A Korean Overwatch fan has recreated Bastion out of cucumbers and toothpicks. For some reason.

Cucumbers are a vegetable believed to have originated in Southeast Asia and cultivated for around 3,000 years. The vine vegetable then traveled to China where traders brought it to Korea. Today, cucumbers are a staple vegetable in Korea, where it’s often fermented, fried, or turned into the core of a pretty good salad.

Any Korean restaurant worth its kimchi will have a cucumber salad on the menu, and will probably just provide it as a free side dish.

It also makes a mean Bastion skin.

Korean YouTuber “헤이올리 hey olly” recently used cucumbers to recreate Bastion in the real world. Why? No idea. Maybe it’s just because that’s his thing and he’s been doing it for so long that his motivations have been long-forgotten. Maybe he just really likes cucumbers. The world may never know.

Olly even provides instructions with his new Cucumber Bastion. First, you need three cucumbers. Next, you need a sharp knife and a lot of toothpicks. Finally, you need some carving skills as you’ll be taking each of those cucumbers and turning them into Bastion’s various components.

Oh, and you’ll need a green pepper for the gun.

The toothpicks serve as scaffolding to lay Bastion’s cucumber body parts, in much the same way as bones serve as scaffolding for a human’s meat parts. While the feet and torso are relatively straight forward, fitting the arms, head, and backpack require some delicate balancing in order to keep Bastion from fall over.

Olly even carves a tiny bird to serve as Bastion’s loving cucumber companion. And a bunch of tiny cucumber bits to serve as bullet casings for when Bastion goes buck-wild in turret mode.

And as previously mentioned, this isn’t the first time Olly has made food-Overwatch crossover videos. There’s also Doomfist and Hammond as watermelons, Bastion re-done as a pudding, and Reaper-style corndogs. They’re a little different since they’re Korean-style, but they’ve still got tubes of reconstituted pork products in the middle. That’s a corndog no matter what country it’s from.

Source: YouTube