Post by Quicksilver on Jul 8, 2009 22:09:07 GMT -5
::Scarlet Witch::
Name: Wanda Maximoff
Codename: Scarlet Witch
Affiliation: Brotherhood
Age: 32
Physical Appearance:
Height: 5'7
Weight: 132 lbs (60 kg)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dark Auburn
Strengths:
Wanda merely possess the strength of an average human, who engages in regular exercise.
Weaknesses:
Perception Range: Her range of hex-casting is limited by her line of sight. (She can't watch a live television broadcast and cause a hex-phenomenon to occur at its point of origin.)
Physical Condition: Hexes had a degree of unreliability, which was further affected by her physical condition: when well rested, in good health, and mentally and emotionally alert, Scarlet Witch could cast numerous hex-spheres in rapid succession and attain desirable results for almost an hour.
Other: Despite her gypsy appearance, as she remembers most of her childhood, Wanda is a sucker for 80s music. Also, Pietro is perhaps the only person that can make her act immature; arguing with him like young siblings. Also, Wanda is still hesitant of doing any real harm to people. While she doesn't like humans, she rather not hurt them.
Also, she still loves Kurt, which leads to hesitation when she fights the X-Men.
Powers:
Chaos Magic Reality Warping: Scarlet Witch's main power is the superhuman ability to manipulate chaos magic, given to her by the demon Chthon (imprisoned within Wundagore Mountain) when she was born. Her hexes were, by extension, simple, indirect manifestations of this magic, destabilizing probabilities by inducing chaos. Truthfully, she has the power to warp reality, yet she has not understood the true potential of this power, or how to fully control them.
Hex Bolts: Initially, the Scarlet Witch had the ability to manipulate probability via her "hexes" (often manifesting physically as "hex spheres" or "hex bolts"). These hexes are relatively short range, and are limited to her line of sight. In short, her powers effects luck, causing projectiles to miss or reflect, or doors to open, or even power to go out of control.
Flight: Simply, she has the power of flight, but it could be due to her reality-warping abilities.
Other Skills:
Knowledge of Sorcery: Wanda was trained by Agatha Harkness in witchcraft. Her sorceress training has not given her a set of powers separate from her mutant abilities, but only honed her control over her existing abilities. She has, however, a special affinity for the natural elements and materials that witches utilize in their spells: the four alchemical elements, wood, organic substances, etc.
History:
About the same as her brother, Pietro, Wanda was placed in a orphanage, as a baby, before taken in the care of a gypsy couple. But, later as teens, their camp were under attacked by angry villagers, forcing them to flee forever from their family and fend off for themselves.
Using their powers to steal just to live, Wanda later accidentally caused a house to go up in flames with her hex powers, which she had no control over that time. Superstitious townspeople began chasing her, thinking she was a witch. Despite Pietro's attempt to defend her, they were soon overpowered and were about to become victims of mob violence when Magneto came to their rescue. Unaware that he was their natural father, Magneto pressed them into service in his Brotherhood.
For a few months, they served Magneto, fighting off the X-Men, but Wanda was more hesitant, as she grew feelings for one of them, Nightcrawler. During one battle, Wanda's magical powers grew out of control, nearly destroying both the X-Men and Brotherhood. During her outbreak, her reality powers allowed her to see a 'doorway' to the past, to find out that Magneto was her and Pietro's father. And after that, she accidentally teleported to New Salem. There, she met an old lady, Agatha Harkness, who supposedly was one of the original Salem witches.
For the past months, Agatha had been teaching Wanda how to control her powers; learning to suppress her reality-bending abilities from going out of control. But during that time, Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) discovered her whereabouts, but kept her location a secret as he visited her from time to time. One thing led to another and...well...later, Wanda found out she was pregnant with Kurt's child.
But such a surprise led to one brief happy life as Kurt stayed with Wanda after the birth of Talia for a couple of years. But things became...distant later on. Kurt still had a duty with the X-Men, and Wanda, after finding out about her father, and she still had some distaste for humans...well the differences split them apart. Wanda returned to the Brotherhood, bringing Talia with her.