#Niran

[ohwyrmm]

Moiraweaver for @moiraweaver

[simminginstars]

who is he?

random facts about Niran Suwan:

works as a secret agent so there isn't much info about him online + he doesn't know how to use social media anyways

was top of his rank when doing mandatory military service

loves working out

much like his other siblings his confidence is unmatched (mama Suwan said she's not raising insecure kids)

learnt english by watching the boondocks & friends, to spy on his siblings when they speak to their international friends (but if u ask him to speak in english he will run away)

wants to get married someday and have at least 4 kids (he'd prefer 2 boys and 2 girls)

thinks family is the most important thing in the world and would do anything for them, so when he hasn't seem them for a long time he gets sad, hence why he tracks them down one by one

[wildwinterlunas]

As someone who has been in the Overwatch fandom and knows why certain ships became popular, I can tell you right now that if Lifeweaver had come out in the early days of Overwatch, TumbleWeaver would have been a big ship.

Why?

Sky Noon.

[stephanieu8719]

Desperately needed this pic of Lando looking at Max like he hung the literal moon on my blog, thx.

[klauw22]

more demons

[alexanderzazilart]

Happy Birthday Mauga!! 🥳

La camisa se la regalo Niran 🪷 🤭

[thatsgayrightsdotcom]

theyre like my favourite pairing right after moicy and i will explode from the lack of content they have

[lifeweaverhehe]

Blizzard i don’t want it i NEED IT PLEASE MY LIFE IS YOURS IF YOU RELEASE THIS

[cutestupidemotes]

Animated Lifeguard Lifeweaver Emotes

[thatoneartistinthecorner]

Lifeweaver warm up doodle 😗

[overwatchloresnstuff]

Lifeveawer lore

Niran Pruksamanee had a very different upbringing from our other Vishkar Architech Symmetra. While Symmetra was plucked from a slum, Niran’s wealthy family hailed from Chiang Mai in Thailand. He was born on a large estate, with sprawling gardens that cultivated his love of botany as a child.

Being highly traditional, the Pruksamanee family had Niran’s future planned out for him. Their bright son that enjoyed messing around in the dirt with the estate’s gardeners was going to go to the best schools, get the best grades, and make something of himself they could be proud of. Niran, unsurprisingly, hated the strict schedules his parents had him on. Thai parents have very high expectations of their children, and Niran preferred to wander the gardens and cultivate flowers. His green thumb transformed their gardens into renowned figures of life and beauty, and Niran began attending botanical festivals to learn more.

Niran’s rebellious streak showed up in very strange ways when it came to schoolwork. His teachers complained that he solved problems in ways other than the patterns he was assigned, wrote too thoroughly on the answers, or in new ways they hadn’t thought of. Teachers are highly respected as authority figures in Thailand, and making fools of them embarrassed his parents and stained the family name.

Desperate to instill some measure of discipline, Niran’s parents sent him to the Vishkar Architech Academy. Immediately, things went from bad to worse. Niran despised Vishkar’s view of a ‘perfect world’. Their gardens were prim and proper, but lifeless. Corporate, controlled, sanitized of any meaningful beauty. His refusal to cooperate earned him the ire of his teachers. His fellow students rejected him, and Niran seemed destined to be alone…if not for Satya Vaswani.

Satya was Niran’s opposite in almost every way. She was neat as a pin, while he stayed up late and left dishes in the sink. She admired Vishkar’s vision of a sanitized, orderly world and it made Niran sick. Yet, the pair slowly grew to respect one another. They were both brilliant, and could find common ground when it came to physics, the artistry of hard light, and pursuits in the arts.

As Niran grew, he began to travel outside of the Academy during breaks at school. At first, it was merely to learn botany. However, life was about to hit him full in the face; outside of his privileged position there was hunger. Famine. Wars and the ecological destruction caused by those wars. The Omnic Crisis hadn’t just split apart families, it had razed forests, left dead omnics to poison the land as they oxidized and bled oil into the earth. The earth was wounded, people were suffering, and his biggest problem to date was that his expensive education was too rigid for him.

Guilt set in, and Niran threw the full force of his family’s money into trying to find a solution. The founder of Vishkar, he learned, had wanted to make the hard-light technology free for the world to use…but the company had seized it, monetized it, patented it and hoarded the knowledge so no one else could benefit. Disgusted, Niran pulled some of the original research used to develop hard light and began a new project of his own.

Biolight.

Living hard light. Not the dead, cold, blue structures that Vishkar built but something married between the biological and photonic. It was a perfect blend of his love of botany with Vishkar’s original tech. With it, wounds could be healed in the blink of an eye. Inorganic compounds preventing farming or poisoning water sources could be destroyed and the land cured. Niran even reconfigured the mechanical arm Vishkar traditionally gave its students to produce biolight, giving him the ability to purify a river, heal the sick, or even cure plants of sickness.

Now came the hard part.

Niran wanted to gift biolight to the world. He wanted to make the technology freely available, so suffering people worldwide could develop and enhance it. Vishkar immediately demanded he turn over biolight, and any associated research or devices, over to the company. It had been developed with their resources, and their tech, and so in their minds they owned it free and clear.

Desperate, Niran turned to Satya for aid. She advised him to stay, and make peace with Vishkar, and hand over his research. Vishkar would still heal people, even if they charged money for it. His tech would still be able to do good. Niran disagreed; if Vishkar had corrupted their own founder’s hard light technology into a massive corporation, his biolight would only be fuel in the abusive fire.

Niran fled the Academy with all of his research, and the only prosthetic arm capable of generating biolight. His parents immediately cut him off from their wealth, begging Niran to come back and make peace with Vishkar. Once again, he was embarrassing them and this time he had done something truly titanic. They loved him, but his transgressions were one step too far.

Vishkar dispatched lawyers and Architechs, and even more insidious forces to track down Niran and rip his tech from him by force. After all, Vishkar are masters of engineering and reverse engineering…all they needed was his arm. They spread a price on Niran’s head in 17 countries, alive or dead, and Niran was confronting a world increasingly hostile toward him with no funds to help himself.

An unusual hand reached out to Niran.

The Atlantic Arcology, a city molded with ecological concepts in mind, was situated between New York and Italy in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Arcologies are real-world conceptual cities specifically meant to cause no damage to the ecological area they inhabit, using things like native plants to filter water, avoiding cutting down trees, and providing areas for native wildlife to live alongside humans. Several examples of arcologies exist in real life, like the McMurdo research station in Antarctica, but as of yet no actual Arcology city has been created.

In Overwatch, the Atlantic Arcology was thriving. They had no affiliation to any standing nation, were entirely self-sufficient, and had no laws except their own. They would protect and shelter Niran, and protect his technology from anyone seeking to abuse it. Niran heartily agreed, and fled to the Atlantic Arcology. He took on the codename Lifeweaver. There, he continues to develop his technology with the aim of healing the world…as Vishkar circles, waiting for him to make a mistake.

Niran was developed with Thai culture in mind, and much of his story reflects that. His pet name, Bua, means “water lily” or “lotus”, and his surname Pruksamanee translates to “jewel of the forest”. He dresses in a traditional chong kben.

Many people see the inclusion of Lifeweaver’s Sovereign and Regent skins as a nod to colonialism, and I’ve even seen people refer to them as the “colonizer” skins. What people don’t realize is that Thailand is the only Asian country never to be colonized by any other country. Ever. Regency culture entered Thai culture when the King of Siam began traveling abroad in the 1700’s. He was fascinated and enthralled by French, German and British culture, and started a fashion revolution in Thailand. Traveling abroad began to be the fashionable thing among Siamese lords and ladies, bringing back everything from powdered wigs to finely tailored suits and dresses.

Even bigger changes came when Western art started a huge fad in Thailand. Before the 1700’s, it was considered disrespectful to portray the King or the King’s family in sculpture or art. With the Western fad sweeping Thailand, the Siamese king started commissioning royal portraits, and to this day Western artists make pilgrimages to Thailand to paint traditional portraits. Regency architecture still stands to this day in Thailand, particularly the Anata Samakthom Throne Hall styled after French architecture commissioned by King Rama V.

(Taken from facebook group "Deadlock gang: women of Overwatch from a member there)

[wildwinterlunas]

Ok so awhile ago I made a post detailing who Lifeweaver found attractive and made a list based on his elim voice line. We can now add Echo to that list because one of the voice lines triggers when Lifeweaver eliminates her.

[gabbagooob]

anybody else wanna just-

[klauw22]

when hes a cute scientist

[eluvianarts]

“Oh, Genji! Perhaps if you put your sword away, he’ll flirt with you next. 😇”

“I wasn’t- ... Perhaps I will put my sword away.”