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[color=#CD3241][sup][i]"I am no stranger to pain. No stranger to ghosts."[/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color]
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[color=#CD3241]C H A R A C T E R   S U M M A R Y[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
[sub][COLOR=darkgray]Wanda Maximoff[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Romani[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Serbian[/COLOR][/sub][/center]
[indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] A L L I E S   &   A N T A G O N I S T S[/color]
[color=#CD3241]A L L I E S   &   A N T A G O N I S T S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
[INDENT][hider=][indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   A L L I E S[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Pietro Maximoff[/b][/color] - Twin Brother[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Natalya Maximoff[/b][/color] - Mother (Status Unknown)[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Django Maximoff[/b][/color] - Uncle, Adoptive Father (Deceased)[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Marya Maximoff[/b][/color] - Aunt, Adoptive Mother (Deceased)[/color][/sup][/indent]
[indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   A N T A G O N I S T[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Mister Sinister[/b][/color] - Ex-Mentor[/color][/sup][/indent][color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/hider][/INDENT][indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] P O S T   C A T A L O G U E[/color]
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[color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/cell][cell][INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] T H E   S T O R Y   S O   F A R...[/color]
[color=#CD3241]T H E   S T O R Y   S O   F A R...[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]___________________________________________________________________________________[/sup]
[COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent]Wanda Maximoff was born near Novi Pazar, Serbia, alongside her twin brother, Pietro, to a nomadic Romani witch named Natalya Maximoff. Natalya lived a dangerous life - one filled with mysticism and conflict. Knowing that her path could only bring danger to her children, she made the agonizing choice to leave them in the care of her brother, Django Maximoff, and his wife, Marya.

Django and Marya raised Wanda and Pietro with gentleness and stability, despite the hardships of Romani life in the Balkans. Their small camp moved often, staying ahead of prejudice, poverty, and the shifting political tensions of the region. Wanda’s earliest memories are of Marya’s soft hands braiding her hair, Django carving wooden toys, and the rhythms of traditional songs around the fire at night. For a time, the twins were simply children - loved, protected, and unaware of the strange potential growing inside of them.

Wanda’s powers surfaced early but quietly. When she became frightened, the air would ripple. When she grew upset, small accidents followed - dropped objects flying farther than they should, improbable events clustering around her. The adults whispered, not unkindly, that she might have inherited some of Natalya’s mystic touch. But Marya reminded Wanda always that power was not a curse; it was responsibility. Wanda treasured that lesson, even if she didn’t yet understand it.

Tragedy struck when the camp was attacked during one of their moves through Central Europe. The circumstances remain unclear - chaos, flames, shouts in the dark - but in the end, Django and Marya were gone, and the twins were left alone. At barely their early teens, Wanda and Pietro wandered across Europe, carrying only memories of their adoptive parents and the cultural traditions they had passed down. Wanda held tightly to small rituals: quiet prayers, protective gestures, stories of their people. Pietro held tightly to Wanda.

Their aimless journey eventually brought them to Transia, where they attempted to settle in a small, insular village. For a while, it seemed they might finally find peace. But Wanda’s abilities, growing stronger with adolescence, became volatile and frightening. A surge of emotion - panic, grief, or anger she couldn’t control - triggered a catastrophic burst of chaotic energy. Dry brush ignited, houses caught fire, and the village panicked.

Fear turned quickly to fury.

The locals dragged her into the square, shouting accusations of witchcraft - a word that carried its own ugly history for Romani people. One man in the crowd gave her a name spoken with venom: the Scarlet Witch. Pietro fought to shield her, but they were outnumbered. Wanda, terrified and powerless to stop what she’d started, believed she would die there.

But the mob scattered when Mister Sinister appeared.

His arrival was chillingly calm. With a single glare and an aura of authority that no villager dared challenge, he announced that he would remove the “witch” from their village. To the terrified crowd, he was a savior. To the twins, he was an inexplicable miracle. 

Desperate and homeless, they accepted Sinister’s offer of protection. He brought them to a remote research and training facility he operated in secrecy - a place he presented as a sanctuary for people with abilities. But beneath its clinical walls, Wanda quickly sensed something darker. Sinister studied her powers with obsessive fascination, pushing her to access more volatile aspects of her mutation. Pietro endured his own trials, forced to push his speed far beyond safe limits.

Sinister praised their potential while subtly severing their ties to culture, emotion, and autonomy. Wanda was encouraged to suppress her Romani identity, told that attachments “complicated” her mutation. But she quietly held onto the rituals and stories Django and Marya taught her - the last pieces of herself that Sinister could not take.

Everything changed when Wanda found files outlining Sinister’s intended plans to experiment on their DNA and force the next stage of their evolution. The illusion of safety shattered, she and Pietro fled in a frantic escape that left them bruised, terrified, and utterly determined to never be controlled again.

Now, Wanda stands on uncertain ground. Her powers remain unpredictable and dangerously tied to emotion, and she is haunted by the guilt over the Transian fire and the name “Scarlet Witch”. But she is determined to reclaim her identity and to shape her destiny on her own terms. Pietro remains her fiercest protector and anchor, her one unbreakable connection to the life they lost.

She is not yet a hero, nor the myth the villagers feared. But she is no one’s weapon - and she is finally beginning to choose who she will become.
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]I want to play this younger version of Wanda because I’m really interested in exploring the space between who she was raised to be and who everyone tries to turn her into. Her backstory is full of culture, trauma, and survival, and I love the idea of writing someone who is still figuring herself out while carrying all of that weight. She’s not exactly the Scarlet Witch [i]yet[/i] - she’s just a girl who’s been chased, manipulated, and misunderstood, trying to reclaim the parts of herself that people have tried to take away. 

I want to explore her connection to her Romani identity (which is criminally written out of most of her current stories), her bond with Pietro, and the complicated relationship she has with her own powers, especially after Sinister’s influence. My goal is to let her grow naturally, whether that leads her toward witchcraft, mutant communities or even darker temptations. I’d love to involve other players - mentors, teammates, antagonists, anyone who challenges or supports her - and let her story develop through those connections.[/INDENT][/COLOR][/cell][/row][/table][sub]__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________[/sub][/COLOR][/INDENT]