As ever, there’s a fair few prompts which no one has claimed. The entire point of the round up is for anyone interested to claim any of these remaining prompts (or a prompt which was already claimed) and write 500 words or more for the prompt.
So! Lets look at what prompts remain, hm?
MCU Wanda is rarely shown interacting with other female characters in the MCU and that's a damn shame. I would love to see moments of friendship between her and other MCU women, whether it's women she actually knows but we got little to nothing onscreen (Natasha, mostly), women she might realistically have met pre-IW at some point (Pepper Potts, Laura Barton, Maria Hill, Sharon Carter), women she only met briefly in IW (Okoye, Shuri), women she could have met in IW and still could in a post-IW fix-it fic (Gamora, Nebula, Mantis; Nakia and Valkyrie also count because they should have been in IW so there's no reason not to put them in that context, and actually you could put Lady Loki on that list if you want), or women she never came close to meeting in canon but could have because why the hell not (literally any female character in the MCU, including all the shows--for instance I haven't watched Runaways yet but I've read it and a fic about Wanda and Nico hanging out would be pretty great).
Yes! More female characters bouncing off one another. We actually had a few like this last year, and it’d be good to see that extending into this year. There’s a lot of ways this could be done - maybe an all-female version of the Avengers team, (Peggy in place of Steve, perhaps, Pepper in place of Tony), or maybe just coffee mornings with Natasha, Maria and Helen Cho extending to include others.
Maybe it could go more science, and have Betty Ross, Jane Foster and Helen Cho all wanting to study the nature of Wanda’s powers, or maybe more magical with Lady Loki teaching Wanda to use spells.
There’s a lot of scope here which can be a problem - with so much freedom it can be hard to decide a plot to go with - but it also means you can do whatever you want.
AU where Pietro survived Ultron. Wanda helping Pietro get to know Vision and his growing role in her life. Can be a combination of elements from MCU and comic verse if it works for you. Additional characters are fine but preferably not much Tony please.
Pretty simple and straightforward prompt and leaves it open for you to leave Wanda and Vision as friends if you don’t ship it. If you do, then it gives you an opening to discuss the exact nature of the twins dynamic in this setting - whether you believe they’d be incestuous or not, how possessive or not each of them is, or if its a mutual codependency where they understand one another’s place in their particular dynamic and the issue is more a matter of where Vision fits in when for all their lives the twins have been each others Number One.
This could be done as a string of datenights and aftermaths, of Pietro being possessive/defensive until Wanda confronts him, discussion between Pietro and Vision over how they each interact with Wanda - there’s not been many Pietro-centric prompts this time around, so perhaps giving him a bigger role here might be a way to make up that difference.
Pietro is punished in front of Wanda (whether this be at Hydra, in a previous home they were in, out on the streets after Pietro is caught stealing), and Wanda is restrained, or for some other reason, is unable to stop what is happening. flashbacks to similar situations are welcomed and encouraged. And then maybe something similar happens when the twins are with the avengers (of course, on a much less severe level, like some domestic setting, maybe the tower before the battle in sokovia in AOU— something along the lines of Pietro mouthing off and one of the older avengers bending him over a nearby surface and giving him a few smacks) And of course, Wanda getting overly upset over the situation in both instances and taking care of him in the aftermath. I love codependent Wanda/Pietro, just no incest and no scarletvision please!
I... honestly have more issues with this prompt than I do ideas, sadly. There’s a lot with the ideas suggested which may seem implausible, unlikely or hard to handle, and so make it unlikely that anyone is going to take up, which is only added to by the restrictions placed without a counter-suggestion to fill in the gaps of what is disallowed.
The best idea I have here would be a more subtle psychological horror angle. The twins being separated during foster care resulting in one or both of them getting hurt, and that feeding into a fear of separation. A test at the castle where Wanda has to keep attacks off a running Pietro, and failing to do so, and being unable to go to him because she’s kept at a distance to see how well she can use her powers from a distance. And then all of that culminating in the team suggesting that the twins train separately and it getting a big panicked NOPE response from the twins.
Pre-AOU// Pietro is trying to have a girlfriend/boyfriend, but neither of the twins understand what the problem is with Wanda always being around. The boyfriend/girlfriend, of course, wants some alone time with Pietro, but the twins don’t like the idea of being separated. Maybe Pietro breaks it off with the person and some cute fluff ensues :)) I love codependent! Wanda and Pietro, just no incest and no scarletvision please
Again, specific disallowances without a suggestion of what might take their place - especially when, as this is pre-AOU, there’d be no chance for scarletvision.
The question here comes in who the OC partner for Pietro is - if indeed they’re an OC, one could bring Crystal down from the moon for an Inhuman gap year - and how they’re written so it makes sense that they’d be with Pietro and Pietro with them, but that they’d still have issues with the twins codependency.
Physically & Emotionally abused Wanda & Pietro— can be an AU where they grew up in foster care, or just coming from Hydra// flashbacks are fine but if at all possible I would prefer it to mostly be in the present (as the age they are in AOU) maybe protective!clint and laura (or any avenger really, just not Vision. I also like the idea of Bruce as well for some reason) trying to teach them that physical touch is okay again, and that they won’t be punished for every little thing they do or mistake they make. I LOVE codependent Wanda/Pietro, just no twincest and no scarletvision please <3
Again, disallowances without a counter-suggestion to fill the gap. I do think that specific disallowances like this, especially without a counter-suggestion, creates a kind of pink elephant situation - don’t think of the pink elephant! and then suddenly all you can think about is a pink elephant.
In this case this story could fit in with the other flashbacks prompt further above (based on the specific disallowances, probably from the same prompter) and possibly be used as an exploration of the twins independent tendencies - they refuse to rely on others because all it does is get them hurt. It could go more towards the twins being taught to reach out when they need help, and this resulting in them not clinging to each other so much - knowing they can go to others and that others aren’t going to try to force them apart means they don’t feel so strong a need to cling to one another, and instead they loosen up around others becoming more affectionate in general.
A slight AU where the Maximoff Twins in the Ults universe are not in an incestuous relationship.
Could be a scene rewrite, a character study of how the dynamic changes, a still unhealthy dynamic where one or both of the twins /want/ to be in a romantic/sexual relationship, Wanda/Robots without the jealousy, pretty much anything.
I'm very hard to squick and open to anything from the spectrum of fluff to profoundly weird smut to psychological horror.
Now this is a great one. The twins dynamic in the Ultimates universe has plenty of questions to it and issues, but one of the big ones is that (supposedly) they’re outright incesty in it. Rewriting a scene to change that could allow one to massively tweak the twins’ dynamic in it - maybe making Pietro less obsessive, explaining why Wanda is willing to flirt with others despite their supposed incestuous relationship and so on.
There’s a lot of potential scope here, which could be fun - especially if one considers all of the opportunities available in the first two volumes of Ultimates.
The hardest thing about coping with grief is that you never know when it will hit you, you could be fine for weeks and then you see their favorite movie and it makes you cry. Wanda struggling to cope without Pietro on a day-to-day level not an immediate aftermath to AoU.
Now this one is just going to be sads and pain which to be fair, we all need sometimes. There’s a lot of things this could cover, from maybe specific foods that Wanda associates with her parents and her brother, to jewellery that he gave her or even just the way he was always there - so she reaches out for him only to remember he’s not there.
There’s a lot of opportunity for Pain here.
An MCU fic where Wanda keeps in contact with her fellow Avengers in the two years between Civil War and Infinity War. Whether it's through dead-drops, encrypted messages, secret meetings or what have you, just Wanda staying connected with her found family, even when they're fractured apart. It can be spread out through different countries or when she's staying in Edinburgh.
(Bonus points for Wanda/Vision, and any other friendships between her and her fellow Avengers.)
Also fun! This one could also allow for more Wanda-Natasha bonding, with Wanda using skills Natasha taught her. It could also allow for the author to explore how Wanda and Vision came to get closer.
The tone for this is also open - you could go spy thriller, cute fluff, character study and loneliness, romance with Vision or even Wanda’s own individual adventures keeping in contact with her friends to ask for help or drop in to help during the time. There’s a lot you could do with this.
Okay, so, listen to me here: Macbeth AU.
Pietro as Lady Macbeth, convincing Wanda down a path she might never take only to see what it's doing to her, see all that has been done and feeling incredible guilt. Wanda as Macbeth, taking the inadvisable path on the advice of someone she trusts and believing it, truly believing it, until it all comes crashing down. Ultron as the witches perhaps. Maybe some degree of House of M to it, as that also had Pietro advising Wanda down an inadvisable path.
Can be just the general story idea and themes, can be full on Shakespearean influence and castle, but just... proper Macbeth-esque tragedy pretty please?
This is - sadly - an inherently limiting prompt, because it forces one to keep to the general shape of Macbeth. However it does give one a huge opportunity for Pain and Sads, which is always good. Pietro in the role of Lady Macbeth and Wanda as Macbeth in perhaps a fantasy medieval setting - or one could go scifi if one wanted or anything of a myriad options.
We know from comics (such as House of M) that Pietro is very good at convincing Wanda to do things she later regrets and with the recent Quicksilver No Surrender arc we see Pietro coming to confront how he offloads his problems onto others and rarely takes responsibility for his actions despite how often they hurt his sister. This gives one a chance to dig into that, forcing Pietro to confront his actions and their effects as well as a chance to do a tragic Dark!Wanda with more sympathy than is often thrown her way.
A character and relationship study of the twins - ideally from Pietro's perspective - based on the knowledge that as humans are social creatures we need a certain amount of positive physical contact to keep us mentally healthy... and then digging into what happens to two people who have only one another to go to for that/only one another whom they trust for that and how it has a long-term impact on how they understand and interpret physical affection, on their in/ability to accept it from others and how due to only being able to immediately and easily accept it from each other how other's see it and the troubles they have to overcome when forming bonds outside of just those two.
Crack Title - "Codependency and how it ruins your understanding of affection and relationships; Maximoffs Edition"
So this would be one heck of an intense character/relationship study. One could go full nerd with it as well, looking into the science of mental health and the ways in which their upbringing has messed with the twins and caused them harm. One could use scientific anecdotes to start sections off, and then study those anecdotes in the context of the twins, or one could simply have the twins getting counselling and pepper it with excerpts of their counsellor’s notes. It could even start with one of the twins in a relationship or starting a relationship - this fic has no restrictions beyond its prompt - and then having to confront things with their partner and pick apart the nature of their bond with their sibling. It could even go full incest and pick at the various unhealthy threads that might lead them there.
A 1940s AU of some description. Either superspy shenanigans with Wanda and Peggy (can be shippy if you want) or WinterWitch mystery shenanigans with Bucky as the PI and featuring a Missing Pietro.
Well. This one has two paths, so maybe two people might claim it and each go in a different direction. Given the time setting one could pepper in a lot of the stuff from Agent Carter regardless of whether Peggy features, or one could play it straight. There’s scope for different ships depending on taste, for spy drama or mystery drama - this could easily be a multi-chapter fic if one chose to take it in that direction.
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