#fearlessstateofmind

[loreweaver-universe]

@fearlessstateofmind I’M ANSWERING THIS ONE EARLY BECAUSE YOU’RE A LIFESAVER THANK YOU

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fearlessstateofmind replied to your post: People: Route 66 got a cosmetic update which means...

Like I love mccree and want a short but this is a really good point. Something that frustrates me a lot about overwatch’s storytelling is the lack of follow up or pay off. A McCree short would be a good way to follow up on retribution an ana (or ana and pharah) short is a good way to follow up on her origin story and letter and such from even longer ago

I guess it’s just like– yeah it would be good follow up for McCree, but idk why he gets even more follow up when so many characters haven’t even started? I thought the Shrike posters might indicate a Pharah-centric short where she reconnects with Ana, giving Pharah the first actual coverage since her release comic and resolving a major question for both those characters. McCree’s had a comic focused on him, was a major character in the Retribution comic, was the literal narrator of an entire event, had a part in the Uprising comic– it’s just kind of frustrating.

[captainofthetidesbreath]

fearlessstateofmind replied to your post “fearlessstateofmind replied to your post “@postmortemtsarina replied...”

On that theme! One of the most interesting bits in his comic for me is the random talon grunt who goes "mccree? Is that you? I swear to god I'll kill-" (gets shot) and like who is that are they ex-blackwatch, ex-deadlock, just someone who's had a run in with Jesse doing this multiple times?

SAME.

I agree, the “I swear to God” definitely sounds like someone for whom Jesse has been a thorn in their side for ages. I tend to not think ex-Deadlock because I generally think Deadlock isn’t too interested in joining Talon. Selling them weapons? Sure. But they seem to be mostly keeping to themselves. Ex-Blackwatch, though, would be really interesting—especially if they were one of the other infiltrated or turned agents that Gabriel was looking for post-Rialto.

I think the funniest thing to me is that, even if it’s someone McCree knew and knew well, he doesn’t recognize them, so he calls them “stranger” and he gets this oddly familiar response in return—which he doesn’t seem to worry about at all past “it’s not them surrendering”.

Who are you mystery Talon agent who got quickly dispatched without ceremony?

Too bad they’re dead, so they can’t tell us.

[fearlessstateofmind]

celebrating taking her through the borderlands main story again on tvhm and experimenting with some stuff by drawing Maya

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fearlessstateofmind replied to your post “It’s interesting to think about the idea that Gabriel purposefully...”

I really want if he gets a short that it's contemplating the recall and thinking about why he left/whether he wants to go back kind of thing

Same!! That’s what I want. I just really need much more information on his own feelings toward having quit, having not been there when everything exploded and imploded, what drove him to not only leave but disappear off the grid entirely, how that got him to where he is, and whether or not he wants to go back to possibly repeat history.

Like, I do hope he ultimately does choose to go back because I’m obsessed with the idea of Jesse as the heir apparent, as having spent half his life under the shadow of the possibly unwanted title of Future Blackwatch Commander, as having stood to inherit Reyes’ mantle whether he wanted to or not—and receiving that deferred inheritance in a different form in being pushed, despite his reluctance, into being a leader within the recalled Overwatch.

I just feel like it would be an interesting way to explore the ideas of cycles within the narrative and explore Gabriel and Jesse’s relationship, Gabriel’s expectations of Jesse including as a teacher and his visions for Jesse’s future, Jesse’s relationship to those expectations and his visions of his own future, Gabriel’s hopes for his legacy and how Jesse fit into that, questions of what it means for Jesse to realize his potential especially after Gabriel offered him a place in Blackwatch so as to not waste it. It just, to me, feels like a strong narrative decision given Jesse’s relationship to Blackwatch, to Overwatch, to Gabriel, to the history of both organizations, to the events that led to the Fall.

I posted briefly about the idea earlier today. It’s an idea I think about often. Honestly, I revisit the topic a lot. Like, a lot a lot. An intense amount of a lot.

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fearlessstateofmind replied to your post “I think one of the nicest details on McCree’s Van Helsing skin is that...”

I swear there's something somewhere (art book? But I think it's too late so maybe somewhere else) about fitting this design to McCrees silhouette? So it look in character and such (also gameplay recognisability stuff)

I do know it’s a decision motivated by character silhouette design. I haven’t seen anything specifically for this skin, but I know that generally Blizzard is extremely concerned about silhouette preservation and recognizability between the heroes and their skins. I just thought it was an interesting way to go about it because there were other ways they could’ve done it, including just simply shortening the jacket that like twelve or so inches. But it’s most interesting from a narrative through design perspective to opt to rip the jacket like that. It says a lot, I think, about how the art concept team thinks through design decisions.

Since we’re on the topic, I generally think that the jacket is not ankle length to keep his silhouette from looking too much like Reaper specifically. There was a concern expressed in The Art of Overwatch that Reaper’s Mariachi skin may look too much like McCree, largely due to the hat I imagine, but that the problem was solved because Reaper has a very different posture and animation set. I imagine they avoid giving McCree the ankle length coat for the same reason: coats that length are Reaper’s domain. And, well, that one Soldier skin. Gabriel, let your son have a properly dramatic coat!

For comparison, the longest coat McCree has is in Riverboat / Gambler, and the longer side of the torn coat in the Van Helsing skin ends at slightly higher than where the Riverboat / Gambler coat is. They don’t give McCree coats longer than right below the knee.

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fearlessstateofmind replied to your post “@postmortemtsarina replied to your post “@postmortemtsarina replied to...”

If they didn't know where he ended up beforehand when he starts appearing in the news after Venice or the fall of overwatch they certainly do and would figure out he switched sides also (or dealings with talon/blackwatch continuing to work against deadlock)

Yeah! Like, Jesse post-Rialto wasn’t exactly a low profile member of Overwatch. 

Even if they didn’t figure out exactly where he went, and never noticed the Rialto coverage, the fact that he never showed up in prison after a major sting specifically got him and several others arrested—I’d say it’s likely you have people going, “Well, obviously he ratted us out. He got arrested but never showed up in a cell.” That’s absolutely not what happened, but I’d think it a reasonable leap. (McCree and getting blamed for things he didn’t do seems to be a theme with me, lmao.) And they’d surely notice he’s had a massive change of heart after he starts building a reputation for himself as an arbiter of justice and defender of the innocent. Even if the FBI doesn’t seem to have the story straight, enough of the underground seems to know, and I imagine they don’t really appreciate that about Jesse—and it still feeds possibly into that.

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fearlessstateofmind replied to your post “someone: If Jesse’s last name is McCree, an Irish surname, and you...”

It's almost like colonialism cause people to end up with european names happened or something :/

Hell, it’s not even limited to that.

McCree could have exactly one ancestor who is Irish, or Italian in the case of Morricone. He or someone in his tree could’ve been adopted across racial identities. (I can name four people I know off the top of my head who have surnames that don’t ethnically “match” them because of this.) He or someone in his tree could’ve been orphaned and lost very young and, while not formally adopted, took the surname of a mentor or parental figure

But, yeah, honestly. Colonialism forces populations to change their last names en mass. Racism pressures people to change their names to fit in.

There’s just all sorts of insidious and innocent ways people end up with “not matching” surnames.