![]() By day, Kiriko's grandmother served as the priestess of Kanezaka's shrine but there was another side to her as, by night, she trained the recruits of the Shimada crime family in the arts of the ninja. Kiriko Kamori hails from a family of protectors. Neither of them are right and it's up to Kiriko to find a middle ground. While Kiriko's grandmother is caught up in the past and tradition, I'd have her mother be pushing forward into the future. Firstly, I want to mix the spirituality and tradition aspects into one character and, secondly, this then frees up Kiriko's mother to serve another role as the grandmother's ideological foil. The first thing I'm changing is that Kiriko's mother isn't the ninja, her grandmother is. Now, I think that we can work on both these factors pretty easily through a mixture of lore and aesthetic changes. I just don't get why those two factors are meant to be at odds. The theme of Kiriko seems to be tradition vs modernity but that doesn't really work because the main conflict between her mother and grandmother seems to be Shinto priestess vs ninja for… some reason. She knows Hanzo and Genji and she works as a vigilante but they feel like background features to the kunai and kitsune feel she has going on. Her mother was a ninja and her grandmother was a Shrine Maiden and she's sort of… both and that's all there really is to her. There's been implications of magic before with Zenyatta and the Shimadas, but there's always been an underlying sense that it could be technology whereas here, it's just "Nope, this is actual shrine maiden magic." I guess Shinto is proven to be the one true religion in Overwatch? So, I feel like Kiriko isn't quite there with the other heroes in regards to her story and fitting into the world and I think there's a few reasons for that.
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