It’s Overwatch history headcanon day on my dash apparently and I want to do one. 😀
I am 100% into Gabriel getting a more complex and grounded narrative than turning bad over professional jealousy. So what if his falling out with Jack was because they had wildly, fundamentally different ideas of what Overwatch should be?
Like, Jack had this vision of turning this ‘peacekeeping’ force into something that went beyond a UN military presence. He spent years blowing it up into something else, expanding into science and medicine and going into countries to tackle the inequalities and injustices that led to conflicts arising, and giving people not just soldiers (even though they were soldiers) but heroes who could inspire people to try for something better. He was so devoted to this idea, to doing something that would really make the world better in the long run, that he gave almost everything in his life for it. And that kind of sacrifice and passion fed into things and made him and Overwatch just seem more admirable, but it also made him impossible to argue with.
Because Gabriel thought that was utterly the wrong approach, because it made Overwatch bloated as hell, and stepped all over their original mandate, and maybe he even had a problem with military guys making civil problems their problems, and yeah it’s lovely to want to fix peoples’ lives for them and all but where exactly do they get the right to rearrange societies that way? “From the people,” Jack would say and he’d point to how people asked for Overwatch and cheered for them. But that left a sour taste in Gabriel’s mouth because all that adoration came from a PR campaign that basically made them out to be the freaking Justice League. And as the guy who ran the part of it that continued to perform actual military operations, he saw that as a lie. He thought the pie-in-your-eyes fairytale sales pitch Jack was giving the world was inevitably going to collapse and backfire on them, because he knew that sometimes preserving world peace comes down to needing to shoot a guy in cold blood. And as the dude in charge of that, he expected to be the first one burned down on the day it all came down.
And as time went on and they both kept being right, all either of them could see was their former best friend methodically setting up the ruin of everything they’d worked for.
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