#and the thunderstorm and of course tek rooting around in my brain for headcanons

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Something that @colecassiidy mentioned a few days ago has been on mind re: natural disasters and muse experience with them. And there's a thunderstorm going on right now so what a perfect time to ramble about it.

Lena, given her career both with Overwatch and the Royal Air Force, has experienced a fair share of natural disasters. Recovery efforts sent in by Overwatch in the aftermath make up a majority of these experiences, seeing the destruction wrought by disasters and people impacted by them. She's experienced some very minor tremors living in London, atop two major faults, but the most damage they've done is knock a glass or two over.

Where her direct experience with disasters lays is with weather. Tornadoes, hurricanes, and even just bad thunderstorms are a pilot's worst nightmare. She's missed many a flight due to weather, grounded even during emergencies to prevent her and her team from responded, but she's flown in even more of them.

While Lena is an ace pilot, one of the best and brightest that have ever come from the RAF Academy, the weather gets to all of them. Major crafts, buffeted in the wind, jerking controls from her, hearing the sounds of people and things fly about in the cargo bay. There have been moments in smaller crafts too, too light to resist the winds, here one moment and gone the next as mother nature dragged her across the sky.

They're rare, but they do happen, and as a result, bad weather puts her on edge. You might see her jump at the sound of thunder, or check the window nervously during a storm. Additionally, she'll spend some storms in the hanger, sitting with or in her plane as some sort of self soothing and a general reminder that she's alright.