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It might be silly, but for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been doing something I have almost never done before, and never this much: I’ve been writing fiction, and lots of it<\/a>. Overwatch fanfic, to be specific.<\/p>\n

Over the winter holidays, Overwatch held a couple of events, and released a comic, called Reflections. It’ the one where we find out completely and totally unambiguously<\/em> that Tracer, the literal face of the game<\/em>, the character on the box<\/em>, is queer. We meet her girlfriend, they smooch, it is inarguable text<\/eM>.<\/p>\n

It was like a second Korrasami just fell out of the air and landed on us, and it was wonderful<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But we also see a single panel of Widowmaker, from the back, standing, looking to me despondent, at G\u00e9rard’s grave. (For those who don’t know: he was her husband, and her first official target as an assassin.) It’s one of what I consider to be several<\/em> hints dropped that her official backstory is a lie. And there have been a bunch of people – since the beginning – shipping Tracer and Widowmaker, which to me is nonsensical in canon, because Lena would never forgive Am\u00e9lie for killing Mondatta in the cinematic video “Alive.”<\/p>\n

Lost yet? Sorry, there’s no way out but through. Anyway, one of these shippers did a marvellous and touching comic set a few minutes after that single frame of Widowmaker, with her and Venom – the version of Tracer who is with Talon, not Overwatch. And I liked it so much, I started thinking, “How would we actually get here? What would it take?”<\/p>\n

Now, I’ve never really been a fiction writer, but I can<\/em> make take characters’ lives and seriously<\/em> fuck them up, but good. And, unlike certain writers (cough cough m*ff*t cough) I care about trying to make it work in character<\/eM>. And the analytical engine in the back of my brain started churning.<\/p>\n

Then a couple of weeks ago, it just started falling out. I feel almost less like “writer” here than “transcriber.” It’s still short – a novelette – but Chapter 12 went up today. There have kind of been 13, but one is out of continuity and not listed with the main work<\/a>, because it’s kind of an AU-to-my-own-AU aside.<\/p>\n

Fortunately<\/em>, it’s not all<\/eM> I can think about, but holy crow is it dominating my brainspace. I have new relationship energy with writing? Apparently? Or something? I don’t even know. (Seriously, it feels like NRE. It’s goofy.)<\/p>\n

And since I’ve checked with actual writers and am told this is a thing that happens, I’m willing to admit to this story about<\/em> my story.<\/p>\n

I was in spawn point one on offence in Gibraltar, as Tracer (of course), and looking out the upper-floor window to see how the defence was setting up. Surprisingly few people do this, given how useful it is.<\/p>\n

And Widowmaker came up beside me, to do the same thing, in full Talon-wear, and we said hello, like you do, and she looked through her scope to get a better view, and suddenly I saw her through Venom’s eyes<\/eM>.<\/p>\n

Now, I have issues with Widowmaker’s character design, and a lot of them are probably pretty obvious, but leave those aside for the moment. Seeing her as Venom<\/eM> – as my Talon Tracer – sees her… even for for just that moment, she literally<\/eM> took my breath away.<\/p>\n

If that’s what the tracermaker shippers have been seeing this whole time… hoo boy. Now, I really<\/em> get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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