I've been considering Zenyatta from Overwatch for this game. The question/problem I have is the lack of canon history for him.
He has been a playable character since game release and has a distinct personality, but Blizzard has yet to give him any lore for his background. Most of his official hero bio talks about the Shambali (robot religious group) as a whole more than him specifically. Oddly enough his hero bio neglects to mention his student, Genji, but game voice lines and a one panel comic appearance show their connection.
The game itself is a first person shooter but is not considered canon in terms of the characters' stories. Personality can be taken from the game but not events. For example, Zenyatta working with Genji, Tracer, Reaper, Widowmaker, and Hanzo to deliver an EMP bomb to underground King's Row is something that could happen in the game but would absolutely not happen in the actual story. Zenyatta would never cause a mass murder of his robotic kind. However, the voice lines about being troubled by the suffering of his kind in the location and the fact that he misses his brother shed light on what kind of person Zenyatta is.
I can write a personality section for him easily, but a canon history section is only going to be a few sentences long without headcanons.
Can I app Zenyatta for the game, or does his lack of background material make him not a good fit at this time?
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He has been a playable character since game release and has a distinct personality, but Blizzard has yet to give him any lore for his background. Most of his official hero bio talks about the Shambali (robot religious group) as a whole more than him specifically. Oddly enough his hero bio neglects to mention his student, Genji, but game voice lines and a one panel comic appearance show their connection.
The game itself is a first person shooter but is not considered canon in terms of the characters' stories. Personality can be taken from the game but not events. For example, Zenyatta working with Genji, Tracer, Reaper, Widowmaker, and Hanzo to deliver an EMP bomb to underground King's Row is something that could happen in the game but would absolutely not happen in the actual story. Zenyatta would never cause a mass murder of his robotic kind. However, the voice lines about being troubled by the suffering of his kind in the location and the fact that he misses his brother shed light on what kind of person Zenyatta is.
I can write a personality section for him easily, but a canon history section is only going to be a few sentences long without headcanons.
Can I app Zenyatta for the game, or does his lack of background material make him not a good fit at this time?