“Fascinating. A model used in the Crisis
adapted for protection, and then re-adapted
when that was no longer sufficient. I am
curious what ‘Orisa’ will be capable of.”
I don't think you understand how important it is to me that Athena is basically sitting at the table with everyone else. this is fucking adorable. holy shit.
my little brother suggested the idea of an omnic mafia as a new hero concept and i had to doodle. too bad i spent several hours on this instead of the shit i should’ve been doing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pfft I’m never gonna do anything more with this guy so I may as well post him.
I…. made an Overwatch character and he is a good boy. he is a mail omnic called the Deliverer who sends you healing packages!! He has a bubble wrap shield. I dunno If I’m ever going to get around to making his weapons but he’s very sweet and cares about your happiness. also he just….really loves mail.
this is a quick psa for some of the roleplayers out there with vision impairments. i felt the need to put this out there to let everyone know that it’s okay to be upfront and honest with your partners if you have a hard time reading stuff on their blogs because the text or color combos mess with your eyes. as someone who is nearly blind in one eye, i sympathize with how awkward it is to approach someone and let them know you literally cannot read their stuff. to everyone who reads just fine, please exercise patience if you have a roleplay partner that comes to you asking questions about your rules or about pages because they can’t read them clearly. thank you all for understanding! <3
Okay, so I just attended the Overwatch Panel at SDCC about Ana, with Kim Phan, Michael Chu, Arnold Tsang, and James Waugh, and I’ve collected some new or confirmed information. I’m on mobile so the format is a little wonky.
Ana
-Ana was considered to be the best sniper in the world before Widowmaker took out her dominant eye. Now, Ana uses her non-dominant eye for the scope of her sniper rifle.
-She was Jack Morrison’s second in command while he was in charge of Overwatch. Despite this, she never wanted to leave the front line, even though she was always pained by each life she took.
-After her eye was taken, she decided to run due to the moral weight of all of the people she had killed.
-When creating her character, developers drew inspiration from older women who were snipers, as well as women who wear hijabs.
-Ana does wear a hijab
-Despite the fact that it is possible for her eye to be replaced, she refuses to do so because the scar means something to her.
-The reason that her biotic rifle (Image 2) inflicts damage on enemies but heals team mates could be explained in two ways. 1) Her allies are injected with a chemical that reacts with the medicine in her biotic rifle, allowing it to heal them, or 2) she has different rounds she switches between.
Another few details came up about this image (Image 3) from Ana’s origin short
-The photo was taken 20 years from when the game takes place, making both Mercy and McCree are 17, Torbjörn 37, Ana 40, Reinhardt 41, Jack about 35, Reyes about 36, and Pharah about 12 or 13(they said early teens, but this is the conclusion based on the given timeline).
-McCree had newly joined Blackwatch when the picture was taken.
-Despite speculation, the man in the bottom left corner is NOT Liao, a founding member of Overwatch.
After all of the details on Ana and her release, some other general or character specific information came from the Q&A session:
-Get excited because there WILL be more animated shorts
-More comics will be released over time.
-A lot of story that has been released so far seems like exposition (and it is, there is a lot to set up), but it will eventually all be resolved. It is simply a matter of time.
-The game itself is not canon in the Overwatch universe, allowing characters who are enemies to work on the same team. Their exchanges are what may have happened if they were in a situation where they had to work together.
-Many facts are common knowledge to developers and characters in the game, but the right time to release the information to players hasn’t come yet. Examples of this are McCree’s recruitment by Reyes, early escapades of Blackwatch (a comic of this is ready for release, it is just a matter of time), Pharah’s father, and how McCree lost his arm.
-Mercy is NOT an evil immortal.
-Symmetra’s arm IS a prosthetic.
-Each character’s prosthetic limbs are meant to show or represent something about the character or their personality. Characters with prosthetics are Torbjörn, McCree, Symmetra, Gengi, and Junkrat.
-Hanzo has “delicate ankles”. The developers joked that he should train with Zarya to beef them up.
-The character of Lúcio was inspired by the bard class in other games.
-Multiplayer is Blizzard’s main focus right now, but mission or story specific missions are a thought. Nothing about this is confirmed, but it is in the developer’s minds and a future possibility.
-The graphic novel, Overwatch: First Strike, is about the beginning and dark days of The Omnic Crisis as well as the founding of Overwatch and will be available in November 2016 digitally. A deluxe physical version will be available in April of 2017.
Welcome to Cherabby’s Voice Line Guide Part 2, Athena Edition. okay, maybe not so much a guide as me rambling and speculating and generally being a nerd because, yay, Athena lines! Athena lines that aren’t only announcer lines! All lines included are found here. (There’s a lot of neat stuff over there that I recommend checking out!) EDIT: Goddammit, I found more on youtube.
“Alert! Weapons discharge detected in ordinance bay.” Apparently no one knows what to make of this one, and... yeah, same. People are speculating this is on a new map / game mode and I can get behind that, but, hey, more backup for the Athena running tactical analysis & helping out Overwatch that way. I’ll take what I can get.
“Let’s begin. First, look up at the drop ship above you.” ...A new tutorial? A tutorial for a new game mode? I don’t know man, I don’t know.
“Everything is ready for launch, Winston.” LISTEN THIS SOUNDS LIKE A GIBRALTAR LINE BC WINSTON IS LAUNCHING THE SATELLITE, RIGHT? RIGHT? PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A GIBRALTAR LINE AND WE’LL ACTUALLY HEAR SOME STUFF FROM ATHENA OUTSIDE OF THE DROP SHIP MAPS. PLEASE.
“Satellite drone on route to launch gantry.” ???? More maps? Gibraltar lines? Whatever. Gimme.
“I am detecting an enormous amount of data transfer from the monastery.” 1. Probably a new drop ship line for Nepal! 2. If you don’t think I’m not going to use this to back up my stupid God A.I. theories then you’re so damn wrong.
“Unauthorized person detected.” A lot of heroes now have a message for a hidden enemy / stealth hero like everyone has been speculation about, and I feel like this kind of fits into that (though how, I don’t know, since Athena doesn’t really have any lines once a game starts outside of the announcer stuff?) Could possibly be map triggered too, though. I dunno.
The following lines come from this video! I’m sorry, I found more, I can’t stop.
Most of it is announcer stuff (Also, objective D? E? What the shit Blizz calm down), but there’s some interesting things involving training matches and a few quips from Athena like “It appears that you are accustomed to moving your controls down to look up.” (Part of me wants to hope that this is a Snarky Response to the player being a smartass after the “Look at the drop ship above you” line I mentioned already but I think realistically it’s probably some kind of training commentary if you have inverted controls.) and “Your sound card is working perfectly.” The latter seems kind of weird to me - I mean, yeah, I understand why the sound would be important OW but even in training, what context would that be used in?
There are also lines for “new training location” and that’s kind of fun to think about in a canon context, like the vs. A.I. training are a holodeck simulation of sorts Athena runs to train Overwatch members or such. idk, let me live.
WELCOME TO CHERABBY’S ANA AMARI VOICE LINE GUIDE! I’ll be including whatever interactions I can find + the conditions for triggering them. I’ll also keep note of how many times I used a certain scenario (ex. playing as ana with a reaper AI) For Science. Writing it down makes it Science, that’s a fact.
*EDIT* Please note, I’m updating this as I play, so I’m consistently adding and changing lines as I hear them in game. I’ve added a ton and I might have all of them by now, but I’ll keep updating as I go if I’ve missed any.
General lines:
“Never stop fighting for what you believe in.” (first spawn-in)
“I’ll be watching your backs, but be careful out there.”
“Use your heads out there, we’ll get through this.”
“There’s nothing I haven’t seen before. Stick together, we will complete our mission.”
”Stick to the plan, and if you get into trouble, I’ll bail you out.”
“I will get us home safe.”
“We’ll stop them here and now.” (30 seconds remaining)
“Age and beauty, I have you on both.” (Eliminating enemy, possibly 76 only?)
“Bedtime.” / “Feeling sleepy?” (Hitting enemy with her sleep shot)
”I’ve seen worse, you’re going to live.” / “Walk it off.” / “It’s just a scratch, you’ll be fine.” (shooting teammate with a heal)
“Look after yourselves out there. I’ll get us home safe.”
“Escorting the payload.” / “Securing the payload” / “They payload is secure, move it out.” (on payload)
“Taking the objective, support requested” (on the point)
“Someone get that payload moving.” / “We need to keep the payload moving.” (Payload stopped)
“Ha, I’ve come back from worse.” (death respawn)
she also has a respawn line and another general line (trigged around match start, I believe) in arabic, which I can’t translate - if someone would be willing to help me on that front, I would appreciate it!
Map Triggers
Watchpoint Gibraltar (5 matches solo):
“I never thought I’d see this place again.”
Temple of Anubis (5 matches solo):
“It feels good to be home.”
Volskaya Industries (3 matches solo):
“I shouldn’t overstay my welcome. I’m probably still on the watchlist here.” (ANA WHAT DID YOU DO.)
Interactions
I’ve found a few interaction lines thanks to @lionhcrdt, who directed me to this video. After playing a lot of online games as well, I’ve collected a few that weren’t in the video.
Pharah (5+ Matches):
Ana: I’m watching your back, Fareeha.
Pharah: Then I have nothing to worry about.
Pharah: I always dreamed of the day we'd be fighting together.
Ana: Wanting a better life for you was all I ever dreamed of.
[ From Pharah when Ana gets a kill ] Mom, you’re amazing.
Widowmaker ( @cauchemarred, since you asked ):
Ana: Gerard was a fool to love someone like you.
Widowmaker: You don’t know anything about him.
Widowmaker: You were once a legend, but what are you now? Just a shell of a woman.
Ana: I take it you don’t want my autograph, then.
Mercy:
Mercy: You know, Ana, there are procedures we could look into to repair your eye.
Ana: You’re very kind, but I’m comfortable with who I am now. It’s a good reminder.
Reaper (5+ Matches):
Reaper: Guess you’re going back on my list, Ana.
Ana: What happened to you, Gabriel?
Reaper: I shouldn’t be surprised you took his side.
Ana: You never gave me much choice.
[ Killing an enemy Reaper ] “I don’t even know you anymore.”
Soldier 76 (5+ Matches):
Ana: For a man of your years, you’re looking pretty good, Jack.
76: Well, all that stuff they pumped into me has to be good for something.
Ana: Seems like neither of us like being dead very much.
76: Old soldiers are hard to kill.
76: I feel better knowing you’re watching my back.
Ana: We all need someone we can trust, jack.
76: Ana, we all thought you were dead. Why didn’t you tell me?
Ana: You of all people are going to ask me that?
[ When 76 kills an enemy ] Nice shooting, Jack.
Reinhardt (5+ Matches):
Ana: Reinhardt, I must say, you’re looking quite well. This life must agree with you.
Reinhardt: And you are looking as lovely as ever.
Reinhardt: Ana, how can this be? I thought you were dead!
Ana: I’m sorry, Reinhardt. After everything that happened, I needed time.
McCree (5+ Matches):
McCree: It’s an honor fighting by your side, ma’am.
Ana: Oh, you always were a charmer.
Torbjorn (1 Match):
Torb: Ana, they all thought you were dead.
Ana: Well, I had to come back. I was worried you’d get bored not being able to stick your nose in my business.
obviously this isn’t perfect, it’s kind of a rough idea more than anything so i’ll have something to go off of until / if we get some more canon images. some notes under the cut on where i got the general design from and whatnot.
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