Wanda Maximoff (ex_scarletwi453) wrote in voicesinmyhead, @ 2007-06-12 22:19:00 |
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Entry tags: | prompt #01, wanda maximoff |
Prompt #1: Who am I?
The answer to this question used to be very simple. I have played many roles in a relatively short lifetime.
I am my father's daughter, I suppose, although Lorna is more the female heir than I ever was. The man they call Magneto could be cruel and overbearing toward his children -- it has been gently posited to me that "patriarchal" and "patronizing" are often synonymous in his case -- but he is my father, and although I have done terrible things to him, I would not ever see him dead. Possibly, he would say that the fate he met with is worse than death, as he is now bereft of his ability, but if that is the case...he has learned nothing.
I am my husband's wife...or I was, once. We are not tied by blood, and so our bond can be severed through circumstance, but I loved him in a way that will never leave me -- love that does not seethe or burn or destroy. It's arrogant to call it perfect love, but he is the only one who has ever seen me as whole, and so I once believed that to be the case. We aren't perfect, no, but we were...we were what I needed, and I hope it was the same for him, while it lasted. Again, I did things to him that I regret, but my mind, too, is imperfect.
I am my brother's sister. Do I even need to explain what Pietro is to me? My brother, and my twin; when we were children, it was just the two of us against the world. He is quick-witted and, when the mood strikes him, silver-tongued, and nothing will ever take him from this earth so long as I am here to stop it. And I have. Reordering reality is what I do, now, and someone with his vitality belongs to life. Never try to displace him.
I am my children's mother -- but they're gone, too. God, that is the loss that wears at me continually. You aren't supposed to mourn your children, they're meant to mourn you. I wanted to be their mother so badly, I would have done anything to see them grow, to know that-- well. I must keep my calm, as much as I miss them, as often as I dream of them. My desire to raise those boys is what invoked them into reality, others said, but they aren't lost forever. I simply cannot be with them. I must stay away, for their sakes. I am, after all, a dangerous mutant, an unstable woman. A witch.
Stripped of family, that is my true self. I am, in a way, still named Wanda Maximoff, but that is no longer my identity.
You may call me the Scarlet Witch.
It's good to meet you.
Name: Wanda Maximoff
Fandom: Marvel Comics
Prompt #1: Who Am I?
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