He hasn’t lost his sanity exactly?
That’s what Chu said about him :
“It’s interesting, because I can see how people in the community have identified with Sigma as someone who is struggling or dealing with mental health issues,” Chu said. “But with the idea of the character, we never intended him to be an example of someone who’s going through mental health issues. He’s really supposed to be more focused on this very specific thing that happened to him, which is that his body and his mind were literally ripped apart by the momentary exposure to a black hole.
“With other aspects of his character, he’s certainly supposed to be eccentric. The idea behind that is more just that he sees the world a little differently. We liked this idea that he had this connection to music. So, for example, the way that he thinks about the universe, gravity, and physics, is through this prism of music. From experience talking to physicists and especially theoretical physicists is that other things that aren’t literally just the equation or the mathematics have influenced the way in which they interpret things. And so that’s the direction we went with him.”
But Talon freed him, helped him - but he is unaware that his reseacrh and discoveries are going to be used for their own goals (and potentially get people killed) He may not even know that it’s Talon that it’s using him, because that’s what was said :
“It’s also interesting for Sigma because he’s not necessarily a card carrying believer in Talon,” said Chu. “He’s sort of not there because he wants to be. So we thought that added interesting character to his backstory. I think it’s also interesting to see another scientist in Talon, and I’m looking forward to his interactions with Moira. That’ll be pretty good.”
“There are other groups that make up Talon,” adds Chu. “Especially for someone like Sigma, I imagine they set him up with his own lab somewhere. So he’s not like… walking down the hallway, bumping into Reaper.”
So he may work in a lab that isn’t labelled “TALON” but that is still working with them ( I think of Sigma a bit like Symmetra on this case - working without knowing her boss is affiliated with Talon) - (and he also remind me of Torbjörn, whose defense systems’ were given an AI whithout his consent and therefore created Bastions)