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PLAYER
Name: Callie
Age: 25
Personal Journal: N/A
E-mail: the-wicked-witch-of-the-west[at]hotmail[dot]com
AIM/MSN/etc: dontyousonicme (plurk)
CHARACTER
Name: Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch)
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Age: Not specified in canon. Early 20s, possibly 20 exactly. Wanda is 12 minutes younger than Pietro.
Timeline: Post Age of Ultron
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: At her best, Wanda is intelligent, perceptive, and protective. At her worst, she can be vengeful and blind to potential collateral damage.
Wanda has had a drive to take her personal tragedy and turn it into something better since a young age. She and Pietro participated in protests and riots against a corrupt government and foreign powers occupying Sokovia long before HYDRA approached them. Where others may have collapsed into depression and apathy, Wanda and Pietro supported and encouraged each other to try to make their lives better.
She does this again after losing Pietro in the battle for Sokovia by becoming a full-time Avenger. Wanda was greatly moved by SHIELD's efforts to rescue civilians, and I'm sure there is no small amount of wanting to atone for helping Ultron. It may not have mattered whose fault it was at the time, but after the fact it is highly likely 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.
Basically, her home is gone. Her family is gone. Joining the Avengers gives her a way to find purpose, a new family of choice, and a place where she isn't a freak and an outcast.
Given that protectiveness seems to come so easily to her, it seems to me that Wanda seriously underestimated how much damage the Hulk would cause and how difficult it would be for the other Avengers to contain him. She spent so much time protesting and fighting to protect Sokovian civilians that deliberately putting so many innocents in harm's way is completely out of character. Especially given her later breakdown over the damage caused to Sokovia, it seems more likely to me that Wanda expected the Hulk to need immediate Avenger attention but nothing on the level of Veronica plus being smashed through a building and punched out. Powerful though Wanda is, she is not omniscient and she can never know for sure what effects her visions will have on people.
Wanda has already lived through her greatest fear - losing her brother. If he comes to Ruby City and then disappears, she will be a bit of a wreck each time. He will become her berserk button, so to speak, and Wanda will do anything, including putting herself in harm's way, to keep him safe. This also extends to anyone she grows close to, especially Clint. Wanda's lost so much that she will tend to cling to her friends and will enact horrible vengeance on anyone who harms them (like ripping out Ultron's "heart"). Wanda definitely can get blinders where that's concerned - while she's normally not the impulsive one, she completely abandoned her post after Pietro's death to track Ultron down.
It's important to note that while Wanda did get scared and had a breakdown midway through the fight for Sokovia, she showed no more hesitation after a pep talk from Clint. Wanda has seen so much personal tragedy that she's no stranger to having to shelve feelings until simple survival is not an immediate concern. She's much more grounded than her brother in that respect, which is why it's so striking when she goes after Ultron. Wanda meant it when she told him she'd already died, and she gave into her rage and grief because she did not intend to survive Sokovia's fall (even though ability-wise, she was perfectly capable of saving herself if she wanted to).
Wanda's issues with Tony and Stark Industries are never resolved on-screen, so until and unless CA: Civil War touches on that, I am going with the following compromise: While Wanda is willing to work with Tony for the greater good and will try to stay civil to keep the peace, she would rather team up with literally anyone else. While she generally won't use her mind-reading abilities on the rest of the Avengers, she'll make an exception for Tony - Wanda does not particularly trust his judgement or his honesty. She may be able to get over this aversion given time and a visible effort on Tony's part, but you don't erase 10+ years of blaming someone for your parents' deaths overnight.
Finally, although she's nowhere near the level of her brother, Wanda does have a dry sense of humor that slips out in the occasional quip. She briefly snarks at Steve in South Africa and shows a teasing side in a rare unguarded moment with Pietro. Unfortunately, we don't see much of it because she's in a lot of very dire circumstances in the movie, but since Ruby City has a lot less genocide it will slip out more in her in-game interactions.
Background: Here's a wikia.
Abilities: Since this is MCU Wanda, I'm not touching her comic-verse powers. As far as we've seen, they're not the same.
All of Wanda's powers manifest as red mist and energy. Her hands and the object or energy field she is manipulating will also glow red. Occasionally, if Wanda concentrates particularly hard, her eyes will briefly flash dark red as well, and anyone under her hypnosis will have red eyes while Wanda creates the vision.
She gained her powers after exposure to the Scepter's energy, likely through a cut of some sort on her right hand since both she and Pietro have identical bandages in this scene. She gained telekinesis, energy manipulation, and the ability to read minds and memories at will among other things.
Her telekinesis is more than just levitating objects. She is also able to prevent someone from drawing a weapon by simply holding their hand in place as opposed to breaking out her hypnosis powers. Interestingly enough, Wanda's telekinesis is so strong that she can pull something through vibranium given time and all of her concentration - it's not something she could do in a standard fight unless she was well guarded. By the end of the movie, Wanda also learned to extend this subset of her powers to levitate herself and simulate flight.
Her most common weapon and defense is basic energy manipulation. Some fans are calling it hex energy, but it seems like this is a misnomer and MCU Wanda is simply manipulating latent energy in the environment. Basically, she reshapes energy that is already there to create bolts, blasts, spheres, and waves to fight enemies and walls to shield herself and others from harm. Like all her abilities, it's not particularly stealthy - the latent "stuff" takes on a reddish hue when Wanda starts gathering and shaping it.
Wanda does need free movement of her hands and arms to gather and direct energy fields, but prolonged use does not seem to drain her. She has full control over what is affected in the red spheres of influence, as seen when she released a wave of energy that passed through several objects but only actually harmed the Ultron Sentries.
While the "hex bolts" are powerful, they're actually not the scariest thing Wanda can do. She can read minds and memories at will, and if she can get close to someone, she can hypnotize them to see whatever vision she chooses to show them. They may have some actual prophetic ability (or at least Thor and Tony believed so and only time or deleted scenes will tell - apparently there is one addressing Thor's vision in more detail) although she is just as capable of dredging up traumatic things from one's past. Since this power works through neuro-electric interfacing, it stands to reason that she could manipulate dreams as well. However, like all of her 'mental' powers, it's completely useless on robots or creatures that don't have an actual brain (spirits, elemental beings, etc). However, she can affect androids, and if a spirit tends to communicate telepathically, Wanda might be able to read them at the other player's discretion.
Wanda is capable of other, more constructive, forms of mental manipulation as well. She was able to free Dr. Cho from the mind control effects of the Scepter with no apparent trouble. This would likely work with many panfandom afflictions with external causes such as the Imperius curse from Harry Potter. If the control involves having part of a person (their heart as in Once Upon a Time or blood magic), Wanda wouldn't be able to directly lift it.
It's often said that twins have a special connection, and it seems that Wanda's telepathic powers only amplified her bond with Pietro. She sensed his death from the other end of the city and likely was always aware of his general condition or presence. If Pietro appears in the game, she will know immediately. It's also extremely unlikely she could fall for a fake or illusion of her brother unless they were able to replicate the twin bond somehow.
Supernatural abilities aside, Wanda can be extremely stealthy when she wants to be - sneaking up on Natasha Romanoff is no small feat. She is also multilingual and speaks at least Sokovian and English fluently, though her English is heavily accented. (Technically they used Serbian for signs in the movie, but because Sokovia is between Austria and the Czech Republic, that doesn't really make any geographic sense.)
Network/Actionspam Sample: Test Drive
Prose Log Sample: She can't sleep.
That's not unusual these days. It's not that this bed is unfamiliar - necessity has long since taught Wanda to be able to fall asleep pretty much anywhere. Sometimes the nightmares, or the fear of them, keeps her awake, but that's not the issue tonight, either. Honestly, it's been such a long day assisting with the rebuilding efforts that she truly wants nothing more than to just close her eyes and rest.
Perhaps the night is simply too hot or the air too stagnant. At least, that's what she tells herself - it's easier to blame the weather than to think about how trapped being here makes her feel or how even now she keeps mentally reaching for someone who isn't there anymore.
If the stories she's read are any indication, there may never be any cure for that last bit.
But she is not completely powerless against stuffy rooms and humid nights, and looking for some way, however small, to keep moving forward has always served her well in the past. So Wanda throws on a jacket and her boots and slips out into the night.
She wanders the cobblestone streets until her feet take her up the rickety staircase to the top of the clock tower. It is peaceful here, and the light breeze is a welcome relief. Wanda sighs and slides down against the wall. Much better.
When she finally does fall asleep, it's in the middle of finding shapes in the strange new stars and making stories to go with them, much like she and Pietro had done as children. There is no one to tell them to up here and it is such a small, simple thing, but it brings her comfort nonetheless.
Tomorrow Wanda will wake with a nasty crick in her neck, but that is a small price to pay to soothe the nameless unease, to keep moving forward for one more day. Survival is really just a lot of tiny steps towards tomorrow, isn't it? And she owes all of yesterday's ghosts at least that much.
Name: Callie
Age: 25
Personal Journal: N/A
E-mail: the-wicked-witch-of-the-west[at]hotmail[dot]com
AIM/MSN/etc: dontyousonicme (plurk)
CHARACTER
Name: Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch)
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Age: Not specified in canon. Early 20s, possibly 20 exactly. Wanda is 12 minutes younger than Pietro.
Timeline: Post Age of Ultron
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: At her best, Wanda is intelligent, perceptive, and protective. At her worst, she can be vengeful and blind to potential collateral damage.
Wanda has had a drive to take her personal tragedy and turn it into something better since a young age. She and Pietro participated in protests and riots against a corrupt government and foreign powers occupying Sokovia long before HYDRA approached them. Where others may have collapsed into depression and apathy, Wanda and Pietro supported and encouraged each other to try to make their lives better.
She does this again after losing Pietro in the battle for Sokovia by becoming a full-time Avenger. Wanda was greatly moved by SHIELD's efforts to rescue civilians, and I'm sure there is no small amount of wanting to atone for helping Ultron. It may not have mattered whose fault it was at the time, but after the fact it is highly likely 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.
Basically, her home is gone. Her family is gone. Joining the Avengers gives her a way to find purpose, a new family of choice, and a place where she isn't a freak and an outcast.
Given that protectiveness seems to come so easily to her, it seems to me that Wanda seriously underestimated how much damage the Hulk would cause and how difficult it would be for the other Avengers to contain him. She spent so much time protesting and fighting to protect Sokovian civilians that deliberately putting so many innocents in harm's way is completely out of character. Especially given her later breakdown over the damage caused to Sokovia, it seems more likely to me that Wanda expected the Hulk to need immediate Avenger attention but nothing on the level of Veronica plus being smashed through a building and punched out. Powerful though Wanda is, she is not omniscient and she can never know for sure what effects her visions will have on people.
Wanda has already lived through her greatest fear - losing her brother. If he comes to Ruby City and then disappears, she will be a bit of a wreck each time. He will become her berserk button, so to speak, and Wanda will do anything, including putting herself in harm's way, to keep him safe. This also extends to anyone she grows close to, especially Clint. Wanda's lost so much that she will tend to cling to her friends and will enact horrible vengeance on anyone who harms them (like ripping out Ultron's "heart"). Wanda definitely can get blinders where that's concerned - while she's normally not the impulsive one, she completely abandoned her post after Pietro's death to track Ultron down.
It's important to note that while Wanda did get scared and had a breakdown midway through the fight for Sokovia, she showed no more hesitation after a pep talk from Clint. Wanda has seen so much personal tragedy that she's no stranger to having to shelve feelings until simple survival is not an immediate concern. She's much more grounded than her brother in that respect, which is why it's so striking when she goes after Ultron. Wanda meant it when she told him she'd already died, and she gave into her rage and grief because she did not intend to survive Sokovia's fall (even though ability-wise, she was perfectly capable of saving herself if she wanted to).
Wanda's issues with Tony and Stark Industries are never resolved on-screen, so until and unless CA: Civil War touches on that, I am going with the following compromise: While Wanda is willing to work with Tony for the greater good and will try to stay civil to keep the peace, she would rather team up with literally anyone else. While she generally won't use her mind-reading abilities on the rest of the Avengers, she'll make an exception for Tony - Wanda does not particularly trust his judgement or his honesty. She may be able to get over this aversion given time and a visible effort on Tony's part, but you don't erase 10+ years of blaming someone for your parents' deaths overnight.
Finally, although she's nowhere near the level of her brother, Wanda does have a dry sense of humor that slips out in the occasional quip. She briefly snarks at Steve in South Africa and shows a teasing side in a rare unguarded moment with Pietro. Unfortunately, we don't see much of it because she's in a lot of very dire circumstances in the movie, but since Ruby City has a lot less genocide it will slip out more in her in-game interactions.
Background: Here's a wikia.
Abilities: Since this is MCU Wanda, I'm not touching her comic-verse powers. As far as we've seen, they're not the same.
All of Wanda's powers manifest as red mist and energy. Her hands and the object or energy field she is manipulating will also glow red. Occasionally, if Wanda concentrates particularly hard, her eyes will briefly flash dark red as well, and anyone under her hypnosis will have red eyes while Wanda creates the vision.
She gained her powers after exposure to the Scepter's energy, likely through a cut of some sort on her right hand since both she and Pietro have identical bandages in this scene. She gained telekinesis, energy manipulation, and the ability to read minds and memories at will among other things.
Her telekinesis is more than just levitating objects. She is also able to prevent someone from drawing a weapon by simply holding their hand in place as opposed to breaking out her hypnosis powers. Interestingly enough, Wanda's telekinesis is so strong that she can pull something through vibranium given time and all of her concentration - it's not something she could do in a standard fight unless she was well guarded. By the end of the movie, Wanda also learned to extend this subset of her powers to levitate herself and simulate flight.
Her most common weapon and defense is basic energy manipulation. Some fans are calling it hex energy, but it seems like this is a misnomer and MCU Wanda is simply manipulating latent energy in the environment. Basically, she reshapes energy that is already there to create bolts, blasts, spheres, and waves to fight enemies and walls to shield herself and others from harm. Like all her abilities, it's not particularly stealthy - the latent "stuff" takes on a reddish hue when Wanda starts gathering and shaping it.
Wanda does need free movement of her hands and arms to gather and direct energy fields, but prolonged use does not seem to drain her. She has full control over what is affected in the red spheres of influence, as seen when she released a wave of energy that passed through several objects but only actually harmed the Ultron Sentries.
While the "hex bolts" are powerful, they're actually not the scariest thing Wanda can do. She can read minds and memories at will, and if she can get close to someone, she can hypnotize them to see whatever vision she chooses to show them. They may have some actual prophetic ability (or at least Thor and Tony believed so and only time or deleted scenes will tell - apparently there is one addressing Thor's vision in more detail) although she is just as capable of dredging up traumatic things from one's past. Since this power works through neuro-electric interfacing, it stands to reason that she could manipulate dreams as well. However, like all of her 'mental' powers, it's completely useless on robots or creatures that don't have an actual brain (spirits, elemental beings, etc). However, she can affect androids, and if a spirit tends to communicate telepathically, Wanda might be able to read them at the other player's discretion.
Wanda is capable of other, more constructive, forms of mental manipulation as well. She was able to free Dr. Cho from the mind control effects of the Scepter with no apparent trouble. This would likely work with many panfandom afflictions with external causes such as the Imperius curse from Harry Potter. If the control involves having part of a person (their heart as in Once Upon a Time or blood magic), Wanda wouldn't be able to directly lift it.
It's often said that twins have a special connection, and it seems that Wanda's telepathic powers only amplified her bond with Pietro. She sensed his death from the other end of the city and likely was always aware of his general condition or presence. If Pietro appears in the game, she will know immediately. It's also extremely unlikely she could fall for a fake or illusion of her brother unless they were able to replicate the twin bond somehow.
Supernatural abilities aside, Wanda can be extremely stealthy when she wants to be - sneaking up on Natasha Romanoff is no small feat. She is also multilingual and speaks at least Sokovian and English fluently, though her English is heavily accented. (Technically they used Serbian for signs in the movie, but because Sokovia is between Austria and the Czech Republic, that doesn't really make any geographic sense.)
Network/Actionspam Sample: Test Drive
Prose Log Sample: She can't sleep.
That's not unusual these days. It's not that this bed is unfamiliar - necessity has long since taught Wanda to be able to fall asleep pretty much anywhere. Sometimes the nightmares, or the fear of them, keeps her awake, but that's not the issue tonight, either. Honestly, it's been such a long day assisting with the rebuilding efforts that she truly wants nothing more than to just close her eyes and rest.
Perhaps the night is simply too hot or the air too stagnant. At least, that's what she tells herself - it's easier to blame the weather than to think about how trapped being here makes her feel or how even now she keeps mentally reaching for someone who isn't there anymore.
If the stories she's read are any indication, there may never be any cure for that last bit.
But she is not completely powerless against stuffy rooms and humid nights, and looking for some way, however small, to keep moving forward has always served her well in the past. So Wanda throws on a jacket and her boots and slips out into the night.
She wanders the cobblestone streets until her feet take her up the rickety staircase to the top of the clock tower. It is peaceful here, and the light breeze is a welcome relief. Wanda sighs and slides down against the wall. Much better.
When she finally does fall asleep, it's in the middle of finding shapes in the strange new stars and making stories to go with them, much like she and Pietro had done as children. There is no one to tell them to up here and it is such a small, simple thing, but it brings her comfort nonetheless.
Tomorrow Wanda will wake with a nasty crick in her neck, but that is a small price to pay to soothe the nameless unease, to keep moving forward for one more day. Survival is really just a lot of tiny steps towards tomorrow, isn't it? And she owes all of yesterday's ghosts at least that much.