Wanda Maximoff

Wanda Maximoff, daughter of Magneto and twin sister to former Brotherhood of Mutants member Quicksilver, currently a member of Pete Wisdom's Snow Valley team. She might have a chequered history and a quick temper, but she's determined to do what's right. Even if her reformed brother might not agree with her methods.

Details

Character Journal: x_scarletwitch

Real Name: Wanda Maximoff

Codename: Scarlet Witch

Aliases:

First Appearance: September 26, 2004

Date of Birth: February 2, 1975

Place of Birth: Bulgaria

Citizenship: Bulgarian, English

Relatives: Erik Lensherr (father); Magda (mother - deceased); Pietro Maximoff (twin brother).

Education: Masters in Social Anthropology with a minor in Archaeology. Currently doing her PhD. via correspondence with Cambridge University.

Relationship Status: Long-distance relationship with Dr. Stephen Strange

Occupation: Researcher for Snow Valley Memorial Center for Mutant Affairs

Team Affiliation: X-Force

Biography

A Gypsy Childhood and Adolescence

Erik Magnus Lehnsherr first met Magda Maximoff in Bulgaria while he was in the process of hunting down a Nazi fleeing the tribunals. While Magda was 20 years his junior, it was hard for her not to fall for the charisma and steely intelligence, as it was hard for him to ignore her beauty and spirit. They were wed within months and she soon left her caravan for the first time. When Magnus first reveled his powers to his wife, it was during an attack from the former Nazi that Magnus had been tracking down. In the ensuing firefight, Magnus believe Magda, who was pregnant at the time, shot and killed. In his rage, Magnus lashed out with his magnetic powers and had killed their attackers in a rather gruesome way. Magda, who later described the power as if he had reached out the sky and used the lightning on the metal (it had been storming rather heavily that evening), fled the scene, fearful for the safety of her unborn children. She eventually met up with her caravan nearly a year later in Poland and it was then decided to head to England, in case Magnus decided to follow.

Having grown up with her mother's Gypsy caravan and knowing who her father was, and is, she struggles to find her own place in things. Magda Maximoff was the daughter of surviving Holocaust survivors and she and her parents strove to instill many lessons in Wanda and Pietro. She also had no qualms in telling her children exactly what Magnus did and why their father was not allowed to contact them. Wanda grew up rather torn between the desire to protect her mother and the desire to meet and get to know her father.

Wanda's, and her twin brother Pietro's, powers emerged when they were 12 and a angry mob accused the caravan of stealing from them (which was, actually, rather true. Wanda was normally used as a "mark" to draw people to her and someone else would do a bit of pickpocketing). Amid thrown rocks, someone drew a gun and shot one of the men in the camp. Furious, scared, and confused Wanda instinctively lashed out. She managed to knock down a large tree in her panic and the mob scattered. Unfortunately, she was too much in shock to remove herself from the path and only Pietro's intervention with his just-emerged superspeed saved her.

Growing up, she and Pietro were inseparable until he left when he was 15 to find Magnus. Magnus had gotten into contact with his separated wife, attempting a reconciliation. Things progressed, but when she demanded that he move to where they were so she could watch him in case he was still a danger, he had to pick between his wife, who had left him, and his children, who didn't know him, and the dream he and Charles Xavier were building. He choose the dream but every once in a while sent letters to Wanda and Pietro. Wanda paid little attention to them but never knew how much Pietro clung to those letters. When the twins were 15, Pietro left to find and later join his father

Wanda never really got over Pietro's leaving and has some rather large trust issues and she has never forgiven for leaving, especially once Magda passed away as the result of an aneurysm caused by the Great Headache in May 2003. Since then, Magnus himself contacted her once asking Wanda to join his Brotherhood of Mutants alongside her brother, in his attempts to further mutantkind. She refused and asked only one thing out of her father…that if he were to ever come for her, that only he or Pietro would come. Magnus agreed and Wanda did not speak to him again. She did trade letters with her brother once a month, though she did not understand why he left.

Thanks to Magda's own lack of formal education, she did all she could to make sure her children could get as much education on the road as possible. From home schooling, Wanda then went onto correspondence courses and eventually managed to finish her Master in Social Anthropology with a minor in Archaeology. Wanda added to her caravan's travels by going out on her own to study other traveling groups, and as a result has seen a good bit of the world.

Living At The X-Mansion

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Physical Characteristics

Height: 5' 10"

Weight: 150 lbs

Eyes: bark brown/almost black

Hair: dark brown, tends to be rather uncontrollable

Other Features: Tanned and tends to be stronger than she looks; muscular and statuesque

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Plots

2004

Repodemon

Remy's Eleven

Gypsy Road Trip

Meta

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Meta Trivia

Wanda was introduced to the game long before Pietro Maximoff was ever applied for.