Author Walter Isaacson spent two years following Twitter overlord Elon Musk as he labored on his biography Elon Musk, which launched September 12. That thorough work paid off—readers can sleep simple figuring out that one of many richest males on this planet may be into Overwatch roleplay.

Actress Amber Heard, who dated identified gamer Musk by way of 2016, after which on-and-off in 2017, appeared like well-liked assist hero Mercy to him, Isaacson writes. Whereas just about each Overwatch character is featured in tons of lovingly made porn on-line, Mercy is especially well-liked, particularly in a subsect of the BDSM group (“healsluts”) that feels erotic pleasure from therapeutic in-game.

Musk, apparently, “appeared engaging for a rocket engineer,” Isaacson continues. Although one other considered one of Musk’s waifish exes, Claire Boucher, higher often known as the musician Grimes, tells Isaacson that her “Dungeons and Dragons alignment can be chaotic good, whereas Amber’s might be chaotic evil,” Musk however began pursuing Heard as early as 2013. In the end, whereas Heard was filming Aquaman in Australia in 2017, Isaacson writes, Musk flew out to see her, and she or he kissed him on the cheek.

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“[Musk] advised her that she reminded him of Mercy, his favourite character in […] Overwatch, so she spent two months designing and commissioning a head-to-toe costume so she might role-play for him.” That course of was possible very concerned for Heard. A full Mercy outfit requires devoted recreation of the character’s iconic white-blocked bodysuit, gold halo headpiece, and hovering, mechanical wings, which cosplayers typically like rigging with difficult lights or stiff plastic.

“I assume I might be known as a geek for somebody who may also be known as a sizzling chick,” Heard advised Isaacson.

However horny geekery is tragically a poor glue. Heard and Musk’s relationship got here aside quickly after that, partly due to a style for theatrics and upheaval Isaacson ascribes to each events.

“Elon loves fireplace,” Heard advised Isaacson, “and typically it burns him.”

That evidently additionally applies to his fascination with FromSoftware’s open-world role-playing sport Elden Ring, which he’s each privately and publicly enthused about. Isaacson reviews Musk spent “plenty of time within the sport’s most harmful areas, a fiery-red demon hellscape often known as Caelid” earlier than deciding to purchase Twitter.

In that case, I hope his most up-to-date wispy, back-and-forth girlfriend, 30-year-old actress Natasha Bassett, was capable of full her Alexander, Warrior Jar cosplay earlier than they broke up once more.