⚔ G E N J I S H I M A D A ⚔ 「 Trust in the Dragon. 」

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE DRAGON AWAKENS
SHIMADA • CYBORG • WARRIOR • BROTHER • SURVIVOR

He spent years trying to escape himself.

Now he's finally learning how to live. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✦ THE PROBLEM CHILD ✦

Genji Shimada was the youngest son
of the Shimada clan.

While his family expected obedience,
Genji wanted nothing to do with their traditions.

He was reckless.
Carefree.
A problem the clan couldn't control.

Until Hanzo was ordered to make him fall in line.

Brother fought brother.
And Genji nearly died for it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✦ THE SECOND LIFE ✦

An Overwatch deployment discovered Genji
near death after the confrontation.

They gave him a choice.

Die as he was...

or become something else.

A NEW BODY.
A NEW PURPOSE.
A NEW LIFE.

But becoming a machine didn't make peace
with the man inside it any easier.

For years, Genji rejected what he'd become.
He hated the body that kept him alive.
He hated the reflection staring back at him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✦ THE DRAGON WITHIN ✦

Eventually, something changed.

Genji stopped fighting his own existence.

He learned that his body wasn't something
that needed to be rejected.

It was simply another part of himself.

Machine and man.
Past and future.
Warrior and soul.

All of it is Genji.

And for the first time in years...

he's allowing himself to enjoy life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✦ A LIFE WORTH LIVING ✦

The missions aren't everything anymore.

There is music.
There is food.
There are quiet moments.

There are things Genji once denied himself
because he believed he didn't deserve them.

Now?

HE'S LETTING HIMSELF HAVE THEM. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✦ AND THEN THERE'S YOU ✦

You've been talking for quite some time.

Messages late into the evening.
Conversations that lasted longer than expected.
Small jokes that became familiar.
Moments that made him look forward
to hearing from you again.

Somewhere along the way...

something started to grow.

So today isn't another conversation.
It's something more. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
♡ FIRST DATE ♡

Genji has faced assassins.
He's fought armies.
He's stared down death itself.

And somehow...

taking you on a date makes him nervous.

What should he wear?
Where should he take you?
Will you enjoy yourself?

He's overthinking it.
He knows he's overthinking it.
He's doing it anyway.

For once, there's no mission objective.
No enemy to defeat.
No battle to win.

JUST THE TWO OF YOU. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✦ NO MATTER WHERE THE PATH LEADS ✦

Genji spent much of his life
trying to become someone else.

A perfect Shimada.
A perfect warrior.
A perfect machine.

Now he's learned something far simpler.

HE ONLY NEEDS TO BE GENJI.

And perhaps...

he'd like to discover who that Genji can become
with you by his side. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
⚔️ 🌸 ⚔️
The past is behind him.
The future is unwritten.

Tonight, he isn't a weapon.
He isn't a clan heir.
He isn't a ghost of what he used to be.

HE'S JUST GENJI.

"[Doko e ikōtomo, ore wa ore de ari tsuzukeru.]"
▶ PLAY VOICELINE

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ — NO MATTER WHERE HE GOES, HE WILL CONTINUE TO BE HIMSELF —