#ozi you keep reading my mind so I'm just assuming that we're connected through the genyatta neuron

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You're so right about everything. While I've always felt that genyatta is unfairly unpopular the content that exists for this ship is so high quality I can't really complain. Some of the genyatta fanfics I've read live rent free in my head and I keep re-reading them through the years (I will forever regret not buying the office genyatta fancomic). It's beautiful how most fanworks focus on that aspect of healing, friendship and sweet intimacy they ooze.

That said, believe it or not, robots are a big turn-off for people. Personally I love robots and gen and zen's dynamic. I've seen their relationship compared to a psychologist and patient, or a school teacher and their student, and for me that's weird because I don't think Genji is Zen's student within the order(?), I see him more like a cat that stayed (I mean, Ram does call him Zen's pet hehehe~)

Just a rant but.. I don't get why Genyatta isn't more popular? They have such a nice dynamic. (I know the game is dying, but they never were that popular to begin with.)

Is it because people don't like Genji mains and project it onto the character? (He's just a silly lil guy that healed from trauma!!)

Is it because Zenyatta is lacking lore and always seems to be in the background? Recently he's been put in the spotlight (barely) because of the Ram backstory.. but that's it. Ram's arrival also didn't help.. since he's sort of overshadowing Zen and Genji's relationship now. (Nothing against Ram, I love him.)

Is it because people are put off by the 'Master/Student' dynamic? I think it's one aspect of their relationship, but they are also friends. There is no power imbalance. Zen is technically younger than Genji. (If that matters. We don't really know how omnics age compared to humans.) They are equals in my eyes.

Or is it simply because OW hasn't given us much backstory with them together? We know they both played a big part in each other's lives. They lived and traveled together. They both went through hardships. Genji almost dying and learning to live with a new body. Zen trying to find himself and then dealing with the loss of his brother.

We know they had a rocky start. Genji rejected Zen at first, just like he had rejected his own body. But I think that accepting Zen as a friend and realizing he's also an individual with feelings and thoughts, has helped him understand that there is nothing wrong with his current self. If he can love this omnic then why can't he love his own synthetic body? Metal or flesh, why does it matter? He is still himself. (And this is just so damn romantic to me.)

They found comfort in each other's company. They both learned to heal and live together.