Marvel did Wanda dirty.
I remember leaving the cinema thinking that after the disappointing finale of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. It wasn’t a terrible movie, exactly, or at least it wasn’t the worst one Marvel had put out. Still, I’d been hyped for it and had been let down by the arc they had put one of my favourite characters through.
And now I was here, looking at my reflection in a dirty mirror in a tiny, grey-brick bathroom and seeing Wanda Maximoff staring back at me. It was like Kevin Feige and Sam Raimi had heard my disappointment and drop-kicked me across the multiverse in response, putting me here as if to say, “Go on, then. You do a better job.”
I held a hand up in front of me. I could feel the power, bubbling away below the surface, and it took only the slightest effort of will for a faint swirl of red energy to play across my fingers.
Fine, then. Watch me.
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An MCU fan from our world wakes up in the body of Wanda Maximoff prior to the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron. Resolving not to meet the same fate as the original, she seeks to use her powers and metaknowledge to create a better world, stopping villains ahead of time and saving thousands or millions of lives in the process. However, there are gaps in her knowledge and reality is more fragile and complicated than she expects. Butterfly effects from her actions rapidly start spiraling out of control, setting her in opposition to heroes she'd rather have as allies. The Scarlet Witch is prophesied to either rule the cosmos or annihilate it, and she intends to save this universe... even if she has to drag it kicking and screaming the whole way.
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The MC is a regular person with personal trauma, blind spots, and a fallible, incomplete memory of the setting. LWYMMD is not the story of a hypercompetent MC who is going to steamroll the setting using her metaknowledge. She will struggle, make mistakes, and things will often not work out according to plan. There will be high highs, but also extremely low lows.
- Crossposted on Royal Road, AO3, Spacebattles, and Sufficient Velocity (same username/title).
- Will contain some slow-burn polyamory romance but nothing explicit enough for a content warning. Mostly female/female, but protagonist is bisexual.
- New chapters will be posted once a fortnight on Thursday, either in the morning or evening AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time).
