player information ● name: Alex ● age: Over 21! ● contact:lightfellows ● other characters: N/A
character information ● name: Natalia Alianovna Romanova / Natasha Romanov ● canon: Marvel Comics ● canon point: Secret Empire #2, after punching out Clint (I've talked to others in the cast about this!) ● age: ~90
● (canon) background:here, a version I've written up is here, recent updates include foiling a plan to revive the Red Room by the new villainess Brown Recluse, and finding out Steve Rogers has been rewritten into being a HYDRA sleeper agent and vowing to kill him. ● (original) world: N/A
● abilities:
⪢ FIGHTING SKILLS. Natasha is a formidable martial artist, as well as an expert markswoman and Olympic-caliber gymnast. This is not particularly impressive in her universe and she usually has a hard time punching her way out of problems, but it does mean she can beat most people up.
⪢ SPY SKILLS. Basically if you can think of something vaguely related to the espionage genre chances are Natasha can do it. Breaking and entering, being charming at dinner parties, industrial sabotage, sneaking around in vents, wearing unrealistically convincing facemasks, check check and check. Related, she speaks whatever language she needs to for the plot. Canonically, this has included: Russian, English, Spanish, Bulgarian, French, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese, off the top of my head.
⪢ COMPUTER SKILLS. Natasha is no technology whiz by the scrap cave standards of her universe, but she has a very specific familiarity with electronic security systems. She has played Avengers Oracle on more than one occasion, designed her own microchip communication devices, and hacked past her own considerable SHIELD clearance.
⪢ MYSTERIOUS COMIC BOOK SERUM. Natasha has been the recipient of one of many Soviet stabs at better living through chemistry. It has slowed her aging to a crawl, the other side-effects are hazy and seem to shift from writer to writer. I think she works best as non-super powered so that's how I play her.
● strengths:
⪢ Natasha is competent, naturally mission-driven, and a meticulous and thorough worker. She is not easily dissuaded from her goal once she has that in mind, and will usually approach things strategically instead of charging in headfirst like a big stupid hero. She was a capable mission leader for the Avengers during the early 90s, even if that ended poorly, and has the respect of both her superhero peers and SHIELD as someone whose opinion is worth listening to.
⪢ Natasha is compassionate, and despite her reputation, has deep and personal feelings about a lot. This is something of a personal triumph, because she has been trained to be a human tool, with no sense of self to call her own. She does keep that part of herself closed off and well-protected, but it guides much of what she does, from her defection, her decision to join both the Avengers and SHIELD, and her recent somewhat-misguided solo quest for redemption. It's also let her cultivate several lasting friendships, which is unusual in her line of work.
⪢ Natasha is a survivor, which means a lot of things, but it is very difficult to keep her down. She grew up during the Nazi seiges of Russia, during World War II, and has known hardship and death from the first. But she is still going, which is a testament to her drive and will.
● weaknesses:
⪢ Natasha is so mission-driven that sometimes she loses sight of everything else. She will alienate her friends and upend whatever else she is doing, betray SHIELD, lie, go completely off the grid, whatever, if it means she can do whatever it is she feels like she needs to do. This can make her a very difficult person to know.
⪢ The flipside of Natasha's compassion is that she also can be cruel— because she hasn't destroyed all her empathy, Natasha knows when and how she's hurting people, and sometimes she likes it. "Killing people is easy, making them suffer is an art" is a representative quote here— she can definitely go beyond the bounds of what is necessary or righteous with physical and emotional violence.
⪢ Natasha is a survivor, which means she has done things most people wouldn't consider in order to simply endure. She has a lot of trauma in her past that she hasn't really dealt with, except by compartmentalizing, and also things like false memories and sometimes crippling mental blocks installed via Red Room brainwashing techniques on top of that.
● job skills (optional): Things Natasha might actually mention include: her facility with languages, general competence with computers (word processing, stuff like that), and an ability to dance classical ballet. ● housing (optional): Natasha would strongly prefer to live alone, I OOCly have no preference.
● network username: n.romanov
● network sample: This is ancient, so lmk if you need something more recent.
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● name: Alex
● age: Over 21!
● contact:
● other characters: N/A
character information
● name: Natalia Alianovna Romanova / Natasha Romanov
● canon: Marvel Comics
● canon point: Secret Empire #2, after punching out Clint (I've talked to others in the cast about this!)
● age: ~90
● (canon) background: here, a version I've written up is here, recent updates include foiling a plan to revive the Red Room by the new villainess Brown Recluse, and finding out Steve Rogers has been rewritten into being a HYDRA sleeper agent and vowing to kill him.
● (original) world: N/A
● abilities:
⪢ FIGHTING SKILLS. Natasha is a formidable martial artist, as well as an expert markswoman and Olympic-caliber gymnast. This is not particularly impressive in her universe and she usually has a hard time punching her way out of problems, but it does mean she can beat most people up.
⪢ SPY SKILLS. Basically if you can think of something vaguely related to the espionage genre chances are Natasha can do it. Breaking and entering, being charming at dinner parties, industrial sabotage, sneaking around in vents, wearing unrealistically convincing facemasks, check check and check. Related, she speaks whatever language she needs to for the plot. Canonically, this has included: Russian, English, Spanish, Bulgarian, French, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese, off the top of my head.
⪢ COMPUTER SKILLS. Natasha is no technology whiz by the scrap cave standards of her universe, but she has a very specific familiarity with electronic security systems. She has played Avengers Oracle on more than one occasion, designed her own microchip communication devices, and hacked past her own considerable SHIELD clearance.
⪢ MYSTERIOUS COMIC BOOK SERUM. Natasha has been the recipient of one of many Soviet stabs at better living through chemistry. It has slowed her aging to a crawl, the other side-effects are hazy and seem to shift from writer to writer. I think she works best as non-super powered so that's how I play her.
● strengths:
⪢ Natasha is competent, naturally mission-driven, and a meticulous and thorough worker. She is not easily dissuaded from her goal once she has that in mind, and will usually approach things strategically instead of charging in headfirst like a big stupid hero. She was a capable mission leader for the Avengers during the early 90s, even if that ended poorly, and has the respect of both her superhero peers and SHIELD as someone whose opinion is worth listening to.
⪢ Natasha is compassionate, and despite her reputation, has deep and personal feelings about a lot. This is something of a personal triumph, because she has been trained to be a human tool, with no sense of self to call her own. She does keep that part of herself closed off and well-protected, but it guides much of what she does, from her defection, her decision to join both the Avengers and SHIELD, and her recent somewhat-misguided solo quest for redemption. It's also let her cultivate several lasting friendships, which is unusual in her line of work.
⪢ Natasha is a survivor, which means a lot of things, but it is very difficult to keep her down. She grew up during the Nazi seiges of Russia, during World War II, and has known hardship and death from the first. But she is still going, which is a testament to her drive and will.
● weaknesses:
⪢ Natasha is so mission-driven that sometimes she loses sight of everything else. She will alienate her friends and upend whatever else she is doing, betray SHIELD, lie, go completely off the grid, whatever, if it means she can do whatever it is she feels like she needs to do. This can make her a very difficult person to know.
⪢ The flipside of Natasha's compassion is that she also can be cruel— because she hasn't destroyed all her empathy, Natasha knows when and how she's hurting people, and sometimes she likes it. "Killing people is easy, making them suffer is an art" is a representative quote here— she can definitely go beyond the bounds of what is necessary or righteous with physical and emotional violence.
⪢ Natasha is a survivor, which means she has done things most people wouldn't consider in order to simply endure. She has a lot of trauma in her past that she hasn't really dealt with, except by compartmentalizing, and also things like false memories and sometimes crippling mental blocks installed via Red Room brainwashing techniques on top of that.
● job skills (optional): Things Natasha might actually mention include: her facility with languages, general competence with computers (word processing, stuff like that), and an ability to dance classical ballet.
● housing (optional): Natasha would strongly prefer to live alone, I OOCly have no preference.
● network username: n.romanov
● network sample: This is ancient, so lmk if you need something more recent.
● prose/action sample: TDM comment.