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He’s not a twink you just want to be gross about short mlm (raising eyebrow emoji)

I want to preface this by saying I am not diagnosed with autism, however in my extensive research of just. Neurodivergency in general. I have no doubts that I am neurodivergent. That being said, I reiterate that I am not officially diagnosed so don't like. Take my word as law, LOL

Anyways!

I love this HC, I have seen it many times around the Apex community and I think it works really well. She does show signs of being autistic or otherwise ND, and the fact that it isn't said outright doesn't discount that. I enjoy that ND people connect with her where they might not connect with Wattson; while she is canonically autistic, not every autistic person is the same.

The fact that she studies facial expressions so closely, doesn't understand a lot of social cues and such, and her chattiness definitely points to ND, imo. While people might explain this with the fact that she's only ever been around one person, that being her mother, in her 18 years of life she absolutely would've seen a wide array of expressions and had countless conversations with her. Her mother very clearly raised her well, so I think that some things just can't be explained by her upbringing.

The woman kills people for a living. She designed the ring system which, if people don’t get in the ring fast enough, literally burns people alive. She electrocutes people to death in her finishers.

None of this “too soft” BS. She kills, and she’s damn smart about how she does it.

And I’m sure people will be like “yeah but what about the stuffed animals” you mean the only connection she has to her mother? Why is she not allowed to be attached to that? Plenty of adults keep stuffed animals from their childhood, especially if connected to their parents in some way.

Not to mention the fact that she had to split up an argument between Caustic and Crypto, yelling at them both to stop.

God I’m so sorry for answering this so late.

I’d like to preface by saying I know not all heirlooms are meant as cultural representation for the characters that have them. But some are related to culture or at least have some cultural influence.

Apex Legends as a whole generally tends to do fairly well (NOT perfect) with its cultural rep, at least compared to other games. Loba is an outlier; she has never once been given accurate rep.

Her heirloom was another opportunity for Respawn to fix that issue with her. She could have gotten something that relates to culture. Fans, both in dance and as weapons, are not Brazilian whatsoever. In terms of dance (like the painting of Alanza) they are used in Spain, and in terms of weaponry they are used in Japan, (as far as I know. I’m not an expert on fan usage.)

Loba’s heirloom is a LITERAL heirloom, which belonged to her mother. She has Portuguese voice lines with it. I appreciate this. But I wish she got something related to her culture because apart from what minimal lines she does have, there is still nothing.