - the most deadly hat to ever wear from him, this grants him Superhuman Strength and this drives him to pure anger, since he cannot really control his anger at all he may be easy to get easily distracted.

He is also still very strong to fight even without his powers, he can be seen using sword swinging tricks at insane speeds and also has the ability of being very flexible. He does seem to not suffer from stamina, this is probably due to his excitement and his chaotic goofy behaviour.

He also seems to be smart with his attacks too by only doing them at the right time and tricking them to leave them vulnerable.

## Faults & Weaknesses

Aside from having unique abilities, he lacks destructive power to other strong TF2 freaks:

* He is not very good at aiming since he's more focused on melee and such.
* His spellbook is poorly ruptured, explaining why he doesn't often uses this during entertainment nor actual battles, however, if distracted. He may accidentally use this to someone and may result into an awkward missed shot, or basically shooting himself if not careful.
* If he's hatless / powerless, he's basically vulnerable to everything. This leads him to death or basically easier to kill. However he may be still able to fight even without his powers.
* If he is in his paper self, he can be easily ripped off and can lead him to major injuries that may result in death.
* Despite being half-magician, he is not able to experience any other magic spells at all in his spellbook, only having a Lightning spell.
* While being smart with his attacks, he may be distracted by something else and can lead him vulnerable to attacks. Although this is not possible because he can bait the victim attacking him.
* If he's severely weakened or injured, the hats that he wears will not give him powers anymore. Making him an easy target to kill.

## Trivia

Soldae was originally based on Shantae, but since he has the ability of wearing hats into giving him unique weapons. He has some similarity to Hatkid, the main protagonist in A Hat in Time.

Soldae has gone through several character designs. Originally going to be a genie was scrapped due to that there is no existing Genie TF2 Cosmetic for soldier in the workshop, and he was also going to wear the Pith helmet, which was then scrapped again to avoid confusion from his hat skilled kind of ability and to preserve originality.

Soldae is one of the TF2 Freaks to use hats as weapons.

Despite Soldae having an unknown origin on how he got into 2Fort, it is unknown if he may or may not be human at all.

Soldae & Risky Demo may be rivals, but in sometimes they may be actual best friends by helping each other out to finish a battle that is not between them. They can sometimes be seen drinking in a bar.

The nickname "The Half-Magician Soldier" given to Soldae is a reference to the 4th Shantae game title, Shantae: Half-genie hero.

His name "Soldae" Is an obvious nod to Shantae's name.