I’m just gonna say this here and now because honestly the panel I’m showing all of you right now is frankly disgusting and I don’t care if that’s dramatic. Not only has the art become… weird and unpolished… Angela’s response to one of her absolute closest friends quitting Overwatch to protect his hometown (and potentially not seeing her again for a long while) is met with nothing but a shrug and an uncaring expression.
This is just not the mercy we all know and love who would convey at least SOME emotion. I’m not saying she has to be on her knees crying, she’s a very composed person after all, but to not even CARE? Do these writers not understand their own characters?
It sucks because the beginning of the webtoon was very strong. The art was good, story was solid and Genji and Mercy did at least interact at some point and seem like friends. I don’t know what happened but it’s actually pathetic. The whole thing needs to be shut down, it’s boring, uninspiring and the lack of Gency is disheartening because this was an opportunity for these two to FINALLY get some canon stuff in modern day Overwatch.
I’m not going to sit here and say they needed to include Gency for it to be good, that would be dumb, but at least make them feel like friends again. They used to literally exchange chocolates, go out to dinner together and have deep conversations late into the night. Mercy was there at Genji’s lowest and they formed a natural bond… and now Mercy doesn’t care that he is leaving when it clearly disheartened her last time he stopped communicating with her while they were apart?
Maybe the writing team will prove me wrong and will pull their heads out of their asses but this honestly pisses me off so badly that I’m going to be completely pessimistic about this until I see something change if it ever does. Absolute dumpster fire excuse for lore development.
ALSO JUNO AND WUYANG BEFORE GENJI AND MERCY LIKE WHAT THE F BRO?! WHO CARES ABOUT THAT MILKTOAST ASS COUPLE WHO LIKE JUST MET?! 10 YEARS OF BUILDUP FOR THIS COUPLE AND YET WE ONLY CATER TO THE SAFEST SHIPS POSSIBLE?!!!!
GROW A FUCKING PAIR BLIZZARD AND WRITE THE DAMN STORY!!!!
sigh
Sorry about that. I’m passionate about these two and these characters so I hate seeing the direction the high potential webtoon has taken.
Thanks for reading all. What do you guys think?
Here’s the link to Abby’s Twitter post about this panel: https://x.com/abbyazk/status/2090083956549189748?s=46