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''This page is about the [[:Category: Phase 2|Phase 2]] incarnation of the character. For other uses, see [[Wanda Maximoff (disambiguation)]].''
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Wanda Maximoff, daughter of [[Magneto]] and twin sister to former [[Brotherhood of Mutants]] member [[Quicksilver]], currently a member of [[Pete Wisdom| 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.
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''...You get a failing grade for mansplaining not only the Holocaust to a Rom whose people were also slaughtered but also to the daughter of the man who bears those numbers.''
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Estranged from her father [[Magneto]] and her twin brother [[Quicksilver]], Wanda was a founding member of [[X-Force]] and has devoted her life to standing up for the underdog.
  
  
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== Details ==
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== '''Details''' ==
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'''Character Journal:'''  [https://xp-scarlet-witch.dreamwidth.org/profile Wanda Maximoff]
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'''Real Name''': Wanda Maximoff
 
'''Real Name''': Wanda Maximoff
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'''Aliases''':  
 
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'''First Appearance''': [http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/637395.html September 26, 2004]
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'''First Appearance''': [https://xp-communication.dreamwidth.org/1551276.html January 21, 2015]
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'''Date of Birth''': February 10, 1976
  
 
'''Place of Birth''': Bulgaria
 
'''Place of Birth''': Bulgaria
  
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'''Citizenship''':  Bulgarian
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'''Citizenship''':  Bulgarian  
  
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'''Relatives''': [[Magneto| Erik Lehnsherr]] (father); [[Maximoff Clan| Magda]] (mother - deceased); [[Pietro Maximoff]] (twin brother).
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'''Relatives''': [[Magneto|Erik Lennsherr]] (father); Magda (mother, deceased), Pietro Maximoff (twin brother), [[Lorna Dane]] (half-sister)
  
 
'''Education''': Masters in Social Anthropology with a minor in Archaeology. Currently doing her PhD. via correspondence with Cambridge University.
 
'''Education''': Masters in Social Anthropology with a minor in Archaeology. Currently doing her PhD. via correspondence with Cambridge University.
  
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'''Relationship Status''': Single, former long-distance relationship with [[Dr. Stephen Strange]] now ended.
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'''Relationship Status''': Single and enjoying herself
  
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'''Occupation''': Researcher for [[Snow Valley Memorial Center for Mutant Affairs]]
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'''Occupation''': Researcher for [[Snow Valley Research Center]]
  
 
'''Team Affiliation''': [[X-Force]]
 
'''Team Affiliation''': [[X-Force]]
  
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== Biography ==
 
  
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===Daughter of Magneto and a Gypsy Upbringing===
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== '''Biography''' ==
  
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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 believed Magda and his infant twin children 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 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.
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=== '''Childhood''' ===
  
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Having grown up with her mother's Gypsy caravan and knowing who her father was, and is, she struggled to find her own place in things. Magda Maximoff was the daughter of 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.
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[[Magneto|Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]] was visiting Europe in the early 1970s when he meet the traveling Rom family, [[Maximoff Clan|the Maximoffs]], and their extended clan. Invited to travel with them, he met and eventually fell in love with Magda. Despite their age difference, and displeasure of the Rom for marrying an outsider, the two married and Erik and Magda traveled with the clan while searching for a place to call home.
  
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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 own just-emerged superspeed saved her.  
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Having settled temporarily in Germany in 1975, Erik was witnessed using his powers and he and Magda were attacked.  In the chaos, it appeared that Magda was killed and Erik used his powers to kill the attackers. Magda, however, was injured but alive - but now terrified of her husband. After she was taken to hospital, she left Erik and traveled alone back to her clan. For his own part, despite his love for Magda, he couldn't be with someone who couldn't accept him and headed back to the States.
  
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Growing up, she and Pietro were inseparable. 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.  And once college was over with for Pietro, he set out to find his father.
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It was only months later that Magda would learn that she was pregnant and eventually give birth to twins: Wanda and [[Pietro Maximoff|Pietro]].  
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Wanda never really got over Pietro's leaving and has some rather large trust issues and she has never forgiven Pietro for leaving, especially once Magda passed away as the result of an aneurysm caused by the [[X2| 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.
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The twins grew up being raised by Magda and the clan, which included a whole host of rambunctious cousins. Nothing seemed out of place or unusual, though Magda could be cold and detached at times, sometimes concentrating more on running the clan than her two children.
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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.
 
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While in university, she stumbled upon [[Agatha Harkness]], who decided to take the slightly wild young woman under her wing.
 
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Following the death of her mother and her father's increasing notoriety, Wanda began considering her own safety. She had her father's assurances that only he or Pietro would approach her to join his Brotherhood, but the same could not be said for his followers, particularly [[Toad]] and [[Sabretooth]], who might take it into their heads to curry favour with their boss by bringing him his estranged daughter. In [[August 2004]] she wrote to her father's old colleague, [[Professor Charles Xavier]] asking him for help. However, on her way to [[Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]], she was set upon by the remnants of [[Colonel William Stryker| Stryker's]] forces, who were looking for ways to recover from the disaster of [[X2]]. Fortunately the [[X-Men]] were there to rescue the unconscious Wanda, bringing her back to the school.
 
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Upon regaining consciousness, Wanda was offered and accepted an invitation to remain at the school as long as she wished. She quickly fit in, sharing a suite with [[Jake Gavin]] and acting as chaperone for the ill-fatted [[Repodemon| Halloween party]] at [[Neon]] - as a result of her actions during this crisis, she was asked to join the X-Men, and became a useful and passionate member of the team. When Jake left, she took on his position of student counsellor, also working as a researcher for her professors at Cambridge and subbing for classes at Columbia University. It was here that she met [[Dr. Stephen Strange]], tutor to [[Amanda Sefton]], and a mutual attraction sparked. It was Wanda who tracked down Amanda's birth family through her Rom name, the same Rom caravan that had adopted [[Kurt Wagner]], and she accompanied the young [[Magic|witch]] on her first visit with them. Their friendship has remained strong to present day. Wanda also flirted with various staff members, including [[Scott Summers]] prior to [[Jean Grey| Jean's return]] and Kurt himself, before beginning a relationship with the academic and shy Stephen Strange.
 
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Stephen's self-appointed quest of acting as a counter to [[Selene]] interfered with the relationship, however. Following the [[An Offer You Can Refuse| fight with Amanda]] and her firing him as her tutor, Stephen went underground, using the rift as an excuse to make final preparations to enact [[Hellfire and Damnation| Pete Wisdom's plan]]. It necessitated the ending of his relationship with Wanda, something she took harder than she expected. When [[Askani| Mother Askani]] [[Lost In The Woods| died]] to save Alison's life, Wanda received a telepathic dumping of her people's culture and knowledge, in order to preserve it.
 
  
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Wanda's powers, always susceptible to stress, began giving her trouble during her time as an X-Man. Being forced to use them directly against a person in [[Thermopylae| Youra]] caused her to question her ethics. A mission in [[X-Men Mission: Stalemate| Peru]] went awry when she lost control, leading her to clash with Cyclops. Eventually, she realised that there was something more deeply wrong than simply stress, and received confirmation in a rather violent fashion.
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The year the twins turned 12, though, everything changed.  Wanda and Pietro's powers emerged when an angry mob caught them stealing.  Amid thrown rocks, someone drew a gun and shot one of the men in the camp.  Furious and terrified, Wanda instinctively lashed out and her powers manifested. 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 own just-emerged superspeed saved her.
  
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===Chthon and The Road To X-Force===
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Now Magda was suddenly faced with both of her children being mutants and, in Wanda's case, a destructive one at that.  Terrified of them but also wanting to protect them, Magda spent several months tracking down the husband she'd abandoned.
  
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In [[March 2006]], [[Chthon]], an elder god of chaos of the ilk of [[Cyttorak]], had apparently found Wanda to be the perfect vehicle to rebirth itself. Drawn to her by her powers, Chthon [[Head Like A Hole| possessed Wanda]] and tried to seduce first Kurt (knocking him out when he was alarmed and tried to alert the team), then [[Cain Marko]], avatar of Cyttorak. Fortunately they were interrupted by [[Nathan Dayspring|Nathan]], sent by [[Marie-Ange Colbert]] as the result of a vision, and the X-Men managed to subdue their teammate and restore her to her right mind. As a result of these events, Wanda took a sabbatical, returning to her mother's grave and finding out more about Chthon and the guardians who ensured it remained trapped on the earthly plane through Wanda. She also encountered her father again, and the two spoke for the first time since her mother's death. No violence, but they continued to remain diametrically opposed. Upon Magneto's departure, Wanda hit the panic button and the X-Men came to bring her back to the mansion. She remained unsettled, however, and soon left again, travelling first to England to work on her degree (and [[Operation: Opening Salvo| rescue Pete's sister]] [[Romany Wisdom| Romany]]) and then to India, where she encountered someone she'd never expected to: Dr. Stephen Strange.
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Shocked to discover that he had two children he hadn't been aware of, and intrigued by the fact that both had manifested, Erik now became involved in their lives. Unwilling to let her children be taken from her, and with Erik unable to live there full time, their father would visit for weeks at a time whenever he could. Wanda and Pietro grew from suspicious to loving children, enjoying the attention and care that he showed them and especially considering he seemed to be the only one to understand what they were going through.
  
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As part of his continuing work to rid the world of Selene and any possible means of reviving her, Stephen had secured a particular [[Magic|mantra]] designed to free evil from its shackles. [[Romancing the Holy Whatsis| Pursued by cultists of a local evil deity]], he was rescued by Wanda, who assisted him on his quest. When she was taken by the cultists, Stephen contacted his former pupil, Amanda Sefton, and a rescue was launched and the mantra destroyed. The experience served to give Wanda the drive she had been missing - she resigned from the X-Men and joined [[X-Force]], intent on using her powers in a more direct way to stop cults to entities such as Chthon. She became Amanda's supervisor, the witch and the anthropologist combining their talents to become the group's 'Weird Happenings' unit. Wanda's experience also made her perfect to teach the younger members of the group to fight, and she especially trains Amanda and [[Mark Sheppard]].
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While Erik seemed at a loss for exactly how Wanda's powers worked, he helped her establish a solid base for attempting to control them. He brought them to [[The Mansion|the Mansion]] a few times, where they met [[Charles Xavier]] and received further powers help, but they always returned home.
  
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Wanda's relationship with Stephen, resumed following their adventures in India, was sadly ended due to the constraints and stress of both their jobs. The appearance of her brother [[Pietro Maximoff]], fleeing their father after his status as double agent was exposed, was another source of stress - the twins, always volatile, fought over Wanda's choice of work and Pietro's abandonment of the family. Something of a truce was achieved, but tensions remain high between them.
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He was the driving force for them getting their education. With his work and money, the twins both went on to higher education.
  
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As Wanda grew older, however, her father spoke more plainly about his mutant-centric philosophy.  Finding it distasteful, she tried to ignore but it became harder and harder to ignore the human hating part of him.  She finally cut ties when Pietro joined the [[Brotherhood of Mutants|Brotherhood]], instead focusing her attentions on graduating from Cambridge.
  
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Wanda settled in quite nicely within the ranks of her new coworkers and teammates at Snow Valley.  As their chief researcher, she acquired Amanda as her assistant and [[Illyana Rasputin]], as well.  Their chief goal, when there are no pressing concerns, is to build a standing database of all the [[Magic|magical information]] they can gather.  She trains with [[Remy LeBeau]] to hone her fighting abilities (and to get rid of the hand gestures she relies on) but also helps to train Amanda and Mark, though she's always up for a sparring session with anyone if they ask. She also went on to start her PhD, finding time between her various positions and responsibilities, including continual training of [[Jennie Stavros]] in regards to powers. 
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During her time there, Wanda became at first a student, and then more like family, to [[Agatha Harkness]].  Harkness realized exactly what type of forces Wanda was manipulating and took her to [[Exemplars|the Exemplars]], a group of men and women dedicated to keeping the chaos world stable.  They worked with Wanda to help her control her powers and she became Harkness' star pupil and, eventually, like a partner once she graduated.
  
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2008 began with a trip back to the 1950's, or at least a [[Operation: Shaboom| reasonable facsimile]] thereof, created by a dying reality warper. Caught up in their 1959 personas, Wanda and Remy had an 'affair'; neither remember the incident, however. The weirdness continued with the sudden arrival of [[Dr. Stephen Strange]], warning of [[The Shadow King (plot)|something]] on the [[Psionics| astral plane]] targeting [[Cain Marko]]. Using Illyana's teleportation ability in conjunction with Amanda and Strange's magics, they were able to pinpoint the threat to [[Amahl Farouk]], recent arrival at the school, but an unsuccessful attempt to flood the plane with magical energy, using Wanda as an anchor point, failed and an innocent (relatively speaking!) Farouk was nearly terminated by an X-Force team in [[Madripoor]]. The incident left Strange powerless and in typical fashion, he incurred Wanda's wrath by nobly - and completely misguidedly - withdrawing from the field to allow Kurt free reign with her.  
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Magda eventually died as a result of the [[X2|Great Headache]], a year after Wanda cut ties with her father.
  
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Wanda's mettle was further tested, first with the apparent [[Operation: Take A Bow| death]] of one of her proteges, Mark, and then by her [[Mandelbrot Bound| own capture and torture]] by an insane omnipath calling himself the [[Gamemaster]]. Wanda and Garrison were captured investigating a series of chaos math-related killings, forced onto the Gamemaster, he claimed, as a result of Wanda's powers' disruptive influence on his own. Wanda's recovery was slow due to the doubts sowed by this assertion. Amanda's [[Bedlam| disappearance]] in tandem with Wanda's own [[Operation: London Calling| battle with the forces of Order]] stretched her even further and during this time the relationship with Kurt quietly ended as it became obvious he wanted more emotionally than Wanda was able to give.
 
  
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The next few months continued as usual, time spent between getting her [[Fenrisulfr| younger teammates out of trouble]], [[Bhagavad Gita| investigating terrorist acts in Pakistan]] and being called on for [[Operation: Retribution| assassination]]. When [[Apocalypse]] attacked [[Day Zero| New York]], she joined the team aiding [[Fred Duncan]] retake the city.
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Farouk's [[Pride Goeth| disappearance]] and subsequent reappearance in France at the mercy of an ancient demonic entity pulled Wanda into a magical mystery tour of Europe with Amanda, Marie-Ange and Farouk. The trip was interrupted by the [[Mechanisms of Revenge|apparent deaths]] of Pete and Garrison (as well as Jay and Dani), which turned it into a mission of vengeance as they sought out, unsuccessfully, members of the [[Brotherhood of Mutants]]. When Wanda herself became the target of a [[Operation: Anansesem| mystical attack]], it was almost too much for her loyal assistant, Amanda. The culprits - or what remained of them - were tracked to Africa and Wanda saved, but the strain had been too much as she was several weeks recovering. Fortunately, the reappearance - and then disappearance - of Garrison meant a trip to the Pacific and [[Christian Kane| Christian Kane's]] yacht, where some sense was attempted to the disturbed young Canadian.
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After graduating, Wanda worked towards her PhD but also was introduced to the weirder world of [[Magic|magic]] and artifacts thanks to the work Harkness was doing. She maintained ties with the Exemplars, though always felt there was something they were holding back from her. As the years past, she developed a good reputation among scholars and curators of the weird.
  
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[[Shiva| Coming face to face]] with the [[Weapon X]] program through former sleeper agent [[David North]] left Wanda shaken, especially when she had to assist North in taking out newly-activated agent [[Weapon X| Warbird]], whom she had met (and liked) as Carol Danvers. Wanda continued as normal, acquiring a broken nose in [[Operation: Godhand| Poland]] and seeking out [[Irene Merryweather]] on behalf of [[Nathan Dayspring|Nathan]]; that meeting ended with Wanda making a deal with the journalist - information on [[Askani]] from the journals Wanda had written several years previously, in return for information on [[Tara Trask]].
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While traveling, Wanda was attacked by a group attempting to cash in on the fact that she was related to Magneto.  Having been followed by the group, she was eventually rescued by the [[X-Men]] who took her back to the Mansion to treat her wounds.  While she was there, she saw someone she hadn't seen since she was a teenager - Charles Xavier.  After several days of rest and explanations, Xavier offered her a place there and Wanda, having realized that she'd buried her head with regards to what was going on in the world, accepted.
  
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[[Jake Gavin| Jake's]] return was a welcome surprise, although the mysterious loss of his arm prompted her to begin her own investigation. A simple casual hook-up with [[Garrison Kane]] grew complicated, at least for him. Things grew even more complicated when Jake received a call about his missing arm and Wanda found herself bailing him and [[Carmilla Black]] out of trouble. An [[Clause 16| incident in Japan]] followed, after which Wanda reacted badly to Jake's inability to copy with his not-boyfriend [[Jean-Paul Beaubier| Jean-Paul's]] [[Mnemovore| capture]] by [[Taygetos]], resulting her in breaking his nose. The two friends reconciled in time for Jake to come to Cambridge with her, but things got even more complicated when she and Jake had sex in the wake of the [[House of Wolves| "Shadow Wolf"]] affair. With Jake telling Jean-Paul and the other man furious and hurt, as well as dealing with [[Agatha Harkness| Agatha Harkness']] apparent lack of trust, Wanda found herself with a far more complicated personal life than she preferred.  And, later, Jake's more recent departure left her feeling more than a little adrift emotionally.
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Wanda was an active X-Man for years, made friends and formed a family, while completing her PhD and continuing, when she could, on the work she did with Agatha.  Everything was on track...until [[Chthon]].
  
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2010 began as many of the others had, with work, Amanda having to remind Wanda of her own birthday, [[Revenant|rescuing Meggan from Selene]] (and the conflict between the [[Hellfire Club]] and X-Force being thrown into sharp relief with a deal done by Emma and Doug to install [[Belladonna]] as Black Queen) and [[Lakshmibai Raj|a mission to assassinate the Prime Minister of India]]. Pitted against the [[Imperial Guard|Imperial Guardsman, Oracle]], Wanda found herself coming off rather the worse for the matchup, before gaining the upper hand and almost killing the telepath. Fortunately, Amanda, merged with an angry New Delhi, yanked the pair into [[Shiar|D. Ken's]] office before any mortal injuries were incurred and Oracle and [[Imperial Guard|Gladiator]] witnessed the depth of their leader's madness before abandoning him to his fate at the hands of Remy and Sarah.  
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A few years into her tenure with the X-Men, Wanda's control over her powers started to slip.  Headaches, visions, emotional outbursts followed and she was planning to take a short hiatus to travel to see the Exemplars for help. Before she could, she woke up one morning not herself - Chthon, an Elder God of Chaos, had finally broken through the barriers in her mind and had switched places, locking Wanda's mental presence up in the astral plane jail he'd been trapped in for centuries. His goal was to use Wanda's physical body and her powers to first destroy the Exemplars and then spread his influence over the world through the human cult that had developed over the years in his worship.
  
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The [[New Orleans: The Pontchartrain Strain|sudden departure of Marie-Ange to New Orleans]] after the India mission left a large gap in the team, one which they all had to scramble to fill. An unexpected - yet not entirely surprising - return, with Wanda finding Jake in a bakery in New York, made things a little easier. Bribing the shapeshifter on the run to go talk to Remy, Wanda was pleased to have her friend back, although concerned about his safety. Jake proved just as grateful to be back, taking care of Wanda following a [[Operation: Lie Back and Think of England|mission in England]] which required her to use her powers in a whole new way in concert with Emma, and which left her with recurring migraines for a time.  
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Thanks to the intervention, however, of the Exemplars, the ghostly echo of Bova (one of the original Exemplars) and the combined weight of Xavier and the telepaths, who were able to punch through Wanda's normal powers based psi-shielding, and she was rescued from the Astral prison she'd been trapped in. They chased Chthon back into the cage but with the knowledge that the cage was now damaged, weakened.  Wanda, rendered temporarily powerless by the attack, briefly left [[The Mansion|the mansion]] but also refused to travel to the Exemplars, feeling betrayed that they, and Agatha, had never told her that they'd known she was tied to Chthon.
  
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After almost a year of open distrust of Doug and his role as White Knight of the Hellfire Club, Wanda began to make overtures towards mending fences, after the [[Fianchetto|incident with his sister]] highlighted to him the cost of his place in the Club and the danger his friends were exposed to as a result. Newcomer [[Wade Wilson]] proved to be an entertaining distraction, and Wanda made moves to be less of a hermit, actually remembering her next birthday and inviting all and sundry for drinks. She also closed a particular chapter of her life, stepping down as an official auxiliary to the X-Men. February also brought the return of Marie-Ange, coinciding with [[Operation: Louisiana Lowdown|a strange incident]] involving the [[HYDRA|same group who had been behind the]] [[Mosley Initiative]] in England. It also brought a new recruit, the rough and prickly [[Carmilla Black]].
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Wanda regained her powers thanks to a trip to the place of her birth, triggering ancient wards that the original Exemplars had put in place to trap Chthon centuries before. Bova once again appeared before her, explaining that Chthon was the Elder God of Chaos and that he had been piggy backing off of Wanda ever since birth.  The Exemplars had been born from Chthon's former worshipers when it had attempted to enter the real world, no longer content to spread chaos from the place of the Elder Gods.  The Exemplars had been tasked with keeping Chthon in his prison, hunting down the unfortunate hosts and either helping or killing them, depending on how far gone they were.
  
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A brief bonding with Remy on the roof over their extremely deranged lifestyles threw the events of [[April 2011]] into sharp relief, as a [[Operation: Sanguinicity|mission went wrong]] and Remy was captured by [[HYDRA|Von Strucker's people]]. Wanda, Amanda and Jubilee only barely escaped themselves, Amanda being shot in the process, and Wanda found herself carrying a lot of the burden of emotional leadership as the team tried to remain professional in the face of their loss. Acting as Jubilee's vent-ee regarding her issues with Marie-Ange, Wanda, like the rest of the team, worked herself harder than ever in the search for Remy. A [[Operation: зимний солдат|job in Russia]] was not as successful for Wanda's team as she would have hoped, the [[Aleksandr Lukin|bad guy]] getting away, but when [[Operation: Red Letter Day| contacts began dropping out of their network]] and Doug received a tipoff from the same [[HYDRA|SYN]] who had altered them to the set up in Germany, it was the break they needed. Wanda joined Ororo, Doug, Emma and Jubilee on a rescue mission in Berlin.  
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Powers back, Wanda returned to the X-Men but as a changed woman. Angry at the Exemplars and Agatha, and confused by the knowledge that there were things out there beyond what the X-Men were fighting, Wanda drifted. She became more and more involved with missions that had occult and darker sides to them and would have numerous run ins with the Chthon cult after.
  
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The mission was a qualified success; Remy was rescued by Jubilee and Ororo and [[HYDRA|Lady Hydra]] killed in the battle in the sewers, but Doug, Emma and Wanda were outclassed by a new foe calling himself the [[Red Skull]]. In the fight, Wanda's cheekbone and her hand were broken, and when Amanda later tried her healing magic to assist, things went very awry, revealing Wanda's powers were acting up.  Always cautious about her control, Wanda took some time away to try and regain her equilibrium, deeply shattered in the altercation with the Skull. It was a brief respite and [[July 2011|when she returned]], her powers were still unreliable. There was little chance for her to work on that, as she, [[Garrison Kane]] and Amanda wound up tracking [[Amahl Farouk]] across [[Sing Me A Prayer|Europe and the Middle East]], only to reach him too late - he was used in an ancient rite by a man calling himself [[Ozymandias]] and the telepath's fate was unknown.
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Only a few days after their return, Wanda found herself [[Operation: Dasavatharam|facing an old foe]], [[Exemplars|the Exemplars]] as X-Force's regular morning meeting revealed they had returned to New York. Foes became allies over the next few days, as the true enemies - the [[Chthon|Chthon Cult]], led by a madman wearing a deadling, mystical ring, were tracking down and killing the Exemplars. X-Force managed to stop them, but Amanda was stabbed in the shoulder when Wanda's powers were turned against her, and Wanda herself suffered a severe facial laceration with the remnants of the ring. The greatest injury of all was the knowledge that Wanda's mentor. [[Agatha Harkness]], had deliberately hidden her possession of the ring - and the identity of the cult's leader, her son [[Nicholas Harkness|Nicholas]] - from Wanda. Agatha left New York, refusing to discuss the situation and before Wanda could pursue her, there was a [[The Curse|a disaster of a plan]] which resulted in [[Arcana Minoru]] being loosed upon the physical world and [[The Problématique|rescue]] of [[Vanessa Carlysle]].
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While Wanda felt more and more separate from the X-Men's mission, she was eventually approached by several others and became a founding member of X-Force.  She helped formed the weird occult portion and was firmly entrenched with the team until all the X-teams were dissolved after the [[Genosha Arc|fall of Genosha]] in 2012. Left on her own, Wanda set out to try to root out the Chthon cult and Harkness, traveling on her own for months with not much to show for it.
  
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===The Search For Agatha Harkness===
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==== '''M-Day and Beyond''' ====
  
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in [[October 2011]], Wanda and Amanda visited England, catching up with [[Dr. Stephen Strange]] who had undertaken to inventory Agatha's secret collection of magical artifacts. So caught up with his work had he been, it was a shock to discover that Agatha's flat had been trashed and Agatha herself taken, the only clue the [[Chthon|Chthon Cult's]] symbol drawn in blood. Wanda and Strange took to the road, looking for any clues as to Agatha's fate.
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After M-Day, Wanda made the decision to return back to the Mansion as the world reeled from the chaos. On her way back, she picked up her half-sister, Lorna who was afraid that her role as a mole within the Brotherhood of Mutants had been found out. Wanda started back up with X-Force and pretty much picked up exactly where she left off, although with some new faces such as [[Felicia Hardy]], [[Kevin Sydney]] and [[Nina Thurman]] joining the team. Her mentor/elder sister type relationship with the team's witch, [[Amanda Sefton]], continued as it had done, and she and [[David North]] were still buddies.
  
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They returned briefly in [[January 2012]], in time to be caught up in [[Operation: Teenage Wasteland|an unwanted second adolescence]], during which Wanda accidentally backfired one of Strange's spells, sending him to Alaska in his pyjamas. Wanda returned again in [[April 2012]] for Amanda's birthday, and then again in [[May 2012]] when news of the [[Genosha Arc|kidnapping of the school's students]] reached her. [[The Unwritten Alliance|She and Remy infiltrated]] [[Genosha]] (along with most of [[X-Force]] and some of [[X-Factor]], and was part of the team assigned to neutralising the security bunker during the [[The End of the Beginning|mass attack]] on [[The Citadel|the Citadel]]. When the tables were turned and the Xavierites ambushed, Wanda was the only one of her team to escape, forced to leave Remy and Jubilee to be captured. She met up with fellow refugees, Emma and Marius, and the three of them fled in a stolen helicopter and eventually [[Stemming the Tide|rejoining other survivors of the raid]] in the mountains. They met up with [[Genoshan Resistance|a group of Genoshans]] who had also fled the city and stayed with them briefly. Unfortunately, an attack on the camp by the [[Magistrates]] resulted in the destruction of the camp and a narrow escape for Wanda, who was injured when she absorbed a hex bolt cast by Marius, driven to try to kill.  
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2015 proved to be a busy year for Wanda, with X-Force missions of the more usual type in [[Operation: Big Trouble in Little Lowtown|Madripoor]] and [[Operation: Mutant of the Seas|on the high seas]], and the usual [[It’s Greek To Me|consultation work]]. But there were other, more personal situations: North was [[Jungbrunnen|taken by HYDRA]] and Wanda was part of the rescue team, bringing down the entire complex with her powers afterwards; her sister Lorna's [[Alex Summers|boyfriend]] and [[Ross Family|adoptive family]] were abducted by their father, who wanted their attention (and who got it, in spades); and she was called in to help [[Clinton Barton]] retrieve a [[SHIELD]] [[Natasha Romanoff|compatriot]] who had [[Along Came A Spider|gone missing]].
  
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The group joined with [[The Unrelenting Struggle|their fellows who had been sent to Prenova]] and the [[Genoshan Resistance]] led by [[Jenny Ransome]]. The combined force [[Savrola|attacked the city]] in an attempt to topple the [[Genoshan Government|Moreau brothers]] and free their captives and [[Mutates|the mutates]]. Wanda's team attempted to flank the Citadel, only to encounter [[Callie Betto|Mutate 557]] and were forced to knock her unconscious. While Kurt took the mutates to be cured, Wanda and her group checked the cells for any stragglers, and discovered [[Doreen Green]], relapsed into a feral state. Freeing her, they returned to the fighting, combining forces to topple the insane techno-organic monster [[Genoshan Government|Thomas Moreau]].
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There were two incidents in particular that rocked Wanda. The first was the [[Operation: Wonderwall|time loop incident]] involving friend and lover [[Simon Williams]], who apparently perished in the course of stopping [[Heinrich Zemo]]. The second was becoming [[Do I Know You?|trapped in the mind of a Quebecois teenager]], thanks to a powers malfunction from [[Quentin Quire]]. During their time sharing a brain (along with [[Gabriel Cohuelo]] and [[Jean-Paul Beaubier]]) Wanda and Quentin came to understand each other better, something that had seemed impossible only weeks before after Wanda had floored the Magneto fanboy with her relationship to - and opinions of - his hero. She finished out 2016 by helping [[Along Came A Spider | rescue an old friend of Clint's]] and [[Operation: Mutant of the Seas | releasing mutates who were being used for slave labor on a cruise ship.]]
  
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Wanda remained in New York after their return from Genosha, surprising Stephen with the admission that she didn't know where to go next with the search for Agatha and the decision to remain and use X-Force's resources in the search instead. It was during this time she had a random encounter with a teenaged boy called [[William Kaplan]] and unknowingly [[A Kind of Magic|triggered his mutation]]. She provided a sympathetic 'good cop' to Amanda's furious 'bad cop' when the pair narrowly prevented Billy from destroying New York with his new-found magical powers.
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After all that, a quiet 2017 with her sister's wedding in October was exactly what Wanda signed up for.
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Wanda was part of the group who [[Sonatorrek|went to Aikins, Minnesota]] to assist Garrison with an unusual investigation and prevent a gang war of [[Asgard (location)|Asgardian]] proportions. Like many of the others, she succumbed to [[The Enchantress|the Enchantress' magic]], seducing Garrison. She later helped save his mind when it was discovered the chaos magic permeating Aikins was destroying him, working with [[Professor Charles Xavier|Charles]] and Amanda to remove the energies before Jean, Emma and Haller could go in and repair the damage.
 
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The year ended about as positively as it had begun, with [[Operation: Poisoned Honey|a set-up and an ambush on the Brownstone]], Wanda one of those who were stuck in Madrid while their co-workers were attacked in New York. Another rescue mission, this time to [[Something Slender (and Awful)|rescue the new Mutants]] from Internet monsters, did little to help with Wanda's feelings of frustration and she became reclusive once more.  
 
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== Physical Characteristics ==
 
  
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== '''Physical Characteristics''' ==
  
 
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'''Other Features''':  Tanned and tends to be stronger than she looks; muscular and statuesque.
 
'''Other Features''':  Tanned and tends to be stronger than she looks; muscular and statuesque.
  
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==Powers==
 
  
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Wanda [[Probability manipulation|"hexes"]] things via chaos manipulation, in essence breaking down the natural order of things around her. She makes what could happen, happen, or what could ''not'' happen happen. Or what could happen but would be wildly improbable and outside the bounds of expectation happen. She's studied quite a bit into chaotic theory and basically thinks of her powers as getting "A" and "D" to create "Z". However, it's a lot more complicated than that. There's another aspect to our world, the chaos side. When Wanda utilizes her powers, she essentially rips open the barrier between and tosses out the end result, not caring how it happens, just that it does. Sometimes she can't even quite predict the end result - Wanda's manipulation of chaos and reality does not extend to precognition.
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== '''Powers''' ==
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Wanda "hexes" things via chaos manipulation, in essence breaking down the natural order of things around her. She makes what could happen, happen, or what could not happen happen. Or what could happen but would be wildly improbable and outside the bounds of expectation happen. She's studied quite a bit into chaotic theory and basically thinks of her powers as getting "A" and "D" to create "Z". However, it's a lot more complicated than that. There's another aspect to our world, the chaos side. When Wanda utilizes her powers, she essentially rips open the barrier between and tosses out the end result, not caring how it happens, just that it does. Sometimes she can't even quite predict the end result - Wanda's manipulation of chaos and reality does not extend to precognition.
  
 
But if she concentrates, she can force it; force "A" to connect to "D" and result in exactly "Z", but at a higher cost to herself. When she doesn't force it, it's like she mentally reaches a hand into probability, rummages about and tosses out a result. When she forces it, she has to hold open the barrier longer and mentally look for what she wants. She describes it as "Looking into the abyss, and yes, it's looking back, but the worst thing is... I think it's hungry". She's looking into things that most people aren't supposed to see and she wipes it from her mind.
 
But if she concentrates, she can force it; force "A" to connect to "D" and result in exactly "Z", but at a higher cost to herself. When she doesn't force it, it's like she mentally reaches a hand into probability, rummages about and tosses out a result. When she forces it, she has to hold open the barrier longer and mentally look for what she wants. She describes it as "Looking into the abyss, and yes, it's looking back, but the worst thing is... I think it's hungry". She's looking into things that most people aren't supposed to see and she wipes it from her mind.
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When she uses her powers, her mind becomes almost a chaotic whirlwind, making it hard to read or grasp (but only when she's actively using her powers, in order to keep up with all the information she's processing); most psionic powers have difficultly affecting her in this state.
  
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When she uses her powers, her mind becomes almost a chaotic whirlwind, making it hard to read or grasp (but only when she's actively using her powers, in order to keep up with all the information she's processing); most [[Psionics|psionic]] powers have difficultly affecting her in this state.
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When she actives her powers, red "hex" rings appear around her hands, glowing brightly depending on how hard she's trying. Also, if she lets an unfocused "burst" go, she can reform it and create a "hex blast", a beam of entropic energy that erodes or decays whatever it hits.
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When she actives her powers, red "hex" rings appear around her hands, glowing brightly depending on how hard she's trying.  She doesn't necessarily have to use her hands to make her power work, it's a fallback for her and one that Remy is working on eliminating completely. Also, if she lets an unfocused "burst" go, she can reform it and create a "hex blast", a beam of entropic energy that erodes or decays whatever it hits.  
 
  
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Before Chthon and the reset of her powers by the Knights, if she didn't mediate or relax before bed, she tended to lose some slight control of her powers (this also happened during moments of extreme emotion) and that caused slight "poltergeist" activity to occur around her (glasses breaking, books falling down, that kind of thing).  Now, meditation is simply more of a habit and not one of necessity.
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Between the instructions on her powers from her father and the Exemplars, Wanda had a much tighter control over her powers than she otherwise might have earlier in life.
  
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After Chthon, she lost the limitless well (tapping straight into his chaotic nature), though that has been less of an issue over time. What she gained, however, was an ability to spot the breaking points in an object/person. Using this trick enables her to locate the weak point and then use it against the object or the person in question.
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After Chthon, she lost the limitless well (tapping straight into his chaotic nature), though that has been less of an issue over time. What she gained, however, was an ability to spot the breaking points in an object/person. Using this trick enables her to locate the weak point and then use it against the object or the person in question.
  
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She is also able to affect certain mutant powers besides those with telepathic or empathic abilities: those with the [[Psionics|ability to see in the future]] find it difficult, if not down right impossible, to get a good read on her; she has messed with the destination of [[Teleportation|teleporters]] before as well. It is always a guessing game as to which powers she'll be able to affect or what the results of such actions will be.
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She is also able to affect certain mutant powers besides those with telepathic or empathic abilities: those with the ability to see in the future find it difficult, if not down right impossible, to get a good read on her; she has messed with the destination of teleporters before as well. It is always a guessing game as to which powers she'll be able to affect or what the results of such actions will be.
  
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==Equipment==
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== '''Equipment''' ==
  
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None.
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Wanda tends to travel with a set of well honed knives.
  
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== '''Trivia''' ==
  
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==Trivia==
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Because of the amount she traveled, with and without her family, Wanda speaks a good number of languages. Not all of them well, in fact most she only has a smattering of the necessary phrases down. She speaks Rom (Romani language, but mostly used for trading and cursing) fluently, along with German, French, and Hungarian and handles the Czech languages pretty well and she can bluff her way through most Germanic languages. Her English is rather good, though she gets confused by it sometimes.
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Because of the amount she traveled, with and without her family, Wanda speaks a good number of languages. Not all of them well, in fact most she only has a smattering of the necessary phrases down. She speaks Rom (Gypsy language, but mostly used for trading and cursing) fluently, along with German, though not nearly as well as she would like. She speaks French,
 
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and Hungarian and handles the Czech languages pretty well and she can bluff her way through most Germanic languages. Her English is rather good, though she gets confused by it sometimes.
 
  
 
Wanda is a gym rat and she relishes working out -- sparring, lifting weights, etc.
 
Wanda is a gym rat and she relishes working out -- sparring, lifting weights, etc.
  
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She owns a set of business cards that Amanda gave her for a gift with the term "Boss Lady" printed on them. It's a term that a number of the younger trenchcoats have picked up and Wanda considers it a fantastic term of endearment and she rather adores it.
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She owns a set of business cards that Amanda gave her for a gift with the term "Boss Lady" printed on them. It's a term that a number of the younger trenchcoats have picked up and Wanda considers it a fantastic term of endearment and she rather adores it.
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[[Repodemon]]
 
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[[Head Like A Hole]]
 
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[[Mutants and Molotovs]]
 
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[[Thermopylae]]
 
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[[Head Like A Hole| Ties That Break, Ties That Bind]]
 
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[[X-Men Mission: Air Xavier]]
 
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[[X-Men Mission: Bank Heist]]
 
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[[X-Men Mission: Mutant Michelangelo]]
 
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[[X-Men Mission: Stalemate]]
 
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[[X-Men Mission: Nimrod]]
 
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[[X-Men Mission: Ricochet]]
 
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[[X-Men Mission: Who's The Thief]]
 
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[[Dogs of War]]
 
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[[The Curse Stops Here]]
 
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[[Operation: Opening Salvo]]
 
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[[Operation: Don't Leave Me With The Germans]]
 
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[[Bleeding]]
 
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[[Operation: Body Snatchers]]
 
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[[Operation: Flesh Mechanic]]
 
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[[Operation: Xorn]]
 
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[[Romancing the Holy Whatsis]]
 
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[[Trinity]]
 
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[[Worlds On Fire]]
 
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===2007===
 
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[[Operation: Tower of Babble]]
 
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[[Operation: Cruel Country]]
 
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[[This Savage Land]]
 
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[[Voodoo Child]]
 
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[[Operation: Broken Ground]]
 
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[[The Winding Way]]
 
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[[New Orleans Is Sinking]]
 
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[[Thirteen Days]]
 
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[[Operation: Melittology]]
 
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[[Karma Police]]
 
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[[Mr Pinstripe Suit]]
 
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[[Operation: Shaboom]]
 
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[[The Shadow King (plot)]]
 
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[[These Earthly Things]]
 
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[[Operation: Take A Bow]]
 
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[[Mandelbrot Bound]]
 
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[[Operation: London Calling]]
 
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[[Bedlam]]
 
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[[Zemo]]
 
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[[Fenrisulfr]]
 
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[[Bhagavad Gita]]
 
  
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[[Operation: Retribution]]
 
  
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[[Day Zero]]
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=='''External Links'''==
  
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[[Pride Goeth]]
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[https://xp-communication.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+wanda+maximoff xp_communication posts]
  
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[https://xp-journal.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+wanda+maximoff xp_journal posts]
  
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[https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+wanda+maximoff xp_logs posts]
  
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[https://xp-staff.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+wanda+maximoff xp_staff posts]
  
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[[Shiva]]
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[https://xp-teams.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+scarlet+witch xp_teams posts]
  
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[[Operation: Godhand]]
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[[Clause 16]]
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[[Rappaccini's Daughter]]
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[[Operation: Big Trouble in Little Lowtown]]
  
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[[Those Who Are Dead]]
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[[Jungbrunnen]]
  
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[[Operation: Dead Letter Office]]
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[[Operation: Wonderwall]]
  
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[[House of Wolves]]
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[[It’s Greek To Me]]
  
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[[Operation: Man of Stone]]
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[[The Caged Bird]]
  
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[[Do I Know You?]]
  
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[[Santayana Effect]]
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===2016===
  
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[[Revenant]]
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[[Along Came A Spider]]
  
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[[Lakshmibai Raj]]
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[[Operation: Mutant of the Seas]]
  
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[[Operation: Lie Back and Think of England]]
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===2011===
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[[Psi War]]
  
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[[Operation: Louisiana Lowdown]]
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[[Operation: Sanguinicity]]
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[[Family Reunion]]
  
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[[Operation: зимний солдат]]
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[[Operation: Salt the Earth]]
  
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[[Operation: Red Letter Day]]
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[[Poor Unfortunate Souls]]
  
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[[Sing Me A Prayer]]
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[[Sins of the Father]]
  
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[[Operation: Dasavatharam]]
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[[Operation: Mad Men]]
  
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[[The Curse]]
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[[The Danger Room Paradox]]
  
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[[Fear in the Dark]]
  
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[[Operation: Teenage Wasteland]]
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[[An Eye for an Eye]]
  
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[[The Unwritten Alliance]]
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[[The End of the Beginning]]
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[[Operation: Crazy X-Girlfriend]]
  
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[[Stemming the Tide]]
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[[Operation: Siege Perilous]]
  
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[[Savrola]]
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[[Onwards to Victory]]
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[[A Fistful of Nanites]]
  
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[[The Dawn of Liberation]]
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[[Sons of Mutancy]]
  
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[[A Kind of Magic]]
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[[Operation: Dewey Deceptional System]]
  
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[[Sonatorrek]]
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[[Potomac Calls to Chesapeake]]
  
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[[Operation: A Hammer To Fall]]
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[[Monster Mash]]
  
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[[Operation: Poisoned Honey]]
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[[The Color of Horror]]
  
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[[Operation: Wideawake]]
  
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[[Something Slender (and Awful)]]
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[[Excelsior East]]
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[[Hotel California]]
 
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[[Gershomi]]
 
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[[Age of Apocalypse]]
 
  
 
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== Meta ==
  
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'''Player''': [[Jen]]
  
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'''E-mail''': [[IMAGE:IndyJEmail.jpg|150px]]
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'''AIM''': KatzMT
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'''AIM''':  
  
 
'''Player Icon Base''':  [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005251/ Carrie-Anne Moss]
 
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This page is about the Phase 2 incarnation of the character. For other uses, see Wanda Maximoff (disambiguation).

PHASE 2
Wanda Maximoff
Wanda.jpg
Portrayed by Carrie-Anne Moss
Codename: 'Scarlet Witch'
Affiliations: X-Force
Birthdate: February 10, 1976
Journal: Wanda Maximoff
Player: Jen


...You get a failing grade for mansplaining not only the Holocaust to a Rom whose people were also slaughtered but also to the daughter of the man who bears those numbers.

Estranged from her father Magneto and her twin brother Quicksilver, Wanda was a founding member of X-Force and has devoted her life to standing up for the underdog.



Details

Character Journal: Wanda Maximoff


Real Name: Wanda Maximoff

Codename: Scarlet Witch

Aliases:

First Appearance: January 21, 2015

Date of Birth: February 10, 1976

Place of Birth: Bulgaria

Citizenship: Bulgarian

Relatives: Erik Lennsherr (father); Magda (mother, deceased), Pietro Maximoff (twin brother), Lorna Dane (half-sister)

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

Relationship Status: Single and enjoying herself

Occupation: Researcher for Snow Valley Research Center

Team Affiliation: X-Force


Biography

Childhood

Erik Magnus Lehnsherr was visiting Europe in the early 1970s when he meet the traveling Rom family, the Maximoffs, and their extended clan. Invited to travel with them, he met and eventually fell in love with Magda. Despite their age difference, and displeasure of the Rom for marrying an outsider, the two married and Erik and Magda traveled with the clan while searching for a place to call home.

Having settled temporarily in Germany in 1975, Erik was witnessed using his powers and he and Magda were attacked. In the chaos, it appeared that Magda was killed and Erik used his powers to kill the attackers. Magda, however, was injured but alive - but now terrified of her husband. After she was taken to hospital, she left Erik and traveled alone back to her clan. For his own part, despite his love for Magda, he couldn't be with someone who couldn't accept him and headed back to the States.

It was only months later that Magda would learn that she was pregnant and eventually give birth to twins: Wanda and Pietro.

The twins grew up being raised by Magda and the clan, which included a whole host of rambunctious cousins. Nothing seemed out of place or unusual, though Magda could be cold and detached at times, sometimes concentrating more on running the clan than her two children.

The year the twins turned 12, though, everything changed. Wanda and Pietro's powers emerged when an angry mob caught them stealing. Amid thrown rocks, someone drew a gun and shot one of the men in the camp. Furious and terrified, Wanda instinctively lashed out and her powers manifested. 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 own just-emerged superspeed saved her.

Now Magda was suddenly faced with both of her children being mutants and, in Wanda's case, a destructive one at that. Terrified of them but also wanting to protect them, Magda spent several months tracking down the husband she'd abandoned.

Shocked to discover that he had two children he hadn't been aware of, and intrigued by the fact that both had manifested, Erik now became involved in their lives. Unwilling to let her children be taken from her, and with Erik unable to live there full time, their father would visit for weeks at a time whenever he could. Wanda and Pietro grew from suspicious to loving children, enjoying the attention and care that he showed them and especially considering he seemed to be the only one to understand what they were going through.

While Erik seemed at a loss for exactly how Wanda's powers worked, he helped her establish a solid base for attempting to control them. He brought them to the Mansion a few times, where they met Charles Xavier and received further powers help, but they always returned home.

He was the driving force for them getting their education. With his work and money, the twins both went on to higher education.

As Wanda grew older, however, her father spoke more plainly about his mutant-centric philosophy. Finding it distasteful, she tried to ignore but it became harder and harder to ignore the human hating part of him. She finally cut ties when Pietro joined the Brotherhood, instead focusing her attentions on graduating from Cambridge.

During her time there, Wanda became at first a student, and then more like family, to Agatha Harkness. Harkness realized exactly what type of forces Wanda was manipulating and took her to the Exemplars, a group of men and women dedicated to keeping the chaos world stable. They worked with Wanda to help her control her powers and she became Harkness' star pupil and, eventually, like a partner once she graduated.

Magda eventually died as a result of the Great Headache, a year after Wanda cut ties with her father.


Living At The X-Mansion

After graduating, Wanda worked towards her PhD but also was introduced to the weirder world of magic and artifacts thanks to the work Harkness was doing. She maintained ties with the Exemplars, though always felt there was something they were holding back from her. As the years past, she developed a good reputation among scholars and curators of the weird.

While traveling, Wanda was attacked by a group attempting to cash in on the fact that she was related to Magneto. Having been followed by the group, she was eventually rescued by the X-Men who took her back to the Mansion to treat her wounds. While she was there, she saw someone she hadn't seen since she was a teenager - Charles Xavier. After several days of rest and explanations, Xavier offered her a place there and Wanda, having realized that she'd buried her head with regards to what was going on in the world, accepted.

Wanda was an active X-Man for years, made friends and formed a family, while completing her PhD and continuing, when she could, on the work she did with Agatha. Everything was on track...until Chthon.

Chthon, the Elder God)

A few years into her tenure with the X-Men, Wanda's control over her powers started to slip. Headaches, visions, emotional outbursts followed and she was planning to take a short hiatus to travel to see the Exemplars for help. Before she could, she woke up one morning not herself - Chthon, an Elder God of Chaos, had finally broken through the barriers in her mind and had switched places, locking Wanda's mental presence up in the astral plane jail he'd been trapped in for centuries. His goal was to use Wanda's physical body and her powers to first destroy the Exemplars and then spread his influence over the world through the human cult that had developed over the years in his worship.

Thanks to the intervention, however, of the Exemplars, the ghostly echo of Bova (one of the original Exemplars) and the combined weight of Xavier and the telepaths, who were able to punch through Wanda's normal powers based psi-shielding, and she was rescued from the Astral prison she'd been trapped in. They chased Chthon back into the cage but with the knowledge that the cage was now damaged, weakened. Wanda, rendered temporarily powerless by the attack, briefly left the mansion but also refused to travel to the Exemplars, feeling betrayed that they, and Agatha, had never told her that they'd known she was tied to Chthon.

Wanda regained her powers thanks to a trip to the place of her birth, triggering ancient wards that the original Exemplars had put in place to trap Chthon centuries before. Bova once again appeared before her, explaining that Chthon was the Elder God of Chaos and that he had been piggy backing off of Wanda ever since birth. The Exemplars had been born from Chthon's former worshipers when it had attempted to enter the real world, no longer content to spread chaos from the place of the Elder Gods. The Exemplars had been tasked with keeping Chthon in his prison, hunting down the unfortunate hosts and either helping or killing them, depending on how far gone they were.

Powers back, Wanda returned to the X-Men but as a changed woman. Angry at the Exemplars and Agatha, and confused by the knowledge that there were things out there beyond what the X-Men were fighting, Wanda drifted. She became more and more involved with missions that had occult and darker sides to them and would have numerous run ins with the Chthon cult after.

X-Force

While Wanda felt more and more separate from the X-Men's mission, she was eventually approached by several others and became a founding member of X-Force. She helped formed the weird occult portion and was firmly entrenched with the team until all the X-teams were dissolved after the fall of Genosha in 2012. Left on her own, Wanda set out to try to root out the Chthon cult and Harkness, traveling on her own for months with not much to show for it.

M-Day and Beyond

After M-Day, Wanda made the decision to return back to the Mansion as the world reeled from the chaos. On her way back, she picked up her half-sister, Lorna who was afraid that her role as a mole within the Brotherhood of Mutants had been found out. Wanda started back up with X-Force and pretty much picked up exactly where she left off, although with some new faces such as Felicia Hardy, Kevin Sydney and Nina Thurman joining the team. Her mentor/elder sister type relationship with the team's witch, Amanda Sefton, continued as it had done, and she and David North were still buddies.

2015 proved to be a busy year for Wanda, with X-Force missions of the more usual type in Madripoor and on the high seas, and the usual consultation work. But there were other, more personal situations: North was taken by HYDRA and Wanda was part of the rescue team, bringing down the entire complex with her powers afterwards; her sister Lorna's boyfriend and adoptive family were abducted by their father, who wanted their attention (and who got it, in spades); and she was called in to help Clinton Barton retrieve a SHIELD compatriot who had gone missing.

There were two incidents in particular that rocked Wanda. The first was the time loop incident involving friend and lover Simon Williams, who apparently perished in the course of stopping Heinrich Zemo. The second was becoming trapped in the mind of a Quebecois teenager, thanks to a powers malfunction from Quentin Quire. During their time sharing a brain (along with Gabriel Cohuelo and Jean-Paul Beaubier) Wanda and Quentin came to understand each other better, something that had seemed impossible only weeks before after Wanda had floored the Magneto fanboy with her relationship to - and opinions of - his hero. She finished out 2016 by helping rescue an old friend of Clint's and releasing mutates who were being used for slave labor on a cruise ship.

After all that, a quiet 2017 with her sister's wedding in October was exactly what Wanda signed up for.

Physical Characteristics

Height: 5' 10"

Weight: 172 lbs

Eyes: Dark brown/almost black.

Hair: Dark brown, tends to be rather uncontrollable when long, currently cut to just above shoulder length.

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


Powers

Wanda "hexes" things via chaos manipulation, in essence breaking down the natural order of things around her. She makes what could happen, happen, or what could not happen happen. Or what could happen but would be wildly improbable and outside the bounds of expectation happen. She's studied quite a bit into chaotic theory and basically thinks of her powers as getting "A" and "D" to create "Z". However, it's a lot more complicated than that. There's another aspect to our world, the chaos side. When Wanda utilizes her powers, she essentially rips open the barrier between and tosses out the end result, not caring how it happens, just that it does. Sometimes she can't even quite predict the end result - Wanda's manipulation of chaos and reality does not extend to precognition.

But if she concentrates, she can force it; force "A" to connect to "D" and result in exactly "Z", but at a higher cost to herself. When she doesn't force it, it's like she mentally reaches a hand into probability, rummages about and tosses out a result. When she forces it, she has to hold open the barrier longer and mentally look for what she wants. She describes it as "Looking into the abyss, and yes, it's looking back, but the worst thing is... I think it's hungry". She's looking into things that most people aren't supposed to see and she wipes it from her mind. When she uses her powers, her mind becomes almost a chaotic whirlwind, making it hard to read or grasp (but only when she's actively using her powers, in order to keep up with all the information she's processing); most psionic powers have difficultly affecting her in this state.

When she actives her powers, red "hex" rings appear around her hands, glowing brightly depending on how hard she's trying. Also, if she lets an unfocused "burst" go, she can reform it and create a "hex blast", a beam of entropic energy that erodes or decays whatever it hits.

Between the instructions on her powers from her father and the Exemplars, Wanda had a much tighter control over her powers than she otherwise might have earlier in life.

After Chthon, she lost the limitless well (tapping straight into his chaotic nature), though that has been less of an issue over time. What she gained, however, was an ability to spot the breaking points in an object/person. Using this trick enables her to locate the weak point and then use it against the object or the person in question.

She is also able to affect certain mutant powers besides those with telepathic or empathic abilities: those with the ability to see in the future find it difficult, if not down right impossible, to get a good read on her; she has messed with the destination of teleporters before as well. It is always a guessing game as to which powers she'll be able to affect or what the results of such actions will be.

Equipment

Wanda tends to travel with a set of well honed knives.

Trivia

Because of the amount she traveled, with and without her family, Wanda speaks a good number of languages. Not all of them well, in fact most she only has a smattering of the necessary phrases down. She speaks Rom (Romani language, but mostly used for trading and cursing) fluently, along with German, French, and Hungarian and handles the Czech languages pretty well and she can bluff her way through most Germanic languages. Her English is rather good, though she gets confused by it sometimes.

Wanda is a gym rat and she relishes working out -- sparring, lifting weights, etc.

She owns a set of business cards that Amanda gave her for a gift with the term "Boss Lady" printed on them. It's a term that a number of the younger trenchcoats have picked up and Wanda considers it a fantastic term of endearment and she rather adores it.


External Links

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Plots

2015

Operation: Big Trouble in Little Lowtown

Jungbrunnen

Operation: Wonderwall

It’s Greek To Me

The Caged Bird

Do I Know You?

2016

Along Came A Spider

Operation: Mutant of the Seas

2017

Psi War

2018

Family Reunion

Operation: Salt the Earth

Poor Unfortunate Souls

Sins of the Father

Operation: Mad Men

The Danger Room Paradox

2019

Fear in the Dark

An Eye for an Eye

2020

Operation: Crazy X-Girlfriend

Operation: Siege Perilous

2021

A Fistful of Nanites

Sons of Mutancy

Operation: Dewey Deceptional System

Potomac Calls to Chesapeake

Monster Mash

The Color of Horror

Operation: Wideawake

2022

Operation: Apalachin

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Meta Trivia

Jen also played the Phase 1 version of Wanda and relaunched her in order to 'catch up' on some dropped plot threads.

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