Bova briefly cared for the newborns. When a grieving couple named Django and Marya Maximoff arrived nearby—Roma travelers who had lost their own children during the devastation of World War II—the High Evolutionary arranged for the twins to be placed with them. The children were given the names their birth mother had chosen: Wanda and Pietro. To the Maximoffs they became beloved son and daughter.

Yet forces older and darker than any of them knew were already at work.

Long before Wanda’s birth, Wundagore Mountain had been touched by the ancient chaos god Chthon, whose dark magic seeped into the land itself. When Wanda was born, that latent mystical energy brushed against her soul. The High Evolutionary later enhanced the twins genetically, experimenting on them in secret. The result was that Wanda’s dormant mystical potential merged with these alterations, creating a unique and unpredictable power that would later manifest as reality-warping “hexes.”

Growing up among the Roma caravans of Eastern Europe, Wanda lived a humble life. But as the twins reached adolescence, their unusual gifts began to surface. Pietro discovered he could move faster than the eye could follow. Wanda, however, frightened even herself: with a gesture or emotional surge, strange events occurred—objects shattered, machines malfunctioned, and improbable accidents happened around her.

Their quiet life ended in tragedy when famine drove their adoptive father Django to steal food. Furious villagers attacked the Roma camp. Amid the chaos, Pietro grabbed his sister and ran—his superhuman speed carrying them far from the only home they had known. Traumatized and alone, the twins wandered across Central Europe for years, surviving however they could.

One day Wanda’s uncontrolled powers accidentally ignited a building, and terrified townspeople branded her a witch. A mob formed, ready to execute her. As Pietro desperately tried to protect his sister, a powerful mutant intervened: Magneto, master of magnetism and self-proclaimed champion of mutantkind. He drove off the mob and offered the twins protection.

Magneto gathered them into his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, giving them code names: Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. Though grateful for their rescue, the twins soon realized that Magneto’s crusade against humanity was ruthless and merciless. They served him out of obligation and fear rather than loyalty.

Their escape came unexpectedly when Magneto vanished during an encounter with the cosmic being known as the Stranger. Freed from his shadow, Wanda and Pietro sought a new path. They approached Earth’s mightiest heroes—the Avengers—hoping to atone for their time in the Brotherhood.

Against all expectations, Captain America welcomed them.

Alongside Hawkeye, the twins became part of a new Avengers roster. For Wanda, this was the first true home she had known since childhood. Under the guidance of her teammates, she learned discipline and responsibility, though her strange powers remained difficult to control.

Recognizing Wanda’s latent magical nature, an ancient witch named Agatha Harkness took her as a student. Through years of training, Wanda learned to focus her hex powers through structured spellcraft. She discovered that what she wielded was not merely probability manipulation, but true chaos magic—an extremely rare and dangerous form of sorcery tied to the very fabric of reality.

During her time with the Avengers, Wanda formed a deep relationship with the android hero known as the Vision. Though he was an artificial being created from advanced technology, Vision possessed empathy, compassion, and a longing to understand humanity. The two fell deeply in love and eventually married, a union that shocked the world.

Determined to build a life together, they left active Avengers duty for a time and moved to a quiet home in New Jersey. There, through Wanda’s reality-warping magic, she accomplished what should have been impossible: she became pregnant despite Vision’s synthetic nature.

Wanda gave birth to twin boys, Thomas and William.

For a brief moment, Wanda had everything she had ever wanted: a husband, a family, and peace. But the truth behind the children was darker than she knew. The twins had unknowingly been formed from fragments of the demon Mephisto’s lost soul. When those fragments were reclaimed, Thomas and William vanished from existence.

The loss shattered Wanda’s mind.

Years later, the trauma resurfaced with devastating consequences. Manipulated by outside forces and overwhelmed by grief, Wanda suffered a catastrophic breakdown that triggered the events known as Avengers Disassembled. Her chaos magic tore apart the Avengers and altered reality itself.

Seeking to create a world where her family could live in happiness, Wanda unconsciously reshaped the entire planet, creating a new reality where mutants ruled the world. This era became known as the House of M.

But when the illusion collapsed and the truth returned, Wanda uttered three words that changed the fate of mutantkind forever: “No more mutants.”

Across the globe, the mutant population collapsed from millions to only a few hundred. Wanda vanished afterward, wracked with guilt and fragmented memories.

Eventually Wanda was found and confronted by the Young Avengers—two of whom, Billy Kaplan and Tommy Shepherd, were revealed to be reincarnations of her lost sons. Their love and determination helped restore parts of Wanda’s mind and memory, allowing her to begin the long process of redemption.

During this time, further revelations came to light about her origins. Despite long-held beliefs, Wanda and Pietro were not actually the children of Magneto. Genetic records uncovered by the High Evolutionary revealed that the twins were ordinary humans whom he had experimented upon as infants, enhancing their abilities and inadvertently awakening Wanda’s connection to chaos magic.

Even deeper truths awaited Wanda. She eventually discovered that magic ran in her bloodline: her biological mother, Natalya Maximoff, had once been the Scarlet Witch before her—a powerful protector who used witchcraft to defend her people from dark forces.

Accepting this legacy, Wanda reclaimed the title of Scarlet Witch not as a weapon of chaos, but as a guardian against it.

In the years that followed, Wanda faced the ancient god Chthon, battled dark magic unleashed from the Darkhold, and worked tirelessly to repair the damage her past actions had caused. Through mystical rituals and alliances with both Avengers and mutants, she even helped create a spiritual “Waiting Room” that allowed the souls of lost mutants to return to life, partially undoing the devastation of the Decimation.

Though her past is marked by tragedy, Wanda Maximoff continues to strive for balance—between chaos and order, grief and hope. Few beings in the Marvel Universe possess power as vast or dangerous as hers, yet Wanda has learned that true strength lies not in reshaping reality to escape pain, but in facing it and choosing to build something better from the ruins.

And so the Scarlet Witch endures—no longer a frightened girl hunted as a witch, but one of the most powerful and complex heroes the world has ever known.