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In the Beginning, there was an Armourer and a Living Weapon by solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
12 Feb 2020
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This is not the original posting of The Armourer and the Living Weapon. This is a modified version, one which leads directly into Of Gods and Monsters, the side-step sequel that outgrew its parent. As such, it is effectively a prequel.
If you have read The Armourer and the Living Weapon already, the major changes start after Chapter 22, though there are small changes in chapters before that. If you have not, and do not wish to read Of Gods and Monsters, go read the original instead. The ending is very different, and standalone.
Someone had to be the template for Widowmaker, and that someone was an armourer, materials engineer, and former field sniper, all for Talon, named Emily Gardner. She loves her work, just as much her blue counterpart does, and together they make one of the more formidable weapons in Talon's arsenal.
But good things can't last forever, can they?
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- Part 1 of Of Gods and Monsters
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The Arc of Conflict, Edda 17: The Cult of Mercy by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
03 Feb 2020
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Katya Volskaya's government in Russia has destroyed the omnium Koschei, and held their own against the Gods of Oasis. With no point to additional fighting, the overt war has paused. But covertly, the conflict carries on. The gods, after all, still have a plan, and will do what is needed - one way, or another.
Angela - Mercy - has discovered she has worshippers, a small cult, like Hana's D.votees. Unlike Hana, she finds this rather delightful.
Moira, on the other hand, does not.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict is a continuance of The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and The Armourer and the Living Weapon. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 104 of Of Gods and Monsters
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The Arc of Conflict, Fragment s15,1: Two Outlaws Waiting for a Train by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
26 Jan 2020
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Katya Volskaya's government in Russia has destroyed the omnium Koschei, and held their own against the Gods of Oasis. With no point to additional fighting, the overt war has paused. But covertly, the conflict carries on. The gods, after all, still have a plan, and will do what is needed - one way, or another.
Jesse McCree walked out on Ashe's Deadlock Gang years ago. If he wants to come back - even for a single job, an important job, a necessary job - he's got to a lot of lost trust to rebuild.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict is a continuance of The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and The Armourer and the Living Weapon. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 103 of Of Gods and Monsters
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The Arc of Conflict, Saga 15: Pebbles in Motion by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
19 Jan 2020
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Katya Volskaya's government in Russia has destroyed the omnium Koschei, and held their own against the Gods of Oasis. With no point to additional fighting, the overt war has paused. But covertly, the conflict carries on. The gods, after all, still have a plan, and will do what is needed - one way, or another.
Zarya's march is underway, and everyone from Moscow to Taipei is trying to figure out how it's happening - and what happens next.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict is a continuance of The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and The Armourer and the Living Weapon. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 102 of Of Gods and Monsters
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The Arc of Conflict, Fragment s14,3: Everything She Needs is Here by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
19 Dec 2019
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Katya Volskaya's government in Russia has destroyed the omnium Koschei, and held their own against the Gods of Oasis. With no point to additional fighting, the overt war has paused. But covertly, the conflict carries on. The gods, after all, still have a plan, and will do what is needed - one way, or another.
Aleksandra Zaryanova's walkabout is over.
Zarya's march has finally begun.
Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict is a continuance of The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and The Armourer and the Living Weapon. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 101 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Moira O'Deorain has won. With her three Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - Mora O'Deorain has seized control of Talon. Akande Ogundmu is dead, his war thwarted. Gabriel Reyes is dead, his ever-shifting games of chess at an end. Sanjay Korpal is dead, his corruption excised - and more.
However, even that is not enough, not if she and her peerless weapons are to remake the world, and humanity along with it. She will need an entire collection of tools, a pantheon so powerful that no one could hope to stop her. But just as no plans survive first contact with the enemy, no one person can truly hold back all the wills of all the gods, so sometimes, plans - and perhaps, even, those who make them - must change.
Hesitant to read this? Find out more about The Arc of Creation here, more about The Arc of Ascension, here, and more about the Arc of Conflict, here.
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Widowmaker brought herself in from the cold, one day, exchanging a list of Talon agents for sanctuary. Why? That is not easy to explain. But it does get explained, and that leads to other questions, which are, in turn, also not easy to explain.
This is a standalone continuity largely canon-compliant with what we knew of canon in Overwatch before July of 2017 (pre Masquerade/Doomfist), which is when the first story was written. It focuses on Widowmaker, from the standpoint specifically of how a built - a created - personality thinks and feels about other people - and in general.
Hesitant to read this? Find out more about the stories here.
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Collecting the key elements of The Fear of Spiders, an Overwatch AU series which gives the character with the least agency in the canon - Amélie Lacroix - and gives her absolutely all of it.
No, really. All of it.
Hesitant to read this? Find out more about these stories here.
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This is a collection of short stories and scenes set in the on overcoming the fear of spiders Overwatch AU continuity, centred on Lena "Tracer"/"Venom" Oxton and Amélie "Widowmaker" Lacroix. All are canon within that AU unless otherwise noted.
You should read the the original novella before reading these short pieces, both for spoiler avoidance and context.
Hesitant to read this? Find out more about these stories here.
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One little change can trigger more consequences than you can ever imagine. When you look at things from another point of view, it's not so hard to turn a hero to a villain.
(The Slipstream / Odile AU)
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Amélie Guillard's accident completely changed her life. She lost too much in one night and the emptiness would only grow, even when she tried to fight it, even when she moved to another country.
Lena Oxton is a street artist with a pretty common life in London. That changes when an unknown ginger lady literally lands out of nowhere in her room, in the middle of the night.
Emily has a mission, but things are not going quite as she expected. Why does she keep being yanked to that girl in particular...?
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- Part 1 of Terpsichore
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21 Aug 2019
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Bookmarked by solarbird
11 Aug 2019
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A series of unrelated ficlets where Sombra kisses (almost) every girl in Overwatch. Some platonic and safe for work, others decidedly less so. [Sombra/ Widowmaker, Ana, Mercy, Pharah, Zarya, Orisa, Symmetra, DVA, Mei, Tracer & Emily, Athena, Junker Queen, Volskaya, Brigitte, Ashe, Moira]
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15 Jul 2019
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Hana "D.Va" Song and Aleksandra "Zarya" Zaryanova have been members of the newly-rebooted Overwatch organization for a little while now. They've been forming friendships and getting familiar with it all for a little while now.
...they've also been tripping over themselves crushing on each other for a little while now.
Sometimes, all it takes is the right moment, the right smile, the right few words. Sometimes it requires a lot of awkward run-ins with wrenches and messy spills and a whole lot of blushing. This would be one of the latter.
Bookmarked by solarbird
07 Jun 2019
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Talon is in turmoil. A group of insurgents struggle to fight the oppressive organisation from the inside, where loyalty is conditional and blackmail runs rampant. Overwatch manages to catch Widowmaker on a mission gone sour, and it seems they can finally heal her for good - but delusions of glory can't hide old wounds forever, and the sniper's return starts to tear the Watchpoint in half.
When Talon returns for their property and destroys the illusion of safety at the Watchpoint, the young generation of heroes must pick up the mantle and act before it's too late - Talon strikes hard where its prey is weakest, and the raptor's grip is not so easily broken...
Bookmarked by solarbird
06 Feb 2019