#and i like blizzard's characters

[wp100]

god i miss my obsession with heroes of the storm. i had whole entire headcanons for all the blizz characters and their interactions existing in the nexus. they lived in my head rent-free

i fucking shipped raynor and diablo (Seriously, no joke lol)

#bro i would just ship anything #i still do ngl #actually. shipping is still kinda important to me #gets me through the rough patches sometimes #ramblings #I FORGOT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A DIABLO THIRST POST BUT ENDED UP TALKING ABOUT HOTS INSTEAD #I just miss this game #i played in strictly AI mode with AI teammates #then they ruined the ai teammates and made them so brainless so i stopped playing #and lost interest #grinding the skins and gold was a pain too. it's very slow with AI games #games in maintenance mode. it sucks because it is a fun game #blizz's core audience just isnt into the MOBA genre #if they wanted to play MOBA they'd play league. but they wouldnt because they like Blizz games #I liked HoTS. yeah sure it's a moba. but it's blizzard's take on one #and i like blizzard's characters #im attached to them... i cant get into new ones anymore it's hard #hots

[bixels]

What did/do you like about Pharah?

Uh, gameplay-wise, I really love characters in shooters who rely on three-dimensional movement techs. Chaining together hover and jump to stay in the air for as long as possible and keep momentum is so satisfying, and picking enemies off from the sky made me feel like a bird of prey. I was a good Pharah main.

Story-wise, there unfortunately isn't much to canonically go off because Pharah is so underutilized and neglected. Her personality's pretty boilerplate "heroic hero" (she's literally inspired by Captain America).

But it's the crumbs/bits and pieces that I really latched onto. Pharah's a confirmed lesbian; her short story with Baptiste implies she harbors a crush on Mercy (fucking thank you.). She's biracial Egyptian/First Nations. She has major mommy issues, having grown up both admiring and resenting Ana. She's the bridge between Old Overwatch, inspired by the idealized heroes who surrounded her childhood, and New Overwatch. She's one of the only inter-generational characters in the cast; someone whose experiences span the gap, which is why I seriously believe Pharah would make a great main character.

There isn't much to go off of, though; she's a very uncomplicated character (she's a soldier for a private military corporation, lol.). But that just means she's a blank slate character, so I've seen fanfic writers run wild and create some really interesting takes on her. My favorite interpretation of her's a dense, herbo gym-bro type (a lot of her liens are about work outs, exercising, and playing sports) who's easily excitable under her seemingly self-serious, armored visage. We see how she tends to gloat and hype herself up when she's on a streak too, so Pharah definitely has a competitive and boastful side under her more professional and militant performance.

Now Mercy? Mercy is a real complex character.

#i was a diehard pharmercy shipper back then btw #the inherent homoerotic experience of pharmercy gameplay. #the homoerotic experience of looking to the skies to fly to safety under the protection of your knight in shining armor #the homoerotic experience of feeling white hot murderous rage at an enemy trying to pick off your pocket mercy #i still kinda despise gency lmao. you cannot convince me mercy would be in love with genji. at all. #he'd make her feel so uncomfortable and guilty. in my head. the canon is obviously different #gency is sexless. absolutely zero bite or tension. #i could go on about mercy and how her character has so much missed potential #i'm no longer in my overwatch fandom phase but #i still think about that new flirty line they added in ow2 where mercy goes “ahh you're like my knight in shining armor!” #and pharah goes “that's what i'm goin for ;)” and i sigh dreamily #really happy that pharah outright says she's a lesbian too but it's hard to feel good about rep when you know blizzard uses it for pr #to be honest i'm willing to bet cash that blizzard's keeping pharmercy in their back pocket as ammo for the next controversy #last year we already saw logs about pharah fretting and taking care of mercy and the two talking about how good it is to see each other #tbh pharah has the same energy/demeanor as applejack. cheerful and competitive in a can of whoopass #but yeah overall pharah's a pretty shallow character. i have IDEAS on how i'd go about deepening her but. whatever #that's sorta what happens when you have to juggle a cast of 40 characters. a lot get left with the bare minimum #ok so i wrote this entire post up saying that pharah isn't in ow2's storymode when she is. she's in the story i just. forgot #because she doesn't do or contribute anything interesting #ok i'm stopping here. overwatch's story is such an interesting narrative mess i could go on for hours #i dunno how you come up with such incredible character designs and give them such an unincredible story #it's also so so so interesting seeing the conflicting takes on characters the writers have #mercy in gameplay and voicelines is peppy and cheerful and optimistic #but mercy in the storymode journal logs is tired. jaded. a total shut in who forgets to leave her room and social #and YES! THAT'S WHAT I WANT!!! THAT'S MERCY TO ME!!! THE DOCTOR WHO FORGETS TO TAKE CARE OF HERSELF #ask me #anon

[fairmerthefarmer]

I don’t know how I never played any of the Nancy Drew games as a kid, I love point and click and I love Nancy drew and I would have been all over them!! My sister and I are playing through them together now and it is just an absolute joy. (She is however much better at puzzles than me so idk maybe they would have frustrated me as a kid)

Also it’s giving me some inspo to ~actually~ practice drawing and backgrounds etc. so anyway here’s treasure in the royal tower WIPS. I really want to do some actual illustrations from these games.

Also Evelyn/gabsmolders streams are just prime content for background comfort noise when pain flares or fatigue keep me in bed.

#I really don’t know why I picked that spot in the castle as a background study #there’s way too much detail so idk if I’ll actually colour it #also it’s blizzarding right now and the vibes of tower fit so love that for me #I am also strugggling with dexter and I think it’s cause of bias cause he’s my favourite #TRT #treasure in the royal tower #nancy drew #nancy drew pc games #also designing covers/posters or something for these games would be such a fun thing to do #I wanna do fun typography again I don’t get as much of a chance to do that at work #and like #nancy drew games #her interactive #I don't think this counts as character design really cause i'm just going off of reference. #character art #character design #but like #loose #my art <3 #gab smolders #Hotchkiss #sketchbook

[serenums]

i'm very interested in warcraft lore & correct characterization in general but one thing y'all won't make me hate is wranduin bc teen friends to enemies to best friends to lovers is just the best trope to ever exist ever

#& yes i'm projecting my own experiences onto them no i will not stop #like i get that they're the ~default yaoi wow ship~ for obvious reasons or wtvr #& i get that if you dig deep enough AND focus on certain aspects of their respective personalities them being in love wouldn't make sense #BUT #if you also dig deep into other aspects of their bond then it starts to make sense . & besides i don't trust blizzard to write their own #characters correctly & i know yall will agree w me on this at least so #jupiter.txt #wranduin

[some-pers0n]

Me searching up something that is referring to something so niche and vague you'd have to basically just be me to understand: HAH the readers are gonna love this totally sick and original joke

#I'm also writing the 6000 year old wizard being sad his roommate that he's had a multi-year situationship with isn't there #Like he planned the whole thing and everything-- he read the tea leaves and all!! But no he can't summon a blizzard and kill him :( #sp-rambles #I love writing jokes it's fun I also like writing characters killing each other

[melien]

𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒚

#sims #ts3 #sims 3 #photoshoots #character verse #percy fontaine #percy fountain #(the last tag is for berry version - I just used a slightly different spelling for the character verse/vanilla percy's surname) #I was redoing the berry rainbowcy characters into vanilla ones to add them to my tree #I neglected percy a bit but I decided to take a slightly different direction with her (details still wip) and she turned out great #like she's more independent and rebellious I guess #she's still freya's mother but I'm going back and forth on her and lavi's relationship #amicable exes or lavi in a poly relationship with both her and a character verse version of blizzard? stay tuned #I guess it depends on the story direction which I'm currently trying to figure out #the latter is currently called beatrice btw but somehow I'm never 100% sold on her vanilla name I've gone through like 3 b names

[little-shiny-sharpies]

Ohhh he probably cut his hair so he doesn’t look anything like Arthas..

#I don’t like reading into his character bc I don’t want to get attached blizzard hurts me enough as is but damnnnn #EDIT: the second my mutual likes/or reblogs this I’m disabling reblogs I don’t want this in Anduin fan circles #Stay away from me unless you’re normal #Edit 2 Anduin mutual liked this post now it has been LOCKED

[bluejay-flies]

I’ve been slowly getting the urge to continue the story again, which is wonderful but I can’t decide what to start with. So, I’m putting it to a poll!

Should I continue the Mittens arc (which will be continued either way) or put that on pause and explore what Mewtwo has been getting up to?

I’m leaning towards Mewtwo just because it’s been so long since we’ve heard from him, and I miss my boy <3

#Mod speaks #poll #Also would you guys like to know Blizzard’s sibling name? #I was gonna reveal it in story but then I took an unexpected hiatus #And I don’t want them to just be the nameless mitten #Because I love them and they’re actually the first character (along with Iris) I created when I started this story

[boilingrain]

me when I'm forced back into the trenches again (read: willingly trying to build Freminet again)

#it's not going well btw. I am getting the worst artifacts known to man #at least it's not yet like when I was trying to build Kaeya and I got a pyro damage up blizzard strayer cup #I usually have good luck when pulling for 5 star characters (except Cyno & Navia) but my luck with artifacts is and always will be horrible #genshin impact #freminet #rain's adventures in: genshin impact

[dappio]

Idiots about crying woke and misgendering Venture Overwatch i hope spill every drink for the rest of their life

#though i be crying cause Venture is first time i felt so rep'd?? #ive never been so like oh shit dat me about a character they are so goofy and i love them so dearly #blizzard sometime you do cool stuff but you on thin ice still

[whymustyouhurtmeinthisway]

I have not played nor cared about Overwatch in well over 8 months by now, but goddamn is that new character cute, I love them a lot

#overwatch #venture #venture overwatch #sloane cameron #me #I feel like Blizzard definitely could’ve chosen a different LatAm country instead of Mexico again though #nothing against Mexico obviously but there’s still only one South American character in the game #and changing Venture to be Bolivian or something would change very little besides spread out the range of countries represented #I have 0 familial or cultural ties to Bolivia or anything but I’ve arbitrarily chosen it to be my favourite South American country so #wait shit I just remembered Illari’s in the game #It's easy to forget #so the game has characters from two South American countries technically #but still it'd be nice to have more

[nitewrighter]

So they have concepts for a bunch of character skins in the Black Cat Dva vein but they didn't include Genji "Cat Ears" Shimada in those?

"Check it out! A bunch of new skin concepts!"

*87 Kiriko skins*

#I know this is hilarious coming from a Mercy stan but god Blizzard's obsession with its most mediocre female character designs... #like first it was Ashe and now it's Kiriko #except Kiriko has like 47% less personality

[legendaryevokercupcake]

Um... heyyyy... maybe choose a different new character to replace Bright...

Warcraft has a whole fuckton of money right now so I would reeeaaaally advise against naming a sneaky, sus af redhead...

Elias.

Shaw.

A SNEAKY. SUS. REDHEAD.

Almost the exact same name as Blizzard's SNEAKY SUS REDHEAD who they will probably defend with their lives because if their representation goes out the window, *DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUH* less money

All I'm saying is please don't accidentally get sued for plagiarism

#Dr. Bright #Dr. Jack Bright #Dr Bright #Jack Bright #SCP Foundation #SCP #Elias Shaw #Warcraft #World of Warcraft #Blizzard #Activision #Activision Blizzard #Also the fandom will refuse to let Bright die with so much history #so that's a problem #I personally believe that adminbright and characterbright are separate and should be kept that way #but that's just my opinion #I feel like character Bright is too ingrained in the fandom and the history for us to just ignore his existence

[t0tentanz]

people who want to side with lilith in diablo 4? why? did you read the books? play ANY of the other games? did you play diablo 4 at ALL? or were you so entranced by her tits you failed to see the nuance of her character and lore. lilith has shown time and time again that she sees the nepahlem as nothing more than a power source - i bid you please read birthright! -when you deny her, she tries to kill you, nothing she did throughout the entire game was "good", she quite literally the aspect of hatred and views free will as a mistake, and previously hoped to use the world stone to take it away from the nephalem before it was destroyed. she doesn't want the weak, that's why she's having them cull themselves by seeding sin then harvest the strongest and use them in a crusade to help her take over hell and dethrone her father / the prime evils as her own personal human meat shield.

she didn’t even mourn elias who had freed her in the first place. her empathy for humanity is solely based on her hatred of heaven and hell.

do you know why rathma and uldyssian banished her the last time? you saying we should have the option to side with her, negates diablo entirely as a series, and just shows that her manipulative tactics have worked on you. i feel like I’m missing something because she was so cardboard villain cliche.

#i feel like im taking fucking crazy pills with this fandom #ive been in it for 20 years and i honestly don't understand it #this is entirely why ive avoided diablo fandom for so long #its my favorite series and has been since i was a kid so maybe i am a bit more baised about things #not saying you cant have your own reasons for wanting lilith #but you are by LITERAL lore completely miscontruing the narrative of her character #diablo 4 #lillith #inarius #elias #sanctuary #blizzard #dont reply i just want to get my rage out because i cannot deal

[boundlss]

i want to get a response out today but i usually mostly write at work and the office is full ;;;;; maybe while my water is boiling for tea when i get home i'll slam smth out.

#and then i will of course play overwatch for the rest of the evening #i'm considering adding an overwatch muse. probably ashe genji or cassidy #......... or like. super canon divergent/rewritten kiriko #i could do her better than blizzard would ever dream of #out of character

[bluejay-flies]

Oohhh I can't wait to see the spotted or striped (mayhaps cheeky both) design that you make!

So

Um

So guys

I maaaaaay have gone a bit… overboard with this idea. Aaaand possibly added to the plot. Just a bit. Heh…

Everyone, meet Blizzard, my newest obsession!!! Feel free to hit him with asks :>

#Literally I design ONE new character and they become majorly plot relevant #Smh why and I like this #Mewtwo #pokemon #Blizzard