#also like being a pilot is a popular career choice but tending to engine and fixing machine is dirty work so— | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

shes-claws-deep · 6 years ago

Text

Police AU

Been watching one too many cop documentaries so here’s my take on Overwatch’s police/emergency services AU where they’re all on the same side. None for Siege since...well, they’re all cops :p I’m more than happy to expand on these upon request since I just thought about them on the spot while binging episodes.

Under the cut because it’s pretty long.

Damage

Bastion - He’s the fire engine :p Just kidding. Bastion is part of the fire service and is often called to road traffic accidents to cut people out of cars. For some reason, the officers never see him for any other reason, but he always appears with a happy whistle that calms the people trapped in their vehicles.

Doomfist - A deputy public prosecutor who is exceptionally charming. He used to work as a private defence lawyer, defending criminals, until he ‘turned a new leaf’ and joined the Public Prosecution office. He is very nitpicky with his evidence and is skilled at pointing out loopholes. Akande takes great pleasure in tutting at police officers for being too careless in gathering evidence or if they have been too rough with the suspect. There are rumours that he is or was involved in the local crime ring that have yet to be proven.

Genji - Formerly from the SWAT team, he took unpaid leave after a confrontation with an armed suspect left him with grievous injuries. Now he’s back on duty as part of the mobile patrol team but is occasionally called in to deal with drunks or drugged individuals. He has an odd ability to deal with them peacefully without the need for intimidation or force and is the most knowledgeable about drugs and alcohol in the entire station. In fact, he’s so good with them that he’s constantly assigned to the club and pub areas and has a nickname of ‘Drunk Whisperer’. He hates it.

Hanzo - Originally a member of the yakuza in Japan, Hanzo escaped his past and moved to a new country. He now works as an undercover agent in various criminal empires, establishing connections and helping bust human trafficking rings. Although he generally looks sullen and unapproachable, no one can deny his ability to blend in with the criminals he’s assigned to infiltrate. Hanzo particularly despises drugs and alcohol, due to recovering from his own addiction, and has to fight hard not to compromise his assignment if he’s faced with drunks and drugged men and women.

Junkrat - Jamison Fawkes serves as an explosives disposal expert with the SWAT team. He was initially wanted for messing with explosives and minor robbery in Australia, but after he was put into a correctional facility, he was ‘convinced’ to put his talents to good use. Despite his new career change, he’s still happy he gets to play with explosives and avoid time in the psychiatric hospital.

McCree - Also formerly from the SWAT team, Jesse McCree was forced onto medical leave after losing his arm in the same confrontation with an armed suspect. While he copes with his new prosthetic arm, he’s relegated to patrol duties as part of the firearms team. In addition, he’s typically called in as a sniper or spotter where necessary. McCree is also the officer who is sent around to families to give bad news, be it about an accident or a death. Oddly enough, McCree usually gets saddled with shooing wildlife off the motorways/highways and returning lost animals to their owners, though they’re always reluctant to leave him.

Mei - Mei is primarily part of the ambulance service as an A&E doctor and part of the emergency medic team. She is occasionally dispatched as a search and rescue medic due to her experience with adverse weather conditions and is especially experienced with arctic conditions. When she feels like she wants to do some desk work, she does a shift as a control room dispatcher. Her favourite is when she can help deliver babies over the phone or in person. She never likes attending road traffic collisions because she feels helpless when they need medical attention but is trapped in their vehicles.

Pharah - Fareeha hailed from the military as a paratrooper. After many years in the service, she retired and joined the police force as a SWAT officer. She is a crack shot with a rifle and is very happy to handle RPGs when needed. Occasionally, she does shifts as part of the firearms team attending to armed suspects. As one of the best pursuers in the team, she often catches runners before any other officer can get their hands on them. Fareeha is rarely seen in the station since she’s constantly on mobile patrol when she has nothing better to do. Other officers teasingly call her a workaholic, though she takes it as a compliment rather than an insult.

Reaper - Commander of the SWAT team and a former detective in the Drug division. Suspects find him incredibly intimidating even with his face uncovered, which is to the station’s advantage as they often dispatch him to arrest particularly violent suspects. He’s been on the force long enough that he knows almost every career criminal in the county/state, and whenever he’s sent out, they know they’re in for a rough time. Notoriously picky about his coffee and is always seen with a taco or burrito in hand. No doughnuts for this cop if he wants to keep his muscles.

Soldier: 76 - Police inspector of the county/state. He’s well-liked among his men for clawing his way up the ranks like everyone else and has a keen nose for liars. While he did a brief stint in Homicide investigations, Jack used to prefer the Drugs division because he believes that drugs are a bigger blight on society than killers. However, now that he is primarily a pencil pusher and minor politician, he becomes very nosy in the office and listens in on the radio. Would sneak into a patrol car if he could.

Sombra - Sombra appeared out of nowhere to apply for a position as a dispatcher and ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition system) as well as a slew of other bits of technology to aid officers on the road. The SWAT and Investigations units use her as a hacker as and when they need to, which is something she enjoys. She is extremely verbal about her dislike for the abuse of power and some officers have expressed their doubt about her because of it. Ana Amari is suspicious that she’s a snitch for headquarters, but to be honest Sombra serves as a check and balance for the more morally flexible officers in the station. Sombra also snitches on those morally flexible officers to Ana, which helps her credit.

Symmetra - A Deputy Public Prosecutor who, like Akande, was originally a defence lawyer. She has a speciality for traffic offences and property offences, viewing them as more routine than homicide charges which are far more complex. Occasionally, she handles sexual offences as she is determined to make the offender pay for their misdeeds. One of the hardest DPPs to deal with, but the station likes her because of her no-nonsense nature. She is familiar with many defence lawyers in the area and knows exactly which lawyer will be called for which offence or for which offender. Many officers are making bets on what will ruffle her feathers.

Torbjorn - The station mechanic caring for police vehicles. May sometimes be found souping up some pursuit cars to ensure they can go as fast as possible when pursuing suspects. He is also responsible for maintaining the firearms department and is the one who carries out firearms certifications for officers. Though a hard-ass, he is also a very good instructor. Enjoys Hana’s presence when she works with him in the garage, although he’s not too fond of her choice in music.

Tracer - Lena is the designated driver of the station. She’s arguably the most qualified, as she is a police officer with a paramedic qualification, as well as a former race car driver and licenced helicopter pilot. She does rotations on the air ambulance team, the mental health care team, and the traffic police. Some may call her overworked or overstretched, but she loves what she does and never wants to stop. Due to her cheery nature and unassuming stature, suspects think that they can walk all over her, but unfortunately for them, Lena is more than happy to give chase. As a former track and field athlete, Lena is blindingly fast and is known to catch runners before they even know she’s given chase. She’s currently training to become part of the Road Crimes team.

Widowmaker - Amelie works as an undercover agent to take down sex and child trafficking rings. Through the years, her work has hardened her and transformed her into something completely different from the woman she used to be. What does remain, though, is her burning hatred for those who would exploit the innocent and vulnerable. When needed, Amelie is an accomplished sniper and is more than happy to put a bullet into her target’s head.

Tanks

D.Va - Undeniably the face of female police officers in the country. She is very visible as a traffic police officer and tends to be able to give out tickets without being challenged often. Endearingly, Hana is fond of pink handcuffs and pink canisters of capsicum spray, as well as a pink taser that she is very fond of. Along with Torbjorn, she’s one of the most mechanically savvy of the policemen and will happily maintain her own police vehicle. She’s also the darling of the media and is very happy to work with documentary crews to show her life on the force, particularly when there is a lot of anti-police sentiments in town. Contrary to popular belief, Hana is more than capable of handling rowdy suspects with her brute strength.

Orisa - Orisa works, with Efi, to care for children who are left at the police station. Whether they are the children of officers or found children or children of arrested suspects, she ensures that they are safe until they are collected again. When she isn’t on babysitting duty, she is sent to calm violent prisoners in the police station. Through a combination of her immense size and her cheery demeanour, Orisa is often successful in corraling them back into their cells or into the police van. At times, Orisa is deployed to deal with underage suspects who are runaways, drug mules, or have committed offences. She calms them down and tries to convince them to turn a new leaf.

Reinhardt - Reinhardt is the station’s longest-serving police officer. With many medals on his breast and arrests under his belt, he can claim to have been at several important events in history. Several terrorist attacks, protecting presidents and royalty, taking down drug kingpins, and some of the most horrendous road traffic accidents in history. These days, Reinhardt is very content with being a traffic policeman and telling people to keep their seatbelts on and not to drive while holding a mobile phone. Occasionally, he goes on sting raids just to spice things up.

Roadhog - Mako currently works as an undercover agent, posing as an enforcer for one of the biggest drug lords in the country. He’s based in the state/county but travels with the drug lord when necessary. With his information, Mako has helped dismantle several other drug trafficking rings throughout the country. At present, he is working to turn this drug lord against his own allies and to have him arrested. Due to his hilariously soft looking eyes and gentle (in comparison to his stature) face, Mako has to wear a mask at all times to maintain a threatening aura.

Winston - Control room operator and dispatcher. He has a callsign of ‘Big Brother’ because he’s typically hovering over the shoulders of every officer, be they in the station or out on the roads. As the station mother hen, he always makes sure the break room is stocked with everything they need, along with an excess of peanut butter. His assistant Athena always complains about this but can never do anything because he just squirrels away more. He’s called on as the backup to deal with unruly prisoners in the station if needed.

Wrecking Ball - Hammond serves as an informant for the local police. As he’s involved in several underground fighting rings, Hammond is uniquely placed to aid the police in cracking down on illegal fighting. He receives a reward proportionate to the information he provides and thus far has proven to be a reliable informant. He and Winston get along well, with Winston keeping a channel open so he can chat with Hammond as and when he can.

Zarya - Zarya works rotations with the SWAT and with the Drug Investigations team. While originally an Olympic athlete, once she was forced to retire due to her age, she had to find alternate means of entertaining herself. She was offered a position with Volskaya Industries, but she elected to join the police force in order to give back to the community that supported her. She maintains her athleticism and is a beast on the field. Most suspects turn and run when they see her, but they don’t get far before they’re being swung around and handcuffed gently on the floor. Some still shiver in horror when they see her passing their cell.

Support

Ana - A seasoned police detective and SWAT team member, Ana ties with Reinhardt for the number of years served. She prefers to be nose deep in investigations, particularly in the Homicide department and is confident in violent confrontations. Though a sniper by training, Ana is also trained in settling conflicts non-violently, whether through tasers or by special tranquilisers. When she was forced off the field due to her age, she then migrated to the control room during operations in order to maintain a commanding position. Older criminals still remember her ‘motherly touch’ and cringe whenever she comes in to interrogate them.

Brigitte - Brigitte began serving as a trainee traffic warden under Reinhardt. When she came into her own, Brigitte joined the mobile patrol team instead and has every intention of becoming an instructor when she gains enough experience. Perhaps it’s to follow in Reinhardt’s footsteps as a mentor to new police officers, but she admires how he is inspiring trainees to give 110% of their effort when on duty. As Torbjorn’s daughter, she has a background in engineering and she puts that to good use by maintaining and developing body armour for the regular officers and the SWAT team. Officers who wear her stab vests always compliment her for making it lighter than it used to be.

Lucio - Paramedic who alternates between shifts with the ambulance service and shifts at the police station. He is occasionally sent to deal with mental health patients with Tracer and Zenyatta. Lucio boasts the best music collection of them all and is usually asked to command the radio while in the ambulance or police car. His gentle demeanour and voice have calmed down many an irate patient and he has a wonderful bedside demeanour. Although he’s young and has only been in the service for a few years, Lucio has seen many things that give him nightmares. He hates attending to nasty road traffic collisions because of a huge catastrophe, which resulted in several casualties and the death of a child, that he experienced when he first joined the service.

Mercy - Angela serves as the police doctor and an A&E doctor when necessary. She is licenced to be in an air ambulance but is more familiar with a hospital, having had most of her medical experience there. When SWAT is deployed, she is on standby as a medic, as she has firearms training in order to defend herself. When she’s called to attend to a DUI at a hospital following a road traffic accident, the station knows that she’s not allowed to drive herself there because she’s a terrible driver. Lena is usually dispatched, but if she’s not available, Hana is set to the task instead. No need to cause an extra accident, after all.

Moira - As part of the forensics team and a crime scene investigator, Moira enjoys being challenged every day. She likes solving issues and being in the lab, and this is the best of both worlds for her. There is a particular delight in investigating homicide cases for her, although few would say the same. She takes a very cold, clinical view to her cases and talks about victims and suspects as though they were experiments. Which, while making her an exceptional CSI, also unnerves many of her colleagues. Still they can’t deny how successful she is at her job.

Zenyatta - The mental health nurse attached to the unit. He’s often sent on cases with Tracer and Lucio where they have to talk down suicidal individuals or those who call 000 (or the emergency services number) for help with mental health. While typically successful in persuading people to talk to him, he gets very down if he doesn’t manage to save someone. It doesn’t keep him down for long and he’s usually back to himself by the time the next job comes along. He’s often called upon if the officers bring in an illegal immigrant who can’t speak the local language, and keeps them comfortable with his company while they wait for the immigration department to ring back.

34 notes · View notes

cocobombleche · 8 years ago

Text

ISTP

The following is an article that I found about ISTPs. From the viewpoint of an ISTP I can say this is very accurate.

Here’s the link: http://www.managementfoundry.com/mbti/results/istp.htm

The ISTP is frequently misunderstood and often underestimated. Though very effective at most undertakings, his or her unorthodox way of accomplishing something, coupled with low visibility, often can lead to coworkers’ wondering, to quote the Lone Ranger’s benefactors, “Who <I>was<N> that masked man?”

Indeed, the Lone Ranger may be an appropriate symbol for ISTPs. They are frequently described with old cliches — “still water runs deep,” or “a man of few words” — and they are difficult to read by others and slow to share in public. These qualities (Introversion), coupled with perceptions that are hands-on, tangible, grounded, and very much oriented in the present (Sensor), give the ISTP a somewhat cool demeanor. Decisions are typically objective, impersonal, and analytically driven (Thinking). The ISTP’s daily life style is spontaneous, flexible, and spur-of-the-moment (Perceiving), so that no matter what person or event comes along, the ISTP will be inclined to direct immediate attention, albeit privately, to the new set of circumstances.

Frequently, ISTPs view the process of getting others involved as a waste of time. Participative management can be very difficult for this type. The ISTP is not opposed to it philosophically so much as psychically: Such a management style requires too much energy and effort to accomplish what to them is simple and obvious. It’s not that they’re lazy. Quite the contrary. It’s just that they’d rather be <I>doing<N> than <I>planning<N>. They would rather be producing results than be bogged down in bureaucratic red tape. They would rather be putting out fires than designing fire drills. The tougher the problem and the quicker they can get to it, the better. ISTPs could probably embody the slogan of World War II’s SeaBees, a group of engineers that accomplished so much against so many odds: “The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.”

ISTP women, like other T women, have a particularly difficult problem with role identity and career fulfillment. Often, when Introverted-Thinking is combined with Sensing-Perception one finds a loner who loves the tactile world of craftsmanship. The very word, reflective of generations past, can hardly be said in the female (“craftswoman”) or androgynous (“craftsperson”) forms. Indeed, there is little historically that lends itself to affirming the ISTP woman. At the turn of the century, for example, the ISTP was typified by the tool-and-die maker, the self-taught engineer, the tinkerers who played with the early automobiles — racing them, refining them, constantly handling each part until it was as finely tuned as possible. The grease monkeys, the athletic perfectionists, the oil barons and drillers, the early pilots who flew unpredictable crafts over uncharted courses — all these typify the ISTP spirit. It is for them that the institutes of technology were born a century ago to sharpen the skills of this craft-oriented type. Little of the above comes close to describing the nurturing, gentle traits often ascribed to females. And when it comes to job choices, there is little here that is readily perceived by the public as “woman’s work.”

And yet there are many ISTP women who are capable, competent, and willing to work at many of these highly technical jobs. Over the last two decades, they have increasingly embraced traditionally male occupations, from forest ranger and fire fighter to emergency room surgeon and special police officer. But all of these roles can leave the ISTP woman questioning her own gender identity while simultaneously alienating the males, who may see her as a “turf invader.” The ISTP’s disdain of routine and flair for the untried are uncharacteristic of women in this society and are generally not well received in a workplace environment bent on structure and schedule. When the ISTP female appears in a male-dominated role - and proves herself to be as competent as her male counterparts — she sets herself up for endless scorn. Doing “man’s work,” and doing it better, is not the way to be popular on the job in today’s sexist world. It can also raise doubts within the ISTP herself: “Am I normal to like such work? Is there something wrong with me?” She has a need for constant reassurance that the her femininity is not measured by or wrapped up in any particular vocation. Both men and women must understand that one’s femininity (or masculinity) is not defined by one’s job or competence.

ISTP women are more likely to see a job as genderless and be drawn by its special thrills or tangible and immediate rewards. But by breaking from societal norms, they find themselves in direct competition with their male colleagues. It is sad that when an ISTP woman excels at work, so far removed from traditional roles, it becomes major news, whether it is a women who gets a court order to become a municipal firefighter or a sports reporter who finds herself in a locker-room dispute. Such overdramatization, while perhaps encouraging to other ISTP women, tends to make the individual the exception instead of the norm for a considered section of the population. Furthermore, with the media involved, sides tend to be taken immediately - men versus women — and the real occupational desire and the potential contribution of the ISTP gets lost in the process.

Much as they disdain management theories, ISTPs are uncomfortable with management practice, too. The ISTP’s overall management style can be abrupt, direct, and often unorthodox. It’s a let’s-do-it-and-not-talk-about-it approach to motivating others. The problem, of course, is that many other types need to talk about it before doing it. (Extraverts may want to talk about it ad nauseum.) As such, when ISTPs climb the management ladder, it is only done so long as it seems to be an exciting game. As the game wears thin, so do ISTPs’ patience; they will be ready to move on at the slightest provocation. If they stick to it, they’ll eventually find some way to upset the applecart, if only for the thrill it.

In a society that throws out and replaces rather than repairs — possessions, people, ideas, whatever — it is difficult to appreciate what skill, exactness, and perfectionism the ISTP brings to life. For the ISTP, the naked eye is a perfect plumb, the ear is the instrument that tunes complex machinery into perfect harmony, the nose analyzes and interprets the various aromas for the florist, the chef, or the gardener. These are accomplishments of the senses, and to rely on some technical machinery for such expertise is to deny the special gifts of the ISTP.

A strength of the ISTP is the ability to self-start and to work independently. As we’ve said, they’re better independent workers than team players. Their perfectionism combined with their personal integrity results in a job well done with minimal supervision. Generally, projects that allow some flexibility of schedule are readily accomplished. They’ll get the job done on time, but not necessarily on your schedule; they do not do well with PERT charts.

The ISTP’s flexibility allows them to adapt easily to unscheduled events that may unglue a more structured type. As long as the ISTP can see the work progressing, interruptions are almost welcome because they keep things from becoming too dull or routine. Change Orders or Project Modification Sheets are frequently met with the response, “No problem.” This fits perfectly the ISTP model: flexibility grounded in common sense.

Still another strength of ISTPs is their ability to amass technical data without being burdened by the need to create outcomes, schedules, predictions, or any of the other results often demanded by the workplace. This makes them excellent as research analysts, albeit somewhat slow to publish results. This is not in conflict with what we earlier described as the ISTP’s need to do rather than think or plan. In their endless gathering of data, it is the doing — the pursuit of information — that is what’s exciting; indeed, the next steps — analyzing and processing the data - are activities that leave the ISTP cold. We have a colleague who has collected thousands of completed Myers-Briggs answer sheets. While he has scanned them and garnered some fascinating insights from them, he has done practically nothing with that information, and finds little need to do so. (Other types would find this anathema: Extraverts would want the public recognition, iNtuitives would enjoy exploring the possibilities, Feelers would want to use the data to help others, and Judgers would want to wrap the project up and move on.)

The bugaboos of the ISTP at work can be summed up in three words: routine, administration, and paperwork. Such statements as “We’ve always done it that way,” “We’ve never done this before,” or “This is the way it should be done” are invitations for an ISTP to break the rules or bend the routine just for the thrill of it. While any of the Perceiving types can become bored with administration, ISTPs in particular have trouble seeing the need for such boring work. For the ISTP, files are where you put things you’ll never use again, ledgers are for figures you’ll never need again, and Day-Timers are where you keep data you never really want. “Life is easy,” says the ISTP. “Live it one day at a time and don’t sweat the small stuff. Use your time and energy wisely today, and tomorrow will take care of itself.” And what kind of paperwork do you possibly need to keep the world in tune — technically, artistically, and functionally? Paperwork, the ISTP believes, was conceived by someone who wants to keep others from getting things done.

Workplace Contribution:

Solves problems practically and immediately with a calm, clear thinking resolve

Pathway to Professional Growth:

Must learn that the complexity of people and relationships deserves consideration and offers no quick or short-term fix

Leadership Qualities:

Sets an example to act independently and to attend to the needs of the short term, unencumbered by tradition, procedure, or interpersonal demands

Team Spirit:

Teams are often an irritation and a diversion from effective, practical work which is best done alone

#MBTI

1 note · View note