* 𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐄

𝐇𝐄𝐘 ! this is a pinned post with some brief, general information and whatnot that’s important to me and this blog. more information can be found in the about and rules links found in my description. first and foremost, i’m an independent and selective roleplay blog. i will only roleplay with mutuals and, on top of that, will only roleplay with those above the age of 18. i politely request that if you’re under 18 that you do not follow nor engage with me.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐍 goes by the name oddity and he/him pronouns. i’m 24 years old and live in the west-most side of australia, making my timezone GMT+8. i am not cis, nor am i straight. i’m not endosex, either. other overwatch roleplay blogs i run, with varying activity, include a doomfist ( found at @akande ) and a soldier76 ( found at @misericorde ).

NONVERBAL STARTERS ;  🌸 put a flower in my muse’s hair

A flower, big and white and in bloomed in the shape of a trumpet, was awkwardly tucked betwixt his cheek and a large screw. The weight of the flower proved too much for its angle, and it promptly tumbled past face and shoulder  — and was swiftly caught between forefinger and thumb.

Zenyatta took a moment to sweep his gaze over the wonderous flora. A chuckle, pleasant and airy, bubbled out of him.

NONVERBAL STARTERS ;  🐈 lean against my muse’s side

Heat bundled tight in his core. He wasn’t scorching but he was warm — warmer than usual. His lights, a vivid azure only hours before, were starting to die down. He hadn’t slept for Iris knows how long. He wasn’t usually one to deprive himself of rest but he did have a tendency to put others ahead of himself in care, especially if dire.

While omnics didn’t have to descend to slumber as frequently as their fleshy counterparts, they still needed to shut down sometime — even if only briefly. It was a safety mechanism. They could run for longer without needing time for repose, yes, but they needed to ensure that they didn’t overexert themselves. Overexertion could lead to overheating, which, in some cases, proved deadly.

And overexert was exactly whence Zenyatta danced.

A sound on the periphery of his audio catchment, though faint. Faint enough that he could ignore it — up until the sound was promptly unveiled as Genji, settling beside him and leaning against him.

modern reapyatta

i’ll endeavour to push some out during the weekend! i might reblog some memes in the meantime to grease these writing cogs of mine

Many omnics didn’t possess pain receptors pre-Crisis. Unless deemed necessary for the unit (most frequent in variants of medical models), there wasn’t a perceived need to integrate pain receptors. It was just another layer of coding and wiring; ultimately, it seemed unnecessary.

This structural omission proved to make the omnics a bigger, badder foe during the Omnic Crisis. No matter if you hacked off an arm, a leg, or shot anything bar the system’s core, they’d continue fighting. They couldn’t process pain and thus it didn’t matter, especially if under the influence of the God Programs, if they’d been grievously injured. Even if you shot off their legs, they’d drag themselves slowly towards their human foes, clawing at the ground like a ghoul emerging from earth.

Post-Crisis, while not an official recommendation asserted by the UN, it became the next standard among omnic production to integrate pain receptors into these newer models; not a universal standard, but definitely an unspoken one. An almost preventative measure for a second wave. An unintentional side effect of this, however, has been a rift within the omnic community. Newer models can be regarded as too sensitive, too weak. Some newer models assert they’re better, they’re the next level between blurring the lines of machine and human, and that the older generations are just that: old. It has, also, furthered the rift between omnic rights activists and those who code and construct and alter; they’ve asserted that the addition of pain receptors wasn’t in good nature, and is instead something to make omnics less of a threat. While true, there’s been a heavy denial of that.

Zenyatta was one of the models integrated with pain receptors. While all omnics can feel emotional turmoil and suffering, this added layer of receival of pain proves to help Zenyatta on his path to empathetic connection with humans.

While not nearly as deadly nor penetrative as a bullet, Zenyatta’s floating, projectile orbs prove to be able to swiftly incapacitate foes. Though Zenyatta could utilise them fatally, he typically prefers to incapacitate those who would threaten the peace and safety of himself or others. Fatal strikes are reserved for those who Zenyatta has deemed an active foe to society; he does not kill flippantly nor frequently. 

His ‘favoured’ incapacitation spots are breaking the fibula or tibia or both in humans, and in omnics, the structural equivalents. Preferably in just one leg, but both legs may be broken should the first prove to slow them down only marginally. His second favoured incapacitation spot is breaking a wielding arm, utilised especially if someone is threatening to shoot or stab another.

NAME / ALIAS :   my online alias is oddity, though my actual name is alphonse. have had multiple ppl call me al or fonzy.

BIRTHDAY :   july 4th.

ZODIAC SIGN :   cancer.

SEXUALITY :   bi?? i think?? i’m either bi or gay it’s one of the two but i think i’m bi tbh.

HOBBIES :   writing, drawing, and gaming predominantly. 

FAVORITE COLORS :   pink, black, red.

FAVORITE BOOK(S) :   it’s been a hot minute since i last fully read a book and my memory is a hellscape. but i DO remember liking The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson. i didn’t get alllll the way through but what i read was delectable.

LAST SONG LISTENED TO :  MORE by K/DA.

LAST FILM WATCHED :   corpse bride! it was halloween time babey and so i wanted to rewatch a classic.

INSPIRATION FOR MUSE(S) :   my inspiration is a fickle and unusual thing. i basically stared at zenyatta for like. two minutes straight and my brain just went, “sagely monk might be fun to rp” and here i am.

DREAM JOB :   honestly i don’t know anymore? i had my dream job, at the time, up until covid kicked in. considering i’m burnt out on that (it was a mental health job where i specialised in psychosis and transgender youth for anyone wondering), i don’t know what i want to do. maybe something to do with writing? creative writing, if possible.

MEANING BEHIND YOUR URL :    omnic is fairly self-explanatory. zenyatta is an omnic! i honestly don’t know how i got this url; my presumption is the person who had it saved deleted it / deleted their primary blog, and hence it was left available and not left as an “unavailable free url”, as some urls are when their user was blocked / banned. either way: thank u old owner.

Zenyatta, as much as he embraces being an omnic, knows that there are certain irregularities between the humans and omnic besides obvious biological structures that cause rifts between the two. One of those is the common, but not universal, cue of facial expressions. Smiles, particularly, are important in many facets of human society.

Many omnics, however, are not equipped with the ability to smile. Instead, those who’re more assimilated in human society focus upon ‘smiling’ with their voice, expressing heightened happiness or excitement and / or using their body and arms especially for vibrant expressions. While Zenyatta will express happiness and fondness with verbal inflections, for those who’re close with Zenyatta, he’ll offer a different way of expressing his happiness nonverbally. 

He’ll make the lights on his forehead light and dim to form an incredibly simplified smiling emoji.