The collab for next season in Overwatch is Persona 5, which I ironically did kind of see coming, because the phantom thief outfits would look cool as heck. It's also one of my dream top three collabs, so I guess I have to buy the whole damn bundle when it drops. :') The last few days have reactivated my love for Persona 5 like a sleeper agent, including me going "oh, wait, I have a ton of P5 songs on my Ashe/Ouihaw playlist, I named one of my fics after lyrics from the anime opening because it fit Deadlock too well, and I made rough plans for a P5 AU with Ashe once upon a time because she thematically fits being a phantom thief to the letter."

That being said if she doesn't get Joker I'm gonna riot. Like.
- thrown out by parents
- in trouble with the law
- found family and found dad
- heists every day
- the leader
- calculating, playing 5D chess
- liberates herself, core P5 theme
- stole my heart
- traitors never prosper 💜
- BOB. ARSENE.



Me, hmm, now that I think about it, no wonder I liked Joker so much...

There's also a new map being added next season that expands the area of the Deadlock hideout, which includes actual lore(!!!!) of them planning a heist on an abandoned Watchpoint full of experimental weapons and like. C'MON. IF YOU GIVE THIS TO KIRIKO I WILL CRY. Let Ashe be Joker and Widow be Ann because shockingly she doesn't have a catsuit outfit yet. Imply that Ashe wants to kiss girls. Please manifest this for me. 🙏

I have played enough stadium this season to have racked up another 3k comp points... the day before drives. ( stadium tl;dr. Ashe galactic IMMINENT )

Furniture update! Doors went on my bookcases this week. This... was more complicated than it needed to be: whilst I was moving shelves around myself (which is actually very simple and easy and shockingly a delight that I can capably do it physically, a 1/100 thing tbqh), I tried to add in some additional shelves I bought only to discover the pins to hold the shelves in place did not fit. My Billy's are, it turns out, pre-2014 Billy's, despite being bought in summer 2014. Ikea does warn this, but it says spring 2014, and July is, y'know, not spring. So, lol.

This was not only a pins not fitting problem but the pre-2014 Billy's have less holes than current Billy's do, so attaching doors isn't possible unless you do the diy and manually make them. Fortunately my dad could do the diy, but it took many more hours than initially expected, so new bookcases to replace my desk are going to have to be next time.

I put all my books back in Monday night. Very speedy without having to clean or move things in the way first. I'm waiting on shelf pins for the remainder, when I can slowly go through returning everything else and reorganising the cupboard parts for hygiene stuff. Once I've emptied out the 4x4 kallax and sent everything back to its Billy home, it'll be time to tackle cleaning everything on the original 5x5 kallax, in anticipation of the inserts that'll be getting... slowly getting there. The bookcases were arguably hardest and they look so much better now. And the best part is they're ✨dust free✨.

Also we're getting Tales of Xillia (but not 2, boo) in October and I am SO READY FOR MILLA THAT'S MY GODDESS GIRL she's perfect I love her. To celebrate I got her alter out after probably ten years and put it on my shelf. :3 she is free from her PS3 jail.

Not Ludger though. He has to stay in the box.

I'll preface this as I've barely played any standard gameplay for a couple of weeks and that I only played Wuyang twice, and alongside one a half dozen times.



( Stay hydrated! )

As for his lore, this is what we know about him.
• he's in water college
• okay seriously he's in a prestigious university in China that has schools based on the five elements. He failed to get into fire college (martial arts and combat) due to low scores, so ended up in water college (medicine). Because you have to not be smart to get into medicine.
• he has an older sister and didn't live up to his parents' lofty plans for him and exudes the idea of honour and familial expectation. This is a very modern day value to make him relatable to a very specific audience - but literally every SE Asian hero is like this. And they don't do this with the other heroes at all.
• he successfully fought through the tail end of a Null Sector attack, saved his sister, won, and his family became more accepting.
• but also he sleeps through his classes because did I mention he's relatable??

That's it on the lore. Really. ( Wuyang is proof of purpose a male character simply has to exist to be liked. Women deserve better )

Is it tank lady time yet? I think it should be tank lady time next.

What's better than one all star? Two all star!

Last time I shared this, tank was elite 4 and dps was elite 3. I really gotta stop lmao. It took about 38 games on D.Va to get into pro, and then 16 more to get through pro; the final number was 54, and Juno/Mercy was 55, 30 wins in each role. D.Va has more hours because most of her games were longer... I love my lava build but it's often five maps or more. If I was to do this with Ashe (I am not going to), she's at 21/44, and would take significantly longer. Hence why I'm not planning to, lol.

I did see someone on the fabled legendary tier, and the jump in games played to get to legendary is like, 230 games, 130 wins. So I am definitely not doing that even remotely. Thank you random Kiri for your science service to know how obscenely low the gains are in all star so I don't have to. Honestly, what's keeping me and my duo playing this mode is that losses aren't as punishing as standard comp; even in pro three loses can equate the percentage of one win. It is much, much easier to see number go up, and that time investment means you get better naturally and you're like oh, well I might as well go all the way now. I am looking forward to having an unranked mode next season though; I'd like to try out some other characters and figure out some builds, but it's really not possible with the current set-up. This will split my time some for sure, but I don't know if I'll go this hard on point gains again. We'll see.

Also this points out to me I almost got 1k comp points in less than two weeks jfc Rems please. Add this to being level 10 in the PvP season in XIV on two characters after eight days and I really, really gotta be stopped. I need those arm warmers.

Wuyang's trial is this weekend and next week is drives before season end. I think I'll put together my stadium build thoughts as drives wind down, if not sooner. Time to lock in.