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Maximoff, Wanda; Scarlet Witch
Topic Started: Aug 5 2007, 08:19 AM (2,969 Views)
Wanda
Reality Warping
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CHARACTER

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Affiliation: Brotherhood

Name: Wanda Maximoff

Codename: Scarlet Witch

Nicknames:

Place of birth: Wundegore Mountains

Age: 23 (born 1985)

Marital Status: Single

Known Relatives: Magneto (father), Magda (mother, deceased), Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver, brother), Anya Lehnsherr (Sister, deceased)

Base of Operations: At Magneto’s side.

Sexual Orientation: Too mentally confused to be firm about anything

Physical Appearance: As Pietro had once commented, ‘you could always tell if Wanda is coming nearer, just listen for the jingling.’ From her big looping earrings and red headscarf with dangling charms, down to her delicate ankles encircled by gold, silver, and copper anklets, every bit of Wanda that could sport a piece of jewelry, usually does so; sometimes she claims the pieces have magical powers, but they actually don’t.

Clothing style: Wanda has always thought the color Red suited her and most of her outfits seem to have that color in them. She may have mastered occult power but she’s also somewhat vain and likely to choose clothing based on appearance rather than practicality. Much of the time, she wears a tight bodice and full skirt, the image of a gypsy witch.

Powers:

Alter Reality – It is the ability to reshape matter and energy, turn a person's thoughts or desires into reality, bend time and space or possibly even rewrite the laws of physics.

Wanda can warp reality so that unpredictable things occur, such as: projectiles altering direction in the air, cause spontaneous combustion, land turning to water, time speeding or slowing, or reversing. It’s generally easier for her to control invisible forces and the laws of physics, than to manipulate molecular bonds, such as changing flesh to stone or transforming someone into a frog.

Currently, she can affect roughly the area of a city block and only in line of sight. This power, however, is filtered through a cracked mind and occasionally, misfires or acts against Wanda’s intention. It is possible that these “accidents” are really Wanda’s subconscious sabotaging her endeavors. The changes Wanda makes to people and the world last only while she concentrates and the range is limited to her line of sight.

Witchcraft – In XMR, magic doesn’t exist and can’t be used. No spirits, magical creatures, demons, fairies or spells of any kind exist.

However, in the gypsy tradition Wanda was raised in, these things are believed to be real and feared. Wanda is insane and finds it easier to believe in all these things than in scientific explanations, such as radio waves and solar radiation. She explains the effects of her powers as supernatural even though they aren’t. For example, a coffee cup resting on a table is suddenly hurtling across a room and slams into a wall. In reality, her powers twisted gravitational field around the cup and gravity sent it across the wall. She would believe that a mischievous fairy or evil spirit broke the cup.

Weakness: Wanda’s fragile psyche and her somewhat unpredictable powers, make being near her the same as juggling dynamite … with the fuses lit.

Personality: Wanda is a prisoner of her mind and perceptions. Her ability to alter reality makes her detached from it, which warps her understanding of what is going on around her. Somewhere in her mind, she knows this and so, depends on her brother and father to guide her footsteps. She has absolute trust in them… she has to, or else she would be lost and alone.

Anyone who spends enough time around Wanda might dismiss her as a certifiable nutcase but she has an uncanny ability to think in unconventional ways. She does more than ‘think outside the box’… she’s so far outside it, she doesn’t see the box anymore.

What Wanda wants most, apart from quieting the memories of her mother’s tragic death, is a happy family.

History: Wanda and Pietro Maximoff were raised with gypsies, spending most of their time moving through the Eastern European countryside. They’d heard the story all their young lives – Magda Maximoff (their mother) had joined this troop of gypsies when Wanda and Pietro were toddlers and explained that their father was dead. As a young girl, Wanda was always in her brother’s shadow and though it loomed over her, she found it comforting that he was always there. Some of her earliest memories are of crawling into Pietro’s bed when the fearsome thundering and lightning shook the walls of their travel home. He was always so brave.

As she grew up, she discovered an affinity for the old superstitions, folk ways, and magic of the gypsies. The witch of their clan, Grandmother Ingrid, was a fearsome old woman, with the gentleness and personality of an iron bar. But she detected something in Wanda, and soon, she was learning the ways of magic… she was steeped in the supernatural, everything from the blood and bone of the human condition back to the beginning. She was learning that everything she had feared from under the bed was real, but she was also learning that she could control it.

At sixteen, Wanda’s chaos magic mutant powers manifested uncontrollably. Local villagers descended upon Wanda and her mother. Pietro was away, off to another village. That was the day everything changed. Wanda and her mother had been chased down by the villagers and some of the gypsies they lived with all their lives, and pelted with rocks. Wanda screamed and her mother tried to shield her with her body. She felt her mother’s body shake with every stone that found its mark… felt her mother dying by inches to protect her. Suddenly, Pietro was there and the rest was a blur.


SAMPLE RP POST: Wanda opened her eyes and looked into the darkness. It was unfathomable that even her beloved brother couldn’t see what her eyes did. Maybe it had to do with her mind. Either way, when she looked at it… it looked back at her. She rolled out of bed and wrapped her robe around her, pulling the ties tight around her waist. Even in her father’s house, and with all the wards and protections she had put in place, she felt as though she were a fish aware of every ripple in the water around her, she felt the currents of reality ebb and flow.

She wasn’t surprised to see Pietro was up and still active, he didn’t sleep much and tirelessly watched over her… over all of them. She smiled at him, though his back was so toward her and he couldn’t see it. He sat in front of a bank of monitors and computer screens, flipping between the dozens or hundreds of cameras. She walked up behind him and casually put her hand to the back of his neck, playing with his white hair at the back of his head with her fingers. She leaned forward and kissed the top of his head.

“See anything interesting?”
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