Author's Note:
The poll is still open, but let's talk about the results so far, hmm?
Bastion, Mercy, and Tracer are tied for first place. No one yet has voted for Torbjorn. That one doesn't surprise me, haha. But no one has voted for Hanzo either! Or Roadhog! I thought people liked those guys. Maybe I already did your favorite character awhile back. I guess I need to touch base with the fandom a bit more.
"Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten…"
"I guess. Mei Ling, what can you tell me about this one orange and blue girl zipping around?"
"Oh… that's Lena Oxton. You might recognize her better as her call sign; Tracer. She's a popular name remembered with Overwatch, regardless of the fact that she wasn't recruited until after the Omnic Crisis."
"So she's been around since the Omnic Crisis? The girl doesn't look a day older than twenty-five."
"The reason for that is… vague, at best. Years ago she was part of an experiment testing instantaneous transportation. But in the middle of it all something went wrong; Tracer would continually disappear, then appear, and she would just vanish like this hours, days, weeks, months at a time!"
"So essentially, this girl is a time traveler?"
"I suppose? I haven't been able to gather the exact details of what her chronal disassociation is capable of. All I know for certain is whatever that device anchored on her chest is, it helps Tracer manage her condition."
"Going wherever you were, able to change the past…"
"It doesn't work like that, either. Tracer's condition only affects her on the space-time plane. I doubt that she's capable of rewinding the physical universe to whatever point in time she wants. But wouldn't that mean that— gah, I don't know. I'm just spitballing at this point."
"Ageless…"
"Oh Snake, I'm so, so sorry. I completely forgot about your condition…"
"Don't call it a condition. I'm working as intended, as a clone from Big Boss. The genetic alterations done to me were also supposed to speed my aging process. I'd be a threat to the Patriots if I was around for too long."
"There's no reason for you to be out in the field doing this. We still know Meryl, she knows as much as we do how important what you're doing is."
"Meryl is busy with her own work."
"It doesn't have to be Meryl. It can be someone new!"
"Are you trying to get me to pass on some torch I'm holding, or to outright retire?"
"You've been doing these missions for years. And at this rate, you look like you've been at it since Big Boss' time—"
"That's exactly why I need to keep going. I have to use the most out of what I have as a clone of him… At least you got a few years in you, Mei Ling."
"But I won't be around forever either. And neither will Colonel Campbell, or Otacon, or Naomi. There are tons of people just like you— real heroes, Snake! Like Overwatch!"