I’d ask this in the Story Discussion, but no one’s there and if people can Recommend Different Games or Compare Keyboards here, then I should be Allowed to say this.
I saw a YouTube Video about Various Voice-Line Interactions, Including an Interaction between Sombra and Illari about Illari Pushing herself too much to do something and Sombra feeling Sympathy. Someone in the Comments or maybe on the Forums brought up this Specific Interaction and Wondered why Illari is getting so much Info from Sombra, with Sombra Feeing Sympathy, Unlike the time she tried to Sell Info to the True Villain of the Game, Kiriko.
I just think it’d be more Interesting to have a sort of Repeat of Baptiste’s Story, like a Darker Parallel, someone who is so Depressed and Desperate for Forgiveness that they Joined Talon to get some more, albeit Under-Handed Answers.
Plus we’d finally have a Full Talon Team with the Second Support.
you already have a full talon team because zen is secretly brainwashed by the Iris and evil imo. That guy is suspicious. I think the Iris is a god program like Anubis and the eye that sombra is working for thats behind vishkar and talon
Sombra is not really someone who you should use as a baseline for who a hero is loyal to. Sombra is in Talon but has no real allegiance which is what that Kiriko bit is trying to drive home.
Illari is very unlikely to join Talon. Nothing about her character seems to suggest she yearns for power or has any sympathy for Doomfist’s ideals.
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We basically already were told what the Iris is. It is that moment when Aurora was able to reach all of them and give them free will and in that moment they were all one and able to see and know the experience of the others.
My pet theory is that Ram seeks to recreate that event and believes that the shared pain will drive those omnics into joining him. I don’t buy that he is trying to mind control them.
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wait waaaat?? Who’s aurora
The Iris is Aurora, the first Sentient Omnic. I think it’s just a Glowey Orb now, it probably isn’t Sentient, because then Aurora wouldn’t have Sacrificed herself.
Watch these: https://youtu.be/PIYMn8eDskg?si=31E7xLyHoJfyBRS2
The 3 part Genesis series covers it pretty well. The other reason for my theory is they released that right before season 6 so it is clearly relevant. Don’t worry all 3 parts are about 20 minutes in total and it is pretty good.
Remember that Sombra operates as a data broker independent of Talon. She works with Talon as it suits her to do so. Illari seems to have contracted with Sombra to acquire intelligence, perhaps related to the mishap that killed the rest of the Inti.
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Yeah, there’s also that, but I just think it’d be Interesting if Illari was working Closer with Talon, because she isn’t Affiliated with anyone else that we know of, and Doomfist would probably be Interested in the Strongest Child of the Sun, so Powerful she Committed Genocide by ACCIDENT!
Also I don’t think it was quite genocide. She wiped out the other Inti, but it seems like the Peruvian themselves are probably still alive and well.
It would not surprise me if Talon were somehow responsible for sabotaging the solar capacitors of the Inti to cause that mishap.
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She Killed all of the Warriors Specifically. That still counts I’d say.
Eh I guess. These days the term has been watered down from overuse.
Yeah, that’s reaching…
Illari:
“Oh, no! I appear to have been the catalyst to a horrible event and am extremely penitent for my possible involvement. I wish that an event like that is never repeated…time to join Talon, a well known Terrorist organization with crimes extending to Assassinations, bombings and overall destabilization. Wow, that will make me feel better!”
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It’s not Genocide if you Kill other people too!
Plus Baptiste Joined because he was Orphaned and had nowhere else to go. Illari could’ve been Banished for all we know.
She was about to annointed as part of the Sunbro faction. A beacon of Jolly cooperation and Incandescence. She was nowhere near a pariah in her society, at least with what is known so far.
Yeah, she was about to be given Powers and made a Hero.
Then she Nuked everyone.
She Probably had Survivors Guilt, Murderers Guilt (?), PTSD, + Orphaned + Depressed + Outcast for being a Walking Apocalypse.
If anything, she will likely vibe and gravitate to Hanzo, a person suffering from a past guilt of his own actions, which will likely lead her to Genji, the victim of said actions, which he will likely point her to Zenyatta.
My only concern right now with Talon is how Moira is the only Talon agent capable of being their field medic for PVE missions.
Like…give us another evil support that we can flock to and utilize.
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I can see Talon trying to recruit Illari,seeing how insanely strong she is,but I don’t think she would abandon the Inti Warrior’s noble cause.