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CHARACTER: Satya “Symmetra” Vaswani
CANON: Overwatch
VESSEL NAME & LOCATION: Right foot
VESSEL FORM: A chakram
POWER: Barrier projection - a simple yet versatile skill that allows for projecting a hard-light barrier. It can be in form of a sphere around a person - to protect, or perhaps to trap something in. It can also be deployed as moving shield that disappears either after a while or after hitting an object, and with enough skill and patience, she probably could make a conventional shield hold in hand out of it.
GOD: [the god your shinki belongs to, can be found on the shinki page]
EXP POINTS: [can also be found on the shinki page]
CAUSE OF DEATH: Symmetra might prefer to keep her weapon set to paralyze, and don’t kill people- but that doesn’t mean her enemies will share the sentiment. She was killed in action during a secret mission to uphold Vishkar’s corporate interest.

Player Information


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Character Information

Name: Satya “Symmetra” Vaswani
Canon: Overwatch
Canon Point: Current canon story point, which means around 2075, Overwatch begins to commence operations again, Doomfists rejoins Talon and the mega-corp Symmetra is part of has been driven out of Brazil
Age: 28
History: Wiki link

Personality: Symmetra is perfectionist, through and through. Thing like a crooked painting she finds so distracting, she has to fix them - in one instance she even breaks a fourth-wall by correcting the askew camera, through which player views her. She believes that disorder is humanity greatest enemy, and enforcing balance and harmony is a Greater Good worth fighting for. Why yes, she does believe in that Greater Good, and in her own opinion what she does, what people behind her do, is beneficial for everyone. Even if it means surrendering oneself fully to a given role. See, Symmetra despite being a good-hearted person is working for Vishkar, a somewhat nefarious megacorp with shady practices, that spoonfeeds her information about its true operations. Symmetra does have her doubts about it occasionally, but since she was groomed to be a top Vishkar enforcer from the young age she is not yet ready to break away from them. Maybe she never will.

As one of Vishkar Architech she creates objects, buildings, whole cities from a hard-light, improving lives for thousands of people.

As one of Vishkar secret Enforcers, she conducts varied clandestine, often plain illegal, missions, that seem to include espionage and blackmail. She justifies that those missions are to help Vishkar make the whole world a better place, bring peace and harmony to it, which is something she genuinely wants.

Symmetra comes as a bit unapproachable and snobbish, because of her calm, serious demeanor and striving for perfection. But in truth she is the one having troubles socializing and has limited ability to empathize with other people. A good example of that is when she was on mission in Rio de Janeiro when Vishkar tried to secure the deal about re-developing city’s Favela. There were protests of upset residents who fought for their homes while Symmetra couldn’t fathom why they were unhappy with the prospect of having their community rebuild for something more modern and comfortable. Spoiler alert: due to Vishkar meddling Favelas burned down, and what they did build there was not houses, but elegant city center. Symmetra inquired about the fate of those who lost their homes, and got a clean-cut answer that Vishkar will take care of that too (sic). It was one of those moments where her doubts started.

She’s creative and passionate but has little patience for things, and people outside that. In her creations, she incorporates a traditional indian dance, and even the way she dresses is elegant and impeccable. There is a value in cultural heritage - it deserves respect and cultivation. She wields the technological advancements with a flare.

Driven and focused she’d rather work alone, but that doesn’t mean she’s incapable of teamwork. It’s reflected in her gameplay where all of her kit resolves around helping her team and subtly boosting their overall performance - she’s not on the frontline, but she’s not a caring healer either. Setting traps and strategic areas, boosting defenses, shortening objective routes with a clever placement of teleport, and being a nuisance to her enemies on sidelines with an auto-locking weapon. (At least until the reworked that literally this month!!!!!). She prefers diplomacy to violence.

In short, she’s that bright-eyed well-intentioned idealist wanting to make world better place- at any cost and without asking if those being saved want this help or not.


Abilities: Hard-light manipulation - Symmetra is one of the best Architech employed by Viskar mega-corp, and incorporates traditional dance of her homeland in her construction method. Her left arm is a prosthetic and holds the technology allowing the bending of light into solid forms and objects. Vishkar Architechs are able of creating buildings, whole cities with this technology, the most famous example being Utopea. With this Symmetra can create everyday objects, like a chair [as seen in one of her idle animations], or decorations that hold no use but surely look pretty (like snowflakes one of the seasonal intros).

The hard-light generated through the arm also powers her weapon Photon Projector, that allows for further expansion of the possible objects, like massive shields that can withstand an onslaught of bullets or heat of fire. But that isn’t really important for now since she is not coming equipped with it.

Engineering - Symmetra is one of the brightest employees of Vishkar Corporation, and many of gadgets she uses are implied to be her own inventions. Likewise, she is apt with technology and knowledgeable of architecture and urban design.

Dancing - She’s a skilled dancer, albeit Blizzard had never specified which of the many Indian Classical dances she knows.

Strengths: focused, passionate, creative, determined, studious
Weaknesses: disagreeable, lacks empathy, perfectionist, stubborn, haughty


God/Shinki: Shinki

Why?: Because she wouldn’t feel comfortable in a god role, and as a shinki she can do what she does best, while also either getting or giving a headache - if she’s the Moral Compass Exemplar, you can be sure she will take it extremely seriously.
Cause Of Death: Symmetra might prefer to keep her weapon set to paralyze, and don’t kill people- but that doesn’t mean her enemies will share the sentiment. She was killed in action during a secret mission to uphold Vishkar’s corporate interest.
Vessel: A chakram https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4e/de/8d/4ede8d61cfee212765fb9ecca9621eac.jpg
Name Location: Right foot

Power: Barrier projection - a simple yet versatile skill that allows for projecting a hard-light barrier. It can be in form of a sphere around a person - to protect, or perhaps to trap something in. It can also be deployed as moving shield that disappears either after a while or after hitting an object, and with enough skill and patience, she probably could make a conventional shield hold in hand out of it.


Writing Sample


Sample:

https://takamagahara.dreamwidth.org/58404.html?thread=7504420#cmt7504420

Aaand a thread on different TFS Test drive meme https://takamagahara.dreamwidth.org/65938.html?thread=8192146#cmt8192146