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( OPEN ) ; hey won't you come get wild like me?

WHO: Wanda Maximoff & OPEN.
WHERE: Around the various cities -- just state in your subject line in which city you'd like to have your character come across her.
WHEN: May 31st.
WHAT: A few prompts (all are open; also, please feel free to reply in brackets to any of these if you prefer, because I'm not picky).
WARNINGS: None to start, but I will edit this line if any come up.

01 | Flying around in any city
Some people get around by walking, some by running, some use various other methods. Wanda is using the 'various other methods' definition today, seeing as she is flying. Coming from her hands are trails of translucent scarlet, which dissipate behind her after a few seconds. She's not really going anywhere in particular, just getting some flying time in. The only downside she sees to flying so far is that she can't really wear her preferred outfit, which are shorter dresses with loose skirts; flying means pants. Anyone else with the ability to fly is certainly welcome to join her up here, but those without the ability of flight can find her occasionally touching down on a rooftop when she wants a short break, or even touching down on the sidewalk.

02 | Stopping for coffee in any city
Wanda's non-alcoholic drink of choice is coffee. Ideally, the strongest, blackest cup she can find -- seriously, don't even ask her if she wants cream or sugar in it, because she may stare at you for a couple of seconds like you're crazy. So, she'll find a coffee shop, get her cup of coffee, and find a seat at an available table. Whether you're a familiar face to her, or just someone who can't find another free seat and wants a place to sit, go ahead and interrupt her from her quiet coffee drinking -- she doesn't bite most people, really.

03 | wildcard option!
(if neither of the above work for you, set something up and I'll roll with it!)

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Charles was actually outside, taking a break from his work at StarkTech and enjoying what was proving to be a beautiful day. He'd gone out to patronize one of the local deli restaurants, taking his sandwich and his tea (yes hot tea) with him back to a small courtyard not far from StarkTech's main campus.

Locking the brakes on his chair, taking advantage of a bit of shade from a tree, it was the soft murmurings of a few natives, also out to enjoy their lunch break, that drew his attention.

"How is she doing that?"

"I don't know but it's amazing."

"It is. Also kinda of terrifying. I wonder how many of them can fly?"

Of course curiosity got the better of him and Charles leaned forward in his chair, looking upwards and around until he spotted Wanda up in the sky. Watching the swirl of scarlet flow in controlled waves from her hands as she navigated herself, he couldn't help smiling in professor like approval.

Some gifts truly were amazing!

For the moment, as he worked the lid off his tea, he merely watched, reminded a little of Banshee and also Alex.

"Hey, we talked online a couple weeks ago, right?" Ruby asks as she pauses nearby, a pleasantly surprised smile on her face. She'd almost missed the woman there completely and just walked out with her coffee, but something out of the corner of her eye had caught her attention and made her hesitate. "Put the rave back in time travel, or whatever it was?"

There were a lot of things to dislike about being stuck as a seven-year-old. Conan had cataloged all of them. But one of the biggest annoyances was his coffee addiction. As a future detective, he had long ago developed a fondness for strong black coffee. The stronger and darker the better.

And no one would let a kid have it.

Until now. He'd had to let the barista assume that he was getting it for someone else, but he had it now. And of course all the tables were full. Pausing by Wanda's table he offers up one of his brightest childish smiles.

"Is anyone else sitting here? I'm having a hard time finding a seat."

Wanda offers the boy with excellent tastes in coffee a friendly, if slightly confused, smile. (Confused because for all she knows, he actually is seven, and not just stuck as a seven year old, and where are this kid's parents?) "No, all yours." She replies, her tone friendly to match the smile. "Are your parents around?" She doesn't ask to be rude, just curious and concern for his well-being. And for the parents' sanity -- she doesn't want them to think he's wandered off somewhere, or anything like that.

"We did." Wanda replies, giving Ruby a wide, friendly smile. "Do you have time to sit down or are you on your way somewhere?" She asks, motioning to a free chair at the table. Ruby had seemed like a nice person when they talked.

He places his cup on the table, and then carefully climbs up onto the chair. Most furniture wasn't built with three-foot-tall kids in mind.

"No. I haven't seen them in a while." He shrugs as he reclaims his cup. "They're probably still back in America in my world."

"Oh!" She blinks, even more surprised now, but her expression quickly turns into a grin. "Yeah, sure. I've got some time."

Slipping into the offered seat, she sets her drink on the table and says, "I don't think I introduced myself before. I'm Ruby. Nice to officially meet you."

As she got closer to the ground for another break (just because she can stay up in the air for quite a while doesn't mean that she doesn't need to eventually come back down - it takes a lot more energy than it looks like it does ... or, maybe she hasn't figured out a secret to not getting worn out from it, even after a long stretch), she spotted the familiar face of Charles, so when she did land, it was nearby to where he was.

"Charles, hi, how are you?" Said with a smile and cheerful tone to match. She's obviously having a pretty pleasant day so far.

Watching as she descending down nearby, Charles leaned back in his chair and finally managed to get the lid off his tea.

"Good afternoon, my dear!" He called out in return, his own tone chipper and he gave her a warm smile. "Were you getting in a bit of practice?"

That question may have a self-evident answer but he's curious all the same.

"Woah."

That's about all Rose can coherently say to the sight of a woman flying. Rose knows this is a world of super heroes yet it still amazes her the things that people can actually do. The blond had always wanted to fly (and was admittedly disappointed that wasn't one of her cool new powers) since in her home world it was something someone was born with. And the people that were born with the power of flight were a bunch of arrogant jerks about it. 'Oh, look at us, we're building our home in flying sky palaces because we can fly suck it losers on the ground' is about the gist of what Rose got whenever she talked to the crows.

"That's awesome!" she manages to blurt out as Wanda happens to touch down close to her.

Wanda offers the woman a small smile. "It was scary at first, I have to admit. Technically, it's part of my telekinetic abilities." She explains. She's obviously not one to be shy about her powers, and really never has been, using them fairly freely even back in her world. She can't control if people there or here are scared of her for her abilities and their potential, so she might as well not hold back anything.

She gives a sympathetic look. "Oh, I'm sorry." Her tone is gentle. Sorry that he has to be without them here; she has one of her parents here, though admittedly, from a different version of her universe. "I'm Wanda." She introduces herself, figuring that's a good place to start more conversation.

"Good afternoon." She returns the greeting. "Now that I know what I'm doing and not constantly faceplanting on the floor, or slamming into the walls of the Avengers Facility back home, yes." She says with a slight laugh.

"How's your lunch break treating you so far?" She nods towards his tea.

"Don't worry about it. I wouldn't be seeing them if I was there either. I live in Japan back home."

Mostly because his parents, Conan's parents, were completely fictional. His real parents also happened to be out of the country, but he hadn't really lived with them since he was fourteen. The thought that other people might find this worrying never occurred to him.

"Nice to meet you! I'm Conan Edogawa."

"Wanda Maximoff, nice to meet you too." She extends a hand across the table. Kind of an awkward handshake angle probably, but oh well. They can make it work.

"How have you been?"

Ruby chuckles a little as she takes Wanda's hand and gives it a shake that some might deem sub-par, but thankfully none of them say so out loud. Those are clearly fighting words.

"I've been good. Settling in, learning my way around." She shrugs, before clarifying with something of a cringe, "I'm still pretty new."

Charles winced, sympathetically at her description of trying to control her powers, though something she mentioned caught his attention almost immediately.

"The Avengers Facility?" He asked, an eyebrow arching. "Are you a member of Tony's team, back home?"

Ahhh timelines.

Unfortunately, curiosity distracted him from the inquiry about his tea for the moment.

"So you... fly, like, with your mind?" Does that mean if she thinks it hard enough, she can fly too? Nah, Rose isn't that naive... It'd be neat though!

Thankfully, Wanda doesn't have to worry about Rose being scared of her powers. In fact, it seems like practically the opposite. She's in awe of them. "What else can you do?"

"In that Tony and Steve led different aspects of the Avengers I was on -- Tony did all the designing of facilities and technology and paying for things, and Steve was more the leader of the fighting plans and whatnot. There was a schism in the team when I recently found myself back home, but no, I was on Steve's side of the conflict, not Tony's. The Tony of my universe..." She makes a small face as she trails of for a second. "Well... I've had a lot of animosity towards him for the past seventeen years, because I hold him responsible for a few things that are impossible to fix." Yes. Yes that does means she would have been young (ten) when she started hating him. It was, after all, his name on the shells that hit the apartment her family had been living in -- and, sixteen years later, Ultron had been his creation too.

It took him a little bit to follow all that, and Charles' expression became concerned as she explained a little bit of her history with Tony and someone named Steve. He'd met Steve, briefly and unfortunately hadn't really exchanged names with the man so for Charles it was Tony he knew.

"That is a long time to hold on to anger," he said gently, but a soft and perhaps surprisingly understanding smile touches his lips. "Though I do know someone who has clung to anger for just as long, if not longer."

Oh the irony of that statement, even if the timelines were still different.

"I kept hoping that maybe he'd be able to find peace within himself some day, if he could learn to let the anger go."

"I guess that's basically how it works, yeah." She concedes.

"Besides telekinesis? My other abilities are mental-based. Telepathy, other forms of mental manipulation. That last one especially I try to keep to a minimum." Considering the trouble it's caused for her in the past and all. "How about you?" She's assuming the woman has abilities of her own as well.

She nods again. "I've never been to Japan, but it seems like a nice place, just from things I've seen and heard." At least, when she was in her world, the Japan she's seen pictures of and such there seemed as such. "How long have you been here?"

"Nothing wrong with new. I've only been here about three months or so myself, so I'm not miss super experienced over here either." She can't help but smile again. "What are your favorite places and things here so far?" She always finds it curious to hear what other people like about this world.

"Oh, I won't try to say you're wrong there. I know it is." Because, yeah, seventeen years is a long time. She just also thinks it's justified (she doesn't think she owes anyone with a hand in the deaths of her family or a hand in bringing wars to her country anything, much less forgiveness or an apology for holding the grudges she does), and even if she didn't think it was - she would be too stubborn to admit otherwise anyway.

"Sounds like I'd have a few things in common with your friend or acquaintance." Yeah, that's more irony for this giant pile of irony here. "You think there's always that possibility to find peace?" A genuine question -- though, the way she asks it, it's pretty clear that she thinks there's not always that chance. In Sokovia, she saw too many others in similar situations as her for her to think otherwise.

"It's been more than six months now."

When he thought about it, it was really frustrating. There were so many things he still needed to get done in his own world, but he was still stuck here.

"So far?" Ruby asks, humming quietly as she gives it some thought.

"Well, I've met some pretty nice people, which is never bad." She gives a cheeky grin and a little wink there. Wanda most certainly counts. "Oh, and I found this really great hiking trail just outside of town. The view is gorgeous."

There's a moment of hesitation, and a slightly nervous edge now to her smile as she continues, "And... I guess it's also nice being somewhere I don't have to be afraid of people finding out about the things I can do."

"So cool," she comments. Flying with only your mind... Why couldn't she get a cool power like that, huh?

The mention of mental manipulation is a bit sobering. Rose has been subjected that, unfortunately, so she could understand why Wanda might not use it as much.

"Ah, me? Nothing special, seems like. Strength, speed..." It's feels weird to just mention those, actually, as she'd always had them. Here though it's just another every day thing. "If I have any others, I haven't figured out what yet."

"I'd call those special." She says with a nod. "But I might be a little biased, since my twin's power was enhanced speed and I always wished I could do it too." It would be pretty fun when he picked her up and sped off somewhere....even if it made her more than a little dizzy after they stopped. Oh well, it was worth it.

"Guess that makes me a little newer than you. I've been here about half that time. Not that I'm in any rush to want to get sent back home, but.." She trails off slightly. Things weren't the best back there last she'd left them.

In response to that, she smirks -- and if it seems a little flirty, it's because it probably is (yeah, no one's ever accused her of being subtle). "Definitely not bad." Ruby counts in there, too. "Next time you go that hiking trail, let me know and I'll join you. I can even pack a lunch and we can make an afternoon out of it."

At the mention of fear over powers, her hand almost instinctively goes to the side of her neck, rubbing it a little, like she's making sure that something that was there isn't on there again. "Yeah, a lot of ... not good things can happen when people get afraid of people with abilities." Spoken like someone who knows firsthand. "What are yours? Mine are mental-based -- telekinesis, telepathy, other forms of mental manipulation." Wanda will share hers, even if Ruby doesn't feel comfortable talking about her own -- which would be understandable if she's experienced that fear from other people.

"Are things bad there?"

"I will," she confirms with a nod, looking quite pleased with herself. "That sounds like a lot of fun."

Ruby watches the motion of Wanda's hand and wonders. She can't say for sure if it means anything, but she knows what it's like to be on a leash, even if her own collar was more magical than physical. It leaves something behind.

"Definitely not those, though that sounds pretty cool," she says, stalling just a little. "Mine are more physical. Speed and strength and heightened senses. That sort of thing. And, um... And I'm sort of part-wolf? I can even turn into one."

She makes a small face. "Bad is probably a little of an understatement."

"Will you be safe if you go back there?"

"Grass is always greener on the other side, huh? I'd love to have your powers, so I guess I take mine a little for granted. I'll have to make it a point not to."

It's a bit of a disappointment and relief all in one that she doesn't seem to have any strange, new powers thrown at her. "You have a twin? Are they here?"

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