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We’ve got this photo as a visual reference and how this is before everyone else that’s older started to gray. We know he was a private in the military and recruited after the omnic war, which was 2 years. So he’s at minimum 20 here and was 18 when the omnic crises started.

We have canon ages for certain characters when the crisis started. Ashe is stated in her story to have been 13 and she’s currently 41, so what makes Emre at minimum 46. The omnic war is stated to have started 28 years before current events, which tracks with Freja and Pharah being the same age since Pharah is stated to have been 6. They’re both 34, which supports Emre being at least 46. I’d assume maybe a little older for him to have stood out enough for Overwatch to recruit him.

The characters who are closest to this (who have hair) are Sojourn and Moira. Sojourn’s completely gray while Moira has gray streaks. I’m discounting any other signs of aging because Sojourn is mostly cybernetics and Moira’s experimenting with life and atrophy on herself.

This is just me complaining about Emre not having salt and pepper hair or being a silver fox and I will be disappointed if there isn’t an excuse of the Conspiracy doing some medical enhancement stuff.

At MINIMUM it's Freja as a 18/19 year old when recruited to Overwatch by Ana, and therefore Emre as a 25/26 year old when they met in overwatch as search and rescue then??? Or if they met later, Freja could have been like 20/21 and Emre as 27/28. And that's at MINIMUM, Emre might have been older than 20 in this picture. I mean, I doubt Emre is 18 here, he looks older than Mercy who is confirmed 17, and therefore Cassidy is 17 too. 20 makes semse like op points out.

This is to say Emre is at least 12 years older than Freja because he would’ve had to been at least 18 for voluntary enlistment in the Turkish military at the start of the omnic crisis. So he would’ve been at least 34 when Freja joined Overwatch.

I personally don’t find age gaps as a whole problematic, it’s the ages when the people meet is what I find sus. Like it’s strange that Freja is fresh out of collage and just starting her career, compared to Emre, who’s already at around 14 years in to working at OW. This context of age gap that intersects with being her work-superior makes the romance implications really ick for me. Like what do you mean this man she takes orders from invited her to meet his parents, with no other guests? And if he wasn’t the the one that initiated it, it’s still inappropriate for him to agree.

But the thing is, is that I’d be willing to accept a lot of his behavior if the narrative didn’t so explicitly push the romantic implications. Like I was genuinely confused when people pointed at panel with Emre’s hand on Freja’s shoulder and told her she did a good job and claimed it looked romantic. I was thinking “of course she’s smiling, she’s a young operative being praised by a respected senior officer and founder of her workplace”. Also “people are only saying it’s romantic because he’s a man and she’s a woman”. But the reinforcement is retroactively making Emre look like a creep.

We’ve got this photo as a visual reference and how this is before everyone else that’s older started to gray. We know he was a private in the military and recruited after the omnic war, which was 2 years. So he’s at minimum 20 here and was 18 when the omnic crises started.

We have canon ages for certain characters when the crisis started. Ashe is stated in her story to have been 13 and she’s currently 41, so what makes Emre at minimum 46. The omnic war is stated to have started 28 years before current events, which tracks with Freja and Pharah being the same age since Pharah is stated to have been 6. They’re both 34, which supports Emre being at least 46. I’d assume maybe a little older for him to have stood out enough for Overwatch to recruit him.

The characters who are closest to this (who have hair) are Sojourn and Moira. Sojourn’s completely gray while Moira has gray streaks. I’m discounting any other signs of aging because Sojourn is mostly cybernetics and Moira’s experimenting with life and atrophy on herself.

This is just me complaining about Emre not having salt and pepper hair or being a silver fox and I will be disappointed if there isn’t an excuse of the Conspiracy doing some medical enhancement stuff.

At MINIMUM it's Freja as a 18/19 year old when recruited to Overwatch by Ana, and therefore Emre as a 25/26 year old when they met in overwatch as search and rescue then??? Or if they met later, Freja could have been like 20/21 and Emre as 27/28. And that's at MINIMUM, Emre might have been older than 20 in this picture. I mean, I doubt Emre is 18 here, he looks older than Mercy who is confirmed 17, and therefore Cassidy is 17 too. 20 makes semse like op points out.

my recipe for drawing hands!

(small note that this is a shortcut that is more abt style and ease than anatomical accuracy. it helps to take time to really properly study hands, makes it easier to bend the rules a bit like this and have it still look good!!)