#just proving that ppl from outside the clan COULD potentially be helpful and respectful

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So I was just watching someone run through PLA and I noticed something. Laventon says the village has only been around 2 years. In OOP, ingos been there literally twice the amount of time as these guys!!!! The “outsiders” hypocrisy has it’s more obvious points but like come on kamado and Beni wtf. You’re not old enough to even be trying to run a HOA on hisui, telling the clans their oversized bidoof aren’t on the approved list of decorations.

LMFAO the phrasing on this is killing me

yeah the age of jubilife is one of those things that i feel like i have to retcon to some degree, bc the idea that a structure like galaxy hall went up two years after the first group landed is. ridiculous. i mean even more ridiculous than the existence of galaxy hall to start with. REGARDLESS THOUGH i do think ingo still predates them by a fairly decent length of time which, YEAH, they really do not have any leg to stand on complaining about outsiders or trying to decide how to do things whkwjhwjk. not that that's stopping them!!

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RE: MOIRA’S PERSONALITY AND GENERAL OUTLOOK Moira’s personality and her general methods of interacting with people change drastically between the years of her timeline verses. She’s not a constant malicious, evil, horrible person from birth even though she is 100% capable of being all those things in the present day.

But, honestly the fact that she’s able to hold a highly respected job within a city that uses fucking crime prediction future police bullshit without anyone catching wind of her involvement with Talon is somewhat proof that Moira is at least capable of two facing the hell out of situations.

Anyways, shit’s sorted by verse.

Pre-B.lackwatch

Starting off in her pre-B.lackwatch verse she’s relatively aloof, sarcastic, mildly egotistic and moderately snide, definitely seen as ‘strange’ in her mannerisms but not at all potentially threatening or really all that different from other young scientists who have the idea in their head that they’re going to personally change the world. That is, until the results of her experimentation and her research papers spread through the scientific community and she’s ejected from the research facility that was funding her research and, in being thoroughly condemned by O.verwatch, unable to acquire funding for at least a year before being contacted by B.lackwatch’s commander. At the earliest time allotted within the verse she’s young, age 25 and working towards her PhD and could be described as a pretty normal person outside of her special interests. At the latest she’s on the cusp of discoveries backed by unethical research on test animals and the start of dangerous self experimentation, and her behavior is a bit more erratic and self destructive in the long run.

B.lackwatch

Following the offer extended to her by Reyes to join B.lackwatch on the premise that she will be assisting him with undisclosed genetic issues in exchange for funding for her experiments, Moira in a way almost begrudgingly accepts the offer– truthfully uncomfortable with the idea of working under the organization that in reality attempted to silence her due to fears of her life’s work potential to be used maliciously. Overall, all throughout her involvement in B.lackwatch she has a very poor opinion of O.verwatch as a whole and of the scientists within that only endure the limits mindlessly put on research by the organization who has no idea how true scientific progress works– constantly aware of their hypocrisy in stating that her work was dangerous when they have no issue in allowing B.lackwatch to operate, in co-opting the fruits of her research into weapon development, and in the lengths they’ll go to to procure certain types of weapons / allies ( ie G.enji being turned into a living weapon instructed to assassinate his clan in exchange for his life ). There are few people within O.vewatch and it’s offshoot organizations that she actually holds at high esteem, which include Reyes himself and Dr Ziegler and a handful more that she is tolerable towards including G.enji and, surprisingly enough, Jesse.

In her B.lackwatch verse, Moira is not overtly malicious towards people unless she has a good reason to do so. Her involvement within B.lackwatch is seen as a means to an end for her at first, but she eventually grows to enjoy the work and the opportunities she later receives through it and typically would avoid acting out to ensure her position with in the covert ops group remains a constant. Moira is capable of being a decent person when she so desires, despite her outlook being drastically jaded by her experiences just years prior. She’s sarcastic, sometimes bitingly so and comes off as mean on more than a handful of occasions, persuasive, ambitious, methodological, overall enigmatic, and to just cut things short, her flaws are everything in italics in this post.

The assumption that she’s overtly dangerous and must not be trusted by other people in this specific area of time is typically backed by O.verwatch’s claims regarding the scope of her research and the potential for it to be used for malicious reasons ( and in fanon, the belief that she’s a double agent but until further canon developments I don’t at all subscribe to that in my interpretation of her. l o l ), yet her only documented test subjects ( at this point in time ) are rabbits ( unethically experimented on ), Reyes ( volunteered test subject ) and herself ( self experimentation that ruins her right arm and later gives her the ability to fade across distances ). Obviously other characters are allowed to feel how they want towards her, but she’s not out there ruining ppl’s lives all willy-nilly yet in this verse, unless she was instructed to by Reyes I guess since B.lackwatch has no problem with kidnapping, torturing, and murdering people as a means to an end.

Either way, she typically semi-enjoys? Or at least tolerates the company of a small handful of her teammates while on missions together despite her desire to never really leave the lab,even if they go sour considering the amount of banter and the type of some of it during the Retribution event. Naturally Moira does lean towards liking Reyes, obviously, and G.enji more than Jesse. l o l Obviously B.lackwatch OCs are on a get to know basis, but there’s some that she interacts with that she’s relatively friendly towards.

Talon / Oasis

As the years go by she increasingly grows more callous and destructive towards other people, this mostly starting in the aftermath following the Venice mission and her quick expulsion from B.lackwatch. This verse is where her skills of manipulation and persuasiveness shine, effectively able to secure multiple methods of funding to do whatever horrible stuff she pleases with on one end and on the other to actually achieve the goals she set out to do when she was still just a young adult fresh out of college.

Moira’s behavior is effectively split right down the middle depending on what role she’s acting in, from being a relatively ‘ changed ‘ person while under the public eye of Oasis to indulging in her darkness desires while working under Talon. She has little regard for the safety of others while involved in Talon endeavors and has been known to perform her experimentations on various mercenaries and general Talon outfitted troopers that were either unknowingly hired for such purposes or have outlived their usefulness on the field. While on the other hand, her work within Oasis adheres to all guidelines set out by the Ministers to ensure her position within the scientific community there remains as such.

Moira’s connection to Talon is something that is still only at best a rumor that seems no one has actually been able to prove and thus only a few people actually know of her involvement! These people being R.eaper, S.ombra, D.oomfist, W.idowmaker, and all the other various Talon higher ups and I would say they’re all people she gets along okay-ish with. She found a patron in Akande and she herself highly respects him ( even though she is in a way against his desire to start another war, pls don’t let him know that though l o l ), aaaaand I would say he’s one of two people she would get along relatively best with. The other being Reaper b/c canonically she’s known him at a personal level far longer than anyone else she’s currently working with. As for S.ombra, Moira respects her abilities and her technological know how but doesn’t really know much about her ( as it should be l o l ??? she def doesn’t know S.ombra’s actual name b/c why should she? ). W.idowmaker is a hat toss, I have no real opinion on if Moira helped make Widow or not, but I like to conform to the head canons about it of the Widows I interact with, I guess. Overally, Moira likes Widow’s efficiency and is not above instructing the scientists below her to periodically check the status of Widow’s condition along side occasionally making inquiries towards it herself.