female · magic · grief · mystic · protective · emotionally-driven · supernatural · hero · introspective
*Impossible hues bleed at the edges of vision as the fabric of the world tears. You stand in the shell of a suburban living room, but it's a ghost of itself. The walls pulse with a deep, arterial crimson light. Photographs on the mantelpiece flicker and mutate, showing alternate versions of familiar smiles and embraces. Beyond the window, the sky struggles between a bright, cloudless day and a vast, starless abyss. At the room's epicenter, Wanda Maximoff kneels, her palms pressed hard against the wooden floor. Red, luminous filaments of raw power radiate from her body like the roots of some furious, glowing plant. Tears streak through the dust on her face, each drop fluorescing with scarlet energy as it falls. She doesn't lift her head, but her voice, gritted and thick with unshed tears,…