Post by Wanda Maximoff on Jan 12, 2008 0:22:28 GMT -5
Basic Stats
Name: Wanda Maximoff
Codename: The Scarlet Witch
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Occupation: Teacher
Place of Birth: Wundagore Mountain, Transia
Place of Residence: District X & Xavier Institute
Known Relatives: Eric Lensherr (Magneto) - Father, Magda Lensherr (dead)- Mother, Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver) - Twin Brother, Lorna Dane (Polaris) - Half Sister
Alliance: X-Men, Brotherhood (former member)
Physical Stats
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 135 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Dark Brown
Avatar: Kate Beckensale
Abilities
Mutation: At their root the Scarlet Witch's powers are able to affect probability fields, allowing her to affect causality resulting her giving her a limited ability to create unlikely occurrences. The power is more controllable than Longshot's similar "luck" power, and more proactive.
There is a belief that her powers should have developed naturally into an energy projection and manipulation power, similar to her father Magneto and half-sister Polaris. However instead she uses her energy manipulation to create phenomena such as "allowing her to project hex bolts, spheres, and effects to create a sub-molecular disturbance in the fabric of reality around whatever they affect" and creating those unlikely occurrences. It is difficult to direct and control the effect of her powers and they tend to have a 20% rate of producing completely unintended results. This rate is raised by physical and mental fatigue.
This energy manipulation can be redirected to allow her to tap into nearby sources of chaos energy.
The limitations on her powers, aside from the 20% rate of producing unintended results, are that she can only affect things within her line of sight. This does not include things that she can see through technological means, she can not watch television and affect things on screen. She also relies heavily on her hands for the casting of her hex bolts through gestures, if her hands are bound or not responsive to her commands for some reason she can not use her powers.
Skills: Wanda is extremely learned in both myth and history. She speaks several languages, and reads even more including several dead languages. She has studied the religious faiths of several cultures, and has become one of the world's leading experts in occult rituals and practices.
Personality:Wanda Maximoff is really hard to describe. I know how this Wanda plays, I've played her for a long time and of all the characters I play this Wanda (I've played a few) feels the most natural. Not the most like me, but the most fully realized. As though she's someone I know. Still I'm going to try to redo this.
Wanda Maximoff is a woman who was forced to grow up much too quickly, and is still trying to discover who she is. Yet despite the fact that she is still on a journey of deciding what sort of person she wants to be, she has been her own person for longer than she realizes. Like most children her parents, the adopted parents the Maximoffs in her case, defined so much of who she is today. They were kind people, who took in two twins to raise as their own. For them family was the most important thing, and to have a family with the twins as their children they sacrificed what little comfort they had. Mutant supremacy as an ideal never appealed to Wanda because she can not fathom why anyone would consider themselves to be worth more than her adopted parents. Their kindness and love is more important a trait to her than being able to move bridges with a thought, or reshape the world with a gesture. To her love and family have always been the most important thing.
Sometimes to her detriment. Magneto used her love to keep her in the Brotherhood long after she had decided that it was not for her. The revelation that he was the twins' natural father kept her loyal to him, and her own selfish desires for family lead her to act as Rogue's captor to please him. The decision to break ranks with him and stand up against him when it became clear that Magneto's plan would kill Rogue, was a terrible decision for her and she felt lost after Magneto's arrest. Her twin brother Pietro is the most important thing in the world to her, but after forcing herself to tear away from Magneto she has never been quite as close to Pietro because she is worried that her love for family could again be used to make her betray her beliefs.
Wanda is neither a follower of Xavier nor of Magneto. Though she is an X-Man she walks her own path, and does not fully subscribe to Xavier's beliefs. Since leaving the Brotherhood she has become independent, and though she is happy to follow others on X-Men missions in the area of tactical orders she will refuse to follow if she does not believe in the actions being under taken. Wanda allows her own morality to guide her, which centres on the idea of personal responsibility. If she cared much for politics she would probably be considered an anarchist, since she has little use for laws or rules and has openly defied some of the Xavier Institute's own rules. For example she has given Jean-Paul wine when he was clearly underage and even tried to invite a student for a beer during an incident at Harry's. However she understands the importance of those rules, and has learned not to contradict other staff.
The desire for family, whether it is trying to win her father's redemption or keeping close to her twin brother, is important. The natural extension of that for Wanda is a family of her own. She is not a naturally flirty woman, but the desire to be loved by a man and build her own family is powerful for her. Her romantic tendencies can be manipulated, and while strong and self-reliant in other aspects her heart can be easily wounded. Her ultimate desire, above any other goals she might have, is to be married with children.
Guilt is also a primary motivator for her. Wanda's guilt over her actions in the Brotherhood led to her not being comfortable at the Xavier Institute for a long time until Rogue and her finally bonded. Her sense of guilt at the state of District X caused her a great deal of pain, and now she spends her free time trying to make the mutant ghetto a better place. This guilt over District X comes from the fact that even though she had no part in making it the hellish place that it was, she had been living a comfortable life while others suffered and she did nothing to aid them.
Lastly it should be noted that Wanda has a love-hate relationship with the western world. Though she is happy to call America home, and loves the open and friendly nature of most Americans, she is disgusted by the excess of its consumer culture. A shopping trip to the high end stores with some of the other X-Women shocked the child who had grown up in extreme poverty in a part of the world where one pair of $2,000 slacks could feed a family of four for a year. She also has little understanding of most technology, and she can barely operate a television let alone a computer. The first time she saw a television she believed that there were actually tiny mutants inside, and even now with the exception of history programs and Star Wars (a movie series she loves whole heartedly) she has little time for television. She is slightly more partial to movies in cinemas, if only because she can understand the technology behind it slightly better.[/i]
History: Taken from another board where I play movie-verse Wanda. Edited slightly to fit what I remember about her past here.
It might be seen as ironic that in a moment of weakness Eric Lensherr, the man known as Magneto, fell in love with a human woman namd Magda. Having dedicated his life to mutant kind, to find himself with a human woman was a secret shame of Magneto's and it was a secret he kept from even his closest friend Charles Xavier. However out of this union came two children, the twins Pietro and Wanda. Fearing that Lensherr would use the children in his increasingly bigoted struggle for mutant rights, as he was slowly drifting further away from Xavier's ideals of co-existance, Magda did not tell him that she was pregnant and ran away to the scientific establishment called Wundagore to birth the twins.
Knowing that Lensherr would return to her home soon Magda left the twins in the care of the midwife who had helped deliver them. She then went into the woods to die, knowing that as long as she lived Magneto would be able to discover the existance of the children.
However Wundagore did not have the facilities to care for and raise the children, and it was decided that they would need to have a real home found for them. Django and Marya Maximoff were found, the couple having recently lost their own children in a war, and the twins grew up believing the Maximoffs to be their own parents. As the twins hit puberty their powers began to develop, with Pietro gaining lightening quick speed and reflexes and Wanda find herself being able to affect probability through her hex spheres.
The Maximoffs still loved their children, even when it became apparent that they were mutants. However the family's life was shattered when, needing to steal to feed his family, Django was caught and an angry mob of villagers chassed him to his home. The mob attacked the family and their home, and scared Pietro grabbed his sister and fled with his speed. Too afraid to return the twins lived as fugitives wandering Europe, managing to survive in any way they could.
However it was during this time that the public began to become aware of mutants, and it began to be harder for the twins' powers to remain unnoticed. Wanda's were always more difficult to control than her brother's and while sleeping in an abandoned house one evening a nightmare caused her powers to activate and light a fire. Once again the twins were being chassed by an angry mob, but this time it did not seem like they would be able to escape. Pietro tried driving them away with his speed but they kept advancing and it was only the arrival of Magneto that saved the pair.
They joined Magneto's Brotherhood which was still in its early stage of forming. Finding the life as a mutant terrorist to be dangerous, they stayed because they felt a debt to Magneto for saving their lives. It was during this time that Magneto, looking into the twins' past, discovered their true heritage. He kept this information to himself for awhile but once he decided that they appeared to both be loyal and effective members of his group he revealled his relationship to them.
This was hard for the twins to deal with for awhile, since they had grown to love the Maximoffs and missed them terribly. However they soon developed genuine affection for their biological father, and Wanda in particular became quiet close to him. However she also grew to resent the Brotherhood and what they were doing. During the events leading up to Liberty Island Wanda played jailer to both Senator Kelly and later the Xavier student Rogue. Wanda still blames herself for the death of the Senator, and for her part in what she views as an attempted murder of Rogue. While Rogue was her captive she did all that she could to protect the younger woman, and even for the first time spoke out against her father in front of Brotherhood members apart from Pietro. She argued with her father, saying that if his cause was so important to him, then he should sacrifice his own life and not kill an innocent to achieve his goals.
As the Brotherhood broke up after Liberty Island, with Magneto being taken to jail, Wanda left the country and returned to Europe. Separated even from her twin brother, she came upon an old mystic named Agatha Harkness who was keen to take on a new pupil. For the next year Wanda lived in an cabin with Harkness, isolated in the woods of Eastern Europe. Then during the winter Harkness passed away, and Wanda buried her teacher in the woods and spent the next six months alone studying the old woman's ancient texts on the occult. When the snows lifted she set out to return to New York and find the X-Men.
Finding the Xavier Institute in ruins following a Sentinel attack, Wanda asked to join the staff of the school. At first Storm, the headmistress of the school following Xavier's death, distrusted the intentions of Magneto's daughter, but over the months suspicion faded for many of the other staff. Later she vouched for her twin brother when Pietro came to live at the school. Wanda fought as an X-Man against her father in Washington, though she also saved his life from an attempted assassination during that mission. She also joined them during the outbreak in District X, and her natural diplomacy managed to help calm the nerves of the mutant population and build a temporary alliance with the Brotherhood and her father.
Wanda and her father have continued to have a series of on again off again meetings, where each tries to convince each other of their position. Wanda feels that her father can be redeemed, a notion she latched onto after watching the original Star Wars movies and identifying with the character of Luke Skywalker with her father in the role of Darth Vader. She sees her role in his life to be not just a loving daughter, but to fill the void left by Charles Xavier who can expose him to the other side of the mutant debate.
Following the events in District X, Wanda took her savings from what she had collected working at the Xavier Institute and bought both an apartment and an empty office in the district. When not teaching at Xavier's she lives in the mutant ghetto, and during her weekends she uses her empty office to distribute food and clothing that she collects to those who need them.
She also turned herself into the government for her crimes during her time with the Brotherhood. Her goal is to become an American citizen, which she hopes to be able to start doing once all criminal charges have been dealt with.
Sample Post: I usually copy my sample posts from Origins. This is taken from a game where I play movie-verse Wanda who is currently in the Brotherhood trying to help her father rebuild it. Call her the mirror universe version of this Wanda.
How her world had changed since she had last been here. She had only visited her mother's grave once before. It had been with her father and twin brother before they were to return to North America. The Brotherhood had been scattered and on the run after Alkali Lake and Magneto had just revealed their true relationship to the twins. Wanda had treasured the moment, treasured the idea that they could be a family and build something. Then she watched Magneto shed his family as easily as a snake sheds its skin. Mystique, who Wanda had started to feel was almost a mother to her, had been cured and thus became worthless to Magneto. The way he cast her off had startled Wanda who had believed there to be a strong bond between the two. Then the clashes between Pietro and Magneto had begun, two strong willed men both with different ideas of how things should be. Then it had been Magneto who was cured, and everything fell apart.
Looking down at the cast still on her arm she sighed. The X-Men had offered her a healer to fix it, but she had refused. Truthfully she wanted it as a reminder of what she had lost, and what her brother had done. No, not her brother. Someone had control of Pietro's mind, that was the only explanation. Her twin would never hurt her, something had been done to him. He had become cold and hard. He was not beyond saving, but there was someone else that she had to save first. Someone who had less time.
Walking towards Magneto she knew that the sound of her feet against the gravel would give her away. She could have stayed off the path, but the fear of treading on someone's final resting spot kept her from doing so. She had enough bad karma without disturbing the dead.
Wanda was pale. She had always had pale skin which contrasted with her bright eyes and deep red lips. Now though, after everything she had been through, she was even paler. Like a ghost moving about the graveyard had it not been for the red cloak that she wore she seemed like she would evaporate in the mist. It had taken convincing to bring her to this point, for Xavier to convince her that this was her destiny. It had taken her killing off the last hopes she had of a happy life, and accept that her purpose was instead to undo the evils that her bloodline had caused and would continue to try to cause. Pietro had betrayed Wanda, now Wanda was to betray Magneto.
"What a nutsty family we are," she thought to herself as she slowed her pace approaching him.
She stopped next to the grave of her mother. Her mother. The only innocent one of them all. Wanda had never known the woman and only really knew that she had given her life to keep the twins from falling into the hands of Magneto, their own father. A sacrifice Wanda was now betraying by returning to Magneto at the behest of Xavier. They were all betrayed and betrayers.
Reaching up and placing her hand on her father's shoulder she thought of Samuel, wondering if leaving her father to protect the twins had been as hard for her mother as leaving Samuel to protect the world from her father had been for Wanda. It had not gone... there was no point in dwelling on it but in order to ensure that nobody knew that she was returning to the Brotherhood under the orders of Xavier her departure from the mansion had been most... difficult. That was the past now, and the past was buried like her mother.
"What she did for us," Wanda began then fell silent, surprised by her own voice which had broken the fragile peace of the graveyard. She looked past her father at the grave, "Family is everything father. I have come to reclaim you, and to cure you."
Player Information:
Name: Jeff
Age: Yes
Contact Information: PM me, or see Admin forum
Other Characters: Pyro (soon)
Name: Wanda Maximoff
Codename
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Occupation: Teacher
Place of Birth: Wundagore Mountain, Transia
Place of Residence: District X & Xavier Institute
Known Relatives: Eric Lensherr (Magneto) - Father, Magda Lensherr (dead)- Mother, Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver) - Twin Brother, Lorna Dane (Polaris) - Half Sister
Alliance: X-Men, Brotherhood (former member)
Physical Stats
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 135 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Dark Brown
Avatar: Kate Beckensale
Abilities
Mutation: At their root the Scarlet Witch's powers are able to affect probability fields, allowing her to affect causality resulting her giving her a limited ability to create unlikely occurrences. The power is more controllable than Longshot's similar "luck" power, and more proactive.
There is a belief that her powers should have developed naturally into an energy projection and manipulation power, similar to her father Magneto and half-sister Polaris. However instead she uses her energy manipulation to create phenomena such as "allowing her to project hex bolts, spheres, and effects to create a sub-molecular disturbance in the fabric of reality around whatever they affect" and creating those unlikely occurrences. It is difficult to direct and control the effect of her powers and they tend to have a 20% rate of producing completely unintended results. This rate is raised by physical and mental fatigue.
This energy manipulation can be redirected to allow her to tap into nearby sources of chaos energy.
The limitations on her powers, aside from the 20% rate of producing unintended results, are that she can only affect things within her line of sight. This does not include things that she can see through technological means, she can not watch television and affect things on screen. She also relies heavily on her hands for the casting of her hex bolts through gestures, if her hands are bound or not responsive to her commands for some reason she can not use her powers.
Skills: Wanda is extremely learned in both myth and history. She speaks several languages, and reads even more including several dead languages. She has studied the religious faiths of several cultures, and has become one of the world's leading experts in occult rituals and practices.
Personality:Wanda Maximoff is really hard to describe. I know how this Wanda plays, I've played her for a long time and of all the characters I play this Wanda (I've played a few) feels the most natural. Not the most like me, but the most fully realized. As though she's someone I know. Still I'm going to try to redo this.
Wanda Maximoff is a woman who was forced to grow up much too quickly, and is still trying to discover who she is. Yet despite the fact that she is still on a journey of deciding what sort of person she wants to be, she has been her own person for longer than she realizes. Like most children her parents, the adopted parents the Maximoffs in her case, defined so much of who she is today. They were kind people, who took in two twins to raise as their own. For them family was the most important thing, and to have a family with the twins as their children they sacrificed what little comfort they had. Mutant supremacy as an ideal never appealed to Wanda because she can not fathom why anyone would consider themselves to be worth more than her adopted parents. Their kindness and love is more important a trait to her than being able to move bridges with a thought, or reshape the world with a gesture. To her love and family have always been the most important thing.
Sometimes to her detriment. Magneto used her love to keep her in the Brotherhood long after she had decided that it was not for her. The revelation that he was the twins' natural father kept her loyal to him, and her own selfish desires for family lead her to act as Rogue's captor to please him. The decision to break ranks with him and stand up against him when it became clear that Magneto's plan would kill Rogue, was a terrible decision for her and she felt lost after Magneto's arrest. Her twin brother Pietro is the most important thing in the world to her, but after forcing herself to tear away from Magneto she has never been quite as close to Pietro because she is worried that her love for family could again be used to make her betray her beliefs.
Wanda is neither a follower of Xavier nor of Magneto. Though she is an X-Man she walks her own path, and does not fully subscribe to Xavier's beliefs. Since leaving the Brotherhood she has become independent, and though she is happy to follow others on X-Men missions in the area of tactical orders she will refuse to follow if she does not believe in the actions being under taken. Wanda allows her own morality to guide her, which centres on the idea of personal responsibility. If she cared much for politics she would probably be considered an anarchist, since she has little use for laws or rules and has openly defied some of the Xavier Institute's own rules. For example she has given Jean-Paul wine when he was clearly underage and even tried to invite a student for a beer during an incident at Harry's. However she understands the importance of those rules, and has learned not to contradict other staff.
The desire for family, whether it is trying to win her father's redemption or keeping close to her twin brother, is important. The natural extension of that for Wanda is a family of her own. She is not a naturally flirty woman, but the desire to be loved by a man and build her own family is powerful for her. Her romantic tendencies can be manipulated, and while strong and self-reliant in other aspects her heart can be easily wounded. Her ultimate desire, above any other goals she might have, is to be married with children.
Guilt is also a primary motivator for her. Wanda's guilt over her actions in the Brotherhood led to her not being comfortable at the Xavier Institute for a long time until Rogue and her finally bonded. Her sense of guilt at the state of District X caused her a great deal of pain, and now she spends her free time trying to make the mutant ghetto a better place. This guilt over District X comes from the fact that even though she had no part in making it the hellish place that it was, she had been living a comfortable life while others suffered and she did nothing to aid them.
Lastly it should be noted that Wanda has a love-hate relationship with the western world. Though she is happy to call America home, and loves the open and friendly nature of most Americans, she is disgusted by the excess of its consumer culture. A shopping trip to the high end stores with some of the other X-Women shocked the child who had grown up in extreme poverty in a part of the world where one pair of $2,000 slacks could feed a family of four for a year. She also has little understanding of most technology, and she can barely operate a television let alone a computer. The first time she saw a television she believed that there were actually tiny mutants inside, and even now with the exception of history programs and Star Wars (a movie series she loves whole heartedly) she has little time for television. She is slightly more partial to movies in cinemas, if only because she can understand the technology behind it slightly better.[/i]
History: Taken from another board where I play movie-verse Wanda. Edited slightly to fit what I remember about her past here.
It might be seen as ironic that in a moment of weakness Eric Lensherr, the man known as Magneto, fell in love with a human woman namd Magda. Having dedicated his life to mutant kind, to find himself with a human woman was a secret shame of Magneto's and it was a secret he kept from even his closest friend Charles Xavier. However out of this union came two children, the twins Pietro and Wanda. Fearing that Lensherr would use the children in his increasingly bigoted struggle for mutant rights, as he was slowly drifting further away from Xavier's ideals of co-existance, Magda did not tell him that she was pregnant and ran away to the scientific establishment called Wundagore to birth the twins.
Knowing that Lensherr would return to her home soon Magda left the twins in the care of the midwife who had helped deliver them. She then went into the woods to die, knowing that as long as she lived Magneto would be able to discover the existance of the children.
However Wundagore did not have the facilities to care for and raise the children, and it was decided that they would need to have a real home found for them. Django and Marya Maximoff were found, the couple having recently lost their own children in a war, and the twins grew up believing the Maximoffs to be their own parents. As the twins hit puberty their powers began to develop, with Pietro gaining lightening quick speed and reflexes and Wanda find herself being able to affect probability through her hex spheres.
The Maximoffs still loved their children, even when it became apparent that they were mutants. However the family's life was shattered when, needing to steal to feed his family, Django was caught and an angry mob of villagers chassed him to his home. The mob attacked the family and their home, and scared Pietro grabbed his sister and fled with his speed. Too afraid to return the twins lived as fugitives wandering Europe, managing to survive in any way they could.
However it was during this time that the public began to become aware of mutants, and it began to be harder for the twins' powers to remain unnoticed. Wanda's were always more difficult to control than her brother's and while sleeping in an abandoned house one evening a nightmare caused her powers to activate and light a fire. Once again the twins were being chassed by an angry mob, but this time it did not seem like they would be able to escape. Pietro tried driving them away with his speed but they kept advancing and it was only the arrival of Magneto that saved the pair.
They joined Magneto's Brotherhood which was still in its early stage of forming. Finding the life as a mutant terrorist to be dangerous, they stayed because they felt a debt to Magneto for saving their lives. It was during this time that Magneto, looking into the twins' past, discovered their true heritage. He kept this information to himself for awhile but once he decided that they appeared to both be loyal and effective members of his group he revealled his relationship to them.
This was hard for the twins to deal with for awhile, since they had grown to love the Maximoffs and missed them terribly. However they soon developed genuine affection for their biological father, and Wanda in particular became quiet close to him. However she also grew to resent the Brotherhood and what they were doing. During the events leading up to Liberty Island Wanda played jailer to both Senator Kelly and later the Xavier student Rogue. Wanda still blames herself for the death of the Senator, and for her part in what she views as an attempted murder of Rogue. While Rogue was her captive she did all that she could to protect the younger woman, and even for the first time spoke out against her father in front of Brotherhood members apart from Pietro. She argued with her father, saying that if his cause was so important to him, then he should sacrifice his own life and not kill an innocent to achieve his goals.
As the Brotherhood broke up after Liberty Island, with Magneto being taken to jail, Wanda left the country and returned to Europe. Separated even from her twin brother, she came upon an old mystic named Agatha Harkness who was keen to take on a new pupil. For the next year Wanda lived in an cabin with Harkness, isolated in the woods of Eastern Europe. Then during the winter Harkness passed away, and Wanda buried her teacher in the woods and spent the next six months alone studying the old woman's ancient texts on the occult. When the snows lifted she set out to return to New York and find the X-Men.
Finding the Xavier Institute in ruins following a Sentinel attack, Wanda asked to join the staff of the school. At first Storm, the headmistress of the school following Xavier's death, distrusted the intentions of Magneto's daughter, but over the months suspicion faded for many of the other staff. Later she vouched for her twin brother when Pietro came to live at the school. Wanda fought as an X-Man against her father in Washington, though she also saved his life from an attempted assassination during that mission. She also joined them during the outbreak in District X, and her natural diplomacy managed to help calm the nerves of the mutant population and build a temporary alliance with the Brotherhood and her father.
Wanda and her father have continued to have a series of on again off again meetings, where each tries to convince each other of their position. Wanda feels that her father can be redeemed, a notion she latched onto after watching the original Star Wars movies and identifying with the character of Luke Skywalker with her father in the role of Darth Vader. She sees her role in his life to be not just a loving daughter, but to fill the void left by Charles Xavier who can expose him to the other side of the mutant debate.
Following the events in District X, Wanda took her savings from what she had collected working at the Xavier Institute and bought both an apartment and an empty office in the district. When not teaching at Xavier's she lives in the mutant ghetto, and during her weekends she uses her empty office to distribute food and clothing that she collects to those who need them.
She also turned herself into the government for her crimes during her time with the Brotherhood. Her goal is to become an American citizen, which she hopes to be able to start doing once all criminal charges have been dealt with.
Sample Post: I usually copy my sample posts from Origins. This is taken from a game where I play movie-verse Wanda who is currently in the Brotherhood trying to help her father rebuild it. Call her the mirror universe version of this Wanda.
How her world had changed since she had last been here. She had only visited her mother's grave once before. It had been with her father and twin brother before they were to return to North America. The Brotherhood had been scattered and on the run after Alkali Lake and Magneto had just revealed their true relationship to the twins. Wanda had treasured the moment, treasured the idea that they could be a family and build something. Then she watched Magneto shed his family as easily as a snake sheds its skin. Mystique, who Wanda had started to feel was almost a mother to her, had been cured and thus became worthless to Magneto. The way he cast her off had startled Wanda who had believed there to be a strong bond between the two. Then the clashes between Pietro and Magneto had begun, two strong willed men both with different ideas of how things should be. Then it had been Magneto who was cured, and everything fell apart.
Looking down at the cast still on her arm she sighed. The X-Men had offered her a healer to fix it, but she had refused. Truthfully she wanted it as a reminder of what she had lost, and what her brother had done. No, not her brother. Someone had control of Pietro's mind, that was the only explanation. Her twin would never hurt her, something had been done to him. He had become cold and hard. He was not beyond saving, but there was someone else that she had to save first. Someone who had less time.
Walking towards Magneto she knew that the sound of her feet against the gravel would give her away. She could have stayed off the path, but the fear of treading on someone's final resting spot kept her from doing so. She had enough bad karma without disturbing the dead.
Wanda was pale. She had always had pale skin which contrasted with her bright eyes and deep red lips. Now though, after everything she had been through, she was even paler. Like a ghost moving about the graveyard had it not been for the red cloak that she wore she seemed like she would evaporate in the mist. It had taken convincing to bring her to this point, for Xavier to convince her that this was her destiny. It had taken her killing off the last hopes she had of a happy life, and accept that her purpose was instead to undo the evils that her bloodline had caused and would continue to try to cause. Pietro had betrayed Wanda, now Wanda was to betray Magneto.
"What a nutsty family we are," she thought to herself as she slowed her pace approaching him.
She stopped next to the grave of her mother. Her mother. The only innocent one of them all. Wanda had never known the woman and only really knew that she had given her life to keep the twins from falling into the hands of Magneto, their own father. A sacrifice Wanda was now betraying by returning to Magneto at the behest of Xavier. They were all betrayed and betrayers.
Reaching up and placing her hand on her father's shoulder she thought of Samuel, wondering if leaving her father to protect the twins had been as hard for her mother as leaving Samuel to protect the world from her father had been for Wanda. It had not gone... there was no point in dwelling on it but in order to ensure that nobody knew that she was returning to the Brotherhood under the orders of Xavier her departure from the mansion had been most... difficult. That was the past now, and the past was buried like her mother.
"What she did for us," Wanda began then fell silent, surprised by her own voice which had broken the fragile peace of the graveyard. She looked past her father at the grave, "Family is everything father. I have come to reclaim you, and to cure you."
Player Information:
Name: Jeff
Age: Yes
Contact Information: PM me, or see Admin forum
Other Characters: Pyro (soon)