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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.
Overwatch 2 Maps: Rome!
So, as well as talking about who is going to join the Recalled Overwatch and possible new characters(eventually), I also want to talk about maps we know about and new maps I want. So, this is about Rome.
The thing about Rome is that we should have had it on our radar for possible maps and from what I saw before Blizzconline it wasn’t on anyone’s radar. I’m saying this because it has been mentioned before. While reading What you left behind by Alyssa Wong for my post about Baptiste, one line really caught my eye.
“What are you doing here?” Baptiste said quietly... “Well, as you can see, I’m enjoying the sun and fresh ocean breeze,” said Mauga. “It reminds me of home. Talon HQ is so dreary; it’s nice to get out of Rome every now and again.” (Wong, Page 6).
This quote blatantly states that Talon has an HQ in ROME, the new map! It is important because it means that, this map, which we have only gotten glimpses of, may be the Talon HQ map!! We have gotten several maps that are Overwatch base maps, like Watchpoint: Gibraltar or Ecopoint: Antarctica, but no Talon base map. This also makes me really excited because it might mean that we may get more Talon characters since it is a Talon map. I think this might happen because of Kanezaka being added and the Kanezaka Fox girl hints, check out Master Ian Gamer’s YouTube video on this theory.
Anyways, I’m really happy about Rome being added and that it will probably be a Talon HQ map. In the future, once I get through some of the post ideas I’ve already written down, I’ll make a couple posts about possible Talon characters. Also go check out Master Ian Gamer on YouTube, he covers everything Overwatch and is just a really great content creator especially if you like the lore of Overwatch.
So, TLDR: Rome should have been on everyone’s radar for possible new maps since we know from Baptiste’s short story that Rome is Talon HQ and based off of things in Kanezaka, we might get new Talon characters in OW2.
Overwatch Recalled: Sojourn
Sojourn is going to be added to Overwatch 2. So, today, I’m going to go over information we know about her and what I think her relationships will be like with the Recalled Overwatch.
Sojourn was an Overwatch captain that joined during the organizations Golden Years. After Doomfist escaped prison, she was the person who directed Jack Morrison to change tactics, focusing on arresting Maximilian. She assigned Tracer, Mercy, Winston, and Genji on the Storm Rising mission and commanded them via a radio channel. After Overwatch was disbanded, she laid low in Canada, presumably Toronto. She received the recalled message and will be meeting up with the Recalled Overwatch.
Overwatch Old Guard: Based off all of that we know that she knows Winston, Tracer, Reinhardt, McCree, Genji, and Mercy since they would all be considered part of the old guard. I think that she is really close with Winston, there is a clip from Blizzconline that shows her hugging Winston, I also think that she was close with Mercy, but not as close as Winston. I would also think that she has kind of a strict older-sister vibe with Tracer, McCree, and Genji since I’m assuming since she is older than all of them, out of the three of them McCree is probably the closest to her in age. Then, I think she has a rivalry with Reinhardt or they have very different strategies ways off thinking because when looking at some Blizzconline clips it looks like she is scolding him.
Overwatch but not totally old guard: I’m not totally sure if Sojourn ever met Mei, Brigitte, and Pharah, but she might have. I feel like she would get along well with both Brigitte and Pharah based off of photos and from what we have seen in Blizzconline. I would assume that her and Mei would get along, but I feel like it would take a while for them to get close since Mei is pretty shy.
Overwatch New Guard: Sojourn hasn’t met any of the new guard, unless you consider her most likely knowing Dr. Liao who is kind of Echo. So, I think that Sojourn would get along with Echo, maybe she would be a little sad since Echo reminds her of Dr. Liao. I feel like she would get along fine with Lucio and D.Va, she probably wouldn’t be super close with them since they are a lot younger than her. I think that she wouldn’t have much of a relationship with Zarya at first, I think that most of the characters won’t get along with Zarya for a while at least, but I think that they will still respect each other. Finally, I think that Sojourn and Baptiste would get along well, I feel like most of Overwatch would get along well with Baptiste based off voice interactions.
Anyways, next, I think that I’ll speculate on why Talon will be attacking/going after Zenyatta at the new India map and why they might be doing that.
TLDR: I think that Sojourn will get along well with a lot of the Recalled Overwatch, with more deep connections with the Old Guard.
Overwatch/OW2 Theories: Future Character Challenges
With the Pachimari Roadhog skin challenge, I wanted to speculate about what character challenges we might get in the future. So far, we have eleven character challenges; Nano Cola D.Va, Pachimari Roadhog, Maestro Sigma, Mardi Gras Ashe, Brick Bastion, Kyogisha Hanzo, Marammat Symmetra, Comic Book Tracer, Bastet Ana, Combat Medic Baptiste, and Dr. Ziegler Mercy. So, I’m going to go over some fun ideas for skin challenges based off real world holidays and pieces of lore.
Holiday Skin Challenge Ideas:
Summer Solstice Lucio: This would be in between the Anniversary and the Summer Games, so in late June/early July. I don’t have as clear of an idea of what the skin would look like compared to other skin ideas, but it would be shades of blue, yellow, orange, and white, kind of like a sunrise.
New Year’s Wrecking Ball: So this would be around New Year’s, so between Winter Wonderland and Lunar New Year, if Winter Wonderland started earlier than normal. So, Hammond would be in a white and black suit and the wrecking ball itself, would be a disco ball.
Valentine’s Day Hanzo: This would be around Valentine’s Day, before the Lunar New Year event. I’m not exactly sure what the outfit would look like, but it would have a red, white, and pink color scheme. I think that it would fit Hanzo best because he is an archer and cupid is depicted as an archer. Ashe(maybe not Ashe since she got the Mardi Gras skin) or Widowmaker would also be ok, but it should be a sniper in my opinion.
Lore Based Skin Challenge Ideas:
Bride Widowmaker: This would be between the Anniversary event and Summer Games, or between the Summer Games and Halloween Terror event. This would be based off a photo of Amelie and Gerard on their wedding day, so I think that would be cool.
Veteran’s Day Reaper: This would be in November, around the same time the Symmetra Marammat challenge happened last year. This would be a holiday based skin and a lore based skin. He already has his Soldier: 24 skin which is supposed to be a military uniform skin, but I think giving him a skin similar to Soldier: 76′s Commando and Night Ops. skins would be cool because he was part of the US military, like Soldier 76, before joining Overwatch.
Patrol Officer Orisa: This would probably be between Archives and Anniversary. We know that Orisa was built from one of the destroyed OR15 bots from the Numbani Doomfist fight and we know that the OR15′s were used as defense bots that worked with the police. So, I think that Orisa should get a police skin that would be similar to D.Va’s Police Officer skin and Brigitte’s Riot Police skin.
Deadlock Rebels Ashe: This probably wouldn’t be a character challenge skin, since Ashe already got the Mardi Gras skin. It will most likely(hopefully) be an Archives Event skin just like Deadlock McCree. If it is a character challenge, I think that it would happen in June/July of this year since the Deadlock Rebels book is coming out in June 2021.
Anyways, I think I’m going to go over a character I want added to the game soon or a map that I want added to the game that wasn’t actually added but already had a concepts created for it.
TLDR: Some ideas I have for possible character challenges include: Summer Solstice Lucio, New Year’s Wrecking Ball, Valentine’s Day Hanzo, Bride Widowmaker, Veteran’s Day Reaper, Patrol Officer Orisa, and maybe Deadlock Rebels Ashe.
Overwatch Recalled: Mauga
I mentioned that I was going to go over another possible future hero and I chose Mauga. This is going to be like my Junker Queen post. I’m going to go over what we know, then speculate a little bit.
What we know: Mauga is a member of Talon, specifically a Heavy Assault unit. We were really introduced to him in Baptiste’s short story What We Left Behind. He is a former friend of Baptiste, having worked together in Talon. He is described as being really tall and muscular. He seems to be extroverted, but we know that he is, most likely, a sociopath and, definitely, a sadist who flips from his lighter side and darker side quickly and is described as “a demon”. With all that said, he seems to have a soft spot for Baptiste, having allowed him to leave Talon in Monte Cristo.
We can assume that he is from Samoa since his name means “mountain” in Samoan. Based off the image from What We Left Behind, Mauga has long dark brown hair with a white/silver streak. He also has tattoos along his left arm and chest.
Speculation: He is the most likely character to be added to Overwatch 2, other than Sojourn, because the Overwatch Devs. planned to have him be Hero 31, but weren’t happy with how his kit fitted his character, so they created Sigma instead. Since Sigma is a tank and Sigma’s kit was based off Mauga’s, Mauga is going to be a tank. Also being a Heavy Assault unit, he would be like Orisa but he would have a machine gun on each arm. Since Sigma is an Offtank, Mauga will probably be a main tank to balance out the tank types. He will probably have some sort of shield that replaces one of his guns.
Unlike Junker Queen, Mauga has no listed voice actor so I think that Kevin Michael Richardson should be his VA. I know him from his work on Batman the Brave and the Bold TV series as a list of characters and as the Joker in the animated Batman series, but he was also in Gravity Falls, Danny Phantom, the original Teen Titans, etc. If you want to look at the longer post about Kevin Michael Richardson follow this link.
Finally, I am interested in seeing his interactions with the members of Talon and Baptiste in game. I think that he will get along best with Sombra and clash the most with Baptiste or Reaper. Also, like I mentioned in my post about Fio, if we get Mauga as a character we might get the Talon story mode with six players instead of four since Mauga would be the second Talon tank, but we also need another Talon support, so get on that Blizzard.
Also if you want to look at videos about Mauga, check out Master Ian Gamer’s videos; Mauga New Hero Concept(Tank Abilities & Full Hero Kit) and Mauga New Hero Candidate Breakdown(HeroWatch).
Anyways, I’m going to work on a post about possible ex-Blackwatch members and some other people in the profiles shown in the Recalled animated short, but if the Archives Event drops earlier than I think it is going to, I’m going to review the new skins and items.
TLDR: Mauga is one the most likely characters to be added to the game. He is a Talon Heavy Assault unit which means he will be a tank. Even though he seems to be nice to people, he isn’t a great person, I mean... he works for Talon. He was close friends with Baptiste when they were in Talon together.
He is tall, muscular, has dark brown hair with a silver/white streak, and he has tattoos. He is probably Samoan. He will probably be a main tank with dual machine guns and a shield. I want his voice actor to be Kevin Michael Richardson. I think that he will get along well with Sombra and might not like Reaper or Baptiste that much. If we get a Talon story mode in OW2, we might get to play as Mauga.
Check out Master Ian Gamer’s videos; Mauga New Hero Concept(Tank Abilities & Full Hero Kit) and Mauga New Hero Candidate Breakdown(HeroWatch).
Overwatch/OW2 Theories: Blackwatch Sniper
Sorry this has taken so long to get out, I’m celebrating spring break and I am watching my neighbors dogs so I’ve been pretty busy, but I hope you like it. ~Nova
About two weeks ago I was asked by @banwanyana about the idea of a ex-Blackwatch agent, other than Fio, responding to the Recalled message. She specifically mentioned the idea about Blackwatch having a sniper like Overwatch has Ana. I already had an idea about this in mind kind of, but it was about an ex-Blackwatch tank not sniper. So, today I’m going to theorize about a possible Blackwatch/ex-Blackwatch Sniper.
Blackwatch: The person is going to be a sniper, like a mix of Ana and Widowmaker. They probably wouldn’t have a biotic rifle, since Moira is Blackwatch’s healer, but I feel like the design of a Blackwatch sniper-rifle would have a similar design to Ana’s Horus/Captain Amari rifle with the color palette of Widowmaker’s Talon rifle.
This sniper might have been a sharpshooter for their country’s military, like Ana, or they were part of a gang and had to chose between jail or Blackwatch, like McCree. Going off of my answer for @banwanyana , this sniper would have also had some sort of intimate relationship with McCree which would give them both a good amount of interactions in game.
Post Disbanded Overwatch: If this character was a sharpshooter in their country’s military before joining Overwatch, then they would probably rejoined their country’s military. If they were part of a gang, kind of like McCree, they could have either gone back to the gang for a while before rejoining Overwatch or they became a vigilante like McCree. Also, if they stayed in contact with McCree, we could learn more about what McCree was doing(like how he really lost his arm).
Recalled Overwatch: They would be joining after everything in Paris and Toronto. They would probably join because McCree or Genji asked them. They would probably get along well with most of the Recalled Overwatch with maybe some tension between them and the original Overwatch members depending on how much of a role this sniper had in Blackwatch. If they killed a lot of people and don’t have too much of a problem with killing, they probably won’t get along well with Mercy and might scare some of the new Recalled Overwatch like Lucio, D.Va, or Baptiste, but they would probably get along decently with Zarya and would be close with Genji and McCree.
Anyways, I going to be doing my post about a ex-Blackwatch tank next. After that, if I don’t think of something else, I’m going to post about another cut map.
TLDR: This sniper would have a rifle that is a combination of Ana’s and Widowmaker’s rifles. They might have been a sharpshooter or gang member and would have had a relationship with McCree. After Blackwatch they might have rejoined their military, rejoined their gang, or become a vigilante. McCree or Genji would have asked them to join the Recalled Overwatch. They might not get along with the older Overwatch members depending on their previous status in Blackwatch. They might scare some of the new Overwatch members and get along with some of them.
Overwatch League: Encore Matches
Alright! In my post about the Overwatch League Season 4 Opening Weekend, I mentioned that they started to have "encore" matches. These encore matches are the rebroadcasting of APAC matches. This week's encore matches were Philladaphia Fusion vs. Seoul Dynasty and Philladaphia Fusion vs. LA Valiant.
I wasn't sure if you got tokens from watching the encore matches, but I now know that you do get tokens from watching the encore matches. I repeat you get Overwatch League tokens from watching encore matches!
Anyways, next week's encore matches are New York Excelsior vs. Chengdu Hunters and New York Excelsior vs. Hangzhou Spark. So, both NYXL matches are the encore matches which I'm super excited about. Also, I'll be posting about a cut Overwatch map soon, but for now, I hope you all are enjoying this weekend's OWL matches!
Overwatch Event: 2021 Anniversary
Alright! On Twitter, Overwatch announced the 2021 Anniversary Event is going to be starting on Tuesday, May 18th, then ending on Tuesday, June 8th. I am REALLY excited! In the trailer on Twitter, you can see that Baptiste has a new skin, Tracer has a new emote, and Brigitte has a new emote. I love the new Baptiste skin and, surprisingly, Twitter seems to also like it. I'm not totally sure what the Baptiste skin is about, but it gives me disco vibes. Now all that we need is a Symmetra skin; she hasn't gotten a legendary skin in two years.
Here's the link to the Twitter announcement if you want to check it out, and while we learn more about the new skins I will make posts about them.
Finally, if you haven't checked out my new side blog, I would appreciate it if you did so, I will be posting about books and some TV shows. My first post, which I am working on currently, will be about my favorite book series.
Overwatch Events: 2021 Anniversary Funky Baptiste
We got the name of the new Baptiste skin! It's Funky Baptiste and I love it! With that said, I am a little disappointed that his immortality field isn't a disco ball.
Overwatch Events: 2021 Anniversary Skin Rankings.
We got 8 new skins with the 2021 Anniversary Event(3 Epics, 5 Legendaries), and I will rank them! I will be ranking them in their category of Epic or Legendary, but I do think that all of them are cool. From top to bottom, I will go from my favorite to least favorite.
Epic Weekly Challenge Skins
Wrecking Ball - 8 Ball(Week 3): I love it so much! I think that it is such a good idea and that it was executed perfectly. I love how he has a little tuxedo and I love the wood grain and black plastic texture. I think that this could have been a legendary skin, I know that I would have bought it.
Echo - Bird of Paradise(Week 2): I think that it is super pretty and works really well with Echo's character. I love how colorful it is, but I wish that they incorporated a little more blue into the skin. I love the flower designs on her legs, chest, and arms.
Ana - Cybernetic(Week 1): I like this skin, no as much as the other skins. The color palette reminds me of Sombra's classic skin. I think the moving pixels inside her cape look awesome. The color palette and how they executed it were well done, but the visor is weird. I wish they just gave her a mask, like her Shrike skin.
Legendary Loot Box Skins
Sombra - Black Cat: She's a catgirl... that's it... that's my reason. But seriously, it's super cute! I love the fact that she has toe beans and cat ears. Fun Fact, the first gold gun I got was Sombra's and I think that it looks really good with the skin.
Junkrat - Junkfood: Yet another extremely colorful skin! It's so great! I think that this is the most detailed skin out of all of these ones. Some of my favorite details are the candy cane peg leg, moving cherry on his left boot, and the donut on his concussion mine.
Baptiste - Funky: I think that this skin looks great. I love how his gun has a texture that reminds me of 1970s cars and that he was a lava lamp in his backpack. I also think that his belt is cool, but I just don't think it is better than Junkfood or Black Cat.
Moira - Venus: I think that it is a cool skin with a good concept and pretty good execution with a lot of detail. With that said, similarly to the Baptiste skin, I just don't think it looks as good as the other skins.
Doomfist - Gladiator: I don't like it that much. I don't know whatever he is wearing on his face, I think it would look better if we could see his face. I just don't like it; Formal is a better skin by a lot.
Anyways, I hope you all are enjoying the event so far, I certainly am. I actually just won enough games to get the Ana skin! I will be posting on my side blog about my favorite book series soon, then about my one series in particular.
Overwatch Recalled: Sombra and Baptiste OW2 Looks!!!!!
Yooooooooo! They look amazing! When they said we would be getting more frequent updates at Blizzconline they really meant it. We have now seen Torbjorn, Sombra, and Baptiste's Overwatch 2 skins and we will be getting crossplay soon! Gosh, I'm happy!
Been getting back into Overwatch again and I would like to bless you all with Baptiste ass and Reaper waist :)
Ive been trying to take a diffrent approach to my art. These last couple of days have been depressing
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Ignore everybody else,
We're alone now
Retrograde by James Blake
reposting this w the colors fixed u.u
the dinner voiceline between these two >>
