The Scarlet Witch

Wanda Maximoff (**The Scarlet Witch**), is a native Sokovian with incredibly powerful psionic and magical abilities.

## Biography

### The Brotherhood of Mutants

Wanda and Pietro, age 17, were easily influenced by Erik Lensherr's dream for the future of mutants. After attending a rally, he recruited them, making empty promises. He also promised that they were fighting for equality, instead of his true goal: mutant supremacy.

## Physical Appearance

Her style is very feminine and vintage, as she gets her clothes mainly from local thrift stores. For outerwear, she is a big fan of trench coats, cardigans, and jackets. She likes to keep her eye makeup to a minimum in favor of wearing lipgloss, and often wears thin chain necklaces or simple rings to accessorize. She is always seen wearing her Star of David necklace.

## Personality

Maximoff is a 23 year old who's a little too introverted and intellectual to be a social butterfly, but has people nevertheless somewhat "drawn" to her. Due to her past affiliation with Magneto, Maximoff carries a deep fear of making mistakes and was frequently wracked with guilt and remorse. Her self-doubt and guilt over the mistakes she has made have at times led her to inaction, even though she is generally action-oriented. Despite this, she overcomes it, affirming her desire to fight for what she feels is right, despite what others may think of her.

In contrast with her brother, Wanda has a more serious attitude, and is seen to be more compassionate and level-headed. She is a tough, sensible, and resourceful young woman, who isn’t going to lie down and roll over for anyone. While she’s just as prone to fear as everyone else, she has a natural survivor’s reflex that allows her to navigate life and death moments with an impressive level of poise and grace.

## Powers and Abilities

### Mutant Abilities

* **Psionics**: Wanda possesses an array of psionic powers which manifest themselves as reddish, glowing energy currents and mist-like shapes from her hands. When using her telepathic abilities, Maximoff's irises glow a dark red color. When using her telekinetic abilities, her irises glow a bright red color. Maximoff's powers are reliant on movement and focus, which means her enemies or opponents can stop her from using her powers by disrupting her focus or restricting her movements.
	+ **Psionic Energy Manipulation**: Maximoff can project energy blasts, streams, waves and bolts of her own psionic and telekinetic energy, allowing her to hit, push/pull or blow away her targets, potentially exerting enough force to destroy them. This energy manifests in any shape or form, outlining her telekinetic spheres of influence, as the energy is visible in a reddish color. When her energy hits a target, she can use her telekinesis to inflict further damage. Maximoff can also use her psionic energy streams to enhance the powers behind her attacks, such as when she first used her telekinesis to bring Juggernaut to his knees and then use a dense stream of energy to force him through several floors and several feet into the ground. She can also utilize her psionic energy in a neurological way to manipulate the thoughts and memories of others, akin to telepathy.
		- **Telekinesis**: Maximoff has the ability to move, levitate and otherwise manipulate objects using her psionic energy in a remote manner without the need for her energy to first be projected from her hands. Maximoff uses this energy to affect and control molecules and particles, allowing her to fully control matter and energy. Maximoff used this power to stop an off-rail train in New York, tear apart spider-like sentinels and rip out the central processor of a Sentinel's body, which was made of a very strong metal. Maximoff's telekinesis can control a soldier's gunfire and throw him away, lift Pietro into the air to enter a building, hurl aside Mystique and Sabertooth, hurl cars, extract and dissipate an enormous amount of gas, and even hold up a collapsed watchtower for several minutes. She was also able to stop a massive line of spider-like sentinels, as well as hold back a charging Juggernaut. During her second fight with Juggernaut, she lifted and flung large portions of debris at him. She then incapacitated him by lifting him into the air and began to crush his body, snapping off significant portions of his armor. Wanda is also precise enough to use her energy to remove a copious volume of poisonous gas by spreading her energy throughout every molecule of gas and making it dissipate into the atmosphere.
			* **Flight**: Maximoff is able to use this power to move through the air and simulate flight, in order to hover and safely float back to the ground. The use of this power manifests as a blast of psionic energy expelled from her hands onto the ground to propel herself up in the air, with a second blast used to slow her momentum as she approaches ground allowing her to land safely.
		- **Force-Field Generation**: She is able to create a highly durable barrier of energy that she can shape and conform as needed. She used it to grab and break apart targets, protect others from enemy fire, contain a target or to cover and deflect attacks from enemies. Like any physical barriers, the barrier could be broken with extreme brute force, as the sentinels were able to eventually break it. Maximoff has learned to project her energy around herself, constructing a close-to-the-body psionic armor to protect herself from extreme impacts, such as falls from great heights or blows from superhumanly strong combatants, increasing her durability to a significant degree. This allowed her to land safely whenever she crash lands, as well as defending her against the might of superhuman combatants.
	+ **Telepathy**: Wanda can read minds or mentally communicate and experience memories and thoughts of others or project her own thoughts. While she was using her hypnotic powers in conjunction with this power against the guards at the MRD secret facility, she herself viewed their memories. When using her power, her irises sometimes glow a dark reddish color, especially when she concentrate it on certain targets. Wanda can also sense the minds and emotions of those around her as she could see Monica's fear and sensed Darcy's panic attack, knowing exactly what happened to her, as if she had seen it directly. She can also manipulate the memory, thoughts, actions, emotions, and senses of others at will, as well as to induce sleep or pain and create illusions without any difficulty. In addition, Wanda has a powerful connection to the Astral Plane, naturally tuned to levels of the realm.
		- **Mental Manipulation**: Maximoff is able to deploy a form of mental manipulation, often as a type of illusory hypnosis, using the same neuro-electric interface that is the basis of her telepathic powers. When using her power, her irises sometimes glow a dark reddish color, especially when she concentrates it on specific targets. She is able to use this ability to cripple others, implanting hypnotic visions of alternate events into her target's subconscious and placing them inside daydream-like visions that render them nearly helpless. When this ability is in use, Maximoff's reddish energy takes a more mist-like form, floating into the head of the victim in the form of neurons. The effects also distort the victim's iris coloration, causing them to shine a dark reddish color. This also allows her to control other people's actions. She can also manipulate the memory, thoughts, actions, emotions, and senses of others at will, as well as to induce sleep or pain and create illusions without any difficulty.
			* **Emotional Manipulation**: With her mental powers, Maximoff often used it in order to elicit fear or emotional pain in a person in the form of nightmarish hallucinations that could stun and weaken even powerful individuals. These visions can depict things that a person fears, regrets, or general disturbances, though the nature of it is not up to Maximoff. She does seem to be able to know what her victim is seeing and be inside the vision with them without them being aware of her presence.

* **Magic**: As revealed by Harkness, in addition to the psionic abilities granted by her mutation, Maximoff was born with latent magical abilities that were later unlocked and amplified through her exposure to. According to the Darkhold, Wanda's powers exceeded even those of the Sorcerer Supreme. Despite this, Maximoff has never received formal training, and has not yet refined her magic, especially when compared to Doctor Strange. Though she is now refining her powers and spells.
	+ **Chaos Magic**: Able to harness Chaos Magic, Wanda was the realization of the myth of the Scarlet Witch, a being capable of spontaneous creation. She can shape and manipulate this magic for different effects, such as forming tangible constructs of energy or cast spells without incantation. Her magic is primarily composed of the same red energy as her psionic powers, but mixed with darker red and black hues. Agatha Harkness reveals that Maximoff can wield Chaos Magic subconsciously without needing constant concentration to sustain the changes she's made, describing the Hex as "magic on autopilot!" At first, Maximoff had no control over this power, however, upon studying the Darkhold, Maximoff gained more experience in the control of her magic.
		- **Reality Warping**: Maximoff can warp reality. Maximoff's reality warping abilities began initially on a small scale, however, as time progressed, her powers have grown exponentially. Maximoff can also create small zones where reality follows her wishes and rules. The areas are surrounded by a partially invisible force field and appear normal from the outside. When a person or object enters the area, it automatically becomes part of the reality.

### Abilities

* **Gifted Artist**: Wanda is known for being very artistically talented, evidenced by her drawings of her dreams and nightmares, along with a detailed sketch of the Astral Plane. She's often seen sketching or painting during her free time.
* **Skilled Combatant**: She's developed a fighting style in which she would infuse her acrobatic abilities and psionic energy into her hands to greatly enhance her hand-to-hand combat skills and allow her to parry attacks from bladed weapons without suffering any harm due to her psionic energy protecting her hands from damage. Her combat instincts were also honed to the point she could react to and halt an explosion, parry attacks, and catch metal shards moments before it could strike her.
* **Occultism & Magical Knowledge**: Due to her mystic lore, Wanda is taught magic and witchcraft by Agatha Harkness and Doctor Strange. Because of her power, knowledge, and experience, she is often the Avengers' go-to person for all things involving magic or the supernatural.

## Relationships

### Family

* **Pietro Maximoff** - Twin Brother, Former Teammate †
* **Erik Lensherr** - Father, Former Leader, Former Thrall
* **Magda Maximoff** - Mother †

### Allies

* **Agatha Harkness** - Former Guardian, Mother Figure
* **Simon Williams** - Love Interest
* **The Avengers** - Former Enemies, Teammates
* **San Francisco State University**
	+ **Dane Whitman** - Classmate