Character Profile: Scarlet Witch

Personal Data

Name: Alice Wanda Maximoff
Nick Name: Red, Ruby
Code Name: Scarlet Witch
Age: 20
Birthday: 13th December 1991

Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 132 lbs (60 kg)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Auburn

Known Relatives:
Magnus, aka Magneto (Father)
Magda Lehnsherr (Mother: Deceased)
Pietro, aka Quicksilver (Twin Brother)
Anya (Sister: Deceased)
Lorna Dane, aka Polaris (Half-Sister)
Vision (Estranged Husband)
Django Maximoff (Foster Father: Deceased)
Marya Maximoff (Foster Mother: Deceased)

Citizenship: Transian (U.S. naturalized)
Place of Birth: Wundagore Mountain, Transia
Marital Status: Divorced
Occupations: Avenger, Adventurer, Witchcraft Tutor, Former Terrorist with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants


Abilities

The Scarlet Witch possesses the mutant power of affecting probability fields. By a combination of gestures and mental concentration, she creates a hex-sphere, a finite pocket of reality-disrupting quasi-psionic force, which upon reaching its intended target, causes disturbance in the molecular-level probability field surrounding the target. Thus, unlikely phenomena will occur. Among the many phenomena she is able to cause are: the sudden melting of gun barrels, the spontaneous combustion of any flammable object, the rapid rust or decay of various organic and inorganic materials, the poltergeist-like deflection of an object in flight, the sudden evacuation of air from a given volume, the disruption of energy transmissions and fields, and so on. These phenomena occur practically instantaneously after the completion of her hex. Her range of hex-casting is limited by her line of sight. (She cannot watch a live television broadcast and cause a hex-phenomenon to occur at its point of origin.)

Scarlet Witch's hex-casting ability had a 20% unreliable factor and she is limited in the range of sight, although she has been able to overcome the latter limitation on occasion via extreme concentration and sorcerous enchantment.

Alice is also a living focal point for the earth's magic. Her sorcerous training with Agatha Harkness is separate from her mutant ability of probability (science). But the mixture of the two makes her considerably more powerful than just using her probability powers. She has a special affinity for the natural elements and materials that true witches utilize in their spells: the four alchemical elements, wood, organic substances, etc. The reliability factor of her hex-casting ability is also limited by her physical condition: when well rested, in good health and mentally and emotionally alert Scarlet Witch can cast numerous hex-spheres in rapid succession and attain desirable results for almost an hour. However, certain events have shown that her limits may have been removed altogether. And her powers actually evolved, giving her the mutant ability to alter reality on a vast scale by way of magic.

Alice can also fly, transform people and matter, fire powerful beams of magic, and disable other mutants abilities. She can also bring the dead back to life.


History

The Scarlet Witch (real name Alice Maximoff) is a mutant with the ability to alter probability. She is the daughter of the mutant Magneto and his late wife Magda. Alice is also the fraternal twin sister of Pietro (Quicksilver). Shortly after Magda became pregnant, she witnessed her husband use his magnetic powers and realized that he was a mutant. Being terrified of mutants, Magda did not tell him of her pregnancy and fled from their home at the first opportunity. Magda eventually found refuge with a benevolent cow-like humanoid named Bova, who lived on Mount Wundagore in Transia. The twins were born on Mt. Wundagore, and due to the mountain's mystical energy, it gave Alice the ability to use magic in addition to her mutant powers. Shortly after the birth, Magda was driven mad with fear that Magneto might come for her and discover the twins. Despite Bova's attempts to reassure her, she fled the mountain during a blizzard in order to protect the twins, and apparently died of exposure soon afterward.

The motherless twins became the responsibility of Bova. Bova found a set of foster parents for Alice and Pietro named Django and Marya Maximoff, who had just lost two children of their own. Django and Marya were Roma (gypsies), and unfortunately suffered from prejudice and persecution in Transia. Django worked as a doll-maker, but it was hard for him to find customers due to him being Roma. Django eventually had to steal food to keep his family from starving. When Alice grew older, she was sexually molested by a boy her age, and was forced to use her powers to keep him away before running to safety. The villagers, however, accused Alice of seducing the boy and attacked the Maximoffs, setting fire to the family’s wagon. Marya was still inside and burned to death. They clubbed Django unconscious, but Alice and Pietro were able to escape. Alice and Pietro now believed that they were the only members of their family left. The two twins grew up together taking care of themselves, and Pietro grew very protective of Alice.

It is during this time that she is captured and taken to the Alternative Universe of Rise of Legends.