I mean, who knows about his Overwatch and/or Blackwatch days, but the Reaper getup is definitely designed to be intimidating. He looks terrifying coming right at you, between the death mask and the over-exaggerated figure, and I can’t help but think that was the point, even if there’s personal symbolism involved — or we tease him for being an overdramatic edge lord in the fandom, haha. Psyching someone out isn’t exactly going to hurt you in combat. Winston’s “you’re not so scary” supports too.

over-exaggerated figure? excuuuuuse? it’s a perfect thicc hourglass shape x.x goddaaammmn dis boi

I getchu tho

I was thinking about how soft and fluffy Gabe’s hair would probably be if he let it grow, and then realized that he probably doesn’t because pretty, fluffy curls aren’t intimidating, or considered all that professional. And that’s probably something he doesn’t consciously consider (well, he probably does consider how he can make himself the scariest bastard around, the dork) so much as “it doesn’t fit my image,” but it was still a sad.

I don’t even know if he’d think about his image much. I would like to say he keeps it short out of practical/military reasons, but then again Jack’s hair is a stylish fuccboi length, so I dunno what they’re all about in the Overwatch verse lol

so it could in the end very well be him wanting to look scary for ~~reasons~~