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[stripefeathr]

epic rap battles of vishkar

[1010kw]

[tech-obsessed-shark]

NPD Domina - An Analysis

Despite how she appears, Vaira Singhania aka Domina, is actually a deep character. She's a woman who believes she deserves everything AND has everything, but it still doesn't make her happy.

This is my little analysis of Domina's character and how she fits the criteria of an NPD diagnosis. I honestly really enjoy her character and wanted to just yap about her and her writing.

PART 1: NPD SYMPTOMS

"Exaggerated, unfound sense of their own importance and talents"

Domina "speaks with a sense of entitlement and stature," while she belittles others and highlights her own skills. She projects an image of perfection, letting everyone know just how important she is.

When given a draft of a speech she was to give at the Vishkar Awards, Domina was disgusted to see that she would be praising her family's legacy. She believes that her efforts were the reason for the company's success.

"Bringing up my family before mentioning my own achievements? Introducing myself as if everyone doesn't already know who I am?"

"Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited achievements, influence, power, intelligence, beauty, or perfect love"

All she wants is the best for herself and her image. She will do anything go get power, influence, achievements, and to be seen as perfect. This includes associating with Talon and anyone else who get her close to her dreams.

"Belief that they are special and unique and should associate only with people of the highest caliber"

Domina definitely believes she is special and unique, at least she tries very hard to believe it

She associates with those she deems worthy, which unfortunately is nobody unless she has something to gain from them

"A need to be unconditionally admired"

To be honest, it is her goal in life. She wants people to see her as a perfect person; she wants to be seen as above everyone else. She refines herself for the joy of idolized.

"A sense of entitlement"

As seen before, she believes that she is the reason for Vishkar's success.

Fully believes that she has a right to do everything she does, for both herself and her company

"Exploitation of other to achieve their own goals"

She's rich heiress to a corporation that exploits people for the sake of cheap labor.

"A lack of empathy"

She's a rich heiress to a corporation that exploits people for the sake of cheap labor.

But seriously, I'm not sure due to the technical terms of empathy vs. sympathy and my own struggles with empathy as a mentally ill person. Would I say Domina doesn't care about other people's emotions? Yes. Would I say she doesn't understand their emotions? I'm not sure. Based on what I have read, I don't know if she can feel the same emotions as others or understand them as she IS a new character and hasn't had too many interactions in the canon. Honestly, as someone with Alexithymia I have trouble understanding, identifying, and expression emotions so idk. (I would love to hear other opinions on this)

"Envy of others and a belief that others envy them."

Yep yep yep. She envies those with "natural-born talent" due to how her family pressured her iinto be perfect. She had to study and trains for years to prove herself, especially against those who have talent. She believes that "the true test of talent" is the hard work she put into becoming the person of today.

She definitely wants people to envy her and I'm sure she believes people do, but that comes with a price to her as well

"Arrogance and haughtiness"

Yep and yep again. She's prideful, selfish, and sees herself as superior to everyone else

Honestly just listen to her voice lines

PART 2: Who is Varia Singhania?

Varia Singhania is a person who was born into a family business with everything planned out for her. It led her to become a obsessed with her achievements and image. All she knows is that to be someone is to be perfect. Rejection as a child is what fueled her to succeed. When she sees herself in the mirror, Varia goes back into the mask she puts on for other people. She believes that sharing her struggles, her vulnerability, will just make people think less of her.

Varia Singhania is a tragic look at what happens when a kid given too much pressure can't escape it. She worked to adapt to the environment she was born in. She was not born evil, nor is she a person who only acts to do evil.

Looking past the nepo baby evil corporation terrorism, she's even... somewhat relatable? Being born in a household where you're expected to be perfect and constantly compared to those around you is not fun. It destroys your self-esteem and what you value in your life. It takes away enjoyment from everything that does not contribute to the goal of being perfect.

However. This does not mean she is right for what she does. Her and her corporation have harmed and likely killed a great amount of people. She does not care who she hurts to achieve her dreams. But she's not an inhumane monster who takes joy in killing people either.

cough uh anyways thanks for reading this. this took me a while to write and is pretty long and if you got this far that makes me happy :))) Domina is a character that interests me so much, as she is both relatable and fun to watch- anyways have a nice day!!! and if you have any thoughts plz I would love to hear them omg

[lizawnya]

Ok ok ok MORE OVERWATCH

LUv to see it

It seems most of the people are upset about the non cinematics. Gurlllll, I couldn't care less. ESPECIALLY when said lore drops indirectly involves Satya.

Vaira Singhania.

She's the new(ish) vice president of the Vishkar. Apparently, Sanjay the Representative that discusss with talon. But Vendetta went passed him to the top.

Also, Ms. Singhania is the granddaughter to the FOUNDER of Vishkar. Her grandfathers ideals live through her. So her and Vendetta both regard family highly.

Off the jump, Ms. Singhania feels like an older and charismatic Satya. A woman that's been doing her job for a while, knows how to play the game. And knows of the power she holds.

Appearance rise, my guess is she has four arms.

We see her hand resting on her lap in the first photo. She's even sitting on her OWN hard light chair (just like satya's emote. While later on we see the SAME right hand different

I'd say she sitting JUST as Satya but the Vishkar arms are at her side, framing her torso.

She has a preppy attitude with an air of " I'm above it all" demeanor. I'd say shes worked for her families lineage. Compared to Satya's come up after the crisis. I'd say Ms. Singhania is what Niran would have become if he chose to stay in the system. If not with a little sprinkles of Satya on him, personality wise.

So far, she seems like a mentor figure to Satya, speculation of course, my only evidence being Ms. Singhania asking Vendetta if they're "in alignment"

As you can tell, if it's And evolving satya im HAPPY for any type of information, regardless of how we get it.

If you'd like to read the short story yourself, I've linked it here.

https://blz-contentstack-assets.akamaized.net/v3/assets/blt2477dcaf4ebd440c/blt8c6688d56348d8b3/696ae9f7521fe69c2b245415/Vishkar_Micro_EN_FINAL.pdf

[wildissylunas]

Something I love about Symmetra's short story "Rebuilding Ruins" is that it shows the subtle shittyness of Vishkar and how performative they really are. We know they're a bad organization, their whole thing is gentrification.

But the way it's detailed that the Vishkar academy and Vishkar themselves make little to no effort to accommodate neurodivergent students and company members but also "other" those students in many ways. Satya states both in "Rebuilding Ruins" and "Stone by Stone" that her being autistic, her being different, was constantly brought up around her in a very demeaning way, she mentions being overstimulated by the lights, finding certain clothing she's forced to wear uncomfortable. To me it also seems like it was used as a manipulation tactic to make Satya reliant on Vishkar, to increase her loyalty.

A lot of the details in this short story were very surprising to me and very well done, this just cause my attention specifically.

[cylindricalbear]

Lifeweaver should've gotten his Vishkar skin for the new battle pass....😞

[nitewrighter]

So I'm guessing it's safe to assume that all Vishkar recruits or Hard Light prospects must undergo some cybernetic augmentation to use their abilities and tech. I'm also wondering what Niran's alignment is since he's alumni. Is he part of Vishkar's gentrification tactics or a deserter but remains a neutral party

Well according to his origin story, Junkrat mentioning his having a bounty on his head, and his "Time to go disappointing my mother again" line, he's left Vishkar! (Also he's a middle child!! Yaaaayy he's like me!!!) I think his alignment is neutral to chaotic good. He's definitely not an ecoterrorist type, but he does want to help the world survive, which pits him against corporations that harm the environment--as we saw with those big deforestation machines in the origin story.

Edit: The origin story also further confirmed that cybernetics are uniformly used across vishkar--you can see in the "Uniformity is strength" slide that all (what I assume to be architechs) have prosthetic arms.

But also in Symmetra's "Architech/Vishkar" skins, you can see she still has her organic arm and hand, just in a kind of power glove sleeve thing:

I think from here we can assume that *The most advanced* architechs get their full arms replaced after years of training with hard light in order to fully optimize their abilities.

[saffronaa]

Also, I wonder if the organization Venture is a part of is connected to Vishkar in some way? Their logos are kind of similar, and both have global operations (which I suppose isn't saying much in Overwatch but still)