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peaceinchaos) wrote2012-08-27 12:37 am
peaceinchaos) wrote2012-08-27 12:37 am
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Player NAME: Caitlin
Current AGE: 23
Personal JOURNAL: n/a
IM & SERVICE: caitlinyes on Aim
Player PLURK: thatoneblonde
Current CHARACTERS: n/a
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Wanda Maximoff
Canon & MEDIUM: Marvel 616; Marvel Comics
Canon PULL-POINT: During the really vague time lapse in the last issue of Children’s Crusade, but firmly before Avengers vs. X-Men
Character AGE: Early 30’s. Probably.
Character ABILITIES:
Magical/Mutant abilities:
Wanda is a mutant who was born with the ability to manipulate probability and also a conduit for magic, primarily what’s referred to as chaos magic, an incredibly dangerous dark magic. It’s been revealed that the combination of the two allow Wanda to warp reality; though not on the large scale as seen during House of M, when at the request of her brother, Wanda reshaped the entirety of reality.* However, with a great deal of concentration and strain, Wanda has been able to bring people back from the dead.
Primarily Wanda’s powers manifest in the form of “hex bolts”, a glowing red energy that can act as defensive and offensive attacks. Her magic works best short range and all her spells require concentration, using gestures as a focus for it. The more complex a “spell” the more concentration she needs to complete it and the more tired she is afterwards, so she tends to avoid these.
It should also be noted that Wanda has been possessed by an entity of the Life Force for the last 17 or so years, which allowed her the ability to easily reshape reality at a massive level. Since the entity has been removed, she no longer has the ability to manipulate reality on such a large scale. It’s also questionable if she can go so far as resurrect the dead again, regardless of concentration and energy.
She does still maintains her ability to channel magic and manipulate probability, arguably more efficiently than ever as she’s spent the last 10+ years harnessing a god like power that would eventually drive her to a massive nervous breakdown, but the full extent of her current power is as of yet unknown.
Physical abilities:
Wanda is a fit woman, with the average strength of a normal human. She’s got some fighting knowledge, having trained under both Hawkeye and Captain America, and plenty of combat experience, having been an active Avenger for years. She’s gained knowledge of magic and the occult during her training under the witch, Agatha Harkness, and through her adventures with the Avengers.
With regards to weaknesses, Wanda is physically very human and has all of the weaknesses that go along with being human, but possessing a superb defense against magical attacks.
Character HISTORY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Maximoff#Fictional_character_biography
Character PERSONALITY:
Wanda is a quiet girl who’s grown into an outspoken woman. In many ways, she’s what people see as traditionally female. She can be demure and soft, with a clear love for things that are feminine and frilly. Early in her life, she was a very quiet child, content to let her older brother be the one to protect her, but after becoming an Avenger, she was able to really grow and mature. Influenced by the other women she encountered on the team, Wanda became much more outspoken and assertive, even to the point of willful stubbornness. Forming deep friendships with more extroverted women like of Jen Walters, Janet Van Dyne and Carol Danvers brought Wanda out of her shell. She discovered her own sense of style and her own, occasionally (and appropriately) wicked sense of humor.
For a while, she was a stable and happy person, with a husband she loved very much. Their life wasn’t free from stress, of course. Her husband, Vision, would run into trouble thanks to being an android originally built by the Avenger’s enemy Ultron. Wanda herself faced objections from both her brother, Pietro and her teammate, Clint Barton, who was in love with her. Wanda was resolute, however, and for a while time, the two were able to be well and truly happy. Or as happy as two newlyweds who were also Avengers could be. That changed after the loss of her children. While her memory was initially blocked to prevent her from hurting, Wanda slowly regained the memory of her children. It was something that hurt her for a long time, but even after she became possessed by the entity of life, it was a loss that made her stronger.
What not many people realize about Wanda is exactly how strong she is. It’s not such an obvious outward strength, but largely mental. She was able to not only withstand the strain of the entity’s possession, but successfully manipulate it. This was something she did for 17 years before the strain finally caused her mental collapse. Through all this time, she’d faced a great deal of loss and challenges, but she stood strong through all of that. Even now, with her memories restored and facing a world that’s largely hostile towards her, Wanda is still determined and stubborn.
Despite her inner strength, she still carries an enormous amount of guilt over her actions (regardless of whether she was entirely to blame or not) and her inability to fix any of it. During her sane moments, she had never blamed the Avengers for what they had done. She could rationalize that it was necessary to protect both the world and, in the long run, her. It hurts her to think that she lashed out at people who had been nothing but the best kind of family. More than that, that in a moment of heartbreak and exhaustion, she destroyed the lives of so many people by willing away 90% of Earth’s mutant population. Still, she doesn’t hide from it. She owns her mistakes and resolves to do the right thing. She doesn’t have any expectation of forgiveness and it’s a constant surprise to her when people she knew are genuinely pleased to see her. At this point in her life, it’s easier for her to face anger than it is to face kindness.
Wanda herself is a very loving, maternal person. She adores children and, during a more stable time, considered her friends to be her family. Because of the dangerous, confusing nature of their lives, Wanda hasn’t always been able to be there for the people she loves. Most notably Carol, who was impregnated and then kidnapped by her magical suddenly-grown child, who had hypnotized her into agreeing to go with him. It took a long time before she and Wanda were able to fully reconcile the fact that the Avengers, Wanda especially, never tried to get Carol back. After that, Wanda always made sure to make her friends her top priority, sometimes letting her own needs fall to the wayside. She’s never had an easy time of confiding in others, as badly as she tries to be there for everyone else as a confidant.
While her issues with her own family are deep seated, she can’t help loving her father and her brother; though it is thanks to them that Wanda has a firm belief that a person is not defined by their family. She has more than once rejected her father, though she’s never been able to turn away her brother, even when she probably should have. He was her whole world for so long, even when she knew she had to tell him no or disagree with him, it was a little hard. Her relationship with her half sister, Lorna, is probably the healthiest family bond she has. She believes in helping people and standing beside those who have no one else.
She has a lot of attachment to her heritage, both as a witch and as one who was raised Romani, but at times feels uneasy in her identity as a mutant. Overall, her current sense of self is unstable. Suddenly finding her memories returned to her after several years of living another life and then having a thing that was a part of her for almost two decades suddenly removed has left her feeling uncertain about her place in the world. Feeling she has no right to call on any of her former friends after all the destruction she’s caused has removed an important safety net that she had come to rely on for many years.
There’s also the added element of Billy and Tommy, her two children now almost fully grown and superheroes in their own right. She’s fiercely proud of them and loves them enormously, but recognizes they have lives outside of her, especially Billy, who has loving parents and a committed boyfriend. It’s difficult to accept and a large part of her mourns the years she’ll never have with them. But after so many years of her own family and the frequently negative impacts they’ve had on her, she’s hesitant and uncertain of how to approach them. The most she feels she can do is let them know that they can contact her at any time and she’ll be there in a heartbeat.
In a lot of ways, she’s reverted to the quiet, demure girl she was before the Avengers, but this time she’s actively searching for who she is as a person, not content to sit back and be defined by her team, her husband or her family.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Her magic. She’s used to dealing with a sentient power inhabiting her body and it wouldn’t be such a bad thing if the sentient power inhabiting her body was out to help her and not drive her absolutely out of her mind.
Chosen SKILLSET: Wanda will definitely want to be involved in missions, if only to help protect her fellow transports. She’s not much in the way of a first charge fighter, she’s very good at acting as defense and backup.
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
[ Video of Wanda, projecting a somewhat forced calm. ]
Hello. This is... [ She pauses and huffs a laugh, her calm a little less forced. ] This isn’t how I expected my day to go in the slightest. I have been to alternate dimensions before, goodness knows, but this time around is a bit odd. It’s very organized.
I am. [ The smile disappears into a slight frown. ] My name is Wanda Maximoff and I am known as the Scarlet Witch. For a time, I was an Avenger. If there is anyone here from my world, my name may mean any number of things to you. I hope we may speak civilly regardless.
[ Though she’s not getting her hopes up, if the look on her face is any indication. ]
Third PERSON:
Wanda was a bit at a loss of what to do when she was sent out with the communicator and little else. For all of its organization, the whole incident was very abrupt. Hello, welcome to our world, please help us fight our war. Wanda suppressed a sigh and began walking in the general direction of where she had been informed she would find her housing assignment. It made her uneasy. This place felt like a strange alternate Genosha, for all that she had never really stayed there. And wouldn’t that be just fitting? She wondered if there were mutants here, wondered if there was anyone who knew who she was.
Well, she thought, grimly, if that was the case, she might not need to worry too long about the motives of this Initiative. Even if the X-men had parted ways with the Avengers fairly peaceably, Wanda had no illusions of how they felt about her. To make matters worse, she no longer had the living magic inside of her. The ability to fix the destruction she had created was gone. The thought didn’t stagger her quite the way it had in the past. She’s had time. She’s had months of being herself, of living with herself. So she does not allow herself to sway at the memories of her sins. Her stride does not falter. But if she does tug her cape a little closer around her shoulders, pretending that it will ward off the feelings of loneliness. Well. There’s no one to see. And even if there is, there’s no one who will know. She isn’t sure how she should feel about that.
Player NAME: Caitlin
Current AGE: 23
Personal JOURNAL: n/a
IM & SERVICE: caitlinyes on Aim
Player PLURK: thatoneblonde
Current CHARACTERS: n/a
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Wanda Maximoff
Canon & MEDIUM: Marvel 616; Marvel Comics
Canon PULL-POINT: During the really vague time lapse in the last issue of Children’s Crusade, but firmly before Avengers vs. X-Men
Character AGE: Early 30’s. Probably.
Character ABILITIES:
Magical/Mutant abilities:
Wanda is a mutant who was born with the ability to manipulate probability and also a conduit for magic, primarily what’s referred to as chaos magic, an incredibly dangerous dark magic. It’s been revealed that the combination of the two allow Wanda to warp reality; though not on the large scale as seen during House of M, when at the request of her brother, Wanda reshaped the entirety of reality.* However, with a great deal of concentration and strain, Wanda has been able to bring people back from the dead.
Primarily Wanda’s powers manifest in the form of “hex bolts”, a glowing red energy that can act as defensive and offensive attacks. Her magic works best short range and all her spells require concentration, using gestures as a focus for it. The more complex a “spell” the more concentration she needs to complete it and the more tired she is afterwards, so she tends to avoid these.
It should also be noted that Wanda has been possessed by an entity of the Life Force for the last 17 or so years, which allowed her the ability to easily reshape reality at a massive level. Since the entity has been removed, she no longer has the ability to manipulate reality on such a large scale. It’s also questionable if she can go so far as resurrect the dead again, regardless of concentration and energy.
She does still maintains her ability to channel magic and manipulate probability, arguably more efficiently than ever as she’s spent the last 10+ years harnessing a god like power that would eventually drive her to a massive nervous breakdown, but the full extent of her current power is as of yet unknown.
Physical abilities:
Wanda is a fit woman, with the average strength of a normal human. She’s got some fighting knowledge, having trained under both Hawkeye and Captain America, and plenty of combat experience, having been an active Avenger for years. She’s gained knowledge of magic and the occult during her training under the witch, Agatha Harkness, and through her adventures with the Avengers.
With regards to weaknesses, Wanda is physically very human and has all of the weaknesses that go along with being human, but possessing a superb defense against magical attacks.
Character HISTORY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Maximoff#Fictional_character_biography
Character PERSONALITY:
Wanda is a quiet girl who’s grown into an outspoken woman. In many ways, she’s what people see as traditionally female. She can be demure and soft, with a clear love for things that are feminine and frilly. Early in her life, she was a very quiet child, content to let her older brother be the one to protect her, but after becoming an Avenger, she was able to really grow and mature. Influenced by the other women she encountered on the team, Wanda became much more outspoken and assertive, even to the point of willful stubbornness. Forming deep friendships with more extroverted women like of Jen Walters, Janet Van Dyne and Carol Danvers brought Wanda out of her shell. She discovered her own sense of style and her own, occasionally (and appropriately) wicked sense of humor.
For a while, she was a stable and happy person, with a husband she loved very much. Their life wasn’t free from stress, of course. Her husband, Vision, would run into trouble thanks to being an android originally built by the Avenger’s enemy Ultron. Wanda herself faced objections from both her brother, Pietro and her teammate, Clint Barton, who was in love with her. Wanda was resolute, however, and for a while time, the two were able to be well and truly happy. Or as happy as two newlyweds who were also Avengers could be. That changed after the loss of her children. While her memory was initially blocked to prevent her from hurting, Wanda slowly regained the memory of her children. It was something that hurt her for a long time, but even after she became possessed by the entity of life, it was a loss that made her stronger.
What not many people realize about Wanda is exactly how strong she is. It’s not such an obvious outward strength, but largely mental. She was able to not only withstand the strain of the entity’s possession, but successfully manipulate it. This was something she did for 17 years before the strain finally caused her mental collapse. Through all this time, she’d faced a great deal of loss and challenges, but she stood strong through all of that. Even now, with her memories restored and facing a world that’s largely hostile towards her, Wanda is still determined and stubborn.
Despite her inner strength, she still carries an enormous amount of guilt over her actions (regardless of whether she was entirely to blame or not) and her inability to fix any of it. During her sane moments, she had never blamed the Avengers for what they had done. She could rationalize that it was necessary to protect both the world and, in the long run, her. It hurts her to think that she lashed out at people who had been nothing but the best kind of family. More than that, that in a moment of heartbreak and exhaustion, she destroyed the lives of so many people by willing away 90% of Earth’s mutant population. Still, she doesn’t hide from it. She owns her mistakes and resolves to do the right thing. She doesn’t have any expectation of forgiveness and it’s a constant surprise to her when people she knew are genuinely pleased to see her. At this point in her life, it’s easier for her to face anger than it is to face kindness.
Wanda herself is a very loving, maternal person. She adores children and, during a more stable time, considered her friends to be her family. Because of the dangerous, confusing nature of their lives, Wanda hasn’t always been able to be there for the people she loves. Most notably Carol, who was impregnated and then kidnapped by her magical suddenly-grown child, who had hypnotized her into agreeing to go with him. It took a long time before she and Wanda were able to fully reconcile the fact that the Avengers, Wanda especially, never tried to get Carol back. After that, Wanda always made sure to make her friends her top priority, sometimes letting her own needs fall to the wayside. She’s never had an easy time of confiding in others, as badly as she tries to be there for everyone else as a confidant.
While her issues with her own family are deep seated, she can’t help loving her father and her brother; though it is thanks to them that Wanda has a firm belief that a person is not defined by their family. She has more than once rejected her father, though she’s never been able to turn away her brother, even when she probably should have. He was her whole world for so long, even when she knew she had to tell him no or disagree with him, it was a little hard. Her relationship with her half sister, Lorna, is probably the healthiest family bond she has. She believes in helping people and standing beside those who have no one else.
She has a lot of attachment to her heritage, both as a witch and as one who was raised Romani, but at times feels uneasy in her identity as a mutant. Overall, her current sense of self is unstable. Suddenly finding her memories returned to her after several years of living another life and then having a thing that was a part of her for almost two decades suddenly removed has left her feeling uncertain about her place in the world. Feeling she has no right to call on any of her former friends after all the destruction she’s caused has removed an important safety net that she had come to rely on for many years.
There’s also the added element of Billy and Tommy, her two children now almost fully grown and superheroes in their own right. She’s fiercely proud of them and loves them enormously, but recognizes they have lives outside of her, especially Billy, who has loving parents and a committed boyfriend. It’s difficult to accept and a large part of her mourns the years she’ll never have with them. But after so many years of her own family and the frequently negative impacts they’ve had on her, she’s hesitant and uncertain of how to approach them. The most she feels she can do is let them know that they can contact her at any time and she’ll be there in a heartbeat.
In a lot of ways, she’s reverted to the quiet, demure girl she was before the Avengers, but this time she’s actively searching for who she is as a person, not content to sit back and be defined by her team, her husband or her family.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Her magic. She’s used to dealing with a sentient power inhabiting her body and it wouldn’t be such a bad thing if the sentient power inhabiting her body was out to help her and not drive her absolutely out of her mind.
Chosen SKILLSET: Wanda will definitely want to be involved in missions, if only to help protect her fellow transports. She’s not much in the way of a first charge fighter, she’s very good at acting as defense and backup.
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
[ Video of Wanda, projecting a somewhat forced calm. ]
Hello. This is... [ She pauses and huffs a laugh, her calm a little less forced. ] This isn’t how I expected my day to go in the slightest. I have been to alternate dimensions before, goodness knows, but this time around is a bit odd. It’s very organized.
I am. [ The smile disappears into a slight frown. ] My name is Wanda Maximoff and I am known as the Scarlet Witch. For a time, I was an Avenger. If there is anyone here from my world, my name may mean any number of things to you. I hope we may speak civilly regardless.
[ Though she’s not getting her hopes up, if the look on her face is any indication. ]
Third PERSON:
Wanda was a bit at a loss of what to do when she was sent out with the communicator and little else. For all of its organization, the whole incident was very abrupt. Hello, welcome to our world, please help us fight our war. Wanda suppressed a sigh and began walking in the general direction of where she had been informed she would find her housing assignment. It made her uneasy. This place felt like a strange alternate Genosha, for all that she had never really stayed there. And wouldn’t that be just fitting? She wondered if there were mutants here, wondered if there was anyone who knew who she was.
Well, she thought, grimly, if that was the case, she might not need to worry too long about the motives of this Initiative. Even if the X-men had parted ways with the Avengers fairly peaceably, Wanda had no illusions of how they felt about her. To make matters worse, she no longer had the living magic inside of her. The ability to fix the destruction she had created was gone. The thought didn’t stagger her quite the way it had in the past. She’s had time. She’s had months of being herself, of living with herself. So she does not allow herself to sway at the memories of her sins. Her stride does not falter. But if she does tug her cape a little closer around her shoulders, pretending that it will ward off the feelings of loneliness. Well. There’s no one to see. And even if there is, there’s no one who will know. She isn’t sure how she should feel about that.