If you could add any aspect to one character's lore, what would it be?

And for whom? It doesn’t have to be game-changing, it could be simple like, “I’d have Mei’s favorite pastime be tinkering with robots, and having designed Snowball herself” (Note: I don’t know if that’s true or not).
Or, would it be something to screw with people, like having Mercy be a double agent all along, or something?
What would you say?

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That would be for mercy. I just feel like blizzard didn’t give us enough of her yet. I want her to have a lore with the reaper. Not the infamous “Mercy build the Reaper” but more like a history of them. It can be romantic or platonic (preferably romantic). I just want to see their history since Mercy is the only one who knew the identity of the Reaper and not having the explanation as to why she knew it.

I also want to have another lore for Moira. A romantic one. It seems unbelievable, I know. But I want to see another side of Moira beside the “Knowledge is everything” type of person. It makes her rather predictable and boring, since there are a lot of character that has the same vision as she did (not an overwatch character, just character in general). So I just wants to see her softer side where she falls in love or simply her showing affection to other people.

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WidowMaker being in contact with Maximilien, like, a secret “Friendship” :ok_hand:

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Make Maximilien be connected with Null Sector. He’s the only omnic who’s really been seen doing much other than grunt work for Talon. A character who’s on the inner council is in one way or another connected with the darwinist, Talon ideology: “Those who fall will be forgotten. Those who rise up? Their names will be remembered forever”. So Max gaining Talon’s attention with the King’s Row UPRISING doesn’t seem farfetched. I guarantee you he orchestrated the whole thing, then slipped under the cover of a now allied Talon once Overwatch famously stepped in. Many years later, with the combined remaining and rebuilt, redesigned forces of Null Sector completely under his control, he now intends to use the entire arsenal of the terrorist sect to start the war that Akande is planning to start.

My guess, since Maximilien owns the Monaco casino they meet in in “Masquerade”, is that Maximilien differs slightly in his motivation for starting the war from his peers on the council. Max doesn’t really care who wins the war. He doesn’t care about Null Sector. He doesn’t even care about the omnics. He’ll just aid whoever plays into Talon’s little game, and see much how he can pour out of them until, by chance, they get a win. Human or Omnic, Maximilien is going to walk away from the war on top of it all. Because in the end, it doesn’t matter who’s playing in Maximilien’s shady casino. The house always wins. Maximilien, always wins.

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Give Reaper long hair

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Widowmaker’s will has finally cracked the brainwashing brought upon her. She now plots her revenge for her fallen husband against Talon.

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I would love if they gave Widowmaker some secret life she’s been living alongside her current Widowmaker persona.

So she’s broken free from her brainwashing, even if only a little. And now in her spare time she helps those less fortunate than herself, but secretly and from the shadows so none of it could be traced back to her.

I just hope they give her some redeeming qualities so she’s less likely to be killed off.

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They’re not gonna kill her off. Widow is prime for a redemption arc, it’s practically one in the making and there’s simply no other way they can go with this besides that. Too many hints, and such an obviously good direction to go.

Of course… that would mean Blizzard would actually have to write the story, which is the only real roadblock right now.

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I am scared because from their other games Blizzard is not known for writing their women well.

They either become a mother, the villain, or dead.

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I want Orisa to have a vulnerable and developing mind. She’s only like three months old, and right now has such a bland personality. All she does is follow her programming and the law.

How cool would it be if Orisa becomes evil or something? Like imagine Orisa’s developing mind falls vulnerable to Sombra or Maximilien or maybe she just decides that she wants to be more than just what her programming says. What if in some strange twist, she sides with Doomfist when she was built to stop him?

I just feel like Orisa has so much potential to develop, even if she doesn’t become evil, I just want to see her grow.

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Overwatch has shown to be far more optimistic than their other games. Her remaining the same brainwashed assassin forever, or dying, doesn’t fit the tone and themes of the series at all.

But as said, we just need actually story to get there, which Blizzard hasn’t been giving us. Sigh.

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A bit late but its interesting that I can see Mercy siding with Gabriel in the way he does things, I am not talking about assassinations BW did but rather in being the first to act.

In the Uprising comic she tells Jack that OW was made to help out rather than sit out at the situation, while Ana and Jack are reluctant to help out We see Gabriel has already sent Mccree out for scouting despite BW being suspended.

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More personality to D.Va, personally…she’s too flat and feels like a common anime protag.

Cheers,
~ PyroPanda

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Despite the absolute lack of story progression, sure

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I just want to know why Mercy in fact know that Reaper is Gabriel. Beside Jack, Ana, Moira, and Sombra, I don’t think Mercy has an exact fact or reason as to why she knows about Reaper’s identity. If there is another person knows that Reaper is Gabe, do correct me.

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She doesn’t know Reaper is Gabriel. The only ones who know are Jack, Ana, Moira, Sombra and probably Doomfist.

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Is’t when she says “What happened to you?” she knows that it was Gabe? Or do I saw it wrong?

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Most of the interractions are not strictly canon. Those are "what if"s scenarios. They show us heroes personnalities and how they would interract with each other, but that’s it. If Mercy saw Reaper and she knew he was Gabriel, she would ask him this question. But in canon, she doesn’t know Reyes is alive.

Take Dva, she actually never met any of the other heroes. But she has interractions with them.

The only canon ones are the ones when two people actually met in canon material (animated shorts, Archives events and comics), like Ana and Soldier’s voicelines together.

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Ahh, thank you for your clarification. I appreciate it.

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Genji systematically hunted down all of the shimada elders that wanted him dead and watched Hanzo go year after year to the shrine for him. Either in person or on a screen

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