#dva lore

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Nano Cola flavor names

— Melon Matrix

— Nectarine Nerf

— Banana Booster

— Damage Per-simmon

— Shooting Starfruit

— Yuja Fusion

— Meka Mango

— Blackberry Buff

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Michael Chu on D.mon and D.Vas handles

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Gwishin lore from the Declassified OW Book (First two pages)

> GWISHIN

The apperance of massive robotic colossus in the East China Sea years after the end of the Crisis shocked the world. It's immediate advance on South Korea set off alarms and activated Overwatch. Morrison recalled all field agents, directing every resource toward this new threat. Overwatch had brought down a number of Titans during the Crisis—which were, up to now, the largest warbots they'd seen regularly during the war. But this colossus, the first of a new class of warbots known as the Gwishin dwarfed any enemy the strike team had considered standard fare.

While the Korean military scrambled it's defenses, Overwatch deployed from its nearest watchpoint with full force and swung into battle. The colossus intercepted several shipping vessels while still miles from the shore and destroyed them without hesitation before overwatch could intervene. The strike team was unaccustomed to fighting at sea which made the battle—and keeping the violence away from the city—a unique challenge.

For some members of the strike team this was an almost too welcome return to what they did best: an opportunity to remind the world why they had come together in the first place. For others, this was a grim introduction to the reality of what Overwatch had been formed to do, they could solve the worlds problems, they could save lives, but in the end, they would always be called back to battle, regardless of the other good they could do.

The colossus was beaten back and presumed destroyed, Liao sill had questions, citing some aspects of the warbot's design as unusual enough to warrant further study. She requested a long-term field assigment to South Korea, to study the remains and signal traces the colossus had left behind. Here, Overwatch ran up against significant resistance in establishing a permanent base in the country, and the matter was dropped.

The Korean military did release the pieces of the warbot that had been recovered go Liao for analysis. Many at the time shared her concerns about a hostile human goverment possibly having control of an unknown omnium but without additional evidence supporting her theories they could only be logged, not acted upon.

Liao studied the matter for months, but she would not have a chance to report her findings before renewed agression the East China Sea.

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D.Va's favorite animal (Lucio-D.Va interaction)

Zerglings are creatures from StarCraft, variety of Zerg warrior.

Equivalent in size to a large dog zerglings are one meter tall and possess webbed feet. Zerglings possess sickle limbs and sharp incisor teeth, used primarily for tearing into flesh.

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D.Va Deconstructed: How Blizzard Created One of Overwatch’s Most Iconic Heroes - Playstation Blog (2018)

D.Va Deconstructed: How Blizzard Created One of Overwatch’s Most Iconic Heroes

In celebration of Blizzard's newest animated short, learn more about the fan-favorite MEKA pilot.

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"D.Va was never a StarCraft pro"

Clarification of Michael Chu's Tweet (Circa 2018) on the Blizzard Forums

"It's a common misconception, but D.Va wasn't a StarCraft pro before joining MEKA."

"Misconception probably wasn't the right way to describe it, more like something that we haven't clarified properly. I think the best I can do here is give the backstory (har har) on how we got here:

Going back to when we announced D.Va as a hero, we had been experimenting with using different methods of teasing new characters. We thought it'd be fun to use the StarCraft WCS site and slip D.Va in as she had a background as a pro gamer (this all happened before she was officially announced). At the time, I actually worried that it would be taken as canon, but I was hoping elements like the fact her preferred race was listed as "random" and the fact she couldn't have competed in the current series would help defray that. In hindsight, yeah... pretty confusing.

D.Va is absolutely a world champion professional gamer which was what got her recruited into MEKA in the first place. However her best game wasn't StarCraft (which was what I was attempting to clarify). We imagined that she was most known and specialized in a game with a skillset that was closer mapped to the skills that she (and the other MEKA pilots) utilized while piloting their mechs.

That said, D.Va has definitely played more than her fair share of StarCraft (as she references in some of her lines in Overwatch) and a slew of other games. Bonus fact: StarCraft is one of D.Va's father's favorite games! And he was pretty good at it.

Ultimately, I totally recognize that with the way we initially teased D.Va and since we didn't specifically say otherwise in her official backstory, the distinction was pretty unclear."

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D.Vas pages in the Overwatch Visual Source Book

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D.Va lore in the missions

D.VA - BIO

D.VA JOURNAL (POST TORONTO)