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He Don't Mean It by FunkyMeihem. Roadhog suffers from PTSD and violent rages, Junkrat tries to keep it a secret from the others, Zarya distrusts the both of them, and Mei learns some hard lessons.
Very realistic- I’d say very fun but it’s like angsty so there’s that. Roadhog and Junkrat are best buds which is always a treat
Possible Animated Short
I’m rewatching some of the Blizzcon clips from yesterday and I’m gonna be posting about it cause I’m super hyped! So, these pictures give us an idea of maybe a cutscene but I feel like it would be an animated short. I think that in it Reinhardt and Brigitte will go to Gothenburg, Sweden, where Torbjorn works. When they get there Torbjorn lets Reinhardt look around since he has not been there in a while or he has never been there. While Reinhardt looks around, Brigitte and Torbjorn catch up.
While looking around, Reinhardt finds Bastion and charges at him, confused why Torbjorn would have a Bastion unit in his warehouse/work shop(I’m not exactly sure what you would call it). When Brigitte and Torbjorn hear a commotion they go check it out. Torbjorn yells at Reinhardt to not attack Bastion and then explains to Reinhardt that he saved Bastion. I’m assuming he would only be explaining this to Reinhardt since I’m pretty sure than Brigitte knows about Bastion based off some voice interactions I believe they have in game. Once Torbjorn is done explaining Reinhardt apologizes to Bastion, maybe.
Eventually they get an alert that there is an attack somewhere. Then they get a call from overwatch, probably Winston or Tracer, and they decide to go help. I’m not sure if Torbjorn goes, he has a engineering business to run, but based off of the last photo, Rein and Brig take Bastion with them. Which will be interesting because it seems that Zarya is joining overwatch also, based off the last photo and a couple others. I’m gonna make a different post on that since this is getting long, but I think having Bastion on the team will create tension for Rein, Brig, and Zarya.
So, TLDR, Rein and Brig visit Torb, Rein meets Bastion, there is an attack, Rein and Brig bring Bastion to help them on the mission, I’ll post about Zarya joining overwatch another time.
Overwatch Recalled: Zarya
Why did Zarya join Overwatch?
So, on my post about a possible animated short featuring Rein, Brig, Torb, and Bastion, I mentioned making a post about Zarya. So this is that post!
In the behind the scenes of OW2 at Blizzconline, we get to see a lot, including images of work in progress animated shorts and cutscenes. In a bunch of these clips are rough drawing with only a few fully animated parts, but with these rough drawings, you can learn a lot. While going through these clips I found a bunch that has a character that I am sure is Zarya. She is mostly drawn in pink lines (which make sense since her hair is pink) and all of the clips she is in is with the Recalled Overwatch.
When I saw this I was like, “Oh cool! Zarya’s in Overwatch!” but then I was like, “Wait why is Zarya in Overwatch?” So I’ve put some thought into it and I think I have a good idea of why she joined Overwatch.
When I started, the 1st thing I did was reread the Zarya and Sombra comic, Searching. The TLDR for the comic is that it is after the Infiltration animated short, Katya Volskaya sends Zarya to find Sombra with an Omnic named Lynx Seventeen, they find Sombra, Sombra tells Zarya about her deal with Volskaya and hacks Lynx. Sombra gets away and Zarya saves Lynx.
So, by the end of the comic Zarya doesn’t like Volskaya, but isn’t going to say anything, based off of her interaction with Lynx she is slowly moving away from the idea of hating all/most Omnics, and she is mad at Sombra. So, I think she is going to end up joining Overwatch since she is mad at Talon and Volskaya probably doesn’t trust her as much. I think this will be really good for her character development because she will need to work with two, maybe three, Omnics, Echo, Bastion, and hopefully Orisa.
Anyways, TLDR: Zarya is going to join the Recalled Overwatch to fight Talon. She will also have good character development due to her working with Omnics.
Overwatch/OW2 Updates + Fun News
Alright, it's been a second. My bad. I had a bunch of stuff to get done for school since my first semester just ended, but I'm here now with updates among other things.
1. I want to start off with the personal project part of this post. Since September, I have been working on something called the MYP project. Basically, you choose a topic, learn about it, and make a product out of it. I chose to make my project about the Gabby Petito case and I made a google site for it. I've put a lot of work into it since September, especially in the past week which is why this update is a little late, and I'm really proud of it. It will be getting's it's own post soon, but I still need to work out of few things.
Anyways, onto the video game news!
2. Microsoft is buying Activision-Blizzard. I think that it is a good thing, but there's still a lot of be determined. Like, I hope it helps with the sexual harassment issues in Activision-Blizzard, but we won't know until it happens. Here's a video about the issue:
3. Issue #3 of New Blood is out. It is available on the Overwatch website under the Media tab. It involves Baptiste and it teases that the next person Cassidy is looking for will be Zarya. I haven't read much of New Blood at all, so I've decided that I will probably just do one big post about New Blood once all five issues are out.
4. We've learned that a big reason for the Overwatch 2 delays is because of Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick. Tracy Kennedy, an Overwatch producer, stated on Twitter that Kotick would "shove" projects on the OW team, who would work overtime on it, then those projects would get cancelled which led to developments being lost. Here's the tweet she made:
5. We might be getting Overwatch/OWL news next week. Mike Ybarra, the Head of Blizzard Entertainment, said that there will be an announcement in the next week, but this might not be about Overwatch since he is the Head of Blizzard, not just Overwatch. With that being said, we can hope that we'll be getting some information about Overwatch, especially since OWL will be starting in April. Here's a video by Stylosa that covers this really well:
6. If we are talking about Overwatch news, we might be learning about the 2022 Lunar New Year event. We can expect the Lunar New Year event to start in the next few weeks. This year is the Year of the Tiger, so we'll probably get a skin or two that is tiger-themed.
Anyways, if you got through all of that, thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed it! Again, sorry it took a bit to get this out, school's been a lot. I hope you are doing good and I hope you are excited for all of the stuff to come, I know I am! ~ Nova.
Overwatch News: New Blood Issue #5
Alright, this is going to be a long post, so for the first time in a long time, here is the TLDR...
TLDR - Issue #5 of New Blood was released on March 15th, 2022. We have had multiple small things confirmed by it, specifically D.Va's recruitment and joining of Overwatch, and Zarya's OW2 appearance. I liked the New Blood series, my favorite Issue was #5. I liked D.Va's character development and I think Baptiste could have used some more. You will be able to get the new Sombra Zhulong skin from now until March 28th, 2022 for 200 OWL tokens.
New Blood Issue #5: Out of all of the parts of this comic book series, this one was my favorite for a few reasons.
I like that D.Va is portrayed to be more mature in this comic. I feel like she is mostly portrayed to be a little immature, but considering her job she should be acting more mature. So, I think that they are doing a good job showing her acting appropriately for the situation.
It is confirmed that damage boost is a cannon ability that Mercy has (pg. 3).
It is seems to be confirmed that Baptiste's Immortality Field can aid in the repairing of the mechs (pg. 15).
We've learned a little more about the MEKA Squad's abilities. D.Mon has a hard light sword and shield (pg. 11). Overlord's mech seems to be able to fly like a drone (pg. 9). All of the mechs have some type of ability to fly/hover (pg. 17).
We have confirmed that Cole was the person to recruit D.Va to Overwatch, not Lucio like I predicted (pg. 19).
It is confirmed that the older members of Overwatch (Ana, Reaper, Soldier: 76, probably Reinhardt and Torbjorn too) are referred to as the "Old Guard" (pg. 21).
We are shown what seems to be Zarya's Overwatch 2 redesign.
It seems that all the characters recruited by Cole are all getting along well (pg. 21 - 23).
New Blood Issues #1 - #4, A Longer Than Necessary Review:
I think this comic series is one of my favorite releases from the Overwatch media section with the only thing beating it being Stone by Stone. This series did a good job leading up to what can be assumed to be the current state of Overwatch 2 lore. I'm glad that all of the characters we saw during the Behind the Scenes of OW2 who joined Overwatch were explained here. Other than Issue #5, Issue #4 was my favorite. I think that they did a good job expanding on all characters featured in the comics. Now let's get onto the character specifics...
Ana: I think that having Ana being the person to push both Cole and Pharah to join Overwatch was good. I think that they included her for a perfect amount of the comics. I would like to see more interactions between her and Pharah in the future.
Pharah: I think that they did a good job integrating past Pharah lore (Ana didn't want her to join Overwatch) with her connection to Helix to give her a reason to not join Overwatch. Then, they gave Pharah a reason to join which I think was well executed. I also like how they expanded her connection to Cole and Mercy (pg. 5 of Issue #2).
Baptiste: I think that out of all the characters, Baptiste was the least developed by this comic. I like his banter with Cole throughout his comic. I also think that the expansion of his in-game abilities (Regenerative Burst, Amplification Matrix, and Exo Boots) within lore was good.
Zarya: I think they did a really good job making Zarya more sympathetic. In-game, she's kind of curt and mean. Her comic shows her in a different light which is really nice. I think that the few scene with her interacting with her family was great.
D.Va: I may be biased (I'm a D.Va main), but I think that D.Va's character was developed really well. I talked more about this early, but they did a good job making her act appropriately for the dire situation that she is in. I also really like that they showed D.Va to be very focused on helping people. In multiple pages, we see D.Va trying to take action that will help the most people (asking about communicating with Overwatch) which makes me really happy.
Cole: I think that they did a good job making Cole more of a leader and they did a good job portraying him like he is in-game. He is very charismatic and I think they did a good job showing that Cole is able to use that to steer people in the right direction. I'm excited to see how they make Cole an even better leader in the future.
OWL/OW Updates:
In Overwatch, the patch notes (3/15/2022) fixed some bugs including the mic distortion that was being complained about recently. The bigger news though is that the 2CP maps, Horizon Lunar Colony and Paris, have been removed for Quick play and related modes. It seems like the development team are beginning to slowly remove 2CP maps from the live game.
In OWL news, the new Sombra Zhulong skin is available for 200 OWL tokens to celebrate the Shanghai Dragons' Overwatch League 2021 victory. You will be able to get the skin from March 15th, 2022 - March 28th, 2022.
is this thirsty enough to make tumblr mad
So. I just had my ass tossed into the Dead By Daylight fandom and I am currently obsessing over The Huntress aka bunny mask babushka
So yeh, here. Have a crossover. Next up will be Plague Mercy
WOMEN
ANyways, I'll be having more cracked up AU art so stay fucking TUNED
My beautiful Zarya armor, first time ever making armor and I am very happy with how it turned out
Finished the gloves for Zarya today, the end is within sight!
San-Japan is here! And Zarya is done 😃. Time to see if she will last the entire day.
Me at the Overwatch meet up! It was super fun and I met alot of awesome people and hope to go next year to take pictures!
Zarya and Mei <3
Overwatch Valentine's Day Headcannons
My headcannons about how OW characters would treat you on Valentine's Day. Does NOT include Bastion, Echo, Orisa, Sigma, Winston, or Wrecking Ball
Baptiste, Hanzo, Lucio, Reinhardt, Torbjorn, and Tracer follow the classic moves. They will ask you to be their Valentine; it doens't matter how long you've been together, and they always seem excited when you say yes. They cancel any and all plans on the 14th, handle all the plans and reservations, and give thoughtful gifts that show how much they know about you and care for you. Valentine's Day is always the WHOLE day for them. However, they are laser-focused on the day being perfect, and a small inconvenience can stress them the fuck out.
B.O.B, Doomfist, Moira, Ramattra, and Zenyatta don't understand the holiday at all. You guys shower love on each other all year long, so they don't need the calendar's permission to express themselves to you. But if Valentine's Day is important to you, they will match you excitement and energy, and do their best to meet your expectations. If your not a fan of the holiday, they won't notice it passing every year.
Brigitte, Lifeweaver, Mei, Symmetra, and Zarya are the ones who want to be courted and doted on. They love to be asked to be your Valentine, or surprised with a romantic night. You'll notice them getting a little more upset with you as the day gets closer and you don't seem to be making any plans. They just like being treated like the royalty they are.
Ashe, Cassidy, Pharah, Roadhog, and Sombra ask you about a week in advance "What do you want to do for VD this year?" And whatever you answer, they will go along with, even though they would rather treat it like any other day. This is not from a lack of romance or interest in you, but just a lack on interest on the holiday.
D.Va and Mercy are busy with the schedule of being a celebrity and a doctor, Genji has spent the past few years adopting an "every day is important" mentality, Kiriko and Sojourn are putting most of their focus on their vigilante work, and Junkrat always has a flittering mind, so they all have a 20% chance of remembering at all.
Ana, Illari, Junker Queen, Mauga, Reaper, Soldier: 76, and Widowmaker are the bitter, cold-hearted fucks that roll their eyes at the holiday. If there's love in the air, they're spraying Febreze and wearing a gas mask.
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Congratulations to all the girls and women on International Women's Day! Cute boys and brutal men to you!
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