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APPLICATIONS
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Ruby City does allow previous game history/CR to be brought over on a case by case basis. If you want to include this in your application please add additional sections for PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT and PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY beneath the Personality and Background/History sections.
In these additional sections we would like to see a brief outline of your character's previous game history and how it potentially impacted on and altered their canon personality.
[Canon] Natasha Romanoff | Marvel Cinematic Universe | Reserved | 1of 2
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CHARACTER
Name: Natasha Romanoff, codename Black Widow
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Timeline: Post Avengers film.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Natasha Romanoff is a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a puzzle wrapped in a sexy size four. She hates this description. Not because she feels in any way that it is an inaccurate depiction of her; she knows quite well that it is, in fact, quite accurate. But because it doesn't describe all of her. True, there are very few people she'll let in to see that. Her job requires her to constantly be on the move, one step ahead of everyone else, planning and pretending. As a shadow for SHIELD, shes required to be someone she's not on a regular basis, and as a result, most of the people she comes across only get to see what she puts out, which is that mysterious aura of 'who is this woman?'.
Natasha laughs. She loves, she gets angry, she gets upset and sad. She just doesn't show it, most of the time. She can't. Her job is her life, and her job is deep undercover, stalking the people Nick Fury tells her to, from genius billionaire playboy philanthropists in Malibu to giant green monsters hiding all the way out in south-east Asia. Her life depends on not being found out, and so she's gotten very good at hiding Natasha Romanoff under the various veneers she's grown accustomed to using over the years. As a result, she tends to compartmentalize her emotions. It's easy for her to box up how she feels about something and ignore it for the sake of her sanity or the mission, and while she can feel things, she prefers, most of the time, to not. It tends to get in the way of things.
This isn't to say that she doesn't care about people at all. She has several people she considers friends and allies, and even a handful of them are people she cares very deeply about. But she doesn't bring them close, though she has the capability to do so. Letting people in makes them a liability, someone who can get hurt to get to her, and she cannot allow that. She does what she does precisely so people don't get hurt, and the knowledge that someone she cared for was harmed or killed simply because they know her? That is something she cannot deal with. She does have friends, though, and is willing to make them, as long as they stay at arm's length and don't try to get past her walls. The second they do, she cuts them off. It's safer that way, for them and herself.
She's spent a lot of her life hiding who she is. She knows, though, and that is the important thing to her. She has her sarcastic witty side, and she can be quite stubborn when pressed to do something that she doesn't want to do. She doesn't like being questioned when she's absolutely certain she's in the right, and she'll go to great lengths to make sure people stay out of her way when she's working (even if said people decide they're going to try and punch security guards in an effort to help anyway), and she has absolutely no qualms breaking cover when she absolutely has to to get the mission done. When she's not on a mission, Natasha is sensible and down to earth. Romance doesn't interest her -- she's tried the whole dating thing, and with the way her job rolls, she doesn't have the time for it. Most men don't like how she can compartmentalize her emotions, placing them in one category and her job in another, so she's given up on that, for the most part. She's a voice of reason among her teammates in SHIELD, and more often than not, she's the one keeping a cool head under pressure. She's quite observant, too, able to deduce even minute personality quirks after spending a short amount of time with someone, and file those away for further study.
She likes to people watch and sip coffee in cafes, and when she's not tracking down rogue bio-physicists in Asia or pretending to be the personal assistant to the world's richest man, she stays at home and makes her shoe collection bigger. Natasha's a brilliant woman, too. Her native language is Russian, but you wouldn't know it with her solid American accent and perfect English. She speaks fluent Latin, Japanese and Italian, too, and probably other languages as well in varying degrees. She's a fairly decent psycho-analyst as well, and her skills in hand-to-hand combat and on the fly battle tactics are second to none. Natasha is also a skilled hacker, and has been shown to be able to crack firewalls and security systems of even the most elite computer experts.
[Canon] Natasha Romanoff | Marvel Cinematic Universe | Reserved | 2 of 2
In fact, it hides almost anything she's thinking.
Her tone is neutral as well when she finally addresses the camera, green eyes cooly regarding it. She's wary, this one. ] As much as I'd like to say this is my first time being thrown on a train with no memory as to how I got there, it isn't. Last time, though, I had a vague idea of who was behind it. [ A pause. Not that she doesn't this time, but she doesn't want them to know that. ] Tell me what you want and I'll think about complying.
Third Person: If there was one thing about the States Natasha had come to appreciate over her decade of living in them, it was the shopping. She wasn't, by any means, a clothes horse, but she liked to dress well and dress fancy, with expensive shoes and tailored, classic pieces that she could take on missions with her. She always felt like it was better to take her own clothing. She was comfortable in them, and remaining relaxed and unassuming was key when you were tailing agents of the Hand or Hydra, or even ridiculously narcissistic CEOs. It was just luck that her salary as an agent of SHIELD allowed her to keep up the shopping habit.
No news to report was good news, and Natasha had opted to take the day off and spend it in downtown New York, picking up a few more pieces here and there, as well as a pair of Louboutins she'd had her eye on for a while. It had taken her the better part of the day, and the sun was setting as she arrived back at the Tower, fishing her badge out of her bra where she kept it and flashing it at the guards. There were only a handful of people allowed in the residential area of the tower, and even if you could somehow manage to trick the guards into thinking you were one of the Avengers or Nick Fury, you still had to swipe the badge to get through the gates to the elevator, and then pass a retinal scan to get the elevator to open, and then pass voice recognition as well as fingerprint identification to even get the elevator to move. Sure as hell beat the swanky apartment she'd been occupying as her days as Tony's secretary.
The residential area was one of the higher floors of the tower, and was even then broken into four floors itself. The main floor was the main living area, with a kitchen and bathroom attached. The next three were all their bedrooms, two to a floor and each one practically it's own one room apartment in and of itself. Natasha shared a floor with Steve, and if he thought he was being discreet about the late night visits from the Thunder God--
Well, Natasha wasn't going to tell. It wasn't her business, and besides, it was cute.
She set her bags in her room, and headed back down the stairs to the living area, flipping on the TV and settling down on the couch, grabbing a magazine she'd left on the coffee table. It was rather quiet, and she was probably the only one home, for the moment, something she was perfectly fine with.
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