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OOC INFO;
Player Name: margot
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IC INFO;
Character Name: Natasha Romanoff (Natalia Alianovna Romanova) / ❝The Black Widow❞
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Canon Information: the spy, the assassin, the hero
Canon Point: post Avengers: Endgame
Age: 38
God Houses:
NJORD
❧ God of Poetry and Secrecy
Natasha would identify with Njord due to her skillful use of language and kinship with secrecy and deception, a master of the prestige. Although her arc progresses through the films to show her feeling less like she has to take refuge in this skill, she still uses it to help her team, her family, get what they need.

MIMIR
❧ God of Philosophy and Strategy
Her constant use of strategy and careful diligence would make her an excellent candidate for Mimir, and she might gravitate toward choosing his house, as well. She rarely, if ever, moves her pieces on the board without making a plan first.

HEIMDALL
❧ God of Loyalty and Vigilance
Natasha proved her loyalty and courage, and her strength of self-sacrifice beyond a shadow of a doubt in Avengers Endgame. She gave up her life for her family, and for the rest of the universe.

Personality:
Natasha was taught to be everyone and no one.

She was still a very young girl when she was "recruited" away from her family by the Russian intelligence agency known as the KGB (later titles change, yes — acronyms shift, history tells us KGB becomes FSB, but Natasha sums it up: "Regimes fall; I've learned not to weep over that, I'm Russian... Or I was."). She was not Natasha at that point, not yet; still small Natalia, and they did not program her with trigger words or enhance her with serums to procure their asset.

Widows are not built. They are raised.

She has left the Red Room and the KGB, yes, but the malleability instilled within her there has remained a pillar of who she is. It would have, perhaps, always been there even without the indoctrination into intelligence and wetwork. Natasha adapts and compromises better than most others on the current team she aligns herself with, likely because she's had more practice — decades' worth of making herself amenable to any change in the wind for the mere sake of survival, if not for completing an assignment. It isn't so much that she's innately "comfortable with everything," as Nick Fury puts it to Steve Rogers in The Winter Soldier. She has her qualms, and her own moral code. But she can push past what will draw other people up short to take care of the big picture, especially if it means keeping people she trusts and cares for together and out of danger. This is exactly why she justifies moving to sign the Sokovia Accords in Civil War. As she explains to the Sam and Steve, respectively, "If we keep one hand on the wheel, we can still steer"; and "It doesn't matter how we stay together, as long as we stay together." Control and family — they mean everything, now that she's managed to build them for herself.

It's an advantageous trait that has saved her life (and the lives of others) countless times, but others see this only as the gateway for something darker about her — something many can never quite get past, no matter how diligently she's turned things around: her expert skill at deceit. It's been indoctrinated into her as part of her arsenal for as long as she can remember, and is second nature to her even to this day in situations where she doesn't feel comfortable with her surroundings. She'll use this part of her, summon it back up to the surface, to get what she wants from those around her; she can make herself seem like anyone or anything and do it seamlessly, without difficulty. Lie, paint a false picture, omit important details — none of it's a problem. This is how she infiltrated Tony Stark's arena for SHIELD in 2009 and eventually recruited him, and although they've developed a close working relationship and friendship since then, he fails to completely trust her. She gives him reason enough to doubt her when her loyalty ultimately ends up with Steve Rogers on the battlefield during Civil War, flipping sides mid-fight when she sees how much saving his best friend means to him. It hurts Stark enough to cause him to accuse her of having the "double agent" gene sticking in her DNA.

Hand in hand with this trait comes Natasha's evasiveness. She's witty, is fast with a joke, and can talk circles around the boys in the metaphorical office when the mood is right. But when it comes to state secrets, personal territory? You'll have a better time riddling with a Sphinx. Natasha is expertly trained to observe and measure her surroundings, for one, even when she's engaged in conversation — but there are times when she will much prefer to be the actual spider on the wall, filing away what she hears and sees for later perusal and analysis. She doesn't offer her own intelligence without good reason, not even to those in her inner circle; that may mean something she's learned about an ongoing operation, or about what she's feeling. It's either no one's business, or it's no one's burden. Not unless you've earned your spot past her various firewalls. Not unless you aren't a threat.

If you are a threat, you'd better hope you run fast and have better connections in immigration than she does because when it comes down to it, Natasha is lethal. Her muscle memory and her mind work together and to watch her dismantle a target is, to put it succinctly, art. Field operative and dance training combined made her body a machine, and her intelligence levels in the creativity, but it's a lust for violence that's never truly died away that make Natasha so fearsome to deal with. She's turned a broad corner into her life with the Avengers, and she's made years of progress doing good as a way to right past wrongs. But she still uses the same skillset that was hammered into her like pure, bold silver stoked in flame. And if you threaten her or those she cares for, she will not hesitate to use that lethal force on you.

Writing Sample:
duplicity tdm (communication and introspection)