#Nexus Being

[wizardtributedauntlessmaximoff]

[thedarktowerdames]

Art Manipulation Credit to IMIJ Factory

[scarlet--wiccan]

Is it right too affirm that Wanda main power is her ability totap into virtually any type of energy and convert it into power ? That's the impression i've got from your explanation about her powers (sorry if i've misinterpreted something)

By "affirm," do you mean "assume"?

Either way, the answer's no. Wanda's abilities, as a Nexus Being, are a little unclear, and every writer seems to interpret it differently. My description in this post was based primarily on Avengers West Coast, Avengers (1998), and Children's Crusade. One of the common factors in all of these stories is that Wanda, as a Nexus, is able to channel virtually any kind of magic. This can be used to augment or amplify her own magical powers, which, in conjuction with some of her other Nexus properties, often allows her to alter reality itself on a large scale. But it is pretty specific to magic, and she's not really consuming or converting power-- it might help to think of her as more of a conduit or a channel, in this regard.

Converting "any type of energy" into "power" sounds more like Captain Marvel. Wanda can, theoretically, manipulate and transmute all kinds of energy with her hex power, but she doesn't store or convert physical kinetic energy in her body. She's not, like, an energy blast girl.

[wizardtributedauntlessmaximoff]

Like Her.

Worst pain

[frankie-funked]

Something something Solar and nexus meme

Another thing is like- this was my first time drawing nexus’ canon outfit…he’s so baby

[um-weird-flex-but-ok]

In another universe

[mohntilyet]

illario + lucanis growing up together means a lot for obvious reasons ofc like the fact they did not have to go through the dellamorte villa torment nexus alone really helps. immediately from the moment they are taken to that house, lucanis has had something to protect and love. the snark and jokes that they share in wigmaker job finally having a chance to shine outside of the only person lucanis is socialised with and he learns that wow, he's actually likable. because up until this point everyone around him calls him a demon and is freaked out by him but ofc the veilguard only know him as lucanis "he banished harding from the kitchen" dellamorte. sure he's a big bad crow assassin but his reputation simply does not carry that much weight with people who are just equally deranged (maybe a de riva rook but that's also a little different) . and then he's able to share and extend that love with his new friends, and able to try being something that he's not had the chance to before, and his goodness is actively encouraged rather than being an unfortunate sidequest that is tolerated. and i fondly think also of how much of that humor is copied and mirrored off illario ("shoulders....... feeling tight...... need a ..... MASSAGE!") and it's his best experiences with illario that turned him into the man he is. wish the game explored this just a little more because the betrayal would have been made a lot more intense if they had just bothered to show any of illario's redeeming qualities. he has them!!!!! nobody is just born a traitor. you have to love someone before they can become that.

[turtleblogatlast]

I think a lot about Leo’s tendency to push his way into the spotlight despite clearly being a natural in the shadows. Hell, you could argue that his worst moments are when he’s forcing himself onstage, and his best are when he does things no one notices until it’s already been done.

[riovidalupdates]

rio: agatha, what’s your type?

agatha: witchy, lover of nature, dumb, chaotic, scary, goes after dead bodies, an actual cosmic entity.

rio: wow, very specific. is it someone i know?

agatha: did i mention dumb?

rio: yeah.

agatha: just checking.

*later*

rio, in the middle of collecting bodies: oh my god, agatha has a crush on wanda!

alice and sharon: ???

[linusbenjamin]

DEADPOOL WOLVERINE SPOILERS AHEAD. i loved how it felt like a comic movie. jokes were actually funny. action scenes were so creative. cameos were super cool. matthew macfadyen served, smashed, killed etc. i would define it as a tribute to fans. it's a solid 8.5 for me. but as someone who went to cinema wearing a fucking wanda t-shirt, i demand some fucking answers about that scarlet witch statue which i've fucking seen with my own two eyes and then i screamed out loud.

[sparrowchute]

I dont know how to draw hank

[wizardtributedauntlessmaximoff]

Look What You Made Me Do : Hermione Granger and Wanda Maximoff

They are my two favorite movie witches. I love them both!!!

[somsonsomsoff]

headcanons for the employers have somehow turned into a crossover with de skills

[scarlet--wiccan]

Lore coming back would be really cool! I hope it is someone with a lot of thought out into it and not just like. Luminous. Do you have any thoughts on how you’d like for it to go?

Also, since stand alone comic arcs are usually 6 issues and pietro, viv, and Lorna all make appearances in the first 3, I kind of hope Billy, Tommy, and Luna (and/or Marya and natalya?) are in the next ones. It’d be nice to at least get appearances from a lot of family members, even if they’re brief.

I'm definitely hoping we see the boys, and I'm really, really hoping they get the same/similar visual treatment as Wanda and Pietro. There is no excuse for Billy and Tommy to be drawn like white bread after all this effort has been put into Wanda's presentation.

Anyway, Lore. This is a character with a ton of built in potential and very little page time, so you could take her in a lot of different directions. If it were me, I would avoid the obvious choices-- I don't want to see her acting as a representation of Wanda's guilt, or a cautionary tale of what might happen if Wanda abused her powers. That's played out, and we've seen it before. I'd rather learn about Lore's homeworld and the other realities that she's terrorized, and find out what kind of awful stuff she's been up to since we last saw her.

I should say, the last time we saw Lore, Wanda threw a sword at her and she exploded, so she's definitely supposed to be dead. We know now that death cannot stop the Scarlet Witch, and Ms. Lore was a necromancer* by trade, so I'm pretty confident she could make a comeback.

Scarlet Witch (1994) #4

Lore would be a perfect antagonist for a story about Wanda's Nexus abilities. To me, the Nexus aspect of Wanda's powers is one of the most interesting and underutilized elements of the character, and I think that now would be a perfect time to revisit it. With so much of Wanda's trauma behind her, there's a lot of new opportunity to explore her unique powers without having to dig up the same old storylines.

In fact, it would actually be really helpful for both Wanda and Billy as characters moving forward-- the Nexus stuff is sort of the key to understanding how their reality-altering abilities are supposed to work, and I think that they'd both benefit from having more clarity and concrete parameters in that area. Neither of these characters actually do well as nigh-omnipotent demigods, at least not without some kind of grounding.

So, yeah, I want to revisit the Nexus aspect of Wanda's abilities and use that re-litigate what, exactly, her chaos magic and reality-altering powers can and cannot do. I think that would be a great way to round out on the growth Wanda experienced in Trial and Darkhold and just bring her to a place where her powers are more easily understood. I want to see Lore to return as an antagonist, but not just as Wanda's dark mirror-- I want to establish her as a villain in her own right, and a multiversal threat that Wanda is uniquely suited to oppose because their powers are so similar.

*This comic uses the word "necromancer" incorrectly. Writers often use "necromancy" to describe any and all forms of death magic, particularly raising, animating, or controlling the dead. This is a common misunderstanding-- in truth, the suffix "-mancy" is derived from the Greek μᾰντείᾱ (manteia) actually refers to divination and prophecy. Therefore, any word ending in "-mancy" actually describes a form of divination, such as cartomancy, which uses cards, or tasseomancy, which uses tea leaves. Necromancy, traditionally, is a form of divination performed by communing with the dead.

That's not really what Lore does. Her powers mostly seemed to revolve around consuming the life force of other beings, along with raising and controlling the dead. She's somewhat like a vampire in that regard, but you could describe her powers as general death magic. Unfortunately, the English language doesn't really have a kicky little suffix to describe general magical practices-- at least, not one that's widely recognized. The Greek for magic is μαγεία (mageia) so I suppose the appropriate derivation would be -magy. So, maybe necromagy?

Anyways, that's just me being a nerd about languages and magic. I think it's important to know these things if you're gonna write about them, even it's not, like, consequential in the long run.

[peachyfnaf]

she took peepaw to the club (nexus only has nightcore songs in her playlist and at this point ruin is too afraid to ask)

[firestorm09890]

on a scale from one to NaN, how real are you feeling today?