Reina Wilhelm: A Gentle Giant

Name: Reina Wilhelm

Age: 63 years old although it doesn’t stop her from her duty as a soldier in Overwatch.

Height: 7’4” tall, a true German behemoth as she would say, although her grandmother used to say she was skin and bones growing up.

Appearance: She’s a very tall muscular German woman with shoulder length grey hair and a scar over her left eye from when she was attacked by an omnic. She has a large bust size. Her whole body is pretty much rock hard muscle as she’s easily able to lift 405 for her bench press. She also has a bush of grey pubes.

Armor: Her “Crusader Armor” is a large bulky suit of grey titanium. In her suit she becomes practically bullet proof and resistant to small explosives. She has a metal lion head on her left forearm that will emit a large blue holographic shield wall when she needs it to protect her friends.

The back of her armor contains a jet booster that allows her to slide on the ground and charge forward towards her enemies like she’s a truck about to flatten her foes.

Her helmet is a high tech version of a crusaders helmet with three horns on top.

Quirks: She loves David Hasselhoff’s music, beer, ale, German bratwurst, and grilling. She snores like a freight train. Sometimes she hits her head on door frames.

Her weapon: Reina is one of the few agents that only use melee as she wields a gigantic hammer with thrusters on the back of it. The thrusters allow her to fire a large fireball projectile, but only once before it needs to recharge again. The thrusters activate to provide support to her swing, allowing her to destroy and smash anything within range with more accuracy and power.

Personality: She has a jolly and outgoing disposition, Reina is a rather imaginative juggernaut, always wanting to bring hope and ambition towards the people. She lives by a code of valor and justice, much like the crusaders of medieval history. Although she is at an old age, she never wants to admit it and vows to fight until her last breath, according to her interactions with Mercy. She also really cares about her comrades of Overwatch and will, quite literally, take a bullet (or several) for her friends if she must.

Backstory: A highly decorated German soldier, Reina was part of the Crusaders, battle-hardened warriors who wore massive suits of armor with unique capabilities. Although her mentor, Balderich von Adler, was Overwatch’s first choice to join the agency, Reina was recruited after von Adler fell in the Battle of Eichenwalde.

Reina became part of the original Overwatch strike team that put an end to the Omnic Crisis. After the conflict's resolution, Overwatch grew into a global institution, keeping the peace in a war-torn world.

Reina's unique ethics and larger-than-life persona earned the admiration of her peers and superiors alike. Never afraid to speak her mind, she was Overwatch's most vocal supporter and, when necessary, its harshest critic, providing a constant reminder that Overwatch was meant to be a force for good.

Having served into her late fifties, Reina was faced with mandatory retirement from combat operations. Despondent about being removed from active duty, Reina feared that her days of purpose and glory had ended. As times grew darker and Overwatch came under suspicion of corruption and sedition, Reina could only watch as the cause she had dedicated her life to defending surrendered in disgrace.

Though Overwatch was eventually disbanded, Reina was not content to sit idly by while the world fell to disorder. Once again donning her Crusader armor, she vowed to fight for justice across Europe like a knight of old, defending the innocent and winning hearts and minds with the promise of better days to come. She was joined on this mission by her squire, Brigitte Lindholm, daughter of Reina’s close friend , Torbjörn. After one particularly close call with a local gang calling themselves the Dragons, Brigitte took up her own mace to fight by her mentor’s side.

The old knight visited Eichenwalde after Winston triggered the Overwatch Recall. Brigitte urged her to consider the request carefully, reminding Reina of how leadership had forced her out and pleading to her that, particularly given her advanced age, she had given Overwatch enough. Reina was undeterred. She was called to duty, and a Crusader must always answer the call.