#plot ideas.

first, characters sitting by the campfire. cooking a nice meal with the supplies they've gathered along the way. maybe they use a very highly sought-after ration as a treat after a long day, like cream or fresh meat or a spice of some sort. they sit around the blaze together, and tell stories of their earlier travels, adding ingredients to the meal and fuel to the fire, and bonding as they discuss what's next in their shared adventure.

i also love the potential of them walking together along a long, winding country road! maybe they pick some flowers idly, or for each other, or maybe they find herbs or vegetables or fruits to add to their supplies. maybe they overhear footsteps up ahead and have to decide between keeping to the path or rushing into the nearby stream to avoid being seen or smelled. perhaps they have a horse, or two horses, or even a carriage, or maybe they're just walking along together. they could discuss what's next in a journey, or their choices from earlier encounters. if we think of roads as liminal spaces, this is an opportunity for many things to be happening, from a fallen tree blocking the road, to the road forking at a junction in the woods, or enemies/allies travelling along the same path, or even a side quest of sorts awaiting them in the woods!

character A meets character B when they're wounded and unconscious, and brings them back to their camp, either out of fear of what might happen if they don't, or for concern for B, or maybe they recognize them from somewhere! they nurse them back to health, and have to fend off attacks along the way because B is too weak to retaliate, and ultimately it leads to a curious bond where neither are willing to separate from the other, but they also don't know nearly enough about each other to understand what makes them trust each other so much.

(please lmk if ur interested in any of these and we can plot our little hearts out dafkjhdns)

general ow timeline:

genji’s early ow days including his recovery / adjusting to his new body, meeting other agents for the first time, and being recruited into bw after he gets back on his feet!

genji’s time spent exploring the desert pre-zenyatta! or genji exploring in general! give me ur ocs!!! let them guide him through their favorite cities / towns / wilderness! also stargazing!

genji meeting zenyatta & his time spent in nepal with the shambali! genji learning to come to terms with what happened to him and accepting himself!!!

literally anything between genji and mondatta!!

literally anything between genji and gabriel during blackwatch!!!

genji actively seeking out hanzo post-dragons short! genji trying to mend burned bridges whether hanzo wants him to or not (or vice versa)! alternatively: genji and hanzo meeting purely by accident! also see: genji and hanzo content after they’ve made up and come to terms with their pasts! literally just give me genji and hanzo!!

genji’s young adult years and the events leading up to the conflict with hanzo! come right @ me ocs!

genji reflecting on childhood memories and his relationship with his parents with somebody he’s close to or a complete stranger he doesn’t expect to ever see again! where are the ocs at?

undercover bw missions!!!

blackwatch things in general!!!!

genji meeting new agents post-zero hour! ocs are v welcome!

genji meeting ana / s76 / reaper in passing and unknowingly (re)connecting with them! alternatively: genji hearing rumors of their activity and actively seeking them out for [reason xyz] and later discovering their true identities (willingly or unwillingly would be up to u)! genji getting attached to these people and being absolutely shaken when he discovers who they really are lmfao i’m already having a lot of feelings about this;;;;

‘endgame’ content set far in the future where genji is Much Older and Much Slower than he used to be! genji still trying to make a difference in the world despite this! –whether ow 2.0 ended badly or not would have to be discussed dfkjhdf–

AUs:

warframe because i’m on the biggest warframe kick right now > after learning about the nature of transference, genji scours the solar system and the depths of the void in search of his operator! ...............if he even still exists.

destiny > new guardian genji struggling to come to terms with his existence as a lightbearer! exo hunter genji retaining fragments of his past life and trying to make sense of them / put them back in order! genji struggling to learn how to wield the traveler’s light! genji helping out new guardians later down the line! genji excelling in the crucible and/or srl and making friends & enemies along the way! SRL competitions!!! guardians forming found families together!!!

yakuza > genji remains a part of the shimada clan as his brother’s second-in-command! possible double agent!genji for ow or triple agent!genji for his family to keep things interesting!

talon > after the fall of overwatch, genji--still v unhappy knowing that shimada loyalists continue to prowl the streets of japan + shimada castle--is tempted by another agent to join their ranks; having been promised the resources he needs to eliminate what remains of the clan, genji dubiously accepts, and offers his skills as a trained assassin + former bw operative to them. alternatively: zenyatta meeting talon!genji and making him question all of his life choices that led him into talon’s clutches! alternatively x2: talon!genji gets his talon!zenyatta counterpart i’ve low key been dying for! alternatively x3: talon!genji receives winston’s recall and rejoins overwatch but low key works for talon as a double agent (or a triple agent for ovw, because apparently i have a weird thing for double agent scenarios)!!

ships:

i’m always a sucker for mcg//enji, gen//yatta, and gen//cy, but i’m a very open-minded individual with a massive soft spot for shippy content. i’m open to talking about a possible ship if u ever wanted to try writing one with me. ♥ ocs are not exempt from this!

i’m so excited to do this but i’m also very aware that i may have misunderstood the situation, so here’s hoping some of these will be useful to you, my love!!

visiting a museum together!! granted, this is more for like, gods in the modern-era, but the idea of a pair of gods going into a historical museum together, moving through the wing dedicated to ancient greece, reading the historians’ and archaeologists’ perspectives and laughing at the parts that they got wrong, listening to the tour guide telling a group about the ancient myths and love stories. the tour guide saying “ah yes, this was his closest companion, he cared so deeply for him that he insisted they share the same bed, meals, even the same bath!” and the two gods just sharing a bag of sweets like “excuse me they were and remain to be passionately in love, you try sitting across the banquet table from them for a few thousand years and tell me they’re heterosexuals, DEBORAH--”

going star-gazing!! this is more era-neutral, but like, spreading out a blanket on a hilltop, lying down together side-by-side, gazing at the night sky and pointing out the different constellations, the shooting stars, idk if gods have like, incredibly vision or anything but maybe they can see distant planets. maybe there’s some of that “staring at the other person while they’re distracted when they should be staring at the stars” action, who knows.........

swimming in the ocean!! literally like. idk the rules, but if they’re gods, they might survive leaping off a cliff to cannon-ball into the ocean, right? and maybe they go diving down and seeing all the fish and coral and sealife down at the bottom, sneaking a little kiss down under the water where nobody can see them, emerging from the waves to build sand castles together and find a perfect shell to bring home as a souvenir. maybe they find pearls or something and make necklaces out of them, just for a little easter egg along the way where people say “that’s a great necklace!” and they’re like “oh yeah... it was a gift...”

pretending to be mortals for a day. no bc this could be so funny?? two gods doing absolutely everything in their power to be Very Convincing And Totally Real Mortals, and ending up celebrating every interaction with a human that doesn’t directly end with “hey, are you a god?”. they get to eat mortal food and drink mortal drinks, and for a full day they just pretend that they’re ordinary people without the burdens of godliness on their shoulders, and they get to see each other properly relax and be themselves for the first time ever, and it’s just the perfect relaxing day for both of them! (plus then u can dabble in a little angst revolving around them potentially being able to become mortal and the pros and cons of that, yk?? yk. )

going for a picnic!! swiping bottles of wine and platters of food and a few blankets, escaping their chambers and running into the forest or out to the beach or somewhere and sitting back and enjoying good food, the warm sun, and each other’s company in the process. maybe one of them has a musical instrument and plays it for the other, and maybe they pull flowers and braid them into each other’s hair, who knows!

learning how to dance together! a huge godly party is coming up, and they don’t want to be involved in preparing for it, so they come up with this excuse that they need to learn how to dance, and they hide away in some beautiful dancing hall, but after a few hours one of them finds out that the other person genuinely cannot dance, and is so affronted that they insist on teaching them how to, and they just end up dancing together and laughing at their mistakes and stepping on toes and tripping over, like dancing lessons are an UNDERRATED EXPERIENCE--

I just wanted to ask you what could be the reason why two deities do not get along and therefore quarrel at a party (not in front of everyone, but in a corner of the garden/palace)

oh my god yes yes YES!! this has been in my inbox for a while but i promise u have ideas now!! here we go, and i hope these are what you’re looking for!