#wanda shouldve hexed him properly i think

[ill-say-this-fast]

Was rereading @wandaxpietro 's don't wanna stick my fingers in this or i'll start to bleed and the note about associating Mastermind with Wanda and Pietro bc of their relationship in 616 in the Brotherhood, and it reminded me of my headcanon that Mastermind is the one that taught the twins English in that universe.

They know English by the time the Brotherhood is fighting the X-men but there's no reason for them to have known it beforehand. They could hardly have learned it on the streets in eastern Europe and Mayra and Django already have to teach them like 3 languages at least, and why would they know English?

(As a sidenote, I guess I'm arguing that the Brotherhood spoke Russian to each other before the twins learned English. Its a miracle they had a language in common tbh, but Pietro does say that one time that he knows Russian and thought everyone did, so maybe he was speaking from experience.)

So, Magneto tells them they need to learn it for the international politics theyre now doing, but he's not gonna waste his time teaching them himself. He drops in to do manipulation only, no more engagement than necessary. Their relationship with Toad has absolutely none of the respect you'd expect out of a mentor-student relationship, so I'm ruling him out. That leaves just Mastermind (who might be the only Brotherhood member whose first language is English?) and their relationship with him is oddly polite given that he keeps hitting on teenage Wanda as a full adult man (until he starts using his powers on her and she finally sics Pietro on him) and that could work as something that comes from him being a teacher for them.

Just thought that would be a cool addition to the dynamic. Those lessons would be so weird: teenage Wanda and Pietro, who have no life experience interacting with other people and are slowly realising theyre in a terrorist organisation, trying to be polite and good and normal, while their teacher is trying to convince them that the 'Evil' in Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is totally ironic, and that he's suave and sophisticated and this 16 year old should definitely marry him, all the while unsure whether he should comment on the twincest vibes. Today theyre learning modal verbs, tomorrow useful phrases for when youre taking hostages, and the day after maybe they'll read a classic novel and he'll convince Wanda that marriage is an economic proposition.