D.Va, Overwatch
Video game characters can also help us realize more about our gender identity and expression. Rikka, the editor-in-chief at 9to5Toys, found herself in Overwatch’s resident gamer girl, D.Va.
“Back when Overwatch came out I was obsessed with playing as D.Va. After the first hundred hours of playing as exclusively her it became very clear that it wasn’t just that I thought the cute mecha pilot was cool, but that I was getting a little too much euphoria out of instalocking her every game. I came out to myself maybe six months after the game released and she was definitely one of those final pieces of the puzzle to make that happen,” she wrote via Twitter DM.
