You start a match of Overwatch. Your allies appear on the character select screen. One name out of the five catches your eye:
BLOODNGUTSBOY69
And, of course, the character he picks? Reaper
He doesn’t switch, once, throughout the entire match. He’ll keep die-die-dieing until the end of the round, and in the next one, you’ll spot him on the opposite team, playing as Reaper once again.
Throughout the last few days I’ve played so many rounds of Overwatch with Reapers named stuff like “THUNDERBLOOD,” “DARKNESSCALLS,” “DEATHMANS,” “WEEDLORDINFINITY,” and other, similar titles, that it’s beginning to take on a predictive quality. The more a player’s name sounds like something a fourteen-year-old in 2004 would have named themselves, the less-surprised I am when their character portrait pops up with Mr. Skullface Gunhands on it.
I’m not the only person who has noticed all the darkest and grittiest Overwatch players are playing as Overwatch’s darkest and grittiest bad-guy ghost-man. Reaper Names is a twitter account dedicated to recording the unique character of a certain class of players who main Reaper. It accepts submissions from other users, too. Here are some priceless examples:
@ReaperNames we knew as soon as he joined the game pic.twitter.com/O5ku7Ryj4z
— Jason Layne (@jasonisbanned) May 29, 2016
@ReaperNames #PS4share pic.twitter.com/9caQWvNW4e
— Dillon (@Sealed33) May 30, 2016
even my inbox is not safe from @ReaperNames pic.twitter.com/jLlwIG3Uuo
— Chris Person (@Papapishu) May 31, 2016
(from @ScrubQuotesX ) pic.twitter.com/MATYGDvLIY
— Reaper Names (@ReaperNames) May 29, 2016
@ReaperNames pic.twitter.com/9JPgO4baXH
— guilherme (@gpp2099) May 30, 2016
@ReaperNames pic.twitter.com/bg8IYnE39a
— Ryan Jolivette (@ryan_jolivette) May 30, 2016
@ReaperNames pic.twitter.com/pVlOh6vSzb
— Donovan Cassell (@dcassell1234) May 30, 2016
I kind of love this, actually. Never change, Weed_Rat. Never grow older, EvenGodsBleed. Treasure this precious time in your life, when naming yourself something like DEVIL666MEME seems like a good idea.
Maybe get a little better at swtiching, though?
