#i didn't really go into a few things here bc they arc semi significantly into other runs

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this is just a general note stating that bl.ack wi.dow   ( 2004 )   strictly does not apply to this interpretation.   from it’s characterization to the events portrayed to it’s alteration of natalia’s history,   i take almost nothing from it into consideration   &   what little is applied i’ve altered so heavily as to not really be the same points anymore anyways.

specifically,   in regards to the following   :

the overall events.   since the events themselves are so deeply rooted in the changes to natalia’s history   &   the very specific characterization of her in this run that i’m not applying,   i exclude them entirely.   none of these things happened,   you can toss them completely into the trash where this whole thing belongs in the first place.   if you could set it aflame while doing that,   i would appreciate it greatly.

her widow’s bites.   natalia does not   &   has never viewed her gauntlets as shackles or a burden to her,   nor are they so poorly made as to break down all the time.   her gauntlets are an important part of her reclaiming her identity as the bl.ack wi.dow,   something that she has spent years making her own beyond soviet control over her abilities,   &   she is not so incompetent as to make   &   use something so unreliable   &   dangerous.

the letter.   i don’t know where this comes from,   but natalia never received a secret message code from the soviets to return from deep cover   ;   it doesn’t fit anywhere within her timeline.   outside of a brief attempt while she was undercover for shield,   the soviets made no contact with her after her defection to regain her loyalties.

red room origins.   i’ll go more into actual detail on this in another post,   but since this run is where this backstory originates,   i’m going make a note of this here   :   natalia was not raised in the red room.   she was raised by the soldier ivan petrovich bezukhov,   who took her into his care when she was a child,   &   later joined the red room in her adulthood.

alex sterelny / grigor ivanovich pchelintsov.   this ties in partially with her history within the red room,   but i’m splitting them bc they cover slightly different aspects   ;   natalia doesn’t know either of these men.   i could rewrite them into the red room properly,   but i’m not gonna give this run the respect of a callback.   they were not involved in her brainwashing within the red room,   nor does natalia remember either of them as a ballet teacher due to false memories.   she had a real ballet teacher,   she was an actual ballerina,   &   neither of them had anything to do with it.

biochemical enhancements.   something else i’ll go into greater detail on in a separate post,   but while i do use this as the bare bones for natalia’s longevity,   i discard more than i take from this,   so outside of using the most basic concept of it,   i don’t apply it,   especially not as it’s applied to her narrative in this run.

pheromonal cologne.   just a quick note on this one bc if i think about it too long i’ll get angry   &   y’all will never hear the end of it   :   no.

natalia’s defection.   mostly same as above,   but since i have slightly more of a capacity to think about it,   nick had absolutely nothing to do with natalia’s defection.   she defects to the aven.gers strictly through her own choosing to do so,   &   does not meet nick until later.   if pressed,   i would say he would not have been aware of her existence at all until her first appearance in america,   but i’ll leave that up to actual nick writers,   within reason.   he still had nothing to do with her defection regardless,   however.

#i didn't really go into a few things here bc they arc semi significantly into other runs #& i'll make specific posts on them at some point when i recover from this #nor did i mention any of it's more disgusting themes #( there's too many to even bother naming & all of them just make me Really Angry & no one needs to see that rn ) #since they're not relevant specifically to characterization or history #anyways i hated having to reread this run to make this post but #i've been meaning to write this out bc this run is the base #on which they've built much of natalia's backstory in modern times #& not only do i not pull from that backstory but much of it also just doesn't fucking belong in general #MOVING ON & AWAY FROM THIS NOW #ooc / shit posting from marble's basement. #psa / read the avengers charter thoroughly. #long