Name: Jade.
Age: 30 something according to maths, 80 in my soul.
Contact: PM or boofhead!
Other Characters: n/a.
Interests: I like politics, action scenes, mysteries, drama, building character reputation and dismantling it, and impacting setting. (I also really want to run player plots and turn Thedas into WandaVision 2.0. Sitcoms are cute!!!) I don't know shit about Dragon Age and Libby said that was cool!


Name: Wanda Maximoff.
Canon/OC: MCU.
Canon Point: Post-Multiverse of Madness.
Journal: explosion.
Age: She's either 29 or 34 depending on whether you exclude the Blip's five years (29) or include it (34).

Canon World

MCU is present-day earth with magic, aliens, gods (including mythology come to life!), time travel, and talking raccoons from space. It also now has the Multiverse!

Wanda primarily deals with the Earth-based events of the MCU, which includes:

The bombing of Sokovia (a made-up European country), where the weapons were funded by Tony Stark, one of the faces of the Avengers. This is the country Wanda grew up in. As of the events of Age of Ultron (c. 2014), it no longer exists.

The Avengers is a team of superheroes (either magically inclined or enhanced individuals) who aim to try and save the world… by also being very destructive forces. Wanda was an Avenger, although she no longer considers herself one. They are praised, have merchandise (most likely funded by Tony Stark), and have a lot of bad press.

Artificial intelligence exists, firstly in the form of sentient technology, and then in the bodies of synthezoids (think androids). Vision is a synthezoid with the ability to think and feel, and is able to shapeshift from a red-skinned piece of walking tech to a human man. Wanda thinks he is a hunk.

Thanos wiped out half the population across the universe, including space! But since Wanda doesn't deal with space, we'll focus on Earth: Half the population was gone for five years, including Miss Maximoff! This is an event that was not rewound back to 2018; Tony Stark kept the missing five years canon because it suited him, so people like Wanda, who returned, came back to their entire lives changed (some who were in aeroplanes came back from the moment they went missing… It's probably MCU's worst thought-out event because the logistics make no sense). This was the most traumatising event in the MCU and impacted more than the Avengers.

Magic exists and it comes in so many delicious flavours! The magic system Wanda uses is Chaos Magic, which is extremely powerful and is wielded by the Scarlet Witch, a mythical being capable of spontaneous creation. It's heavily implied Wanda is the only user of this magic. This magic generates a lot of radiation. There are other types of magic, including Asgardian, Eldritch, Witchcraft, Dark (which Wanda also wields thanks to the Book of the Damned), Dark Dimension Magic, Divine Magic, Necromancy, Mirror Dimension Magic, and probably much more.

The way the MCU has characterised the magic system is a little misogynistic for my tastes—it claims "witch" is a derogatory word rather than a female-identifying one, while "wizard" seems positive. The magical system is being fleshed out in Agatha All Along!

The Multiverse exists and is accessible by very powerful magical means (Wanda accessed it via the Darkhold). It consists of various different universes—think fanfiction upon fanfiction of a base story. This is how the MCU connects itself to Sony products, providing fan service for fans, and establishing comic book storylines as part of the cinematic universe's canon.

MCU is a mess.

History

She's a magical gal from a small town locale!

• Pre-Age of Ultron: At the age of 10, the Maximoffs' home is bombed. Olek and Iryna die in the explosion; Wanda and Pietro hide underneath a bed for three days, waiting for the Stark bomb to go off. Wanda's latent magic stopped the bomb from exploding.
  
  Once young adults, Wanda and Pietro join HYDRA, believing it to be an organisation that will help Sokovians fight against the war and stop Starks' bombs. Here, they sign up for experimentation with what will later be known as the Mind Stone. Wanda receives her incredibly convoluted powers, while Pietro gains super speed.



• Age of Ultron: The Maximoffs terrorise the Avengers; Wanda plays mind games with them. When Ultron, an artificial intelligence (created by Stark, what a surprise!) decides to nuke the world, Wanda goes against HYDRA's wishes and helps the Avengers stop him. Sokovia is destroyed. Pietro is killed. Wanda joins the Avengers and goes to New York.



• Civil War: *training montage* At Lagos, Wanda stops a bomb from exploding… only to lose control of her powers and send it upward, where it explodes midair, killing an unidentified number of people. Wanda is classified as "a weapon of mass destruction". Boring stuff happens and she's eventually imprisoned on the Raft.



• Infinity War: Her romance with Vision blossoms. Thanos wants the Mind Stone, which is inside Vision. Vision begs Wanda to kill him; she refuses. Eventually, Wanda ends up mercy killing Vision to prevent Thanos from getting the Mind Stone. Because Strange gave Thanos the Time Stone, her efforts were for nothing: Thanos rewinds time, kills Vision again, and takes the stone. He snaps half the population from the universe. Wanda turns to dust; she is finally at peace.



• Endgame: Wanda's been Blipped for five years. When she returns, she battles Thanos, almost killing him, but obviously doesn't because Plot Reasons. She is left alone at the end of the film with no one.



• WandaVision: Wrecked with grief, Wanda's emotions explode as she overtakes the town of Westview under one of her spells. She resurrects Vision within her Hex, and lives a sitcom-driven life where nothing bad happens and she's the one in control. She births two boys from magic and becomes the Scarlet Witch under the very rough tutelage of Agatha Harkness. She eventually breaks her Hex and leaves Westview, despite it being the town Vision wanted them to build a home. She leaves to an unknown destination that I like to think is Sokovia.



• Multiverse of Madness: Wanda is apparently corrupted by the Darkhold, the Book of the Damned, and becomes so obsessed with finding her sons in the Multiverse that she is happy to steal them from her alternate self. She torments Strange and hunts America Chavez across the Multiverse to absorb her dimension-hopping powers. Wanda eventually realises what she's doing is wrong and brings down Wundagore on top of her. I doubt she is dead due to an explosion of scarlet that suggests Wanda teleported away.

Personality

Wanda is the coolest person you will ever meet, which is why it's unfortunate you won't meet her because she's too busy self-isolating and punishing herself for fucking up.

The one thing you need to understand about Wanda Maximoff is that she's a control freak. She has good reason for it, too! After witnessing the destruction of her home country, and seeing her parents die before her, Wanda wants to control her narrative ever since she understood what a story was. She escapes into her sitcoms because it's a safe haven; there, no one gets hurt, and if they do, the episode ends with a happily ever after with the hurt erased. She internalises this as her ultimate desire.

When Wanda wants something, she goes for it. She can be so pig-headed that it becomes dangerous to those around her. She's fiercely protective of her people—she's the ride or die you want on your side, because she will raze the Multiverse for you.

Her every action is meant to help others, except nothing ever goes as planned. That doesn't lend itself to defeat for Wanda. Sure, she may sometimes get knocked down and wonder if she should get back up again, but Wanda gets up every single time because she's determined to change her story. Wanda is someone who learns—and she's desperate to learn, she's so desperate to be better—that she refuses to rely on anyone to help her because she doesn't understand how to. She never copes with the grief of losing her country, parents, and brother. She doesn't allow herself to rely upon anyone, because Wanda internalises her pain and tries to be the best person she can be to those around her, which often looks like someone who isn't a burden. This is why she subconsciously controls the people of Westview and ensures they get to their appointments and get home just in time for dinner. If she controls those around her, none of them will ever feel the pain she has.

Despite all the pain that she has experienced and her trust issues, she is someone who is kind and caring. She is social, despite being introverted; quick-witted when you get her to open up. Wanda is an emotionally driven woman who lets her big, fat emotions get the better of her. No one can ever say she's devoid of emotion; sometimes, she has too much, which often can lead her empathetic qualities to become overbearing and controlling. Even when she wants to feel nothing, she feels everything. Wanda's strongest power is her humanity.

She is a woman who has been called "weird" (derogatory) and dehumanised ("a weapon of mass destruction"), and yet she loves with her whole being. She calls herself out when she realises she's done wrong. She gives up what she has killed for because its pursuit brings pain to those around her. She is not a weapon, but a woman, but sometimes even she seems to forget that.