If she does have any connection to Ogre I'd love to know why Jin wouldn't put her six feet under the second he meets her, considering he was the one to kill Ogre to avenge his mother. Although he became a good guy in T8's story (which really wasn't earned when the guy started WW3 just to fight a chicken god) he was a good guy in T3 when he took out Ogre too. Meanwhile Born-Again-Heihachi is gonna be rubbing his hands at the prospect of having access to Ogre to some extent again if there is actually any trace of it in Miary.
As for her stick, I wish it didn't have to be some astral thing and was just an actual stick ala Aang from Avatar. I'd rather her thing about learning from the animals being that she watched how they move in the trees and then adapted that with her staff to do fighting moves with, rather than sprouting an astral lemur tail from her arse. The moves were cool, I just don't see why she needed to have fantastical stuff attached to her character other than to just shoehorn Ogre back into the series for cheap fanservice.