#deadlock rebels

[purplephantasia]

Happy Birthday Ashe! You complete girl failure of a woman I adore you ❤️

[ladyknight33]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Alternate timeline. Blackwatch failed to take down the Deadlock Rebels. Sojiro Shimada remains alive. The Shimada Clan, Deadlock Rebels, and Los Muertos aim to make the most powerful criminal alliance the world has ever seen in order to take out the upstart Talon organization. Hanzo, Jesse and Sombra find themselves in a precarious position when Overwatch attempts to gain unlikely support to combat Talon. And Overwatch takes in more than they bargain for in the process. ___ Chapter 25: All the preperation and planning begins to pay off. The Trio must divide in order to conquer their enemy. But will they be able to watch each other's backs when the battle begins? *** For those who are coming back to this story after we’re not going to calculate how long, there’s a recap in the notes of Chapter 23.

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I vowed to complete this story among many of my WIPs because I can control this and the world needs creativity now more than ever.

[strip4kaneshiro]

Animated deadlock rebels series challenge featuring Cass and Ashe NEOWWbb (def not projecting and loopy during a road trip )

[wildissylunas]

The unfair Villainization of Deadlock and the Romanticism of Blackwatch

I've posted about this before but I thought I'd go more in depth since I have expanded my analysis since.

A trend I've seen when it comes to Cassidy and Blackwatch fans is that they often demonize Deadlock while also acting like Blackwatch was the best thing to ever happen to Cassidy (spoiler: It wasn't). The fact is that in lore, Cassidy misses Deadlock, while he regrets the things he did in Blackwatch. Ana actively stated that joining Blackwatch was Cassidy going from one desperate situation to another. Not only that but Cassidy was left in a worse state after his experience with Blackwatch.

Say what you will about Deadlock being a criminal gang, but none of them have joined a TERROIST ORGANISATION. Not only that but after Deadlock took down the Diamondbacks, they didn't just...leave shit as it was. Ashe actively brought order the the criminal underground of Texas, before that it's implied that gangs would just attack random people with Cassidy saying that he, a 15 year old, with nothing to his name, needed to travel with a gun. Meanwhile Blackwatch, specifically Reyes, caused a power-vacuum that cause several innocent lives to be lost.

Not only that but it's shown that Deadlock treats it's members better than Blackwatch did. Ashe, though harsh, shows the members of her gang nothing but respect. Meanwhile Reyes is commenting to a very mentally unstable Genji that they should have hired his brother, reminder this was a Genji that was still very pissed at Hanzo. Also want to point out that after Blackwatch disbanded and Genji was moved to a Overwatch Strike team, he seemed happier, healthier.

There is also the fact that Cassidy was more loyal to people outside of Blackwatch then to those within, there are no reports of Overwatch or Blackwatch going after Deadlock again, Cassidy didn't tell Reyes about Echo, Cassidy told Jack everything that happened at Rialto despite it being obvious Reyes was trying to down play the situation. Another fact is that after Blackwatch was sidelined Genji didn't talk to anyone who was a part of Blackwatch, Cassidy being a possible exception but even then it's implied that Cassidy was also allowed to be placed on Overwatch Strike Teams.

All this being said, we see how loyal and how close everyone in Deadlock is, and the fact that we don't have anything saying Blackwatch went after Deadlock again after they got Cassidy, it kind of implies that he never said anything. Never gave anything away.

I honestly don't care how people view Blackwatch but the amount of times I see Deadlock villainized is not ok. I understand it if it's posts from before Ashe was introduced but after...

I'm just glad Ashe herself isn't that villainized that much, from what I've seen the only people who villainize her are toxic Yeehan shippers, which I only see on tictok nowadays.

[beeanutbutter]

they’re so silly 🤷

[sleepykamukura]

Ashe: I better not see your face in my neck of the woods.

Ramattra: Are you afraid I’ll free your servant?

Ashe: Lay one finger on Bob and I’ll show you what fear means.

so… that’s definitely a threat from both of them, and i love it. obviously ramattra is clueless to the happenings outside of his own opinions, as @wildissylupus said he doesn’t understand why any omnic would choose to be around humans. ashe and bob have a familial relationship, it’s a strong bond too. he’s the only one who’s stayed consistent throughout her whole life

also, we’ve seen ashe be threatened with the loss of bob before, in deadlock rebels when julian bets him on a bike race. she may be acting agressive through her speech, but we’ve seen the panic it put her through the first time

now, this makes me wonder if this is how they’ll bring ashe into the main story. i saw someone else on tiktok theorize if bob will be taken and ashe will go to cassidy or overwatch to help. my addition to that is it might not just be bob, but the other omnics (like bars) in deadlock rebels. obviously bob is her closest companion, but everyone else in the gang matters too.

if she doesn’t go directly to overwatch, then they might come to her seeing as i imagine the whole gang would fight against null sector if something happened to any member

there’s also the conversation in the current story missions about how the current team, a sort of “you and what army” moment… what about that army? deadlock is presumably pretty large, and they’re also allied with local gangs so i think it would be a good way to bring ashe and the rest of deadlock into the story, because right now they have no connection other than being part of cole’s past

this could also kickstart the beginning of a reconciliation between cassidy & ashe, starting off with “I’m only helping because my friends are in trouble.” and if they’re saved then she’ll decide to stay and help until the entire issue is over with null sector.

[honeywafflez1art]

"...At least Jesse was clearly enjoying the manor life."

Based on a scene from the Deadlock Rebels book (snippet under cut)⚔️

[inkyglob]

I'M-

OKay- so I finally get back into writing for Overwatch because I have had a few things in the works for like 3 years and haven't touched them since the beginning. So- I pick up "Deadlock Rebels" and decide to take some notes-- I'm not lazy when it comes to fic notes I even have MAPS. Bear with me.

SO the official Blizzard website has deadlock gorge in Arizona

Fantastic. Route 66, the scenery, makes a lot of sense. The book opens up, she's in Bellerae, Texas. Not a stretch, just gotta finish the book to see how they end up in Arizo-- They don't. The book has Deadlock Gorge in Texas.

I DO NOT BLAME LYNDSAY ELY AT ALL

It's Blizz's job to make sure the lore is like- straight. She was probably given a stack of facts and a general storyline and the book was good-- but c'mon Blizz, those two states don't exactly border each other. You can't tell me a group of tweens age 15-17 are casually crossing the entire state of New Mexico on hoverbikes on a semi-daily basis.... But then again, Hanzo and Genji are like 21 and 23 in the Kiriko introduction video according to them so.... if Blizzard doesn't want to treat their toys nicely, I will take them away.