1) How canonical are TDM threads? My plan is to app Bastion (and likely one, maybe two other characters, but it depends on whether their CR come too) as a CRAU after Come Sail Away wraps up its endgame sometime this month or the next, but if I have the energy to thread on both in the first place, I'm worried about tying myself into knots trying to reconcile the continuity of TDM threads where they don't know what happened at the very end of the other game and post-app threads where they do.

2) Is it actually mandatory to change futuristic characters' aesthetic, or just strongly recommended/what happens most often? Bastion does have a steampunk skin available in Overwatch - a couple different ones, actually - but I like their default shape better. Also I want to have a full complement of icons, but I don't want to use the current ones and have them be inaccurate, at least not to that degree, and while I have plenty of empty slots it would be difficult to make replacement art of the ones from the cinematic or official 2D art in the same pose but a different skin.