I definitely think memory wiping might be involved, maybe even at both sides. My only issue is that if you just wipe their memories and keep them as the same teenagers from the show, then you make it impossible for them to be the Wiccan and Speed that we know from the comics, because they won't have that experience of growing up away from Wanda and Vision. Unless you make it so that they have fake memories about having an entire other life... but I don't know if I really like this idea, specially if it involves the Kaplan family, 'cause then you create a scenario in which Billy's jewish family is supposed to be ''fake'' while his ''real family'' is the non-jewish one, which doesn't sit right with me and definitely won't sit right with many people. MCU Wanda gets enough **** for being whitewashed, and I really don't want Marvel to be dumb enough to make an entire section of the fandom hate on MCU Billy for similar problematic reasons. Someone pointed out that the showrunner of WandaVision is jewish, so hopefully she'll leave things in a place where Billy's judaism can be adapted and respected in the future.
The only way I could see them doing the memory wipe thing WHILE respecting the Wiccan/Speed origin from the comics is... the twins Wanda created on WandaVision end up dying/erased, Wanda gets her memories about them wiped ''for her own good'' (mirroring what happened in the comics), and the Billy/Tommy that we see going forward are from another timeline where the twins never died, but ended up being saved while they were still babies by Doctor Strange or whatever and given to two other families to raise them. This timeline ends up connected to the main MCU after Multiverse Of Madness through some sort of soft-reboot of the universe or something, and boom, that's how you get Wiccan/Speed for the Young Avengers. This way, you keep them connected to Wanda as her biological children who will one day want to know more about her, but you also keep them as the Billy Kaplan/Tommy Shepherd that we care about in the comics. I know a lot of people like the idea of letting Wiccan and Speed just be Billy/Tommy Maximoff and sort of create this perfect superhero family that we never got to have in the comics... but I prefer not to take my chances, because there is a real chance Marvel could mess them up and turn them into unrecognizable characters if they diverge so much from their comics origins. If the Billy and Tommy on WandaVision are not what we expected... do we really want to be stuck with them forever? I prefer if they leave a way for them to be soft-rebooted if possible.
It was a very weird way to describe TCC indeed, but I think it's possible they only wrote it like that to be MCU-friendly, since Cassie is the only Young Avenger who's been introduced in the MCU so far, so non-comic readers would have a sense of familiarity by reading their short description. Anyway, I wouldn't worry too much about it, because it's not like it's something that was written by Marvel themselves. I doubt the writer of this knows anything about what Marvel plans to do with the Young Avengers.Anyway, did anyone read this article on WV?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...re-wandavision
In it, they mention CC, but...
I don't know how the hell they read CC and thought Cassie was the one that jumpstarts the search/storyline. I know it's probably written by someone who doesn't read comics and is basing importance off of the MCU, but... it made me think of the very real possibility in order to get the YA into movies, they'll not only downplay Billy and Teddy, but also take their storylines and hand them off to other characters, like that little blurb accidentally did, so they can say it's close to source material, but not have to give gay characters some shine on the big screen.
See, this is what I don't like. 'Cause you are still indirectly saying that Wanda was responsible for rewriting the lives of not only two people, but two entire families without their consent or knowledge, like.... it's just problematic and creepy no matter how you spin it. And like, what else changed about them? If they got brand new powers, new looks, new names... then who's to say their personalities or free will didn't change? Because a change of souls is essentially a personality transplant. Like Betsy on Kwannon's body. It wasn't the same person, and it took Marvel long enough to realize how wrong that was. The original body being ''dead'' doesn't exclude the lack of consent narrative here, and that's the real issue. It doesn't feel right to me. I would never be able to look at Billy and Tommy the same way if they reveal that they are basically two demon/magic souls walking around in two dead bodies that don't belong to them. That accomplishes nothing but ruin the characters and all the relationships they've built over the years. Do we really want discourse about Billy/Teddy being potential rapists like it's happening with Wonder Woman? 'Cause I sure don't.