GAH i need to like this.
Yeah Junkrat is the most masculine person Iāve seen
Yeaā¦ and many emotes have similarities.
I can see him jokingly challenging Tracer to a race, orā¦ asking Torb for some mechanicās advice.
Tbf Junkrat is literally shredded
Just saying he might fail to stand out
It all depends on what it is. like, if he had an emote where he tries to act all confident and trips himself up, maybe has his hoodie fall over his face.
hmmmā¦ Im would be thinking something related to MEKAs, like, the dude could repair dva real quick? But then dva would be a must pick for him to be viable.
Maybe his ult being that he can give a team member a temporary MEKA? it would fall apart after a few seconds but for the time being it would boost their health and give em some protection or something. His other abilities could be connected to that, maybeā¦ A standing shield? Like Meis wall but made of metal and with some gimmick, idk, lil window in the middle or something.
I think itās cuz heās such a stick that the only thing separating his skin from his organs is a thin layer of muscle
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I would support this for the reasons you gave. Thank you for not making it about gender or sexuality. I would love for the community to embrace the fact that men are not simply muscles and hair. I want to see some sensitivity and gentleness. I believe a real man is in a lot of ways, a care giver.
I feel its more of a matter of blizzard accepting that fact because as I stated before they seem to have the āheroā archetype in their head and dont wanna deviate too much from that.
Thank you!
And yes, this is exactly what i wanted it to be about.
Some men just arenāt that way, and i donāt see much representation nor much actual reference to that in many things nowadays.
I mean, heās carrying a tire on his back at all times while surviving in a wasteland. Homie needs to be pretty strong
Mercy: āReinhardt, donāt break this one!ā
That poor kid better hope the team has a healer after that incoming hug. XD
tbh, if they would make a new male character, iād want them to be socially shy and awkward.
for example:
Reinhardt: Hey recruit! itās time to get out there and make a better future!
New hero: ā¦ oh i-iām sorry iām not a recruit, iām a fellow overwatch member.
you probably didnāt notice meā¦ i get that a lot. no one ever does, but itās ok. iām fine.
Reinhardt: you okay there buddy?
New hero: yes!.. wellā¦ noā¦ iām a bit insecure if we can do this, but we got to try right?!
because it doesnt sell. like I know im being kinda cynical here but like I just feel blizzard does this sorta thing throughout all of their games. like try and think on 1 blizzard game that a male character is how you described, they just dont make them because they dont think they can market them.
When you get down to it itās a very lazy type of character creation. Big, tall, beard, muscles, maybe scar. Done. Anyone off for drinks?
And apart from the slim NormalMan type, thereās a hell of a lot of other manly body types not on display here.
For example: Where is the manly man with a little bit of weigth to him?
And i donāt mean Pigface (who btw is a whole other body topic discussion waiting to happen. [actually it probably happened ages ago])
Reinās hugs are more than likely a running joke in-universe.
I can see a follow up line being him saying to Mercy:
āHey, uhā¦ does Reinhardt usually hug so hard?ā
And her being like āOnly when heās in a good mood, you should be fine~ā
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This.
I like this
Socially awkward, and not really āreadyā or trained to be a hero.
Anduin from World of Warcraft was ā¦ kinda-sorta like that. I mean not really feminine, and they did give him a make-over and have him āgrow into form,ā so to speak. But his personality is that of a gentle pacifist, and heās not a brawny warrior, at least. (Though, as I said, still has good physique).
So I guess theyāve explored the idea, but ā¦ yeah, youāre probably not wrong that itās a marketing thing.
Which is really weird because a lot of their playerbase is probably similar in character to what the OP wants. But I guess people would rather play characters they aspire to be as opposed to what they are. (And we all know how society drills it into boysā skulls that they āshouldā be manly and muscular, and yada yada. As if thatās the only ārightā way to be. /Sigh)