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> PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Arisa
PRONOUNS: she/her
AGE: 29
CONTACT: hepburns

> CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Wanda Maximoff
CANON: Marvel Cinematic Universe
AGE: mid 20's
CANON POINT: Post Avengers: Endgame

HISTORY: link
PERSONALITY:

As a young orphan, Wanda grew to form an immensely close bond with her brother, Pietro. However, due to this, the twins often kept to themselves and struggled to trust others due to the corruption of their own government and the enemies whose weapons would destroy all that they had. Upon losing Pietro, it became more evident to see Wanda's suppression of her own feelings, which often left her quiet and closed up even in the most distraught at times. During these moments of inner struggle, it typically took the approach of someone else to pull her out of her shell, from Steve Rogers trying to comfort her after the accident in Lagos or Clint Barton reminding her to keep fighting during her house arrest in the Avengers facility. While she will always find a way out of it, Wanda can still be overwhelmed with her own fears, not always having full comprehension of her powers, afraid that she might somehow hurt others for her lack of control. Trust is also a difficulty for Wanda, not having trusted most besides her own brother for most of her life. Once she grew to trust the other Avengers after a year of training with them, her trust was betrayed when Tony turned their back on all of them and had them arrested. Because of this, shutting herself away from others continues to be a struggle.

Even so, Wanda is very often well capable of handling herself despite the many obstacles she comes to face. Upon losing her parents, losing her brother, losing her home, she still finds the strength in her to continue moving forward despite the weight of her loses. She can be inexperienced and yet she has a talented ability of learning rather quickly. Despite having her powers for only a limited number of years and still struggling in certain areas, she has managed to find a higher level of control with her abilities. Her age is no measurement of her skill in keeping up with others that would be her superior in age and experience. Her determination and fight are some of her greatest features, accepting any challenges that come to her, be it her own country's government, an army of robots, or the powerful fear that everyone feels towards her.

When she lost Pietro, Wanda had temporarily lost all will to push forward and to even live. But the push of her teammates and friends often act as an encouragement that keeps her climbing back on her feet, a pep talk from Steve and Clint usually enough to get her back to her senses (Clint is especially talented at this, highlighting the excuse of her youth and comparing her to a "high schooler" to really push that grow up message). When Wanda's at her strongest, it's in trying to protect others and in trying to prove to herself that she's capable of much more than the frail young girl she fears herself to be.

However, for the longest time, Wanda was simply that witch. By the Avengers, she'd been seen as a heartless youth only bent on causing mischief and trickery. Despite their change from this image, the pubic (and some of her teammates) still hold this belief towards her. Because of the grand limitless power of her abilities, and her lack of control over them, most tend to view Wanda as a danger to others, a bomb set to go off at just about any given moment. Some, most notably Tony, see her as a child who needs to be kept in constant watch and surveillance, kept locked up for her own safety and that of others.

Though it isn't a lie that Wanda still doesn't fully grasp her powers, most misunderstand both her capabilities and intentions. Considering her age, Wanda's understanding and control of her abilities have grown immensely in the short years since she's obtained them, especially lacking any proper mentor that would actually relate to having any similar abilities. And though she'd temporarily joined Ultron from having a negative image of Tony Stark and the Avengers, Wanda's intentions were always that of wanting the best for the world and the people of her country. Upon learning that Ultron intended to kill everyone in the world, she and Pietro instantly switched sides. Even with the accident in Lagos where people had seen her as reckless, Wanda had only acted in a desperate attempt to save a cluster of people from the bomb, falling into a quivering distraught state when she failed to do what she'd sworn to do: save lives.

Still, Wanda can sometimes become quite overwhelmed in a moment of crisis. When Sokovia was in danger of destruction and Ultron's forces were coming in strong, she broke into a panic, blaming herself for incident. Her frightened state required a speech from Clint to push her out of it. However, with just a few words, Wanda is capable of doing a complete reversal, putting on a brave face and confronting conflict with higher composure and resolve. Over time, she becomes more capable of handling dire situations. In a fight against her previous teammates, she saves Clint from an attack from Natasha, tossing the latter with little hesitation before lecturing her mentor on his own hesitance, a full turn around from when he had to provide the motivational commentary.

SPECIES: Human
APPEARANCE: link
SKILLS: She is bilingual in English and Serbian, with a creative drive in playing guitar and talent for cooking, more prominently with Sokovian or Serbian dishes.

NEW POWER: Wanda would make use of Empathic Creation, which is the ability to create tangible objects from emotions. These objects would only exist temporarily and would only surface during the peak of the emotional surge and rather than be made from existing materials, would be shaped by visible red light energy. At its starting level, it would only be able to create shields and minor walls, only surfacing in a time of dire need as her emotions would prompt it, but over time, would strengthen to be able to create more unique objects and weapons and allow for Wanda to maintain better control and longer lasting use of the ability.
POWER REASONING: Wanda's life has always been something where everything is constantly out of her control, circumstances usually causing drastic changes in her life without her ever really having a say in how she lives, with her reaction always in the way of an excess of emotion such as sadness or anger to its highest degree. This ability connects to Wanda's desire to be able to shape things in her life in the way that she desires it, which is one of the things that she craves most in having — control of her life and the things within it. It is run by emotion rather than logical intent since that tends to be the driving force of how she lives, choosing instinct instead of careful calculation.

> SAMPLES
SAMPLE ONE: link
SAMPLE TWO: link