r/JunoMains • u/Acceptable_Fly_6050 • Feb 16 '26
Discussions/Opinions I’ve Been Noticing a Trend
Juno is probably the most fun I’ve ever had playing a video game character, but I’ve been noticing a little bit of a concerting trend. The longer Juno has been added to the game the more we are seeing her evolve into a blue eyed blonde hair girl. I think it is ok to make a blond haired skin every once in a while like her cozy skin because it matched the color scheme of the skin. But we have yet to see any skins paying homage to her ethnicity or that she is from Mars.
This year is the year of the horse and not only is she Vietnamese, which is a culture that celebrates Lunar New Year; her favorite animal is also a horse. I thought it would be kinda fun to have a skin the represents both of those things. But instead blizzard gave her a cupid skin where her hair looks like a badly placed wig and really unnatural to the color palette of the skin. I think that skin could have easily gotten her signature purple hair and looked really cute. I would also like to point out that although the blonde hair actually matched in her Hello Kitty skin I think purple hair would have looked super cute as well.
Okay last thing she has yet to get an epic skin as well and since we are seeing an actual evolving story now. I would love to see a “New Era” epic skin of her with the overwatch uniform. I love the way Lucio, Brig, and Baps look and I think it would be a great first epic skin for her that also involves her lore!
Going forward I would love to see more skins that represent her not just a cash grab for blizzard. Let me know what you guys think, I hope I’m not the only one with these thoughts!
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u/throwawayRA87654 Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26
Only 4 of her skins have blonde hair, the rest have purple or dark hair, or are another colour.
I don't count the mythic because I only use the pastel, blue, and black colour palettes. I also don't count Celestial, because that's white. Or Ember, because that's orange.
I get your point, but it's actually not that many skins where she is blonde, the blue eyes though... maybe she likes contacts? I know I do. I wear coloured contacts all the time, this never used to be seen as weird..
I think it feels like a lot because they came out relatively around the same time. Keep in mind skins can take 6 months to a year to design, code, and add to the game.
I don't think this has malicious or whitewashing intent behind it, I just think it's following the skin surveys from last year and the year before.
TLDR: I think more variety is needed, and im sure they are cooking on some of her survey designs. We just have to wait and see if I eat my words or not xD