In one of the classier moves in recent gaming history, Blizzard artist Roman Kenney has taken a young Overwatch Kotaku , Shane Hickey wrote to the Overwatch Twitter account about his daughter's home-made character, Birst, asking for the Blizzard team's thoughts.



@PlayOverwatch hi team! my daughter created a new character.Her name is birst. She'd love to know your thoughts pic.twitter.com/b31YWUPqSs — Shane Hickey (@shanehickey) May 20, 2016

Blizzard's take on Birst.



@PlayOverwatch hey again team, Here's Ava finding out about the character you did for her #Birst Thanks again! pic.twitter.com/nqRFLykRPs — Shane Hickey (@shanehickey) May 23, 2016



@PlayOverwatch @shanehickey birst is such a cool character! i hope we can all play overwatch together soon :) pic.twitter.com/9J5JxVu1P2 — iguana jones (@gransmells) May 22, 2016

Clearly their thoughts were "this is cool", because a day later Kenney had taken her drawing and description (key specifications: offensive boomerang, healing powers, wings, lasers on suit), and created a very Overwatch-y new character:The move has gone down very well, as you can see in the video Hickey made of her first reaction to the news:And, of course, because the internet can sometimes be an exceedingly cool and confusing place, people have now started creating fan art of the concept art of the fan art:

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