Overwatch 2’s forty first hero, Juno, is playable this weekend for a restricted time, and followers have already unearthed a stunning little bit of lore in regards to the purple-haired area cadet healer and Mei.
Overwatch is crammed with voice strains that flesh out lore from its myriad of maps in addition to relationships between heroes and villains. It’s simply not each character’s demise throw voice line would reveal a doable familial tie. Apparently, eliminating Mei as Juno triggers a voice-over change by which the Martian hero says, “Sorry, Auntie!” in response to Mei’s dying gasp.
This tidbit of gameplay lore is important not solely in that it’d affirm the hero shooter’s fourth familial tie amongst its heroes, nevertheless it additionally appears to debunk a key fan idea about Juno’s id.
AUNTIE?! pic.twitter.com/LYlwwoVNCu
— Hazelet (@HazeletOW) July 19, 2024
Juno and Jiayi
Late final 12 months, a r/Overwatch thread theorized that Juno—then generally known as House Ranger—was a lady named Jiayi. Based on the thread’s unique poster, Mei had a brand new voice line that will set off whereas at Lijiang Management Middle, the place she would reminisce over a buddy named Jiaya, who she went to grad faculty with.
Seeing as how this voice line cropped up a month previous to Juno’s reveal at Blizzcon 2023, followers rapidly started theorizing that Jiayi was the federal government identify for Juno. On the time, the speculation appeared strong, contemplating Lijiang is the situation of Overwatch 2’s in-universe Chinese language area station, and Juno’s complete gimmick is that she’s an astronaut hailing from Mars.
This idea took on new life a day earlier than Juno’s limited-time launch when X/Twitter person Pampurins posited that Jiayi might truly be the identify of Juno’s mom. Pampurin’s revised idea sounds prefer it’s proper on the cash due to the newly found voice line interplay.
JUNO ELIM LINE ON MEI!
“(gasp) Sorry Auntie!” pic.twitter.com/UQz6656LiU
— Shroomiiee (@mushroomiiee) July 19, 2024
Whereas the voice line seems to be thought of exhausting proof that the 2 are aunt and niece, there’s additionally a excessive chance that it’s also only a time period of endearment, seeing as how the phrase aunt is usually used to deal with older ladies. IGN has reached out to Blizzard for remark. Regardless, gamers will probably get an earful of the particular voice line interplay throughout Juno’s weekend of play earlier than her full launch comes Season 12 on August 20.
Isaiah Colbert is a contract author for IGN. You’ll be able to observe them on Twitter @ShinEyeZehUhh.