> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.killscreen.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Ana is the protective mother we all want - URL: https://www.killscreen.com/ana-protective-mother-want/ - Published: 2016-08-12T14:30:52.000Z - Updated: 2016-12-09T16:32:02.000Z - Description: We love Overwatch. So we assembled 22 of our best writers and set them to work—a writer to jump into the skin (or robotic shell) of each character. The result is 22 odes. You can use the “Overwatch odes” tag to leaf through them all, or use the handy list at the bottom of this post. /// In videogame - Author: Julie Muncy - Tags: News, ana, overwatch, overwatch odes, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39 *We love* Overwatch*. So we assembled 22 of our best writers and set them to work—a writer to jump into the skin (or robotic shell) of each character. The result is 22 odes. You can use the [“](https://www.killscreen.com/tag/overwatch-odes/)*[Overwatch](https://www.killscreen.com/tag/overwatch-odes/)*[ odes” tag](https://www.killscreen.com/tag/overwatch-odes/) to leaf through them all, or use the handy list at the bottom of this post.* /// In videogames, combat is a language. Each weapon is a way of speaking, a mouth. To shoot is to communicate. Usually, this takes the form of subtraction: you speak curses to ward away your enemies, or break down obstacles, or just burn a mark of selfhood into the environment around you. Ana speaks in tongues. She takes the familiar language of the sniper—the ultimate, silent expression of ruthless will—and reconfigures it into something maternal, protective, compassionate. It’s simple but effective: she has a gun that heals people. Stand back, take aim, and help. Speak words of comfort to your allies. I feel powerful and protective Your gun does harm enemies, sure, but it’s a secondary function at best, and frankly isn’t very effective. Every moment you spend fighting you’d be better off helping. Ana takes the core language of the shooter and flips its polarity. I’m not a very good Ana player—my accuracy leaves something to be desired—but I adore playing her anyway. She’s a stab in the heart of the formalist notion that points of mechanical interaction are the only phenomena that matter. ![Ana](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/an-1.jpg) Shooting Ana’s weapon feels markedly different than, say, Widowmaker’s. Yellow light spirals out of a successful hit, an aura of life blooming around your allies as you do your salvific work. I feel powerful and protective, whispering encouragements behind the barrel of my healing gun. Get up. Keep moving. I’m here to help. /// ## **Offensive Heroes** **Genji** – [Genji is with you](https://www.killscreen.com/genji-is-with-you/) **McCree** – [Who you kidding? McCree is *Overwatch*‘s true shooter](https://www.killscreen.com/mccree/) **Pharah** – [Don’t play fair, play Pharah, exclusively](https://www.killscreen.com/dont-play-fair-play-pharah-exclusively/) **Reaper** – [In defense of Reaper, the patron saint of mall-goth teens](https://www.killscreen.com/defense-reaper-patron-saint-mall-goth-teens/) **Soldier 76** – [Soldier 76 is here to make everyone else look good](https://www.killscreen.com/soldier-76-make-everyone-else-look-good/) **Tracer** – [A series of limericks about Tracer, because why not](https://www.killscreen.com/series-limericks-tracer-not/) ## **Defensive Heroes** **Bastion** – [Bastion is the machine pointed at the world](https://www.killscreen.com/bastion-machine-pointed-world/) **Hanzo** – [Hanzo “looks like a good man,” my Japanese mom raves](https://www.killscreen.com/hanzo-look-like-good-man-japanese-mom-raves/) **Junkrat** – [I have fallen in love with Junkrat](https://www.killscreen.com/fallen-love-junkrat/) **Mei** – [Here comes Mei, the badass nerd hell-bent on revenge](https://www.killscreen.com/comes-mei-badass-nerd-hell-bent-revenge/) **Torbjörn** – [An ode to hard-working, salt-of-the-earth Torbjörn](https://www.killscreen.com/ode-hard-working-salt-earth-torbjorn/) **Widowmaker** – [Widowmaker made a widow of me](https://www.killscreen.com/widowmaker-made-widow/) ## **Tank Heroes** **D.Va** – [An ode to D.Va, the sassiest dream girl this side of *Overwatch*](https://www.killscreen.com/ode-d-va-sassiest-dream-girl-side-overwatch/) **Reinhardt** – [An ode to Reinhardt, tortured scion of a broken land](https://www.killscreen.com/ode-reinhardt-tortured-scion-broken-land/) **Roadhog** – [An ode to Roadhog is an ode to ugliness](https://www.killscreen.com/ode-roadhog-ode-ugliness/) **Winston** – [Winston, the Science Gorilla, is in charge](https://www.killscreen.com/winston-science-gorilla-charge/) **Zarya** – [Zarya makes Mother Russia her bitch](https://www.killscreen.com/zarya-makes-mother-russia-bitch/) ## **Support Heroes** **Lucio** – [Inside the idiot party-bubble of Lucio](https://www.killscreen.com/inside-idiot-party-bubble-lucio/) **Mercy** – [Mercy is the most terrifying character in *Overwatch*](https://www.killscreen.com/mercy-terrifying-character-overwatch/) **Symmetra** – [Go ahead, sleep on Symmetra](https://www.killscreen.com/go-ahead-sleep-symmetra/) **Zenyatta** – [Praise be to Zenyatta, then chill the heck out](https://www.killscreen.com/praise-zenyatta-chill-heck/)