essayofthoughts:

(Image One, Image Two)

You will not find a person more against the idea of Wanda as the supposed traitor that’s meant to exist in this film than me, especially as that would mean siding with Stark who I strongly believe she still dislikes/distrusts, but honestly given these two screencaps… it might not be impossible.

Similar sleeves, same nail varnish, same rings. Sokovia Accords being pushed across the table to Wanda. If I had to guess I’d say it’s because Sokovia is her country, Novi Grad was her city and it was her brother who died trying to stop Ultron, an enhanced individual of that nation, of that city. It would make sense for them to … not necessarily consult her but want her approval to lend a kind of legitimacy to what they mean to do.

This doesn’t mean that she did agree with the accords, or that she is a traitor to Cap’s side at all, but it certainly lends credence to it as a possibility that it didn’t have before (we are all quite aware how much trust the twins had for Stark, to whit: none), and gives some really interesting possibilities as well for Wanda’s position in the world post AOU. We know she started to train as an Avenger, but this suggests she’s been brought into politics as well to some degree. 

Is this due to her being on both sides in AOU, Ultron’s before switching to the Avengers? Is it because she’s the only firmly non-American Avenger at this moment in the MCU? (We know they’re bringing in Black Panther for this film and he’s from Wakanda but we don’t know where in the timeline he gets introduced so by the end of AOU there are a very limited number of Avenger-level enhanced people). Is it because it was her country AOU happened in, for the most part? Is it because of what happened to Pietro?

Also a note that pleases me on an inherent level because it means I did map Wanda’s character rightly – she still seems shocked and disheartened by violence. Just as in all her fights in AOU she doesn’t like it anywhere near her, it scares her and puts her ill-at-ease. Probably worse than before, now her brother isn’t there to be tacit reassurance and given the circumstances of his death.

@dailymaximoffs, @pietro-t1me, @wanndamaximoff, @pietroimagines, any other people who like to think about the twins or even just the larger MCU, thoughts?