Ever since seeing her souvenir animation, I feel like the animation team’s been asked to make what I would describe to be “manic” and “aloof” gestures and poses. It’s only two, so it might just be a coincidence, but her face when she holds up a souvenir is so incredibly goofy; her eyes bug out and she has a chubby grin on her face.
And now, the new animation on the battle pass, Graceful Stroll, where the person that animated it took one look at her dance emote and said “oh ok!”, threw in a spin, then gave her one of the goofiest bounding strut I’ve ever seen, like she’s waltzing into a bank vault with a big canvas bag that has a dollar sign on the side of it.
It’s really not that big a deal, I’m just tickled and want to know why they’ve taken this new direction. Widow’s character was supposed to be wolf in sheep’s clothing, elegantly eerie, formal yet inhumane, her dance emote, her laugh, it’s all incredibly off-putting, but the new stuff looks like they just tossed the subtlety and kept the creepy.