player information
● name: Tessa
● age: Over 25
● contact: PM: divaricate | PLURK: figureskating__
● other characters: N/A

character information
● name: Wanda Maximoff
● canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe (Avengers)
● canon point: Captain America: Civil War | Specifically, right after she's broken out of the Raft via help from Steve.
● age: I play her as being 27 in CA:CW since canon has not specified her age.

● background: Wanda Maximoff » Sokovia » Earth-199999 (MCU)

● abilities:

✔ TELEKINESIS: Wanda is able to move (including levitate and otherwise manipulate) a number of objects with her mind. She can pull things apart, and use this force to create a type of energy shield to protect herself and/or others. She can also send energy blasts from her hands.

✔ TELEPATHY: Wanda can read minds (thoughts/dreams), and mentally communicate with people. She can do this at a level that is shown to be a pretty narrow focus. Her telepathy also allows her to mentally manipulate people to control their minds as well. She can put people in a trance-like state where she makes them see what she wants them to -- things like their deepest fears, for example (though what they're afraid of isn't decided by her) -- and trap them within that state while they interact with their hallucinations as if they're real. She experiences that along with them, though the victim is unaware of her being with them. With this, she can also influence the memories, actions, and thoughts of people, their emotions, and senses. This ability also allows her to induce various feelings such as pain or sleep.

✘ WEAKNESSES/POWER LIMITATIONS: Even with her abilities, Wanda is still a regular human underneath that and can be killed by anything that would kill a regular human. Wanda's powers will not work on anyone who is immune to mental infiltration, or has any other kind of mental block skill that would not allow her to read their thoughts or otherwise mentally manipulate them. Any kind of sonic wave blasts sent at her will disrupt her focus enough to get her powers to be rendered temporarily unusable; shock fields of electricity will also block her powers. In games, I also play her powers to be something that doesn't work over network communications. As in, if she's communicating with someone via video/audio/text, she cannot use her telepathy on them during those mediums of interaction. Her telepathy is also null and void against any creature that does not have a living mind (i.e.: robots/androids would fall under this category, as would undead creatures like vampires).

↻ PERMISSIONS POST: Located here, for people to opt in or out of, as I'm aware of the violating nature of her powers.

● strengths:

(❝01❞ | compassionate) » Wanda has a great deal of compassion. Though she has grown up in less than ideal circumstances, she has remained with a largely soft heart towards others; she doesn’t want anyone innocent to have to suffer at the hands of anyone else or any government. She only ever agreed to the experiments that granted her powers because she wanted to protect her country and keep war off its streets and out of its cities. She and her brother were appreciated members of their community when they would go get supplies for others, et cetera. She’d do anything she possibly could to help and support someone else, even if all they need is a hug.

(❝02❞ | loyal) » Wanda is a very loyal person overall. First to her family (when they were alive), to her country and its people, and to her ideals. She wouldn’t intentionally do anything to betray those things, because she feels that without them, she doesn’t have a rock to stand on. They serve as her anchor and as her drive to do well and to serve each in any way she can.

(❝03❞ | tenacious) » Wanda doesn’t give up easily. She’s lost her family (in various war-related events), and has grown up in a war zone because Sokovia was always under attack and in conflict with (presumably Western) forces nearly all the time. She knows how to survive in such an environment, and will always try to physically and literally build herself up over and over, so that she can face the next challenge that life throws her way.

● weaknesses:

(❝01❞ | volatile) » Wanda has a tendency to let her temper get the best of her when she’s trying to work through something. In the heat of the moment, she can lash out and take an action that makes things a lot worse (i.e.: when she mentally manipulated Bruce Banner, causing him to become the Hulk and wreck a city) than if she’d toned down her rage and taken an action that was more long term focused than short term.

(❝02❞ | guarded) » Wanda doesn't open herself up fully to very many people at all, which can make it hard for people to get genuinely close to her. She may let many know her on a surface level, but there are not many at all who know her innermost thoughts and emotions, and it's hard to get someone who can pry them out of her. This is both for her own emotional defense, and because she's lost almost everything in her life and she doesn't see the chance to open up much. She prefers to work through her issues herself or with Pietro.

(❝03❞ | stubborn) » When Wanda makes her mind up on something, there is no talking her out of it. This will put her at the disadvantage of not being open to other ideas and potentially get more insight or something even better than what she has decided to do. She probably should have killed Tony Stark before he took the scepter, but she didn’t, and that lead to her brother’s death and Novi Grad’s destruction in the end. She was too stubborn to look at every possible outcome.

● job skills:
— Tactics.
— Some fighting capabilities.
— Survival skills.

● housing: I have no preference.

● network username: scarletwitch

● network sample: Audio thread from cityofsin ⇄ November 2017

● prose/action sample: Log post from maskormenacelogs ⇄ January 2018