oh my god i thought i'd replied to this, i'm so sorry
OKAY SO BRISTOL! her primary criteria for tolerating her crew is whether they try hard and do a good job, so as long as val does those things, bristol will forgive her a lot. well. she will forgive her anyway, but robot mom only has so much patience. ON THE PLUS SIDE, she doesn't care at all about people's pasts as long as they do their work, so val is free to spin whatever backstory she likes and bristol will just keep reading her morning paper and nod along. she also appreciates val's straightforward approach tbh!!! but might ask her to occasionally ease up on her trigger finger. between val and pendleton, the kamikaze must burn through all their ammunition funds in a week ;;;