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| “ | Thanks. The Administrator was really on me about this. | „ |
| ~ Miss Pauling after a contract is completed. |
| “ | Okay, I managed to get you one of the big contracts. And that means a big payday. Don't make me look bad. | „ |
| ~ Miss Pauling upon the start of a rare contract. |
| “ | You wanna know how we beat you? Honestly, I have no #$%@# clue. Maybe it was just luck. Maybe it was something else. (...) I don't know what to tell you. But either way... we're Team Fortress. And you're dead. | „ |
| ~ Pauling to the TFC Heavy as he dies. |
Florence "Flo" Pauling, or better known as simply Miss Pauling, is the deuteragonist of the Team Fortress franchise.
She is the Administrator's loyal assistant, who helps and hires the mercenaries, and takes care of tasks such as ordering supplies, running communications, disposing of enemy corpses, and doing background checks. Like her colleagues, she can be heroic and compassionate at times.
She is voiced by Ashly Burch.
Biography[]
Comics[]
For the WAR! Update, Pauling was tasked by the Administrator to split up the RED Demoman and BLU Soldier's friendship, as inter-company friendships are forbidden by contract. She offers both parties weapons in exchange for killing the other, starting a seven-day war that ended the two's friendship.
In the comic Meet the director, Pauling hires a Director to interview the mercenaries and record their responses regarding their jobs. Afterwards, Pauling lures the Director to a mine with a loaded gun shovel and bag, and the Director is never seen again.
In the A Smissmas Story comic, Pauling tries to get Spy to assist in killing Old Nick.
In the comic Loose Canon, it is revealed that Pauling killed the monkey Poopy Joe by launching him into space, which she did for a dollar.
After the deaths of Redmond and Blutarch Mann, the mercenaries lose their jobs. However, when Gray Mann's Machines attack, Pauling encourages the mercs to return to battle the robots and make money again. Pauling and Soldier infiltrate Gray Mann's base and and steal intelligence. She is later instructed by the Administrator to regroup all of the mercenaries, which she does by impersonating a police officer to recruit Soldier, burning down the Pyro's company, hiring Demoman, saving Spy and Scout from being hung for terrorism, and picking up Heavy. With the Pyro's help, she destroys documents regarding the Administrator's past before going to get the Sniper. The Administrator then tasks her with collecting the last of a rare metal called Australium. However, when Miss Pauling arrives, she finds it destroyed.
Pauling and the mercs are captured by the Team Fortress Classic Mercenaries, who begin to torture them for information. Despaired that she failed her mission, Pauling, aided by Spy, attempts suicide. She is stopped midway by the TFC Spy disguised as Heavy. They are saved, however, by Soldier and his girlfriend Zhanna punching him so hard his neck snaps. Pauling confronts a dying Gray Mann about her loyalty to the Administrator and explains how she has lied and killed in her service, but Gray dies in the middle of her speech. She and the mercs try to escape, but are captured by the TFC mercenaries' Leech Bots, which begin to drain her blood. She begins to hallucinate as she dies, but is saved by the Medic. Aided by Scout, Pauling fights off the Machines. She then gets a call informing her that the Administrator has died. Discouraged, Pauling finishes off the robots with the team. Once all the robots were down she makes a speech to the dying TFC Heavy. The Administrator is brought back to life with the last of the remaining Australium, and Pauling and all the mercenaries get their jobs back.
Later, Pauling requests new weapons from Saxton Hale. Hale refuses, so she steals his weapons.
"Expiration Date"[]
In the animated short "Expiration Date", which promoted the Love and War Update, Pauling contacts RED Team explaining that they left witnesses at their last job. She shoots them and begins to hack them up with an axe, all while Scout tries to find the courage to ask her out. After a misunderstanding where they believe that the Engineer's teleporters have given them all tumors and three days to live, Scout asks Spy to instruct him how to impress women, as his last wish is to go on a date with Miss Pauling. He sounds the briefcase theft alarm to bring Pauling down to the base, though Pauling is upset that he wasted her one day off a year. She attempts to leave, but the base is attacked by a Giant Bread Monster accidentally created by Soldier. Scout and Pauling work together to rig a bomb to destroy the monster, but end up on the wrong side of the blast doors. The two dive into the monster's mouth before the bomb explodes, killing the monster. Pauling agrees to allow Scout to go on tasks with her, such as sanding off fingerprints of corpses, pulling out teeth, and killing someone who pressed a briefcase alarm. She then realizes that Scout is the one who pressed the alarm, and says that he'll already be there for that one.
Physical Appearance[]
She has a very slender and fair-skinned yet pear-shaped figure. She also has black hair, often tinted purple, which is pulled back into a large bun at the bottom of her head. Her eyes are green. She wears purple at all times in the comics, giving away that she works for the administrator, as well as implying that she works for both RED and BLU teams.
Personality[]
Pauling generally complies with her employer's views for fear of incurring her wrath, even if she does not necessarily agree with them. Despite her boss' stern demeanor, she insists the Administrator is "not so bad when you get to know her," although this may have been sarcastic. It has been shown that Scout has taken a romantic interest in her, which she tries to completely ignore, but remains amicable with Scout and the team, even willing to personally accompany them in active combat and infiltration missions.
She is shown to be very jaded to strange and horrific events from the nature of her job, reacting to things such as Pyro cutting off Soldier's hand or Soldier killing Tom Jones with dry sarcasm or apparent boredom. As a result, she often does not have much concern for people, as shown in one line in the Tough Break update, she has yelled at a lady to shut up while a tiger is mauling said lady to death a few of the contract voicelines shows her going on a Teufort cave tour that happens to visit the same place she buries all her bodies in, another has her telling a safari tourist mauled by a tiger to "keep it down" because she's on the phone, a third has her shoo away a Casanova Wannabe by telling him "I'm trying to get someone killed for money, can you give me a second?" However, she developed greater concern for the Team Fortress mercenaries over the course of the Gravel Wars and subsequent conflict against Gray Mann and the Team Fortress Classic Mercenaries.
Due to her demanding and criminal employment, Pauling is shown to deeply value her one day off and any moment of levity she gets, appearing deeply hurt and betrayed when Scout seemingly wasted her one day off in "Expiration Date" but then becoming elated from the thrill of fighting the Giant Bread Monster, along with happily playing tabletop role-playing games with the mercenaries on Halloween. She is also shown to have her limits of what she can tolerate, especially concerning threats to her life, friends, and mission, along with some especially illogical or unexpected things. She's also shown to be exasperated and insulted by Saxton Hale's demeaning treatment of her.
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Trivia[]
- In her in-game lines, she picks up the mercs' habit of nicknaming them "Demo," "Engie," "Big Guy," and "Doc". In fact, she notes that calling Demoman by his full title sounds kind of weird to her.
- Her office at Mann Co headquarters is a ramshackle room right next to Hale's Elite Customers showroom.
- Miss Pauling does respect the letter of the law, as she knows that not doing so will result in bad publicity for her company, her evidence coverups being an effort to uphold that. She is also truly terrified at the prospect of the BLU Team putting a little boy in danger.
- A few of her in-game lines imply she thinks Medic is a little too crazy, even by her company's standards.
External Links[]
- Miss Pauling on the Heroes Wiki
- Miss Pauling on the Team Fortress 2 Wiki
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