>>83588131What I find interesting is that while there was a robot uprising, it didn't conclude in one of the two ways that usually does with either the humans or synths wiping the other side out.
Rather, the humans won, but decided that robots do have rights after all and gave the survivors a pass and some societal rights.
That's usually where the story ends, rainbow love-in/we'll try to make tomorrow better. But this is where the game's "present" picks up.
So you've got characters like athlete turned war hero, Zarya, who believe that strength is unity, but distrusts Genji because he's part machine and she dislikes Omnics in general. This puts her and veteran mechanist Torbjorn in a similar mind to Junkrat & Roadhog, a pair of deranged criminals whose hatred of Omnics would make them strawmen of how that sentiment is bad until you learn that their home was nuked during the Omnic Crisis that didn't happen that long ago.
Then you get into the actual android cast members. Bastion might love nature, but he's also killed his fair share of people, is covered with guns, and can't even really talk like more modern Omnics can. What are his rights? Zen makes for some cool imagery, but that levitation is just a jet pack and those extra Transcendance arms are just holograms. Is his sect really enlightened or have they just made themselves look the part?
Besides that, I think the characters are plentiful and varied enough that you could get a lot of mileage by having them bounce off one another VS or BatB style.
