#characterization headcanons

cooking habits

i have a feeling she can make a really good stir fry… and that she loves adding potatoes and diced carrots to anything.

coping mechanisms

as a single mother to two kids, wanda puts an effort towards coping healthily and in turn being able to mother her children while also dealing with distressing situations. she bakes, goes for runs, and sees a therapist frequently to also talk through her experiences of her time with HYDRA, working with the avengers, and losing her brother and parents. 

dreams

often haunted by her experiences as HYDRA’s guinea pig, wanda sometimes has nightmares of the strucker experiments. she misses her brother dearly and although her life with HYDRA was nothing short of horrific, her dreams are always bittersweet as she always sees pietro’s face most vividly when she dreams of him. her dreams of her multiversal variants seem to her as lives she could have lived should she have remained an avenger, ranging from heroic to downright villainous as she also dreams of earth-616’s scarlet witch.

myer-briggs personality type

i don’t want be boring and say infp like 616-wanda, but i think she probably is also an infp even if i try to imagine something else.

enneagram personality type

9w1, maybe? i’m trying to be very creative and not put 4w5 like 616-wanda! i think she’s a very easygoing person with a habit of being a bit of a pushover, with strong feelings of right and wrong that makes her a very kind and strong-willed mother. might be prone to being a bystander despite a confident internal moral compass and strong opinions that she represses around those she does not know. in getting to know her, she’s a very sensitive and generous person.

fears

she’s very easy to scare. she worries about the boys’ safety, the possible fragility of her domestic life with them, and sometimes fears her magic is not enough to protect them, especially because it's been years since the last time she fought any kind of adversaries as she left her life as a superhero long ago. her own experiences with losing her family has made her very concerned with maintaining a close eye over both tommy and billy while also ensuring she has a very present and permanent role in their life.

friends

friends with neighbours and is cordial with the parents of tommy and billy’s classmates, though she wouldn’t say she’s very close with anyone. to some extent she has a bit of a lonely social life. though i see her befriending another single mother who’s just moved into town at some point and finding herself becoming very close with her. 

hobbies

she’s a big gardener, and has definitely been super into pinterest lately wherein she finds a bunch of DIY projects for her garden.

insecurities

her experiences as an avenger makes her feel different from the other mothers. the experiences she’s had can never be changed, and sometimes that makes her feel incapable of being the mother that her kids need. but it’s never a largely lingering insecurity because she also has a very close relationship with the twins and knows how much they love and need her.

lazy day

on school days, wanda will likely take the living room for herself, watch a few classic movies, or read a book. even on lazy days when she’s able to have time to herself, she always feels happy to have the twins back home after school. they’re around eleven now and have adopted her laid-back personality, and the day is always spent best when she can cuddle together while watching a movie after dinner.

mornings

on weekdays, wanda prepares tommy and billy’s lunches and wakes them up if they don’t on their own. she spends the mornings ensuring they get to school on time and that they’re eating enough breakfast. on weekends, they eat together before going off to do their own things at home. sometimes on weekends, the twins wake wanda for breakfast they made for her on their own.

music taste

classic movie soundtracks, top-forty song charts, and sometimes 90s R&B.

pets

the twins have a pet turtle named sparky. she was opposed to it when they first asked, but after a long while of their begging, wanda gave in after imagining it would be good for them to learn how to care for a pet.

scars

a few from her time as an avenger that she tries not to let bother her, though on rare days she feels a bit down from being so different from the other mothers she knows. 

secrets

there’s a cake the twins made for her months ago that they literally cannot stop bringing up because they feel so much pride in how much their mother loved it, but wanda honestly struggled with keeping it down and ate a whole slice just to make them happy. but she just agrees with them and subtly lets them know to have her help them the next time they bake a cake. and… she has a concealed box of vibrators and dildos in the very far back corner of the highest shelf in her closet — you know i’m right.

talents

she has never lost a game of cup pong. and she’s pretty hard to lie to, which the twins are convinced has to be some kind of talent because she has never used her magic on them unless they’ve asked her to.

tattoos

a small tattoo under her left breast along her ribs of a flower that she got done in college. at some point she regretted it and considered having it removed, but eventually came to the conclusion that it doesn’t look all too bad.

vacations

cooking habits

adds a bunch of extra ingredients to her instant ramen and considers it something she specializes in, interested in becoming a better cook, always shares her food

coping mechanisms

she’s a sensitive person with a very big heart, so i’d say when she’s upset she likes to externalize her feelings, playing loud music and ranting, always feels better after a good cry and sometimes does prefer to be distracted from her problems. she doesn’t cope alone, and prefers to be with you throughout any distressing moments 

eating habits

has a certain aversion towards very healthy food as some kind of subtle rebellion against her parents’ annoying pestering about her diet. she would decide against having certain foods if she knows it’s the kind of dish her parents would try forcing her to eat

enneagram personality type

6w7. i believe 7w8 may seem likely for her, but i think she is really reliant on her relationships and attachments with people rather than being more of a thrill person, and hates disloyalty and dishonesty because of her strong opinions on close relationships. i would say someone who fantasizes a lot about a potential love interest and who is a bit blind to the fact that he isn’t even completely interested in her seems more 6w7, as a 7w8 would likely become bored with a lack of reciprocation

myer-briggs personality type

she is kind of the stereotype ESFP best friend

hobbies

playing the guitar for one, of course. she’s also involved in some kind of sport like volleyball or basketball that she’s actually really good at, and you always encourage her to continue with her practices, especially with how self-deprecating she can be. i also kind of see her picking up crocheting, making little things for you and hats and gloves for a christmas gift

humor

vulgar and sarcastic

insecurities

because she’s a person who’s really involved in the present, gerri may have a hard time imagining her future or finding any worth in her talents. she is easily annoyed whenever her parents ask her what she plans on doing with her degree or what she hopes to do after graduation. it takes someone she has patience for who knows and loves her enough to help her pave a future for herself in her mind and tell her that she isn’t as incapable and stuck as she feels she is sometimes

lazy day

she finds every chance to spend time with others, and lazy days are often spent indoors with you, listening to music and lounging around watching something and ordering out

pets

would probably find it gross when dogs lick her, thinks cats are bitchy and fish are boring, so she honestly wouldn’t know what to do with a pet at first. but she would soon find herself super obsessed with the dog her family gets. would take it on long walks often. her parents have to tell her to stop feeding it pieces of her dinner

secrets

she’s secretly super into something really nerdy — perhaps has the whole harry potter book collection which she’s reread a few times? she never openly admits it because she thinks it’s such a dorky thing to be into

cooking habits

cooks quick meals, so things she can bring to work or things she can easily prepare after coming home from long shifts. it changes once she begins seeing you, and she actively looks forward to coming home to cooked meals from you

coping mechanisms

she can neglect her emotional and mental state sometimes, and i believe that along with physical exercise, she takes up meditation and mindful breathing and other similar methods that allow her to just take a step back and relax. though she firstly resorts to methods that are fast-paced as the rest of her life like running or training

eating habits

because of her job, jane often eats just enough to ease any hunger. when you first begin dating her, you encourage her to eat more and telling her that eating healthy meals matters little when she doesn’t eat enough. she’s grown to really love having meals with you, sitting down and catching up and enjoying your home-cooked food, and has begun to see it as a very intimate time

enneagram personality type

3w4 maybe??? typing her is hard because i don’t think she was explored all that much in the movie, but i think her character struggling to find her place in the reserve and trying to make herself helpful through professional achievement while also trying to prove herself as useful kind of seems 3w4 to me, though im not entirely sure how she is outside of work

myer-briggs personality type

honestly this was probably harder than guessing her enneagram, but i think maybe she’s an INTJ. there was a lot of crossing out possibilities when i had to guess it, but an intj 3w4 is a highly goal-oriented person who can sometimes be a bit insensitive and stubborn, whose 4 wing can also explain jane’s struggle with her role as an outsider in the reserve. she might be driven by a fear of failure as she finds it reflects who she is as a person, which is why she kind of seems a bit slow to adjust to the opinions of the people of the reserve instead of just yielding and trying to figure out a better way to approach them

family

i think she’s close with her family! her mother calls her often to ask how she's doing and it's always a bit of a process to wave hello to all her cousins and siblings when she's put on a video call with them. they're probably the type of family who wears matching christmas sweaters, a holiday jane loves to visit them for as she lives a few hours away from them and can only see them a few times a year

guilty pleasures

she loves reality television and unwinds sometimes after work by catching up with the real housewives

hobbies

in her freetime, i see jane enjoying artistic things, maybe taking weekly classes irregularly for pottery. she likes photography and has a professional camera somewhere at home that she takes out with her when she’s able. she’s also a bit of a nerd when it comes to a specific movie or book series, maybe rereads or rewatches them during certain times of the year when she enjoys it best

insecurities

though it’s not something that’s always on her mind, it’s a bit of a looming fear in which she worries she may be incapable as an agent and can occasionally overwork herself to prove that she can carry her weight, though she isn’t very sure whose standards she’s trying to fulfill. conversely, jane also feels some insecurity in how much time she puts into her job, feeling that she isn’t giving herself enough time for her personal life. she's worried that if she spends too much time focusing on her job then there won’t be much of a personal life of hers to be concerned about

lazy day

lazy days are her days off during which she cleans her place from the busy days where she neglects to pick up after herself or leaves things a mess, does casual errands like grocery shopping, takes the time to make herself dinner rather than something she can just pop into the microwave like she normally does, and ends the day renting a movie with dinner and a beer

pets

has a fish she got because she thought her place felt empty and now feels strangely attached to it

regrets

at the end of missions, there are always things jane feels like she regrets a little bit — better ways she could’ve handled suspects, a more sensitive way to talk to families of victims, more care she could’ve put into things. but she actively tries not to let her regrets linger because she knows it’s part of the job. even so, she still carries a bit of each failure into her everyday life, hoping to learn from past mistakes

sleeping habits

she sometimes can sleep the moment her head hits the pillow because of how stressful her days are, but most times she can't sleep without thinking of the faces of victims or going over the details of cases. taking some melatonin and keeping her bedside light on helps her fall asleep usually

myer-briggs personality type

esfj. definitely leads with Fe (extroverted feeling), prioritises harmony and the pursuit of peacekeeping over anything, and will sometimes do this to the point of self-sacrifice. her reasoning for sticking with ben for so long and ignoring the way he treated her repeatedly by continuing to press on with the same belief that he might change and that she needs to help him is more Si (introverted sensing) than Ni (introverted intuition). an enfj would be less resistant to change and would be more open to thinking up different paths of opportunity.

enneagram personality type

obvious 2w1. her driving goal in life is helping others and tending to them, finding her purpose in helping people see their potential and caring for those who need it (2). she does so because she strongly believes that this is the right thing to do, has a lot of moral conviction, and is more or less nothing without her sense of fairness and balance (1).

family

grew up in a quiet family; she was likely the most outgoing and empathetic of her immediate family. close with her grandparents. has cousins that are a few years younger than her and in spending time with them was always the parental figure, looking out for them and making sure they didn’t fight with each other.

guilty pleasures

talks about how much she hates modern-day consumerism but has a habit of shopping too much when she’s going through something distressing, and has ended up with a car full of shopping bags before she can even realise how much she’s bought. 

hobbies

she loves interior design and has helped a few friends flip and design their houses. she’s also a great tennis player.

humour

i imagine zooey as a huge science nerd and probably nerds out with science puns and jokes. meeting old college friends often involves an exchange of very corny science jokes. though in general, she loves anything super nerdy and cheesy.

lazy day

does yoga and stretches at home instead of going out for walks or runs and orders delivery for dinner rather than cooking or making anything. has a show she likes to binge on in the background while doing things like scrolling through her phone or talking with a friend on a call.

pets

a dog person, for sure. i think she’s one to have some kind of border collie or labrador. 

secrets

zooey was a bit of a loner until college where she met more like-minded people, so she didn’t have her first boyfriend until her very early twenties.

shopping habits

cooking habits

i don’t think they showed her cooking very much or at all in the movie, but i think she was raised to be a bit of a housekeeper. while her aunt handled the business side of the shop, thérèse was able to maintain her duty cleaning and cooking, and i think she’s actually pretty good at cooking too

coping mechanisms

most of her coping mechanisms have to do with physical grounding like cooking and cleaning and taking walks. she’s also a surprisingly good artist in spite of how little she discusses art as she’s had a great deal of practice in her own time

eating habits

eats enough to nourish herself, and was sometimes made to eat less in order to allow camille more of his meals

enneagram personality type

7w6

myer-briggs personality type

this may be controversial but i actually think it is plausible that in this movie she is an ESFP.. i think outwardly she seems to be rather reserved and kind of socially inept, but i think that was more forced and learned than anything because of the environment she grew up in. firstly i don’t think any other enneagram but 7w6 fits her best. she is in no way an intuitive type, she has no ability to envision any sort of future and reflects little on her past, does not consider any form of consequence and acts purely based on what would make her feel best in the moment. she's focused on the present and really little else (Se) and has a tendency to be selfish with what she feels is owed to her and what she believes she needs in the moment (Fi). an ESFP 7w6 is someone who is highly avoidant of negative feelings, has a primary goal of involving themselves and maximizing positive feelings and pleasure, and she obviously has the capability to be social-attuned and can socialize on her own if given the chance as seen in the scene she was at that bar (brothel?)

fears

she has an itching feeling of anticipation and an unused drive that’s eaten at her since childhood, and thérèse has always feared being able to do nothing with it. she grew to fear the boredom and deprivation once she began her affair with laurent, and slowly became more dependent on thrill and amusement

hobbies

i believe she may have sincerely enjoyed exploring paris once they moved, taking walks on her own and adjusting to her life away from the countryside. though she’s slow to socialization, i think she enjoys surrounding herself in lively crowds. she enjoys knitting, one of the only beneficial things madame has given her, reading and drawing

humor

she’s actually quite funny i think. she really enjoys teasing and making light fun of people, and she’s also an imaginative person so she likes to indulge in childish things like giggling about dirty jokes and considerations like questioning how silly it’d be if their family cat suddenly began walking on his two hindlegs and introduced himself with a different name

insecurities

may sometimes feel jealous of others with more opportunities, feeling that she isn’t living her life as she should be. there’s a feeling of inferiority that follows with this insecurity

pets

i wish the movie talked a little more about françois because in the book it seemed like thérèse really loved the family cat a lot, and i think a great amount of her humanity was shown with her concern for him

regrets

honestly she doesn’t regret very much. even her greatest mistakes like killing camille and marrying laurent, she is more someone who concerns herself with dealing with consequences and getting caught up in the distress and sorrow of them. just as she struggles with envisioning the future, she cares little about the past. she’s very present-oriented

secrets

she had a fondness for camille, found herself pitying him and seeing a bit of herself in the way he was held back and treated by madame. because of this, she took to avoiding him even more, hating the fact that she sympathized or even identified with him