I want to say a lot of things about it, but I can’t even express it.
You know, for some reason, D.Va is always portrayed as a brat who doesn’t take things seriously and thinks of life as a game.
The fandom always portrays her as a kid because she’s 19, like really?
And this is something that has always bothered me, but I’m not in position to complain as we didn’t (and still don’t) know a lot about her.
I’ve seen people express their admiration towards D.Va for being a hero at a young age. For that, I’m grateful, but still it always felt like everyone thought she is just a kid playing a game and not being aware of the reality.
But let me tell you all, this short brought me to tears.
For real.
I was just fine until she got serious. Until she let us know that even though she’s got a carefree personality she’s always thinking seriously.
Genji hated his body at the time of retribution to the point of commenting on it openly (“careful, McCree, I’d hate for you to have a body like mine” or something close to that I don’t remember the exact quote) and admitting that he only joined Blackwatch because he just wanted to walk again (don’t touch me)
He genuinely hated everything and would barely talk to others, which is also noticeable in another interaction he has with McCree
And it’s just so good to see him comfortable with what he is in present ? I just want him to be happy I love him mom
McCree: What’s it like, Genji? Y’know, as a cyborg. Genji: Pain and agony. And what am I? Man or a machine… McCree: Then why did you agree to it? Genji: I wanted to be able to walk again.
I like the concept that Moira’s had her own agenda for…well… ever. And you can either help her with it, or you can stand aside, or you can be destroyed. And in a sense she did find a kindred spirit with Gabriel–Gabriel’s growing increasingly frustrated with the red tape holding Overwatch back, and no one seems to be willing to just… do what needs to be done. So Moira comes in like, “You need someone who isn’t afraid to turn you into a goddamn smoke monster. You need someone who won’t hesitate to suck the life out of someone to protect you, and here I am.” So in a lot of regards, he and Moira get each other, and both McCree and Genji get them to an extent, but I think McCree was aware for a long time that Moira is willing to go to lengths that he’s not willing to go to, and the “Retribution” mission sort of served as this turning point where McCree is forced to ask himself, “Is Reyes more like me, or Moira?”
This moment, right here. Gabe knows Antonio is right. He knows that they can bring him in, read him the riot act, interrogate him til their lungs are sore and still they will get nowhere.
Because Antonio has Talon at his fingertips. Sure, he could afford a hell of an attorney if he wanted to, but Gabe has already seen what this man can do – first hand. He knows what he is capable of, and he would almost certainly do it again. Why stop at one Overwatch facility? If he was brought into HQ, Talon would have themselves a goldmine. One way or another, Antonio would walk free again, and so many more lives could be lost.
Gabe knows this.
And so, even though it could cost him everything, he pulls the trigger. For Gérard. For the fallen agents. For the greater good.
I got a LOT of voice lines dumped on me, so I’m going to try and paraphrase/detail what I heard. It’s hard to get them all in order, but I’ll make an attempt. If you have a clip of more, let me know! I’ll keep adding to this list as I play more.
PHASE ONE
McCree asks Reyes who’s going to fill the void with Antonio’s death. Reyes lists Vitale (murdered in the Doomfist comic), Doomfist in Numbani, and Maximilian with a casino. (This means all three of these people were already players in Talon at the time of the mission.)
McCree asks Reyes why he killed Antonio. He asks if it’s because Antonio made Reyes mad, and absolutely spits ‘is that all it takes?’. Reyes snapped something back, but it was lost on me with an event shift.
After the murder, Genji asks Reyes who Antonio was. Reyes details that Antonio was an arms-dealer with a ‘variety of other interests’. (Genji apparently went on this mission clueless, and just killed/took out men as told.)
McCree apparently went undercover as an Italian waiter to help get Blackwatch in for the mission.
He was so bad at it, he got fired. McCree says ‘that guy was being rude, he had it coming!’ indicating that a scuffle emerged, verbal or otherwise, and that McCree doesn’t care to take shit. Reyes also calls McCree ‘Jesse’ here.
McCree asks Reyes how he’s going to handle the Strike-Commander. Reyes tells him to let Reyes worry about what ‘Jack needs to know’. McCree snarks back ‘you know you can’t shoot him’ and Reyes replies ‘no, but I can shoot you’.
DOCKS/HOTEL/ART
Genji says in the hotel ‘it’s a good day to die’ and in the art museum, how much he enjoys killing. Genji also remarks that it seems like ‘the whole city is out to kill them’, to which McCree replies, amused: ‘just how you like it’.
McCree asks Genji what it’s like being a cyborg. Genji replies, ‘Agony’. McCree then asks why he went through with it – Genji replies ‘I wanted to walk again’.
Reyes pages the pilot, saying ‘Pilot! Where are you?’ indicating the pilot is indeed a throw-away character and not someone of import. She berates Reyes and asks him to stick to the plan next time, to which he replies ‘Now where’s the fun in that?’
Moira laments that it’s not Masquerade. Reyes says he didn’t see her as that kind of person, to which Moira quips ‘You’re not the only person that likes to dress up’.
After the final Art Room phase:
Reyes: Enough art! Let’s get out of here.
McCree: Never had an eye for it anyway.
Moira: Philistines.
FINAL PHASE
Moira comments that ‘we need to talk about your Italian’ (likely related to the undercover waiter bit), which leads to McCree indignantly saying he thought it was pretty good, he watched some old Spaghetti westerns to learn, and then goes on to absolutely butcher an attempt at Italian with Moira tiredly asking him to never do that again.
*Additional Retribution lore:
The Talon soldiers remark that the Blackwatch team is hard to kill.
Reyes 24 SEP skin features his dog tags which list his Religion as none, meaning he is canonly agnostic or atheist even before Reaperfication.
Genji: Talon once tried to recruit my father. Reyes: He didn’t take them up on their offer? Genji: He did not find them to his liking. Their aims did not coincide with his own.
A dumb realization about Scion Hanzo, And the Tale of The Two Dragon Brothers
So, there’s the theory about Hanzo staying with the Shimada after committing the “murder” on Genji. I can very well tell you that theory is correct. Scion Hanzo is Hanzo after he “murdered” Genji.
And this ties very closely into the good ol’ Tale Of The Two Dragon Brothers.
In the tale, the Dragon of the South Wind had triumphed over the Dragon of the North Wind. (Hanzo “kills” Genji)
“But, as time passed and he realized his solitude.”
From this one line of the tale, and correlating to Hanzo and Genji’s story says alot of things about what Hanzo did after the “murder” and how closely this tale really ties into the Shimada Brothers.
Hanzo never left the Shimada immediately after “killing” Genji. He stayed with them and went with business as usual. He tried to move on from the incident. But as time passed, he realized just how guilty and lonely he is from committing the “murder” and it broke him, driving him to leave the clan. I also suspect that the clan members, including the elders were also telling him to just forget about “that embarrassment to the Shimada Clan,” (some words I also suspect were thrown at him when they talked about Genji) And it only added more pressure, guilt, and even anger to Hanzo’s well-being.
I feel very dumb for not making this realization sooner.
Stop talking and start doing: My Fallout Shelter for my Tumblr blog 