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doesthemath) wrote2016-03-08 06:31 pm
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PLAYER
» Journal: rianne (joined originally as mari)
» Birthdate/Age: May 1984 / 31
» Characters Played: None currently, Ults!Wanda previously.
» Re-App Status: Re-app with retained memories please ♥
CHARACTER FACTS
» Name: Wanda Lehnsherr
» Canon: Marvel 1610
» Reference:
Wanda @ Marvel Wikia: http://marvel.wikia.com/Wanda_Lehnsherr_%28Earth-1610%29
Wanda @ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Witch#Ultimate_Marvel
Hand-written History and Canon Setting Information: http://doesthemath.dreamwidth.org/4468.html
» Canon Point: Ultimates 3, Issue 1
» Gender: Female
» Age: 23
CHARACTER INTERPRETATION
» Appearance: Wanda is about 5'8", with a curvy but muscle-toned build, the result of years of exercise and hand-to-hand combat training. Her appearance can vary depending on story arc and artist, but what remains constant throughout is her long, dark hair, dark brown eyes, and pale skin.
» Suitability: N/A
» Orientation: Heterosexual. Wanda is shown flirting with and kissing Scott Summers (and even mentioned to another her intention to seduce him.) Based on two brief scenes in which Wanda is shown conversing with Pym's robot, one could also make an argument for certain robosexual leanings, especially when questioned by her brother as to whether or not she was flirting with one and during another scene is seen attempting to arrange a time to meet up with it when her over-protective brother isn't around, but all that is proven for sure is that she finds the machines fascinating.
» Personality: Characters of the Marvel 1610 universe are very much a product of their environment, and Wanda Lehnsherr is no exception.
She was raised by a man with his own motives closer at heart than his children. To seek his approval and affection, both she and Pietro bent over backwards to please him. Erik, being the Father of the Year that he is, had absolutely no qualms manipulating both of his children toward his ends. As a result, Wanda honed her mutant skills and unquestioningly supported his vision for a world of mutant-supremacy. Having grown up in an isolated community of mutants who believed in everything Magneto said and did, it was no wonder that there was never any outside influence to make her question anything her father did. No, instead she became Daddy's Little Terrorist to the best of her ability.
At times she emulated her father's unadulterated rage and behaved as a zealot as much as he, but Wanda never entirely acquired the same violent ruthlessness that her father possessed. That isn't to say that she's never had blood on her hands, but her motives were based in supporting her father and gaining his approval rather than being violent for the enjoyment of it.
With the initial goal to not only please her father but survive in the environment of the Brotherhood of Mutants, Wanda adapted and changed as she grew up. Gone went the little girl who used to run through the hallways playing with her brother, and in her place came a much altered young woman. Seemingly colder and harder, Wanda had pulled around her a sort of aloofness and unimpressed air she used to both deflect and set down those deemed lesser. And, as what amounted to a princess in her father's kingdom, everyone was lesser than she but Pietro, her equal, and their father who reigned over all.
Of course, there was always more to Wanda than that. In addition to a passion for poetry (her own written and recited in the mutant language Epsilon-Omega), and a lack of shame when it comes to sex, the most notable thing about Wanda Lehnsherr is her relationship with her brother. Throughout their changing circumstances and even her own eventually evolved personality, her love and support of her brother remains constant and unshaken.
It is through her interactions with Pietro that we get a glimpse of Wanda as how she might have been if left out of her father's fanatical schemes to take over the world. With him, she smiles, she is physically affectionate, and indeed shows a closeness to her twin that is constantly questioned (not just behind their backs but at times to their face) by those around them. Wanda and Pietro have seemingly gotten used to ignoring the looks and probing jibes, at times responding with a few quick words to imply that the accusations are tired and indeed, none of anyone's business.
These glimpses into Wanda's personality and who she is at her core only continue the longer she and Pietro remain with the Ultimates. Rather than keeping to themselves as often as they used to, both Wanda and Pietro interact more with their teammates out of the office, so to speak. They help Natasha shop for a wedding dress, attend dinner parties at the Bartons' house, and by Wanda's canon point she leaves the team discussing with Pietro her desire to get everyone Christmas gifts that year.
Not only that, but in the comics it's shown that Wanda is more likely to admit to being uncertain or having doubts in her own abilities during emotional or high-pressure situations. In Ultimates second story arc, Wanda is asked to stop several missiles from launching from the Middle East. In such a high-pressure situation with so much at stake and so many things that could go wrong, she stated aloud that she was freaking out and wasn’t sure she could complete her task without mistakes.
When off-duty, Wanda is not someone who talks just to feel included. She has no problem with giving her input or an opinion, however this is provided that Pietro doesn’t speak up first, and that what he says does not cover points she would have made herself. The siblings are at times of the same opinion and Wanda has no issues letting him speak for them both during those times.
Wanda’s working relationship with the Ultimates has become stronger than that with the Brotherhood, and she responds well to Tony’s encouragement during a rare moment of uncertainty, as well as Nick Fury’s direction in the field. She communicates well, clearly and succinctly, even when her concern is divided between the battle at hand and instances in which Pietro has been seriously hurt. It’s with the Ultimates that Wanda is shown acting as an actual team member, capable not just of leading but taking orders from and working with those who are not family and not even mutants.
With those she develops more than a passing acquaintance with, Wanda’s personality can shift more noticeably. Where once she might have been withdrawn and quiet, even judgmental, she might become more coy and outgoing. In a few instances Wanda has been shown to be exceedingly friendly with those who catch her interest.
Still, these new connections do not come easily. Having believed herself to be superior to most everyone for a great deal of her life, she can be more aloof and slow to warm up to others. After all, not only is she a mutant with incredible powers, but she is also well-educated, clever, and fairly cultured as well. Her aloofness, built originally as a defense mechanism against other Brotherhood mutants, remains in place in light of the poor public image she and her brother have. After all, they had not only been willing members of their father's terrorist organization, but led it themselves for a time.
Having gotten close to someone doesn't mean that she's not above manipulating them if the ends justify the means. In one instance, the Ultimates were pit against Thor and their only hope of winning regaining the upper hand was for Pietro to get close enough to steal Thor’s belt. After many failed attempts that left Pietro electrocuted and injured, Wanda played on his protective nature and quick temper to goad him into to one more attempt by telling him that Thor had hurt her and almost broken her nose. Even with the very close relationship she and Pietro enjoy, Wanda sees nothing wrong with playing on her brother's own personality traits and attitudes to effect the reaction she desires. One way or another, if she wants something to happen she will use whatever tool that is at hand to make it happen.
Wanda has her moments of empathy and softer emotions of course, but these displays are rare and not bestowed lightly on others. Of all of the people in her life, Pietro is one of the few that sees Wanda as herself. When they’re just with each other, she’s more open and light-hearted. She’s more given to teasing him and being more outwardly affectionate, as well as relying on him emotionally. Their relationship is very codependent but the dynamic has never been hobbling.
The TL;DR version is that Wanda started out a happy child with magical powers that scared and intimidated her, and a father that came to manipulate and terrify her. His influence warped her into a blindly obedient mutant supremacist until through other circumstances she and Pietro were forced to live outside of the bubble that was their life in the Savage Lands. Through working with the Ultimates she's slowly been evolving into someone closer resembling the girl she once had been. Using a dismissive and judgmental front as a means of defense less and less, Wanda is slowly learning to adjust to what we would consider a normal, everyday life. Well, one that includes fighting Chitauri, Norse gods and robots while maintaining a close relationship to her brother (that people often misinterpret) and slowly developing closer bonds to her other teammates.
» Re-App Changes: [This section is where you detail how your character changed while in Amat. The focus is on character development in Personality, Orientation, and Suitability if applicable. If this is not a Re-App, or if your character will not be retaining memories or development from their previous stay, please put N/A. ]
The most significant changes Wanda experienced in Atia were in personality and orientation. She arrived on the island as a young woman who had grown up too fast, and in terrible circumstances. Abused by the father who ought to have loved her, hated for being different, despised for things she had done misguidedly as a terrorist, and by all accounts without a care for anyone in the world but her brother.
And yet, somehow despite having every reason to treat her time on the island as a prison sentence meant to be endured and survived, Wanda learned to adapt and acclimate. It's due in large part to the other people she came to meet on the island. While Bucky Barnes was by far the most influential person to Wanda over the course of her time on the island, the most significant influence at the beginning was in fact Leonardo da Vinci. It was Leo who first truly got under her guard that first night with a small token of welcome in the form of a sketch, a simple kindness that had overwhelmed her with emotion at the end of at truly wearying day. It was Leo that comforted her when she burst into tears, Leo who held her when the one person who she was used to soothing her was far and away. It was also Leo who, in light of the circumstances of their stay on the island, opened her mind to the benefits of allowing herself to be open and intimate with more than one person.
While Wanda had never committed to a single person in the past, and it's my headcanon that at most she'd only ever engaged in casual, no-strings-attached affairs and one night stands, she allowed herself to be guided by Leo in this. It's how she came to be involved with both he and Bucky Barnes, who she had almost immediate, intense chemistry with, at the same time. And also several others over the months that followed. The experience was freeing for Wanda, though it's unlikely she anticipated how touch or emotion starved she was when she began to engage with others, for soon enough she found herself emotionally invested in her relationships with others.
In particular, Wanda found herself drawn more and more to Bucky. While not opposites, Bucky wasn't the sort of man she normally would have been drawn to. A soldier, American, the best friend of Steve Rogers and worst of all, human, he was everything that Wanda ought to have had no interest in. But on the island, all of the politics and circumstances that had kept a line drawn firmly in the sand between herself and Earth's human population mattered a great deal less. Wanda found more and more that she wasn't Wanda Lehnsherr, Magneto's daughter. She wasn't Scarlet Witch of the terrorist organization, the Brotherhood of Mutants. She wasn't Scarlet Witch, the mutant, Scarlet Witch, the Ultimate, or even Wanda the twin sister of Pietro. She was just Wanda, free and unfettered from everything that had weighed heavily on her before, or influenced how she interacted in the world.
New opportunities became not only chances for her to live her life the way she wanted, but instances in which her perspective grew more flexible and her horizons expanded. She got three different jobs during her time on the island, none of which she would have ever taken back home. She found herself not only with lovers, but friends in the truest sense of the word who accepted her for everything she'd done in the past and for the woman she was becoming on the island.
Not only that, but it's on the island that Wanda really involved herself with another women. In canon, Wanda's shown to be heterosexual (or robosexual in a couple instances, oops) however on Atia Wanda was able to explore her sexuality further with none other than Meg Masters. While still leaning heavily toward men in her sexual preferences, Wanda did learn quickly that with the right connection, her interest could easily include another woman of a singular personality and unique presence. It's very likely their chemistry that made Meg one of Wanda's closest friends on the island.
Of course, with enough baggage to supply a luggage outlet store, it can't be said that Wanda took to her time on the island like a duck to water. She found it very difficult to be without her powers, a thing she felt that defined her, and it was even worse when she was given them back in full for an event, only to retain a small portion of them by the end. Worse still, it was never possible for her to lose the sense that the other shoe had yet to drop, and that there was was always something awful and terrible lurking on the horizon that would ruin what happiness she'd managed to find for herself. With no small amount of self-loathing, Wanda found herself at times pushing others away, believing in the context of how highly regarded them that she wasn't good enough for them. At other times, it seemed out of self-preservation that she only allowed some only so close, if not because they would one day hurt her, then because they would be taken away and surely break her heart. A great deal of credit has to be given to Bucky Barnes for his patience with Wanda and sweetly convincing arguments that she was not only deserving of her good fortune, to find such incredible friends and love on the island, but that whatever hard times arrived could be better weathered together than alone.
It's on the island that Wanda basically learned to unclench. To learn to let others in, to learn to let herself enjoy sex, with multiple people at times (and sometimes at the same time), and if not to love herself then to trust others enough to let them love her and to love them in return.
SAMPLES
» First Person Sample Choice: (Prompt Two)
[Wanda has been back for a week by the time she finally makes her way onto the network. It's not that she isn't interested in catching up with everyone she apparently left behind here, but it's simply taken her that long to drum up the motivation to do so. For the last seven days she's been living in a bubble revolving around Bucky Barnes and Tony Stark. It's understandable, she thinks. She's been gone for so long, even if it was only for a split second to her, and so much has changed in her absence. Enough to break her heart. Enough to make her feel more uncertain and anxious than she ever has in recent months. Enough to make her want to hole up with both of them while trying to figure out how she could ever fit into this world again.
As much as she's needed time to come to terms with everything, by the time a week has passed Wanda's perhaps not ready to take herself out into the world again, but seeing the necessity of it. She has too much pride to let Bucky and Tony support her, especially when she knows she's fully capable of working to contribute to the household as well. Besides, the time for reconnecting with her friends is long overdue, and there's only so many marathons she can endure in the bedroom she shares with Bucky before the need for fresh air becomes a requirement. Looking every inch the same as when she was last seen on the island, Wanda begins a video feed.]
Hello, everyone. I'm back. [She pauses a beat, and remembering how much time has passed, she adds:] My name is Wanda, for those of you who have arrived during my absence.
[The smile she offers is faint, polite, without any of the warmth she's acquired during her time on the island.]
I've had some time to settle in once more and thought I would see if there any businesses currently offering employment. I would prefer a job with a flexible schedule, if possible, and I have no preference with regard to day or night shifts.
[She hesitates a moment, then, considering leaving the post at that, but it seems best to add a little more for those who know her.]
If any of the people I knew before are still here, I would like an opportunity to catch-up at some point. [She knows she sounds stiff, awkward even, but it's hard to be herself after what's felt like her world flipping upside-down.] You can respond here or let me know when you might be available to meet-up in person. [She gives a brief nod, and then attempts another smile.] Thank you, everyone.
» Third Person Sample Choice: (Prompt Four)
It doesn't occur to Wanda until the middle of her sixth night on the island the full scope of how terrible her absence could have turned out to be for her.
Oh, yes, she'd spent hours reacquainting herself with Bucky, listening to him explain to her just what had happened to him. How she had disappeared, and how he had gone home and come back decades later in his own timeline, a mere two weeks here on the island. She'd wept for what he had endured, for everything he had lost and the fact that he'd had to get through it all without her. And when they had exhausted themselves with talking, they'd come together in the same way they had countless times before. She'd put herself out there for him, to be there for him in whatever capacity he needed most then.
But in the face of his loss and how much things had seemed to change in the blink of an eye for her, she had missed how very close she'd come to losing everything herself. Wanda had been so focused on him that the fact that she had returned home and could have been separated from him for the rest of her life had escaped her entirely.
Staring up at the ceiling, Wanda goes still, trying to cope as the full impact of that realization hits her. She could have lost him forever. Could have been forced to live the rest of her life without the only man she's ever truly given her heart to fully. Bucky at least would have Tony. The fact that the two were a couple hadn't been as much of a surprise to Wanda as it could have been, perhaps. Before her absence, things had been headed in that direction for all three of them. Now that she was back, perhaps it still could, if she isn't somehow intruding on the life they've built together. It's something to consider when she's more awake, panicking less about the fact that if she left again, sure, they might have each other still, but she would be alone again and that much more aware of what she had lost.
Stiffly, Wanda turns her head to look over at Bucky, sleeping with some of that long hair brushed down over his eyes. Her fingers tremble as she reaches up to draw it away so she can see his face.
This island has never been her favorite place. Sex was always a tool to her before, a means of dominating lesser, weaker minds, something she would indulge in from time to time for her own empty pleasures. To be forced into it had rubbed her the wrong way when she'd first arrived; it was her tool to use on others, not the other way around. To add insult to injury, to have it as such a blatant theme of this place had always seemed, well, tasteless. Offensive. Then she'd met Bucky. Leo. Meg and Victor. So many, many others, and each in their own way had shown her what she had been missing out on. That sex could be a gift. An intimate handshake. A means of connecting with another person. And oh, so many different ways to stimulate the mind instead of just the body. She could lose so much trying to be stubborn about the circumstances that brought them all together, but she had so, so much more to gain by throwing herself into the fray the way someone as touch and emotionally starved as she was could do.
In doing so, they'd helped her to understand herself and her desires so much better than she ever thought she had back home.
And Bucky had shown her love the likes of which she'd never experienced before. An unstinting, passionate, almost consuming sort of love that had only added fire to their sex life. The man made her insatiable, like he'd opened floodgates that could never be closed again. Love and lust were all wrapped up in her mind now, all the more knowing that she could have lost it all.
Expression shifting with a sudden flash of desperate need, Wanda moves in the bed and reaches for him. In the light of day she may realize that sex isn't the best way of coping with her emotions, but it's such a large part of their relationship and she can't think of any other way to help soothe the restless, anxious feelings that rise inside her now. She might have never come back. She might have gone back to her world to never return, and she would never see him smile at her again. Never feel his hand at the small of her back. Never feel him filling her body the way only he can. Never be drawn into risky, exhibitionist acts with a sense of freedom she never felt until she came to this place. The thought is unbearable, and before she can make herself mad with anxiety over her close call, she rolls closer to his body and wraps her arms and legs over him.
Like holding her body to his, holding him close and kissing him awake so he'll press himself inside her will keep her from slipping away once more.
» Journal: rianne (joined originally as mari)
» Birthdate/Age: May 1984 / 31
» Characters Played: None currently, Ults!Wanda previously.
» Re-App Status: Re-app with retained memories please ♥
CHARACTER FACTS
» Name: Wanda Lehnsherr
» Canon: Marvel 1610
» Reference:
Wanda @ Marvel Wikia: http://marvel.wikia.com/Wanda_Lehnsherr_%28Earth-1610%29
Wanda @ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Witch#Ultimate_Marvel
Hand-written History and Canon Setting Information: http://doesthemath.dreamwidth.org/4468.html
» Canon Point: Ultimates 3, Issue 1
» Gender: Female
» Age: 23
CHARACTER INTERPRETATION
» Appearance: Wanda is about 5'8", with a curvy but muscle-toned build, the result of years of exercise and hand-to-hand combat training. Her appearance can vary depending on story arc and artist, but what remains constant throughout is her long, dark hair, dark brown eyes, and pale skin.
» Suitability: N/A
» Orientation: Heterosexual. Wanda is shown flirting with and kissing Scott Summers (and even mentioned to another her intention to seduce him.) Based on two brief scenes in which Wanda is shown conversing with Pym's robot, one could also make an argument for certain robosexual leanings, especially when questioned by her brother as to whether or not she was flirting with one and during another scene is seen attempting to arrange a time to meet up with it when her over-protective brother isn't around, but all that is proven for sure is that she finds the machines fascinating.
» Personality: Characters of the Marvel 1610 universe are very much a product of their environment, and Wanda Lehnsherr is no exception.
She was raised by a man with his own motives closer at heart than his children. To seek his approval and affection, both she and Pietro bent over backwards to please him. Erik, being the Father of the Year that he is, had absolutely no qualms manipulating both of his children toward his ends. As a result, Wanda honed her mutant skills and unquestioningly supported his vision for a world of mutant-supremacy. Having grown up in an isolated community of mutants who believed in everything Magneto said and did, it was no wonder that there was never any outside influence to make her question anything her father did. No, instead she became Daddy's Little Terrorist to the best of her ability.
At times she emulated her father's unadulterated rage and behaved as a zealot as much as he, but Wanda never entirely acquired the same violent ruthlessness that her father possessed. That isn't to say that she's never had blood on her hands, but her motives were based in supporting her father and gaining his approval rather than being violent for the enjoyment of it.
With the initial goal to not only please her father but survive in the environment of the Brotherhood of Mutants, Wanda adapted and changed as she grew up. Gone went the little girl who used to run through the hallways playing with her brother, and in her place came a much altered young woman. Seemingly colder and harder, Wanda had pulled around her a sort of aloofness and unimpressed air she used to both deflect and set down those deemed lesser. And, as what amounted to a princess in her father's kingdom, everyone was lesser than she but Pietro, her equal, and their father who reigned over all.
Of course, there was always more to Wanda than that. In addition to a passion for poetry (her own written and recited in the mutant language Epsilon-Omega), and a lack of shame when it comes to sex, the most notable thing about Wanda Lehnsherr is her relationship with her brother. Throughout their changing circumstances and even her own eventually evolved personality, her love and support of her brother remains constant and unshaken.
It is through her interactions with Pietro that we get a glimpse of Wanda as how she might have been if left out of her father's fanatical schemes to take over the world. With him, she smiles, she is physically affectionate, and indeed shows a closeness to her twin that is constantly questioned (not just behind their backs but at times to their face) by those around them. Wanda and Pietro have seemingly gotten used to ignoring the looks and probing jibes, at times responding with a few quick words to imply that the accusations are tired and indeed, none of anyone's business.
These glimpses into Wanda's personality and who she is at her core only continue the longer she and Pietro remain with the Ultimates. Rather than keeping to themselves as often as they used to, both Wanda and Pietro interact more with their teammates out of the office, so to speak. They help Natasha shop for a wedding dress, attend dinner parties at the Bartons' house, and by Wanda's canon point she leaves the team discussing with Pietro her desire to get everyone Christmas gifts that year.
Not only that, but in the comics it's shown that Wanda is more likely to admit to being uncertain or having doubts in her own abilities during emotional or high-pressure situations. In Ultimates second story arc, Wanda is asked to stop several missiles from launching from the Middle East. In such a high-pressure situation with so much at stake and so many things that could go wrong, she stated aloud that she was freaking out and wasn’t sure she could complete her task without mistakes.
When off-duty, Wanda is not someone who talks just to feel included. She has no problem with giving her input or an opinion, however this is provided that Pietro doesn’t speak up first, and that what he says does not cover points she would have made herself. The siblings are at times of the same opinion and Wanda has no issues letting him speak for them both during those times.
Wanda’s working relationship with the Ultimates has become stronger than that with the Brotherhood, and she responds well to Tony’s encouragement during a rare moment of uncertainty, as well as Nick Fury’s direction in the field. She communicates well, clearly and succinctly, even when her concern is divided between the battle at hand and instances in which Pietro has been seriously hurt. It’s with the Ultimates that Wanda is shown acting as an actual team member, capable not just of leading but taking orders from and working with those who are not family and not even mutants.
With those she develops more than a passing acquaintance with, Wanda’s personality can shift more noticeably. Where once she might have been withdrawn and quiet, even judgmental, she might become more coy and outgoing. In a few instances Wanda has been shown to be exceedingly friendly with those who catch her interest.
Still, these new connections do not come easily. Having believed herself to be superior to most everyone for a great deal of her life, she can be more aloof and slow to warm up to others. After all, not only is she a mutant with incredible powers, but she is also well-educated, clever, and fairly cultured as well. Her aloofness, built originally as a defense mechanism against other Brotherhood mutants, remains in place in light of the poor public image she and her brother have. After all, they had not only been willing members of their father's terrorist organization, but led it themselves for a time.
Having gotten close to someone doesn't mean that she's not above manipulating them if the ends justify the means. In one instance, the Ultimates were pit against Thor and their only hope of winning regaining the upper hand was for Pietro to get close enough to steal Thor’s belt. After many failed attempts that left Pietro electrocuted and injured, Wanda played on his protective nature and quick temper to goad him into to one more attempt by telling him that Thor had hurt her and almost broken her nose. Even with the very close relationship she and Pietro enjoy, Wanda sees nothing wrong with playing on her brother's own personality traits and attitudes to effect the reaction she desires. One way or another, if she wants something to happen she will use whatever tool that is at hand to make it happen.
Wanda has her moments of empathy and softer emotions of course, but these displays are rare and not bestowed lightly on others. Of all of the people in her life, Pietro is one of the few that sees Wanda as herself. When they’re just with each other, she’s more open and light-hearted. She’s more given to teasing him and being more outwardly affectionate, as well as relying on him emotionally. Their relationship is very codependent but the dynamic has never been hobbling.
The TL;DR version is that Wanda started out a happy child with magical powers that scared and intimidated her, and a father that came to manipulate and terrify her. His influence warped her into a blindly obedient mutant supremacist until through other circumstances she and Pietro were forced to live outside of the bubble that was their life in the Savage Lands. Through working with the Ultimates she's slowly been evolving into someone closer resembling the girl she once had been. Using a dismissive and judgmental front as a means of defense less and less, Wanda is slowly learning to adjust to what we would consider a normal, everyday life. Well, one that includes fighting Chitauri, Norse gods and robots while maintaining a close relationship to her brother (that people often misinterpret) and slowly developing closer bonds to her other teammates.
» Re-App Changes: [This section is where you detail how your character changed while in Amat. The focus is on character development in Personality, Orientation, and Suitability if applicable. If this is not a Re-App, or if your character will not be retaining memories or development from their previous stay, please put N/A. ]
The most significant changes Wanda experienced in Atia were in personality and orientation. She arrived on the island as a young woman who had grown up too fast, and in terrible circumstances. Abused by the father who ought to have loved her, hated for being different, despised for things she had done misguidedly as a terrorist, and by all accounts without a care for anyone in the world but her brother.
And yet, somehow despite having every reason to treat her time on the island as a prison sentence meant to be endured and survived, Wanda learned to adapt and acclimate. It's due in large part to the other people she came to meet on the island. While Bucky Barnes was by far the most influential person to Wanda over the course of her time on the island, the most significant influence at the beginning was in fact Leonardo da Vinci. It was Leo who first truly got under her guard that first night with a small token of welcome in the form of a sketch, a simple kindness that had overwhelmed her with emotion at the end of at truly wearying day. It was Leo that comforted her when she burst into tears, Leo who held her when the one person who she was used to soothing her was far and away. It was also Leo who, in light of the circumstances of their stay on the island, opened her mind to the benefits of allowing herself to be open and intimate with more than one person.
While Wanda had never committed to a single person in the past, and it's my headcanon that at most she'd only ever engaged in casual, no-strings-attached affairs and one night stands, she allowed herself to be guided by Leo in this. It's how she came to be involved with both he and Bucky Barnes, who she had almost immediate, intense chemistry with, at the same time. And also several others over the months that followed. The experience was freeing for Wanda, though it's unlikely she anticipated how touch or emotion starved she was when she began to engage with others, for soon enough she found herself emotionally invested in her relationships with others.
In particular, Wanda found herself drawn more and more to Bucky. While not opposites, Bucky wasn't the sort of man she normally would have been drawn to. A soldier, American, the best friend of Steve Rogers and worst of all, human, he was everything that Wanda ought to have had no interest in. But on the island, all of the politics and circumstances that had kept a line drawn firmly in the sand between herself and Earth's human population mattered a great deal less. Wanda found more and more that she wasn't Wanda Lehnsherr, Magneto's daughter. She wasn't Scarlet Witch of the terrorist organization, the Brotherhood of Mutants. She wasn't Scarlet Witch, the mutant, Scarlet Witch, the Ultimate, or even Wanda the twin sister of Pietro. She was just Wanda, free and unfettered from everything that had weighed heavily on her before, or influenced how she interacted in the world.
New opportunities became not only chances for her to live her life the way she wanted, but instances in which her perspective grew more flexible and her horizons expanded. She got three different jobs during her time on the island, none of which she would have ever taken back home. She found herself not only with lovers, but friends in the truest sense of the word who accepted her for everything she'd done in the past and for the woman she was becoming on the island.
Not only that, but it's on the island that Wanda really involved herself with another women. In canon, Wanda's shown to be heterosexual (or robosexual in a couple instances, oops) however on Atia Wanda was able to explore her sexuality further with none other than Meg Masters. While still leaning heavily toward men in her sexual preferences, Wanda did learn quickly that with the right connection, her interest could easily include another woman of a singular personality and unique presence. It's very likely their chemistry that made Meg one of Wanda's closest friends on the island.
Of course, with enough baggage to supply a luggage outlet store, it can't be said that Wanda took to her time on the island like a duck to water. She found it very difficult to be without her powers, a thing she felt that defined her, and it was even worse when she was given them back in full for an event, only to retain a small portion of them by the end. Worse still, it was never possible for her to lose the sense that the other shoe had yet to drop, and that there was was always something awful and terrible lurking on the horizon that would ruin what happiness she'd managed to find for herself. With no small amount of self-loathing, Wanda found herself at times pushing others away, believing in the context of how highly regarded them that she wasn't good enough for them. At other times, it seemed out of self-preservation that she only allowed some only so close, if not because they would one day hurt her, then because they would be taken away and surely break her heart. A great deal of credit has to be given to Bucky Barnes for his patience with Wanda and sweetly convincing arguments that she was not only deserving of her good fortune, to find such incredible friends and love on the island, but that whatever hard times arrived could be better weathered together than alone.
It's on the island that Wanda basically learned to unclench. To learn to let others in, to learn to let herself enjoy sex, with multiple people at times (and sometimes at the same time), and if not to love herself then to trust others enough to let them love her and to love them in return.
SAMPLES
» First Person Sample Choice: (Prompt Two)
[Wanda has been back for a week by the time she finally makes her way onto the network. It's not that she isn't interested in catching up with everyone she apparently left behind here, but it's simply taken her that long to drum up the motivation to do so. For the last seven days she's been living in a bubble revolving around Bucky Barnes and Tony Stark. It's understandable, she thinks. She's been gone for so long, even if it was only for a split second to her, and so much has changed in her absence. Enough to break her heart. Enough to make her feel more uncertain and anxious than she ever has in recent months. Enough to make her want to hole up with both of them while trying to figure out how she could ever fit into this world again.
As much as she's needed time to come to terms with everything, by the time a week has passed Wanda's perhaps not ready to take herself out into the world again, but seeing the necessity of it. She has too much pride to let Bucky and Tony support her, especially when she knows she's fully capable of working to contribute to the household as well. Besides, the time for reconnecting with her friends is long overdue, and there's only so many marathons she can endure in the bedroom she shares with Bucky before the need for fresh air becomes a requirement. Looking every inch the same as when she was last seen on the island, Wanda begins a video feed.]
Hello, everyone. I'm back. [She pauses a beat, and remembering how much time has passed, she adds:] My name is Wanda, for those of you who have arrived during my absence.
[The smile she offers is faint, polite, without any of the warmth she's acquired during her time on the island.]
I've had some time to settle in once more and thought I would see if there any businesses currently offering employment. I would prefer a job with a flexible schedule, if possible, and I have no preference with regard to day or night shifts.
[She hesitates a moment, then, considering leaving the post at that, but it seems best to add a little more for those who know her.]
If any of the people I knew before are still here, I would like an opportunity to catch-up at some point. [She knows she sounds stiff, awkward even, but it's hard to be herself after what's felt like her world flipping upside-down.] You can respond here or let me know when you might be available to meet-up in person. [She gives a brief nod, and then attempts another smile.] Thank you, everyone.
» Third Person Sample Choice: (Prompt Four)
It doesn't occur to Wanda until the middle of her sixth night on the island the full scope of how terrible her absence could have turned out to be for her.
Oh, yes, she'd spent hours reacquainting herself with Bucky, listening to him explain to her just what had happened to him. How she had disappeared, and how he had gone home and come back decades later in his own timeline, a mere two weeks here on the island. She'd wept for what he had endured, for everything he had lost and the fact that he'd had to get through it all without her. And when they had exhausted themselves with talking, they'd come together in the same way they had countless times before. She'd put herself out there for him, to be there for him in whatever capacity he needed most then.
But in the face of his loss and how much things had seemed to change in the blink of an eye for her, she had missed how very close she'd come to losing everything herself. Wanda had been so focused on him that the fact that she had returned home and could have been separated from him for the rest of her life had escaped her entirely.
Staring up at the ceiling, Wanda goes still, trying to cope as the full impact of that realization hits her. She could have lost him forever. Could have been forced to live the rest of her life without the only man she's ever truly given her heart to fully. Bucky at least would have Tony. The fact that the two were a couple hadn't been as much of a surprise to Wanda as it could have been, perhaps. Before her absence, things had been headed in that direction for all three of them. Now that she was back, perhaps it still could, if she isn't somehow intruding on the life they've built together. It's something to consider when she's more awake, panicking less about the fact that if she left again, sure, they might have each other still, but she would be alone again and that much more aware of what she had lost.
Stiffly, Wanda turns her head to look over at Bucky, sleeping with some of that long hair brushed down over his eyes. Her fingers tremble as she reaches up to draw it away so she can see his face.
This island has never been her favorite place. Sex was always a tool to her before, a means of dominating lesser, weaker minds, something she would indulge in from time to time for her own empty pleasures. To be forced into it had rubbed her the wrong way when she'd first arrived; it was her tool to use on others, not the other way around. To add insult to injury, to have it as such a blatant theme of this place had always seemed, well, tasteless. Offensive. Then she'd met Bucky. Leo. Meg and Victor. So many, many others, and each in their own way had shown her what she had been missing out on. That sex could be a gift. An intimate handshake. A means of connecting with another person. And oh, so many different ways to stimulate the mind instead of just the body. She could lose so much trying to be stubborn about the circumstances that brought them all together, but she had so, so much more to gain by throwing herself into the fray the way someone as touch and emotionally starved as she was could do.
In doing so, they'd helped her to understand herself and her desires so much better than she ever thought she had back home.
And Bucky had shown her love the likes of which she'd never experienced before. An unstinting, passionate, almost consuming sort of love that had only added fire to their sex life. The man made her insatiable, like he'd opened floodgates that could never be closed again. Love and lust were all wrapped up in her mind now, all the more knowing that she could have lost it all.
Expression shifting with a sudden flash of desperate need, Wanda moves in the bed and reaches for him. In the light of day she may realize that sex isn't the best way of coping with her emotions, but it's such a large part of their relationship and she can't think of any other way to help soothe the restless, anxious feelings that rise inside her now. She might have never come back. She might have gone back to her world to never return, and she would never see him smile at her again. Never feel his hand at the small of her back. Never feel him filling her body the way only he can. Never be drawn into risky, exhibitionist acts with a sense of freedom she never felt until she came to this place. The thought is unbearable, and before she can make herself mad with anxiety over her close call, she rolls closer to his body and wraps her arms and legs over him.
Like holding her body to his, holding him close and kissing him awake so he'll press himself inside her will keep her from slipping away once more.