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MCCREE AT 17 COULD PASS FOR A GROWN MAN 

This is a fact corroborated by Pharah in the same photo

She’s five years younger than Mercy or Mccree but looks to be a child in this picture where they are clearly older teens. So Pharah here would have been about 12 years old. McCree looks like an adult. He’s well built and tall and his shoulders are more similar to the much older members. An argument could be made for a 12-15 year old Pharah, but that still just means McCree would have looked grown even in his late teens. His Overwatch info lists him as 38 but his official release as 37, which means Gabe possibly falsified his age to get him into Blackwatch. 

Also, I’ve seen a lot of boys who look like full grown men despite being in their mid to late teens, so it’s not a stretch that a young man like McCree who’s been fighting since childhood would have grown big enough to give that impression.

MCCREE KNOWS SPANISH

Ironically, despite Gabriel Reyes being of canonical Spanish descent, Mccree is more likely the spanish speaker, given his origins in Santa Fe New Mexico. He also speaks a few words of it in the Trainhopper comic, 

and is seen drunk in a bar in Dorado. 

Apart from the fact that NOT knowing Spanish in a gang in Santa Fe and a bar frequented by questionable people in Dorado would have likely killed him faster, his ties to Blackwatch probably allowed him to learn multiple languages. If not, Spanish would have been the most convenient for him to learn. 

JOEL MORRICONE IS LIKELY HIS COVER NAME 

This is more of a fan theory but it has several backing facts, such as the fact that McCree has a voice line: Don’t know what you heard, but my name’s not Joel. Best remember that. Joel was his placeholder name before the reveal of characters, Morricone is a name referencing Ennio Morricone, who composed for multiple Westerns (Westerns from whom Mccree’s whole Cowboy vibe was based on). Also his background says he went underground but recently resurfaced which either means he just laid low for many years or he had a cover identity to hide behind. Also him being present in Hanamura while Mccree saved a ramen shop is an interesting coincidence. 

ANA AMARI WAS HIS TEACHER

Always was a good shot, but I got a few pointers from the best. That’d be your mother.

It’s an honor fighting by your side, ma'am.

HE EITHER GAVE GABE HIS GUNS OR KNOWS WHO DID

You weren’t given those guns to toss ‘em around like trash.

LIKE GABE, MCCREE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT HIS REPUTATION SO LONG AS HE SAVES PEOPLE. ALSO, HE HAS A CRIMINAL REPUTATION WHICH HAS STUCK WITH HIM FOR A LONG TIME.

This is shown especially in the Train Hopper comic. 

HE’S MORE INTERESTED IN SAVING PEOPLE THAN IN GETTING INVOLVED WITH LARGER PLOTS

The fact that he dumps a suspicious payload off a cargo train instead of contacting anybody, and the fact that the in fighting in Overwatch made him leave instead of picking a side means that McCree has a heroic idealism which, with his past as a criminal, is something he values over bureaucracy or larger plots. Over his own reputation. His heroism is very pure in its form, very old Hollywood hero or vigilante in style. 

For all his gunslinging heroism however, he’s got a very sedate personality, probably as a result of past pains that he’s learned to let go of in favor of helping those he can and living his life. 

He’s got a good sense of humor and a charming wit (as seen in his voice lines), but isn’t particularly silly or goofy. He’s more like a Clint Eastwood Cowboy – irreverent and rough but ultimately cool and collected. 

He’s never been rich or refined, as seen in his interactions with Hanzo and his line in the comic:

but that just means he’s humble and knows how to rough it and survive on basics and bare necessities. 

And finally, a personal opinion based on canon: 

McCree very likely chose to don the “silly Cowboy getup” because it was his more visual way of portraying his switch from criminal to hero–albeit a vigilante hero. 

He may already have worn the hat because it’s common enough in New Mexico as a cultural thing, but the whole getup, serape, boots and all

Is meant to portray him as what he wants to be. A vigilante hero, rather than a criminal. A character that he portrays, but also his goal in life. 

Just to start, we have to note the Red Oni Blue Oni trope

Below, I’ve quoted the first few lines of each character type directly from TVTropes

The Red Oni is associated with passion, wildness, and defiance. A Red Oni character is often more brawny than brainy, extroverted, enthusiastic, determined, and filled with a zest for life. They are also much more likely to break conventions and rules than their counterpart. Often an Idiot Hero or, in more mature pieces, a Boisterous Bruiser.

The Blue Oni is associated with serenity, control and observing authority. A Blue Oni is more intellectual, proud, traditional, introverted, and cultured (sometimes more spiritual, although that’s not guaranteed). Blue Oni personalities are often respected by others, but also likely to puzzle or confound their peers because they are difficult to read and have a mysterious quality to them. Personality subtypes include The Stoic, The Quiet One, and Aloof Big Brother.

Canonically we know Mccree to be wild and defiant. Fanon Mccree often fills the role of “idiot hero”, at least on the surface, and is certainly more boisterous than the severe dutiful Hanzo. Canonically we know Mccree to be more of the rough cowboy type while still being charming and amiable based on his voice lines in game. Canonically we know Mccree has had a shady past and is therefore known for breaking conventions, cast in the role of outlaw. 

Canonically  we know Hanzo to favor serenity and control. He observed authority to a fault in his youth, he’s very traditional, spiritual, stoic on the surface, and he’s literally the aloof big brother compared to he more charming, cheerful Mccree and to the irresponsible flighty Genji. Fanon Hanzo is much closer to canon Hanzo in most cases simply because we have less to go on with Mccree, apart from his comic.

Their color schemes are also, from an animator and artist’s point of view, made to match on a visual level, with Mccree’s Red and warm browns a perfect contrast to Hanzo’s Blue and cold blacks. 

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When it comes right down to it, color and surface personality plays a big part in how people just immediately find appeal in Hanzo and Mccree being together. It communicates to a very lizard brain level that these two are meant to go together, the Red Oni Blue Oni, Wild Red Westerner and Stoic Blue Easterner being perfect contrasts and therefore perfect foils to one another. 

There are many examples of this in media, largely in Western media, especially in Western animation, though there are examples of it seen in other media as well. It’s a visual cue that represents contrast as well as personality, not strictly as a romance, but very much as an indication that “these two go together and/or oppose each other’

From that alone it’s not difficult to figure out how charming amiable cowboy Mccree and stoic traditional archer Hanzo were put together despite limited interactions in canon

I’ve already covered the Reasons Why McHanzo is a Popular Ship in a separate post but I wanted to point out from a surface level standpoint why it is so easy to ship them even without too much known about their backstory and canon interactions

🎄The Voltron Crew blessed us with this official art so I decided to make a design for it! No worries if they make more designs for the others I’ll make them too! Enjoy cosplaying Christmas Lance!!🎄

There are several designs available but I’ll link a few here!

Tote Bag      Phone Case

Travel Mug       Leggings

Graphic-T        Sticker

Never refill a Copic with regular isopropyl alcohol unless you have absolutely no other option.

Copic markers have their own ink refills to go with each marker,

They look like this and cost around the same price as a Copic Sketch maybe slightly more however they can be used to refill a marker several times

By using isopropyl alcohol what you’re doing, in fact, is diluting what little ink you have left in your make, therefore changing the shade of it.

Of course the one exception to this rule is the colourless blender 0 which is a marker that is full of regular isopropyl alcohol.

As a side note, DON’T throw away your marker if one/both of the is damaged

Copic also make replacement nibs for all of their markers

okay so I’ve seen a lot of artists,including myself, make this common mistake of coloring the palm of  a hand(and the sole of a foot) as the same color as the person’s skin tone.

but in fact ,palms and soles are a different color compare to our skin

this is due to the lack of Melanin on them

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