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Applications


APPLICATIONS

Applications generally always open (unless otherwise announced and noted) and will be processed on a rolling basis, as quickly as possible.

Before applying, please read the FAQ and the Rules. In addition to a lot of other useful information, the Rules page details the caps and restrictions in place for certain character types. Native characters need to conform to Fade Rift's World State and should take a look at the Timeline of major events that have occurred in the game's version of Thedas. You may also want to check out this post about our incorporation of Veilguard canon and characters.

↠ Reserves
↠ Format Notes
↠ Native Application Form
↠ Rifter Application Form
↠ CRAU Application Form
↠ Canon Updates
↠ Apping Previously Played Characters

RESERVES

To reserve a character, you can comment to this page with a blank comment. You'll have one week to edit your comment to link to a completed application. E.g., you can post a blank comment for Dagna at 1 p.m. on June 1 and will have until that same time on June 8 to finish your application and edit the comment to include it. Do not update your comment until your application is complete. Expired reserve comments will be removed after the deadline passes. Consecutive reserves for the same character are not allowed—you must wait at least one week after your reserve expires to reserve the same character a second time.

FORMAT NOTES

Please paste your application into the comment body, rather than linking it. The subject line of your comment should include your character's name and canon (if they have one). Please don't include any images or adjust the app's style—it's plain to make it easy to read. Also, please make sure you're truly finished with your application before you post it; there are no app deadlines to meet so no rush, and we get notifications for every edit you make, which can get annoying very quickly. And note that we do strictly enforce our word count limits, even if you're only a little over!

If you need help with samples, check the the test drive meme for prompts—you're welcome to either link threads or write starters, whichever is easier for you.

NATIVE APPLICATION FORM

PLAYER

Name:
Age:
Contact:
Other Characters:
Interests: What sort of RP are you hoping for in Fade Rift? Are there particular aspects of the world you're hoping to dig into? Types of plots or threads you're excited about? Do you love action scenes? Political intrigue? Rescuing lost animals? This doesn't have to be long or complex and there is no right answer—it's to help us make sure our plots stay in line with people's interests.

CHARACTER

Name:
Canon/OC:
Journal:
Race:
Nationality:
Occupation:
Division:
Mage or Not:
Age:

History

This section has a 500 word limit. Bullet point timelines are fine! We're less interested in a list of every event in a character's canon/life, and more interested in a description of key moments that shaped the character.

For Dragon Age canon characters, you're welcome to just link to the wiki and then fill in any holes or significant headcanon as needed. If your character has been off-screen for a while since their last canon appearance, please provide a write-up of what they've been doing since their last appearance. For AU'd canon characters, please link to their canon history and write up their AU history. For OCs, just write their history.

Personality

Please describe your character's personality in 300-500 words. No need to touch on every aspect of their being, but do hit the key traits and motivations (as you see them) and demonstrate balance.

Opinions & Affiliations

This section has a 300 word limit. Please briefly note your characters' opinions on topics such as the Chantry, the Qun, the Mage/Templar War, Thedosian race relations, and anything else you feel is worth mentioning for a particular character! If your character is currently or has previously been a member of an IC organization or identifiable group other than Riftwatch, please also briefly describe their relationship with that organization or group. This includes obvious things like Templars, Seekers, Circle Mages, and Grey Wardens, but it can also be used for less organized groups such as Dalish elves, landed nobility, etc., if you have something you'd like to say on the topic that isn't covered in the personality section.

Adaptation Notes

If your character is being AU'd from another canon, please explain in 300 words or fewer how the adaptation you've chosen is a good fit for your character. This should include things like why you've chosen to make them a mage, or a particular race, or a member of a particular organization. How do these choices reflect essential aspects of their canon character? What key features are you adding or subtracting from the canon version of their story and why? There is no single right answer to this question; there may be lots of plausible ways to AU a given character. We're interested in understanding why you've chosen the things you've chosen as part of evaluating your grasp on the character and on the setting.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Basically, what are they best at, and what are they worst at? How can they assist Riftwatch and where will they be a liability? This can include personality strengths and weaknesses as well as any skills or special abilities. It is not necessary to pick a class or to provide lists of specific Dragon Age skills or skill trees, but you can use classes and skill trees as a reference to discuss what your character is and isn't good at, such as saying a mage is good at primal magic but useless with entropy, etc. It's sufficient to give us a general idea of areas and level of ability, but please make sure you mention any magical ability or significant skill/resource/connection you hope to rely on in-game. Please make sure to read and comply with the FAQ sections on character abilities.

Inventory

Please list any notable objects your character will be bringing with them. This doesn't have to be exhaustive, but weapons, magical objects, and items with plot importance must be listed if you plan to use them in the game.

Motivation

What brings your character to Riftwatch? This can be as brief as "he's got a sliver of weird magic in his hand he'd like Riftwatch to deal with" or "he wants to help," though more complex reasons are welcome, and shouldn't be more than 200 words.

SAMPLES

Please provide 2 samples. It doesn't matter if they're written or linked and we don't care if you prefer brackets or normal punctuation, but at least one of your samples must take place in the game world, and at least one must be a log rather than network tags (or their setting-appropriate equivalent). They can be of any length, as long as taken together they provide a good sense of your character and your writing ability. If we feel they aren't sufficient, we'll ask you for more.



RIFTER APPLICATION FORM

PLAYER

Name:
Age:
Contact:
Other Characters:
Interests: What sort of RP are you hoping for in Fade Rift? Are there particular aspects of the world you're hoping to dig into? Types of plots or threads you're excited about? Do you love action scenes? Political intrigue? Rescuing lost animals? This doesn't have to be long or complex and there is no right answer—it's to help us make sure our plots stay in line with people's interests.

CHARACTER

Name:
Canon/OC:
Canon Point:
Journal:
Age:

Canon World

In no more than 500 words, please describe the world your character comes from. Don't try to cover everything, just focus on the key points that an unfamiliar reviewer would absolutely have to know in order to understand your character and their abilities.

History

Please provide a summary of key points in your character's history in no more than 500 words. Bullet points are fine. If there is a wiki history for your character available, please also provide a link in addition to your summary. We're less interested in a list of every event in a character's canon/life, and more interested in a description of key moments that shaped the character.

Personality

Please describe your character's personality in 300-500 words. No need to touch on every aspect of their being, but do hit the key traits and motivations (as you see them) and demonstrate balance.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Basically, what are they best at, and what are they worst at? Where can they help and where will they be a liability? Give us a general idea of areas of expertise and level of ability. While this needn't be 100% exhaustive, any powers/magic/significant areas of expertise not listed here cannot later be used in game.

If your character has superhuman abilities, please describe these abilities in plain terms. Although Fade Rift is based on a video game, we don't write about abilities or attacks as if they are occurring in a video game. For example, characters will not have an ability called "Whirlwind" that enables them to spin in a circle and strike things with a sword. Just tell us they can use a greatsword and they're agile enough to spin in circles with it.

Please make sure to read and comply with the FAQ sections on character abilities.

Suggested Nerfs

Many (if not most) abilities from other canons will be nerfed or adapted to Thedas. We want rifters to be unique and retain what makes them fun to play, but not to be so powerful that they render natives and especially unpowered characters superfluous to missions. A list of universally applied power limits is in the FAQ (http://faderifting.dreamwidth.org/966.html#nerfs). These nerfs will apply to all rifters unless we discuss a specific exception with you. Additionally, we may place other limits on rifters' abilities to prevent them from being too powerful compared to natives and unpowered characters. So if you have a high-powered character, we encourage you to use this section of the app to suggest your own nerfs or let us know what's most and least important to you about their powerset so we can take it into consideration when we establish limits.

Arrival Inventory

What will your character have with them in the dream they arrive from? Please go ahead and list weapons, technology, and magical artifacts, though they may disappear in the passage through the Fade. And please note that we do mean what they have with them in their dream; they can arrive in plainclothes with their usual belongings from a dream about buying groceries, or they can arrive in a gorilla suit with a deflated hot air balloon from a dream that was a little less mundane.

Humanization

Please describe any ways that your character's canon form differs from that of a normal real world human. This should include all physiological differences, even if they're purely cosmetic (for instance, hair or eye color if not standard real world colors). Passage through the Fade will convert each character into a Thedas-standard human, elf, dwarf, or qunari. This means that in every physiological respect, both internal and external, they will be a member of one of those races.

If your character is not a human, elf, dwarf or qunari in their canon, which would you like them to exit the rift as?

Fit

Is there a reason you think this character would be particularly interesting in this setting? Are there particular aspects of the world you're hoping to dig into? Things about your character you think Thedas will help you explore? Will they have a personal connection to an issue, or act as a foil to another character/group/opinion? Give us a sense of what you think your character will bring to the game world and what you think they might take away from it. Basically, why did you choose this character in this game? This shouldn't be more than 300 words.

SAMPLES

Please provide 2 samples. It doesn't matter if they're written or linked and we don't care if you prefer brackets or normal punctuation, but at least one must take place in the game world, and at least one must be a log rather than network tags (or their setting-appropriate equivalent). They can be of any length, as long as they provide a sense of your character's voice and internal narrative. If we feel they aren't sufficient, we'll ask you for more.



CRAU APPLICATION FORM

PLAYER

Name:
Age:
Contact:
Other Characters:
Interests: What sort of RP are you hoping for in Fade Rift? Are there particular aspects of the world you're hoping to dig into? Types of plots or threads you're excited about? Do you love action scenes? Political intrigue? Rescuing lost animals? This doesn't have to be long or complex and there is no right answer—it's to help us make sure our plots stay in line with people's interests.

CHARACTER

Name:
Canon/OC:
Last Canon Point:
Previous Game:
Arrival Point: (At what point in the past game is your character arriving in Thedas?)
Journal:
Age:

Canon World

In no more than 500 words, please describe the world your character originally comes from. Don't try to cover everything, just focus on the key points that an unfamiliar reviewer would absolutely have to know in order to understand your character and their abilities.

Canon History

Please provide a summary of key points in your character's history in no more than 500 words. Bullet points are fine. If there is a wiki history for your character available, please also provide a link in addition to your summary. We're less interested in a list of every event in a character's canon/life, and more interested in a description of key moments that shaped the character.

Past Game History

Please provide a link to the main navigation for the game your CRAU character is arriving from, as well as a summary of key points in your character's prior game history, in no more than 500 words. Bullet points are fine. (There's no need to recount the basics of the game setting, we'll get that from the link.) We're less interested in a list of every event, and more interested in a description of key moments that shaped the character into who they are now.

Personality

Please describe your character's personality in 300-500 words. No need to touch on every aspect of their being, but do hit the key traits and motivations (as you see them) and demonstrate balance. Please make clear which aspects of their personality are from canon and which have changed as part of the CRAU. While it's expected that characters will have changed as a result of their experiences in other games, we expect that they will still remain true to the fundamental nature of the canon character, and that any development will logically follow from the events described in your history sections.

Prior CR

Please list 2 to 5 of your character's closest relationships (of any kind--canonmates or cross-canon, platonic or antagonistic or romantic) from their past game and briefly explain what that relationship was and how it influenced the character's development. This section shouldn't exceed 300 words.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Basically, what are they best at, and what are they worst at? Where can they help and where will they be a liability? Give us a general idea of areas of expertise and level of ability. While this needn't be 100% exhaustive in detail, any powers/magic/significant areas of expertise not listed here cannot later be used in game.

Please note which skills or abilities are from canon and which were developed in your prior game. If your character has superhuman abilities in canon, in their past game, or both, you can choose (1) to keep their canon power set, (2) to keep their game power set, or (3) to lose both. Your character cannot keep both game-granted abilities and canon abilities. If your character's canon abilities were removed in their previous game, you can choose to have them regain them in FR.

If your character has superhuman abilities, please describe these abilities in plain terms. Although Fade Rift is based on a video game, we don't write about abilities or attacks as if they are occurring in a video game. For example, characters will not have an ability called "Whirlwind" that enables them to spin in a circle and strike things with a sword. Just tell us they can use a greatsword and they're agile enough to spin in circles with it. And while we don't want to hear about saving throws or hit points, we do want a sense of the scale of their abilities, so please do include some ballpark parameters for stuff like how big a thing can they lift, how big a ring of fire can they create, how long can they stay transformed into a spider, etc.

Please make sure to read and comply with the FAQ sections on character abilities.

Suggested Nerfs

Many (if not most) abilities from other canons will be nerfed or adapted to Thedas. We want rifters to be unique and retain what makes them fun to play, but not to be so powerful that they render natives and especially unpowered characters superfluous to missions. A list of universally applied power limits is in the FAQ (http://faderifting.dreamwidth.org/966.html#nerfs). These nerfs will apply to all rifters unless we discuss a specific exception with you. Additionally, we may place other limits on rifters' abilities to prevent them from being too powerful compared to natives and unpowered characters. So if you have a high-powered character, please use this section of the app to suggest your own nerfs and let us know what's most and least important to you about their powerset so we can take it into consideration when we establish limits.

Arrival Inventory

What will your character have with them in the dream they arrive from? Please go ahead and list weapons, technology, and magical artifacts, though they may disappear or be bricked or altered by their passage through the Fade.

And please note that we really do mean what they have with them in their dream. They can arrive in plainclothes with their usual belongings from a dream about buying groceries, or they can arrive in a gorilla suit with a deflated hot air balloon from a dream that was a little less mundane. Since your character is arriving from a dream, they may be able to regain canon items, animals, etc. that were not permitted in their previous game.

Humanization

Please describe any ways that your character's canon form differs from that of a normal real world human. This should include all physiological differences, even if they're purely cosmetic (for instance, hair or eye color if not standard real world colors). Passage through the Fade will convert each character into a Thedas-standard human, elf, dwarf, or qunari. This means that in every physiological respect, both internal and external, they will be a member of one of those races.

If your character is not a human, elf, dwarf or qunari in their canon, which would you like them to exit the rift as?

Fit

Is there a reason you think this character would be particularly interesting in this setting? Are there particular aspects of the world you're hoping to dig into? Things about your character you think Thedas will help you explore? Will they have a personal connection to an issue, or act as a foil to another character/group/opinion? Give us a sense of what you think your character will bring to the game world and what you think they might take away from it. Basically, why did you choose this character in this game? This shouldn't be more than 300 words.

SAMPLES

Please provide 2 samples. It doesn't matter if you write a fresh top-level style starter for the app or link us to existing threads, and we don't care if you prefer brackets or normal punctuation, but at least one must be a log rather than network tags (or their setting-appropriate equivalent). One must take place in the world of Fade Rift, and the other in your previous game. They can be of any length, as long as they provide a sense of your character's voice and internal narrative. If we feel they aren't sufficient, we'll ask you for more.




CANON UPDATES

Once in Thedas, rifters don't return to their home universes unless they are dropped and later reapped by the same person. However, your character may acquire new memories from time after their originally apped canon point while asleep and traveling in the Fade. (If your character is a dwarf, please contact us for alternate options.) Your character will not change physically--no new scars, no overnight aging--but the memories will feel as real as if they've experienced them directly. This option is available to both canon and original rifter characters.

If you would like to use this mechanism to update your character, you can do so by submitting the following form as a comment during the rifter application period.



APPING PREVIOUSLY PLAYED CHARACTERS

We allow reapps of dropped characters by both the previous player and new players. Unless their players make other arrangements, dropped native characters generally fade into the background or are sent away on long-term missions. Dropped native AU characters may be reapped by their previous players with their in-game memories intact or by both previous and new players as a new person entirely, with a clean slate. Dropped rifters will have disappeared mysteriously from Thedas, unless killed off in-game prior to a drop. Previously played rifters may be reapped by their previous players with their in-game memories intact, or by both previous and new players with a clean slate.

Dropped Dragon Age canon characters are a little trickier. For characters who were only briefly present in the game or who were dropped a long time ago, it may be possible to retcon their involvement entirely and allow a new player to start fresh. For characters that were around for a while and may have established CR that other characters can't easily retcon, you can work with other players to determine what to keep and what to discard from character histories, and we can work with new players to allow for (selective) memory loss via an in-game mechanic.

If you plan to app a Dragon Age character, we recommend checking for a tag to see if they've previously been played, then contacting us to let us know if you're interested in a clean slate. If you don't want an entirely clean slate, most players who app previously played DA canon characters make OOC posts after acceptance to ask people to recap their previous CR, if any, and decide what CR to keep or change on a chase by case basis.

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wanda maximoff | mcu | rifter (1/3)

[personal profile] explosion 2024-09-08 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ fyi app includes references to genocide, murder, ptsd, war. i apologise on behalf of the mcu for the abilities section... ]

PLAYER

Name: Jade.
Age: 30 something according to maths, 80 in my soul.
Contact: PM or [plurk.com profile] 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!

CHARACTER

Name: Wanda Maximoff.
Canon/OC: MCU.
Canon Point: Post-Multiverse of Madness.
Journal: [personal profile] 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.
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    wanda maximoff | mcu | rifter (2/3)

    [personal profile] explosion 2024-09-08 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
    Strengths & Weaknesses

    • Knowledge of witchcraft — While Wanda grew up not knowing she was a witch, she's learned about magic and how to harness it as an adult. Given that she didn't know what runes were and was able to cast them without instruction after Agatha condescendingly explained that she had cast runes in her basement without demonstrating how, it's easily surmised she's a quick study and can easily pick up magic and harness it despite having little interaction with it beforehand.

    • Fast learner/ adaptability — Wanda's adapted to life in the West quickly. While her accent has become a bit of a meta-joke in the canon universe, it says a lot about her adaptability that she's able to mask her thick Eastern European accent and can easily manage an American one and can adapt to the American culture and way of life. Another example of her ability to adapt is how she quickly breaks out of Stephen Strange's Mirror Dimension by using reflections. Not many characters have been known to break out of the Mirror Dimension, and it took Strange over a day to do so when he was trapped (No Way Home). It took Wanda minutes.

    • Multilingualism — Wanda's fluent in Sokovian and English, and most likely can pick up other languages as well.

    • Attention to detail — Wanda escaped the bleak reality of her war-torn home life in Sokovia by disappearing into her television shows and movies. Wanda was able to replicate these sets and costumes (as well as music, language choices, foods, etc.) when she created her Hex in Westview to resemble an incredibly realistic television show that was reminiscent of the famous television eras it was taking inspiration from.

    • EGOT — She is the only person in the MCU who is probably an EGOT. She's won an Emmy, been nominated for a Golden Globe, probably would win an Oscar, and maybe even a Tony. She is creative! She is a multi-skilled television producer, interior set designer, costume designer, script writer, jingle creator, character developer, director, fantastic at PR, amazing marketing skills, etc. etc.

    • Poor coping skills — Oh, boy, does Wanda suck at coping. She does not have a healthy relationship with grief and loss, and instead burrows down inside herself and refuses to acknowledge it. Wanda's go-to is self-isolation, which is a punishment that only sees her postpone the inevitable. She buries things and doesn't deal; how she took over Westview is an example of how much trauma she's repressed over the years. Her emotions get the better of her and make her powers fluctuate, and even hurt those around her without her understanding.

    • Dependent on magic — Wanda is possibly one of the best magic wielders in the MCU. She is able to combine her abilities with the basic skills she's learned from Natasha Romanoff and Steve Rogers in hand-to-hand combat and spy training. However! Strip back her powers, and you're left with a woman who wouldn't be able to hold her own in a fight, nor would she be someone who could perform reconnaissance to the skill level of expert-trained spy, Natasha. She is very dependent on her magic to the point where it is a crutch. She uses it for everything.

    • Distract her if you dare! — When Wanda is distracted, she loses focus on her powers. Although we haven't seen Wanda be distracted when at her most OP, I would like to add this as a weakness of hers because even though she has such refined control over her abilities (especially her telepathy), Wanda is someone who can be interrupted when it comes to her magic-use and telepathic-use. She's able to be temporarily incapacitated with a sonic cannon (think a high pitched whistle). The biggest distraction one can wield against her is using her emotions against her (so, think Dead Vision!).


      • Wanda is pretty OP with a lot of powers under her belt. I know a lot of them are gamebreaking… Sorry, her powers are an absolute mess.

      PSIONIC POWERBASE
    • PSIONIC ENERGY MANIPULATION: She can project energy blasts, streams, waves and bolts of her own telekinetic energy, and takes a reddish power. This makes her a rather formidable opponent when it comes to combat. Her emotional state affects her control greatly and can sometimes get the better of her and overwhelm even Wanda.

    • TELEKINESIS: The ability to move things with her mind. Wanda's Telekinesis is extremely powerful; she was able to have an emotional breakdown while killing the Vision and holding back a powerful Titan possessing the almost-complete Infinity Gauntlet. She can levitate herself as well.

    • HEALING: Wanda's seen healing Vision when he's sliced through with a blade that can harm Vibranium products. It looks like she's mending his wires. We never see her heal anyone else.

    • DISINTEGRATION: Similarly to Telekinesis, she can rip things apart at a molecular level.

    • FORCE-FIELD GENERATION: Her psionic blasts can create forcefields she can use as shields and protective bubbles against magical attacks and attacks from manmade weaponry such as bullets.

    • FLIGHT: She is able to use her psionic energy to lift herself up into the air and even levitate. Wanda will be able to do this without using her psionic red energy in the late future.

    • TELEPATHY: The ability to read and control someone's mind. Wanda often uses this to experience the person's most traumatic memory. She can infiltrate minds and take control of people. From this power, Wanda is also capable of mind manipulation and emotional manipulation where she can change someone's emotions and amplify them. Wanda is capable of controlling thousands of minds at the same time and can do this on autopilot, even controlling them without actively focusing on them (i.e. in Westview, Wanda controlled every single citizen to the point where they were going about their daily lives as her per script). She does not tire.


      • MASTER SORCERESS
    • CHAOS MAGIC: Wanda is capable of spontaneous creation, which is shown in the same red energy as her psionic abilities. These creations are corporeal and very much like objects and people who exist in our reality. (They are very real! Super duper powerful magic users may sense something off.) Within this is also spell casting including runes and sensing magic. Wanda's red bursts of energy (or hexes) are spells cast without incantation and are of her own will.

    • REALITY MANIPULATION: Wanda can warp reality to the point where she can take over an entire town and control the people within it every second of every day without growing tired. She can change landscapes, conjure people, and change them at a whim's notice. I'm going to put under this power her ability to manipulate illusions, weather, and elements as these powers are logically a subset of this ability.

    • CONJURATION: The ability to conjure objects at will. These objects are life-like and flawless.

    • TRANSMUTATION: The ability to change an objects' form. As a part of this power, she is able to bring fake things to life.

    • LIFE CREATION: This sits under Chaos Magic, but I feel it's important to pull out considering the nature of what she can do. She creates Vision based on her memories of the real Vision. This Vision was a flawless replica of the real Vision, and even fooled the likes of Darcy Lewis who thought that he was real based on what information she knew about Wanda and Vision. She also created her own children who had their own personalities and powers and behaved like young children would.

    • POWER BESTOWAL: She can apparently grant powers to those who are born without them. When Monica Rambeau walked through her Hex, she was given abilities that gave her light manipulation powers.

    • TIME MANIPULATION: The ability to manipulate time. Wanda can rewind time to the point where a day restarts.

    • TELEPORTATION: Wanda is able to teleport people to locations and can teleport herself.

    • ENERGY ABSORPTION: She can absorb power/energy from people. She does this by absorbing and taking away Agatha Harkness' powers despite Agatha being a witch who is over four centuries her senior. Wanda hunts America Chavez who is not a magic user and successfully begins to absorb her multidimensional travelling power. She successfully absorbed Earth-838 Captain Marvel's cosmic power, rendering Captain Marvel powerless. (I would also assume she could absorb the energy from non-human beings such as worlds and objects.)

    • ASTRAL PROJECTION: Wanda is able to project her being into being in two places at once. Unlike other magic users, her prime self does not need to be asleep. She is able to exist as both entities and does not tire.

    • DARKHOLD MAGIC: Although she doesn't have the Darkhold in-game, she does have the knowledge of the Book of the Damned, which contained spells such as dreamwalking (the ability to transfer her consciousness into the body of her other selves across the universe and still have active use of her powers). What else it contained has remained unconfirmed, but I mention it because it might produce some fun player plots!

    • NEXUS BEING: Wanda is also a Nexus Being, which hasn't exactly been established in the MCU as of yet (although, it was teased in a commercial during WandaVision and implied Wanda was a Nexus Being like her comic book counterpart and Kang has been confirmed as a Nexus Being), it's safe to assume that Wanda will be established as one in the MCU. (I figure I'd mention it in case it's finally confirmed and I can seek mod permission to include whatever this ends up being in her powerset.)


      • MASTER COMBATANT (WITH MAGIC): While Wanda relies more heavily on her abilities when in a fight, since being with the Avengers, she has developed a more hands-on type of fighting style that she incorporates her magic into.

      DURABILITY: She's also pretty durable. Strange shoved her into the Mirrorverse and when she broke out of it, she could repair the shard-like broken fractures of herself with little effort. She's also pretty durable to magical attacks; she can receive blasts that knock her on her ass and then… get back up again.
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    [personal profile] explosion 2024-09-08 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
    Suggested Nerfs

    I know Wanda is Very OP. The way I've gone about suggesting nerfs is caveating a lot of them with "I'd like to have access to them when proposing a player plot with these powers" (which I hope is okay!).

    One blanket nerf that I'd like to play with is her turning grey/gaunt and this grey gauntness causing her pain when she tries to over-exert herself, given that I understand she needs to face difficulties when using her magic based on balancing FR power-wise. What I'm thinking of is how she turns grey/gaunt when she throws her magic at Agatha to absorb in WandaVision. [ scene ref. ]


    PSIONIC POWERBASE
  • PSIONIC ENERGY MANIPULATION: Can this stay as is but be limited to line of sight only?

  • TELEKINESIS: Happy to follow your lead re: nerfs.

  • HEALING: I'd prefer to ignore this power and shove it under "transmutation" as it's more fun.

  • DISINTEGRATION: She can't disintegrate anything or anyone greater than a car. Happy for this to be nerfed further!

  • FORCE-FIELD GENERATION: Her force fields are small, can only protect three or so people, last fifteen minutes, and drain her if she tries to uphold them for longer than fifteen minutes.

  • FLIGHT: However you prefer to nerf this.

  • TELEPATHY/MIND CONTROL:
    (1) I like to play Wanda as intentionally not listening to the constant murmuring of those around her so that I can OOCly avoid overstepping with players and mods. She can tune people out and does so. (I'd like to keep this intact as much as possible since her telepathy is a Big Thing for her character.)
    (2) I will make a permissions post asking for people to opt in/out of telepathy/mind control if accepted and won't have Wanda use this ability without explicit player permission.
    (3) Given she can control the entire population of Westview without even thinking about it, this is not something I want to pursue in game without explicit mod/player permission.
    (4) I'd also like her to get a migraine if she tries to mind control people for too long!

    (I read somewhere on the game pages that Thedas is anti-mind control, which is something I'm willing to play with wrt negative character consequences.)


    • MASTER SORCERESS
  • CHAOS MAGIC:
    (1) Spontaneous creation — I'd like it if this could remain intact as Wanda uses this ability as a crutch, and could use it to help out in Thedas. I know her spontaneous creation is pretty unlimited, so if she wants to create anything on the scale of buildings, I'd like to seek mod permission before pursuing such activities.
    (2) Runes — Happy for you to lead me with this one since I think runes are a part of Dragon Age?
    (3) Spells without incantation — As Wanda can pretty much create her own spells (??? wild, I know), I'd prefer this to be explored in player plots so that it can have consequences for everyone to play with, considering Thedas is heavy on magic.

  • REALITY MANIPULATION:
    (1) I don't want her to be able to reality warp on the scale of Westview without mod permission. Could she reality warp small things like changing a two-storey house? (I'd love to do player plots with this ability!)
    (2) Illusions — She can maintain small scale illusions (like making her blackened fingers look normal), but cannot maintain large illusions without tiring.

  • CONJURATION: I'd like it if she could keep this ability, but not be able to conjure large objects the size of a two-storey house or bigger. (Objects that would break the game/are not feasible would be off the table.)

  • TRANSMUTATION: I'd like it if she could keep this ability, but not be able to transmute large objects (let's go with the size of a two-storey house again) and that this would require a lot of effort on her part if she did try to transmute large objects.

  • LIFE CREATION: Can't access without mod permission. This is not an ability I seek to play with unless I can adapt it for a player plot.

  • POWER BESTOWAL: I'd prefer to ignore this exists and only use it if it brings about a fun player plot.

  • TIME MANIPULATION: Can't access without mod permission—I'd love to keep it available for a player plot.

  • TELEPORTATION: Can't teleport over great distances, or teleport more than one person with her.

  • ENERGY ABSORPTION: I'd like it if she could keep this ability, but if she tries to absorb people/objects, perhaps she gets some magical blowback/feels ill/some side effects from it. (I'd also like to bring in her turning grey/gaunt if she tries to absorb energy from people.)

  • ASTRAL PROJECTION: Happy to nerf this as you see fit.

  • DARKHOLD MAGIC: I'd prefer this to be accessible via player plots considering the Darkhold is still most likely being fleshed out in the MCU (with Agatha All Along potentially giving us some more info!) and it would have ramifications I think would be fun to play with the game at large.

  • NEXUS BEING: I have no idea what this is going to look like in the MCU, so if it's ever properly established, I'll come back to the mods to discuss how it can be incorporated/nerfed.

  • DURABILITY: Girl's getting beaten up!


    • I noted in the app notes that I can let you know what's most important to me re: her powers for nerf considerations: I really like her ability to control things as this taps into her incapability of processing grief/loss (which is an arc that I enjoy writing out and exploring), but I'd rather access these abilities as player plots where I can have access to consequences. The powers that are most important to my characterisation of Wanda are telekinesis, creation/transmutation, reality manipulation, telepathy, and energy absorption.

    Hit me with nerfs! I did my best and wanted to give you an idea as to how I hoped to use her powers in game, but suspect they may require further nerfing/adapting to Thedas (and because I'm not familiar with DA, I suspect I have missed some things!).

    Arrival Inventory

  • Scarlet Witch outfit and wimple

  • Wedding ring

  • Photograph of (Aaron Taylor-Johnson!)Pietro, her boys Billy and Tommy, and Vision

  • Westview property deed

  • WandaVision poster


    • Humanization

    She's a human who is a witch—but she does like synthezoids!


    Fit

    Being dropped into a weird world will not be unusual for Wanda!

    Other than the fact Wanda has nowhere to go and doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere in the Multiverse, I feel like her being in Thedas will let her rebuild her identity and confidence, and allow her to see that she's not All That Bad. She has the potential to be a leader; I want her to stop being a sheep and start being a wolf that leads the pack.

    Wanda is a perfect fit magical-wise! Magic is something I'd love to explore with her, considering MCU's magic is very… blah at best. She's someone who can teach and be taught, and it's something that I wish we got to see in the MCU, so I want to bring it here!

    But ultimately, what I want to explore with Wanda is her depending less on her magic and more on herself. With FR's nerfs, I feel like this gives me the opportunity to have her learn how to be less dependent on it. She received some very basic training from Natasha Romanoff when it comes to spying—since Wanda clearly loves playing characters (look at her magnum opus WandaVision!), I want to go a different route than expected with her and have her look into applying different skills in different places.

    At the end of the day, I want Wanda to find a place where she belongs… while honouring the fact that she's bound to mess up. I want her to be messy, controlling, trying to do the right thing and succeeding at it, trying to do the right thing and messing it up, and just generally being a fun character for others to deal with.


    SAMPLES

    TDM + PSL thread ( Eventually turns NSFW! )
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    ACCEPTED + NOTES

    [personal profile] faderifting 2024-09-16 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
    WELCOME

    Your application has been approved, with the following notes:
    First! This is going to be long, so we want to start by explaining why. The game is centered around mission-based mod and player plots and we want everyone to be able to contribute meaningfully to missions and for characters to need to collaborate. That means designing plots to be accessible to non-powered characters but also not be immediately solved by powered characters, so we try to keep everyone's utility roughly balanced around native mage-level power/utility and bring rifters onto the same playing field. We try to keep the most unique and character-defining aspects of rifters' power sets, but for characters who are coming from canons on a different scale than Dragon Age (like the MCU) or who are extremely powerful (like Wanda), that can still mean a lot of nerfs. We nerf power sets holistically, based on the maximum power level we're aiming for.

    This all means we can't allow Wanda to retain overpowered abilities on the promise that they won't be used outside special situations or without mod approval. It's not that we don't believe you or don't appreciate the impulse to create plots! But we try to avoid situations where characters have powers they aren't able to use for OOC reasons because that forces everyone involved to find IC explanations for that character not solving problems even when it is literally their job to solve them. The nature of the game would mean having to come up with these explanations constantly and that's not a burden we're comfortable imposing.

    However! FR has mechanisms that could allow you to do those power-reliant player plots you're interested in even if the powers aren't part of Wanda's abilities anymore. For instance, finding a place or artifact that temporarily amplifies her power in a certain way for the timespan of the plot, etc. So if you're interested in running a plot that would rely on an ability we've nerfed, hit us up with a plot request for the general idea/end result you're looking for, and we can try to help figure out a way to get there.

    Some general notes:
    ↠ All mages and rifters have a "line of sight" limitation on their powers: they can't cast spells or otherwise affect things too far away to see or fully hidden behind another object, or "shoot" magic around corners, etc. Ongoing concentration/maintenance to prevent decay of previously cast magic will also require proximity and a clear path.

    ↠ All mages and rifters' abilities can be dispelled, halted by Templar/Seeker abilities, or prevented by magebane and anti-magic objects.

    ↠ Rifters are susceptible to the Blight and their magic can't impact the Blight in any way. In Wanda's case, this means she can't transmute a blighted object into one that is now unblighted, turn the Blight itself into anything else, or use her mind control to override the Blight-based mind control used by Corypheus or the Old Gods.

    ↠ Rifters can't learn native magic/spells. However, studying native magic may help them understand the new limits or alterations to their own abilities, and studying mages' techniques for channeling energy from the Fade can assist them in being able to do their own magic (which now relies on Fade energy the same as natives' does) more efficiently. Likewise, native mages or rifters from other worlds will not be able to learn how to do a rifter's unique type of magic.

    ↠ All mages and powered rifters use the same energy source for their powers ("mana" in the games, but that's kind of silly so we mostly call it energy) with similar capacities to access that energy. It's subject to exhaustion, so doing large-scale magic will mean Wanda can't do other magic at the same time or immediately after. It's possible to run out of energy, same as with physical energy, and need a recovery period to be back at 100%. If you'd like her to begin looking grey/gaunt as she overexerts herself, that's fine with us!

    ↠ The MCU wiki has had a tendency to label characters masters of any skill they exhibit in the slightest—like saying Steve Rogers has "exceptionally perfect charisma"—so we want to be clear that we're only approving what's discussed here, not anything else on the wiki. We generally ask people to be conservative about extrapolating or expanding on canon skills and abilities, especially when someone has a lot of them already (e.g., of course she can learn new languages over time, but no faster than anyone else) and that wiki does the opposite.

    ↠ If future MCU adds to or clarifies the extent of Wanda's abilities in a way you're eager to use in FR, please let us know via the Mod Contact. We're happy to discuss, but FYI we're not likely to approve additions to her power set unless they come with a trade-off like losing access to some of her current abilities.

    ↠ You'll see references in the game to specialization slots. Some characters can gain additional powers in-game if they haven't already reached their full potential as of their app. In Wanda's case, she's already at the max power level we'd allow, so she won't be able to gain any additional powers by purchasing specs down the road.

    ↠ All magic will come with a chance of failure or (in the case of telepathic powers) resistance. You don't have to roll for anything unless you feel like it, but the possibility of a spell missing its target or someone shaking off her control will still be there and can be used whenever narratively fun.
    Some specific ones:
    ↠ Psionic Energy: Will be less powerful than she's used to, with a maximum damage level of flipping over a wagon or cracking (but not shattering) a boulder. The degree of energy required to incapacitate a person with a single blast will be sufficient that she needs to pause before she can do further magic, while smaller blasts that are more like being punched in the chest she can fire off more rapidly. Expanding the size/breadth of the energy, such as using it as a wide wave rather than a concentrated blast, will mean spreading the same energy across a wider area and therefore make it weaker.

    ↠ Force Field Generation: Along the lines you proposed, these will be limited to the power equivalent of native mages' Barrier in power but with a distinct form for her as a visible red shield. It will decay and lose power faster if it's hit by magic or physical force. Sufficient force (like a rockslide) could cause it to collapse almost instantly.

    ↠ Telekinesis, Disintegration & Flight: Will be limited to a maximum size and weight of a truck-sized boulder and a max distance of 100 yards. The closer the object gets to her max size, the shorter the distance it goes, so she can throw a truck-sized boulder 20 yards, or a garbage bag full of marshmallows 100 yards, with objects of various mass on a sliding scale in between. At the other end of the spectrum, trying to control anything smaller than a bowling ball will also disturb the objects and space around it, and she won't be able to manipulate something with enough complexity to, for example, tie a knot or pick a lock. She can throw people, but she won't be able to lift herself. Lifting someone else in a manner meant to 'fly' them safely rather than fling them in anger will be possible but more difficult. She won't be able to disintegrate things.

    ↠ Telepathy & Mind Control: Both of these will require a permissions post/opt-out and will only work when she is putting effort into it. The effort can be subconscious on her part, akin to staring at someone in public without really realizing it, but her telepathy won't always be on in the background, will require a degree of attention being directed at the target, and will use some of her magical energy when employed. She'll only be able to use telepathy or mind control on one person at a time.

    She'll have to be able to see someone and have them be within 20 or so feet of her to initiate telepathy, emotional manipulation, or mind control. Her ongoing ability to read their thoughts or manipulate their emotions will end if they leave that range, but if her emotional manipulation has put someone in a mood that mood could continue to coast on its own. Mind control instructions she's given them may also linger for up to an hour or two past that point, with the caveat that they'll become much easier for people to break free of. Having someone ask them what they're doing, seeing something unusual, or doing something very out of character/against their own interests, like jumping off a cliff, all could make them snap out of it unless she's right there actively enforcing the control. Getting a migraine if she sustains it is fine with us; trying to maintain control more than an hour should exhaust her.

    As you mentioned, mind control in Thedas is associated with blood magic and heavily stigmatized. Among NPCs in particular it will be met with fear and maybe violence, as well as having blowback for Riftwatch's reputation if they're known to associate with people who use it. If at any point she's going to use mind control in a way that will leave NPC witnesses, let us know in advance so we can discuss the fallout.

    ↠ Illusions: Wanda can create illusions to disguise her hands or something else of roughly the same size. They'll require some of her energy to maintain, and they'll fade within an hour or so if she stops. Additionally, illusions must be more or less in line with what people would expect to see; if they don't align with expectations and are closely examined, they'll be noticeably off. So disguising her hand as an uninjured hand will be effective, but if she disguised her hand as cat's paw, people would see the seams.

    ↠ Spontaneous Creation, Life Creation & Conjuration: Wanda can create inanimate objects as large as a 20 x 20 x 20 foot area, or the equivalent in smaller objects. Her proximity will be required to keep those objects intact; if she sends someone off with conjured coins, for example, they'll vanish by the time they get a couple blocks away. If she creates objects exceeding that overall volume, objects created earlier will dissolve to make room for the new ones. She'll only be able to create objects insofar as she's familiar with them; she can't conjure a key for a lock if she hasn't memorized the correct shape of the right key in advance.

    She won't be able to create magical objects. She can fake a magical effect using her reality manipulation, but that will be capped at her own power level and available energy to expend—she can't make anything more powerful than she is herself, and she can't make an object that continues to be magical on its own. The same rules apply to any technology not available in Thedas—she could make an ipad and use her powers to give it the illusion of working, but it wouldn't actually function or have real chips inside it.

    When she creates living beings, simple creatures—up to a frog, say—may last for an extended period of time with a bit of energy and focus from her, but will require that energy and thus limit what else she can do. Complex ones like people will require enough energy to maintain that she won't be able to do other magic at the same time. They'll exhaust her and collapse in on themselves within an hour at most. They also won't actually have fully sentient existence; they can walk and talk and seem like people but will be more like interacting with an AI bot she trained to respond in the style of the person and will be similarly limited by her own knowledge of the person in question (or the character she has invented if they're not mimicking someone real).

    Like native mages, she can prolong the time she can keep creations around using lyrium potions, but prolonged heavy lyrium use has consequences, so touch base with us if that's something you want to pursue.

    ↠ Reality Manipulation & Transmutation: Wanda can manipulate physical reality in a 20 x 20 x 20 ft area, subject to the same limitations on creation/conjuration above. She will only be able to replicate existing objects or spaces if she's already familiar with them. She can maintain the changes she's made as long as she's exerting control over them, but while she does she can't do any other magic that requires active effort beyond minor telekinesis. Once she stops exerting control over the space or leaves the area, reality will reassert itself over the next half hour or so, with the biggest changes reverting fastest and more subtle ones potentially lingering a bit longer. The exception to this is transmutation of inanimate objects that changes only their appearance or shape without changing the underlying substance. E.g., if she changes a wooden table into a wooden chair, or changes the color or cut of her clothes, that can be permanent and will not require active magical maintenance.
    Lastly, Wanda will no longer have the following abilities:
    ↠ She won't be able to do astral projection, teleportation, time manipulation, power bestowal, healing, or energy absorption, and she won't be able to use runes (or glyphs, which is what runes as she knows them would probably be called in Thedas).

    ↠ She can remember what she read about Darkhold Magic, but the spells themselves won't work here.

    ↠ She won't be able to invent any additional spells/magic not covered by her existing abilities. She can assign names/rituals/etc. to specific permutations of her existing abilities if you want, but creating new magic won't be allowed.

    ↠ Wanda will have the same durability as a normal human.

    We know this is a lot so please feel free to reach out with questions! We tried to be comprehensive, but could've missed/misunderstood something. In general, if you're unsure whether we meant to allow something, a good rule of thumb is if it would make the character significantly more powerful than other PCs or let her singlehandedly resolve a plot, it's probably not what we had in mind! but you can always check with us on the Mod Contact.
    Welcome to Fade Rift! Before you start playing, please:
    ↠ Read the Rifter FAQ and particularly the sections relating to Arrival and Anchors.
    ↠ Join the Log, "Network," OOC, and (optional) Meme comms.
    ↠ Reply to the Taken List.
    ↠ Reply to the Player Contact List.
    ↠ Take a look at the most recent mod post concerning the state of the game and any plot sign-ups that may be ongoing.
    You're then welcome to post an introduction to the OOC comm! Since your character is arriving via rift, you're welcome to post a rift arrival log or to begin RP in the Gallows and simply handwave that members of Riftwatch met your character on their arrival through the rift, helped them close it, and brought them to Kirkwall. If you have any questions, let us know.
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    [personal profile] explosion 2024-09-16 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
    Thank you so much for such a comprehensive reply (especially for someone who only knows Dragon Age from osmosis and reading some stuff in game)! This is so helpful.

    I'm really fine with her not being able to gain any powers (she really does have Enough, goodness) and completely understand MCU Wiki's tendency to call everyone a master (she's most definitely not a master at some of the stuff they've mentioned on there) so everything I mentioned in my app and what you've provided nerfs for is what I want her to have access to/be her skill level. I will definitely reach out if I'm unsure about something, and if Wanda's going to be Wanda and be in a situation that may potentially reap negative consequences for Riftwatch! (Sorry in advance…)

    Thank you guys again! Eee.
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