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In the Beginning, there was an Armourer and a Living Weapon by solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
12 Feb 2020
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This is not the original posting of The Armourer and the Living Weapon. This is a modified version, one which leads directly into Of Gods and Monsters, the side-step sequel that outgrew its parent. As such, it is effectively a prequel.
If you have read The Armourer and the Living Weapon already, the major changes start after Chapter 22, though there are small changes in chapters before that. If you have not, and do not wish to read Of Gods and Monsters, go read the original instead. The ending is very different, and standalone.
Someone had to be the template for Widowmaker, and that someone was an armourer, materials engineer, and former field sniper, all for Talon, named Emily Gardner. She loves her work, just as much her blue counterpart does, and together they make one of the more formidable weapons in Talon's arsenal.
But good things can't last forever, can they?
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- Part 1 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Edda 1: Bronze-eyed Angela by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
18 Mar 2018
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Moira O'Deorain has won. With her three Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - she has seized control of Talon. Akande Ogundmu is dead, his war thwarted. Gabriel Reyes is dead, his ever-shifting games of chess at an end. Sanjay Korpal is dead, his corruption excised - and more.
However, even that is not enough, not if she and her peerless weapons are to remake the world, and humanity along with it. She will need an entire collection of tools, a pantheon so powerful that no one could hope to stop her. But just as no plans survive first contact with the enemy, no one person can truly hold back all the wills of all the gods, so sometimes, plans - and perhaps, even, those who make them - must change.
To follow this story - a side-step sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - please subscribe to the series, not to this edda.
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- Part 2 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Fragment e1,1: Mid-February, 2077 by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
22 Mar 2018
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Wherein Tracer's wife Emily "Oilliphéist" Gardner builds a present for Angela Ziegler, to replace something she broke, and knows she will never need to break again.
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- Part 3 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Edda 2: Opal-Eyed Pharah by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
26 Mar 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command.
Talon is ready to reshape the world as they - as she - sees fit, and with Angela Ziegler newly at her side, no one can stand in their way...
...except, perhaps, themselves. For Angela has discovered a recently filed piece of paperwork and is enraged - and determined to undo it, no matter the cost.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 4 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Fragment e2,1: Late February, 2077 by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
29 Mar 2018
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Wherein Danielle "Widowmaker" Guillard - who is, along with wives Lena "Tracer" Oxton and Emily "Oilliphéist" Gardner, the Weapons of a victorious Moira O'Deorain - contacts a friend who may and may not be on Talon's side.
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- Part 5 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Saga 1: Winter Kills by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
02 Apr 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command.
And now, Overwatch - and Fareeha Amari - have discovered that the missing Angela Ziegler is alive, but not necessarily well, not necessarily herself, at least, not the herself they knew, and Fareeha Amari will take whatever steps are necessary to get her back. But what she and Overwatch both do not know is...
...Angela feels exactly the same way.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 6 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Fragment s1,1: Early March, 2077 by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
05 Apr 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command.
Overwatch now know that Fareeha Amari has been taken, as well - apparently by her wife, Angela, presumably to be remade. The ease with which it was accomplished - a mere three Weapons routing three hundred Helix Security trainees and instructors - has prompted a change in strategy. And as the last Overwatch presence at Watchpoint Gibraltar is finally wound down, Jack "Soldier 76" Morrison sends a warning - and some key video - to two trusted confidants.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 7 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Fragment s1,2: Mid-March 2077 by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
06 Apr 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command.
Lena Oxton hasn't been flying the kind of aircraft she used to fly - the kind she loved to fly - since the Slipstream accident. Sure, she's handled the personal light flyer once in a while, that's been fine. But anything with complicated aeronautics - or that reminded her too much of the Slipstream test aircraft - has been off limits. But one day, when she's out supervising Oasis Security forces, a fighter jet flies overhead, and suddenly, everything seems to have changed.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 8 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Edda 3: Platinum-eyed Satya by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
09 Apr 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command, to remake the world.
A new and better world needs a new and better architect to help design it, and Moira and Angela - and Tracer - know precisely who that should be. To Oilliphéist's disappointment, this acquisition doesn't involve violence - because at least this once, Talon has a much more enticing alternative to offer.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 9 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Fragment e3,1: Early June, 2077 by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
12 Apr 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command, to remake the world.
A quiet moment at home, wherein Moira admires Satya Vaswani's plans for a new Ministry lab complex.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 10 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Edda 4: The Ostrich Feather of Ma'at (a.k.a. The Ever-Shifting Balance) by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
16 Apr 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command, to remake the world.
Talon scrambles, reasserting its positions in the aftermath of its civil war. Moira O'Deorain's control over the board grows, as she brings on ever more allies, while simultaneously looking for even more candidates to be Changed, to further extend her influence.
But her adopted daughter - and loyal Weapon - Lena "Tracer" Oxton is unhappy, as are her wives. They demand, unexpectedly, that nothing else proceed until Angela's wife Fareeha is properly fixed, and her unsettled mind calmed, once and for all.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 11 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Fragment e4,1: Mid-June, 2077 by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
19 Apr 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command, to remake the world.
But even though Akande Ogundimu and Gabriel Reyes are dead, not everyone in Talon shares in her vision of a new world, while others are wondering how to turn her triumph to their own advantage.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 12 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Fragment e4,2: Mid-July, 2077 by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
20 Apr 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command, to remake the world.
Talon board member Angela Ziegler is in Numbani, preparing for an event where she will show a new technology, and, hopefully, meet a certain young and brilliant woman. Fareeha and Moira have remained at home, in Oasis, and - for the first time - are sharing a bed without her there.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 13 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Saga 2: Brother, Have You Heard? by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
23 Apr 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command, to remake the world.
The remnants of Overwatch, licking their wounds and mourning their lost friends, now seek to regroup, trying to figure out how to fight back in a war no one else realises is being fought - and what comes next in a world that may already be changing beneath their feet.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 14 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Text s2,1: 18 April 2077 by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
26 Apr 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command, to remake the world.
Angela Ziegler - Moira's wife - still hopes to reconcile with Mei-Ling Zhou, at least on a professional level, sending both her personal and Institute's congratulations on the publication of Dr. Zhou's groundbreaking climate paper.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 15 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Fragment s2,1: Late June, 2077 by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
27 Apr 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command, to remake the world.
Tracer has captured a terrorist involved in targeting the Omnic community, and brought him in. Angela and Moira could use a test subject, Pharah has security forces to fill out, and Widowmaker could always use another target dummy - so they offer him a choice.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 16 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Edda 5: Rose-Gold Efi by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
30 Apr 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command, to remake the world.
Even as Talon makes plans for its new world, Angela Ziegler has come to Numbani to demonstrate new medical diagnostic techniques - and to speak with the Oladele family. Efi Oladele - latest winner of an Adawe Foundation Genius Grant - is a candidate for a groundbreaking medical treatment.
But will her parents agree? And why, far from public view, has the Widowmaker taken an interest in the young genius?
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 17 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Fragment e5,1: Early September, 2077 by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
03 May 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command, to remake the world.
Efi remembered her dreams, sometimes, but this didn’t feel like a dream, even if the lady sitting next to her was blue.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 18 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Text e5,1: 19 September 2077 by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
05 May 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command, to remake the world.
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This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 19 of Of Gods and Monsters
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Of Gods and Monsters, Saga 3/Edda 6: Sombra, the Self-Made by bzarcher, solarbird
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
07 May 2018
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Moira O’Deorain has won. Her rivals within Talon destroyed, her trio of loyal Weapons - the Changed and copper-eyed Tracer, the silver-eyed Oilliphéist, and golden-eyed Widowmaker - at her command, to remake the world.
Satya Vaswani offered Sombra a chance to become a member of their elite - a 'Goddess,' alongside her. Widowmaker has promised that there is a place for her within Talon. But Sombra won't accept any offer blindly. Not without knowing exactly what is going on first.
This story - a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon - will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow it as it appears, please subscribe to the series.
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- Part 20 of Of Gods and Monsters