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Character Base

• Character Name: Wanda Maximoff.
• Age: 33.
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: MCU: Post-Wandavision (15 Jan 2021).
• Items Coming Along:

1. Wanda's house.
2. Darkhold.
3. Scarlet Witch outfit.
4. Dog.
5. The house plans of her residence at Westview.
6. Photograph of her family.

• Content Warnings for Character: Death, depression, experimentation, genocide, genetic mutation, grief, mind control, murder, terrorist organisation, and war.

Original Deerington Application

• Link to Accepted Deerington Application: Here.
• Additional Adjustments to include:

The Avengers
With the loss of her home in Sokovia, Wanda joins the Avengers in the United States and finds a new patchwork family of misfits. But even with this new, bigger family, Wanda is still alone. She misses Pietro to the point where her grief is overpowering. She feels alone in a foreign country she can't even explore due to the fact she's not a citizen. She's being housed by the man who is responsible for the bombs that killed her family and destroyed her home. Despite being far way from her war-torn Sokovia with a group of people, Wanda has no one.

That is until Vision comes along. But aside from Vision and her blossoming friendship with him, Wanda's relationship with the Avengers members is present but doesn't seem overly deep. (This is most likely due to the narrative not having a place for her in the ultimate story of Steve Rogers and Tony Stark, so I'm trying to rationalise it a little here.)

Despite seeming close with Clint Barton, once the Avengers disband after the events of Endgame, the death of Thanos, and the sacrifices by Tony and Steve, Clint doesn't call Wanda. Wanda doesn't call Clint. Burdening him with her grief when he's gotten his family back from the Blip isn't an answer. Wanda puts on a brave face, as always, and deals with it alone. She's Wanda doesn't seem to have a support system in the aftermath of returning from being Blipped for five years and losing the love of her life (Vision) in an incredibly traumatic event.

Wanda travels to Westview all by herself. She doesn't reach out to anyone else to help her. She doesn't call Clint. She doesn't call anyone who's leftover—Sam Wilson, in particular, with who she seemed to have a budding friendship is never mentioned.

Wanda has never been someone who has been a social butterfly. She doesn't steal dresses to impress girls like Pietro. She doesn't flourish with the Avengers. Wanda remains quiet and isolated because she has lost so many people—her parents, her country, her brother—and has only ever known how to depend on two people: Pietro and herself.

It's easy to surmise that Wanda isn't someone who is overly social and therefore isn't one to go out and make friends. The only time we ever see her interact with characters outside of the Avengers and Avenger business is in Westview when she crafts her own episodic scripts to bewitch the entire town to play out. Despite being a witch who can mind control hundreds of people, Wanda still doesn't magic herself a best friend.

Relationship with Agatha Harkness
Agatha Harkness had posed herself to be a potential good friend of Wanda's. She stepped in when Wanda was having a dinner crisis. She always seemed to have the right advice. She guided Wanda in a new town that Wanda had scripted herself in being new to. Agatha was a friend and ally who Wanda trusted to look after her sons when she needed a break. It's easy to surmise that Wanda immediately took to Agatha and befriended and trusted her because Agatha gave her no reason to distrust her. She was helpful, friendly, and kind, and she accepted Wanda for who she was. She let Wanda play her role of being the housewife who was happily married with a full family. Agatha stuck to the script.

With Agatha's betrayal and the eventual reveal of her true identity and motivations, Wanda has, once again, lost someone. While Wanda doesn't appear to be overly remorseful over the loss of the friendship (she seems more gleeful at the idea of dooming Agatha to a life of living out an episodic stereotype), it's merely another betrayal and reason for Wanda to remain isolated and alone.

Every time she trusts someone, she finds that they either die or reveal themselves to be untrusting. When it comes to Agatha, Wanda's found that not only has she discovered someone who could potentially accept her for who she truly is, but someone who she cannot trust to have her best interests at heart.

Relationship with Monica Rambeau
Monica proves herself to be the one person who refuses to see Wanda as a monster. Despite Wanda using her magic against Monica and even pulling her into her magical episodic sitcom and renaming her, Monica never gives up on her. Monica sees Wanda for the person she is—a grief-stricken daughter, sister, friend, wife, and mother—and pleads to the human inside of her while Agatha had been pleading to the witch.

Monica's kindness is strange to Wanda and it's what she seems to use to only propel herself even further into isolation after the events of Westview. Rather than confide in Monica and trust in her after Westview's Hex collapses, Wanda runs away. Monica forgiving her, Monica rationalising her behaviour, and Monica ultimately refusing to buy Wanda's narrative that she's the villain is too much for someone who is so used to controlling the narrative and the minds of others.

Monica is someone who has the potential to be a positive influence on Wanda. Not only has she lost someone in a traumatic way, but she's also someone who is in touch with her feelings and has the ability to articulate them—something that Wanda clearly doesn't possess if her taking a town under emotional control is anything to go by.

Relationship with her family: Vision, Tommy and Billy Maximoff
When Wanda gives birth to Tommy and Billy, her happily ever after is complete. She's happy. She's fulfilled, she feels whole again, and she has a family unit to keep her from feeling adrift and alone. Wanda blossoms in the presence of her sons and her husband, and seems to glow and be brighter as a person. She doesn't bear the burdens of her grief when she's with her family, and her sons even challenge her to begin articulating her grief when she's spent years running away from it. (Pietro being "away" makes "me very sad". When the boys want to resurrect their dead dog, Wanda refuses to do it, a stark contrast to the fact she resurrected Vision.)

Vision is a big player in Wanda's life, and his role only increases in intensity during the course of Westview. He becomes someone she's so desperate to capture and to hold close to her. The idea of Vision discovering that Westview is a lie is frightening to her, and so Wanda does everything she can—she even starts the end credits to her episode—to try and distract him.

Vision is the only person, aside from Pietro, who has ever tried to relate to her on a personal level. Despite being a synthezoid who doesn't initially have the same emotional capacity and experiences as Wanda, Vision does his best to try and understand her grief and her feelings. He gives her space and he gives her the freedom to be herself—however she chooses to give that to him. "What is grief if not love persevering?" is the question that she had needed to hear since she was eleven years old and buried beneath the rubble of her childhood home.

Westview
Westview was meant to be Wanda's home—her endgame. It was meant to be her happily ever after. At the end of every series, the protagonist gets her conclusion—and this was meant to be hers.

Without Vision, Wanda loses control and takes over an entire town. She even loses her own sense of self in the meantime. Tapping into her love of sitcoms, Wanda controls the entire town to live out episodes and stereotypes of television characters in the sitcoms she used to love as a little girl.

At first, she seems like a fish out of water in a new town of people who simply find her a little eccentric. Wanda doesn't fit in. She's not able to read social cues right (she and Vision have some funny miscommunication that ends up with her wearing lingerie for a dinner his boss attends) and she doesn't fit in (joining the ladies of the neighbourhood sees her struggling to laugh on cue and stir her tea without watching another lady do it first). Despite having complete control over the town and the people inside of it, Wanda never creates a narrative that sees her fit in, which suggests that, deep down, Wanda's desiring to be accepted for who she is.

As the events of Westview begin to deteriorate and Wanda's own conscious seems to raise its hand and make itself known, the people of Westview slowly come to. Rather than come to understand Wanda and show their empathy, they're rightfully frightened and hateful of her. It's her nightmares that they experience. It's her nightmares that they lived. Their lives had been changed with some of their identifies altered completely. Some of them have been split form their families. Children weren't allowed outside of their rooms. Wanda had unintentionally tortured a town of people to free herself from her own inner torment that she has been carrying for decades now.

Her relationship with Westview is a complicated one. She had intended it to be her home, and now she has none. She had been hoping to start anew with Vision, and she doesn't have her new beginning nor Vision. Wanda will never be able to go back to Westview because not only will the townspeople never welcome her back, but if she goes back, she has to accept what she has done—and Wanda very well knows that what she has done was beyond cruel.

Important event in Deerington
Wanda had a canon update during her time in Deerington to the end of WandaVision. Notably, she took over and magicked a portion of Deerington and its residents to believe that they were in 1950s-60s sitcoms and character stereotypes for a week. In the aftermath of this event, Wanda was met with understanding, compassion and even interest from the residents who were affected. This is an incredibly poignant moment during her short time in Deerington as she had only been met with uncertainty, distrust, and even disgust at what she could do. Wanda's been challenged—and is continued to be challenged—by the compassion, understanding and various experiences lived by the people of Deerington that are also challenging her beliefs and self-view.

Deer Country Attributes

• Canon Powers: Wanda's canon powers are an amplified set to the suggested Darkblood powers, so this would work in a complementary style.

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.
• 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 over hundreds 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.
• REALITY MANIPULATION: Wanda can warp reality to the point where she can take over an entire town and control the people within it at every second of every day without growing tired.
• CONJURATION: The ability to conjure objects at will. These objects are life-like and flawless.
• 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.
• TRANSMUTATION: The ability to change an objects' form. As a part of this power, she is able to bring fake things to life.

MASTER COMBATANT: 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. She's still not the strongest fighter without her abilities.

• Blood Type: Darkblood.
• Omen: Cheetah named Peter.
• Blessed Day: 1 March. (First appearance in Marvel comics.)
• Patron Pthumerian: Moss King.

Wanda would feel curious by him—to be someone who has seen all futures and be almost disinterested in it is something that would greatly intrigue her. Given that he's the type to not give a shit about others, having him as her Patreon might dig into her more impulsive urges and darker personality traits. She would be curious to know what he thought of the Darkhold. He can also see the future... so she'd be curious to know if he's seen a future with Pietro alive.

And being able to give visions of people's worst fates ala nightmares? They've got so much in common already.

• Blood Power Manifestation:

As Wanda already possesses the ability to manipulate time, move things with her mind, and alter reality on an incredibly powerful scale, she already has access and experience to the powerset described for a Darkblood. With that said, I do want to explore Wanda's abilities, how far she's willing to go with her powers and self-tutelage, and even explore the darker side to Wanda Maximoff (the way she can control minds so skillfully, how she takes her anger out on those around her using her powers, using her powers for personal gain, and even trying to get her family back), which will include her trying to push her Darkblood as far as she can.

• DARKBLOOD ACTIVATION: When Wanda taps into her Darkblood, her telltale scarlet energy will begin to darken into a deeper red until it's almost black. The more she taps into the Darkblood, the darker and more polluted her magic becomes. (When she uses her own powers, this takes on the usual scarlet colouring.) I do love the idea of my original Deerington power nerfs so if she uses the Darkblood a lot, her skin will begin to turn a shade of grey.

The Player

• Player Name: Jade.
• Player Age: 18+.
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Other Characters

Link to Character 1 overall AC: Wanda.
Link to Character 2 overall AC: Katherine.