(A/N: Here you go! Sorry for the wait. School is a…well, you know.)
Her name is Sabine (as we know from the voicelines).
Anyone who calls her by that name miraculously gets food poisoning.
Be it guilt, frustration hanging over their past, or simply just Omen, she doesn’t hurt him, or even acknowledge him for that matter.
Of course she takes him as a partner on the field, but doesn’t give any sort of indication that she knows him from anywhere.
As far as antisocials go, she’s unbeaten.
As her time in the protocol lenghtened, she found herself hanging around Omen more and more( I won’t get into this here because I intend to make a separate post specifically on their relationship - it’ll be a companion post to Omen’s past, since I want this one to be mainly focused on Viper).
Of course she has her own lab, right on the second floor, across from Killjoy.
At first she tested her formulas in the lab, but after a venting error ocurred and the entire complex got poisoned from inhaling poisonous fumes, the Kingdom kindly asked her if she could test her gas somewhere that is not inside.
Killjoy is the only one who doesn’t mind sharing a floor with Viper’s lab, and is also the only one who dares to sleep on that floor(besides Viper).
Killjoy often asks her for advice when it comes to picking materials and resources for her bots, as well as testing their durability in certain corrosive substances.
Which Viper is of curse, more than happy to provide.
I firmly believe that in order to reach new developments in science, different fields have to work together - thus Viper finds herself collaborating with every lab nerd the V protocol can provide, including Raze and Cypher as well as other independent scientists.
She doesn’t necesarrily like to work with others but Viper understands the importance of science progression and how badly they need it.
They have meetings, present their hypotheses and brainstorm improvements.
It’s nothing personal, and by now so second nature that she can easily get behind it.
Lab is probably the only room in the whole headquarters where she feels completely at ease.
Besides the lab is a chemical ‘cabinet’.
Read: A huge-ass room filled with racks and shelves upon shelves of chemicals, her formulas, or simply chemical waste she wants to reuse.
Viper used to work in pharmacy - synthesizing medicine.
Which means she knows exactly what it takes to kill them.
Chemistry is one of the rare passions she kept throughout her life.
She later decided to pursue pharmacy and earned a stellar reputation.
Sabine was working on a cure that would get rid of an incurable desease that was harrowing the futuristic Earth.
She was always extremely curious, to the point where she even seemed malicious - it made her make a lot of morally questionable hypotheticals of ‘what if’s’ in her head.
But all of that was overriden by her desire to help, to learn..
…until her life work got stolen and plagiarited. Until everything she worked for her entire life was gone in an instant. Just like that.
And that’s when Viper was born.
Whatever held back the dark side of her curiosity? Gone like her entire life’s purpose.
Remember those ‘what if’s’? Not a mystery anymore.
The lab she worked at wouldn’t let her develop certain formulas and enact her experiments, so she built her own.
The period that followed was one of severe subconcious desocialisation.
The work she was doing wasn’t very moral, but Viper doesn’t exactly have issues with something called a ‘moral compass’.
Omen dropped by her lab often just to check that she hasn’t turned into a serial killer yet and was, at that time, her only contact with another human being.
Instead of making medicine, she changed the course of her studies to chemical weapons, venoms and their effects on living things.
With her knowledge of human anatomy, she was the woman for the job.
Around that time the first Kingdom officials reached out, who were interested in her biochemic knowledge - they needed someone with little remorse and proper specialisation to study the effects of radianite on human beings.
It took a while, but they swayed her eventually with promises of full experimental freedom.
She also wouldn’t join unless they hired Omen.
That’s part of why she can’t look at him now - this is one of the ‘what if’s’ she could never figure out.
Would he still mutate this badly if he wasn’t in explosions close proximity?
Did she just deliver her only friend to demise’s door?
(A/N: This is tbc. I have vague topics in my mind for her that I want to cover but she currently isn’t on my hype list so my ideas for this dried up pretty fast. I wanted to set up the terrain for one of the future posts, just to give you a little context.)