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The classic Rialto bush strat. 🍃

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Mountain man Cassidy, inspired by art of Mark Maggiori

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IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE

i'd like to see more of the theme of "family" in overwatch. we see it a lot with ana & fareeha, ram & zen, brig/torb/rein/bastion, genji & hanzo. but those are the obvious ones between playable characters. the ones that are much more clearly written on the wall, even once-in-a-blue-moon players could pick up on. much else is hardly focused on despite how much family (or a lack thereof) has shaped many of the character's lives & identities for better or for worse

i don't like how martina & the unnamed reyes kid are only mentioned in passing, despite gabriel himself visiting often unannounced. clearly they were an important part of his life. clearly, family is an important part of his life — i'm very willing to wager that small passage about the death of his parents in declassified was written very intentionally. his complicated relationship with death, and how it was further affected by his own "death," & how he's now in some warped reversed position with his new family. but we don't get much more than a few voice lines about martina (is she even mentioned by name in-game orrr am i not remembering?)

i want to see how ashe manages the gang throughout the second omnic crisis. or perhaps we could see her mannerisms slightly change with bob. maybe instead of standing side-by-side with him as she is in the reunion cinematic, she puts herself more between him & potential unrealised threats. or maybe she subtly tries to nudge him under awnings whenever she spots ufos, weary they're housing subjugators — little things that are very intentional. maybe her demeanor tilts ever so slightly from confident but guarded, to guarded but confident.

i want to get a better picture of the role sam english played in fareeha's life just from playing the game, especially after ana's presumed death. i want to know more about their relationship other than the christmas dinner they had. i wonder how many players just assume fareeha's father died young, or assume the writers didn't care to write one at all? for a long time, i thought the former. i wonder what sam thinks of some of fareeha's closest friends — has he met cole & angela? what does he think of helix? we hardly even see fareeha's native heritage expressed other than the two skins off the top of my head

what about cassidy & echo? i know this is a more implied one, but cassidy was the first one to nurture her "childlike intelligence." even today, he guides her — he encouraged her to help winston&co at paris when he was still on the fence. one of the cutest things for me is her enthusiastically shouting "hello winston!" mid-battle, presumably not long after cassidy told her to say hi. she probably would've either way, but i also don't want to discredit the role cassidy has had on her development & i really do want to see more of them

or, speak of the devil, how winston views everyone at overwatch as family. how in watchpoint: gibraltar's 1st defense spawn, you can see the little beds he set up for lena and mei, how you can read an email as proof he got the blankets from a small kids blanket business. the way he keeps photos of the gang, years later. how vehemently protective he was of all their locations. i wish we could see it reciprocated a little more, i wish we could see individual sleeping areas for other heroes as the story progresses, or more items on his desk. & that's not even getting into hammond

& i don't think i can have a family post without mentioning dad 76 or how i desperately want to see benicio being the best supportive dad for lúcio more but honestly i'm getting pretty sleepy so either i'll add more later or someone can add more.

depending how you stretch the definition of family here, it can include other dynamics too. baptiste finding a new sense of belonging in the new overwatch, or mei braving the antarctic to not let her team's death go in vain & to help people who can still be helped — from jiayi and her team still on mars, to the people who now need her help on earth. i'd also argue hana's squad in korea. what are niran's siblings up to? are we gonna see more of efi & orisa? moreover, how are all these non-playable side character characters handling the invasion? i guess we got some texts between lena and emily

family is such a powerful motivator, but can also be really complicated, as seen with the amaris and shimadas + kiriko, i wish we got a similar amount of investment some other places too

a major theme of overwatch is moving towards the future, progressing in some way. & that looks different for everyone depending on their emotional readiness to do that, and what they view "progression" as. so it makes sense a lot of characters don't look back on those they lost along the way so much, at least not too openly (zarya comes to mind), but that's what can make their present relationships with others that much more worth preserving & seeing

probably an impossible ask of a game feeling the effects of layoffs that's primarily focused on pvp/bp/shop items but ykn

thank u for coming to my tedtalk

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late of an update but still an update nonetheless

i got the mystery man cassidy skin! the only cassidy skins i don't own (from stuff buyable at the hero gallery) are lifeguard, scrooge, & white hat!

i'm prol'ly gonna try and get scrooge, white hat, then lifeguard. lifeguard scares me i'm sorry i hate it

i hope his formalwear skin makes a return in shop or something these holidays. last year i was way too burnt out by finals to play

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no wonder cole cassidy's america sucks

they were the aftermath of a trump presidency

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going as myself for halloween (cowboy)

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Last one for my MHA x OW fanart series Would be cool if we had battle-damaged skins. 🤔

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there's no way cassidy isn't (or wasn't?) best friends with gabriel's & martina's still unnamed kid right

i mean he was trained in part by ana & he's like. fareeha's brother so

i know the difference is that cassidy canonically sees the amaris as family whereas that isn't canon with the reyes family but there's. a 0 percent chance he wasn't at least that kid's cool uncle figure right

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thank you cole cassidy

Cassidy reminds you to do your daily click for Palestine

BE SURE TO HAVE ADBLOCK OFF BEFORE CLICKING

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(SHAKES AGGRESSIVELY) WELCOME TO THE OVERWATCH FANDOM DON'T GET SHOT I HOPE U ENJOY UR NEW COWBOY !!!!!!

PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER, LADIES, GENTLEMEN AND MEMBERS OF THE JURY;

BECAUSE SHE'S FOUND ANOTHER MAN PUSHING 40 TO OBSESS OVER!!!! I'VE NEVER PLAYED OVERWATCH IN MY LIFE!!!! I HOPE I'M SHOT!!!!!

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please blizzard for the love of god do a magical girl season

y'all already did kamen rider i know y'all can do it …

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CRINGETOBER DAY 1 - SCREENSHOT REDRAW

I'm already late on day 1, but here it is nonetheless! I've always wanted to do this redraw anyway, so I had to use it for the prompt!!

Original and prompt list under the cut!

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(dusts hands) and they're all in order of how much i like them in their own tiers too!

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echolalia overwatch culture is hearing a hero shout something in a different language and immediately repeating what they said (you said it entirely and horrifically wrong)

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