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[wundagores]

⏵ player information
name and pronouns: Caitlin
age: 36
contact: lensflares; pm

⏵ character information
name: Wanda Maximoff
canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
age: 30
canon point: Post-Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
history: Wanda @ the MCU Wiki

abilities: Wanda's main powerset falls under the classification of chaos magic, or a capacity for spontaneous creation. She was born with a latent ability to access magic, which was amplified by her exposure to the Mind Stone as a young adult. This affords Wanda a number of different abilities, including:

- Telepathy. Wanda has the ability to read minds, engage in mental communication, and experience the memories of others. This ability will not be used without other players' permission, and I have set up a permissions post.
- Mental and emotional manipulation. Wanda has been shown to control the minds and emotions of others. This has allowed her to control others' actions, as well as impose fear and pain. It's not something she would default to at this point, given her guilt at what she's done in the past, but it, too, will not be used without other players' permission.
- Clairvoyance. As an extension of her telepathic abilities, Wanda is able to have awareness of others even when they are not physically present, particularly through their powers. This ability will not be used without other players' permission, and is included in the aforementioned permissions post.
- Telekinesis. Using her power, Wanda has the ability to move and manipulate objects without touching them.
- Levitation. With her telekinetic abilities, Wanda is able to levitate herself into the air, simulating flight. In-game, she will only be able to do this within the bubble of the setting, and will not be able to levitate herself out of it.
- Psychic energy manipulation. Wanda can project blasts and beams of energy at targets. When she applies enough power, she can potentially use this energy to destroy a target.
- Force field generation. Wanda is able to use her abilities to generate force fields that cover small distances, to protect others.
- Energy absorption. Wanda is able to absorb energy and magic from others.
- Conjuring. Wanda is able to create simple items from nothing at will.
- Transmutation. At will, Wanda is also able to change the nature of existing matter. She can swap a chair into a different kind of chair, change the color of the walls, and even her own clothes with a simple flick of her wrist.
- Teleportation. Wanda can disappear from one location and instantly reappear at another. In-game, she will only be able to do this within the bubble of the setting, and will not be able to teleport out of it.
- Astral projection. Wanda is able to project her astral self outside of her body.
- Witchcraft. Wanda can cast spells, and can use runes.
- Illusion casting. Wanda can cast realistic-looking illusions, which can fool even seasoned magic users, such as Stephen Strange and Agatha Harkness.
- Elemental and weather manipulation. To a limited extent, Wanda can manipulate the weather, such as by surrounding herself with clouds, and can alter electricity and create flames to illuminate a space.

Any reality-altering abilities will be blocked off upon Wanda's entry into the game.

Outside of her magic, Wanda has prior combat training, courtesy of her time with the Avengers, and has some experience with tactical planning. She is also fluent in multiple languages, including her native Sokovian, as well as English.

personality: The story of Wanda Maximoff is one of trauma. It has fundamentally shaped her as a person, as well as how she sees the world and responds to it.

Growing up with her family in a war-torn Sokovia, the trauma in her life began before the deaths of her parents when she was ten years old. With little other stability to rely on, Wanda clung tightly to them and to her twin brother, Pietro, fostering a deep and strong sense of loyalty to those she deems family, in whatever form they come, for the rest of her life; after Pietro's death, she develops this loyalty to Vision, and there is almost nothing that she won't do for the children she has created. She also clung tightly to the safe space they provided to her: escaping into another, happier world through television sitcoms. With only trauma after trauma piled on top of these early life experiences, the only true coping mechanism that Wanda ever arguably learned was escapism, and it's one she returns to time and time again — which, combined with her incredible power, wrought terrible consequences on the town of Westview, New Jersey during the events of Wandavision.

Since Wanda hasn't had the chance to learn many coping mechanisms, she, by extension, has little control over her own expansive and at times chaotic emotions. She feels deeply and intensely — both for positive and negative. Her heart is large, and she cares a great deal for the welfare of others, those she's close to and complete strangers alike, but with the life she's led, anger is an emotion that is particularly easy for her to access, and often overwhelms her. She has a tendency to lash out, both with her words and her powers, and can become a destructive force as a result; while this can often happen without her explicit intention, such as her creation of the anomaly around Westview, she has also been known to strike deliberately at those who become perceived obstacles — even when they're people she considers friends.

This isn't to say that Wanda disregards the consequences of her actions. She feels profound guilt for the ways that she's hurt people, and tries, time and time again, to set things right. When she realizes the anguish she's imposed on the people of Westview, she releases them, even though doing so will destroy the manifestation of Vision and her children that are inherently tied to the "hex"; when she realizes what the Darkhold and her quest through the Multiverse for her children have wrought, she decides to destroy Mount Wundagore, where the original Darkhold is inscribed, an act that will kill her in the process.

Because Wanda cares about the world as a whole. She's always held a hope, in spite of all the trauma she's endured, that she could work to make it a better place, and it was this that motivated her to volunteer for Strucker's experiments in the first place; it was this that led her to turn away from Ultron and to side with the Avengers, and to remain a part of the team even while grieving her brother. Despite all she's lost, she will make personal sacrifices for the greater good; though doing so caused her untold pain, she was willing, at Vision's request, to destroy the Mind Stone before Thanos could get to it.

While her experiences have shaped her into a person that can be complicated and flawed, she also ultimately seeks to do good — and will keep trying to find the right path.


samples: 1) tdm top level; 2) meme thread