If any of you have been following the work I do, then you know about the work I've been working on and collaborating upon with other artists for an Overwatch character I designed. The character is called "Durandal", real name: Liam Peekar. Given all that I've had done with him, I had Othellophi make up a character icon for them and with that I made this cover image for Durandal's Origin story. Ideally, I'd like to make a small movie much like the other origin stories for the other Overwatch characters but I need two things; money to commission Othellophi for it and the right video program to put it together. And ideally I would like Blizzard to take on my character but at this point I like what's been done with him so much that I wouldn't mind keeping him.
Here is the original character sheet that was done by
Mersan-sama/Othellophi
And here's the character profile that I've written up:
LIAM
PEEKAR/DURANDAL
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APPEARANCE
Liam Peekar stands at a mere five foot eleven inches tall or higher
depending on what shoes/boots he’s wearing.
His facial structure is one with a rounded face and jaw-line from his
many years of being stuck at a desk job.
Set into his face is a strong Nordic nose with a pair of slate colored
almond eyes underneath a wide forehead and thick eyebrows.
He has shaggy black hair with a little gray
coming in around the ears.
His hair is
kept at an almost military issue short length.
The left side of his face, around the eye and check, has a network of
scar tissue that hasn’t completely healed despite the best efforts of Overwatch
surgeons.
The scarring also extends to
the left side of his neck as well as most of his torso.
Liam sports several highly advanced prosthetics.
The first limb is his left arm that extends
from his shoulder downward.
The second
is right hand extending from the wrist.
The third and fourth prosthetic limbs are his legs both extend from
below the knee.
The fifth is his left
eye but it looks indistinguishable from his “natural” eye.
Liam’s physique can be described as being lithe; he has very little body fat
and thus the definition of his muscles are well pronounced.
In casual clothes, Liam wears slacks with baggy printed t-shirts.
As for his armor, it consists of several pieces, such as the breast plate,
plackart, cuisee, and greaves.
The final
piece is a helm which looks to be one smooth metallic piece with six “eyes” or
cameras embedded into the front of the helmet.
The back of the helmet has one to monitor enemies coming at him from
behind.
The helmet can lift up the “face
plate” so that Liam can look out with his “normal” eyes and allow him to remove
the helmet completely.
The armor
essentially covers most of the parts that aren’t prosthetic.
Over this armor he wears a cloth tabard that
is black with the Overwatch symbol on it.
Strapped over the tabard is his belt that contains several pouches for
his “light grenades” and back up batteries.
On the left side of the belt there is a holster for his “beam
sword”.
The “beam sword” when deactivated is approximately 16 inches long and 7
inches in diameter.
At one end the sword
has a thick cumbersome that houses the extension rod and the second
emitter.
The cumbersome nature of this
is due to the swords activated mode in which the frame extends with twin beam
energy emitters facing each other.
The
sword itself runs on a limited power supply so that when it runs out, the power
source, a carbene battery, has to be ejected for a new one.
In addition to this, the “beam sword” can
also be transformed into a short range rifle in which one of the emitters turns
outward to fire pulses of the swords energy.
Inside Liam’s left prosthetic limb there is also housed the apparatuses
needed to produce an energy shield.
A
small part of the arm opens up and out from it is produced a great couche
shield shape with the overwatch emblem in the middle.
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Gender
Male
Theme/Motif: A fusion of a sword
wielding knight with the technology of Overwatch.
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Hero Name:
Durandal
Name Explanation:
The significance of this name comes from the fact that Liam loves sword and
sorcery fantasy and so when the time came to choose a codename for himself he
settled upon a more obscure sword name: Durandal, the sword used by Roland a
Paladin of Charlemagne.
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Real Name:
Liam Peekar
Name Meaning:
The meaning behind his first name is “strong willed warrior”.
However, Liam’s parents picked this name for
him after the name of his grandfather on his father’s side.
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Apparent Age:
32
Actual Age:
32
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Nationality:
Country of Origin:
Canada
Ethnicity:
Half French/Half British
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Base of Operations:
Currently:
Watchpoint: Gibraltar
Occupation:
(Formerly) Overwatch records keeper
(Formerly) Overwatch field agent
(Before Winston’s Message) Medical File Clerk
Affiliation:
Overwatch
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Role:
Offensive
Abilities:
Health:
200 Health
150 Energy Shield
Left Click: Beam Sword
Melee Damaging
type
60 damage
1 m range
Liam comes forward, raises his beam
sword over his head and makes a downward strike at his opponent.
“Let me teach you a lesson, my friend.”
Right Click: Beam Rifle
Rapid Fire Type
11 damage per shot
10 shots per second
10 second duration.
Liam’s beam sword transforms into a short range rapid fire rifle.
The rifle can only fire a limited number of
shots and a limited amount of time before the internal battery is completely
drained and needs to be changed in order to use either the beam rifle or beam
sword.
“I dare you to run.”
E Ability: Energy Shield
Mobile Barrier Type
200 Shield HP
Lasts 30 seconds or until destroyed
Out of Liam’s prosthetic left arm a small energy is deployed that protects
from projectiles.
“Come for me!”
LShift Ability: Light Grenade
Disabling ability
10 meter Range
Lasts 15 seconds
Liam
throws up a small grenade that projects out a blinding flash of light that
disorients all those within the blast range for a period of 15 seconds.
“Sic
Luceat Lux!” (Thus let the light shine!)
Ultimate(Q): Knight’s Overload
Melee ultimate type
1.24 swings per second
100 damage per hit
2.5 meter range
Lasts 5 seconds
Liam turns the power of his beam sword to high, giving the blade double its
damage potential and uses it to strike and even kill all enemies within his
short range.
“I pledge myself to Overwatch!”
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Bio_Short:
Some people join Overwatch for personal vendetta, the common good or they
have nowhere to go.
Liam joined
Overwatch to be a hero but he became an office drone rather than a field agent.
Until one day, he made a stupid mistake
during an attack on Overwatch by the Omnics that left him amputated in body and
spirit.
With hope dwindling, he is given
an opportunity to truly have his wish fulfilled thanks to his childhood hero,
Tracer, along with Winston, Liam Peekar is given new limbs and new abilities
and a new place in Overwatch.
Bio_Long:
Liam Peekar was born in Toronto,
Canada to Emilia Black a
British astrophysicist and Lucree Peekar a French-Canadian microbiologist. As a young boy he would read a lot of old
books from his parent’s library, or at least the ones that hadn’t been made
into a digital format. He was always
fascinated with the idea of being a knight or a wizard but overall he liked the
idea of being a hero: to do great tasks and to be admired and loved for such
achievements.
Then, at the age of 17, while at a shopping center with his
parents, he had a chance encounter that would change him. He saw, first hand, the Overwatch poster
hero, Lena Oxton, a.k.a. Tracer. At that
shopping center there was an Omnic terrorist attack that involved several Omnic
robots dropping through the skylights and opening fire on the shoppers. Despite all the times that Liam wanted to be
a hero, to be a knight, what he did next would stay with him for the rest of
his life; he hid. But while he hid he
saw Tracer and the other agents of Overwatch storm into the Shopping center and
stop the Omnics. From where he hid, he
saw Tracer move with such agility and grace.
He was entranced as well as enamored with her.
Some wanted to say it was teenage lust but he often would
defend his position by saying that it was inspiration. He saw in her the living incarnation of
everything that he read about in all those stories and he wanted so much to be
like that.
And so began his own personal quest to become an agent of
Overwatch.
But, there was a problem.
Despite being able to be a good student and pass exams, he didn’t have
the physical attributes needed to be an Overwatch field agent or at least to be
one like Tracer. And so, Liam was
relegated to taking a job at one of the many headquarters for Overwatch being
nothing more than a paper-pushing key-punching drone. For nearly a year he languished in this
horrible position. Despite being part of
the Overwatch organization it didn’t live up to his dreams of glory and
heroism. Until one day there was an
Omnic attack on Overwatch headquaters.
In the heat of the attack, Liam saw the opportunity of a
lifetime. He decided that he wasn’t
going to run and hide again. This time
he was going to stand and face the enemy.
This decision would eventually lead to a very bad consequence. He found himself up against a single Omnic
and had only his hands, wits and will but they weren’t enough. In the ensuing scuffle a grenade that had
been thrown and landed several inches away from his feet. He couldn’t be sure at the time but before
the grenade exploded he thought he saw Tracer coming towards him.
He woke up in a hospital and found that he was a mangled
mess. He had lost his right hand, all of
his left arm, along with his left and right leg below the knee, his left eye,
severe burns to 30% of his body, including his torso and face. Yet, the injuries to his body seemed small
compared to the injuries of his spirit.
He had the opportunity a second time to actually do something and become
a hero that he always wanted but he failed again.
During his stay at the hospital, he was visited by Tracer as
well as Winston. Tracer was in tears
because she couldn’t use her abilities to stop the grenade. That is when Winston offered Liam the chance
to achieve the dream that he thought was once dead when he saw how the real world
worked. Winston offered Liam to become
the field agent that he wished to be and Liam accepted the golden
opportunity.
With Winston and Tracer at his side, Liam met with several
team members of Overwatch’s weapons development team, including the legendary
Torbjorn. Liam instantly felt like he
was a young knight meeting with his smith to make his weapons. He gave Torbjorn a few ideas of what he
wanted and soon the master weapons maker gave him a prototype weapon; a beam
sword that had the ability to become a beam rifle. Adding to his small arsenal would be his
prosthetic arm that projects an energy shield.
After extensive training with these weapons, Liam chose his codename
“Durandal” in reference to the sword used by a paladin for Charlemagne. He soon went out into the field with Tracer
and other Overwatch members and fought against the Omnics and to the surprise
of many he was quite good. So much so
that he was hailed as a hero alongside his other Overwatch members. He was even given the title of “Knight of
Overwatch” by his new family, but it wouldn’t last.
The Omnic Crisis was stopped and then the accusations
against Overwatch began and then the order to disband the organization came
down. Liam was heartbroken. Far more so than the day that the day he lost
his limbs. He lost so much to become a
Knight of Overwatch that it was taken from him but seeing that there was
nothing he could do, he packed up and went back home to Canada where he became
a medical file clerk. It was a hard
transition to go from behind a hero to being a faceless drone. He tried to continue his normal life of going
to his job, playing video games, table top games and LARPing but they served to
remind him of what he once had.
For 9 years he lived like this, until one night he went home
and dressed in his old Overwatch uniform and armor remembering the old battles
he fought. In remembering it he became
overwhelmed with sadness over it all that he took off his helmet and smashed it
but that was when he heard the message on the Overwatch emergency channel. It was part of his old equipment and when he
turned it on he saw the familiar face of Winston who was recalling all
Overwatch agents.
Winston asked, “Are you with me?”
Liam only made one reply: “For the Watch.”
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Personality:
At first,
Liam seems very timid and reserved but also acting with extraordinary
politeness to those he first meets. He
often does this because he wants to gauge what the other person is like before
allowing himself to become more relaxed and casual. Once his poised appearance is allowed to slip
into his actual self. He’s someone who
can seem coarse, biting and even crude and/or offensive in his humor. And it’s often the case that he can get off
on the wrong foot with people but once one gets past this flaw, and a few
others, he becomes an incredibly loyal friend.
He also has a high sexual drive but because of his poor social skills he
isn’t exactly popular with women or men.
Liam also has a high sense of honor and integrity built into him thanks
to the stories that he grew up with.
Interests:
Among the interests that he has, he has an avid fascination with fantasy
fiction.
Fiction that involves knights,
swords and sorcery.
Thus the reason why
he plays video games and table top dice games.
He also collects old style books, those that are first edition or
leather bound.
His reasoning behind it
is that, “books don’t require batteries”.
Among his other interests that he keeps to himself, mainly because he
doesn’t want to be thought of as weird to be set up for ridicule, are his
interests in swords.
This interest
extends to him having a small collection in his apartment.
Both ones that are real and those that are
fictitious, such as replicas of Frostmourne, Ashbringer, Thunderfury and the
Glaives of Azzinoth.
This interest in
swords has made him learn some swordsmanship but it’s mainly for use in
live-action roleplaying.
Dislikes:
Alcohol.
It’s mainly because of the
taste that he doesn’t like it.
He often
likes to say “If I want to drink something bitter, I’ll just have my coffee
without sugar.”
He has a small fear of
Omnics after the two instances in his life where he faced them and nearly died
because of them.
Arrogance and smugness.
From Liam’s
perspective, if you’ve earned great things you have earned the right to be
smug.
If you’re smug and arrogant
because you think you are then you didn’t earn it.
Prudishness.
To him, to be prudish
about anything is to invoke the idea that you’re judging.
And his motto about judging is: “Judge
slowly”.
Merits:
Liam prides himself on being an honorable individual.
A man of good moral character.
That he will always act with integrity and
honesty.
In addition to this, he also is
incredibly loyal to his ideals, principles, and friends.
This would make him go out of his way to help
out in any way possible almost to a rather foolhardy level, such as nearly
getting himself killed in the process.
Flaws:
Aside from his coarse sense of humor, a major flaw that Liam sees in himself
is his cowardice.
He still blames
himself that he didn’t do anything when the Omnics opened fire on the
shoppers.
This has led him to be very
hard on himself and causes him to be a complete perfectionist in many of the tasks
he does.
His perfectionism couples with
him taking criticism pretty hard since it exacerbates his low-self image, which
includes his abilities as well as his looks.
Any kind of criticism he hears he takes it personally as a statement on
his character.
He also has a small form
of hero worship for Tracer because he wants to be as great as the heroes in
stories but also as great as her.
This
form of hero worship grew to the point where he collected a couple posters of
her along with a few figures of her.
Liam also is extraordinarily self-conscious about his body.
Before his accident with the Omnics, he hated
the way he looked; being so skinny.
After losing his limbs and having scar tissue on his face and torso,
this issue grew to the point that when meeting new people he would often wonder
if they were looking at his scars.
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Skins:
Describe any skins you can get - be it rare (Highlight Recolours), Epic
(full recolours) or Legendary (Full model change)
Special:
Overwatch Dress uniform
Special:
Business casual clothes
(short sleeve dress shirt, overwatch tie and gray slacks)
Summer Games:
Fencing Uniform with
Overwatch flag
Winter Wonderland: Red and green colors to the uniform with an Overwatch
ugly sweater
Lunar New Year (Year of the Rooster):
Red and gold armor
with rooster theme to shoulder pads and helmet
Lunar New Year (Year of the Pig): Red and gold armor with a boar/pig theme to shoulder pads and helmet
Halloween Terror:
Werewolf
Halloween Terror:
Knight who says
“Ni”
Anniversary: Armor with overwatch colors of orange, black and white
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Extras/Misc:
Voice lines:
“A Knight of Overwatch”
“For Overwatch!”
“I pledge myself to Overwatch”
“Sic Luceat Lux!”
“Thus let the light shine!”
“Come for me!”
“I dare you to run.”
“That’s what she said.”
“I’m not gonna say ‘ni’.”
“Let me teach you a lesson, my
friend!”
“Excuse me!?”
“Oh Balls!”
“Beset on all sides…”
“I’m not gonna say ‘Eh’…or
‘a-boot’.”
“As we say in Canada……’sorry’.”
Events voice lines:
Summer Games: “For the honor”
Halloween Terror: “Too old for trick or treating? Never!”
Halloween Terror: “Now I’m gonna say it…..’NI!’”
Winter Wonderland: “Happy Yule”
Lunar New Year: “My New Years Resolution? None.”
Uprising: “We will be victorious!”
Anniversary: “Who wants cake?”
Again my thanks to Othellophi for the work they did for me on this.
(C) Overwatch - Blizzard
