new overwatch robot tank aaaa i love her already now let's figure out what kind of benders everyone would be in the avatar universe because she has a lot to learn before she can save anybody
tereshkova2001: @solarbird new robot tank!!
solarbird: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I LOVE HER ALREADY
tereshkova2001: Look at her! Listen to her! I’m so pumped.
solarbird: yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes :D
vixy: oh wow I don't even play and I love everything about that
tereshkova2001: She’s not playable live yet but I will be all about her when she is so you can see. :D
vixy: The backstory just delights me! Teen WOC robotics genius! Gives robot a heart and voice in her own image!
vixy: Accidentally causes destruction helping old ladies across the street!
tereshkova2001: Efi needs to hang out with Riri (15yo Black girl who reverse-engineered Iron Man).
solarbird: there's also "everything changed when Doomfist attacked," someone should animate her running into a rock & going "oof"
tereshkova2001: Man now I want to figure out what kinds of benders the OW team is.
solarbird: pretty sure efi is a metalbender just
solarbird: you know
solarbird: sayin'
solarbird: mei's a waterbender, _obviously_. pharah is the most aggro airbender ever, tracer is aggro but chell airbender maybe?
tereshkova2001: Rein = earth; Torb = metal; Symm = water. Mercy also water. Hanzo & Genji naturally fire.
solarbird: definitely yes to all. sombra fire I think? ooh is reaper a bloodbender?
tereshkova2001: Have we seen the dark side of airbending? if not, then yes on Reaper = blood. Sombra totally fire, focus on lightning.
solarbird: Zaheer was an airbender after airbending was restored.
solarbird: wait wait reaper reaper is from the spirit world now dunno about gabriel but reaper is a fucked up spirit
tereshkova2001: Yes! And lore says that Reaper was active before Gabriel “died”.
solarbird: ha! yes yes yes.
tereshkova2001: Widow not a bender, I don’t think. Neither McCree.
solarbird: I like having some nonbenders. But if you want to talk evil air, I could make a Widow case. McCree def. nonbender.
tereshkova2001: Amelie an airbender, Widow has her abilities blocked?
solarbird: oooh I like that.
solarbird: . o O ( the chain is her accomodation
tereshkova2001: Zen is so obviously air. Bastion earth. Zarya also earth? or fire?
solarbird: . o O ( but zen has an avatar state )
tereshkova2001: he does! but he’s still an airbender first, like Aang.
solarbird: Hm. Zarya is a good question, because super earthy but also her gunlance is kind of lightning like.
tereshkova2001: I think earth wins, though—personality is important and her ult is earthy.
solarbird: Valid. Republic City earthbender with a firebending boss?
tereshkova2001: Sure thing. Tobelstein tech a bit of a blend of fire and earth.
solarbird: wait no we're missing the obvious LAVABENDER TORB IS A LAVABENDER
solarbird: MOLTEN COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE
tereshkova2001: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa YES
tereshkova2001: Let’s see, who are we missing? Junks = fire and Piggy = earth. Lucio = air, clearly.
solarbird: And Winston. He wields and shields lightning but he's also a pure technologist (see: Asami) and so I'm leaning to nonbender.
tereshkova2001: Winston and Asami would be bros.
solarbird: TOTES science bros
tereshkova2001: I can get behind that. Ana and Dad:76 are the two we’re missing, then.
tereshkova2001: And Orisa but I’m not going to try to assign her yet.
solarbird: hm. well, healers come out of waterbending but Ana's not hands-on.
tereshkova2001: That was my concern too. Airbending like Widow?
solarbird: I dunno right? i want to be like 'water tribe but not bender' but culturally i'm kinda 'whut'
tereshkova2001: Pharah’s air so her mom should be air or a nonbender maybe?
solarbird: Oooh that makes metasense too doesn't it
tereshkova2001: how do you mean?
solarbird: [arguably legend of korra spoilers here]
tereshkova2001: no worries, go for it.
solarbird: okay so you know from comics that aang kept the air nation culture alive via the air acolytes.
solarbird: one of the big moments in LoK is the series of events that culminate in korra bringing airbending back into the world.
solarbird: this is _not_ via the air acolytes - at all! they're scattered across all over, in _non_bending families.
solarbird: across many elemental cultural groups - earth kingdom being a big source but by no means the only.
solarbird: _so_, pharah being Most Aggro Airbender popping out of a complete-non-air-related parentage fits that meta well
tereshkova2001: ooookay—so Pharah could be one of those people and Ana and (mysterious 1st Nations Canadian Dad) are nonbenders.
solarbird: exactly.
tereshkova2001: Nice, yes. And then Ana can be culturally water—with Dad from the other water tribe.
solarbird: except egyptian. dad as northern water tribe I'm onboard for but mom's egyptian. yes yes the nile and that's important but
solarbird: tho' i guess there are the swamp benders so you have non-polar water tribes.
tereshkova2001: Are Reyes and Morrison both fire? I think they might be.
solarbird: i could see reyes as a firebender. but dad is so dad that i think like sokka's dad, who was a nonbender. because dad.
tereshkova2001: Oh—the SEP program gives them limited bending skills, and Morrison went fire because Reyes already was.
solarbird: ooooooooooooooooh
solarbird: i didn't think about that
solarbird: and it made him cranky
solarbird: that's good
tereshkova2001: I have to go do productive things now but one of us should collate this and tell Tumblr. (also happy to discuss more too.)
solarbird: okay i will collate and tag you
solarbird: [also i changed this from my twitter name of solarbirdy to my tumblr name of solarbird when collating]
