and no I don’t mean SHIPPING, I mean ANY relationship between characters. I love the many connections the overwatch characters have with each other and I want to hear what everyone else thinks about it too!
Let’s talk about the relationships between characters we enjoy, like Tracer and Winston being best friends, or Reinhardt and Brigitte’s mentorship. You can even discuss relationships you want to see built upon more or that might come into play in the future like McCree and Echo or Pharah and Ana.
Relationship I want to see built upon more: Sombra and Reaper.
I heard somewhere that Reaper may or may not feel fatherly towards her. He has an “eye for talent” which led him to recruit McCree. It’s also probably the reason why he’s so “whatever” about letting Sombra throw missions. He clearly values her skill and it’s been recently implied she might be supplying 76 with info. I want to see more of them.
I haven’t seen/heard the Genji/Tracer death interaction before if it’s in there that’s such a good relationship I missed! Genji and Tracer have great story potential, they were sparring partners when she was recruited, they both admire Mondatta, they were on the Doomfist mission together too!
On the Mercy/Genji note, I get that. I do enjoy Mercy and Genji’s possible relationship though… from Genji’s point of view. For Genji, Mercy is the person who saved his life, a person who probably didn’t despise that he was “half omnic” because she made him that way to save his life, he lived a “playboy lifestyle” and now here’s this completely ethical woman who he downright admires.
That being said, from Mercy’s point of view, it’s really not as romantic, especially with the lack of lore from her side. I really liked the concept of Tracer and Genji you presented!
Any relationship involving Reaper i would LOVE to be built upon. Sombra’s is interesting because, you’re right, he does suspect, and probably is aware that she’s throwing missions and not being loyal. His eye for talent must have some more plans for her.
Honeslty, who knows if Michael Chu could retcon the story again. Maybe Chu sees how lack luster the relationship between Mercy and Genji is. After all, Genji and Tracer share a lot of the same problems.
Both have faced an experience that resulted in some type of machinery to be stuck to them for life as well and want to promote an idea of peace, but many stand in their way.
Maybe Tracer helped Genji find inner peace by telling him he should leave Overwatch to find his true self. Maybe in a comic Tracer and Genji meet again and the first thing Genji does is hug Tracer saying, “Thank you.”
I’m just waiting for Hanzo’s and Genji’s relationship to go forward. I want them to properly reunite and reconcile and just be brothers they didn’t get to be before.
They only have one. And it’s just Winston saying “Hammond?” and Hammond Squeaking. I’d really like them to add more, especially since they have such a good spray together.
Hanzo and Genji rebuilding their relationship, definitely.
I want to see what happens when McCree finds out that Ana’s alive - she was the one who taught him to shoot so well and I’m maybe prematurely extrapolating that they had a mentor/student relationship, but I’d think it’d hit me right in the heart.
I’d love to see more Torb/Rein ragging on each other old-friends style!
and they’re three completely different relationships to build on too! You have brothers, a mentor/student respect, maybe even motherly vibe in it, and best friends! They’re all such enjoyable relationships.
Winston and Hammond definitely need more interactions at least, maybe hammond will eventually join overwatch on his journey or something so they can tie the relationship into the main story. Genji and McCree I really want to see expanded, since in the retribution event while Genji was still his angry, closed off self, he did have some meaningful conversations with McCree. Their present day interaction makes it sound like there’s a bit of bad blood between them, or at least Genji doesn’t completely trust him, and McCree being so close to Reyes, I can see why, but I really want to see more with them!
Ashe/McCree: Curious to know the story behind their relationship. We don’t know if it was romantic or not, but even if it wasn’t, it seems like something important happened between the two.
Mercy/Widowmaker: I think the contrast they create is too strong. The angel and the demon, the innocent flower and the femme fatale. There is a curious Widowmaker line that happens when Mercy ressurrects her - “you must really like me”. I’m not a “shipper”, but I wonder how the interaction between the two characters would be. Maybe we will see that in lore, in the future.
Reaper/Moira, Reaper/Widowmaker, Moira/Widowmaker, Sombra/Reaper: Honestly, I want to know how the Talon members see each other. Partners in crime? Just human tools they use to achieve personal goals? What makes them stick together or even trust each other? Are they just a generic “Bad Guys Club”?
Reinhardt/Ana: Both are “old-timers” and their canon interaction implies they shared many experiences together.
And more interactions with lucio and sym vis a vis his fathers technology and how he stole it/modified it
ALSO
Mei is/was a part of overwatch
I want more than just “tee hee mei how do you stay so young looking” banter between her and mercy, I would like more interaction between her and winston too since they seem to know one another
Also why doesnt she interact with jack? Shouldnt she confront him on why they never came to rescue them?
They really say that? I have yet to hear those lines haha That’s actually mad cute and yeah, if Lena wasn’t lesbian, I would have paired her with Genji since It would have been waaaay better than Gency could ever be imo. Yeah, they have also fought Doomfist together and they sparred together in the comic. He is like her male counterpart in ways.