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We'll admit this is short and sweet. It's first come first serve for the characters, we don't want doubles of a character running around, though PB's, as long as we don't have 400 of the same face running around it's cool. You will be alerted as soon as we can about getting your application. And as soon as the team of mods look it over you'll be informed of your acceptance. If denied, we'll give you a chance to add in details that we think need a little brushing up on and a shot to try again. If you fail that time I'm sorry you won't be able to app that character to the game, though feel free to try another character. |
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Are you over 18: (Because we do have adult themes going on and hello mostly based in RE, that's not exactly a game for the ittie bitties) Contact: (Aim, plurk, smoke signals, Astral projection? How do you want us to keep in touch with you?) Character Name: (Might be a good idea so we know what to call your character) |
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Wanda Maximoff | X-Men Evolution
Date: 2012-08-09 04:25 am (UTC)Are you over 18: ridiculously so
Contact: Chat group (I am doctressamnesia on AIM) and anakimwriter on plurk.
Canon: X-Men Evolution plus a year of active play
Background:Wanda and her twin brother Pietro are mutants, born into a world where human mutants are just starting to become discussed publicly--usually, as a threat. She was raised in an atmosphere of xenophobia, exacerbated by her father Magneto's Holocaust experiences and general disdain of humans.
When she was eight, her father gave up on helping her with her growing power and anger problems, and locked her away in a human run insane asylum in upstate New York. There, unable even to move her hands most of the time, she was left to rot except for occasional visits from Charles Xavier, who sought unsuccessfully to treat her deepening trauma and obsessive hatred of her father. This Hellish situation continued until she was fifteen, when the shapeshifting mutant Mystique released her and attempted to bring her into the fold of her Brotherhood of Mutants.
In spite of the presence of her obnoxious brother, whom she viewed as having betrayed her by doing nothing to help during the years she was locked up, Wanda worked with the Brotherhood for a while, training under the witch Agatha Harkness to learn to control her powers. But her obsessions drove her to track down her father in search of revenge--something she would attempt several times before finally nearly killing him during a battle with the robotic Sentinels.
Desperate to stop her attacks, Magneto lured her to a secret base and captured her. He used the telepath Mastermind to rewrite her memories, replacing the asylum horror and her subsequent hunt of Magneto with memories of a happy and loving relationship. Magneto then released Wanda to a "rescue" by her friends (well, one acquaintance and the romantically-obsessed Toad). Her brother was complicit in her memory wipe, and made sure that neither Toad nor anyone else mentioned anything of Wanda's past to her, to keep from disturbing the memory alteration.
Wanda and her brother later participated in a gigantic battle with the world-conquering mutant Apocalypse, joining forces with the rest of the Brotherhood, the X-men and several other mutants. This was a catastrophic event for her young psyche; not only did she end up working with the X-men to save the world, but also rescued her father. This was her first taste of (genuine) heroism. According to the precognitive experiences of Charles Xavier, described at the end of the series, her destiny was to join the American defense force SHIELD along with the rest of the Brotherhood. But that left several questions: how did she go from a punk kid with some maybe heroic leanings to someone who heroes for a living? Did she ever backslide into villainy? And what would happen when her memory was restored?
She found out after dying on a mission for her father at the age of seventeen. Her "afterlife" consisted of a prison sentence aboard an interdimensional craft known as the Barge. There, surrounded by beings from all sorts of other worlds, she was forced to go through a program of rehabilitation aimed at making sure she did not become evil or insane. Unfortunately her experiences there were largely traumatic--including the return of her true memories. She made a few friends, and with their support managed to turn her life around. However, she remains bitter over her life experiences, and actually fled her world so that she would never have to deal with her abusers again.
Personality: Wanda is a basically good person who has been through Hell and has been dumped into a strange world alone except for her dog, Fozzie. She is bitter and sad, and angry about it, and copes largely by immersing herself in magical study and practice, caring for her dog, and various forms of meditation. She also smokes what is probably too much cannabis, though she rarely gets drunk and never tries anything else. Wanda is shy and distrustful of strangers, drawing most of her confidence from the fact that she can utterly destroy most opponents with her powers. She has been disappointed by people so many times that she pretty much expects it, though she has come to realize that a rare few are actually worth her trust.
The two things she is most proud of are also the two things she is most secretive about; her magical knowledge, and her mutant power. Her magical knowledge is the result of two and a half years' general teaching, six months' instruction in protection spells, and a lot of independent study. She possesses two spellbooks filled with the spells she copied down and is still struggling to master. In reality, because of the nature of her powers, she does not actually need the spells, but she is always paranoid about her mutant power failing her at a key moment--something that was always happening on the Barge. Also, because her power essentially makes her a magical "hacker" capable of formulating her own spells, she looks at traditional magic for clues as to handle magic more elegantly. Normally, she is very subtle in the use of her powers, but if sufficiently enraged, she is capable of bringing down a great deal of chaos-magic-powered destruction. She avoids killing, but will curse people who hurt her without hesitation.
Wanda's goals in life are twofold; master her powers, and make a comfortable place for herself in the world. She does have a heroic streak, and can be very sympathetic, but ultimately she is too focused right now on healing and empowering herself, and may need serious coaxing to help out against Umbrella. Once she recovers somewhat she will be much more eager to make certain that others are not victimized the way that she was. Meanwhile, she is a bit morally grey; she has made a pile of seed money by using her power to clean out a casino or two, she has no problem with buying and smoking pot, and if need be she will cause serious home in her own defense. She is eighteen but indulges in a bit of underage drinking. She holds many laws and social mores in disdain, despises big corporations and dislikes the wealthy. Politically she is all over the map, with a strong anarchic streak but a lot of practical attitudes on matters like civil rights and birth control. She doesn't view herself as human and has trouble relating to normal people, but she acknowledges everyone's right to live, and live relatively free.
Wanda's trauma has left her with a terrible temper and a distrust of authority figures. Her pride will not let her give up, but she feels constantly out of place in any world, and is subject to bouts of depression. She will tend to hide her pain and withdraw when this happens. However, she does have hope that she will eventually recover, find happiness and make some kind of positive impact on the world she's now chosen as home.
Abilities: Wanda is a powerful mutant capable of large or small scale alterations in reality that generally fall under the realm of "chaos magic". Her powers are fueled by raw magic mixed with her innate psychic ability. Reality alteration effects shown in the series include bringing down whole buildings on top of things, melting and reshaping objects, obliterating objects, counteracting another's powers to make them temporarily powerless, and a variety of magical effects mostly centered around hexes, protection spells and various forms of concealment and distraction. She is also very, very good at glitching out machines and computer systems and inflicting massive Murphy's Law on people.
Weaknesses: Her powers are limited by line of sight, and her hands must be free to gesture in order to activate them. Although she has trained for a year in hand to hand combat and has a very large, well trained guard dog, she can be hurt and heals slowly, just like a normal human.
Sample:Wanda opened up the door to her room in the Brotherhood house and looked out onto the hallway of the Barge. Her eyes widened and she looked up and down the corridor quickly, noticing a few people walking by. She almost grabbed one of them to demand what the Hell was going on, but her voice stuck in her throat each time. Damn it. Unwilling to let her nervousness show around a bunch of strangers, she set her jaw, locked her door, pocketed the key and started walking around.
She did so methodically, going from one end of the floor to the other, peering into the public rooms with that same thoughtful scowl fixed on her face. Striding along in her big stompy boots, she tried to keep her shoulders straight and look like she belonged and completely knew where she was going. But her blue eyes tracked around nervously as she moved from area to area. Finally, she found the elevator, and decided to explore the rest of the floors.