Interest check
Would anyone be interested in roleplaying/plotting with Wanda? Probably not right now, I'd probably need a bit of time to work up to it, but I'm just really unsure if I ought to be keeping Wanda around because I'm just not sure if the kinds of things I want to do with Wanda really fit this game and its players at this point. Not sure either way, really.
I'm looking for something plotty (or involving worldbuilding) -- and when I say plotty I probably mean threading but really I don't mind working something out and summarizing the action or playing through any major dilemmas in journals. I want Wanda to be doing more ICly, committing to more, dealing with things that matter to her right now in an immediate sense.
I'm going to rule out anything directly war or resistance related (unless something major changes, I feel like I've reached the limit on these things), and unless it involves using the force in a very 'in the moment' sort of way (sensory experience, not theory), probably not the force.
But I do have some ideas!
I had been planning on trying to do some stuff with Wanda's colony and its neighborhood and making it tangentially related to current politics and so on...I was going to have Wanda track down the reason for the shortages on her colony and find it was trade being controlled in the immediate area by a sort of trade cartel that was cornering the market and forcing everyone else out with violence and threats and making everyone pay extravagantly for anything related to food-growing/terraforming technology (I figure even an army of stormtroopers marches on its stomach, so this could fit into the bigger picture too, tangentially...).
I'm sort of picturing this vaguely like season 2 of The Paradise (though probably no one else has seen that...), it's about defiant small merchants going up against a big store trying to take over their street, working together but having a hard time of it. But my version would have a little added excitement from 1) the big cartel being willing to resort to violence and 2) the big cartel being motivated by war profiteering and 3) the big cartel possibly getting to the point where they want to actually become not just an economic force but also a political force, pushing more rules / taxes / tribute / etc. on the systems, forcing their neighbors to produce what they want produced for the sake of their trade with the rest of the galaxy...
And I figured I'd have Wanda go up against this cartel, because of the needs of her colony, because of her ideals about building something worthwhile and these changes not being that, and have this challenge her and some of her ideas and fears...
I'd also like something that pushes Wanda to use her powers again, maybe even pushes her to use the force if that makes more sense, characters who'd be willing to talk about ethical uses of power if she gets to that point, but as a player I don't want to be pushed into anything, so I would really appreciate an upfront accounting of probable consequences if anyone has any really pushy ideas :)
And the final idea I had was canon-update Wanda to post-Civil War, and because I think that the two versions (galaxy and canon) she developed into are incompatible enough to be pretty hard to integrate, I'm thinking of giving her amnesia about everything that happened to her while in this galaxy, the sort where she doesn't remember but if prompted she might suddenly remember, so not totally starting over either. (And new-Wanda would have access to everything old-Wanda wrote, including anything locked, because she's still the same person, so she'd have some idea...) And maybe remembering things at weird times, as it becomes relevant...
I'm interested in exploring the differences between galaxy-Wanda and post-CW Wanda, but I'd also like to explore this in the context of some action, not just discussion, and something that gives new-Wanda reason to think about galaxy-Wanda... so this could work with the previous ideas, or anything that would have Wanda (pre-update) getting involved in something and then getting canon updated and canon-Wanda having to wing it in some unfamiliar and potentially dangerous situation, possibly with other people depending on her/plans in the works/???... Or actually, I had an old plot where FO-associated people were following Wanda around, that could work in somehow? Enemies she made while traveling... Space battles, sneaking around, finding out stuff, getting caught and getting away, all that fun actiony stuff.
Anyway, I am genuinely asking if there is any potential interest (now or in the future) from anyone else in getting involved in these specific sorts of plot with Wanda. If this sort of thing isn't of interest, no big deal, I don't mind dropping a character who isn't quite right for a game any more (I have another in the pipeline, though there's always the chance that she won't make it in or work out for whatever reason, but *shrug* if it's not meant to be then it's been a good run here :) ).
I guess what I'm saying is I'm not sure about Wanda, there are things I think I could get excited about, but this isn't really a 'please help me save Wanda' post, it's a genuine exploration of what the best thing to do with Wanda might be, so please don't go out of your way to try to come up with things unless something really genuinely hits your interest. Thanks!