Jonerys Rulez

but i don't think Wanda was 100% unjustified in what she did. since we've met her in the mcu she's been abused and tormented and forced to watch everyone she loves die.

first, her home is attacked and her parents killed, and she hides under a bed for two days just waiting to die. that alone is a traumatic event worthy of some mental breaks.

but THAN

she's tortured and manipulated and experimented on by HYDRA.

we're never told how long the twins were with Struker, and we don't know what exactly he did to them. but whatever they - and Wanda specifically - endured at the hands of HYDRA must've taken a emotional and physical toll. yet again, a trauma worth lashing out over.

but Wanda doesn't lash out completely because she has one stabilizing force in her life: her brother.

Pietro is selfless and kind, and he's always taking care of Wanda. every problem she has, he fixes. everything she asks of him, he does. they live a life based entirely on a symbiotic, co-dependent relationship.

and than Pietro makes a decision without consulting Wanda.

he sacrifices himself, selfless to the very end. and it seems to be the very first time that selflessness wasn't directed at his sister. it was the very first time Pietro ever saw something as being more important than Wanda.

what a betrayal that must've been. Wanda's the younger twin, she's never before lived in a world where Pietro wasn't by her side. she's never known a single moment when she had to do anything alone. he left her completely by herself, one half of a whole. no roadmap, no hand to hold, no one to kiss her forehead and say I'll fix it

if you ask me, after all she's been through, her Ultron-Fight grieving was an underreaction

her twin is dead and her city is in ruins. she's taken away from everything she's ever known, away from the country her brother and parents are buried in, and taken to a place where she knows no one and nothing.

she's a young woman with the weight of years of anger and trauma on her shoulders. she has no family and new powers she doesn't understand. it's a miracle her mind hadn't broken already.

and than, because of powers she didn't ask for and can't understand yet, she's labled a "weapon of mass destruction"

she's told she's a monster, that she's dangerous and people should fear her. her agency is taken from her on the grounds that she's more weapon than woman.

even through all of this, Wanda keeps her composure, and she's able to find a light in her life. to fill the hole that Pietro left.

for a brief window of time, she's happy. she's content. she's not an Avenger or a prisoner. she's just Wanda. she's in love and she's unbothered.

but Wanda's happiness never lasts.

she's forced into a corner. forced to choose between killing the love of her life and letting the entire universe die. she can't be selfish, she's an Avenger, a hero. and at the core of her being, she's a good person.

she makes an unbearably painful sacrifice - a sacrifice that doesn't even amount to anything - and she bears it.

THAN SHE GETS DUSTED FOR FIVE YEARS!!

and this is the last straw. she's been so strong for so long, fighting off her demons and trying not to let her brokenness show.

she's tried to move on, tried to simply remember the love she once had, but it's all too much. she's so powerful that her long-due mental break manifests itself in something she didn't ever mean to happen.

but she just can't bring herself to stop it. she's finally found a place where she's safe.

she finally has a family. all she's ever really wanted.

and it's taken from her. again.

other people can make all the mistakes they want, be as dangerous and reckless as they want, hurt as many people as they want, and still get to live happily ever after. but not Wanda.

througout Wanda's whole story, she's been searching for hope - in SHEILD/HYDRA, in the Avengers, in Vision - and the black magic of the Darkhold gives her that hope.

but it warps her mind. it seduces her with the promise of that coveted happily ever after. it brings all the worst parts of her into the foreground, all the grief and longing and pain. it changes this beautiful, loving woman into what she always feared she was: the bad guy.

Wanda Maximoff has spent so much time trying to stay strong, trying to ignore all the trauma she's been put through, but when she finally lets herself actually grieve - as what she is, a mourning mother - what does Stephen Strange tell her?

Instead of sympathizing and offering help, he tells her that her children weren't real. In that one sentence he invalidates her pain, and all the other pains that came before it. She's had everything taken from her, and all she's asking is to be given one thing back. She's not asking for much.

She said she didn't want to rule everything, she just wanted to be a wife and a mother, and be loved.

This part of Wanda's story is not a "villian turn" it is the end of a very long rope. She’s been pushed to the breaking point so many times. It is a worn down mind finally snapping.