#SORRY THIS WAS SO LONG FJFJDJD i honestly had to use all my remaining braincells to even remember this lore but im glad i did !!!

[rosykims]

Do u have Thoughts abt when Dinah was on earth?

MANY thoughts ily for asking andy !!!!

dinah is an earthborn shep and still retains her gang/orphan background but i sort of.... ran with it and then ran some more lol 🤷‍♀️ under the cut bc its super long. also cw for child abuse

dinah was born as dinah [REDACTED], and changed her name to shepard when she enlisted. her parents both died during the first contact war, which left her in the foster care system, although a bunch of bad experiences led her to peace out as soon as possible and take her chances on her own. most of the years following that were spent homeless and on the streets, thought she did rely on the kindness of strangers and, in particular, the owner of an old boxing gym who was the closest thing she had to a stable parental figure

anyway early into her teens she started forming ties with the wrong people, and soon caught the eye of the tenth street red's gang leader (gonna call him TSRGL from now on lol since he doesnt have a set name). TSRGL essentially groomed and emotionally manipulated her into his inner circle under the guise of taking her under his wing. dinah already knew the basics of how to fight from shadowing people at the gym, but TSRGL refined it and essentially turned her into his weaponized protege. also fun hc ! kai leng was TSRGL's initial protege, but was abandonned for petty reasons despite leng's unwaverly loyalty. dinah basically took his place lol though she obviously had no idea (the implication is that she would have inevitably been replaced too). he and dinah met briefly before he enlisted but leng has always misplaced his hatred towards her ❤ bc i wanted me3 to feel more personal and i just think leng's character is neat.

so for a few years she basically worked with the gang as the leader's right hand, and also as his most effective hitman. he was pretty blantantly a sociopath but dinah was too afraid and too attached to him to leave, because being with him was the only security/stability she'd ever known. it was only when an alliance commander named olivia rhodes found her – while investigating the gang for their ties to cerberus and offworld Nefariousness – that dinah was finally offered some outside protection and support.

after multiple promises of recieving immunity for her um. many crimes xx. dinah reluctantly agreed to testify against her boss; all his crimes and abuse and his top operatives. vice versa rhodes helped dinah break away from TSRGL's clutches, and in the process the two became quite close despite dinah's obvious trust issues, with dinah eventually seeing her as a sort of mother figure by the end of it. SUPER LONG SIDESTORY SHORT, it all cumulates into dinah um killing TSRGL with a shard of glass and being forced to flee the planet and go into witness protection while the gang actively searched for her🥴🥴🥴 dinah was 18 at this point so her special circumstances allowed for an agreement to be made between her, rhodes and a few top level alliance agents – she would be allowed to enlist under strict probationary terms due to her testimony against the gang basically being essential in fucking up a whole bunch of its key players. so she enlisted, changed her name to shepard (TRSGL was religious and used to use the shepard/flock metaphor a lot. dinah wanted a reminder that being a leader and being a tyrant are two sides of the same coin, and a lesson to make the right choice) and was basically a nuisance to the alliance under the command of rhodes up until rhodes and her squad all get nerfed on akuze, and dinah finally has to fully grow up 💔

and that's what you missed on glee !

#oc: dinah #SORRY THIS WAS SO LONG FJFJDJD i honestly had to use all my remaining braincells to even remember this lore but im glad i did !!! #think ive written some very small pieces about leng and rhodes which might be in dinah's tag somewhere??? mayhaps?? #anyway ! thank u for letting me talk abt my gorl ily MWAH 🥰🥰🥰 #/ child abuse