Hoovydundy (Freak Fortress 2)

## Evil-Doer

**Hoovydundy**, also rarely referred to as **The Pure RED Heavy**, and occasionally **The RED Heavy**, is the main overarching antagonist of the horror-action-dramedy web series of *the same name*. He's a popular TF2 Freak mainly related around horror, giving a more violent nature to the character. He was created by the user Pree Spunky in 2017.

He's a highly-intelligent, manipulative, homicidal, violent, depraved, and chaotically mysterious TF2 Freak, that usually pursues "betrayers", "friendly-killers", other manipulators, other serial killers, and just simple other hostile/uncaring violent creatures or people who dare to go against him. After a presumably violent and tragic backstory of being betrayed by his very own military mercenary team and having his closest friend die from bullet wounds right in front of him, as well as his in-game's universe respawn-machines malfunctioning, he was never able to see his best friend or mercenary team ever again, and out of anger, disgust, hatred, and possibly sadness, he had slaughtered the entire RED and BLU team of mercenaries, while also presumably transforming into the TF2 Freak he is seen today. It's implied he traveled to another dimension/universe some way or another to meet up with the current group of mercenary protagonists.

## Appearance:

Although no web-episode has yet been released that completely shows his full body, and despite wearing a RED Heavy's original outfit, his recognizable traits seem to be a disfigured face, twisted broken fingers, an increased body size, multiple Spy knives embedded in his back, his body covered entirely in blood, and he has no cosmetic items. It's also shown that Hoovydundy can increase his height at will, tricking BLU Heavy into believing that he's a weak-ish simple mercenary. He also can easily teleport with a red light, and phase his physical body to do so at his own will.

## Personality:

Hoovydundy can be described as brutality, demonic, chaotic, and incarnate. His favorite killing method is to violently tear his victims apart and then hang their remains from the ceiling using the ropes he can create. He has only once so far deviated from this with BLU Scout, who managed to injure him. At that point, he stabbed multiple knives into BLU Scout's body, tore off his right leg, and contorted his arms using ropes, leaving him to bleed out in a chair. He often slowly walks and teleports when chasing down his victims. When aggravated and hostile, Hoovydundy's extremely homicidal, violent, manipulative, and is shown to be incredibly smart. Even using his intelligence and teleportation powers quickly to outsmart BLU Spy, BLU Medic, and BLU Heavy, he also is shown to trick and manipulate his victims, as done when he tricks BLU Engineer into a false sense of security, before attacking and killing him. It's also revealed by the few times his face is seen, since it's implied Hoovydundy has enjoyment of the torment to the BLU team.

When passive, Hoovydundy stands still with his broken hands twitching. Nothing else can really be said about it as of now. However, the monster *is* capable of speech, according to BLU Scout. He told him that as long as he lived, their respawn machines would be negated. In BLU Scout's own words, they were 'just like everyone else now.' More importantly, in that scene, Hoovydundy told him his one known fatal weakness.

## Biography:

Not much is known about Hoovydundy's origins, but what is currently understood by in-universe characters is that he came from a map where RED and BLU both suffered complete team wipes due to respawn failure. His creation does seem to involve a Spy, judging from the many knives in its back. Based on his aggression towards Friendly killers, he may have had a friend killed or been a Friendly itself. Hoovydundy appears whenever a Friendly, is intentionally killed regardless of team, and goes after the entire team if they support the murder of the Friendly. Although, in the case of the series, he was already there before the Friendly RED Scout was killed, it's also implied Hoovydundy may have had some aggression towards the in-universe RED team.

Despite this, he does seem to spare those that did not support the Friendly's murder, as he almost choked BLU Spy to death but decided to spare him at the last second. When BLU Spy saw RED Scout dropping his weapons, signalizing his surrender, he was the only one who put his revolver away and told RED Scout to walk away unlike the rest of his team, who had all looked ready to kill the enemy Scout on the spot for insulting their Sniper. Only when BLU Spy shot Hoovydundy in the head in an attempt to save BLU Heavy and BLU Medic did Hoovydundy go after him. Notably, even though the killed Friendly was the cause of Hoovydundy's actions, he is still prevented from respawning like those still alive, which may emphasize Hoovydundy's disruptive electronic aura that he seemingly cannot control.

## Powers & Skills:

**Teleportation**: Hoovydundy's most notable ability seems to be emitting a bright red light that spans a considerable radius that can disappear and appear at any time, as he decided not emit that red light when the BLU sniper saw it, sometimes even transforming into said light as a means of teleportation.

**Superhuman Durability**: Extremely durable, Hoovydundy has taken both a scattergun blast and a revolver shot directly to the face with no visible injuries, though he was stunned for a short duration afterwards. Knives seem to have no effect, as he is able to absorb them into his skin after a few seconds, not including the ones in its back.

**Electronic Manipulation and Size-Shifting**: Passively, he appears to affect both basic electrical devices and respawn machines, blowing out the power grid when he appears, therefore preventing the respawn of his victims. However, this does not seem to affect Engineer's Sentry, Dispenser or the Teleporter. Also of note are his abilities to both change his size, only using this so far to tower over the BLU Heavy and cause small tremors, having done this to break the bridge at 2Fort.

**Superhuman Strength**: Alongside durability, Hoovydundy has been shown to have an extreme amount of inhuman physical strength, such as attempting and nearly succeeding in choking and killing both BLU Scout and BLU Spy's head when attacking them. Even more furthur was shown when the RED team's main monitor system malfunctions showing various cryptid scenes, one showing Hoovydundy crushing BLU Pyro's head with no trouble whatsoever.

**Rope Creation**: Hoovydundy has a couple of interesting traits that make him an ultimate threat to the TF2 Freak-universe. One of his main abilities shown throughout the series is his rope creation, as he uses it to viciously hang his victims mutilated body parts with said rope. He also occasionally uses it to grab and pull his victims to their deaths, it's unknown how he specifically uses it.

**Psychological Manipulation**: A very powerful trait, and if given to the right person, can be extremely deadly towards the protagonists. Hoovydundy has been shown multiple times manipulating others into either killing themselves, or being tricked into a trap set up by Hoovy himself. His skilled intelligence and electronic malfunctioning allow him to be an incredibly deadly opponent towards the BLU mercenaries, it easily let's Hoovy be a master of trickery and manipulation towards his victims.

**Peak Skilled Stealth**: Similar with teleportation and psychological manipulation, Hoovydundy, despite his radius red light, is a very skilled stealth master, always nearing and tricking his victims from ever fully catching him as he's able to sneak around towards his victims location with ease. It also appears as he can easily walk and run extremely fast at his will and is not strictly based on moving from teleportation, it's also implied he can manipulate his radius light on and off at will. It's currently unknown what his radius red light is and what it can be, or even how it functions in his vital body system.

## Trivia:

* Hoovydundy will kill his victims even if the person is accompanied by other people, as shown when he murdered both BLU Demoman and BLU Pyro at once, and when he also attacked BLU Spy, BLU Heavy and BLU Medic at the bridge of 2Fort.
* During a scene in Part 2 of the series, when RED Engineer and RED Soldier witness a static red screen as a result of a malfunction in the monitor, a few cryptic scenes are shown briefly in succession: Hoovydundy positioning the lips on BLU Demoman's severed head into a smile, him mourning a deceased RED Medic with a severed smiling RED Scout head on the floor, his knife-riddled back with BLU Demoman's distorted laughter, another RED Scout's grinning corpse, a splotch of blood with an upside down picture of a Demoman and a Spy, and Hoovydundy crushing BLU Pyro's severed head.
	+ These cryptic scenes have become fodder for a few theories, the one most supported by Pree Spunky himself being that Hoovydundy was once a regular RED Heavy with a friendly disposition, who only wanted to spread happiness to both his teammates and the other team, only to be repeatedly tortured, abused and killed by the enemy team, culminating in them eventually hanging the remains of RED Heavy's friends from ropes. The disaster resulted in the destruction of RED's respawn machines, preventing the RED Heavy's friends from ever respawning again. Wracked with grief and rage, he was transformed into a Freak in the process. It's later been revealed that these theories have been proven false recently by Pree Spunky himself.

* BLU Engineer mentions of a team that never respawned and that the team's Heavy reportedly went missing further bolsters this theory, as it is not only likely but heavily implied that Hoovydundy ***is*** said Heavy.
* The official trailer for Hoovydundy Part 3 by Pree Spunky features scenes that add more to the lore, such as a horde of dead bodies on the floor which features RED mercenaries, implying even they aren't safe from Hoovydundy's wrath currently for unexplained reasons, a nervous RED Heavy with unusual eyes that may have been Hoovydundy prior to becoming a Freak, and a new, yet unnamed one-armed RED Scout Freak that seems to exhibit similar traits to Hoovydundy. It also features more to Hoovydundy's traits, such as him being fully able to run after his victims, and even him teleporting to more than a straight line, it also showcases an increase in his intelligence.
	+ The RED Scout that appears, seems to be the same RED Scout that appeared in Part One, as he has the same cosmetics as the one seen in Part One.
	+ It also shows Hoovydundy with all but two of the knives in his back removed, showcasing his powers at their absolute peak.

## Gallery:

Hoovydundy's first appearance, looming over the RED Scout's wounding corpse (His red light radius is currently not shown in this scene, giving more to the lore).Hoovydundy tricking the BLU Demoman and the BLU Pyro into wandering to his setup trap, directly before killing them.BLU Demo's and BLU Pyro's corpses, mutilated by Hoovy.Hoovydundy strangling the BLU Spy in an attempt to kill him.Hoovydundy standing completely still in the second part's intro sequence.Hoovydundy in the RED team's monitor systems, mourning over a RED Medic's death.Hoovydundy positioning the BLU Demo's severed head and face into a smile.Hoovydundy's knife-ridden back in the malfunctioning monitor.Hoovydundy's eyes widening with anger, presumably by the BLU team's wrongdoings.Hoovydundy crushing the BLU Pyro's head.Hoovydundy standing behind the BLU Engineer, before ultimately killing him.Hoovydundy meeting with the BLU Scout face-to-face.Hoovydundy attempting to grab the BLU Scout, for various unknown reasons.Hoovydundy attempting to crush BLU Scout's head when attacking him.Hoovydundy standing still after being stunned while the BLU Scout teleports away and escapes.Hoovydundy silently stalking the BLU Heavy and the BLU Medic.Hoovydundy silently standing behind the BLU Heavy, with the most of his face ever seen on-screen.A back-shot of Hoovydundy standing behind BLU Heavy.Hoovydundy increasing his size to the shock and horror of the BLU Medic and BLU Heavy, presumably done by Hoovydundy as a scare tactic.A shot of Hoovydundy's distorted eyes, as the BLU Spy comes to the rescue and fires his gun straight to Hoovydundy's face.The BLU Spy shooting Hoovydundy in the face with his revolver.Hoovydundy standing up straight in an attempt to kill the BLU trio.Hoovydundy dragging the BLU Medic with his ropes in an attempt to kill him.Hoovydundy's distorted eyes as he swindles the BLU trio in a final attempt to kill them.A clear shot of physically Hoovydundy teleporting.Hoovydundy reaching his ropes down in a final attempt to kill the BLU trio.Hoovydundy strangling, capturing and later killing the BLU Medic with his various ropes.Hoovydundy's twitching, distorted hand in the part 3 trailer.A more clear focus shot of Hoovydundy's physical body.A more clear shot of Hoovydundy's distorted and twisted eyes from the part 3 trailer.The mysterious RED Freak Scout from the part 3 trailer.A mysterious RED Heavy with red irises (Possibly Hoovydundy as a human).