Inktober Day 18
(ballpoint)cute scribbles from before bed last night
Young!McMercy aesthetics
I was talking with @jjessemccree earlier about this headcanon I have of the two of them in their younger years, and this happened.
Since Mercy joined Overwatch at such a young age and it is known that she was the head of surgery at a Swiss hospital before that, it’s pretty safe to assume that she was a child prodigy who, after the death of her parents, dedicated herself to helping those in need. Next to getting experience in the field, Angela spent most, if not all of her free time to studying and researching everything she needed to know in order of being a good surgeon.
Along comes McCree; a boy came from a completely different way of life, having grown up in the American Southwest among gangs and criminals and having been involved with one himself; The Deadlock Gang. Captain Reyes had taken him in after the gang was busted in a sting-operation of Overwatch and the boy was faced with the choice of rotting in a maximum-security prison among his fellow members, or joining Overwatch’s covert-ops Blackwatch, in which he chose the latter.
Albeit being the same age as Angela, Jesse had a very different look on life than her; he was known to be a reckless man, while Angela was anything but that. He had gotten her into trouble a ton, so much so Mercy didn’t even bother to count them. But it wasn’t like she was complaining about it. Sure the situation he caused her to be in didn’t help her reputation of being the quiet and reserved doctor whom everyone in the organization respected, but she was completely okay with that after a while. He showed her something she never really got to experience in her teenage years; what it’s like to be young.
