A perfect opportunity for people to meet Reaper before he turned into a death-punning, unfriendly piece of shit and meet a more friendly, still kind of edgy Black-Ops Dad Gabe.
BLACKWATCH AU
☠ Basically, he'll be thrown back in time about 20 years. ☠ He won't be wearing a mask, because amazingly, he won't be dead! So no more hiding his corpseface. ...Until the event ends, at least. ☠ He's far more willing to help people/talk to them--but he's still the same rough-around-the-edges man with no problem pointing a gun at people. ☠ He'll be from a point where he's still working for Overwatch, but as the head of Blackwatch--which means he'll have the ideals of a Hero--even if they're the 'do anything if necessary' sort of ideals. ☠ Completely willing to play the leader and is far more supportive as a team-member than Reaper is, instead of just expecting people to follow his order because 'he says so', he'll give people good reasons to follow his example. ☠ He will protect your ass. ☠ Nobody Left Behind.
For this AU, he'll be remembering all of his non-canon experiences--meaning he'll have memories of all his """friends"""/cr from both Eluvio and Riverview--but his memories on being 'The Reaper' are going to be extremely blurry. So he'll be mostly confused on being called that name, as well as people commenting that HIS VOICE being far less raspy and deep, that he's not leaking smoke, and that his body isn't 'rotting away'.
Reaper / Gabriel Reyes
BLACKWATCH AU
☠ Basically, he'll be thrown back in time about 20 years.
☠ He won't be wearing a mask, because amazingly, he won't be dead! So no more hiding his corpseface. ...Until the event ends, at least.
☠ He's far more willing to help people/talk to them--but he's still the same rough-around-the-edges man with no problem pointing a gun at people.
☠ He'll be from a point where he's still working for Overwatch, but as the head of Blackwatch--which means he'll have the ideals of a Hero--even if they're the 'do anything if necessary' sort of ideals.
☠ Completely willing to play the leader and is far more supportive as a team-member than Reaper is, instead of just expecting people to follow his order because 'he says so', he'll give people good reasons to follow his example.
☠ He will protect your ass.
☠ Nobody Left Behind.
For this AU, he'll be remembering all of his non-canon experiences--meaning he'll have memories of all his """friends"""/cr from both Eluvio and Riverview--but his memories on being 'The Reaper' are going to be extremely blurry. So he'll be mostly confused on being called that name, as well as people commenting that HIS VOICE being far less raspy and deep, that he's not leaking smoke, and that his body isn't 'rotting away'.