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seeingscarlet) wrote2018-06-10 09:43 am
seeingscarlet) wrote2018-06-10 09:43 am
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OUT OF CHARACTER:
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IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Wanda Maximoff
Character journal:seeingscarlet
Series name: MCU
Canon notes: After Captain America: Road to War #1, an official tie-in comic set between Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War.
Species: Enhanced human
History: Warning for Infinity War spoilers.
Personality: Wanda is the generally calmer, more responsible half of the Maximoff twins. At her best, she is perceptive, caring, and protective of both her loved ones and the innocent. However, when properly angered, she can be extremely vengeful and is sometimes blind to the potential negative consequences of her actions.
Wanda has had a drive to take her personal tragedy and turn it into something better since losing her parents at the age of 10 when their apartment building was bombed. She and Pietro participated in protests and riots against foreign powers occupying and destabilizing Sokovia before Strucker and List approached them. Where others may have collapsed into depression and apathy, Wanda and Pietro supported each other and became the other's rock. Neither sibling is the ringleader - Pietro had to convince Wanda to participate in Strucker's experiments and Wanda had to convince Pietro to let Tony go early in Age of Ultron.
Wanda demonstrates her resilience again after losing Pietro by officially joining the Avengers. She was greatly moved by SHIELD's efforts to rescue her people, and I'm sure there is no small amount of wanting to atone for helping Ultron and accidentally putting Pietro in a fatal situation. Now, Wanda feels a need to prove that she can be better. See: volunteering to protect the key and insisting multiple times that Pietro rescue everyone else first before he came back for her. Even in Civil War, she doesn't beg Steve to stay and help the rest of Team Cap even though she likely knows better than anyone else what Ross has planned for them. It was more important that he be able to stop what they saw as a global threat.
Basically, her home is gone. Her family is gone. Joining the Avengers gave her a way to find purpose and a place she might be able to belong someday. Wanda will still be looking for that sense of belonging and those who show her genuine kindness will find her receptive to their efforts to befriend her. She's lost so much that she will cling to whatever true friends she finds and will enact horrible vengeance on anyone who harms them (like ripping out Ultron's "heart"). Wanda definitely can get blinders where the people she loves are concerned - while she's normally not the impulsive twin, she completely abandoned her post after Pietro's death to track Ultron down. Angry, she is at her most dangerous. While she struggles with doubt from time to time, anger and protectiveness will always override it. Wanda may be horrified after the fact at what she's done, but in the moment, she simply will not care as long as 'her' people are safe.
Although she can be extremely vengeful, she has clearly moved beyond her issues with the Avengers during the timeskip between the Battle of Sokovia and the final scene of Age of Ultron. Seeing what SHIELD really is, instead of the distorted version HYDRA presented, helped shift her perception. They went out of their way to minimize civilian casualties, and she won't forget that. She and Tony also seem to have come to enough of an understanding that they can be on the same team. It's not always easy, but they can work together. And of course, after Pietro sacrificed himself to save Clint, she has become extremely protective of him (and his family) as well.
Despite her destructive potential, Wanda is still learning how to hero and deal with failure. She had a breakdown midway through the fight for Sokovia and was paralyzed by guilt and fear of her own abilities in Civil War after the disaster in Lagos. She is quick to blame herself, regardless of whether or not it's entirely justified. What is the point of her power if she cannot protect anyone?
Usually, a pep talk from Clint or Steve will snap her out of it, and once Wanda's made up her mind, she acts decisively. But at this current canon point, Wanda is terrified of how destructive her powers can be...and of how many times someone else has used her as a living weapon. Being stuck on a weird space reality show is going to make her nervous because she can't hide anything anymore.
However, Wanda's not used to being around anyone like her, and she'd be incredibly excited to meet another psychic or a 'real' magic-user. She'd be even more excited to find someone willing to help her learn to better control her powers. Under their influence, she may become less frightened of her abilities and return to the overall confidence level we see in Age of Ultron.
Of course, her ratings not immediately tanking as she reveals more of her abilities will help.
On a final note, although she's nowhere near the level of her brother, Wanda does have a dry sense of humor that escapes in the occasional quip. She briefly snarks at Steve in South Africa and shows a teasing side in a rare unguarded moment with Pietro. It seems to be the twins' main coping mechanism - if they weren't able to inject a small amount of humor into the dark situations they often found themselves in, it would have been a lot harder to keep going.
Abilities:
Augment Skillset: Civilian; personnel support.
Sample: Here!
Name/Handle: Callie
Contact:
Reference: Nueva
Other characters: N/A
IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Wanda Maximoff
Character journal:
seeingscarletSeries name: MCU
Canon notes: After Captain America: Road to War #1, an official tie-in comic set between Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War.
Species: Enhanced human
History: Warning for Infinity War spoilers.
Personality: Wanda is the generally calmer, more responsible half of the Maximoff twins. At her best, she is perceptive, caring, and protective of both her loved ones and the innocent. However, when properly angered, she can be extremely vengeful and is sometimes blind to the potential negative consequences of her actions.
Wanda has had a drive to take her personal tragedy and turn it into something better since losing her parents at the age of 10 when their apartment building was bombed. She and Pietro participated in protests and riots against foreign powers occupying and destabilizing Sokovia before Strucker and List approached them. Where others may have collapsed into depression and apathy, Wanda and Pietro supported each other and became the other's rock. Neither sibling is the ringleader - Pietro had to convince Wanda to participate in Strucker's experiments and Wanda had to convince Pietro to let Tony go early in Age of Ultron.
Wanda demonstrates her resilience again after losing Pietro by officially joining the Avengers. She was greatly moved by SHIELD's efforts to rescue her people, and I'm sure there is no small amount of wanting to atone for helping Ultron and accidentally putting Pietro in a fatal situation. Now, Wanda feels a need to prove that she can be better. See: volunteering to protect the key and insisting multiple times that Pietro rescue everyone else first before he came back for her. Even in Civil War, she doesn't beg Steve to stay and help the rest of Team Cap even though she likely knows better than anyone else what Ross has planned for them. It was more important that he be able to stop what they saw as a global threat.
Basically, her home is gone. Her family is gone. Joining the Avengers gave her a way to find purpose and a place she might be able to belong someday. Wanda will still be looking for that sense of belonging and those who show her genuine kindness will find her receptive to their efforts to befriend her. She's lost so much that she will cling to whatever true friends she finds and will enact horrible vengeance on anyone who harms them (like ripping out Ultron's "heart"). Wanda definitely can get blinders where the people she loves are concerned - while she's normally not the impulsive twin, she completely abandoned her post after Pietro's death to track Ultron down. Angry, she is at her most dangerous. While she struggles with doubt from time to time, anger and protectiveness will always override it. Wanda may be horrified after the fact at what she's done, but in the moment, she simply will not care as long as 'her' people are safe.
Although she can be extremely vengeful, she has clearly moved beyond her issues with the Avengers during the timeskip between the Battle of Sokovia and the final scene of Age of Ultron. Seeing what SHIELD really is, instead of the distorted version HYDRA presented, helped shift her perception. They went out of their way to minimize civilian casualties, and she won't forget that. She and Tony also seem to have come to enough of an understanding that they can be on the same team. It's not always easy, but they can work together. And of course, after Pietro sacrificed himself to save Clint, she has become extremely protective of him (and his family) as well.
Despite her destructive potential, Wanda is still learning how to hero and deal with failure. She had a breakdown midway through the fight for Sokovia and was paralyzed by guilt and fear of her own abilities in Civil War after the disaster in Lagos. She is quick to blame herself, regardless of whether or not it's entirely justified. What is the point of her power if she cannot protect anyone?
Usually, a pep talk from Clint or Steve will snap her out of it, and once Wanda's made up her mind, she acts decisively. But at this current canon point, Wanda is terrified of how destructive her powers can be...and of how many times someone else has used her as a living weapon. Being stuck on a weird space reality show is going to make her nervous because she can't hide anything anymore.
However, Wanda's not used to being around anyone like her, and she'd be incredibly excited to meet another psychic or a 'real' magic-user. She'd be even more excited to find someone willing to help her learn to better control her powers. Under their influence, she may become less frightened of her abilities and return to the overall confidence level we see in Age of Ultron.
Of course, her ratings not immediately tanking as she reveals more of her abilities will help.
On a final note, although she's nowhere near the level of her brother, Wanda does have a dry sense of humor that escapes in the occasional quip. She briefly snarks at Steve in South Africa and shows a teasing side in a rare unguarded moment with Pietro. It seems to be the twins' main coping mechanism - if they weren't able to inject a small amount of humor into the dark situations they often found themselves in, it would have been a lot harder to keep going.
Abilities:
- Energy projection: Wanda can summon and direct scarlet energy into blasts, shields, and waves of power. Her hex bolts can change direction to bounce between targets. Wanda seems to be able to tune its frequency so it can pass harmlessly through some objects (or people) while only affecting others.
- Telepathy: She can read minds, induce hallucinations, and generally pick up on the psychic atmosphere around her. Wanda is capable of mass mind control as well - her range seems to be a few blocks at the most, but I'm willing to reduce that if necessary. She is also said to have left several SHIELD agents in a fugue state as opposed to killing them.
- Telekinesis: Wanda can sense and manipulate objects (and people!) with her mind. Larger objects present greater difficulty.
- Flight: Wanda is able to fly in a manner similar to the Iron Man suits by projecting a constant stream of energy from her hands.
- Healing: [minor spoilers] In Infinity War, Wanda seems able to push her own power into someone to stimulate healing. Canon doesn't expand on this power, so I am going to limit it to injuries that the body could heal naturally unless later movies/tie-ins contradict this.
She will have a permissions post for this power, and typically if she uses mind control, it's on NPCs to prevent them from hurting someone.
Augment Skillset: Civilian; personnel support.
Sample: Here!