efi is like......ten? how would she be talon affiliated unless she was like? kidnapped? or something. im not trying to nitpick or anything but, it kind of rubs me the wrong way
She’s not like a head honcho or anything haha--nor does she actively engage in whatever agenda it is they push. They approached her after getting wind of some of her projects, and offered to financially back her research, any and all of it, so long as they got their pick of the results, within reason--hence, ‘Talon affiliated’ rather than ‘a part of Talon’.She doesn’t particularly like or trust Talon, but she’s smart enough to know that no else will give her the same ‘creative freedom’ that Talon will--and is still too young to know when something is too good to be true. Which is something she isn’t particularly cognizant of, but Talon definitely is.
But as an aside! You have to remember that the reverse au is just based on the premise of roles and choices being switched, and so I just go with what I think sounds the most fun at the time of writing, within some fairly narrow parameters. Which is why my answers change so often--it’s entirely based off how I feel at any given moment haha! Using doomfist as the basis for the reversal, the idea of Efi being a pre-teen super genius with underworld ties appeals to me, so that’s what I went with.
I’ll be the first to admit that since it’s just for fun, some of my decisions are going to be half-baked, and may fall apart under close scrutiny. Which is okay! I always tell people that my word is far from the law of this verse. Some of my ideas are not gonna be interesting or good to anyone but me, which is why I’m always interested in other people’s thoughts, as they are frequently better than mine (r!zen’s entire concept was based on the offhand suggestion of someone who ended up becoming a good friend of mine, and he’s basically the most popular character in the au lol) So rather than tell me how you dislike something, tell me your ideas, what direction you’d take it, what you’d change, what you’d keep the same--I can only think like myself, so hearing the takes of others gives me a way to look at things from perspectives I would never have considered otherwise, which is absolutely invaluable to me!
Back to the question at hand, I took Efi and Orisa as a unit for the au, but since only Orisa is actually part of the roster, if you wanted, you could leave Efi the same as in canon, and Orisa be, maybe, damaged in an attack, or stolen, reprogrammed, etc, to be more criminal/destructive, and Efi trying to save her and get her back. I’ve considered that on and off, but ultimately I decided I wanted there to be a degree of personal responsibility for how everybody turned out in this au.
That is, however the r!roster has turned out, good or bad, I want that to be primarily because of their own personal choices, rather than them being mere victims of circumstance--so Orisa being reprogrammed or her AI being damaged, things she has no power to change, don’t really appeal to me. But Orisa is so pure, and seems to love Efi so much, I couldn’t think of a way I liked that she’d choose to deviate from the path Efi intended for her--so I changed Efi instead, and based Orisa’s change off that. Again, there is almost certainly a more thoughtful and interesting way to tackle either of their reversals, but even so, this is what I have to offer right now.
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