Character sheet time! Here's a full detailed recounting of Leigh Wynne.
For those of you who are reading this for the romance- it'll take a while. Leigh Wynne is focused on her duty, first and foremost over anything else. I'm still trying to figure out who COULD romance her, though I certainly am planning some scenarios.
That being said, I'm considering the romancing happening to her in flashbacks of her time in the original Overwatch.
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Name: Leigh Tessa Wynne
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Pansexual
Rank: Captain
Role: Head of Security, Overwatch Headquarters
Aliases: "Princeps," "Lyall" (Translation: Captain, Shieldwolf)
Age: 62, as of 2076
Appears to be: 44
With the inclusion of nanites, Leigh's aging will slow. Given larger amounts at a time, aging may even begin to stop or reverse slightly, such as Mercy's case.
Short summary of personality:
Captain Leigh Wynne is a serious, focused individual that is a great advocate for teamwork. Believes in those around them, and has expressed unending patience, loyalty, duty, and support to all.
Summarization of Italian Arditi career: Exemplary, especially when commanding and leading
Summarization of NATO career: Exemplary, especially so when training new recruits to train with a multinational force.
Summarization of Overwatch career: Above-average on all fronts, but more so when dealing with the inclusion of NATO units, nationalistic units, new recruits, and Overwatch 'Hero' individuals.
Notable relationships:
Adona and Antionio Wynne, parents. No siblings.
Reinhardt Windhelm (Fought alongside during Germany's Omnic Crisis; worked closely together to push back the invasion of Bastion units and company)
Angela Ziegler (Assigned physician and psychologist)
Ana Amari (Supervising Commander)
Winston (Researcher working in collaboration with Agent Torbjorn; Wynne served as a guinea pig for multiple technological advances)
Torbjorn Lindholm (See above)
Fareeha Amari (Commander Amari was fond of leaving Fareeha Amari in alternatively Grabriel Reyes' care, or Leigh Wynnes' while away on missions)
Lena Oxton (Served as the test pilot's guide and commander prior to her disappearance.)
Lylla, Leigh's literal pet wolf. Occasionally makes the joke that they're actually the same soul.
"Wynne was married to his work. He dedicated everything to those men and women who served. He dedicated everything to the world. No one was close to Wynne, and yet, everyone was." - Commander Ana Amari, at Wynne's funeral
Notes:
Can speak Latin, Italian (native), English, and Arabic exceedingly fluently. At any point when speaking any of these, Wynne can imitate many accents, or none at all.
Leigh Wynne is a mimic.
Leigh Wynne also had a pet wolf during time served a Head of Security
History with Arditi:
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History with NATO:
Was only present for two years.
Lieutenant Wynne of the Arditi was nominated and accepted into NATO by Italy's UN representative, in collaboration with the Arditi superiors, as part of a publicity stunt- that Italy's best was being put forth to fight the Omnics on a global scale.
At the time of first recruitment, Wynne was grilled exclusively by several of NATO's military trainers before deemed best fit for training other trips, or a leadership capacity. For the next two years, Lieutenant Wynne was promoted to Captain, and served alternatively between being in the field, and training the same regiment Wynne was leading.
During this time, Wynne was integral to several victories against the Omnics, and organized the strategic retreats of over a dozen failed missions- both offense and defense- to prevent a mission failure becoming a massacre of troops and civilians.
History with Overwatch:
Captain Leigh Wynne was inducted to Overwatch shortly after its founding, having been studied from afar by Commander Ana Amari, before being officially offered a position in Overwatch. Once accepted (which was immediate), Wynne went on the begin training newly recruited Overwatch units to work not as a multinational force, like Wynne would in NATO, but rather as a single group of elite special forces- the best of the best, dedicated to fighting the unrest. They became the world's first Overwatch unit, and it fell to Wynne to train all their predecessors. While there were many other trainers assisting Wynne, it fell to Wynne to be in charge of the training of every recruit through Overwatch.
As time passed, Commander Amari reassigned Wynne to the frontlines; immediately Wynne saw action in Eichenwalde. It was here that Wynne became both exceedingly popular among regular, non-augmented trips everywhere after telling off a German Oberst (A Major) for their headlong charge into the Bastion unit invasion. Working with multiple supportive Crusaders, Captain Wynne assisted in the repulsion of that particular attack. Shortly afterwards, the Crusader program relegated over 200 early-type exosuits to an experiment by Captain Wynne.
Note: The Crusader Program is confidential. The following information has been released for this particular dossier.
In the early stages of the Crusader program- to construct supersoldiers- initial units were outfitted with exoskeletons to help lift heavy full-coverage body armor. After this proved inadequate, the Crusader program phased them out and stored them at Eichenwalde's Crusader research facility. It had remained as one of the last stockpiles of military-grade exosuits.
Captain Wynne used the exosuits in collaboration with the Crusaders to form a Roman legion of old. Having armed the exosuited soldiers of Wynne's regiment with shields salvaged from fallen Bastion units from the previous attack, Wynne used his forces as a walking shield wall. The Crusaders, Wehrmacht, Bundeswehr, and Overwatch used this shield wall to expand the defensive capabilities of the Crusader's energy shields by creating a much larger barrier. Using these 'legions' to protect the majority of the attacking forces, the forces at Germany were able to close into the German Omnium and destroy it with the lowest casualty rate to date.
After the incident with the Major, who had significant political connections to both NATO and the UN, Captain Wynne had to be reassigned to somewhere that would somehow 'punish' Wynne. As such, Wynne was removed from the frontlines, and placed again back at Overwatch headquarters, as the new Head of Security. While also serving as a trainer for new recruits, the income of new bodies was much lower than before, and Wynne's skill at training large groups was no longer as required, especially given that the previous trainers learned to emulate Wynne.
Captain Wynne remained as head of security until Overwatch's downfall. It is reported that Blackwatch Commander Gabriel Reyes confronted Wynne three days prior to the Headquarters' destruction. Reyes gave Wynne the first optional leave that Wynne accepted in over four years of service in the military (Wynne had often had to be forced off base in order to take temporary leave). Three days later had found Wynne in Washington, DC, though it was reported that three Blackwatch agents attacked Wynne. Also reported from a quick interview with Wynne shortly afterwards with the police, the three agents fled when they saw news on the TV that Wynne had been watching the OW Headquarters had been destroyed; after that day, few Blackwatch operatives had been found.
Captain Wynne had expressed the only grief ever recorded at the news of the headquarter's destruction; reportedly, Wynne's pet wolf had been in the building.
Shortly afterwards, Captain Wynne disappeared, and is suspected to have gone underground. It is thought that Wynne did so due to suspicions that Blackwatch- and Reyes- wanted Wynne both out of the way, and dead.
However, the circumstances of Captain Wynne's disapperance suggests that Wynne is dead.
Captain Leigh "Lyall" Wynne is thought dead, and was buried by the Arditi, NATO, and Overwatch.
Captain Wynne accepted the Overwatch Recall Winston sent out three days afterwards. After contacting Winston- who expressed surprise befitting of someone who had just talked to a ghost- Wynne began making his way to Watchpoint Gibraltar while picking up several new 'hero' recruits that accepted the Overwatch offer extended by Tracer and Winston, when Talon finally caught up to him.
The resulting battle left him paralyzed from the neck down, and new recruit Lucio's legs having been crushed and shredded in the battle. Lucio received new legs, armed with hardlight skids and a variety of other hardware.
Captain Wynne received extensive upgrades and reconstruction to repair and replace parts of his damaged nervous system. By utilizing nanites, it was possibly to bring back microchip-assisted movement in his body, at the cost of constantly using up nanites for every signal sent between brain and body. As such, after returning to Overwatch, Wynne has increased agility and mobility, slightly increased resilience and durability, a much more notable weakness, and a reliance on nanites. Wynne has several ways to keep his supply of nanites high- he wears a necklace around his neck, casually, which is actually a tube for nanites, whose pendant also contains a very notable amount of nanites. Winston is currently working on a combat suit and exoskeleton that would tie in with his new cybernetic nervous system, which is designed to carry around a very significant amount of nanites, and Angela's healing staff can also resupply his body with a reservoir of nanites. He's also had a harness built for both chest protection and nanite storage, which looks similar to Tracer's harness, if it was for full chest protection.