So I was playing as Ashe in Blood Moon Rising and we had Bastion. âSheâ went down and Asheâs callout is âSomebody get her back upâ I saved the clip and replayed it about 15-25x to be sure and yeah Ashe spilled the beans and says âherâ
Granted these are âstorylineâ voicelines itâs makes sense they would use the correct gender canonically. Kinda blew my mind when i realized what I heard.
Chu had confirmed this years ago I think.
Chu said Bastion doesnât have a gender. Heroes in game just seem to kind of call it how they feel like calling it.
Many genderless inanimate objects are referred to as âshe,â particularly vehicles and weapons. And Bastion is a weaponâŚ
Just saying most heroes use a gender neutral saying or use the heroes name directly. Such as mercy will say âwe need to revive themâ or âTracers downâ Ashe however calls them by specifics genders and I think off the top of my head is the only only who does so and maybe baptiste.
bastion is a machine. what meds are you on?
Anaâs ult line uses the masculine version for Bastion, doesnât she? I donât think Bastion specifically has gender, itâs just a kind of here or there thing for pronouns I supposeâŚ
Ana uses a feminine language when she nanoboosts it too iirc.
Edit
Itâs when she sleeps it apparently doing a quick google search
Ana uses the feminine version, but itâs more to do the linguistics of the language than actually meaning anything to do with Bastionâs gender
Like how a table or a car is treated female when speaking French I guess?
2bh, specifics doesnât matter, bastionâs mannerisms natrually fits female more anyways.
She kinda feels like an opposite side of Ashe.
I mean Orisaâs a machine too no problem gendering it as a female though.
Because sheâs programmed to be, just as Zenyatta and Mondatta are male.
Bastionâs AI is less sophisticated than the other Omnic heroes. It canât even talk. Itâs a wonder that itâs even capable of behaving the way it is all, which is what made Torbjorn question what he knew and take Bastion in. Bastion is supposed just to be a gun, nothing more. And yet somehow, Bastion has a gentle nature
Thats because Orisa was programmed much more complexly, she was made by Efi to have her own desires and thoughts and she was programmed to identify as female. bastion was programmed to kill, thats it.
Humanoid omnics usually choose their own gender, especially through their voice and frame design (Zenyatta/Mondatta being male, Luna the cabaret singer being female), while a few specifically identify as genderless (Lynx)
Quadropedal omnics are usually not gendered (OR15 bots that slashed Reinâs eye and stabbed Col. Balderich in Honor and Glory), although exceptions exist like Orisa, who Efi created to sound and resemble an obviously female African woman
Others usually have no gender (Bastion, giant explodey ball, slicers in uprising etc) although the audience can decide for themselves
I personally view Bastion as a child-like male, itâs just an energy âheâ gives off to me
Keep in mind that it may just be an idiosyncrasy of dialect. A lot of people with this accent use 'er, as in âget âer runninâ againâ to refer to a machine or object.
I think it was an OR14 that did that to Rein, sorry to correct, just felt like it. lol But, yeah, the OR units with the acception of Orisa due to programming.
Now whose to say Torb wonât make Bastion identify as male in OW2 xD
Bastion is more feminine than most Omnics.
Wide hips, protruding chest, massive huge absolutely gigantic⌠ballistics.
If you know me youâll know exactly what i mean. ( ͥ° ÍĘ ÍĄÂ°)
Wait, holâ up⌠hips⌠chest⌠gigantic weapon⌠hm⌠
Checks out, for now⌠gigantic weapon⌠gigantic weapon⌠Holâ up! Are you suggesting what I think you are?
I would went with âballisticsâ