Wanda Maximoff-Lenscherr

Player
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Personality
First and foremost, Wanda believes in family. Pietro is the most important person in her life (always has been), with her father and the Brotherhood in not-too-distant second place. She will always put family first. That said, she believes wholeheartedly in the Brotherhood, and is driven to do whatever it takes to make her father’s dream of a safe mutant homeland a reality.

Wanda can be hot tempered, especially if someone close to her is in danger (or if she’s having a bad day, or if Eileen keeps calling her Princess, or...really, there are a lot of things that can trigger her temper.  She tries to keep it in check given its effect on her powers, but it’s an uphill battle.  She enjoys a good debate/argument, but doesn’t give in gracefully.

Oh, and she loves to be the center of attention. She’s a Lenscherr, after all.

Powers
Wanda is essentially a reality-manipulator. She makes unlikely things happen through a mixture of probability manipulation and chaos magic that even she can’t really explain. It’s incredibly effective, though, and Wanda has the ability to rewrite reality just as surely as the Jasper’s Warp did.

Fortunately, she doesn’t realize this.

Her talents have their drawbacks. Random things tend to happen around Wanda, especially involving electrical or electronic equipment. Never ask her to make coffee - the coffee maker will inevitably short out, or melt, or burst into flames. Worse still, her mood influences her abilities - the more angry or frightened she becomes, the more uncontrollable her powers become.

Talents
Wanda’s good at assessing a situation and stepping in to take charge, though she doesn’t always show the best judgement as to how it should be resolved. She’s not bad at strategy, and has studied any number of texts on the subject (at least in part so that she can better argue the subject with her co-leader, Scott). That said, Wanda is NOT a great leader in the field; she’s too likely to get mad and lose focus. She’s better at leading the team before and after a fight than during one.

She’s also a highly skilled dancer (and loves it), and mixes a great margarita.

Interests
Reading, dancing, military history and strategy, magic, physics, government

History
Wanda and her brother Pietro were born to Magda Lenscherr after she was estranged from their father - but they didn’t know that until their late teens. Caught in the reality warp at age seven, she and Pietro believed themselves to be the natural children of their adoptive parents, Django and Marya Maximoff. Unfortunately, their adoptive parents met their deaths when the twins were still young, killed by a Terminator robot in the high tech area of Cyberdyne. They managed to escape through a series of unlikely occurrences probably caused by Wanda’s as-yet-unrecognized abilities, and gradually made their way out of the area.

Only to find out that things weren’t necessarily easier for mutants elsewhere. Wanda was nearly burned at the stake by Neo-Puritans in Salem; Pietro was captured by a dragon intent on keeping him as a housekeeper. Life was an ongoing struggle as they made their way down the East Coast. Finally, when they were seventeen, they were detected by Charles Xavier and Cerebro and met their father, Erik Lenscherr, who brought them to Krakoa. There they met the young mutants who, with them, would form the original Brotherhood - Scott Summers and Eileen Harsaw. Erik put Scott and Wanda in charge of the group, which was sent out to diverse parts of the world to rescue groups of mutants and bring them back to Krakoa.