D.Va

**Hana Song**, also known as **D.Va**, is a character from the *Overwatch* games.

D.Va, a former professional gamer, who now uses her quick reflexes and piloting skills inside of a state-of-the-art mech to defend South Korea.

In the AWA fics, D.Va is set to appear in a future AWA storyline.

## **Appearance**

D.Va is a young slender woman wearing headgear that looks like headphones, a blue and white jumpsuit covered in logos, and white gloves and shoes. She has long brown hair and eyes, and some pink face-paint that kind of looks like whiskers.

## **Personality**

D.Va is a very competent combatant despite her young age, not taking failure as an option and showing no mercy to her adversaries. This is in part because she knows that it isn't a game and losing in combat means people will die. She possesses an egotistical side, often smack-talking opponents during battle. Regardless of her fierce characteristics, D.Va takes pleasure in making her fanbase happy, as shown by cheerfully taking autograph requests from Reinhardt and Lúcio and being quick to thank her audience whenever she defeats an enemy.

Being a pro gamer, D.Va loves video games and enjoys making references to them. While on the battlefield, she will use many gaming terms, such as "nerf," "pocket healer," "GG," "AFK," and more. Despite the fact that she is mostly into games produced by Blizzard (for obvious reasons), she is familiar with old arcade ones as well. An example is her calling Winston "a giant gorilla from those old video games," which is a reference to the Donkey Kong arcade game.

Gaming is not the only thing D.Va is interested in; she seems to be a fan of Lúcio's music. She also reads Mei's Adventures and seems to be a fan of Mei as well.

## **Abilities**

D.Va proved to be a fearless pilot, charging into battle alongside the rest of her MEKA squad, always on call to protect her country, which brought her no amount of attention from fans and enemies alike.

* **Fusion Cannons** - a pair of mini-guns that output a constant barrage of bullet fire without having to reload (though with the drawback of the mech having to move slower during use).
* **Boosters** - allows her to fly through the air, changing direction easily while knocking away any enemy heroes she slams into.
* **Defense Matrix** - a shield that which blocks and absorbs enemy projectiles in front of her.
* **Micro Missiles** - allows her mech to fire out a salvo of missiles straight ahead of her.
* **Self-Destruct** - D.Va's Ultimate attack, in which she sets the mech reactor to detonate and cause a massive explosion shortly after D.Va ejects, damaging enemies and destroying deployables upon detonation in a fairly large radius.

Whenever her mech is destroyed (by using her ultimate or by taking too much damage), D.Va will eject and fight on foot instead. In this mode, she can only use melee combat, as well as a Light Gun to fight with. D.Va has increased Ultimate charge in this state, and can activate *Call Mech* to bring down a brand new mech and continue fighting.

## **Trivia**

* D.Va was announced on November 6, 2015, alongside Mei and Genji, and was added to the closed beta three days later on November 9. She was originally teased through her in-universe *StarCraft II* profile.
* D.Va is currently the youngest human hero, at the age of 19 years old.
* When her mech is destroyed, the interface displays which translates to "Emergency escape."
* Defense Matrix has D.Va shoot down incoming projectiles by herself, which, according to her, raises her APM (actions per minute). The highest amount of incoming projectiles that can be achieved in-game is from 10 Whole Hogs, which D.Va is still able to shoot down. This means that, in the best-case scenario, D.Va's highest APM is approximately **87500**. In comparison, the highest APM achieved in real life is **818**.
* D.Va's Mech can still be healed even if in the process of Emergency Exit; however, the mech will not rebuild itself.
* D.Va can call a mech anywhere, regardless of whether she is indoors or not.
* Ironically, in the Korean version of the game, D.Va is the only hero to not have her name written in the Korean alphabet. This is likely because D.Va's name is stylized similar to Korean idols, who often have their stage names Romanized.
* The name of *Hero of my Storm*, the movie D.Va starred in, is a reference to *Heroes of the Storm*, another game by Blizzard.
* In the Summer Games, D.Va's signature sport is cycling. This sport theme may come from her posture when controlling a mech.
* D.Va learned how to shoot by playing in the arcade "16-bit Hero", according to an interaction with McCree.
* D.Va is the only hero in the game that has two Ultimates. However, D.Va is forced to choose one ultimate depending on her current form.
* On April 27, 2017, D.Va was temporarily rendered unplayable after the latest patch made her buggy and caused the game to crash if she was selected. She returned to playable status three hours later.
* If you convert the view count at the bottom of the holographic screen during D.Va's "Game On" emote to letters, it spells out "Kappa123" in reference to a commonly spammed phrase on twitch.tv.
* The name "D.Va" is a word play on 'diva', a term for a female singer or, informally, a *prima donna*.
* Due to her existing as a separate entity with different abilities, a common term to specify a D.Va outside of her MEKA is "baby D.Va".
* D.va is one ￼of only two heroes in the game (second is Lucio) that have a Legendary emote, but unlike Lucio's emote, it could be bought by game coins.