1) She's MCU, with elements taken (and revamped) from the comics. Which means in the modern-timeline, she's 83 and looks to be around late twenties, early thirties (usually, she can look younger with make-up).
2) I'm bringing her in from the present (circa 2011, a few months post Iron Man 2/Incredible Hulk/Thor), and also from the past. Her historical EPs are going to be a bit wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey, but eventually they'll mostly sync with nerves_of_ice. For the time being, modern!Nat won't remember what happens to her past self in the Bar.
3) Modern!Nat generally goes by the name 'Nadine Rommel' both in bar and in narration: Nadine is her cover identity, and so that's the name she functionally lives under. I use it in narration just to make clear that she's being acting like a civilian until otherwise specified - she's a professional con-artist who has been living as Nadine for roughly eight years. Which is also generally why I'd prefer that, if you think your pup might pick up on Nadine more more than the translator/office-worker she presents herself as being, to just PM me so we can talk things over. I'm perfectly happy for people to work things out (also see: historical timeline, and the times when Nat is thrown into being Agent Romanoff because Milliways Is Milliways), but discussion would be fabulous :D
4) Generally speaking, Natasha is a jerk with a sense of empathy that only works intermittently. She's a con-artist who grew up underneath the rule of Stalin, and while she's trying her hand at this whole 'redemption via good works' thing, most of the time she's willing to screw people over. Even if she likes them. The list of people she won't do this for is very, very select. Um. Sorry about that.
(This is not to say that she's completely selfish, nor that she never steps in to help. There are reasons she's working for SHIELD, and reasons why she dove into an alien invasion in Avengers. But generally speaking, her morals and empathy are a bit warped, and she hasn't come to an easy balance between 'con-artist' and 'defender of those who need help'. Contradictory character-traits are fun! Or, something.)
5) Her hair is still long, wavy, and the dark red that it was in Iron Man 2 - I just mix up IM2 and Avengers icons.
6) It's very rare for her not to be wearing something completely devoid of colour/interest. Even when she's wearing a sensible suit, her earrings are likely to be novelty, even of the discreetly trollish sort (INTERPOL, for example, usually get tiny spiders, or tiny hourglasses.)
7) Despite her defection from the USSR a few decades ago, and Point 4, she's still pretty much a socialist.
8) She's a Red Army veteran - WWII is a touchy subject.
9) She's a linguistic genius - there's a reason her cover is translator.
10) Her relationship with hasthehighground is complicated, but their cover for Milliways is married For Reasons (reasons being mostly Natasha was trying to get a guy to back off from hitting on her without ending up with her hitting him.) While they technically are married, it's not true on a practical level. Except unless you are processing their taxes, anyway.
BONUS: Should she come into Milliways wearing a catsuit, those outfits are never actually black.
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1) She's MCU, with elements taken (and revamped) from the comics. Which means in the modern-timeline, she's 83 and looks to be around late twenties, early thirties (usually, she can look younger with make-up).
2) I'm bringing her in from the present (circa 2011, a few months post Iron Man 2/Incredible Hulk/Thor), and also from the past. Her historical EPs are going to be a bit wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey, but eventually they'll mostly sync with
3) Modern!Nat generally goes by the name 'Nadine Rommel' both in bar and in narration: Nadine is her cover identity, and so that's the name she functionally lives under. I use it in narration just to make clear that she's being acting like a civilian until otherwise specified - she's a professional con-artist who has been living as Nadine for roughly eight years. Which is also generally why I'd prefer that, if you think your pup might pick up on Nadine more more than the translator/office-worker she presents herself as being, to just PM me so we can talk things over. I'm perfectly happy for people to work things out (also see: historical timeline, and the times when Nat is thrown into being Agent Romanoff because Milliways Is Milliways), but discussion would be fabulous :D
4) Generally speaking, Natasha is a jerk with a sense of empathy that only works intermittently. She's a con-artist who grew up underneath the rule of Stalin, and while she's trying her hand at this whole 'redemption via good works' thing, most of the time she's willing to screw people over. Even if she likes them. The list of people she won't do this for is very, very select. Um. Sorry about that.
(This is not to say that she's completely selfish, nor that she never steps in to help. There are reasons she's working for SHIELD, and reasons why she dove into an alien invasion in Avengers. But generally speaking, her morals and empathy are a bit warped, and she hasn't come to an easy balance between 'con-artist' and 'defender of those who need help'. Contradictory character-traits are fun! Or, something.)
5) Her hair is still long, wavy, and the dark red that it was in Iron Man 2 - I just mix up IM2 and Avengers icons.
6) It's very rare for her not to be wearing something completely devoid of colour/interest. Even when she's wearing a sensible suit, her earrings are likely to be novelty, even of the discreetly trollish sort (INTERPOL, for example, usually get tiny spiders, or tiny hourglasses.)
7) Despite her defection from the USSR a few decades ago, and Point 4, she's still pretty much a socialist.
8) She's a Red Army veteran - WWII is a touchy subject.
9) She's a linguistic genius - there's a reason her cover is translator.
10) Her relationship with
BONUS: Should she come into Milliways wearing a catsuit, those outfits are never actually black.