Serverblight

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Villain Overview

Synopsis

Gallery

Evil-Doer

Central body
Original
True form

Full Name

Unknown

Alias

The Serverblight

Amalgamation
It
God (by SAVIOR)
Monster
TF2's Skinwalker
Skinwalker SCP Bullshit (all by SailerMan)

Origin

The Empty Server

Occupation

Monster

Powers/Skills

Assimilation

Shapeshifting
High intelligence
Intimidation
Limited game manipulation
Steam account manipulation
Adaptability
Enhanced speed
Dream manipulation (implied)
Limited real-world projection

Hobby

Hunting and assimilating players.

Goals

Assimilate all players in the servers it invades (mostly succeeded so far).

Escape Thunder Mountain and gain access to as many servers as possible (succeeded).
Kill and assimilate dicksalot and anyone who opposes it (ongoing).

Kill Count

Hundreds (at least)

Crimes

Mass murder

Mass torture (inc. child torture and psychological torture)
Stalking
Impersonation
Terrorism

Type of Villain

Enigmatic Superorganism

“	I'm having so much fun!	„
	~ The Serverblight's first in-game message via an assimilated GUILLIESUIT.

“	We go together	„
	~ The Serverblight using an assimilated Scubamaster96's previous messages to terrorize its victims.

“	I've seen this before...	„
	~ A quote said by some players who come upon the Serverblight.

The Serverblight is the titular main antagonist of the YouTube video series of the same name by Two Idiot Germans.

It is a mysterious monstrous entity that invades and lingers in empty Team Fortress 2 servers and sadistically assimilates players into itself via absorbing the character they're playing as, taking the mind of the real-world player as well. It is the archenemy of dicksalot.

Appearance[]

The Serverblight was never fully seen in the videos, but the thumbnail of the first video depicts the distant form of the creature. Here, the Serverblight resembles a grotesque fusion of several Team Fortress 2 mercenaries into one vaguely humanoid figure. The mercenaries are horrifically distorted, their limbs stretched unnaturally into two long "arms" with tendrils made from stretched fingers, with the amalgamation's legs being several mercenary legs, thus allowing it to run on multiple sets of legs. Its "head" appears to be some fused and disfigured mercenary heads, and the creature's left side also possesses a seemingly normal Heavy arm, its nature only betrayed by the presence of a sixth finger on its hand. Additionally, a partially assimilated Engineer appeared outwardly normal, save for an unnatural smile. By the time of Migration, the Serverblight appeared to have become even more distorted, its upper body now a mass of distorted hands and finger tendrils, and a distinct but elongated right arm made of fused mercenary arms. The mercenaries that make up the amalgam consist of Heavy, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Medic, Scout, and Engineer. Notably, the original mass of the Serverblight was entirely made up of RED mercs. If the creature has a true form, it is unknown. However, RED Medic's voice was always used first by the creature prior to its migration to other servers, implying that Medic may be its base component.

An unused full render of the Serverblight was eventually released by 2IdiotGermans, clearly depicting a more defined central mass for its torso, along with the distinct heads of Soldier and Demoman.

In PROXY, a portion of what appears to be the Serverblight’s true form is seen, a disembodied pair of maniacally wide, pale eyes who stare at the victim’s real world body as they’re being assimilated. It should be noted though that, if this is the creature’s true form, it is likely not the full extent of it’s appearance.

Personality[]

At first glance, the Serverblight appeared to only display a mostly mindless, hostile behavior, first stalking potential victims by obscuring most of its body save for its least deformed component, before bursting into the open to chase them down. However, while chasing its targets, the mercenaries within the Serverblight cry out for help in slowed, distorted voices. It was later confirmed that the assimilated players are still aware of their condition within the Serverblight, but their bodies are under full control of the creature, which also tortures them with inflicted pain that forces them to cry for help. This is further supported by an assimilated BLU Heavy's chat messages being denoted with *dead* despite the body being active, while the partially assimilated GUILLIESUIT and JonyDany12 had no such denotations in their chat messages, indicating that their struggles and pain were genuine.

In its second appearance, the Serverblight became more intelligent, possibly learning from the players it assimilated or otherwise encountered, as after assimilating GUILLIESUIT, it was able to send chat messages with GUILLIESUIT's username to trick newly joining players into thinking that everything was fine. Additionally, it seemed to be developing a personality, as it mockingly thanked a player for showing it how to disconnect without dying and also appeared more aggressive.

In its third appearance, the Serverblight's body became somewhat more defined, although it remained able to distort itself at will. Additionally, it became more intelligent, manipulative, and malevolent, taking great pleasure in torturing its constituents and relishing their feeble attempts of resistance. Additionally, it developed a deep-rooted vendetta against dicksalot, one of the first players to escape it, going to great lengths to set up an elaborate ruse to earn his trust before revealing itself, as if trying to break dicksalot's spirit before assimilating him. Here, the Serverblight learned to use the voice chat utilizing assimilated players but was only able to repeat previously said speech segments. Additionally, the Serverblight had trouble replicating the voice chat icon, and displayed visible frustration when that small detail gave it away, which allowed dicksalot to escape. By the time of Assimilation, the Serverblight learned how to set up entire fake matches to trick and trap players and took advantage of maps without instant death pits.

In Reflection, the Serverblight had become especially sadistic, purposefully keeping a player partially assimilated just to torture them with one of the map's buzzsaw hazards, letting the player scream in agony through the voice chat. Additionally, the Serverblight laughed through one of its components while assimilating a Scout. Its manipulative tendencies increased in Awareness, and the Serverblight also learned how to taunt in order to better sell its ruse- however, the creature was only capable of miming taunts, unaware of how partner taunts worked and unaware that only certain classes can use certain taunts, as seen when it had an assimilated Soldier mimic one of Scout's default taunts. Most importantly, the Serverblight began using a strategy of keeping a few amalgamated masses together in the spawn rooms of the respective teams as a form of central intelligence, and only sending out a couple components to chase down or lure in any loose players. It is unknown what became of its original central mass, which was last seen leaving Snowycoast for parts unknown. However, it is possible that the Serverblight splits up these larger amalgams once a server is completely assimilated, creating new amalgams in whatever new server it migrates to.

In Conviction and its prequel Consumption, a glimpse into the Serverblight's mind describes its perception as alien, and yet with an endless hunger and distinct will to grow and "elevate" humans to a "divine" form within its gestalt. It is unknown if this god complex is a true facet of the creature's motives or just SAVIOR's delusional attempt to comprehend its inhuman intelligence and relating it to his own faith, but the Serverblight notably had SAVIOR become its prophet and even gave him command over the assimilated in his server, who all appeared to keep some agency.

Powers & Abilities[]

The Serverblight is able to increase its speed while running, nearly able to catch up to a fleeing Sniper who had a head start, only failing to catch him because Sniper reached the end of the map first. The Serverblight's method of assimilation involves physical contact with a victim, and the Serverblight abandons whatever weapons its components had in favor of attacking with its hands. Assimilation can happen within moments, causing players to distort almost immediately. Within the Serverblight's gestalt, assimilated players retain some ability to feel their in-game distorted limbs, and the Serverblight's latch on them is described as feeling like a hand on the back of their neck. The transition of being assimilated is described as feeling like falling asleep and suddenly waking up feeling numb with some memory loss. However, other players experienced more violent assimilations, like Syrenix, who felt hands pulling apart his mouth and screamed in anguish as he began to distort. Assimilated players can have their Steam accounts used by the Serverblight to send chat messages to other players, but only repeats of what was said before.

The Serverblight is capable of drastically distorting player models into a variety of monstrous forms, including capable of making them giant-sized, although the most common distortion is having their fingers stretch out like tendrils. The Serverblight can also make players sprout new limbs and even have their heads split apart into duplicates, and is able to fuse players into grotesque amalgamations. However, there appear to be limits to the Serverblight's shapeshifting, as a giant-sized Sniper was rendered extremely slow and vulnerable, and there appears to be a certain range and speed that their fingers are able to stretch out, too slow and short to catch rocket-jumping players. Notably, being grown to giant-size also rendered the Sniper immune to being gibbed, as his corpse simply fell over after being blasted by rockets instead of exploding.

An ambient side effect of the Serverblight sucking players into the game with more realistic physics and movements is the presence of more realistic and game-breaking physical interactions overall, including having players of the same team being able to physically hurt each other (as seen when dicksalot (BLU Soldier) struck Sir Jonara (BLU Heavy) away from him, or when an assimilated BLU Sniper recoiled in pain when struck by dicksalot's Disciplinary Action), trip and fall like humans, and be capable of throwing away their weapons or taking weapons that couldn't be used by their class.

Following its encounter with JonyDany12, the Serverblight is able to disconnect from its home server and invade other servers. Most notably, in SERVERBLIGHT, the Serverblight became capable of splitting its component players into individual units who are still under a hivemind, allowing it to infect multiple servers and attack players from multiple angles at once. Interestingly, assimilated BLU players were initially shown to have only mildly distorted bodies, mostly in their arms and hands stretching out, with a common disturbing feature of a hand coming out of their mouth. In contrast, assimilated RED members were often far more distorted with extra limbs and heads, but all assimilated mercs can disguise themselves as mostly normal players. Despite these near perfect mimicry abilities, it appears that a minor tells of these infected (known as 'Blighted') is possessing a sixth finger on the left hand, seen on the infected forms of both a Heavy (possibly gayfer) and a Scout (directionz). While this has been only witnessed on RED players, it remains unknown if this is also seen in infected BLU members or if the Serverblight has eliminated this flaw altogether.

The Serverblight has a critical weakness- game mechanics. The Serverblight's components are still registered as players by the game, and thus vulnerable to fall damage and damage from players of the opposing team, appearing to still have the same amount of health as their class. However, as seen when an assimilated RED Demoman was blown apart by a BLU Soldier, the Serverblight may be able to reassemble its gibbed components rather than respawning- if it can respawn at all. Any Serverblight components who are killed have not been seen respawning, simply being dragged away by another component, and their bodies do not de-spawn. Most importantly, the Serverblight is vulnerable to instant death zones, unable to follow players who throw themselves down one. It is possible that instant death zones can permanently kill it, but assimilated players who die in such zones are not freed. The Serverblight's components are also vulnerable to being vote-kicked, though this does not cure the infected and allows it to spread.

If a game is won normally, such as capturing the last intel or the final point, non-assimilated players will be automatically disconnected. However, the Serverblight and its victims will remain in the server, simply reset as a new round starts- although notably, all amalgamated and distorted players are returned to their regular models as the game resets them to the respawn rooms.

It is implied that the ambient supernatural property of sucking players' minds into the game is a power of the Serverblight itself, not necessarily the server it's in. This is supported by 2IdiotGermans revealing that the Serverblight itself is what disables the players' disconnect option and killbinds (although the creature remains incapable of altering the rest of the game's functions). While being sucked into the games, the players are still aware of their real-world bodies and environment, but unable to stop playing, and start to see their game character and the map superimposed over themselves, their minds unable to tell the game from reality. At some point, players cannot even look away from their screens or even blink, and their limbs remain anchored to their keyboard and mouse.

Additionally, the Serverblight is able to project sounds into the real-world environment behind the player, or at least make the player think they heard something. It is heavily implied to be able to manipulate dreams and hallucinations to torment those who escaped its servers or were otherwise in the room with an assimilated person. When assimilated, the real body of the player spasms, bleeds, and is left comatose. Most notably, their screen becomes an image of two eyes that can track real-world people, before the computer shuts down.

As a further degree of real-world technological manipulation, the Serverblight can make computers turn on and display the views of its players, who still keep their UI.

Confirmed victims[]

Main article: [Serverblight's Victims]

Trivia[]

The Serverblight shares similarities to the eponymous Thing, an assimilative eldritch abomination that takes the forms of those it assimilated to trick other players and seemingly only seeks to consume more victims. The main difference is that Serverblight is much worse at mimicking players, only being able to reuse words already spoken in a completely unnatural manner and moves assimilated players in manners more akin to training bots, unlike The Thing, which perfectly replicates the behavior and habits of its victims. However, the creator has stated that Serverblight is more inspired by SCP-610.
- Also, according to 2IdiotGermans, the primary inspirations for the Serverblight were HoovyDundy and the Spy creepypasta, incorporating supernatural horror while still acknowledging that TF2 is a video game. There was also further inspiration from the NES Godzilla creepypasta.
2IdiotGermans released a short titled "The Good Ending" as a non-canon alternate ending to Migration. In the short, when the Serverblight allowed JonyDany12 to disconnect, it failed to touch him in time, allowing the young player to safely escape. Robbed of its chance to figure out how to hop servers, the Serverblight simply let out a distorted "[bleep] you" as it was left stranded on Thunder Mountain.
Due to its popularity, the Serverblight has spawned a number of fan-made videos, and its own subreddit.
It is theorized that the eyes seen on Marc's screen in PROXY is the "true form" of the Serverblight.
In Don't Join Team RED, an SFM Team Fortress 2 horror series by Daft Spunky, the assimilated scubamaster96 (specifically in the thumbnail of Assimilation) was used to illustrate the possible mutation "blighted" that could result from excessive use of the mercenary cloning machine.
In AWARENESS, Nexus' quote about having seen the Serverblight before could indicate that the Serverblight somehow has access to other games, since Nexus is said to have only played Minecraft and Fortnite before the events of AWARENESS.
- Alternatively (and less horrifyingly), this line could imply that Nexus came across SailerMan's YouTube videos before AWARENESS, which are the only in-universe documentation of the Serverblight as of writing.

Navigation[]

Fanon Villains

Merasmus: Never Anger a Magician! | Gimme my Eye back! | I Got a Bucket of MAGICAL Chicken!

Music
Mercenaries (Random Encounters) (Medic, Heavy, Spy, Engineer, Soldier and Demoman, "Sniper") | The Mercenaries (The Stupendium)

Fan-Fiction
Announcer (With Apologies to Harlan Ellison) | Captain Chrome