[NEW IDEA] Overwatch: The Symbol of Peace and Justice

He wasn’t a soldier. He wasn’t a hero. He was just a fan of a game that never quite got the story mode it deserved. A competitive one, at that, with a deeply ingrained habit of rushing ahead of his team, hammer swinging, charging into the thick of it before anyone else had time to react. He always argued it made sense: Reinhardt’s charge could pin troublesome opponents, create openings, and made the big armored giant deceptively mobile in ways the enemy never expected.  It wasn’t always a winning strategy. Far from it. But he couldn’t deny how fun it was… at least for him. Then he woke up young, impossibly tall for his age, and already stronger than anyone around him, in the body of a boy who would one day become the greatest knight the world had ever seen. Reborn as Reinhardt Wilhelm, decades before Overwatch, before the Omnic Crisis, before everything that shaped the world he once watched from a screen, he has time. More time than any hero usually gets. And he intends to use every second of it. He won’t just be the crusader who charges headfirst with a hammer and a Leroy Jenkins battle cry. He’ll be something rare even in this strange world, a Symbol. The kind of hero that doesn’t just win battles, but changes what people believe is possible. The All Might of a world that desperately needs one. But symbols are heavy things to carry. And the road from promising recruit to living legend is longer, bloodier, and more complicated than any highlight reel suggests. Suffice to say that this isn’t a game anymore. And just like the original Reinhardt had to learn to be his team’s shield rather than its battering ram, this one will have to learn the same lesson, hopefully for him not the hard way, in a world where charging ahead without your team doesn’t just lose a match. It gets people killed. Self-Insert. Long-form narrative. Multi-pairing romance. +18 to be safe. Tags and tone may evolve. Disclaimer: This is a fanfiction. All characters, settings, and concepts from Overwatch belong to their respective creators. This is a work of fiction; any resemblance to real people or events is coincidental. I do not claim ownership of the cover image.