Tracer: Emily luv, look up at the moon
Emily: [on facetime] ok
Tracer: I’m up here! do you see me?
Emily: it’s really far away babe I just see the moon
Tracer: !!!!!!!! THAT’S ME!! I’M THERE!!
Reyes: I designed the Blackwatch uniforms to be simple and tasteful, as well as practical for covert operations. You are welcome to make modifications but I would prefer if you kept things subtle.
like back in october I pieced together a little clip of mccree saying dick because I’m terribly immature, so here are a few of his lines with one word replaced with dick. you’re welcome i guess
Concept: Neither Gabe or Jack wanted to be Strike Commander because they knew it would involve a lot of sitting under a public microscope and trying not to offend everyone in the world at once. When people talk about it driving a rift between them it wasn’t because Gabe was jealous, it was because Jack was getting crushed by the stress.
I really like this theory!
I think Gabe was smart enough to realize that a military team with a U.N. babysitter would be more of a poster child for eating your vegetables and being nice to your neighborhood police officer and 100% wanted nothing to do with it, but the whole original Strike Team understood that if they weren’t at the head of the spear they would be replaced by someone more malleable.
Jacks pre-fall biop says he was a ‘act-first, think-later people-person’ with a knack for inspiring people. It made sense to have him lead the charge because he was likeable but also trustworthy.
Of course anyone who’s had to be in charge of a team before would understand that you can’t keep a tight ship and be everyone’s friend as well and that probably really got to Jack. He suddenly had to weigh the responsibilities of Overwatch to the world and his teams moral compass (and his own).
Gabriel having a more of a ‘get the job done, understand the costs, remember your priorities and plan around them’ mindset would have made him a great Strike Team leader (though maybe not the face of global peace).
With two very different jobs and goals that conflicted and distanced them it’s quite easy to see how it all fell down the well.
whitemanning critical 