NotNoodle

A sideblog dedicated to posting about Overwatch and my (thoughtful and overly critical) opinions on it. Twitter @haunterfan He/him | 17 | NSFW DNI

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is this a safe space to say jack and gabriel were a better story of racism than the omnics ever were?

gabriel had more experience, better stats, more capabilities than jack ever had. iirc this is confirmed in one of the founding of overwatch cinematics. but jack was white.

he was prettier.

oh but we gloss over that because well um !! omnics, who were mind controlled into trying to tear our society apart and we're still recovering from that war years and years later and they used to actually just objectively be mindless robots, experience racism because people are still afraid of them!!!!

man.

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I am the kind of person to hope the lore feeds my yaoi ship cause reaper76 is more likely to meet in canon now than they ever have and it would be in character

My theory for the talon dissenters: doomfist continues to stay idle, pissing off sombra and reaper. sombra decides they should go on without him and try to rot it from the inside. they start researching using sombra's hacking and reaper's dusty old detective skills. emre. the conspiracy. you know who else has been in the line of fire of the conspiracy? soldier in the gibraltar explosion.

Sombra convinces Reaper that they need to find him because more info on the conspiracy = more info on one of talon's strongest single associates = potentially a coup on vendetta. plus, soldier was part of overwatch alongside emre and might have more information than they think

There is a pretty high chance that Soldier stays floating just outside the lore forever but I can't imagine leaving the very loose end that is the gibraltar explosion and starting to tie it up without one of the two major victims

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New Shion short story has given us a lot more information on the Hashimoto...

So one thing we learn here that's important to me is that elders are replaceable, there is no lineage behind the Hashimoto. It's a direct contrast to how Japan used to be "run" by prestigious families.

The most recent "era" of Elders appears to be made up of Shion, Tsubaki, Yaemon, Saira, and Kohaku, with Shion also being apart of the previous "era". I'm really dying to know more about the other four, especially how Shion chose them.

The power balance amongst the Elders is also very odd. The other elders can call meetings to criticize Shion, make demands of her, and seem to have some mutual influence, but she does appear to be a bit above the other four. I think this is mainly because she's so threatening, nobody wants to fight against her maybe? She did wipe out all the previous elders.

Also, Vendetta has an anima weapon now. We also get confirmation of this in the mid-season's new interactions also. It's not her sword she had that way earlier, and so far it doesn't look like a weapon for a Talon agent we know of. It's possible it's some kind of weapon she wants to use to hunt down the dissenters (if she even gives a fuck about them anymore, let's be real).

Or it could have something to do with Genji...he's an extremely powerful warrior, and used to be a member of Blackwatch with Reaper and Moira. I'm sure Moira has something to do with it, actually. They could be trying to collect anyone who MIGHT be against Overwatch, and who better than Blackwatch who were directly in the line of fire when Overwatch went under. Moira could have also informed Vendetta of his "volatile" personality (if she doesn't know about his trip to the Monestary) and she thinks she can control him. I'm DYING to know what this weapon is dude..

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The more I think about the Genji thing the less likely it sounds, though. Genji's allegiance to Overwatch is pretty strong, even if it appears flimsy when he leaves for Tokyo. Also Vendetta has no idea that happened at the time of the deal

It's possible that Vendetta is just trying to jingle keys and draw in either of the Shimada brothers, with Hanzo being unaffiliated (I don't THINK he officially joined Overwatch, anyways)

Also I still don't know how anima weapons work. IDK

[overwatchnerdthings]

New Shion short story has given us a lot more information on the Hashimoto...

So one thing we learn here that's important to me is that elders are replaceable, there is no lineage behind the Hashimoto. It's a direct contrast to how Japan used to be "run" by prestigious families.

The most recent "era" of Elders appears to be made up of Shion, Tsubaki, Yaemon, Saira, and Kohaku, with Shion also being apart of the previous "era". I'm really dying to know more about the other four, especially how Shion chose them.

The power balance amongst the Elders is also very odd. The other elders can call meetings to criticize Shion, make demands of her, and seem to have some mutual influence, but she does appear to be a bit above the other four. I think this is mainly because she's so threatening, nobody wants to fight against her maybe? She did wipe out all the previous elders.

Also, Vendetta has an anima weapon now. We also get confirmation of this in the mid-season's new interactions also. It's not her sword she had that way earlier, and so far it doesn't look like a weapon for a Talon agent we know of. It's possible it's some kind of weapon she wants to use to hunt down the dissenters (if she even gives a fuck about them anymore, let's be real).

Or it could have something to do with Genji...he's an extremely powerful warrior, and used to be a member of Blackwatch with Reaper and Moira. I'm sure Moira has something to do with it, actually. They could be trying to collect anyone who MIGHT be against Overwatch, and who better than Blackwatch who were directly in the line of fire when Overwatch went under. Moira could have also informed Vendetta of his "volatile" personality (if she doesn't know about his trip to the Monestary) and she thinks she can control him. I'm DYING to know what this weapon is dude..