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WELL HELLO ANDUIN!!!! HOTDAMN!!! Panties have been yeeted!

I had really low expectations coming into Blizzconline, but luckily they did much better than I expected!!! We got Rome, a map in India(I don’t know exact where it will be), New York, and the new looks for Widow, Reaper, McCree, and Pharah. This all combined with the fact that there looks to be an or a couple animations in the works brings back a lot of the hype I was feeling when OW 2 was first confirmed!

Possible Animated Short

I’m rewatching some of the Blizzcon clips from yesterday and I’m gonna be posting about it cause I’m super hyped! So, these pictures give us an idea of maybe a cutscene but I feel like it would be an animated short. I think that in it Reinhardt and Brigitte will go to Gothenburg, Sweden, where Torbjorn works. When they get there Torbjorn lets Reinhardt look around since he has not been there in a while or he has never been there. While Reinhardt looks around, Brigitte and Torbjorn catch up.

While looking around, Reinhardt finds Bastion and charges at him, confused why Torbjorn would have a Bastion unit in his warehouse/work shop(I’m not exactly sure what you would call it). When Brigitte and Torbjorn hear a commotion they go check it out. Torbjorn yells at Reinhardt to not attack Bastion and then explains to Reinhardt that he saved Bastion. I’m assuming he would only be explaining this to Reinhardt since I’m pretty sure than Brigitte knows about Bastion based off some voice interactions I believe they have in game. Once Torbjorn is done explaining Reinhardt apologizes to Bastion, maybe.

Eventually they get an alert that there is an attack somewhere. Then they get a call from overwatch, probably Winston or Tracer, and they decide to go help. I’m not sure if Torbjorn goes, he has a engineering business to run, but based off of the last photo, Rein and Brig take Bastion with them. Which will be interesting because it seems that Zarya is joining overwatch also, based off the last photo and a couple others. I’m gonna make a different post on that since this is getting long, but I think having Bastion on the team will create tension for Rein, Brig, and Zarya.

So, TLDR, Rein and Brig visit Torb, Rein meets Bastion, there is an attack, Rein and Brig bring Bastion to help them on the mission, I’ll post about Zarya joining overwatch another time.

Where is the new(?) Indian Overwatch 2 map?

So, as well as New York and Rome being introduced in Blizzconline, we got a couple of looks at an Indian map that we had been given a glimpse at during Symmetra’s Restoration challenge in November 2020. As well as the skin challenge, the Overwatch team released a short story, about 25 pages long check it out if you haven’t I think it was really good, Stone by Stone. In the story, Symmetra is sent to a temple in Suravasa, India where she meets Zenyatta who is visiting there from Nepal. 

Once I had finished looking over all of the new and old information, I realized that Suravasa and the new Indian map are one in the same. We know this because of a two main reasons. One, both places have a statue of Aurora surrounded by gold, a religious Omnic leader. Two, Zenyatta is there. 

Left: Aurora from Stone by Stone. Right: Aurora from Blizzconline clips.

Having Suravasa being the new Indian map that seems to have a story challenge mission in it, would also be a good way to have Symmetra join/interact with Overwatch.  After Stone by Stone, I think that Symmetra was starting to question Vishkar so having her visiting the Suracasa temple and being there when Sombra, Widow, and Talon attack, shown in Blizzconline, this would be a good motivation for her to join Overwatch, if only temporarily.

Overwatch Recalled: Baptiste

Alright, so I was going to chose between Pharah and Baptiste, and after flipping a coin, Baptiste was chosen.

Jean-Baptiste Augustin, as well as being an incredibly competent combat medic, is also known as a marksman. He was born in Tortuga, Haiti and grew up in Port de-Paix with his friend, Roseline Mondésir. Their childhood dream was to open up a medical clinic, which we learn that Roseline did. He also grew up inspired by the original Overwatch and wanted to join before it disbanded. Eventually, Baptiste join the Caribbean Coalition, the Haitian military, and after that he join the mercenaries of Talon. He left Talon after a mission gone wrong in Monte Cristi. 

We also learn in his book, What you left behind by Alyssa Wong, that after he left Talon he traveled around a lot, avoiding them. But in the book, Baptiste is found by Mauga and Nguyen, two Talon agents, who get him to help them try to kill a pharmaceutical company CEO, Vernand Sainclair. Baptiste goes with them and is told by Sainclair about the Recall message. Baptiste, instead of killing Sainclair, takes him to a spot where Roseline can find him and makes him promise to give her free medical supplies. Then he takes the list of ex-Overwatch agents. 

This is all important because in the end of the story, Baptiste is going to get the help of Sombra to contact Mercy. This is how I think Baptiste got into Overwatch because he had already known Mercy from working with her in Venezuela. So, I think he will warn her that Talon might know about ex-Overwatch members. Then, I would guess that she asks him to join the Recalled Overwatch and he would say yes because he looked up to Overwatch when he was younger. 

TLDR: I think that Baptiste was able to get into contact with Mercy through Sombra. Mercy and Baptiste knew each other because they had worked together in Venezuela. Once they were in contact with one another, Baptiste warned Mercy about Talon, then she asked him to join Overwatch. 

Can we talk about how gorgeous Anduin is?

Overwatch Spam coming in, because I have some pictures I'm proud off. To start off with the oldest recent one, Hanzo in one of his other skins. To anyone wondering why there's no feet- I didn't want to. That's literally the entire reason. Reblogs really help out the artists! So if you could, it'd be appreciated! Please give credit as well if reposting somewhere else!

"Always Leave yourself a back door...Miss me?" -------Sombra, Overwatch------- Sombra is one of my favorite characters to play when my main boy JunkRat is taken. At first, I thought she was overpowered and Cliche. After playing her, I discovered she really isn't- her story from what we know is still cliche in my opinion but, meh. Enjoy! Reblogs really help out the artists! So if you could, it'd be appreciated! Please give credit as well if reposting somewhere else!

"I'm the last f*cking Bastion, all of my kind are dead..." -----The Bastion Song, JT Machinima----- I'm so proud of this one- Over ten hours spent on this. To anyone that has their doubts- I draw all my shit freehand. I don't use bases or trace anything. This was all my own skill and work. Enjoy the beeping cutie robot! Reblogs really help out the artists! So if you could, it'd be appreciated! Please give credit as well if reposting somewhere else!