Gency

Gency is the het ship between Genji and Mercy from the Overwatch fandom.

Canon
Angela joined Overwatch at a young age and became the head of medical research. She discovered new uses for nano-biology and how to use it to heal injuries and illness. She developed the Valkyrie suit, so that she could use the tech on the battlefield, taking the call name "Mercy" when she did. After Overwatch was disbanded, Mercy continued to use her tech to heal others.

Genji was the second son of the Shimada Clan. He lived a carefree life until his father died, and the Clan elders encouraged his older brother, Hanzo, to put an end to it. Hanzo confronted his brother, and eventually it turned violent. Hanzo severely injures Genji and believes him to be dead. Hanzo ran from his home, while Genji was found by the Overwatch team. He was treated, became a cyborg and joined Blackwatch until it was disbanded. He then joined Overwatch shortly after. After Overwatch was disbanded, he went journeying and joined up with the Omnic Monks, where he learned to control his anger. He eventually goes to meet his brother again, hoping to help him find peace with what he did.

When Genji was on the verge of death, Mercy was the one to have found him alongside with a teammate known as Emre, and treated him and watched over him through his recovery. After Genji woke up, Reyes offered him a choice. If Genji agreed to work with Reyes and take down his father's criminal empire by using his sources, knowledge and skills, Overwatch would rebuild him into "something greater" than he had been before. However, Mercy objected against the possibility of making Genji into becoming the ultimate weapon for Overwatch. In the end, Genji agreed to the proposal.

While fulfilling what was requested by Reyes for Genji, she continued to be strongly opposed to the "nature of them". She saw that many of his enhancements can be weaponized in the future, and was only willing to perform the surgery after being ordered to do so. She used the full scope of her medical knowledge to Genji's failing organs with cybernetics and later on enhance what remained on his body. However, during months of his treatment and physical therapy in order to adapt to his cybernetics, Mercy and Genji have been stated to have formed a "close" bond with one another. This bond would be stated to be "pivotal" in his reassignment to Overwatch, and as well as the mask he wore.

After Blackwatch was revealed to the public and cuts in their operations, Genji joined the Overwatch agent training program to become an official member at the urging of Mercy. It's hinted that Mercy wanted to keep Genji safe before anyone could look into his background too closely after Blackwatch's exposure. Essentially, Genji's reason to join Overwatch was because of Mercy.

During the Storm Rising event, there is a cutscene of Mercy swooping in and saving Genji from a gigantic explosion in the background. Genji and Mercy are part of the same Strike Team who took down Maximillian.

After Overwatch disbanded, Genji met Zenyatta and trained with him. Around Christmas, he wrote letters to Angela. She has received them along with a sparrow feather that he seemed to have written them with.

During the animated short "Zero Hour", Genji and Mercy are part of the the same team in Paris.

During the Toronto mission ‘Liberation’, in the first segment of the Overwatch 2’s PVE ‘Invasion’, Mercy and Genji teases with each other with Mercy calling Genji a bad artist and friend due to not sending a letter back to Mercy, and instead an art of his own in response to her “beautiful sketch”, as Genji puts it. Genji replies back sarcastically, saying that he’s a liar and that her sketch was awful.

Gameplay
"I Need Healing" was a meme for as long as the game has been released. Given that Mercy is the most common healer chosen, she ends up being the one to heal Genji.

Genji is one of the best characters to "uber"/"taxi"/"pick up" Mercy from spawn point & combo ult with Valkyrie. While not the best choice to pocket, they tend to be a strong duo on their own to face against.

The majority of the custom games "Chill No Kill" consist of Genji or Mercy players sitting together or doing emotes & voice lines. On occasion, custom games would have titles consisting of "Queen Mercy & King Genji" as well as other similar one's.

Eliminations
WITNESS ELIMINATION

"Angela!"

- Genji witnesses friendly Mercy eliminated. "Genji... I was too late."

- Mercy witnesses friendly Genji eliminated.

 ELIMINATION  "No need to check on me, Doctor."

- Genji eliminates enemy Mercy. "You deserved that, Genji."

- Mercy eliminates enemy ulting Genji.

 ASSIST ELIMINATION 

"You're even sharper when we work together!"

- Mercy assists friendly Genji to getting an elimination. "You owe me for that one, Genji!"

- Mercy assists friendly Genji to getting an elimination. """(Laugh) We do get on well, don't we?"

- Mercy assists friendly Genji to getting an elimination.

Mercy's Resurrections
 ALLY RESURRECTION  "You've rescued me again, Doctor Ziegler!"

- Genji after being resurrected by friendly Mercy in Overwatch. "Just like old times."

- Genji after being resurrected by friendly Mercy in Overwatch 2.

ENEMY RESURRECTION

"Her work is efficient, as always."

- Genji witnesses enemy Mercy resurrects their ally.

Mercy's Healing and Damage Boosting
HEALING "I'm taking care of you, Genji."

- Mercy healing Genji in Overwatch.

"(Sigh) So soon, Genji?"

- Mercy healing Genji in Overwatch 2.

DAMAGE BOOSTING

"Do your thing, Genji!"

- Mercy damage boosting Genji.

Fanon
Those who hate Gency are called Antis & the majority inhabit Tumblr or Twitter. "ThingsBetterThenGency", "Anti-Gency" are blogs dedicated and run by Anti-Gency. The reason that people would not ship it are that they would prefer the two characters to not be heterosexual, and would prefer them in other relationships. Another reason is that Mercy was once Genji's doctor, and many would feel that their relationship would be considered inappropriate.

Some twitter users have harassed the main writer, Michael Chu, for his liking of Gency, which begun after the Valentine's Day Voice Lines were released.

Many shippers of Gency enjoy making children OCs. Many like writing them getting married or what their relationship is like.

The ship is also written as the half of two different love triangles. With Mercy as the point the other half is with Pharah. With Genji as the point, the other half is with Zenyatta.

On AO3, Gency is the second most written ship for Mercy, and the third most written ship for Genji. It is the ninth most written ship within the Overwatch tag. It also has a large following on Tumblr.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Genji/Mercy tag on FF
 * Genji/Mercy tag on FF

TUMBLR

WIKIS

Trivia

 * Genji is 35, while Mercy is 37.
 * The ship is supported by both Gaku Space, who voices Genji, and Lucie Pohl, who voices Mercy.
 * In DeviantArt, an artist by the name of "raikoart" was commissioned by Lucie Pohl and Gaku Space, the official voices for Mercy and Genji, for an artwork between Genji and Mercy fighting back-to-back together. It would end up being offered as a print at MCM London Comic-Con on the 25th-27th May.
 * In "Reflections" Genji is shown writing a letter to someone with a sparrow feather. The next page shows Mercy holding a piece of paper, and a sparrow feather. It is more than likely that Genji had written a letter to Mercy.
 * On February 13 2022, during the Valentine's Day event for Overwatch 2, Loverwatch was released globally as a first time dating simulator where Genji and Mercy are both the first representative icons that you can choose to romanticize with, alongside with Hanzo as a cupid.
 * It was stated by former lead concept artist Qiu Fang that the 2018 legendary lunar White Tiger Genji skin and the legendary lunar Red Phoenix Mercy skin were made to reflect the original story of Mercy saving Genji in mind, as the red phoenix reincarnates the white tiger after almost vanquishing. They are essentially “matching” skins.
 * It was stated that the interaction between Genji and Mercy, in Overwatch 2’s Invasion’s mission ‘Liberation’, where Mercy calls Genji a bad artist and a bad friend, while Genji called himself a liar for calling her sketch beautiful and that it was awful, it was actually them joking with one another as neither are angry with each other and are even seen standing next to one another multiple times, as well as Mercy noticing something was wrong with Genji at the end of the mission.

Variations

 * Emerzenji refers to the ship between Zenyatta, Genji and Mercy
 * McGency refers to the ship between Cole Cassidy, Genji and Mercy
 * Phargency refers to the ship between Pharah,Genji and Mercy