there’s a lot of talk about Gabriel being brainwashed by Talon into hating Jack and Overwatch
but has anyone considered the fact that the UN might have done a little brainwashing of their own to Jack?
Reyes starts digging around in things he shouldn’t be, and the UN know it’s only a matter of time before he takes them to Morrison. And although Morrison is loyal to them and Overwatch, the UN knows that he and Reyes have been in a relationship. They know that Morrison will wind up believing Reyes, and they can’t have that. So they take their golden boy and do a little bit of torturing and reconditioning that probably rivals Talon’s own methods, and by the time they’re done with him, he’s 100% loyal to everything Overwatch and the UN.
Fast forward. The UN arranges a meeting between Reyes and Morrison at the Swiss base. Reyes has proof of the UN’s dirty deeds, but Morrison won’t hear it, claiming that the UN couldn’t be responsible for any of it. They fight. The base explodes. The blast knocks sense back into Morrison, but it’s too late. Reyes is dead, and Morrison is left blind and half mute and reeling from a double betrayal.
Soldier 76 rises from the ashes, determined to find the answers that Reyes took to his grave. Reaper rises a few weeks later, knowing only that Overwatch was corrupt and that those who were involved were guilty and have to die. :))
A few months before the showdown, Morrison starts acting strange. While their relationship had been strained for a while (yeah Reyes is jealous, but he knows Morrison never asked for the promotion, so he tries to swallow his anger and jealousy and does his best to never direct his frustrations at the other man), its mostly due to them being on opposite ends of the world at all times. Those video calls they manage to sneak in in between missions were all they had sometimes, but they make do.
That is, until Morrison starts acting like a straight-up dick. They typically put on a show in front of the troops, but the second the curtain fell, Morrison steps out of his military leader face and into Reyes’ arms. Abruptly that stops, and Morrison is in military mode all hours of the day, brutally criticizing Reyes and his methods and Blackwatch. Reyes, already on edge, fights back with nasty words of his own. The late night video calls stop. The only time Reyes and Morrison see each other is to chew each other out. To anyone else, any friendship they might have had was in dire jeopardy.
But Reyes doesn’t want to lose hope. He figures the UN is just cracking down on Morrison for the latest mission flubs – there were a lot, now that he thinks about it – and the dude is stressed out. Despite his growing rage, Reyes tries to keep this in mind as he and Morrison agree to meet up at the Swiss base for a chat. By then Reyes had all the information he needed to prove to Morrison that the UN was corrupt, and that some of Overwatch was too.
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