Is DVA secretly a fake hero?
D.VA is a world champion starcraft player turned hero and defender of the Korean peninsula,
but is she all that meets the eye?
Could D.VA actually be a PR tool of the Korean military to make their people feel safe under
the ever present threat of Omnic attacks?
Their version of Captain America for example, being thrown into the spotlight to represent
the military all the while never being put in any real danger, is D.VA Fake News?!
Hana Song, today known as D.VA, first found fame as a pro gamer, she became the world
champion of Starcraft and went undefeated for 3 straight years, her fame grew internationally
and she became loved by fans in both South Korea and across the globe.
However South Korea is a complex place in the world of Overwatch.
While the rest of the world has pretty much moved on since the Omnic Crisis the coast
line along the Korean peninsula has continued to be plagued by an ongoing omnic threat.
A single gigantic omnic has repeatedly risen from the depths of the ocean and attacked
the nation, each time causing catastrophic damage before being driven back beneath the
waves.
Every few years it would return having made adaptations to counter whatever had forced
it away the previous time, eventually it became able to disrupt the nation's main line of
defence, a series of drones.
This forced the government into scramble to find suitable candidates who the military
could place inside mechs as pilots, they needed people with the necessary instincts and reflexes
to operate the machines and with little time for training they turned to their nations
pro gamers.
Many of their top stars were drafted, of course including the world champion D.VA.
However D.VA is described as seeing her new mission as just another game and even began
streaming her combat operations to her fans.
Shes also shown up in TV adverts and hollywood movies, really becoming the public face of
the MEKA program and South Korea’s military as a whole.
Now this is the part that first made me think
of this:
Could D.VA actually be just the face of the military, put out there to reassure the public,
perhaps drum up support and financial backing?
Now don't get me wrong, D.VA could still follow Cap’s story and actually strive to be a
real hero, but maybe she's just not that hero yet?
Perhaps she’s never really been put in any real danger, or on any major missions.
The fact that's she's live streaming her “fights” makes this seem reasonable, surely if she's
fighting a giant omnic with hacking capabilities streaming what she's doing isn't the best
move...unless she's running a delay to not get stream sniped…
D.VA has very little lore, unlike the other characters she doesn't really have any connection
to anyone else.
Even characters like Lucio and Symmetra have ties to each other but D.VA still remains
isolated.
Sure she’s famous and people know who she is, but it’s all superficial, there are
no friendships, alliances or even enemies in the Overwatch roster of heroes.
Could this be because she’s actually more of an icon than person?
She’s putting on a performance and perhaps she is going out into some battles but at
a safe distance, secluded from the main fight.
To reference another movie much like Katniss in Mockingjay Part 1, she’s out there streaming
and putting on a performance that the public can see which helps to reassure them that
their military is protecting them.
She maintains an almost overly happy persona in almost all of her dialog, but there are
moments where she seems to almost break character, and perhaps we see a little more of what Hana
Song really thinks, for example in Germany when looking at the ruins of the town it seems
to hit her hard and remind her of the damage done to her homeland.
I actually think the idea of her having a Captain America style story would be a fascinating
twist for D.VA, perhaps we see an animated short in the future where we see her push
back against her commanding officers and actually go out and fight for real, to rescue other
soldiers or something similar and with this act she becomes a real hero, proves her capabilities
and ascends beyond being just a symbol for hope.
What do you think?
Could D.VA be a Fake Hero who has yet to really go into a real battle?
Could she be just the face of the military rather than a real soldier?
And if this is the case will she rebel and become a true hero in full Captain America
style?
Let me know what you think in the comments below, as always this is James for Curse saying
thanks for watching, and enjoy the game!