[ SECRET POST #3960 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3960 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

03. https://i.imgur.com/hpre9OJ.png

[(Anonymous)]

No one can convince me it wasn't influenced by OW. At least some of the designs.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Yes, because POC who look nothing alike are all interchangeable.

[(Anonymous)]

....you do know the casts of both have people of various races? I was also thinking of some of the personalities of both. But good job on projecting there!

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Of course, the question is why Robert = Reyes on the basis of having vaguely medium-dark skin and beards.

[(Anonymous)]

But you have no problem with comparing the white guys?

[(Anonymous)]

Going by the pics in the secret, they're both large, maybe overweight, brown skinned, short haired, and wearing black with hoods. Pretty similar to me...

The white guys are pretty interchangeable, too, aside from shades of blond.

[(Anonymous)]

Where the hell are you getting overweight from?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

So hold on, that's supposed to be Mat (who wears a completely different hoodie, since he's a bit of a hipster) and not Robert (who wears a leather jacket because he's rough trade?)

[(Anonymous)]

What are you on about? The person you are replying to is wrong. Those are ALL pics of Reyes/Morrison. That is an OW fanart book.

[(Anonymous)]

Look at those two POC in this secret. So people. Much color.

[(Anonymous)]

It seems pretty clear to me that cbarachrhrhrhr is talking about the POC Overwatch characters from the secret not actually being similar to the POC characters in Dream Daddy?

Like, am I missing something here? It seems like a very clear point that cbarry is making but people seem to be very confused?

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I actually don't think Gabe=Robert at all, though they still (VERY RARELY, I admit) share some similarities. For me it's all about young Soldier76 looking exactly like Joseph and overall couple dinamics/history feelin similar. I know it's the same artist and the same type of character (?? at least visualy???) in Joseph's case, but still.

Re: OP

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Thanks for the comment. I apologize for misreading you based on earlier conversations in this area.

[(Anonymous)]

How do you distinguish between "Thing A definitely is a riff/ripoff of Thing B" and "A and B have similar aesthetics" ?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

They don't. DD characters are coded to urban gay stereotypes. OW is superheroes. And we're talking about fanart here, not any IP released by either game company.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for weighing in, but I was actually hoping that OP would answer my question.

(misfire below)

[(Anonymous)]

You are either really thick or pretending to be, neither is very flattering.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I dated about half of the Dads in college (they were not dads then), and notice many of them at Pride events. (Curious fact, the "Gays for Trump" group down here mostly seem to be "Craig.") For a while, I styled myself as a "Robert," but it really didn't fit. It's really baffling to me why people are tinhatting so hard that obvious gay archetypes had their origins in a Blizzard property, but I suppose as long as you're not harassing creators regarding your conspiracy theory, it's mostly harmless.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for weighing in, but I was actually hoping that OP would answer my question.

[(Anonymous)]

For me "inspired" is closer to "similar aesthetics" than "ripoff". In this case I know there's a great deal of characters being visually similar and have been drawn by the same artist (I mean, if you have your own artstyle, there would be no surprise if you draw two different handsome blonds same way with the similar face), but then again when your main character artists actively likes and draws similar characters from the popular franchise, well...
I think to really find out if it was in any way inspired by OW one would need to track down when exactly the main artist started working on DDADDS and if it was before or after they started drawing OW fanarts?? And to find out if the main artist was the main character designer, too.

[(Anonymous)]

IDGAF about Dream Daddy but that is some nice art.

[(Anonymous)]

...Wait this secret says DDADDS how did I misread that as Dream Daddy. D'oh.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure DDADDS is, in fact, Dream Daddy

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator

[(Anonymous)]

JFC. I hate it when this happens.