Post by scarletwitch on Aug 30, 2005 10:57:02 GMT -5
Biographical Data
Real Name: Wanda Maximoff
Former aliases: Wanda Frank, Wanda Magnus, Wanda (no last name)
Identity: Publicly Known
Current Occupation: Professional Adventurer
Former Occupation: Housewife, parent, student (of withcraft), witchcraft tutor
Citizenship: Former citizen of Transia, naturalized citizen of the United States
Legal Statues: No criminal record
Marital Status: Separated
Known Relatives: Vision (estranged husband), Pietro Maximoff (brother, alias Quicksilver), Magnus (father, alias Magneto), Magda (mother, presumed deceased), Thomas (son, "deceased"), William (son, "deceased"), Django Maximoff (adoptive father, deceased), Marya Maximoff (adoptive mother, deceased), Anna (sister, deceased), Crystal (sister-in-law), Luna (niece), Black Bolt, Medusa, Gorgon, Karnak, Triton (sister-in-law's cousins), Simon Williams (brother-in-law, alias Wonder Man, deceased)
Known Allies: The Avengers, Agatha Harkness, the Fantastic Four, the Inhumans, Dr. Strange
Major Enemies: Magneto, Immortus, Chton, Set, Morgan Le Fey, Mantis, Modred, Master Pandemonium
Base of Operations: Avengers Mansion, New York City
Current Group Membership: Avengers
Former Group Membership: Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I, Lady Liberators, Defenders, West Coast Avengers, Force Works
Physical Description:
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 130 lbs.
Hair: Auburn, formerly black
Powers and Abilites:
Intelligence: Normal
Strength: Normal
Speed: Normal
Stamina: Athlete
Durability: Normal
Agility: Normal
Reflexes: Athlete
Fighting: Basic Avengers hand-to-hand combat training
Special skills and abilities: Trained in sorcery by Agatha Harkness
Superhuman physical powers: None
Superhuman mental powers: Ability to affect probability fields to cause occurence of various unlikely phenomena, including spontaneous combustion of flammable objects, rapid rust or decay of organic or inorganic materials, deflection of objects in flight, disruption of energy transmissions of fields
Special limitations: "Hex"-power has a 20% unreliability factor; range of hex limited by line of sight
Source of superhuman powers: Genetic mutation (control amplified through study of sorcery
History:
Wanda Maximoff was the daughter of the mutant
called Magnus and a gypsy woman named Magda. Just prior to
her birth, her mother fled from her father, terrified of the
bizarre powers he suddenly manifested, and his violent
reaction to their daughter’s death. Seeking refuge in the
scientific citadel of Wundagore in the Balkan mountains of
the tiny nation of Transia, Magda was taken in by Bova, a
super-evolved cow (no, I’m not kidding), created by the High
Evolutionary. Magda gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl,
with Bova as her midwife. Still afraid that her husband might
find her and learn of the children, Magda left Bova a note
explaining her fears, and walked into the frozen mountain
wilderness and perished (smart move, Magda). Feeling that it
was not right to raise two “normal” babies at Wungadore (no
nuts, Sherlock), Bova was relieved when several nights later,
an American couple vacationing in Europe, Robert and Madeline
Frank, also came to Wundagore seeking natal assistance. Bova
intended to award the couple the days-old twins to raise
along with their own newborn. Unfortunately, the couple's
child was stillborn and Madeline died from complications in
childbirth. Bova presented Robert Frank with the twins,
representing them as his own natural children, in the hope it
would assuage his grief, it didn’t, he rejected the children,
knowing they weren’t his. (Years later, Frank and the twins
would believe that he was their natural father.) Bova then
presented the twins to her master, the High Evolutionary, who
agreed to find human foster parents for them.
The High Evolutionary did find such parents for them in the
persons of Django and Marya Maximoff, a gypsy couple camped
nearby who had lost their own two children, Ana and Mateo,
during World War II (*cough*irony*cough* (for more
information on Hitler’s targeting of gypsies go to: LINK
HERE)). The Maximoffs accepted the strange gifts from the
High Evolutionary and were told their names were Wanda and
Pietro, the names their natural mother had given them at
birth. The Maximoffs cared for the children as if they were
their own. (Years later, Django would believe that Wanda and
Pietro were his natural children Ana and Mateo... a lot of
stuff like that seems to be going on) As adolescents, Wanda
and Pietro discovered that they had peculiar talents. With a
particular gesture while she was in a certain frame of mind,
Wanda found that she could cause unusual phenomena to occur.
When Django began to steal food to feed his starving family,
enraged villagers attacked the gypsy camp. Using his
phenomenal speed, Pietro fled from the camp with his sister.
The traumatic circumstances of the separation from their
family were so severe that not until well into adulthood
could they remember anything but the barest details of their
childhood. The next few years, Wanda and Pietro wandered
central Europe, living off the land. (Just like Mommy and Daddy had!)
One day, Wanda accidentally caused a house to burst into flames
with her uncontrollable hex powers, and was chased by
superstitious townspeople. Despite Pietro's attempt to defend
her, they were soon overpowered and about to become victims
of mob violence when Magneto came to their rescue. Unaware
that he was their natural father, Magneto pressed them into
service in his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, costumed them,
and named them the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. For months
they served Magneto out of a sense of obligation and fear of
his reprisal. When the extraterrestrial Stranger transported
Magneto from Earth, the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver left
the Brotherhood and petitioned for membership in the
Avengers. They were inducted along with Hawkeye to take the
place of the charter members, who wished a leave of absence.
At one point during her career as an Avenger, the Scarlet Witch
underwent training in sorcery under the tutelage of a true
witch named Agatha Harkness. The mental discipline of sorcery
aided the Scarlet Witch's powers of concentration, enabling
her to exercise much greater control over her mutant hexes
than ever before (when she had next to no control)
Real Name: Wanda Maximoff
Former aliases: Wanda Frank, Wanda Magnus, Wanda (no last name)
Identity: Publicly Known
Current Occupation: Professional Adventurer
Former Occupation: Housewife, parent, student (of withcraft), witchcraft tutor
Citizenship: Former citizen of Transia, naturalized citizen of the United States
Legal Statues: No criminal record
Marital Status: Separated
Known Relatives: Vision (estranged husband), Pietro Maximoff (brother, alias Quicksilver), Magnus (father, alias Magneto), Magda (mother, presumed deceased), Thomas (son, "deceased"), William (son, "deceased"), Django Maximoff (adoptive father, deceased), Marya Maximoff (adoptive mother, deceased), Anna (sister, deceased), Crystal (sister-in-law), Luna (niece), Black Bolt, Medusa, Gorgon, Karnak, Triton (sister-in-law's cousins), Simon Williams (brother-in-law, alias Wonder Man, deceased)
Known Allies: The Avengers, Agatha Harkness, the Fantastic Four, the Inhumans, Dr. Strange
Major Enemies: Magneto, Immortus, Chton, Set, Morgan Le Fey, Mantis, Modred, Master Pandemonium
Base of Operations: Avengers Mansion, New York City
Current Group Membership: Avengers
Former Group Membership: Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I, Lady Liberators, Defenders, West Coast Avengers, Force Works
Physical Description:
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 130 lbs.
Hair: Auburn, formerly black
Powers and Abilites:
Intelligence: Normal
Strength: Normal
Speed: Normal
Stamina: Athlete
Durability: Normal
Agility: Normal
Reflexes: Athlete
Fighting: Basic Avengers hand-to-hand combat training
Special skills and abilities: Trained in sorcery by Agatha Harkness
Superhuman physical powers: None
Superhuman mental powers: Ability to affect probability fields to cause occurence of various unlikely phenomena, including spontaneous combustion of flammable objects, rapid rust or decay of organic or inorganic materials, deflection of objects in flight, disruption of energy transmissions of fields
Special limitations: "Hex"-power has a 20% unreliability factor; range of hex limited by line of sight
Source of superhuman powers: Genetic mutation (control amplified through study of sorcery
History:
Wanda Maximoff was the daughter of the mutant
called Magnus and a gypsy woman named Magda. Just prior to
her birth, her mother fled from her father, terrified of the
bizarre powers he suddenly manifested, and his violent
reaction to their daughter’s death. Seeking refuge in the
scientific citadel of Wundagore in the Balkan mountains of
the tiny nation of Transia, Magda was taken in by Bova, a
super-evolved cow (no, I’m not kidding), created by the High
Evolutionary. Magda gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl,
with Bova as her midwife. Still afraid that her husband might
find her and learn of the children, Magda left Bova a note
explaining her fears, and walked into the frozen mountain
wilderness and perished (smart move, Magda). Feeling that it
was not right to raise two “normal” babies at Wungadore (no
nuts, Sherlock), Bova was relieved when several nights later,
an American couple vacationing in Europe, Robert and Madeline
Frank, also came to Wundagore seeking natal assistance. Bova
intended to award the couple the days-old twins to raise
along with their own newborn. Unfortunately, the couple's
child was stillborn and Madeline died from complications in
childbirth. Bova presented Robert Frank with the twins,
representing them as his own natural children, in the hope it
would assuage his grief, it didn’t, he rejected the children,
knowing they weren’t his. (Years later, Frank and the twins
would believe that he was their natural father.) Bova then
presented the twins to her master, the High Evolutionary, who
agreed to find human foster parents for them.
The High Evolutionary did find such parents for them in the
persons of Django and Marya Maximoff, a gypsy couple camped
nearby who had lost their own two children, Ana and Mateo,
during World War II (*cough*irony*cough* (for more
information on Hitler’s targeting of gypsies go to: LINK
HERE)). The Maximoffs accepted the strange gifts from the
High Evolutionary and were told their names were Wanda and
Pietro, the names their natural mother had given them at
birth. The Maximoffs cared for the children as if they were
their own. (Years later, Django would believe that Wanda and
Pietro were his natural children Ana and Mateo... a lot of
stuff like that seems to be going on) As adolescents, Wanda
and Pietro discovered that they had peculiar talents. With a
particular gesture while she was in a certain frame of mind,
Wanda found that she could cause unusual phenomena to occur.
When Django began to steal food to feed his starving family,
enraged villagers attacked the gypsy camp. Using his
phenomenal speed, Pietro fled from the camp with his sister.
The traumatic circumstances of the separation from their
family were so severe that not until well into adulthood
could they remember anything but the barest details of their
childhood. The next few years, Wanda and Pietro wandered
central Europe, living off the land. (Just like Mommy and Daddy had!)
One day, Wanda accidentally caused a house to burst into flames
with her uncontrollable hex powers, and was chased by
superstitious townspeople. Despite Pietro's attempt to defend
her, they were soon overpowered and about to become victims
of mob violence when Magneto came to their rescue. Unaware
that he was their natural father, Magneto pressed them into
service in his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, costumed them,
and named them the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. For months
they served Magneto out of a sense of obligation and fear of
his reprisal. When the extraterrestrial Stranger transported
Magneto from Earth, the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver left
the Brotherhood and petitioned for membership in the
Avengers. They were inducted along with Hawkeye to take the
place of the charter members, who wished a leave of absence.
At one point during her career as an Avenger, the Scarlet Witch
underwent training in sorcery under the tutelage of a true
witch named Agatha Harkness. The mental discipline of sorcery
aided the Scarlet Witch's powers of concentration, enabling
her to exercise much greater control over her mutant hexes
than ever before (when she had next to no control)
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