Hope van Dyne

## Background

### 1974 - 1990: Hope Pym

Born Hope Pym, she is the daughter of Hank Pym & his first love, Maria Trovaya. Maria is the daughter of Dr. Janos Trovaya, a Hungarian geneticist & entomologist. Prior to his death, Maria & her father were political prisoners in their native Hungary but they managed to escape to the United States of America. Her father started working for the United States & Maria felt that they were safe there. Months after the birth of Hope, she convinced him to take a vacation with her to Hungary while leaving their daughter with the nanny Rose.

Hank expressed some concern about her safety, citing her past as an escaped prisoner. Maria was convinced that nobody would recognize her & would suspect that Maria Trovaya was the same person as Maria Pym. Unfortunately, Maria was kidnapped by unknown agents & knocked out Hank as they were unaware of his identity. Hank reported the kidnapping to the American embassy but an hour later, Maria's corpse had been discovered. Later that day, Maria's father was killed in a suspicious laboratory explosion laboratory explosion. The Americans suspected that this was an act of sabotage, but they had no way to confirm it.

Hank raised Hope alone, though he was not the best at it. At the age of five, her father began dating Janet van Dyne & she soon became a mother to little Hope. She quickly connected with Janet & loved playing games with her, especially hide & seek. Whenever her parents had to go on missions, they would leave Hope at home with Rose & told their daughter they were going on business trips.

Despite her parents' long & loving relationship, various inhibitions kept Hank from proposing to Janet. But after a lab accident with experimental gases, Hank's inhibitions were broken down & caused him to have a mental breakdown. This would be his second one, the first having been after Maria had been killed. After he was healed, he proposed & married Janet for sticking by him in his darkest times. Their family was finally complete & the couple was happy... at first. In time, Janet grew tired of his dedication to his work & filed for seperation.

### 1990 - 2001: Hope van Dyne

Not knowing how to raise Hope now that he was alone again, he began to neglect her before deciding to send Hope away to boarding school. By the time she graduated from high school, Hank & Janet had begun to reconcile then later had a daughter together but Hope was still upset with her father. She legally changed her name to Hope van Dyne then went away for college.

After college, she got a job at Pym Labs & worked her way up to becoming Chairperson of the Board of Directors, where she cast the deciding vote that ousted Hank Pym from the company. Pym Labs was then rebranded under Cross Technologies by Hank Pym's estranged protégé & the company's new CEO Darren Cross. Hope quickly came to regret her decision when she learned that Cross obsessively tried to replicate the Pym Particles & her father's designs for the Ant-Man Suit, intending to sell it to HYDRA. Fearing the consequences, she contacted her parents & convinced him to assist her in stopping Cross.

## Personality

Hope van Dyne is a focused & determined woman. She is also very snarky, as shown when she mocked Lang by calling him "princess" or "useless" when he acted incompetent. Hope is generally self-assured & blunt, being brutally honest with whoever she pleases. When she eventually became romantically affectionate towards Scott, she showed slight embarrassment for it. Some of her father's cynical nature rubbed onto Hope as well.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Acrobatics**: Hope incorporates gymnastics & acrobatics into her fighting style as she battles opponents, notably dodging a knife thrown at her while shrunken, then using it as a platform to continue her assault.
* **Business Management:** Her business acumen has risen to the point she was able to secure for herself a stable position in Pym Technologies' board. She possessed enough power in the company to have the deciding vote to remove Hank Pym, the company's founder & CEO, from the company.
* **Genius Level Intellect**: Raised by Hank Pym & Janet van Dyne, Hope is an expert in many fields of science but specializes in physics & chemistry. She carries her father's passions in chemistry & physics, which is why she is confident in her understanding on the Ant-Man Suit.
* **Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts**: She has trained in martial arts since she was a child. Her martial arts prowess came in handy when she finally took the mantle of the Wasp. She employs a mixed martial art including elements of Muay Thai, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Judo, kickboxing & Aikido.
* **Wasp Suit:** A prototype for an upgraded version of her mother's shrinking suit was given to her by her father so that she could become the new Wasp. Like the Ant Man suit, it can manipulate its wearer's size while simultaneously enhance both the wearer’s density & strength, allowing for her to gain superhuman strength and near-invulnerability when shrunk.
	+ ***Size Manipulation***: Hope is able to reduce herself to the size of an insect by using Pym Particles in the belt of the suit to distance her atoms, effectively compacting her physical structure and allowing her to shrink down whenever necessary. She still maintains her regular sized strength and durability while in a reduced scale as the process amplifies the amount of force she can generate and increases her density. Additionally, the process of altering size compresses force & energy, manifesting as brief shockwaves of vibration around the target, which briefly augments her force and momentum as she returns to normal size.
	+ ***Superhuman Strength***: Hope possesses a certain degree of superhuman strength, able to easily overpower enemies when shrunken down when decreased in size. The momentum of her attacks also appears to be increased. As she shrinks & regrows in an instant, the power behind her attacks, combined with her already superhuman strength & combat skills, allow for her to defeat the most skilled of combatants within a fraction of a second.
	+ ***Superhuman Durability*** When decreased in size, Hope's body is hyper-compressed, and is much resistant to injury, enough to survive falls from great heights & other impacts that would injure or kill even normal sized humans. She was notably capable of taking blows from the extremely dangerous Ghost.
	+ ***Flight***: By utilizing four artificial insect-like wings, Hope can fly at impressive speeds & maneuver with great agility with ease, as evidenced when a knife was thrown at her while she was shrunken down. She can also use the wings at full-size as blunt-force weapons.
	+ ***Energy Projection***: Hope can fire bolts of energy from the wrists of her gauntlets. They are powerful enough to blast burning holes in reinforced materials & knock a man unconscious. Her gauntlets were later upgraded, enabling her to fire constant streams of concussive energy.
	+ ***Insect Manipulation***: Through the use of the EMP Communication Device given to her by her father, Hope can use electromagnetic waves to communicate & control insects, primarily ants. The device uses electromagnetic waves to mimic pheromones & stimulate the olfactory nerve center of insect-sized organisms.

### Ratings

* **Acumen:** Unknown
* **Might:** Unknown
* **Quickness:** Unknown
* **Mysticism:** Unknown
* **Gadgets:** Unknown
* **Projection:** Unknown
* **Tactics:** Unknown
* **Battle:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Notes

* The original character of Hope van Dyne belongs to the Marvel Universe. Nadia Pym & Hope van Dyne are technically the same character in the comics, with the names being interchanged for different realities.