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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Yami
AGE: 19
JOURNAL: yacchan but it is so rarely used it’s kind of pathetic.
IM: kaizokuyacchan or nezhaqiansui when AIM/adium decides to hate me.
E-MAIL: kefkaknight@gmail.com
RETURNING: Returning after dropping over six months ago? So yes and no? Idk.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver)
FANDOM: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: Post splitting from the MA in Mighty Avengers 34.
CLASS: morally-ambiguous asshole? Hero, technically
SUPERHERO NAME: Quicksilver
ALTER EGO: Pietro Maximoff, and like he’d take a civilian job.
BACKGROUND:
Summing up forty-five years of canon and alignment changes like the freaking wind, haha no.
Pietro and his sister, Wanda, were born on Mt. Wundagore in Transia. Their mother, Magda sought refuge at the High Evolutionary’s Citadel after seeing her mutant husband use his powers for the first time. After Magda abandoned the twins, the were placed in suspended animation for a few years, after which the Evolutionary placed them in the care of Django and Marya Maximoff, a young gypsy couple.
Years passed, and the twins grew up mostly happy. As teenagers, their mutant powers manifested, but they were more or less accepted by their adopted family. Tragedy struck when Django stole food from a nearby village to feed his near-starving family. The angry villagers swarmed, burning the gypsy camp to the ground. Pietro rushed Wanda to safety, but when the twins returned they found no trace of their father or mother. Assuming them dead, they moved on and, eventually, suppressed most of their childhood memories.
Alone but for each other, they traveled around Eastern Europe, until Wanda’s powers went haywire (there are varying stories as to why) and they were attacked again by a horde of angry villagers. This time, Pietro was unable to run them to safety and they seemed to be face with certain death. However, just in the nick of time Magneto appeared to rescue the twins.
Feeling obligated, they joined his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and scraped with the X-Men a few times. Shortly enough, they left the Brotherhood and joined the Avengers to correct any harm they did as terrorists for Magneto. With the Avengers, they became well regarded superheroes and for the first time, had real friends.
Despite their fondness for the Avengers, Pietro (and to a lesser extent, Wanda) splits from the team multiple times. Once, to help Magneto reform the Brotherhood (though he returns to the Avenges not to long after) and more notably, when Wanda is kidnapped by rogue Sentinels. Unwilling to wait for his teammates to form a plan, Pietro rushes to save his sister and ends up critically wounded by a Sentinel.
It looked like Pietro would die alone and forgotten by his teammates, but the Inhuman Crystal just happened to be passing through with her teleporting dog, Lockjaw. Spotting the injured stranger, she took Quicksilver back to Attilan where the Inhumans nursed him back to health. During his recovery, the pair began a romantic relationship (despite her then-current thing with Johnny Storm). After making a full recovery, Pietro called the Avengers to inform them (and, more importantly, Wanda) of his intent to stay in Attilan and marry Crystal.
Wanda was pleased with her twin’s apparent happiness and excitedly revealed her own relationship with the Vision. Pietro didn’t approve and recommended that she didn’t bother calling him again unless she ‘came to her senses’. Needless to say, this created something of a rift between the siblings.
Pietro continued living in Attilan, occasionally lending a hand with Avengers work, but mostly keeping busy with his family. On one Avengers-related mission, Pietro and Wanda (They’d mostly made up. Sort of.) encountered Django Maximoff who was revealed to be their adoptive father. Around the same time, Pietro and Crystal have a daughter, Luna, who is named after the new location of Attilan.
Not too long later, Wanda and Vision visited Attilan to meet their niece. Magneto appeared and a fight naturally ensued. In the course of the fight, Magneto revealed that he is the twins’ true father. Magneto was kicked the heck out of Attilan, but not before getting to hold his grandchild (who Quicksilver snatches form his arms seconds later, but still). A few months later, Pietro, Crystal and Luna visit Wanda and Vision at their home in New Jersey. Crystal begins an affair with one of Wanda’s neighbors.
Dejected, Pietro left Attilan and begins a period of what I like to call plot-induced insanity. Manipulated by Maximus the Mad (the estranged brother of Black Bolt, the Inhuman king), Pietro fights the West Coast Avengers. He then kidnaps Alicia Masters (the wife of the Human Torch) and abandons her in the South Bronx before being captured by X-Factor and the Inhumans. He’s taken back to Attilan for treatment and later helps the West Coast Avengers battle Immortus, but refuses to reconcile with Crystal and instead joins the new, government-sponsored X-Factor.
In his tenure with X-Factor, Luna is captured by a group of terrorists loyal to Magneto. Pietro and Crystal reunite to rescue their daughter and make a few attempts at salvaging their marriage. However, Pietro discovers Crystal’s involvement with the Black Knight and again, leaves Crystal and resigns from X-Factor.
Not really knowing what to do with himself, Pietro sought out the High Evolutionary and assistted in fending off the remainder of Magneto’s acolytes. In their final stand at Mt. Wundagore, Pietro uses the High Evolutionary’s Isotope E to defeat the crazed Evolutionary and the acolytes. He also encounters a version of himself from the future (Who is never seen again in a comic. Woe.).
Pietro rejoined the Avengers after a bit, but eventually returns to traveling through Eastern Europe. When the Scarlet Witch went insane and murdered several of the Avengers during Disassembled, he explains that he was catching up on his reading in the mountains someplace.
After Disassembled, the Avengers and the X-Men meet to decide Wanda’s fate. Before they get the chance, however, Pietro rushes to Genosha and convinces her to create a world in which all of their friends are granted their fondest wishes. In this reality, Magneto is a world leader and mutants are the dominant species. Layla Miller shows several of the Avengers the illusion and the House of M topples in on itself. Pietro is killed by Magneto, but is revived by Wanda who shortly after wishes for no more mutants.
Depowered like most of the planet’s mutants, Pietro becomes a drunk and a vagrant. He calls Crystal for help, but she seems to ignore him. Later that evening he encounters Spider-Man. The two talk and in the middle of their conversation, Pietro tries to kill himself by jumping off the roof. Crystal appears seconds later and takes him back to Attilan where the Inhumans yet again, nurse him back to health. In an effort to regain his powers, Pietro is persuaded (by another future version of himself) to steal the Inhumans’ Terrigen Crystals and kidnap Luna. The two run away to Earth before being tracked down by Crystal and the other Inhumans. However, the majority of the crystals are stolen by the US government before being returned to the Inhumans. Pietro embeds the remaining shards into his chest and gains the ability to transfer terrigenisis powers to other former mutants.
He travels to New York’s mutant town where X-Factor (reluctantly) allows him to set up shop. Pietro briefly teams up with the terrorist organization X-Cell. He gives several members of X-Cell twisted versions of their original mutant abilities by using the Terrigen crystals and a depowered Rictor. Eventually, Rictor wises up to the fact that Pietro was just using him as a “human catalyst” and had no intention of restoring Rictor’s powers. In a rage, Rictor uses the last of his remaining terrigenisis-gotten abilities to vibrate the shards of the Terrigen crystals out of Pietro’s chest. They vanish after laving his body.
Pietro attempts to murder Layla Miller (quite unsuccessfully) disappears for a bit. He is eventually arrested for vagrancy by the NYPD. He experiences a number of hallucinations and eventually regains his speed-powers due to his desire to be a hero.
Returning to Mount Wundagore and the High Evolutionary’s Knights, Pietro is possessed by the Elder God Chthon and his soul is sealed into the Darkhold (a big magical book). Loki, disguised as the Scarlet Witch, assembles the second lineup of the Mighty Avengers to battle Chthon-possessed Quicksilver. They defeat him and the Vision II restores his body and soul. Hank Pym (now, the Wasp) asks Pietro to join the Mighty Avengers, but he refuses.
That is until Pietro sees Loki who he (like everyone else) believes to be Wanda. He follows Hank’s team around for a bit before being made and official member. When a newscaster questions his position on the team, Pietro claims to have been replaced by a Skrull for the last several years. Pym and Jarvis are none too convinced, but decide to leave well enough alone.
One of his first, and only, missions with the Mighty Avengers has them up against the Unspoken, an Ancient Exiled Inhuman King. The Unspoken attempts to use the Xerogen Crystals to turn the Earth’s population into Alpha Primitives. The Mighty Avengers team up with the New Avengers to take the Unspoken down. Pietro asks Pym to take them to Attilan, which has been relocated to within the Kree Empire. He returns the Xerogen Crystals to Medusa (now Queen of the Inhumans) and feeds them the same line about having been abducted by the Skrulls. Medusa restores his Inhuman Citizenship, but Crystal had by then remarried. Due to her terrigenisis-gained powers, Luna sees through her father’s lies, but decides to keep silent.
The Mighty Avengers then take on Loki. Pietro demands to know anything and everything that Loki knows about Wanda’s whereabouts, but he/she really doesn’t know anything. Unsatisfied, Pietro uses the device created by Pym to torture Loki. The Avengers are stopped by an angry Thor, who trounces them thoroughly. After the battle, Pym asks Loki to join the Mighty Avengers and Pietro quits the team in a rage, presumably to resume his search for the Scarlet Witch.
Or y’know, to get abducted by an inter-dimensional porter. It happens.
PERSONALITY:
On the surface, Pietro is snide, quick-tempered and arrogant. And that description isn’t entirely wrong. His abilities, and to a lesser extent upbringing, make Pietro a touch standoffish toward those outside his immediate circle. Moreover, he genuinely doesn’t care about other people. To his mind, they’re not worth slowing down for.
However, when surrounded by a noble group of people, he tends to ‘feed’ off their energy and that side of his personality is reflected more obviously. In most cases, a reactive Quicksilver has more chance of doing what’s right than one who is proactive and this is largely due to his mutant abilities making him extremely impulsive and impatient. Likewise, they give him the illusion of being more intelligent than those around him because of his increased reaction time. While it might take someone else three times longer to solve a rubrics cube, they would presumably do it with actual skill, rather than randomly turning segments until something fits.
Likewise, despite his bluster, Pietro is deeply aware that his speed makes even basic communication with other people a chore and is self-conscious of this fact. Never the less, he couldn’t really imagine life without his powers and point-blank refuses to accept it when it happens.
Relationship-wise, Pietro can be jealous, domineering and over-bearing, but 99.9% of the time, it’s out of love. He genuinely wants what’s best for those in his life, even if he often has a different idea on it than they do. Pietro takes it upon himself to protect his family, even if they don’t need it, or are even annoyed by it. Nevertheless, he would go to the ends of the earth (quite literally) for those important to him and the rest of the world be damned.
POWER:
Super-speed via temporal manipulation. Pietro can do the basics of running really, really fast as well as other nifty tricks like running up the side of buildings, creating small explosions through vibrating things really fast, and flying short distances (like a hummingbird). He generally avoids that last one though, because it looks freaking ridiculous and if you can’t have your vanity, well… What's the point.
At his upper limits, and with optimal wind/climate conditions, Pietro can reach speeds of mach 5 and slightly better. That's basically two and a half times the speed of sound, give or take. (The mach system is relative to the atmospheric conditions of a given area, so... It's hard to be exact.)
He also commonly uses his accelerated speed for doing rather mundane things. Such as reading. He's also been known to solve a few jigsaw puzzles in under ten seconds just to show off.
Pietro's speed is actually a mild form of temporal manipulation that he's rather unfamiliar with and rarely accesses. This came to the foreground after he was depowered and used the Terrigen Mists to gain something back. The Terrigen Crystals twisted his superspeed and allowed him to jump forwards and backwards short periods of time (anywhere from a few seconds to a week). However, this accelerated his aging and unlike with his superspeed, Pietro was pretty much unable to control that nasty side effect. He lost this power with the Terrigen shards in his chest, so I doubt it'll matter much. Just throwing it out there for the record.
He's also somewhat impervious to precogs. It could be due to that time-jumping-thing or some latent chaos magic. Or he could just be an unpredictable ass. No one really knows.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[voice; slight Eastern European accent]
And so to New York again. For Earth’s Mightiest Heroes you’re all drawn to one specific place quite a lot. It’s a wonder the economy endures, really. The weather in Los Angeles was far more agreeable as well. [he hmms softly to himself, though it’s rather obviously for show]
Now, to whom do I owe the pleasure of this delightful detour? Who has succeeded in remaking the world in his image? The machinery would certainly imply Tony Stark, although I find that rather unlikely. Osborn, perhaps? He’s rather fond of stealing Stark’s toys.
[a pause and then a slight scoff]
No matter. Nothing can hold Quicksilver captive for very long. Nothing at all.
[there's a fumbling sound, like someone is reaching to cut the feed but thinks better of it]
Ah, yes. And Pym… If this is your doing -- some woeful attempt at reassembling your pathetic little team - make no mistake, I will hunt you down like the dog that you are. No matter what entity of dubious existence has seen fit to exalt you.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Pietro punched the END FEED button on the communicator a little more ferociously than he’d really intended. It certainly looked like one of Stark’s contraptions. All chrome and touch screen, too aesthetically pleasing to be immediately user-friendly. Familiar. Everything about this place was familiar and yet not. It was interesting and yet didn’t matter. This was just another set back in an annoyingly long history of set backs keeping him from his family. It would be dealt with accordingly.
With that thought in mind, he set about gaining perspective on his location. This was definitely New York’s financial district. Less than three blocks to the Brooklyn Bridge and Park Place, from there it would be thirty to Chelsea and another fifty to where he was actually headed. Annoying, yet very much surmountable. That seemed to be a theme of the day.
He set out, becoming a blur of green and pearly white amongst the hordes of businessmen, tourists, and hideous yellow cabs. SoHo, the Flat Iron Building, Madison Square Park, Bryant Park and the Central Library. Finally, the South-East entrance to Central Park blurred into view and then out again.
The Metropolitan museum and then nothing. That couldn’t be.
Up another ten blocks and nothing. What had Pym done? The ruins of the Avengers Mansion were what anchored the Infinite Mansion to New York. Surely he hadn’t simply done away with it all together? For all his science, the man could be quite the idiot, but even Pietro gave him more credit than that. Marginally.
Perhaps it was poorly placed.
Delicate silver brows knit together in disbelief. It was hard to imagine a world in which the Avengers Mansion, even the ruins of it, was gone all together. This was confusing. He dashed off, the Flat Iron Building blurring back into view. No Daily Bugle logo in glowing neon. Nothing. Back downtown, to where there were no public headquarters for SHIELD, or HAMMER, or whatever-the-devil it was they called themselves these days, to be found. Nothing. The streets were the same and yet not. The venders on the corner still pedaled hats and scarves, but nothing that really mattered was left.
Surely something here was off. Loki was seeking revenge, it would be easy for the god of mischief to create such an illusion. He could have turned one of Pym’s machines against them. It would be the first time his love of science had gotten them all into a tight spot.
Seconds were ticking by and the knowledge of this did nothing to help Pietro’s mood. Conjecture and theorizing were all well and good, but it didn’t answer the question of where to go from here. No Avengers, no HAMMER, no way to reach Attilan now that it was off in the distant cosmos. To Transia, perhaps? Back to Bova and the High Evolutionary? But what would they know about any of this. Who was to say that they even existed in this freshly contrived world.
He glanced back down at the eerily familiar communicator. It was flashing. What the hell had that meant? The Avengers had had communicators similar (if less sophisticated) to this one back in the day, but that was starting to feel like a lifetime ago. It wasn’t as though Pietro had ever really had use for his, either. It was easier simply to run a message over, less chance for miscommunication.
Flashing, blinking, chirping obnoxiously. Ahh, yes. Messages. Well, that was certainly better than nothing.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Uh, nothing really.
NAME: Yami
AGE: 19
JOURNAL: yacchan but it is so rarely used it’s kind of pathetic.
IM: kaizokuyacchan or nezhaqiansui when AIM/adium decides to hate me.
E-MAIL: kefkaknight@gmail.com
RETURNING: Returning after dropping over six months ago? So yes and no? Idk.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver)
FANDOM: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: Post splitting from the MA in Mighty Avengers 34.
CLASS: morally-ambiguous asshole? Hero, technically
SUPERHERO NAME: Quicksilver
ALTER EGO: Pietro Maximoff, and like he’d take a civilian job.
BACKGROUND:
Summing up forty-five years of canon and alignment changes like the freaking wind, haha no.
Pietro and his sister, Wanda, were born on Mt. Wundagore in Transia. Their mother, Magda sought refuge at the High Evolutionary’s Citadel after seeing her mutant husband use his powers for the first time. After Magda abandoned the twins, the were placed in suspended animation for a few years, after which the Evolutionary placed them in the care of Django and Marya Maximoff, a young gypsy couple.
Years passed, and the twins grew up mostly happy. As teenagers, their mutant powers manifested, but they were more or less accepted by their adopted family. Tragedy struck when Django stole food from a nearby village to feed his near-starving family. The angry villagers swarmed, burning the gypsy camp to the ground. Pietro rushed Wanda to safety, but when the twins returned they found no trace of their father or mother. Assuming them dead, they moved on and, eventually, suppressed most of their childhood memories.
Alone but for each other, they traveled around Eastern Europe, until Wanda’s powers went haywire (there are varying stories as to why) and they were attacked again by a horde of angry villagers. This time, Pietro was unable to run them to safety and they seemed to be face with certain death. However, just in the nick of time Magneto appeared to rescue the twins.
Feeling obligated, they joined his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and scraped with the X-Men a few times. Shortly enough, they left the Brotherhood and joined the Avengers to correct any harm they did as terrorists for Magneto. With the Avengers, they became well regarded superheroes and for the first time, had real friends.
Despite their fondness for the Avengers, Pietro (and to a lesser extent, Wanda) splits from the team multiple times. Once, to help Magneto reform the Brotherhood (though he returns to the Avenges not to long after) and more notably, when Wanda is kidnapped by rogue Sentinels. Unwilling to wait for his teammates to form a plan, Pietro rushes to save his sister and ends up critically wounded by a Sentinel.
It looked like Pietro would die alone and forgotten by his teammates, but the Inhuman Crystal just happened to be passing through with her teleporting dog, Lockjaw. Spotting the injured stranger, she took Quicksilver back to Attilan where the Inhumans nursed him back to health. During his recovery, the pair began a romantic relationship (despite her then-current thing with Johnny Storm). After making a full recovery, Pietro called the Avengers to inform them (and, more importantly, Wanda) of his intent to stay in Attilan and marry Crystal.
Wanda was pleased with her twin’s apparent happiness and excitedly revealed her own relationship with the Vision. Pietro didn’t approve and recommended that she didn’t bother calling him again unless she ‘came to her senses’. Needless to say, this created something of a rift between the siblings.
Pietro continued living in Attilan, occasionally lending a hand with Avengers work, but mostly keeping busy with his family. On one Avengers-related mission, Pietro and Wanda (They’d mostly made up. Sort of.) encountered Django Maximoff who was revealed to be their adoptive father. Around the same time, Pietro and Crystal have a daughter, Luna, who is named after the new location of Attilan.
Not too long later, Wanda and Vision visited Attilan to meet their niece. Magneto appeared and a fight naturally ensued. In the course of the fight, Magneto revealed that he is the twins’ true father. Magneto was kicked the heck out of Attilan, but not before getting to hold his grandchild (who Quicksilver snatches form his arms seconds later, but still). A few months later, Pietro, Crystal and Luna visit Wanda and Vision at their home in New Jersey. Crystal begins an affair with one of Wanda’s neighbors.
Dejected, Pietro left Attilan and begins a period of what I like to call plot-induced insanity. Manipulated by Maximus the Mad (the estranged brother of Black Bolt, the Inhuman king), Pietro fights the West Coast Avengers. He then kidnaps Alicia Masters (the wife of the Human Torch) and abandons her in the South Bronx before being captured by X-Factor and the Inhumans. He’s taken back to Attilan for treatment and later helps the West Coast Avengers battle Immortus, but refuses to reconcile with Crystal and instead joins the new, government-sponsored X-Factor.
In his tenure with X-Factor, Luna is captured by a group of terrorists loyal to Magneto. Pietro and Crystal reunite to rescue their daughter and make a few attempts at salvaging their marriage. However, Pietro discovers Crystal’s involvement with the Black Knight and again, leaves Crystal and resigns from X-Factor.
Not really knowing what to do with himself, Pietro sought out the High Evolutionary and assistted in fending off the remainder of Magneto’s acolytes. In their final stand at Mt. Wundagore, Pietro uses the High Evolutionary’s Isotope E to defeat the crazed Evolutionary and the acolytes. He also encounters a version of himself from the future (Who is never seen again in a comic. Woe.).
Pietro rejoined the Avengers after a bit, but eventually returns to traveling through Eastern Europe. When the Scarlet Witch went insane and murdered several of the Avengers during Disassembled, he explains that he was catching up on his reading in the mountains someplace.
After Disassembled, the Avengers and the X-Men meet to decide Wanda’s fate. Before they get the chance, however, Pietro rushes to Genosha and convinces her to create a world in which all of their friends are granted their fondest wishes. In this reality, Magneto is a world leader and mutants are the dominant species. Layla Miller shows several of the Avengers the illusion and the House of M topples in on itself. Pietro is killed by Magneto, but is revived by Wanda who shortly after wishes for no more mutants.
Depowered like most of the planet’s mutants, Pietro becomes a drunk and a vagrant. He calls Crystal for help, but she seems to ignore him. Later that evening he encounters Spider-Man. The two talk and in the middle of their conversation, Pietro tries to kill himself by jumping off the roof. Crystal appears seconds later and takes him back to Attilan where the Inhumans yet again, nurse him back to health. In an effort to regain his powers, Pietro is persuaded (by another future version of himself) to steal the Inhumans’ Terrigen Crystals and kidnap Luna. The two run away to Earth before being tracked down by Crystal and the other Inhumans. However, the majority of the crystals are stolen by the US government before being returned to the Inhumans. Pietro embeds the remaining shards into his chest and gains the ability to transfer terrigenisis powers to other former mutants.
He travels to New York’s mutant town where X-Factor (reluctantly) allows him to set up shop. Pietro briefly teams up with the terrorist organization X-Cell. He gives several members of X-Cell twisted versions of their original mutant abilities by using the Terrigen crystals and a depowered Rictor. Eventually, Rictor wises up to the fact that Pietro was just using him as a “human catalyst” and had no intention of restoring Rictor’s powers. In a rage, Rictor uses the last of his remaining terrigenisis-gotten abilities to vibrate the shards of the Terrigen crystals out of Pietro’s chest. They vanish after laving his body.
Pietro attempts to murder Layla Miller (quite unsuccessfully) disappears for a bit. He is eventually arrested for vagrancy by the NYPD. He experiences a number of hallucinations and eventually regains his speed-powers due to his desire to be a hero.
Returning to Mount Wundagore and the High Evolutionary’s Knights, Pietro is possessed by the Elder God Chthon and his soul is sealed into the Darkhold (a big magical book). Loki, disguised as the Scarlet Witch, assembles the second lineup of the Mighty Avengers to battle Chthon-possessed Quicksilver. They defeat him and the Vision II restores his body and soul. Hank Pym (now, the Wasp) asks Pietro to join the Mighty Avengers, but he refuses.
That is until Pietro sees Loki who he (like everyone else) believes to be Wanda. He follows Hank’s team around for a bit before being made and official member. When a newscaster questions his position on the team, Pietro claims to have been replaced by a Skrull for the last several years. Pym and Jarvis are none too convinced, but decide to leave well enough alone.
One of his first, and only, missions with the Mighty Avengers has them up against the Unspoken, an Ancient Exiled Inhuman King. The Unspoken attempts to use the Xerogen Crystals to turn the Earth’s population into Alpha Primitives. The Mighty Avengers team up with the New Avengers to take the Unspoken down. Pietro asks Pym to take them to Attilan, which has been relocated to within the Kree Empire. He returns the Xerogen Crystals to Medusa (now Queen of the Inhumans) and feeds them the same line about having been abducted by the Skrulls. Medusa restores his Inhuman Citizenship, but Crystal had by then remarried. Due to her terrigenisis-gained powers, Luna sees through her father’s lies, but decides to keep silent.
The Mighty Avengers then take on Loki. Pietro demands to know anything and everything that Loki knows about Wanda’s whereabouts, but he/she really doesn’t know anything. Unsatisfied, Pietro uses the device created by Pym to torture Loki. The Avengers are stopped by an angry Thor, who trounces them thoroughly. After the battle, Pym asks Loki to join the Mighty Avengers and Pietro quits the team in a rage, presumably to resume his search for the Scarlet Witch.
Or y’know, to get abducted by an inter-dimensional porter. It happens.
PERSONALITY:
On the surface, Pietro is snide, quick-tempered and arrogant. And that description isn’t entirely wrong. His abilities, and to a lesser extent upbringing, make Pietro a touch standoffish toward those outside his immediate circle. Moreover, he genuinely doesn’t care about other people. To his mind, they’re not worth slowing down for.
However, when surrounded by a noble group of people, he tends to ‘feed’ off their energy and that side of his personality is reflected more obviously. In most cases, a reactive Quicksilver has more chance of doing what’s right than one who is proactive and this is largely due to his mutant abilities making him extremely impulsive and impatient. Likewise, they give him the illusion of being more intelligent than those around him because of his increased reaction time. While it might take someone else three times longer to solve a rubrics cube, they would presumably do it with actual skill, rather than randomly turning segments until something fits.
Likewise, despite his bluster, Pietro is deeply aware that his speed makes even basic communication with other people a chore and is self-conscious of this fact. Never the less, he couldn’t really imagine life without his powers and point-blank refuses to accept it when it happens.
Relationship-wise, Pietro can be jealous, domineering and over-bearing, but 99.9% of the time, it’s out of love. He genuinely wants what’s best for those in his life, even if he often has a different idea on it than they do. Pietro takes it upon himself to protect his family, even if they don’t need it, or are even annoyed by it. Nevertheless, he would go to the ends of the earth (quite literally) for those important to him and the rest of the world be damned.
POWER:
Super-speed via temporal manipulation. Pietro can do the basics of running really, really fast as well as other nifty tricks like running up the side of buildings, creating small explosions through vibrating things really fast, and flying short distances (like a hummingbird). He generally avoids that last one though, because it looks freaking ridiculous and if you can’t have your vanity, well… What's the point.
At his upper limits, and with optimal wind/climate conditions, Pietro can reach speeds of mach 5 and slightly better. That's basically two and a half times the speed of sound, give or take. (The mach system is relative to the atmospheric conditions of a given area, so... It's hard to be exact.)
He also commonly uses his accelerated speed for doing rather mundane things. Such as reading. He's also been known to solve a few jigsaw puzzles in under ten seconds just to show off.
Pietro's speed is actually a mild form of temporal manipulation that he's rather unfamiliar with and rarely accesses. This came to the foreground after he was depowered and used the Terrigen Mists to gain something back. The Terrigen Crystals twisted his superspeed and allowed him to jump forwards and backwards short periods of time (anywhere from a few seconds to a week). However, this accelerated his aging and unlike with his superspeed, Pietro was pretty much unable to control that nasty side effect. He lost this power with the Terrigen shards in his chest, so I doubt it'll matter much. Just throwing it out there for the record.
He's also somewhat impervious to precogs. It could be due to that time-jumping-thing or some latent chaos magic. Or he could just be an unpredictable ass. No one really knows.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[voice; slight Eastern European accent]
And so to New York again. For Earth’s Mightiest Heroes you’re all drawn to one specific place quite a lot. It’s a wonder the economy endures, really. The weather in Los Angeles was far more agreeable as well. [he hmms softly to himself, though it’s rather obviously for show]
Now, to whom do I owe the pleasure of this delightful detour? Who has succeeded in remaking the world in his image? The machinery would certainly imply Tony Stark, although I find that rather unlikely. Osborn, perhaps? He’s rather fond of stealing Stark’s toys.
[a pause and then a slight scoff]
No matter. Nothing can hold Quicksilver captive for very long. Nothing at all.
[there's a fumbling sound, like someone is reaching to cut the feed but thinks better of it]
Ah, yes. And Pym… If this is your doing -- some woeful attempt at reassembling your pathetic little team - make no mistake, I will hunt you down like the dog that you are. No matter what entity of dubious existence has seen fit to exalt you.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Pietro punched the END FEED button on the communicator a little more ferociously than he’d really intended. It certainly looked like one of Stark’s contraptions. All chrome and touch screen, too aesthetically pleasing to be immediately user-friendly. Familiar. Everything about this place was familiar and yet not. It was interesting and yet didn’t matter. This was just another set back in an annoyingly long history of set backs keeping him from his family. It would be dealt with accordingly.
With that thought in mind, he set about gaining perspective on his location. This was definitely New York’s financial district. Less than three blocks to the Brooklyn Bridge and Park Place, from there it would be thirty to Chelsea and another fifty to where he was actually headed. Annoying, yet very much surmountable. That seemed to be a theme of the day.
He set out, becoming a blur of green and pearly white amongst the hordes of businessmen, tourists, and hideous yellow cabs. SoHo, the Flat Iron Building, Madison Square Park, Bryant Park and the Central Library. Finally, the South-East entrance to Central Park blurred into view and then out again.
The Metropolitan museum and then nothing. That couldn’t be.
Up another ten blocks and nothing. What had Pym done? The ruins of the Avengers Mansion were what anchored the Infinite Mansion to New York. Surely he hadn’t simply done away with it all together? For all his science, the man could be quite the idiot, but even Pietro gave him more credit than that. Marginally.
Perhaps it was poorly placed.
Delicate silver brows knit together in disbelief. It was hard to imagine a world in which the Avengers Mansion, even the ruins of it, was gone all together. This was confusing. He dashed off, the Flat Iron Building blurring back into view. No Daily Bugle logo in glowing neon. Nothing. Back downtown, to where there were no public headquarters for SHIELD, or HAMMER, or whatever-the-devil it was they called themselves these days, to be found. Nothing. The streets were the same and yet not. The venders on the corner still pedaled hats and scarves, but nothing that really mattered was left.
Surely something here was off. Loki was seeking revenge, it would be easy for the god of mischief to create such an illusion. He could have turned one of Pym’s machines against them. It would be the first time his love of science had gotten them all into a tight spot.
Seconds were ticking by and the knowledge of this did nothing to help Pietro’s mood. Conjecture and theorizing were all well and good, but it didn’t answer the question of where to go from here. No Avengers, no HAMMER, no way to reach Attilan now that it was off in the distant cosmos. To Transia, perhaps? Back to Bova and the High Evolutionary? But what would they know about any of this. Who was to say that they even existed in this freshly contrived world.
He glanced back down at the eerily familiar communicator. It was flashing. What the hell had that meant? The Avengers had had communicators similar (if less sophisticated) to this one back in the day, but that was starting to feel like a lifetime ago. It wasn’t as though Pietro had ever really had use for his, either. It was easier simply to run a message over, less chance for miscommunication.
Flashing, blinking, chirping obnoxiously. Ahh, yes. Messages. Well, that was certainly better than nothing.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Uh, nothing really.