. NAME . Amélie Jacqueline Lacroix (née Guillard); publicly known by her maidenname as Amélie Guillard [A.G] or, rarely, Amélie J. Guillard. Her marriage with Gérard Lacroix was not public knowledge / kept a secret due to safety concerns on Overwatch's end; was eventually revealed post-mortem.. NICKNAMES . Ami (a nickname frequently heard in the past; used by a selected few such as Angela & Cole only however, the latter jokingly referring to her as 'mon ami' despite it being grammatically incorrect) or Eli (rare, generally only utilized by her mother & people in Annecy when Amélie was merely a child. Brought up by said mother occasionally down the line whenever worried, however).. CALLSIGN, POST-MIND BREAK . [the] Widowmaker; a code name given, not chosen. Earned, some would say, seeing how the first widow the sniper ever made was herself, no matter how involuntarily. The aliases she has been given after her unwilling metamorphosis into Widowmaker are numerous (*); Lacroix, La Griffe, the Widow, Cauchemar, Araña (by Sombra only), Le Cygne Noir & more.

( * ) most of these monikers are more titles than anything else; attempts to grant a name to an otherwise intangible concept or enemy - the kind you hear about in urban myths.

. GENDER / ORIENTATION . cis-female, she & her / biromantic bisexual; strong pref. for women. Very at odds with herself / her identity, albeit leaving the closet in her early twenties; for most of her life, diverging from the, in her field of work required, heteronormative norm in terms of gender expression or similar has never been an option for her. Prone to present herself as much of a woman as her occupation demands her to be.. ETHNICITY . French / Albanian, at odds with her heritage / she feels conflicted regarding it, more oft than not. Her father (who was among the victims killed in the Null Sector Raid (*) that devastated the French Southeast in the year 2044 when Amélie was barely three months old), never got the chance to share their culture with her to the extend he would have wanted. Her mother tried to keep some of his traditions alive; cooking together became an important part of eithers' routines for that reason. Was raised in France [first Annecy, then Paris] after disaster struck & derailed the original plan for the (then) family of three to flee to North Italy where her father's brother was ready to grant them shelter.

( * ) one of countless bomb raids globally occurring during the years 2044 - 2046/47; a time that would eventually be referred to as 'the Omnic Crisis' or 'World War Omnica' in literature

. DOB / DOD . OCT. 21ST, 2043 / DEC. 22ND, 2068; libra, declared dead the same day her husband Gérard Lacroix is killed in his apartment in Paris. Amélie's body is never found; France would come to mourn the loss of a national treasure while in the ballet sphere she would become known as the étoile that got nominated in the year of her murder, taken too soon.. AGE . 25 on the day of her kidnapping (date of 'death'), 33 (OW1 timeline), 35 (OW2 timeline, current).. RELIGION . Roman Catholic, former. Her mother Danielle believed avidly in God, especially following the Omnic Crisis, predominately due to the solace it granted people, & thus consequently as per her mother's influence, so did Amélie as a child. Evening prayer before bed & graces before sharing their dinner were common. On most Sundays, Danielle, alongside young Amélie, would attend a make-shift Annecian mass at the tiny church near the sea.Her efforts stopped eventually when seven year old Ami begun attending aforementioned ballet boarding school & her old routines were replaced by new ones. Might occasionally pray regardless; there is a certain comfort in it, after all.. SPOKEN LANGUAGES . FRENCH, native, savoyard accent (& partial dialect evident in her vocabulary) due to living in Annecy throughout the first few years of language acquisition, not going to pre-school proper & her mother's influence (who grew up speaking / spoke proper Savoyard) after having moved to Paris shortly before turning four (*). ENGLISH, with a rather thick, very notable French accent; has tried to train it away but failed eventually due to lack of time & bouts of frustration.

( * ) while attending the École de danse de l'Opéra national de Paris (Paris Opera Ballet School), young Amélie was eventually forced to 'train-away' parts of her natural accent under the guise of 'professionalism'; coaxed into substituting it with a Metropolitan / Parisian accent instead. This, coupled with experiencing discrimination based on her socioeconomic status, parts of her appearance & "otherness" in terms of behavior led to Amélie struggling with accepting herself throughout most of her adolescent life; post-graduating at 17, however, she made an effort to reclaim parts of her identity.

. PROFESSION, PRE-MIND BREAK . Professional Ballet Dancer; artist under contract at the Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris, DANSEUSE ÉTOILE (lit. 'star dancer', one of only 15 during her lifetime) at the height of her career, 2068. Known French socialite since her promotion into the rank of a PREMIÈRE DANSEUSE (lit. 'principal dancer'), 2065.Musically inclined as she had always been (despite the turmoil experienced in the first seven years of her life), young Ami grew up surrounded by the very corps de ballet her mother was a part of; thus learning how to dance as soon as she could walk through observation of & education by her mother + aunts even before attending ballet school in Nanterre, granting her a ballet experience of roughly 22 years at the point of her kidnapping (with having been professionally trained in classical ballet since the age of 7).What, in her youth, started as a fascination with the manifold roles her mother & her fellow dancers were once capable of slipping into whilst dancing for the population of a crisis-torn Paris, would grow into an intense passion for the art, rooted in her subconscious desire to escape the horror, bleakness & poverty war had brought / she found herself exposed to.As a teenager, she avidly believed dance was a means to bring happiness to people devoid of it, may it be on the stage or in front.With the world having grown significantly smaller following World War Omnica & many countries applying a more isolationist approach to focus on rebuilding efforts, in France in particular, performing arts such as ballet were hereby seen as a symbol of peace & unity between Omnic & the French Population; a means to come together to create art & help each other through brutal times, appealing to an universal plea for a common identity & peace. Equally talented as an actress as she was as a dancer, Amélie's love for ballet would only intensify over the years, as easily & naturally to the stage as she took, regardless of the many sacrifices she would come to make for her dream of stardom in due time.. INTERESTS / HOBBIES . Ballet was generally at the forefront of everything, consuming almost all of Amélie's time & energy. Music in particular, would be a close enough second, albeit not comparable to Amélie's interest in the former. Cooking would become both, a necessity & a very important pastime of hers, usually shared between her & loved ones. A fourth was fashion by the nature of what her occupation as a professional ballet dancer required (namely to be well-dressed & embody a certain kind of elegance), going hand in hand with being particularily grand at needlework & styling (hair + make-up) of herself or others. She was never as passionate about the latter as she was about the former three.Amélie enjoyed watching shows at cabarets, photography & visiting the opera or theater. She had a surface interest in literature but never found the time nor had the patience to effectively read. Art was more accessible, as was jazz, classical music & opera; in fact she learned how to read notes / scores & play the piano during ballet school as a part of her education - Amélie never pursued it as passionately as she pursued ballet, however, becoming rather rusty in the process. She had no piano at home to practise at outside of school hours either, mind you. That said, akin to her interest in fashion, practising the piano was meant to make her a better dancer & little more.. MENTAL NOTES . Autism spectrum disorder; never properly diagnosed nor acknowledged. Amélie, a highly masking individual, would go through her life thinking what set her apart from others, & the difficulties she faced in day to day life, were just how things are - a necessary sacrifice, surely, given how all she ever wanted was to dance ballet & be successful in the latter. Severe body dysmorphia Amélie has been struggling with since the age of eight. Severe post traumatic stress disorder following her metamorphosis into Widowmaker, & all A. Lacroix was subjected to during Project E.M.I.. Prone to depersonalization on the regular, naturally not diagnosed either. That said, while there is a distinct cut between Widowmaker & Amélie emotionally, the body is very much affected all the same.. PROFESSION, POST-MIND BREAK . Talon Operative, [internationally wanted] Assassin & Hitwoman, sometimes regarded as an international serial killer by clueless authorities; after her forced metamorphosis into the Widowmaker, she becomes Talon's most notorious sniper, actively serving for roughly ten years (at the start of OW2). Going by the name Lacroix, if not referred to as Widow or Widowmaker, she is considered the most renowned in Talon's ranks, predominately due to her high effectiveness & near perfect mission success rate. If something is tagged by Talon as Widowmaker's target, it will die - when & where hereby mattering little.According to sources & whispers all around, Widowmaker is a ghost; those in criminal circles consider her an urban legend, the antagonist of many a story grunts all across the network tell each other. A brainwashed & mind-controlled killing machine, in their point of view, known for pursuing her targets relentlessly & never showing either mercy or remorse whilst not once leaving a single shred of a trace; she does not keep track of her kills - Talon does & uses the exact number to intimidate & threaten even within their own ranks rather deliberately.

. SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS . Working Class, for most of her life; earned the status as a self-made French socialite eventually following her success as a professional ballet dancer under contract at the Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris & the quality of life improvements that would eventually come with her climbing social ranks. Heavily dislikes operating in higher social strata, however, especially all associated with her husband's military body of work / Overwatch as a whole. She has learned to "grin & bear it" but is just as adamant on not forgetting her roots.After all, most of her childhood & early adolescence were distinctly marked by even those working-class roots; influenced by the civil struggle of a) growing up in a city decimated by war & b) being an internally displaced person, dubbed a "rural refugee", from the French South, trying to make it in the overcrowded capitol. Her mother worked hard all her life to finance her daughter's education & make rent [while education itself is free in France, lodging & the likes are not]. Amélie would aid her as much as she could.

When a teen, no longer having her school's full border status, she worked a few hours as a ballroom dance instructor (nevermind that she was underage) on the weekends & tutored classmates in need of help in exchange for ballet gear & similar up until securing a contract at aforementioned ballet company post graduation.

Throughout the later parts of her school career, she managed to attain a scholarship through the Prix de Lausanne, an international competition for young dancers held in Switzerland, which aided her in the completion of her training as a classical dancer when her mother would eventually have to lower her hours; eventually graduated from the prestigious dance school École de danse de l'Opéra national de Paris at 17. No further education beyond her combined twelve years of school.. PLACE OF BIRTH . Annecy, allegedly (Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France). Truthfully born in Paris. She is unaware of this fact, however since she left the 'City of Love' alongside her mother Danielle & her father when barely three months old (2044). Amélie would then be told by her mother that her place of birth was Annecy pre its ruination; Ami never once questioned it nor would she ever truly learn how her father (& the rest of her biological family) had come to perish. She is raised by a village; a tightly knit community rather than a single person. By fishermen, seamstresses, gardeners, mechanics, make-shift hunters; kind people with sad eyes who used to be someone else before World War Omnica. Men & women who teach her how to spell her name, how to count & plant mint; elderly who gift her an oversized wool hat that she hardly ever takes off.Eventually, with no choice left, Danielle & her daughter depart the ruins of the dwarfed-down city near Lac d'Annecy & its people come late Summer 2047 following the official end of the crisis. Through the help of an old friend of Danielle's, Bernard, who would come to use some of his connections to cousins in Paris, the family of two gets on an overcrowded bus to the capitol.It was hereby predominately Danielle's concern with extreme poverty both had been subjected to, & the lack of any normalcy or prospects, for her daughter or herself, that forced either to leave their ancestral home & established community behind : there was no work to be found in this post-war ruin; no peace, no recuperation from the horrors witnessed. So once Dani had secured a place to stay & a temporary job in her old company to take up, to Paris, where jobs & a potential future waited, they went.

. PLACE OF RESIDENCE . mother & daughter were forced to circle through three different, petite (& rather rundown) apartments in the 7th Arrondissement of Paris every three months [2047 - 2050] (*) before eventually managing to rent their own, tiny place in the north of the 9th Arrondissement when Amélie was seven; she predominately lived in the very same, small one-&-a-half-room apartment until the day of her kidnapping, never having the heart to sell it / move out even when having the means to do so post her mother's death (she would come to own another small apartment in Genève, Switzerland, later down the line, however).

( * ) aforementioned three apartments they lived in prior to their own hereby were rented by the three members of Danielle's groupe de quadre (part of the corps de ballet of Dani's company); Dani's closest friends, met years before her daughter's birth. Reasons for doing so were in part lack of funds to rent their own place & shortage of living space in Paris at that time in general. Amélie would come to regard Céline, Valérie & Geneviève as the aunts she never had.

. PARENTS . Danielle Marie Guillard [⁎2016 - ✝2064], mother. The disowned daughter of the infamous (& long dead) Guillard family, was a former coryphée at the Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris who had to retire from active dance at the age of 35 (2051) due to health complications. Worked as a small-scale ballet instructor until the age of 44 (2060) / until she was forced to stop working ultimately; eventually died of leukemia four years later (allegedly caused by exposure to elevated radiation levels present in the ruins of Annecy following the Null Sector Raid in 2044). Kostandin Peçi [⁎2014 - ✝2044], father. An Albanian sous-chef working at an Annecian ski-sport resort (pre-crisis outbreak) to provide additional funds for his brother + family in Turin (North Italy). A musical man with a love for dance & a passion for the culinary arts. Originally from Barile, South of Italy, his family having migrated from Delvinë, Southern Albania midst conflict. He died of blood loss following a severe abdominal injury during the bombing of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in January 2044. Danielle never overcame her grief in that matter / would not have a romantic relationship ever again.. SIGNIFICANT OTHER(S) . Gérard Lacroix (husband, married 2064 - 2068), Dr. Angela E. Ziegler (the Other Woman, for a lack of a better phrase, 2065 -2068); Amélie & Gérard considered themselves a joyous, quite perfect couple at the beginning. So in love in fact, that they impulsively threw themselves into a rushed marriage in Spring 2064 (having dated for just one & a half years beforehand); a bond that becomes a farce fast after either realizes that they live in entirely different, incompatible worlds. He is a black-ops agent working for a global peacekeeping organisation, a military man whose life is shrouded in mystery, while she is a ballet dancer living a public life in the spotlight, driven by a dream. Following the death of her mother, Gérard's work-related secrecy & absence plus the (involuntary) neglect that stems from it [which she was convinced she could handle given her own hectic life], Amélie Guillard is coerced into acknowledging what an absolute loneliness she has become.

Desperate, she spends one evening drinking perhaps a little too much & getting a little too close to her attentive best friend Angela Ziegler leading to mistakes being made & reasoning being thrown into the wind; it is stereotypical, almost, how their relationship develops : from friends with benefits to the horrifying realization that either feels genuine love for one another whilst Gérard pretends to not know. It is a constant back & forth, not unlike one of the very pas de deux Amélie oft dances, torn between selfish fulfillment & guilt, self-aware that her private life is falling apart while her career is at a glorious peak.

Both relationships end abruptly when a brainwashed Amélie eventually kills her husband on Talon's orders on December 22nd 2068 & disappears afterwards. Widowmaker & Angela have been "rekindling" their relationship; to the detriment of both involved.

. SPECIES . Genetically & Cybernetically Enhanced Human Being; more weapon than woman at this point. While born an ordinary human with no augmentation done in her past, Amélie's body was heavily surgically & genetically altered in the progress of becoming "The Widowmaker", the perfect sniper, after being kidnapped by the Terrorist Organisation Talon & neurally reconditioned at the age of 25. Originally, she was merely meant to kill Talon's greatest rival, Gérard Lacroix; however, Dr. Moira O'Deorain, who helmed & spearheaded Talon's "Experimental Marksman Initiative" [E.M.I] saw an 'unique' opportunity following G.Lacroix' successful termination.In the progress of Project E.M.I, the geneticist slowed down Amélie's heartbeat to one beat per minute to provide her with a perfectly steady hand & therefore perfect aim, while genetically altering her lungs & body's dependency on oxygen as a whole (*) to be able to provide her body with all it needs regardless of its extremely slow metabolism.

( * ) Widowmaker's body hereby breaks down organic molecules and derives energy from the progress, making her function in low-oxygen environments.

As a consequence, Amélie's skin turned a ghostly, discolored blue with lips, nails, & eyelids having blackened (read: where her skin is thin & her dark blood shines through). Violet discoloration drawn across the skin hugging her limbs & around vein-clusters is common. According to standard medical tests, Widowmaker is clinically dead & her overall anatomy no longer aligns with that of an average human. In fact, most standardized treatments have no effect on her.. ADDITIONAL AUGUMENTATIONS DONE . alongside her heartbeat being slowed down to one beat per minute, various additional modifications to her DNA were made, leading to, for example, a higher production of endorphins which grants her a significantly higher pain tolerance. Additionally, her excruciatingly slow metabolism makes her bleed slower even in case of otherwise fatal injuries; Widow monitors her physical health via her visor, allowing her to push through fights, even if wounded, that the average human being would not be capable of handling under similar circumstances.Her body temperature is lower than what is considered possible for a human being, averaging at around 18 degree Celsius (64,4 degree Fahrenheit), consequently rendering her devoid of a proper heat signature / appearing like a corpse whenever seen through infra-red; she cannot generate body heat & does not perspirate, nor does the cold or the heat have any remarkable effect on her.Due to her body's unique condition, Widowmaker is incapable of traditional wound healing, cell regeneration & generally sustaining life. She does not age & cannot die from natural causes (granted her medical treatment is upkept) rendering her quasi-immortalized against her will.Amélie's natural eyes were replaced with golden, cybernetic ones containing highly advanced implants that allow Widowmaker to see at night & approx. six times as far as the average human, even without a scope, while further rendering her able to note & register even most minuscule of details in for example a person's body language. She is immune to nightblindness, does not blink & reflects light if it so happens to hit her eyes directly; in a lot of cases, the latter is the last thing a person sees.Most internal reproductive organs have been removed. Her skin has been hardened in vital places to prevent lethal stabbing or cutting injuries; an enhancement that works in tandem with denser bones & most of her muscle groups having been spurred into accelerated growth & thusly strengthened to increase her overall physical strength & withstand heightened bouts of stress & potential injury.Both shoulders have been artificially bolstered through kinetic force redirecting implants to allow uninterrupted firing of her rifle without suffering from recoil-induced pain or injury; it is no surprise that Widowmaker is significantly stronger, faster & more agile than her lanky & emaciated physique may have her seem
━ beneath paramilitary gear & the black high collar coats she likes to wear hides pure, lean muscle.Further, her lower legs (knees, shins & feet) were replaced with military grade bionic leg prostheses allowing for higher & more fast-paced jumps & leaps, devastating kicking strength, no damage to the joints upon impact, parkouring or falling, a far above average running / sprinting speed, & various other advantages.Due to not being affected by harsher climates, Widowmaker is capable of bearing hours spent in hostile environments [able to exist in places that do not provide oxygen whatsoever; her gear is waterproof for that exact reason. She has been known to infiltrate edifices through waterways with no issues]. Weekly blood transfusions & medical care are, however, obligatory to ensure her survival.

. EMOTIONAL CAPACITY . her ability to express or experience emotions (& feelings of any kind) is very limited; some will say she cannot feel anything at all. The latter is more a myth than concrete statement, given how Widowmaker is capable of undergoing sentiments such as fear, mild contentedness or anger (the latter expressing itself in a passive kind of annoyance or irritation) although exactly what she "feels" is very dull & muted - there is no sense of shame, guilt or vanity. No concept of morality, no remorse, no ability to emotionally connect with anyone.She possesses a hard-wired intent to kill but is not driven by it, going as far as describing the event of taking someone's life as eventful as eating a meal or reading a book. To Widowmaker, carrying out a hit is a job, something she just does; a part of a meticulously hand-crafted routine Talon established when conditioning A.Guillard to become their sleeper agent. By default, Widowmaker is usually taciturn & stoic, exhibiting little change or motion in expression or body language whatsoever.. BODY TYPE . ectomorph, little curves; a very lithe & delicate woman with a small bone structure. Widowmaker hereby maintains Amélie's silhouette at her core.. HEIGHT . originally 164 cm (5'4,5") when still known as Amélie, 175 cm (5'9") after; the amputation of her legs & the replacement thereof altered her overall height by 11 cm (4,5 inches).. WEIGHT . approx. 50 KG (110 lbs, then), 72 KG (158 lbs, now); while maintaining the same overall lean silhouette [despite having grown significantly more haggard in terms of body's overall appearance (facial features in particular)], Widowmaker has grown distinctly heavier. After all, the loss of near all of her excess body fat following the full standstill of her heart & the following onset rigor mortis, was partially substituted with spurred muscle growth ( * ); not fully remedied, however. Widowmaker's physical appearance is distinctly marked by her 'death'.

( * ) The additional weight hereby comes from her carbon fiber military grade bionic legs (+ 6 kg / 13 lbs) & additional 16 kg (35 lbs) consisting out of muscle mass distributed across all of Widow's muscle groups equally to enhance her overall physical strength & increase her already extreme athletic capabilities + other, predominately genetic, alterations done (such as skin hardening, implants in both scapulae to minimize recoil damage, etc) factored in.

. COMPLEXION . medium (then), discolored, cornflower blue (now); while satin smooth in the past, her skin now holds a leathery, quite dry texture in most, if not all, places. Her oxygen poor blood has the color of ink & there is distinct, violet discoloration in various places (such as her fingertips or knuckles) reminiscient of livor mortis.. EYES, COLOR & GENERAL APPEARANCE . formerly deep brown, appeared hazel in the right light with golden specks (then), harsh artifical gold (now); her eyes have become utterly devoid of 'soul'. It is impossible to find any form of emotional stir in them these days. Further, they have no pigmented rings, crypts, &/ or furrows, prone to dully reflect light if shined at. Calculating & merciless in their attention, Widowmaker seems as if she is constantly dissecting her environment.. HAIR, COLOR & TEXTURE . formerly natural black, thick texture with a distinct curl, reaching just until the middle of her back; her father's hair, velvety when touched & taken care of quite attentively (then). matte black with a lilac sheen to it, ankle length (now); Widowmaker's hair has not been cut for ten years & oft seems as if sentient. It has been genetically altered to not tangle & has been noted to wrap & coil around Widow's limbs as if ivy whenever worn open. It requires little care & is utterly self-sustaining; uncannily satin to the touch & glides right though one's grip.. DRESS STYLE . formerly elegant + modern [ballet] chic, pred. in reds, blues or pastel (then), fashion & uniform provided by Talon, pred. black in color. Standard military gear (now).. TATTOOS . formerly none (then), two (now); larger work across her entire back (black spider), & full right forearm (a line of a French poem, predominately reading 'cauchemar'). The first was forced upon her shortly before her transformation into the Widowmaker had been concluded; the sleeve on her right arm was chosen by herself.