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Re: Overwatch
Date: 2019-04-02 12:48 am (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGAYzUq0FWg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H53q4K3D9V0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml0ySvrVd6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wSws4qREkE
In the broadest interpretation: An older (check) man (or not) who is a baddie (check), deals drugs and does other shady shit (check) and is richer than God (very check)--that then gets reeled into a fling with a younger girl replete with a lot of the trappings of decadent Americana (Ashe is a cowgirl, so fucking check), while staying very in-charge (my business, my rules) and dominant. Shades of Lolita optional but desirable.
The problem with this is I don't especially know of any Overwatch characters that fit the other side of this dynamic? I guess you could go D.Va for maximum dirtybadwrong? But good luck getting people to sign off on any D.Va f/f that isn't with Brigitte or her MEKA teammate who is literally a portrait. I guess Sombra is younger than Ashe and it could be hot (and I wrote the Ashe/Sombra snippet on FFA, but dememe's deadzo), but I don't know that I completely buy that ship myself. Because Sombra's the kind of character who doesn't get into anything that doesn't serve her ulterior motive, and Ashe is very much on the periphery of whatever plot-dominating conspiracy exists in the world of Overwatch, except as she's relevant to McCree (and I don't like the specter of a man hanging over my F/F).
TBH, Ashe had the bad luck to bounce off a fandom that has a bug up its ass about white women. I was kinda disappointed with her too in the beginning because I found her design kinda generic anime/MOBA (to the point where there is, apparently by pure coincidence?, also a skinny white-haired lady named Ashe in League of Legends), and felt that she could stand to look a little more "weathered cowgirl criminal" and a little less "Instagram girl". But you know what, if fanon can spin McCree into a vaguely racist caricature in a binder, then Ashe can be a grizzled MILF in my head. Thusly:
http://klementev.tumblr.com/post/182991242468/klementev-if-ashe-looked-a-bit-more-like-her-age (with bonus HELL)
http://hattersarts.tumblr.com/post/179735415875/ashe-but-like-older-and-interesting
https://beetleknee.tumblr.com/post/180212060868/thinkin-about-her-sweet-boys
http://about92bleachedrainbows.tumblr.com/post/182161375855/another-leyendecker-paint-study-this-time-with
http://drdr214.tumblr.com/post/181708211482
The people who are shipping Ana/Ashe... like I support you, but BOOO, those are not my Ana ships. >:[ The other Ashe ship that appears to be around in the fandom is Ashe/Widowmaker... which gets a solid "meh" from me.
(The other thing about Ashe is that, like D.Va, she doesn't really have a lot of canonical ties to other female characters in the cast--or to anyone besides McCree--and unlike D.Va, she wasn't a launch character who had time to accumulate mounds of fanon and favoritism. And like, fanon is half of Overwatch. LOLRIP.)
Re: Overwatch
Date: 2019-04-02 12:49 am (UTC)and uhhhh, I didn't realize this comment would be this long with no cuts, so whoops.
Re: Overwatch
Date: 2019-04-02 05:29 am (UTC)This is a lot to take, anon, hold on I need to process this lmao.
Re: Overwatch
Date: 2019-04-02 10:36 am (UTC)LDR's songs are... something. But I think I managed to get the vibe you're talking about!
Anon, I'm guilty of going heart-eyed the moment I saw that older!Ashe art back when she was released (second link, it doesn't open but I recognize the 'older and interesting lol) and forgetting all about actual!Ashe. But honestly at this point, both older!Ashe and actual!Ashe do it for me, so I might be winning here because canon and fandom both have provided haha. Thanks for the links!
Sombra's the kind of character who doesn't get into anything that doesn't serve her ulterior motive She would, out of curiosity.
Ana/Ashe is actually the Ashe ship for me, with Ashe/Sombra closing in. I can't see them as friends or lovers, but as enemies? It's the only think I've thought about after Ashe was released. The age gap, the different volumes when commanding people lol. I like the idea of Ashe challenging Ana in everything and failing.
What are your Ana ships?
Did you consider going with Ashe/Female OC? A young, new gangmember that flips Ashe's world upside down. *_*
Re: Overwatch
Date: 2019-04-03 03:49 am (UTC)I mean, when you put it that way I can sorta see it? My Ana ships are Ana/Mercy (uhh, can you tell I have a Thing? I have a Thing) with side plates of Ana/Moira and Ana/Widow. And I can multiship, but my brain is a bit like, "Ana already has a wealth of female characters in her orbit, so what would make her gravitate to Ashe, specifically, and why would circumstances conspire that they would even meet when their only point of potential connection is (again) McCree?" Then again, it's Overwatch and we're basically making everything up out of our ass as we go along anyway. And like, I do feel obligated to stan any Ana/female character ships on principle, because the SMILF (sniper MILF) F/F niche is sorely underserved by this fandom.
Re: Overwatch
Date: 2019-04-04 08:11 am (UTC)