#this was originally gonna be a shitpost about how ada is a mystery shopper (but as a criminal) but it turned into a tangent

[yngai]

i've given ada several (related) professions to corporate espionage, both because her job is often muddled between an intelligence operative, a private investigator & sometimes an assassin/mercenary depending on which source you are using (it's important to note here that annette's description of her in RE2R as a mercenary looking to sell golgotha to the highest bidder is pure guesswork, not ada's reasoning for seeking out g nor her profession. much like krauser describing her as the bitch in the red dress it's a case of other characters' interpretation of ada being retrofitted onto her character by the fandom) & i don't wanna hyperfocus on espionage as a driving force behind ada's role in a thread

i wanna explore more possibilities with her character & as i've mentioned a few times the most spy work she performs after RE2 is intelligence gathering (paging luis for info on the plaga through their exchanged e-mails & asking for dominant parasite as evidence) her work otherwise resembling that of a gentleman thief (sneaking into the cult to secure the sample itself while zipping about in her trademark hook-shot) &, well, i do love my lupin the third

but i also am very much led by humor & when it comes to ada spying on wesker & javier hidalgo by proxy the best way to describe her role is as, essentially, a mystery shopper for criminal organizations/pharmaceutical companies interested in bioterror. somebody sent over by the federation of pharmaceutical companies (the true identity of the organization from OG RE4, which is my own speculation to be justified eventually) to figure out the innerworkings of an organization sometimes posing as a broker, a potential buyer or infiltrating under a falsified identity & gathering information from within to be sent back to her real employers. she begins freelancing after 2004, both in the criminal underworld & working with 'reputable', publicly traded pharmaceutical companies where the illegal side of her business is more of an open secret & irrelevant because of her experience/skillset, but the nature of her profession never changes. ada likes her options & while her draw to espionage came from her early days pursuing an acting career but dreading the potential of a public reputation, she has picked up several talents on the side that not only aid her with her primary job but allow her to seek out different work if she's ever bored