Wanted to make a concept sketch of my R-7000 omnic oc but I went crazy w the lighting. Oops...
His name is Alexander!! He has very vivid memories of his actions before the Awakening, and as a R-7000... yeah. Yeah he's very traumatized by it. (slaps his ass) this bad boy can fit so much PTSD in him
Was taken in by Celandine, another omnic who has sort of a habit??? for taking in traumatized people, and she introduced him to gardening. Turns out, he really enjoys it, despite having issues with controlling his strength.
i have the pic of mauga sitting on his guns in his room on samoa for my wallpaper, and i realized recently that my eyes have gotten so used to seeing the colors behind all the displays & my folders and stuff that if i change the wallpaper i literally can't tell where anything is. thank you mauga ii can never change my wallpaper/
at least its useful for drawing him bc i always have a ref available lolol
also i really like how i did his hair here. shapes shapes shapes
Someone in my post about Colette wished for more of her story so I am here to share~
Colette is someone from the past forced to the future due to the time and space manipulation tests both Tracer and Sigma were part of. She got caught up in the slipstream while heading to a job interview and it would take decades into the future where she was finally able to ground herself to the present day Overwatch Timeline with a piece of machinery from Sigma’s old lab.
Not wanting to alert the world or cause a scene that time travel is a possibility in the future, the Canadian government paid off Colette’s family and took all of her belongings- scrubbing her from records so that she never existed. In her belongings were notes and diagrams of robots called “Lutin” which were sentient and had two stages of age. She was very thorough with her findings and tests, but in the end she writes that she gave up her personal project because of the ethics of “making an entirely new species of human” and how humanity itself wouldn’t be ready for such an invention because “We (humanity) war with ourselves as is, why hypothetically birth new life if your current instinct is to harm something different.” Dr. Mina Liao would at one point find these notes and use them to create the artificial life of Omnics, but if she knew of Colette’s philosophical revelations is unknown.
Colette would end up secluding herself to a small town in Northern Quebec where she finally got that small coffee shop job she applied for. Seeing as her fears were realized while she was stuck in time, she did end up making the first age stages of the Lutin. The only issue is that some Lutin develop themselves into the second age stage and head off into the world at large, making humans and omnics wonder where they are coming from.
YES PHEONIX THANK YOU ENY!!! Here’s some doodles of him and a more recent drawing :)
Pheonix is an old Overwatch OC I’ve had for about twoish years. He’s a damage-based support, a lot like Zen or Illari. His kit is more similar to Mercy’s, especially her old ultimate, where he can rez multiple people- although using it would kill him in game. His abilities would be flying around, burst healing, and a damage boost to himself. His primary would be a hitscan that’s again similar to Illari, while his secondary weapon would be a whip shot like Brig!
The short of his story is that Pheonix was a test tube baby that found his way into the Junkers. He’s close friends with Roadhog and Junkrat (hell he might even be dating Junkrat!), and more casual friends with Junker Queen. Originally he was supposed to be part of the original Overwatch but I can't figure out how to actually fit it into his story :[ I'm kinda mad about it but I can't do anything about it now, oh well!
Now the major of his story is pretty dark (dare I say even edgy 💔), so huge trigger warning for a bunch of stuff. I’ll try to list it all before the cut but if I missed anything let me know!
TW: Child abuse, child neglect, physical abuse, mental abuse, starvation, abandonment, drowning, violence, transphobia, and everything that falls under those categories!!!
First and foremost: Something that should be known is that FoH, called the Flicker of Hope, is obviously a bad corp to anyone that knows even a little bit of what happens inside of it. Overall, FoH is a foundation that considers itself a health organization and advertises itself as much. Their thing is selling their customers “age-stopping” serums, things that make a person younger (not look, MAKE THEM younger) and the like. This is where the children come into play.
Pheonix was an unnamed little girl that was brought into the world not by loving parents, but by cold machinery. His dna was made of artificial strands made living by lines of code that somehow became organic. He grew in not a womb, but a tube, with machines hooked to him as soon as he was deemed “alive”. When he was born, he was cared for by the kinder staff until he could open his eyes. That was the last time he ever knew peace before his escape. From that moment on, Pheonix was known as subject FB-097 in FoH. His caretaker became a woman named Leana Wolfram, who was a well renowned documenter and tester for the children made in the FoH labs. She was well respected as a tester, but those under her care were terrified of her. Pheonix was no exception. He grew up being hit, starved, ignored, and tortured by that cruel woman. When he began to show that he didn’t feel like a girl, Wolfram didn’t gender him. She dehumanized him, calling him a thing and “it” and the like. When Pheonix hit early puberty at eleven years old, the treatment grew more severe.
As the years went on, Pheonix was the only kid out of all of the groups he was placed with to still be alive. Dozens of kids had been killed around him, yet he was the only one to survive. He was only 12 by the time it was discovered that he wasn’t mortal. He had been starved for months, fed nothing but water. When he died, he didn't even realize it. He was far too weak to notice anything. He was pronounced dead by another scientist, only to be pronounced alive minutes later by another. For some time, it was thought that the first scientist had made a mistake. They were nearly dealt with when it was confirmed that Pheonix had, in fact, died. Almost instantly, Pheonix was hooked up to monitors to see what had happened inside of his body and how it happened. They had discovered the key to immortality- or at least thats what they thought. They hadn't realized in playing God, they had made an angel. Pheonix's blood wasn't blood, it was some sort of liquid fire. A mistake was made when they tried to draw the bloody fire and they began to test it without documentation first.
The building went up in flames.
In the end, only a handful of scientists and Pheonix remained. Because of the loss of documentation and subjects, Pheonix was moved from the (now ruined) lab in Canada to a lab in Australia. He was 13 when the move was finalized. He spent a little under a month in a cargo ship with the remaining scientists and information. Even on the boat he wasn't safe from mistreatment, and it only continued when he made it to Australia.
It would be a few more years until he finally escaped the FoH's labs. The lab in Australia wasn't the most secure, as it was in the middle of a warland during the Omnic Crisis. The same treatment continued under the same people, including his "mother." It only stopped once he was rescued at 16 by a gaggle of hooligans that raided the department for supplies. The hooligan group was just a bunch of other teens and young adults getting up to no good, and in the end they invited Pheonix to join them. Honestly for me its not super clear what happens just after this- not super clear because I deadass never really thought about it. I imagine that like maybe he stuck with the hooligans for some years, dated one or two of them, and split off after he was in his late twenties. During that time he grew into his abilities, and while he had fun, he just wanted to relax for once in his life. So after his run with his group, he found himself a place and job in Junkertown.
In Junkertown, Pheonix originally was outcasted. No one trusted the new guy with the ability to manipulate fire, you know? But he found himself a job as a welder and nurse, got himself a nice one bed one bath apartment, and tried to just… find peace. Then he watched Junkrat and Roadhog get kicked out and decided to pick back up his silly shit! He still has a place in Junkertown, more recently being a personal nurse for the Queen when she wants a fight. A bit after meeting Junkrat and Roadhog though is when he had a huge breaking point. It was at least a few months after they started hanging out.
Pheonix found himself in the middle of the wasteland, muttering and shaking, walking with no active destination. He'd have flashbacks of things he couldn't quite remember the events of, but he sure remembered how he felt. The pain, the hate, the want. As he spiraled, he took no notice of wings resembling fire sprouting from his bad, the ends of his hair seemingly burning, and the feeling of ice all around him. As his panic grew worse, so did the charge of his ability. At the peak of this spiral, with a wail, a devastating burst of power would explode from him, leaving a massive crater around him and demolishing anything within that radius. Because of the overwhelming negative effects, he'd pass out for who knows how long. When he came to, he'd find himself in a cool medical bay. He was being tended to by none other than Angela Zeigler, or Mercy! Her team (Baptiste, Brig, Echo, and Cassidy) had been scouting out in search of Junkertown and New Junk City to get an idea of who they could call upon for Overwatch, but had been distracted by the explosion of blue across the horizon. Mercy explained they had seen the explosion and assumed the worst, only to find him laying at the center of a crater. Pheonix was naturally weary of all of these new folk, but with some convincing from Brig (who reminded him of himself in a way), he allowed Mercy and Baptiste to finish taking care of him. He explained that he had been spiraling but was fine now, but Mercy insisted she give him a way to contact them in case of something like that happening again or if he ever needed help. I imagine Cassidy or Echo would mention needing new recruits for Overwatch of course, and after Pheonix talked with them about it, accepted keeping a contact. They assured him he didn't need to make his decision now, but if he ever wanted to join, he could contact them. With that he returned home, and has the contact device on his bedside table. He holds it at night sometimes, thinking about what it would be like to join the big leagues. But what about his friends here? He didn't want to leave them behind. He doesn't have it in his heart to leave the only people that care about him behind. So he waits, hoping for the answer to just magically appear to him.
THIS WAS SO LONG LMAO IM SORRY I WANTED TO GET AS MUCH OF HIS STORY AS I COULD I LOVE HIM SO SO DEARLY. I'VE DONE SO MUCH ART OF HIM. HIS TOYHOU.SE IS LINKED HERE AND UP AT THE TOP WHERE HIS NAME IS SFJSHJSDHSHDAKD THANK YOU SO MUCH I LOVE YOU ENY!!!
An edit literally minutes later: SOME DETAILS I FORGOT TO MENTION AND I DO NOT FEEL LIKE GOING BACK TO ADD.
- He transitioned with the hooligans!!! They helped him with HRT and even surgery, both types!
- That explosion at the end happened at least a year ago from his active story starting point, meaning that the scars on his back are ACTUALLY FROM THAT AS WELL AS THE BLACK IN HIS HAIR!!
- The reason its a "blue" burst and not a red one is because of the intensity of the flames that had burst from him! Red/orange/yellow is his base, but with every color going all the way up to white means its more and more intense. White is like, his "theres no going back from this" color, blue is right before that.
- He's obviously queer if that wasn't shown enough HE IS A TRANS MAN AND LIKES MEN!!! GAYBOY QUEEIRO FAGGATRON WHATEVER HES A GAY LIKE ME
And random fun fact he genuinely came to me in a dream. That shit was SO surreal please lmk if you want me to expand on that
>Draw self indulgent fanart of oc with favorite character you like
This is for Starwatch! If you were curious. Brandy has a regular Overwatch design that I haven’t posted here yet- but in Starwatch they are called the Infinite Ensign. So..
