a new™ Hot Take: Overwatch heroes as the Major Arcana, while remembering that there’s 22 cards to fill by 27 heroes, so inevitably some of them won’t make the cut
0 // The Fool – Winston, for his “dare to see the world for what it could be”
I // The Magician – Ana, the will to bend all the world’s lesser elements to her will so that she achieves a goal, and mastery in the above as her trade
II // The High Priestess – Symmetra
III // The Empress – Orisa
IV // The Emperor – Doomfist
V // The Hierophant – Torbjorn, who had a hand in creating the omnics, and then helped defeat them in the Crisis
VI // The Lovers – Tracer & Emily, and everybody and their mom saw this one coming from ten miles away
VII // The Chariot – Zenyatta; while it’s tempting to cast him as The Hermit without thinking, The Chariot takes two opposites and forces them to work towards a common victory, quite like Zen’s harmony and discord orbs
VIII // Strength – Mercy, for how easy it would be for her to give up, for the world to harden her and break her, and yet not only she refuses to give up or harden or break, she keeps everyone else going too
IX // The Hermit – Mei, the scientist who spent nine consecutive years in cryo and was later accompanied solely by a tiny mute robot, for the card symbolizing wisdom and introspection and being alone
X // Wheel of Fortune – Reaper; the card is about change, but the sphinx perched atop the wheel is there to remind us that if you stay cool through it all, you can change your own life instead of being a slave to the currents
XI // Justice – Sombra; both she and the card are about blending the qualities of temperance and strength to achieve a goal, while using hard measures
XII // The Hanged Man – Hanzo. Suspension and restriction, after he had been exiled by what’s still left of the Shimada clan; self-sacrifice, for the whole situation with Genji in the context of Japanese culture, better explained by more qualified people in this post
XIII // Death – Genji, because the Death card symbolizes the end of something so that there’s room for something new to grow. Genji the child of the Shimada clan had to die so that Genji the cyborg with more anger management skills than a single person should ever need to have can be born.
XIV // Temperance – D.Va, for how she balances being a pop idol and a war hero
XV // The Devil – Moira, and this is the one placement I am not open to discussing here
XVI // The Tower – Widowmaker, come on, how can I not slap her with the card that means violent change and splitting the foundations of one’s life
XVII // The Star – Lucio, the card of hope and renewal and inspiration after everything came crashing down with the Tower brought low, for the internationally famous music artist who led an uprising against a corporation in his home country AND SUCCEEDED.
XVIII // The Moon – Soldier: 76, the card about illusions and the character who chases ghosts instead of accepting he had made mistakes and poor choices
XIX // The Sun – Reinhardt, in his bottomless enthusiasm and endless respect for his teammates, proven and new, old and new alike
XX // Judgement – Pharah; similar to Zen, it’s tempting to cast her as Justice without thinking, but this here binch is here to pronounce a fair sentence from above, and spell it out with rockets
XXI // The World – Brigitte gets the card that is the crowning moment of a cycle, ready to start all over again with the Fool, the card for completion and accomplishment, as she rises from a glorified fixer-upper to a squire and, in time, a knight
