Overwatch General: Xmas Edition (it's really Xmas this time)

>>2223765
>make tracer an actual lesbian
>her partner is some ultra-bony redhead

Fuck

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>>2223876
at least she's not the size of your average tumblr tard

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>>2223907
While having bony twig Tracer go lesbo for a tumblr whale would make for super POETRY, that's just too niche pandering, even for Blizzard.

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This thread is highly illegal but whatever

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I was saving this pic for OP but I guess that's never gonna happen

>>2223944
If you gotta ruin the thread already at least choose something that wasnt already posted in the previous one yesterday

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Also a version with just Sombra

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And just Katya, for your personal preferences

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>>2223947
Like there aren't any other pictures in this thread that were posted before. And this thread is a mistake anyway.

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>>2223952
sure but there's difference between 'weeks before' and 'hours before'

>>2223950
My personal preference would be no Zarya.

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>>2223957
Kek, well, mine too.

>>2223963
Moar!

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>>2223966
Sadly it's not as popular as it should be

>>2223976
>>2223963
Fucking delicious. I want Sombra to completely break Katya and make her into a sex slave.

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Tracer is so fucking lucky!

>>2223990
>Tracer is so fucking lucky!
Ironically I think many of posters on various boards were more happy when this didn't have confirmed lesbian character.

Some and also strangely yuri fans would be happy if she was with soemone else, or not gay at all.

>>2224076
Gee I wonder why.

I don't think anyone, here at least, would be happier if she wasn't gay at all but automatically having her paired up with a random OC that did not exist before the comic, we could use without.

>>2223963
I love how their boobs are differently shaped. So many artists draw identical boobs for every woman.

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>>2224082
>a random OC that did not exist before the comic

Yes, sometimes new characters are introduced to a story. C'mon now. Previous Tracer media were all combat scenarios, there would've been no reason to show her girlfriend in those anyway.

Even if they'd paired her with an existing character, you know there still would've been people upset that it wasn't the character THEY wanted her with. Especially if it still turned out to not be Widowmaker.

>>2224076
I'm neutral to the news. On one hand, I'm happy that the lesbian is the very poster girl of Overwatch. On the other hand, announcing "one hero is LGBT" equals to stating the rest are straight, so it broke my DvaMercy/Pharmercy heart.

I'm not that involved in the fandom anyway so it doesn't matter that much.

>>2224240
>announcing "one hero is LGBT"

Why do people keep repeating this? Did they go back on their word or something?

They specifically stated at Blizzcon that there would be more than one.

>>2224240
>>2224241
Can't you fucks discuss this in the other thread?

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>>2224242
We're talking about Overwatch /u/, what other thread are you referring to?

>>2224244
The other on page 7, don't play dumb.

>>2224244
It seems the Emily reveal brought the dumbest of WT fags crawling to the surface

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Offense heroes-focused balancing when?

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>>2224246
Oh no, one extra thread. Christmas is ruined.

I'm not "playing dumb", I just posted in this thread -which already had 30 replies without anyone else complaining- since I saw it on the front page without having to open the catalog.

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It's a good day to be canon.

>>2224260
So you're an invalid too. This mess has really brought the worst of the wtfags to the fore.

>>2224266
>Tracer is a lesbian/bi whatever she may be
She's a lesbian confirmed. Chu says she identifies as "lesbian".

It's not forced. Among the girls she was the second most obvious choice after Zarya.

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>>2224265
>So you're an invalid too.

No, I just don't tend to scan the catalog for a thread relating to my desired topic if I already find one on the front page. Yer makin' a chicken out of a feather, anon, and being a petty asshole about it to boot. Cut it out and make with the lesbians.

>>2224271
As someone who's a lesbian I find Zarya being a lesbian "dyke" insulting and Tracer to be nothing more than marketing.

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>it's a "shitposter presses Q to arbitrarily blame some ship fanbase for something asinine to nuke the thread in its primordial state" play of the game

>>2224279
That's too bad for you. Tracer is a lesbo turbodyke confirmed.

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>>2224284

>>2224279
>As someone who's a lesbian
This is an immediate tell that you're neither a lesbian nor a woman.

>>2224234
But anon, don't you see? They feel like they have more ground because Emily's new. Not like it wasn't speculated in past threads they'd do something like this.

>>2224234
Introducing a new character to the story and building them up from there and using a character as a literal plot device who has no other role than to say "hey look, this established character is a LESBIAN, here, as a proof GIRL A will kiss her now" are different things
Guess what maybe people wouldn't be so salty if the "reveal" wasn't in such a bad taste and come out of nowhere.
Maybe if this Emily girl was watching the Mondatta event together with Tracer, like that human girl with the Omnic were. Maybe if upon being on King's Row in game Tracer would casually say "I wonder how's Emily doing" instead of "Pub, anyone?" Maybe if there was any goddamn reference to her at all. But no it couldn't have been because Blizzard is making their story on the go, without care in the world so yeah if I were to pick I would have preferred waiting and have Tracer get a love interest she deserves, that is, someone who isn't a literal tool.

Man I think the fact people ignore just bad and offensive this whole plotline is from narrative standpoint is only because people are still high on the "Main character from a huge AAA franchise is a lesbian" and ignore the details. The reception of Reflections wouldnt have been nearly as positive if we already knew beforehand that Tracer is gay.

>>2224314
I think people ignore just how bad and offensive this whole plotline is from a narrative standpoint because it's a ten page comics made as a side dish for a semi-competitive FPS where lore is irrelevant.

Also, it's Blizzard.

>>2224314
While I agree that the reveal of Emily was abrupt and basically out of nowhere, I think it's too soon to label her a just a plot device. We don't know yet whether or not Blizzard plans on doing something more with her.
And I think people would still be mad and salty about the Emily/Tracer couple even if they were mentioned or hinted at before Reflections. Namely WidowTracer fans because that ship has been around since 2014 and I doubt Emily/Tracer would've managed to gain more traction even if they were hinted at or mentioned earlier on. These "ship wars" would still exist simply because one is canon and one is not.

>>2224315
"It's Blizzard" it's not an excuse when they keep saying how much they are devoted and to the franchise and how they can't wait to tell everyone more about the world and the lore yet they keep fucking up everything they touch.
Unnecessary love interests brought into the story for the sake of a few brownie points from the people who like romance is a universally despised trope. This is exactly what this is (except way more blatant than I've ever seen). People would have gone batshit on this if it was a guy.

>>2224317
Maybe they would, maybe not. The problem is exactly this, that Tracer had no meaningful dynamic with anyone other than Widow ever since November 2014.
But that's just one thing, even if Widowmaker didn't exist, it wouldn't have made the reveal any less bad, they still made a main character snatched by a literally who.

As for Emily, even if she by some miracle gets developed to an extent, it will never erase the fact she was brought into the story solely to show a character is gay.

>>2224354
>"It's Blizzard" it's not an excuse when they keep saying how much they are devoted and to the franchise and how they can't wait to tell everyone more about the world and the lore yet they keep fucking up everything they touch.
Them fucking up is exactly why it's an excuse. Because OW isn't the only franchise they claim to be passionate about, and it's not the only franchise which lore keeps getting fucked up. Case in point: everything else by Blizzard.

>>2224359
Let me put it another way.
A company having a history of being mediocre to bad in something is not a reason to not criticize them.
And going by the amount of said criticism I hear, it's not like other people are desensitized to bad Blizzard's storytelling enough to ignore it, in most other cases.
So even if I love lesbians in my games Im not just gonna turn a blind eye to the way Tracer's sexuality was revealed because "it's progressive" and that excuses it.

>>2224354
>As for Emily, even if she by some miracle gets developed to an extent, it will never erase the fact she was brought into the story solely to show a character is gay.

I really don't see what the big deal is. Love interests get introduced all the time. Often in passing and often as mere one-time characters with singular appearances in said media. Torb's wife was there too with his huge ass family and no one bats an eye that they were never mentioned before and just came out of nowhere. I get that it's a bigger deal in Tracer case because it's about her sexuality being "not straight" but if you put aside all the fuss that's made just because a character is revealed as anything other than not straight then Emily is just another new character who just so happens to be Lena's girlfriend. I don't see how it's such a terrible thing and such a big fuck up from a narrative point of view. Blizzard has done worse before. This was a rather decent move by comparison.

>>2224382
>Love interests get introduced all the time.
Yes, but they don't get introduced like "oh btw this character you've grown to known for the past 2 years had a girlfriend all along". Even the blandest, most forced love interests usually have some kind of build up before they share a cringy kiss with the MC

Also no one complains about Torb because no one cares about Torb.

>>2224382
Anon canon is the big deal. Underneath all the complaints, that's the source of their whinging.

>old thread is only on Page 7
>already a new one
Newfags

On the topic at hands though.
>>2224382
I doubt anyone (other than the most rabid shipper) would be complaining about the Tracer reveal if they had build it up as much as they are currently "building up" Gency. Like mentioned above have her mention Emily in King's Row, or show her to be on the phone with her before before Mondatta gives his speech in Alive or something like that.
This is just NuMarvel hamfisted writing.

>>2224398
>Anon canon is the big deal. Underneath all the complaints, that's the source of their whinging.

THISTHISTHIS

Honestly, as annoying as it is, crying about it for so long won't change anything.
So she's dating someone. Fine, whatever. I'm gonna treat the someone like the story presented her, a prop to expand on Tracer's persona and hope next time they tackle anything involving relationships it goes better.

What's irritating though is the people who insist Tracer having a girlfriend means shipping her is over because "she's in a canon, healthy wlw relationship please stop trying to ruin it uwu"
Like, do they have no concept of people breaking up? Do they really think Tracer is gonna date this chick for the next 20 years of Overwatch?

>>2224403
>This is just NuMarvel hamfisted writing.
Holy shit so I wasn't the only one who thought this whole thing felt like something Marvel would pull out.

>>2224405
>What's irritating though is the people who insist Tracer having a girlfriend means shipping her is over because "she's in a canon, healthy wlw relationship please stop trying to ruin it uwu"
>Like, do they have no concept of people breaking up? Do they really think Tracer is gonna date this chick for the next 20 years of Overwatch?
You're asking that about tumblerites that rarely if ever leave their personal save space.

>>2224405
>>2224410
It's just as annoying to immediately want to break them up and insist on treating Emily in cruel ways just for the sake of a different ship that she supposedly gets in the way of.
Forced polyshit is annoying too.

>>2224411
Where's all the fanart of Whomily "being treated in cruel ways" I wanna see it.

>>2224405
>So she's dating someone. Fine, whatever.

It is OK for her to just be there to add some flavour to the world and Tracer's character, it is not a bad thing.

The manner of the reveal was fine too. No, they didn't foreshadow it, who gives a shit.

I have never seen this much bitching over something so innocuous. All of it really just smells like shippers being butthurt, not high brow literary critics having an issue with "poor writing".

>>2224414
Don't have any on my phone, but I saw a comic of Widow assassinating her in front of Tracer, and another picture of her sitting in a chair bound, gagged and crying as Widow taunts her. And there have been lots of posts about people wanting her to die, or wanting her to be a shit person who cheats on Tracer so they break up, or just wanting Tracer to cuck her first.

>>2224419
So, she can't die, she can't cheat and Tracer cant just break up with her.
What scenarios people who don't want her to be with Tracer are allowed to imagine for them to break up that you would find acceptable?

>>2224418
The writing was shit and it would have annoyed me no matter what character it was.

>>2224419
The last few Widowtracer tag posts I've seen on tumblr have actually just ignored her.

>>2224423
Wait, actually if it was Sombra it wouldn't have annoyed me.

I'm a WT shipper and I'm fine with Emily. Tracer being a confirmed lesbian just sinks all the het ships with her, and having putting her in a relationship just sets up WT as being an adulterous ship on top of everything else that defines the ship is just extra sprinkles on the metaphorical sundae imo.

>>2224428
>le tumlr
>Brianna Wu
>Why is it even a big deal
>Im a lesbian btw

Not fucking like this

>>2224428
>Can you explain what this means?
Pairing someone with no build-up whatsoever just for the sake of browny points.
Especially if it's interracial, but they like to do it with gay stuff too.

>>2224435
Because it feels cheap, hamfisted and done purely for marketing.

>>2224431
Nah, making her cheat on the noname would just make the whole thing feel bad.
I dont want her to die either since that would open a whole different can of worms.
I just want Tracer to get pulled into her job and for them to drift apart and break up with no hard feelings like civilized people. Or have her get tangled into some dangerous shit, come out of it alive but decide this isnt worth the trouble.
They could go with something more interesting, like someone mentioned before having her be a double agent from Talon/Eyeluminatti who is actually spying on Tracer but I doubt Blizz would go with something like this after they brought her up in a feel good xmassy story.

>>2224437
I don't read comics but I watch the movies. When did Marvel start doing this? How do people feel about it?

>>2224441
A couple of years ago and a lot of comic fans, and /co/, are pretty pissed at Marvel basically pandering to tumblr. Add to that that they are shitting on the X-men (which used to be THE diversity team of all things) due to movie rights and that they are slowly replacing heroes from age old with new minority characters to replace them.
So Blizzard hasn't completely stooped that low.

>>2224440
I called the adulterous part sprinkles in that metaphor for a reason. You don't need to put em on yer sundae.

I just like the idea because it blends well with the other aspects of the ship.

Can someone please explain to me WT? Sure they look cute, but isn't Widow like 12 years old?

>>2224435
Muh canon and or pandering. They pretty it up with excuses like the other anon gave.

>>2224446
Yeah Widow is 12. Tracer's a fucking pedophile

>>2224446
Are you even trying?

>>2224449
>>2224450
I meant 12 years OLDER, sorry heh. Widow is like 38.

>>2224453
Try 33

>>2224454
Is Mercy the 38 year old then? I know one of the younger looking ones is 37ish.

>>2224453
Widow is 7 years older, also what the hell, 12 years is supposed to be the one thing that'd make the ship a no? This isn't fucking tumlr

>>2224455
Yeah Mercy's 37.

>>2224456
>Giving her a full fucking girlfriend out of nowhere was not the way.

Especially since it shits all over Widow x Tracer, which is one of the most popular ships, isn't it?

>>2224463
It was a retarded ship, thought.

>>2224474
Here's your (You)

>>2224463
It would be shitting if she was dating a guy.
Now it's just a small complication.

>>2224453
Aside from Ana Mercy is the oldest chick on the crew with 37. Widow is 33.

>>2224463
>>2224474
Keep in mind that Emily and Amelie sound rather similar too.

>>2224456
>the reveal really did feel hamfisted and like pandering
I don't think so.

What would have been hamfisted and pandering is if the comic had been about people finding out about Tracer's sexuality and then all the Overwatch cast offer their support.
>Look guise, even the "bad guys" in OW are so progressive!

Instead it was just a little snapshot of how the cast spend their Christmas with their friends and loved ones, and Tracer's happens to be with her girlfriend Emily and her friend Winston.

>>2224480
>Tracer's happens to be with her girlfriend Emily and her friend Winston
Yeah about that. How the fuck did they manage to arrive on Gibraltar that fast?

>>2224479
>Emily and Amelie sound rather similar
I want to know what the fuck they are thinking.

>>2224480
>What would have been hamfisted and pandering is if the comic had been about people finding out about Tracer's sexuality and then all the Overwatch cast offer their support.
No, that would be just silly.

>>2224486
Most likely a nod to the ship.

Some anon did find out that Amélie = work and Emily = rival in terms of name meanings, if that's what you're into.

>>2224486
Goes even further. One anon in the last thread went and checked the meaning of their respective names and found this out:
Amelie = Work
Emily = Rival

>>2224492
>>2224495

are they saying Emily is her rival and Amelie will have to earn the Tracer booty? interesting.

>casually showing Tracer with a girlfriend was so heavyhanded and pandering and why didn't they do it like in my fanfic
You people need to fuck off back to >>>/v/

>>2224497
More like >>>/tumblr/, I would say

I hope Emily leaves Tracer for Brigitte

why aren't you geeks posting girls kissing pics

>>2224509
Because a new idiot made this thread when the last two were still up and most of their pictures are still on the board.

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>>2224497
>>2224501
Pick a buzzword and stick with it, please.

That said, yes, a lot of people are being silly. Instead of making up reasons like "there was no build-up" or "it's pandering", try to just be honest with yourselves and admit that you'd just have liked a different couple.

Emily's introduction was fine for what it was supposed to be, plus the fact that we haven't really known much of anything about Tracer or her personal life since she was first revealed.
If people would just say they'd much rather have seen her express an attraction to Widowmaker or somesuch, that'd be fine. You don't need to justify your emotions any more than that.

We're on /u/. We don't judge.

>>2224519
Or maybe people aren't "making up reasons" but that's just what they genuinely feel it's like.
We havent seen Tracer's private life but we were told she was an adventurer. Adventurer is something opposite to "has relationship back home".
Everytime you play Tracer on King's Row she acts like she hasnt been there in years. Not to mention she obviously never even alluded to having a girlfriend.
If it was a surprise girlfriend for Mercy it'd feel icky to me exactly the same way

Well maybe Tracer's just started dating this chick like last month.

>>2224519
I dislike Emily just for fact that she has terrible taste in nail polish. There, honest enough?

I dont really care about Emily but you widowtracer fags tears are fucking delicious. The comic was cute and okay, fucking get over it. No one forces you guys to drop your ship anyways.

>>2224536
>I dont really care about Emily but you widowtracer fags tears are fucking delicious. The comic was cute and okay, fucking get over it. No one forces you guys to drop your ship anyways.
,he said and was still wiping his brow in relief that Pharah was not on a date that night.

>>2224547
>Widowtracer and Pharmercy fags thinking everyone's taste is the same as them

>>2224519
Yeah, exactly.

I agree with the anon that said it'd have been better if they had Tracer casually mention an ex-gf instead of showing that she has a gf now, but not because what they did is "pandering". That would have left all the Tracer pairings open instead of pairing her with a civilian we know nothing about.

>>2224530
>Everytime you play Tracer on King's Row she acts like she hasnt been there in years. Not to mention she obviously never even alluded to having a girlfriend.
Do we even know when the game supposedly takes place in relation to the comics? Could be that it's sometime in the near future, so maybe Tracer takes Emily and moves back to Athena-ville with Winston sometime before then.

As to why she hasn't mentioned Emily before, well, it was probably supposed to be a surprise reveal, so that makes sense.
They might implement a voice line or two about her now. Who knows.

>>2224561
More like quite a few Pharmercy fags make it a habit of shittalking Widowtracer as if their ship was the superior one.

>>2224570
>"Oi, lets get this over wit quickly. I need to guh 'ome and shage me wife"

>"Cheers luv, the cavalries queer!"

>"Chapstick anyone?"

>"Only thing faster than me is me Subaru!"

>>2224572
>a few Pharmercy fags
Are there any left in here? I thought they all went to their own thread.

>>2224572
>Projecting
As expected

>>2224570
The fact that it had to be a surprise reveal is everything that is wrong with it.
And the games are taking place in the "right now" and they said before that the maps and character voicelines will be dynamically adjusting to what happens in the story

>>2224577
I'm still awaiting the revral thata Emily is Irish. Can you imagine the dialogue?

>>2224570
>As to why she hasn't mentioned Emily before, well, it was probably supposed to be a surprise reveal, so that makes sense.
More like she didn't know she has one

>>2224076
Nah, that's just shipfags being usually cancerous.
Avatar and Harry Potter level of nastiness.

>>2224577
>"Chapstick anyone?"
more like Chavstick, amarite?

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>>2224598
Yeah. More of this, eh wot?

>>2224655
>I still don't understand how the reveal has sunk any ships besides the straight ones.
It hasn't. About the only thing it really did was slap whatever supposed highground cancerous WT fans had out from under then, along with really just them not liking Emily because they can't think of her as an obstacle.

>>2224658
It hasn't though. Arguably with Tracer being a lesbian it has more highground. Sadly Pharmercy gets more and more unlikely as the lore gets expanded.

>>2224655
>also since she has no backstory or context you can make their relationship as casual as you want
Hmm, this. They could be besties with benefits for all we know.

>>2224598
>"Cheers luv, the *chavalries queer!"
Missed opportunity

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>>2224655
To be honest, I'm here for HLS, and I don't particularly care who does it, as long as somebody does it.

And right now we are on a short demand here. 127 posts and only 31 pics. Unacceptable!

>>2224761
No one wants to risk running into double posting when there other thread isn't even on page 10 yet.

>>2224658
How did it slap the highground from them? All the chemistry is still there. You could say it has more context now.

>>2224655
>i believe this is preferable to blizzard actually writing widowtracer, because there is no way that would end in anything but unequivocal disaster
Like, from the story telling point of view because they couldn't manage to make a story like that into something good or..?
In the first place I don't think anyone expected it to take some big focus focus storywise.
I just want more stuff like in Alive and when it's time for Widow's "change of heart" arc I want Tracer to be there and take part in it and help her recover.

>>2224655
>I still don't understand how the reveal has sunk any ships besides the straight ones.

I don't either but all over the place people insist it did.

Anyway, no idea how to rip a webm off tumblr, but this is really cute

https://cakeofcakes.tumblr.com/post/154934084676/wishing-everyone-happy-naughty-holidays

>>2224824
https://vtt.tumblr.com/tumblr_oiqpb95TnM1vny1om_480.mp4#_=_

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>>2224751

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well Blizzard can suck my ass now, they already gave these two the best dynamic and baited me with their stupid ass sexually charged cinematics and they can't undo it

>>2224859
I feel betrayed too but lets not give up hope!

>>2224856
Should I make a Harley/Ivy joke if you want to go down that road?

>>2224859
>>2224862
Just do it like me: No fucks given

Ladies ages [youngest to oldest]
D.Va = 19
Tracer = 26
Symmetra and Zarya = 28
Sombra = 30
Mei = 31
Pharah = 32
Widowmaker = 33
Mercy = 37
Ana = 60

>>2224991
Props to Blizzard for the range in ages, also Sombra is the only one that I can't believe how old she is

>>2224991
As weeaboo standards go. Everyone except for DVA is an old lady.

>>2224981
>idiot Pharah, not knowing where the mouth is

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>>2224991
>Pharah = 32

I've been playing too much with the Young Ana skin, it's made me think Pharah was in her twenties and I've always looked at Pharmercy with that age gap in mind.

Not that it really matters because of Mercy's memetech aging.

>>2224991
D.Va and her 9 moms.

>>2224580
Don't be silly, anon. Look around.

>>2224420
Something like what this anon said >>2224440 should work just fine.

So joking aside, what's the ship name for Emily/Tracer? Lemily? Emilena? Tremily?

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>>2224824
i found it on a porn aggregator.

>>2224820
>Like, from the story telling point of view because they couldn't manage to make a story like that into something good or..?

because there is no way they would write it well, and because we wouldn't see it for months at best. they can't even manage their time line so how are they going to do a satisfying redemption arc? blizzard isn't telling complex stories, especially relationship focused ones, at this point. i'm not sure they ever plan to.

ignoring the fact that there isn't going to be "romance between heroes" (let's wait and see - inb4 gency/michael chu bitching), off the top of my head I can think of at least three dynamics that have been left unexplored, or left at the simplest conclusion. fareeha and ana, reaper and soldier, genji and hanzo. i had to spoiler two of those because the female characters just don't have a lot of canon interactions or relationships.

there's a laundry list of characters that have been left woefully flat, we used to have complaints about d.va in particular pretty regularly. i doubt widow is getting any expansion on her lore for months to a year, because blizzard still has other heroes to make comics for. widow has appeared in three shorts, which is lucky for us. mercy doesn't even have a comic yet, or d.va, or zarya, orrrrrrr most of the cast. ana somehow got two, which is great, but she was also a new hero and sombra got similar treatment (an entire short).

they're still establishing their characters and universe at this point. i'll take tracer being an official rugmuncher with a cut out paper gf to amp up the community for now and drive more content to be produced than waiting for an indiscriminate amount of time for a "better story".

>>2224859
>>2224862

if you're still feeling "betrayed" reevaluate how tight you strapped your goggles on.

>>2225151
That CG is very good. Tracer with the bigger rack though, I don't know what the artist was thinking.

In all seriousness though cosplaying girlfriends?

>>2225126
Hilarious I wrote both of these.
But I mean people can imagine whatever scenario they want in fanart, I dont want Whomily to get killed off or cheated on in canon though because that's asking for trouble. Can you imagine the headlines if they used "bury your gays" after all this fuss they just made.

>>2225161
>i'll take tracer being an official rugmuncher with a cut out paper gf to amp up the community for now and drive more content to be produced than waiting for an indiscriminate amount of time for a "better story".
I guess I just feel the complete opposite of that. I'd take a well developed romance I'd have to wait for two years than a filler right now that makes me feel nothing

>if you're still feeling "betrayed" reevaluate how tight you strapped your goggles on.
Oh please, like it wasn't obvious what they were doing, together with them straight up teasing people about it.

>>2225110
If I could I'd post John Travolta gif to spite you, you know the one.

>>2225098
shittiest tumlr meme

>>2225200
>Hilarious I wrote both of these.
Well then you do get it.

>>2225203
True. Fucking ageist shitlords. D.Va is for sexual.

>>2225151
>>2225152
Cosplaying Russians:
http://pikabu.ru/story/rozhdestvenskiy_komiks_treyser_i_yemili_4710569

>>2225200
do you want a "well developed romance" or "widowtracer"? the distinction is important.

if you wanted to wait two years then guess what, emily is so flimsy other routes can still happen.

i keep seeing that blizzard was baiting WT thrown around, but i haven't seen shit besides the one time they had chu and co. on stage fielding a widowtracer question by teasing that they had plans for the two.

blizzard said they were going to have gays, and so far they're keeping to that.

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The problem with gay character reveals is that they're always going to be reveals.

If Tracer had gone home to her boyfriend no one woulda phrased it as "Tracer REVEALED to be straight".

I think instead of making some sort of event out of it they did their best to make it as casual as possible. I mean Tracer's already been in two cinematics and she answers Winston's call in another. They can't dedicate -that- much time to building up her girlfriend while they leave other playable characters neglected. Think of all the characters that have barely been in anything.

>>2225234
Heh
I want a well developed romance, if it was WidowTracer that would be optimally best to my liking.
I'd take a romance between, i dunno, fricking Dva with Tracer though. Or Sombra. Or whoeverthefuck. As long as it doesn't come out of nowhere and I have a reason to care about both of the characters.
Yes they said there "won't be romance between heroes" before but they are already trying to opt out of it with "well we can't say it will never happen in future" so I don't doubt it will happen.
Doesn't matter though, you've expressed your feelings on the matter and that's fine. I have my own.

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Guys we still haven't discussed the most important thing
Tracer is a gay
She also joined Overwatch as a teen
Who do you think was her OW crush?

>>2225308
Amélie, just like in my fanfics.

>>2225308
>She also joined Overwatch as a teen
Did she? Where does it say this?

>>2225308
Ana

>>2225323
You can assume that.
She is 26 now, meaning she was 21 when OW got disbanded. Considering her reputation, it would have taken her at least two to three years working in OW. But then there's the fact that she was a trained pilot before OW, then there was the Slipstream, then there was the recovery, and now you see that either the timeline is utterly fucked up or RAF in the future will begin to accept middle-schoolers in their ranks.

That or OW just got so impressed with her being-a-pain-in-the-ass skills and the ability to blink that they just accepted her as a full-time agent right away.

>>2225308
Mei, obviously. Judging by how much Tracer admires and gushes over her.

>>2225228
Isn't that illegal in Russia?

>>2225332
>the timeline is utterly fucked up
This is the truth. They just come up with shit as they go, and things are making less and less sense the more you look at the bigger picture.

>>2225334
No, there aren't any laws against dressing up as Brits.

>>2225338
Cheeky.

>>2225332
OW actually disbanded 3 years ago, was said at Blizzcon 2015
But yeah she was accepted into Air Force as the youngest person ever first, then they picked her for testing slipstream. She spent few months to a year lost in time until Winston made her the device. After that they moved her from piloting shit to field operations. You can see on one of the official artworks her getting certificate for becoming an agent together with Genji and Winston. From then she went to become one their top agents in a short amount of time. That's kinda a lot to stuff in like 6 years.

>>2225334
gays arent "illegal" in Russia, even if they have weird discriminatory laws there

>>2225348
So basically she was accepted when she was around 20 years old or so. Not a teen.

>>2225348
>OW actually disbanded 3 years ago, was said at Blizzcon 2015
>at Blizzcon 2014 they mentioned "five years" several times
Either they realized their timeline was all kinds of wrong or they can't keep their own facts straight. Although I guess 2014 was still the planning stage, so they might've rethought it.

>>2225352
Going by how they emphasized that she was "the youngest person ever" to be inducted into their flight program she was probably something like 17-19 but sure technically it nowhere states the exact age so I guess you can assume she went from 0 to being at the top of Overwatch in ~1,5 years.

>>2225242
They also never said "we won't tease romance between heroes", which they are doing with Gency. They can tease them as heavily as they can as long as they don't get together and they wouldn't have lied.
Should've done that with Tracer and maybe Widowmaker. One-sided attraction could work too.

I want Amelie to seduce Emily away from Lena

>>2225396
I'd support this just to see how it ends

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>>2225396
I want Amelie to have a threesome with Lena and Emily, so that everyone can be happy

>>2225397
It'll clearly end in
>"I think this is my bloody super-villain origin story!"

I remember being recommended a Widowtracer fic called 'In a Reverie' by SniperCT, but it's in OP's list. Any particular reason?

>>2225750
*dammit, NOT in OP's list

>>2225750
It's shit.

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Jesus fuck, some of y'all taking this way too seriously. Can't we just enjoy the plethora of art the game has produced?

Oh, who the fuck am I kidding - of course we can't. I don't know why I even said that...

>>2225859
It was pretty good until Tracer got a tumblr haircut.

I think I didn't read much of it after that point though.

>>2225308
Probably all the girls desu.

Tracer strikes me as someone who'd be girl crazy and have to remind herself to tone it down when she's not single.

>>2225910
We could but idiots masquerading as twits had to make this thread because rhea lack patience

>>2225919
>tumblr haircut
How's that? Like an undercut or something?

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>>2225928
Something like that. I forget exactly how it was described, but I remember reading that part and just thinking to myself that the author was probably chomping at the bit to write that part in. Anyway, I just don't like those haircuts and they seem to be common among that particularly vocal tumblrina crowd with the hot & spicy opinions so I just call it tumblr hair.

I really did like what I read of that story, though. I've not read too many WT fics but it was one of the better ones that I have read.

>>2225944
Well Tracer's Punk and Ultraviolet skins do have that edgy undercut edgy hair so the author might have taken inspiration from that

>>2225944
>>2225919
Ha, same for me. I was getting into it but then comes the part when the cut their hair and I'm like NOPE and close the tab.

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>>2225395
Ah yes, endless subtext that leads nowhere.
Contrary to popular opinion I'd have preferred that. Especially now

>>2225994
My heart!

>>2225994
>Mercy's head pops off

>>2225750
Because OP's list is shit.

>>2226085
suggest something new then

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>>2226207

>>2226273
Fuck. They are cute.

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>>2226281

>>2226271
>gets her thingie broken
>doesn't go somewhere to fix it before she disappears in time again

>>2226296
Serious question. Will Lena ever tell Emily that the scarf was not actually a present for her?

>ship is not even a week old
>already same 10 pics getting reposted every thread

el oh el

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>>2226342

>>2226300
It was though. She said "Oh No" because she didn't know what was in the present.

>>2226327
It's even sadder when a ship is around since 2014 and yet the same pics get reposted every thread.

>>2226369
What? the people she helped gave the gift to Lena as thanks

>>2226374
lmao did you just post one old WT pic inbetween just so you could write this? hilarious.

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This is gonna be long China Anon pls

1/9

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>>2226484

2/9

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>>2226486

3/9

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>>2226489

4/9

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>>2226493

5/9

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>>2226496

6/9

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>>2226498

7/9

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>>2226499

8/9

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>>2226500

9/9

>>2226501
Fuck yes, that's how you tell a story.
Not some fucking " hey I'm emily and I will be tracer lesbian GF".

>>2226521
Quit posting Amélie, green isn't your color

>>2226522
Go shlick off to fantasies of Amélie and Lena having wild animal hand-holding Emily.

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Does anybody have that comic where Sombra blackmails Widowmaker and Reaper into cooperating with their photos of Tracer and 76?

>>2223993
My heart just broke....

>>2224991
Huh. Is it odd that widow/tracer has a larger age gap than Pharmercy?

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>playing Tracer
>flanking around Nepal to shove my autopistols up the rear guard of the enemy team
>turn the corner
>small entourage of a D.va, Ana and a Lucio feet away, hauling ass my way to double back around where my team's walled off the primary way to the CP
>adrenaline kicks in, blink in, slap pulse bomb near Lucio, blink backwards while spraying
>slam into something solid
>end up being killed by own bomb
>watch replay

My own team's Mei put a fucking ice wall up behind me right on my ass.

>>2226772
Not particularly. You gotta remember that the "peculiarity" of agegap kind of vanishes from sight when adults get involved. Unless it was like Ana or someone that wears their age, it wouldn't cause anyone's eyelashes to bat.

>>2226788
You say that, but the som.va age gap scared away a bunch of people, for one example.

>>2226804
I wouldn't be surprised if that had more to do with D.va and the all the bullshit surrounding her. If they had just kept her age hidden like her name there wouldn't have been a fuss. Her biggest not-board related ship has her paired with someone Lena's age.

>>2226772
It really only seems weird because of all the comics we've seen where Mercy meets Pharah when Pharah's like 10 and Mercy's an adult

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Lewder version.

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>>2226779
>tfw I used to do it to D.Vas back when they weren't immune to their own ults

>>2226384

True, but how the hell does she know that it was the scarf that she wanted?

>>2225308
Mei

>>2225323
Her bio.
Or OW let a complete nobody who just recently reached full legal age test out their brand new prototype air craft

>>2227118
Guess that Overwatch simply is just filled to the brim with a bunch of prodigies

>>2227119
Those who want to be heroes but are not very prodigious, are put into administration, management, water carrying and all the other very important stuff.

>>2227131
>So Ms, uh, Emily. What is your special field of expertise
>I really want to help people and make the world a better place
>Ah...I see you've got a history as a lab assistant, so why don't we put you there? Winston can always use someone that makes a great coffee-Oh hey Angela, how is the cyberization on our newest super Ninja recruit comming along?

>>2227131
Or you could be one of those generic rifle carrying grunts. It was a multinational task force, not the fucking Justice League.

Yeah, by the time of the game everybody is pretty much using specialized/customized tech like the Biotic rifle or stuff designed to work in synergy with the characters' particular equipment(e.g. Tracer's autopistols, Widowmaker's sniper rifle), but back in their heyday seems like all the stuff they were using was mass-produced, even Pharah's Raptora suit. Hell, one of Soldier 76's alternate weapons is just a fucking M16 variant.

>>2227146
Pharah's Raptora is still not exactly custom tech actually.

>>2227143
>>2227146
Kinda reminds me of the career path, minions take in Evil Genius.
Jobs like Guards, Techicans and Valets.

Minimum waged, biodegradable and always following orders without questions asked.

>>2227148
Kinda weird that not a lot of people use it. I guess it is dangerous, making a giant airborne target out of yourself, but you can't dismiss the convenience of being able to fly.
Perhaps it's patented by Helix or something.

>>2227143
>>2227146
>>2227162
And so it begins, the not-heroes of Overwatch story.

>>2227180
>The (not so) thrilling tales of Emily, the Construction Worker

>>2227193
she's probably just a totally random ho that has no relation to OW at all

>>2227197
Isn't Point Gibraltar a restricted area or something?

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btw im not often on /u/, is it normal that the thread is filled with more discussion than pictures? (lmao that comes off so mean but im geniuenly asking)

>>2227202
No? It's just where the gorilla made his little hideout after OW disbanded

>>2227205
Yes very normal

>>2227205
>btw
>lmao
The pharmercy thread awaits you >>2214384 Now piss off

>>2227214
>enabling the creation of multiple thread for the same medium just because somebody makes a retarded post
Stop. No matter how you dislike Pharmercy, newfags or both, it's not worth it to enable idiots spamming separate threads for different ships. Let that thread die already.

>>2227231
I'm not enabling anything. That thread is there for a reason isn't it? Otherwise why did they make it for if they're still crawling back in here to shitpost and repost pictures

>>2227233
More likely it was made along side another thread when a thread was on page 10 and mods never got around to deleting it for whatever reason.

>>2227238
Or you know, people make pair-specific threads fairly often without issue.

>>2227233
That thread is there because somebody created it. There is no other reason for it. If you want Pharmercyfags to go there, you're enabling them to create more of these retarded useless threads that are filled with reposts because there isn't enough unique content to sustain a thread for several weeks. And then some retarded WTfag will overdose on Whomily salt and decide to dedicate a thread to WT, because why the fuck not, if they can do it, I can do it too.
Just suck it up and scroll past Pharmercy pictures if they annoy you so much.

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>>2227233
Oh yeah, it's the Pharmercy fags constantly picking fights over nothing.

Seriously, dude, who hurt you?

>>2227238
No. It was made before the general hit page 10.

>>2227210
Gibraltar was an Overwatch facility. It's focused around orbital launches, hence why the payload involves moving shit to a rocket launch platform and probably communication too.

Winston just lives there because it's probably so out of the way that nobody would notice a forced-to-be-shutdown facility still being maintained and that it's responsible for the Overwatch satellites means it's useful for communicating and coordinating activities.

>>2227257
I thought this facility was there due to the global strategic importance of the strait.

I assumed something similar in Bosporus, Panama, Suez and Sjælland

>>2227148
>>2227176
It's weird that Raptora basically does nothing protection-wise, considering Pharah's health is just in the median of offense heroes alongside units like Soldier 76 and Sombra.

You figure she'd at least be on par with Reaper's durability, especially since in a pinch she might be forced to fire rockets at point-blank range. Not that she doesn't take reduced damage from that anyway.

>>2227266
No reason it isn't for both.

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>>2227180
If this was an anime, we'd be on the lookout for background lesbians.

>>2227257
I've been to Gibraltar, and there's people living all around the Rock. They must have kicked everyone out when they made the watchpoint and also get rid of the monkeys for whatever reason.

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>>2227267
>kill myself with a rocket
>S76 nearby comments on my aim being the same as my mother's
Every fucking time.

It kinda makes sense, considering her suit has several weak points. Although, of course, they don't actually work as weak points in the game (for example, she doesn't get increased damage from being shot in her jetpack). It would be better if she were 150HP/50 armor, that would at least help dampen some of the damage.
But then I fear for the fate of solo queuers, as a good Pharah is already capable of raping your supports all day long if you get matched with deaf people.

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>Still no Mercy lusting after loli Pharah fanfic
A girl can dream I guess...

>>2227233
Seriously, fuck off.

>>2227280
need more of this. 18yo Mercy with 13yo Pharah.

>>2227275
I wish they would've just given her 50 more armor but I guess it makes it harder for the newbs to take her down.

It's amazing that when I play Pharah there's always a competent McCree/Soldier combo shooting me down or my Mercy down.

Play any support character, and my team doesn't have the competent hit scans and I die to Pharah all the time. The amount of times I've had to stop healing and shoot down Pharah myself as Ana is damn annoying.

>>2227267
It needs to be light enough to make it fly.

>>2227272
Gibraltar is Overwatch territory after all.

>>2227257
Yes, however the point was, since technically Watchpoint Gibraltar should be out of service together with the rest of Overwatch bases, and it's just Winston and Athena living there in secret, they can just let a civilian in and no one will restrict them access.

>>2227231
I want Pharmercy friends to come home

>>2227392
>I want Pharmercy friends to come home
They were never gone

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>>2227401
This. I've been lurking in both threads.

All these Tracer/Emily pictures are adorable, but I also kind of liked Widowtracer. I'm feeling conflicted.

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>>2226521
Just treat her like what she is, an expendable plot device.

How come Widowmaker has sideburns?

>>2227440
French genes.

>>2227440
besides huntress im pretty sure that's part of her helmet.

>>2227413
>All these Tracer/Emily pictures are adorable, but I also kind of liked Widowtracer. I'm feeling conflicted.

it's not like you can't like both. but if you like the wrong one too much i'll fucking shank you.

>>2227242
pairing threads are fine. love live has one too and no one has their panties in a twist about that.

>>2227413
>transparent finger

>>2227457
Love Live has more content per pairing than the whole OW combined. Also, it's still retarded. It only makes sense when either there's nothing else salvageable in the original or the ship in question is so overwhelmingly dominating there's no room for anything else.

>>2227461
>2016
>not being a cool girl with transparent fingers
Ah, plebeians.

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>>2223190
>>2224165

Since the previous thread only has 3 comics translated I'll get those out of the way.

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>>2224056
>>2224165

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>>2224060
>>2224165

>>2223993
>Thinking Tracer isn't also Poly
Widow doesn't search /u/ enough.

>>2227515
>>2227516
>>2227517
I love it. I want more this kind of content.

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>>2215404
>>2220126

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2cute

>>2227272
>spoiler
Well, dn't you think the presence would've triggered Winston?
Though doesn't it look like the Watchpoint is somehwere inside the Rock?

>>2227197
Easier to handwave Emily and Tracer meeting of Emily was also part of Overwatch.

>>2227202
Doesn't matter since she lives in London.