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scarletchaos) wrote2023-08-18 08:18 pm
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Name: Wanda Maximoff Door: Door Pass - Submissive Canon: MCU Canon Point: At the very end of Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, after she destroys Wundagore and seemingly herself in the process. Age: 30 – after being blipped out of existence and returning to life five years later. Appearance: Here History: The Scarlet Witch CR AU (Optional): N/A Personality: Survivor: Above all else, Wanda is a survivor, someone who endures despite the world constantly trying to crush her, through her own stubbornness, defiance, and sheer force of will. With determination and love for those she cares about, she’s survived ordeals that would crush other people. From her impoverished childhood with her family – her parents and twin brother Pietro, to the bombings that destroyed their life together, Wanda has weathered her share of tragedy; it has not killed her yet. (With the exception, of course, from the end of Multiverse of Madness, but given that we see no body, only a flash of Wanda’s scarlet magic, her fate is debatable.) From joining Hydra and being experimented on, to working for Ultron to destroy the Avengers, she continues to endure, clinging to hate and distrust for the Avengers, people she feels are responsible for ruining her life and wrecking Sokovia, her homeland. And when she defects from Ultron in order to join the Avengers, she swallows her pride and her distrust, helping to ultimately stop Ultron from carrying out his plans of destroying the world. She survives by fighting for what’s right. She loses Pietro, and survives; her loss of Pietro grants her the strength to crush Ultron’s mechanical heart. She survives the distrust of Avengers such as Tony Stark, who believes that she needs to be restricted and monitored after she accidentally caused the deaths of twenty six civilians in Lagos, Nigeria. She chooses to stand with Steve Rogers against the Sokovian Accords, a law meant to limit the Avengers and put them under the supervision of the United Nations, and while she eventually ends up arrested for her choice, she does end up breaking out and building a new life for herself while a fugitive. She survives with the help of Avengers like Natasha Romanoff and Sam Wilson, who help Wanda and Vision as they build a life together on the run with eventual plans to settle down. She destroys Vision herself in order to prevent Thanos from obtaining the infinity stone in his head and then Thanos reverses time with the Time Stone and forces her to watch Vision die again. She’s shown Vision’s body as S.W.O.R.D. is breaking him down for parts, as Director Hayward tells her, and despite the fact that seeing Vision being treated like computer parts is agony, Wanda defies Director Hayward’s attempts to placate her, using her powers to break through the glass and bring herself down to Vision’s body. She says goodbye to Vision on her own terms before leaving the facilities, surviving even though grief wracks her. Ruthless: Wanda is ruthless, especially when she believes she’s been wronged. As Wanda grieves for her losses, her grief fuels her ruthlessness. As much as her ruthlessness has helped her to survive, said ruthlessness, especially, has wounded, caused grief for, and killed people who get in her way. Her anger at what happened to her family and the people of Sokovia when her apartment was bombed leads her to joining Hydra, a ruthless, fascist organization and signing up to be experimented on, along with her brother, Pietro. Determined to destroy the Avengers in revenge for the wrongs she believes they’ve dealt her, Wanda works ruthlessly with Ultron as he takes revenge on Tony Stark and works to destroy the world. She uses her mental manipulation abilities to toy with each Avenger, from forcing Tony Stark to see himself as the lone survivor among all the other dead Avengers to forcing Natasha Romanoff to relieve her trauma in the red room. She especially deliberately does this with Bruce Banner, her mental manipulation forcing him to transform into the Hulk. As a result of her influence, Hulk goes on a rampage in Johannesburg, wrecking buildings, vehicles, and terrifying civilians. For forcing her to watch Vision die after she had to kill him the first time leads her to nearly brutally decimating Thanos, forcing him to increase the intensity of his attack. When she defeats Agatha Harkness after dueling for control of her magic, Wanda condemns her to remain trapped in the personality of the ‘nosy neighbor’ she disguised herself as to observe Wanda inside the Hex, removing her memories and making Agatha believe she’s always been Agnes. This might seem almost merciful but Wanda also promises Agnes that they’ll meet again in the future, implying that she isn’t finished with her yet. Her life hasn’t been fair, and Wanda points this out to Dr. Stephen Strange when she tells him, “You break the rules, you become the hero. I do it, and I become the enemy. It doesn’t seem fair.” Of course, she later follows that up by promising that “it won’t be Wanda who comes for her; it will be the Scarlet Witch” when Dr. Strange refuses to give up America Chavez. She insists that she is being “reasonable” when she attacks Kamar-Taj, killing and injuring many of the sorcerers studying and training in the process. She tortures and threatens Wong, the Sorcerer Supreme, and eventually gets him to bring her to Mount Wundagore in order to carry out her plans of dreamwalking, aka, possessing the body of an alternative version of herself in a universe where she has her children. While dreamwalking, Wanda confronts the Illuminati of Earth-838, brutally taking them down one by one, murdering them in ways that seem specific and cruel – ripping apart Charles Xavier’s head, turning Mr. Fantastic into human spaghetti, slicing Captain Carter in half with her own shield, silencing Black Bolt by taking away his mouth (“what mouth?”), and by draining Captain Marvel (Maria Rambeau) of her power and then crushing her beneath a statue. As she tells Mr. Fantastic: “Is there mother still alive? Good. There will be someone left to raise them.” Selfish: Of course, to survive as Wanda has, she puts herself first; she has to. After life has taken so much from her – her parents, Pietro, Vision, her family – she looks out for herself in order to be able to survive. Of course, her selfishness hurts other people even as much as it helps Wanda to survive. When she turned the town of Westview into a whimsical spectacle out of the myriad of sitcoms she once found comfort in, she alters the minds of the people already living there without their consent and ends up hurting them in the process, as she witnesses when she eventually releases Westview from her magic. Wanda originally refuses to relent her magical hold on Westview, not wanting to give up the family that she has with Vision, as seen when she ejects Geraldine, who is in fact, Monica Rambeau, from Westview when she starts prodding into Wanda’s past and life. With the empathy shown to her by Monica Rambeau, Wanda chooses to isolate herself in the countryside in order to study the Darkhold, a book of dark magic. In doing so, Wanda, desperate to get her family back, particularly, her two sons, Billy and Tommy, becomes corrupted by the Darkhold and wreaks havoc in her quest to find a reality in which her sons are alive. She hunts America Chavez, an innocent teenager, for her abilities to travel across the, uncaring as to those who get hurt or killed in her pursuit of America, such as the students of Kamar Taj and America herself, as well as hurting her children of Earth-838 by possessing their mother, her own self of Earth-838. Grieving: Wanda has lost a lot in her life, from her parents in the bombing of her apartment, to Pietro in trying to stop Ultron and save Sokovia, and to Vision, and trying to build a life and family with him. She is constantly in mourning for what she’s lost, carrying her grief around her like a weighted blanket. The intensity of her grief for Vision is what fuels her as she creates the Hex, the magic barrier separating Westview from the rest of the world as Wanda transforms Westview into what she feels is the perfect reality for herself. She clings to the illusion of the Westview she’s created for so long because of her grief for Vision and the grief at losing the life she’s built with him and their sons in her version of Westview. Her grief from losing Vision again and her sons is what leads Wanda to studying the Darkhold and begin hunting for a universe in which she still has her sons. Powers and Abilities: (All of Wanda’s magic and abilities manifest as a dark red color; her eyes glow red when she reads someone’s mind/manipulates their fears and the energy blasts she uses are also red.) - Mental Manipulation: Wanda can mentally manipulate people by parsing through their minds and drawing on their biggest fears, forcing them to experience those fears via visions, dreams/nightmares, and/or hallucinations. - Psionic Energy Manipulation: Wanda can project blasts of energy towards her enemies in a variety of shapes, forms, and varying degrees of power. Her strength with this energy is such that she was nearly able to tear Thanos apart. She can also use this energy to heal, as she does when she patches up Vision while trying to escape the Children of Thanos with him in Scotland. Her ability with this energy can be affected by her emotion; her strength in nearly tearing Thanos apart comes from her anger at Thanos killing Vision. - Telekinesis: Wanda can use her psionic energy abilities to move, float, and manipulate objects around her, such as when she levitates dishes, food, and recipes while living out the 50s’ sitcom ideal in Westview or stopping a runaway train in Seoul, South Korea. She can also lift objects and people, as well as move them out of the way at will. - Force Field: Wanda can use her energy to create a barrier that she can bend, mold, and adjust as a means of protection for herself, allies, and people she’s trying to protect. She can also manipulate this barrier to fit around her like additional armor, shielding her from strong hits from enhanced/superpowered beings as well as soften her landing when falling from significant heights. - Flight: Wanda has the ability to fly, lifting herself into and moving through the air. She’s also able to fight and use her abilities while airborne. - Telepathy: Wanda can communicate via telepathy as well as read minds and fears of other people. - Witch/Magic: Wanda was born with magic all along, her abilities lying dormant until she made use of them in order to protect herself and Pietro from an unexploded bomb in the wreckage of their apartment. Wanda herself was unaware of this magic, that she was even using magic, until Agatha Harkness, another witch, revealed it to her. While Wanda has only recently started studying magic and is still mostly untrained, Agatha confirmed that Wanda is stronger than even Dr. Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme. - Chaos Magic: Wanda is capable of using chaos magic, magic that is extremely powerful and allows her to: adjust, manipulate, and shape reality, influence and control the minds of other people, summon objects, create objects out of thin air, transform objects, manipulate time and how time passes, creating an barrier large enough to surround/trap an entire town known as the Hex that radiates energy similar to that found in the Big Bang (a force strong enough to give other people powers even), teleporting people and objects, ability to affect the weather (when she made it rain inside her own home when her water broke), ability to affect electricity, the use of runes as a way of defending herself and/or controlling a fight after learning from Agatha Harkness that only a witch who casts runes in a given area can practice/use her magic in that area, absorbing other magic and adding what she absorbs to her own power, and astral projection to the point where she can physically make her own tea while studying from the Darkhold in her astral form. - Dreamwalking: Using magic found in the Darkhold, Wanda can possess other versions of herself across the multiverse. Of course, this is powerful and dangerous magic, capable of causing incursions, aka, the complete destruction of individual universes. - Physical Augmentation: Studying from the Darkhold allowed Wanda to increase her powers and the strength of her powers, allowing her to withstand attacks she wouldn’t be able to otherwise. - Power Absorption: Studying from the Darkhold gave Wanda the ability to steal other people’s powers, which she planned on doing to America Chavez to allow her to travel across the multiverse at her leisure. - Fighter: Wanda’s years with the Avengers have allowed her to train and hone her combat abilities; she’s experienced and skilled in using her abilities in hand-to-hand combat and massive battles. Using actual, physical weapons is a skill she needs to practice more. - Espionage: Wanda has learned to disguise herself and lay low while on the run, trained by the Avengers (Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff particularly). Her skills in this can be seen currently through her hair, which is dyed red, and the way she speaks with an American accent. However, when she’s especially on edge, angry, afraid, or emotional, Wanda’s Sokovian accent slips through the cracks. - Bilingual: Speaks both English and Sokovian. NERFS: Of course, Wanda’s abilities will have to be nerfed, as girl is super, SUPER OP, even by her own canon’s standards. If what I’ve suggested here isn’t enough, I’m more than happy to apply any additional limitations the mods may suggest so as to keep Wanda from being too powerful or godmodding. I also have an opt out/permissions page set up for players if they would prefer to avoid interacting with Wanda or her magic altogether. By default, I will not have Wanda use her magic or her abilities against other players/characters without explicit player permission and OOC communication. She will not read fears/minds or pick up on characters’ emotions telepathically unless I have been given permission by the other character’s player. Wanda using any of her abilities will require energy; the stronger the ability/spell, the more energy she’ll need to expend in order to use it. In order for her attacks to be successful, she’ll have to follow the line of sight rule (enemies within her line of sight). If Wanda is disrupted or distracted while trying to use her powers, her attempted use will falter or fail outright. Wanda’s ability to alter reality will be utterly nerfed; she will not be able to alter, shape, mold, or manipulate reality in any shape or form; she cannot recreate the Hex or Westview while in Duplicity. Any kind of mental manipulation, mind reading, or telepathic communication she will have to be within touching range for, and she will have to actively choose to do so; she will be unable to pick up other people’s thoughts or fears just from passing by them. This effort, of course, will require energy. Any forcefield barriers Wanda erects will only cover a certain amount of area directly around her, approximately 5 feet. These barriers will decay as they take damage, eventually chipping away completely. They will also fade or disappear as Wanda runs out of energy. Once the barrier does fade, Wanda will need to wait and recharge before attempting another forcefield. Wanda will only be able to patch up minor scrapes, wounds, and bruises using her healing abilities; the more she uses her healing, the greater toll it takes on her personally, in terms of draining her energy. The more people she tries to heal in a row, the faster her energy drains. Wanda will only be able to fly within the city limits and she won’t be able to use her ability to fly to escape the city. She can’t fly and attack at the same time without greatly increasing the likelihood that her attempted attack will miss or fail or that she’ll fall from out of the sky. Wanda will only be able to apply her telekinetic abilities to objects no larger or weighing more than an average sized sedan, and any damage she might inflict around her will be plotted out and discussed with mods and other players beforehand. Wanda uses runes to block out opposition magic by ensuring only one magic user can cast their spells at a time. Her use of runes in this manner will only work if other players agree to have their characters affected by the runes. By default, Wanda’s runes will work only for her and affect no one else without explicit OOC communication. Her Darkhold abilities, such as dreamwalking, physical augmentation, and power absorption, will be nerfed entirely, as she won’t have the Darkhold in Duplicity. Inventory: Samples: One and Two. |
Revisions - a different trait replacing grieving
Hypocritical: Wanda has lost so much, from her parents in the bombing of her apartment, to Pietro in trying to stop Ultron and save Sokovia, and to Vision, and trying to build a life and family with him. She has suffered emotionally, physically, and mentally throughout her life. And yet, for as much as she has suffered, she has also caused immense amounts of suffering - emotional, physical, and mental – for many people. All of Wanda’s heroic achievements are undermined by her hypocrisy and the consequences of that hypocrisy.
She protests against violence and yet she uses violence as a disposable tool through her powers and magic. Angry at the Avengers, she volunteers to join Hydra, a fascist organization, and later works with Ultron to try and bring them down. Wanda working with Ultron ultimately leads to Ultron threatening her home country of Sokovia, the country she fights for, and getting many people injured or killed in the process as they try to escape, including Pietro.
After fighting Thanos for trying to recreate the world according to his standards (those being half of the universe going extinct for the sake of bettering the world for those remaining), Wanda ends up in a similar position of playing God when she creates her own version of Westview based on the sitcoms she grew up watching as a child. When she turns Westview into the ideal life for herself, she believes that, in trapping the townspeople of Westview in her ideal life with her, she is improving their lives and providing them with a sense of peace, when, in reality, her messing with their minds and identities leaves the townspeople shattered and devastated when Wanda finally takes down the Hex and returns Westview and its inhabitants to their original states. After getting arrested for accidentally causing the deaths of civilians in Lagos and despising that imprisonment, Wanda doesn’t see the hypocrisy as she imprisons an entire town within the cage of her own creation.
She knows the pain of surviving a mass attack from the bombings that killed her parents and she still orchestrates a mass attack on Kamar-Taj, destroying buildings, structures, and killing and injuring sorcerers and students in pursuit of her own goal, uncaring of the collateral damage. She knows how it feels to lose those she loves and she threatens Sorcerer Supreme Wong with the death of sorcerers and students in order to access the Darkhold’s spells after the Darkhold is destroyed.
For all that she says her life is ruined and that she has nothing left, Wanda has no qualms about pursuing America Chavez, a teenager, and ruining her life by stealing her powers for her own gain. Despite the fact that she says she just wants America’s abilities to travel across the multiverse for any time her children need her, Wanda only cares about her own children and not the fact that she is hunting down and endangering a child through her actions. She calls sending monsters after America “mercy” and tells Stephen Strange “and in spite of your hypocrisies and insults I have begged you to safely get out of my way. You have exhausted my patience.” Her ‘exhausted patience’ is anything but, given that she is relentless in her pursuit of America.