#ye anran

[idyllicrinxi]

i really like anran

[indigostarsign]

SUPERFAN!!!!!!!!!!!! (i hear you anran me too)

[odessastone]

beyond the Eldest Daughter syndrome, Anran also has a variety of fun and interesting traits, such as:

repression skills so efficient that her wants and desires have been crushed down into a perfect little cube in her mind and then hidden away out of sight

acid reflux

codependency with her little brother because she has no idea who she is outside of being a daughter or sister

rogue Unrepressed Feelings after training with Sierra, who can best her without breaking a sweat (good because finally someone who can give her a challenge. bad because Anran has no identity outside of being The Best. confusing because why does Sierra look so pretty even all covered in sweat like that)

chronic dehydration

a stress-induced autoimmune disease that will manifest by her 30th birthday

[amethyst-wind-uk]

While most Overwatch quick-melee attacks are punches or gunwhipping, I do enjoy the fact that Ye Anran just straight up stabs people.

[ultravioart]

Imo, Anran's design just doesn't hit the mark. The absolutely westernized botched Wuxing/Wuxia refs aside, and Anran's 3d model face that not only looks unrelated to Wuyang but YOUNGER than Wuyang aside, you're telling me Anran's supposed to be a traditional chinese fan dancer inspired character and sprained injury leg-brace user rep?

One: Her look in the cinematic had big sister tough vibes, but the in-game base design is too skimpy to take seriously, it boarders on orientalist. She isn't even wearing a stylized Qipao (Traditional chinese fan dances are often performed in clothing like Qipao), the upper half is wrong, the bottom is slanted to the side instead of straight, and it is missing key features of Qipao like Pankou knots.

Her recent panda skin gave her some compression tights which imo better fits her athletic look, heck it could just be one leg with a compression tight and one leg bare with a knee brace if they wanted, and it would sell the athletics idea better.

Regardless, her knee brace is more so a compression knee support, but it looks like randomly slapped on armor. If someone constantly sprained ankles and knees they would have a more sturdy brace, perhaps Anran could have had armor designed to look like an ACL brace using a fan-like joint mechanism to carry her fan motif + horizontal leg scale lines as her motif is the Vermillion Bird.

OR, they could have included actual Achilles taping in Anran's design, as she apparently has a voiceline about forgetting to tape it. There's lots of options to make her legs less boring looking.

Also, I am unsure what the one sided strap on her foot is supposed to be, unless it's an ankle brace with the frame on the wrong part of the foot? Or maybe it's some kind of Wuxing tech. It doesn't seem to be sock suspenders because only one (ankle compression support? I assume?) sock has it, and sock suspenders are usually only used on kneesocks or higher.

But yeah. If Anran was meant to be a brace user representation, she fails. A person constantly getting sprains would be wearing more armor or more compression than what she is wearing. I really really hope they didn't iterate braces out of her design in the concept art phase. I can only speculate until we see her concept art, though.

[maiisiez]

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

Cough cough short little Mizuran nsfw.. 

[truetgirl]

Did tier lists for OW characters. First one is whether or not I play them, second is where I rank them as characters (neither has any particular order within the tiers, except for the mains in the gameplay one).

[idyllicrinxi]

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