OPEN · PILOT EPISODE.

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WHO: Wanda and you.
WHAT: Catch-all.
WHEN: Haring.
WHERE: Around the Gallows, and any other place if somewhere different suits.
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It isn’t entirely Wanda’s fault.

Or, well: in one respect it absolutely is, but they were unlikely to have managed it any sooner than they have done, circumstances recently being what they were. Between the travel that Gwenaëlle’s been doing and the better part of a month she spent working her way back up to keeping solid food in her stomach, it’s perhaps only now that the prospect of sparring with an unfamiliar partner isn’t going to be scribbled out of her schedule by an aghast Dr Strange. (Who, like Wanda or indeed most of the rifters from various ‘Earths’, always sounds strangely dwarven to her. It’s a striking accent in a human if you haven’t spent as long around rifters as Gwenaëlle has, but it’s been nearly a decade and she’s seen the type do much odder shit than talk funny.)

“That’s the main one,” she says, dryly. “Do you need more practise at direct combat or working with other people?”

Not everybody is accustomed to working alongside their colleagues so directly as Riftwatch tends to mean doing, and she’d spoken of it in the past tense; maybe a muscle that hasn’t had as much exercise. Or not; she’s open to the answer being the former, don’t worry about it, but it feels worth checking. Strategizing for.

“I usually use that,” tilting her head towards what’s essentially a mixture of equipment and obstacle course, “to drill myself.” Her approach is all about agility and speed; she’s slight and wearing leather, she needs to be able to strike strategically and move before something can hit her back harder than she can handle.

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What a question.

What is it that she needs? Does she need to learn direct combat, despite knowing how to throw a decent punch that won't see her thumb broken, thanks to Natasha and Steve? Or does she need to learn to work with people, even though she already has a decent amount of experience in that department, even though it was akin to a crash course?

Does Wanda even remember how to work alongside anyone?

While she glances at the mixture of equipment that's similar to what she once deemed beneath her (what does a telekinetic even do with a spear or shield?), Wanda decides it's best to start fresh. Isn't this world new? Isn't her magic not quite at the level it once was, feeling much like a weapon in itself?

"I need more practice in working with other people." Trusting them, but that's not something she should reveal in the pilot episode. "Especially…" Looking down at her hands, she wiggles her fingers and sighs softly. "I've been relying on myself too long. I don't know what I'm good at other than being the one who does the wiggly woos."

Yes, she demonstrates the wiggly woos, fingers deliberately plain with no hint of a red glow in sight.