Satya Vaswani

:"The true enemy of humanity is disorder."
Satya Vaswani (Hindi: सत्य वास्वानी, romanized: Satya Vaasvaanee), commonly known as Symmetra, is a playable character in Overwatch, a 2016 first-person shooter game by Blizzard. 
==Canon Lore==
The 2016 comic "A Better World" alludes to Symmetra's autism. In mid-2017, Jeff Kaplan confirmed that Symmetra is autistic in a letter responding to an autistic fan.Francis, Laura (February 13, 2019). "Character before condition - looking at gaming and autism representation". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on February 16, 2019. Retrieved February 15, 2019. Symmetra's dialogue reflects a desire for order and aversion for overstimulation.
==Fan Community==
===Reception and Reactions===
====Gameplay Meta====
====Evil or Indoctrinated?====
====Autism====
Similar to Tracer being revealed to be a lesbian in paracanon materials outside of the game proper, Symmetra was confirmed to be autistic by Jeff Kaplan himself; her neurodivergence had previously been implied in lore, but not explicitly stated. Some accuse Blizzard of pandering rather than directly and meaningfully incorporating her autism into her character. Others are happy to see representation for the autistic community, something that is rarely done effectively in media, all the while arguing that Symmetra's gameplay kit expresses her experience with autism. Others still are pleased that Symmetra is an autistic character, but concerned that players who dislike Symmetra (especially based on gameplay preferences) could use her as license to mistreat autistic players, who already face harassment within gaming communities.TV Tropes. Broken Base / Overwatch. (Accessed Apr 2021.)KILROY WAS HERE.
====Visual Design====
Some fans find Symmetra's default character design—skin-tight clothing and heels that emphasize her rear and bare thighs, which are further exaggerated by her poses—impractical, unfitting with her personality, and forcing fanservice. Some see her "Devi" and "Goddess" skins in particular as fetishization of Indian women and culture.
Some fans view Vampire Symmetra as whitewashing, while others argue that vampires are usually depicted as pale and Symmetra is just wearing makeup for a Halloween costume. Still, those who argue the former claim there is no good reason for Blizzard to give a dark-skinned character in the game such a light skin, and that they should have gone for a darker greyscale.KILROY WAS HERE.
===Fanon and Tropes===
Many fanworks portray Satya as cold, snarky, and judgemental. This often connects with fans headcanoning her as being friendly towards Hanzo Shimada, who is also seen as quite cold and critical. Many fans speculate that they would further bond over their shared struggles with morality and guilt as anti-villains.
Out of the "villains", fans generally view Symmetra as the one who would be most willing to join Overwatch.Other than possibly Hanzo. Thus, fan fiction commonly depicts Symmetra realizing Vishkar's true nature and defecting to Overwatch. Subsequently, she struggles with guilt over her past affiliation with the unprincipled Vishkar Corp, and also struggles with integrating with her diverse and often less-than-orderly Overwatch teammates.
Otherwise, Symmetra may be the subject of character bashing—often being portrayed as completely elitist and unconcerned with well-being of the common people—especially to emphasize Lúcio as a noble hero.
A lot of fanworks portray Satya's in-game turrets as her children or pets.Symmetra's turrets - Fanart Fans will also sometimes use in-game scenery and her six turrets to make scenes or visual jokes.
There is a lot of fanart of Satya in traditional Indian dress.Symmetra in traditional Indian clothing - Tumblr
Fans speculate about how Symmetra's autism manifests. In canon, she has demonstrated a deep fixation on "order"—shown by her many in-game voice lines that extol the virtues of order, and her distress at a crooked painting in the official comics; fan portrayals have extended her fixation to pursuing all things related to "order", especially symmetry.darkelfslair. "Has this been done yet? :v". Posted to Tumblr on 7 Oct 2016.
===Shipping===
As of April 2021, Symmetra/Sombra has the highest volume of tagged works among Symmetra ships on Archive of Our Own (AO3), followed by Symmetra/Junkrat, then Symmetra/Pharah. However, when filtering out stories listed under the M/M category, AO3 search results yield more stories tagged Symmetra/Junkrat than Symmetra/Sombra; this may possibly suggest that Symmetra/Sombra tends to appear more often as a background ship in M/M works.
In a sample of 46 Overwatch stories published to FanFiction.Net (FFN) between 2014 and 16 October 2019, Symmetra was most often listed in the pairing filter with Junkrat (59%), followed by Sombra (15%), Pharah (11%), Lúcio (7%), McCree (7%), and Mei (2%).phantomstatistician. Symmetra's FanFiction Shipping Chart 2014*-Present, posted to Tumblr on 16 Oct 2019. (Accessed Apr 2021.)
Symmetra/Pharah has often been considered a complementary ship for Gency, especially within the context of the Gency vs PharMercy ship war. 
Many headcanon Symmetra as being friendly with fellow "anti-villain" Hanzo; this relationship is often (though not always) portrayed as platonic rather than romantic.
====Notable Ships====
*Symmetra/Sombra (Symbra)
*Symmetra/Junkrat (Junkmetra, Ordered Chaos, Symmrat)
*Symmetra/Pharah (Symmarah)
*Symmetra/Lúcio (Symmphony)
*Symmetra/Hanzo (Hanmetra, Symmanzo)
*Symmetra/Shield Generator
*Symmetra & Turrets
==Example Fan Works==
===Fan Fiction===
* Hard Light by Buttons15
* Tablature by TokioSunset
* Needle & Thread by 5 Reinhardts in a Row
*"Learning to Dance" by silkinsilence
===Fan Art===
* Symmetra by hyamei
* Symmetra by mintycanoodles
* Know your place. by mariomanzanares
* Symmetra by Matilda-Fiship
* Symmetra .Oasis. by Namwhan-K
* Nomad Symmetra by layofthegame
* Symmetra Portrait by hazelisque
* Symmetra by erdora
* Symmetra doodle as bride of junkenstein!!!! by milkcubusss
* untitled - Sombra and Symmetra by combx2
* symmetra having friends is v important to me by nervmaid
* "Namaskaram" by nisat (nisatnociu)
===Cosplay===
* Saffron and Original Symmetra costumes by C'est La Sara and Lorraine Torres
* Symmetra's cosplay ( Overwatch ) by AaryaeCosplay
* Satya “Symmetra” Vaswani from Overwatch by naiPodCosplay
* [Self] Symmetra Reporting! Cosplay vs character of a traditional skin I think she deserves! by origamidevi (paperwitch)
* [Self] Teleporter online // genderbent Symmetra by superheroblues
* Overwatch Symmetra Cosplay by 2gramsbythebeach
===Meta===
*Say what you will about Overwatch... it’s probably the only time they actually make an autistic character’s moral rigidity and black-and-white thinking both integral to the character AND a reason for them being an antivillain by celtic-pyro
==External Links==
===Fan Pages and Communities===
*Archive of Our Own (AO3): Satya "Symmetra" Vaswani tag
*FanFiction.Net (FFN): Overwatch stories and crossovers featuring Satya V./Symmetra 
*Tumblr: #Symmetra, symmetralove — "Official Symmetra Fanblog", symmetraoverwatch — "Symmetra Blog"
*Reddit: r/SymmetraMains 
*DeviantArt: SymmetraFans
===Resources===
*Wikipedia
*Liquipedia — Overwatch
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Overwatch Characters