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RED by waldorph
Fandom: THE AVENGERS
Pairing: Natasha Romanov/Maria Hill, Phil Coulson/Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov/OCs
Length: 9807
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
waldorph
Author Website: At AO3
Why this must be read: Because it incorporates the myths, the legends, and more importantly, the *reality* of Natasha, then leaves it up to the reader to decide which is which. It's *gorgeous* and hits all the right beats
These are not all lies:
She’s Anastasia’s great-granddaughter, last of the Romanovs. Natalia Alianovna Romanova (“You’re joking.” “Look, that is the Romanov nose.” “That was lifetimes ago, and they found her body.” “But you flinched, and they have not proven that it was her, yet.”).
They call her паука, for her too-long limbs and the way she weaves a deadly web even as a child. Little spider.
She cannot be unmade, because there is nothing about her that is concrete. She has no personality that cannot be shifted, nothing but the desire to survive.
Her mother was an agent who retired, got married, had three children. Two she was to be allowed to keep, but the third was to become an agent, like her mother. It was the price one paid for freedom.
She is Anastasia, modified by the Communists to live forever. There has always been a Black Widow.
Her first kill was a drug lord who crossed the KGB. He took her to his bed and he never left it.
If they had put her in the field like they were supposed to, instead of handing the assignment to an older, more experienced agent, the Counter-terrorist Operation on Chechnya would not have happened.
When she is 14 she has three husbands. They start calling her the Black Widow because when she is 15 she attends three funerals dressed in black, and dabs at her eyes as her husband is lowered into the ground each time.
She takes to characters well, too well. They have to unmake her each time.
She never tries to run.
The Black Widow was an ordinary Russian teenager until, on a school field trip, she was bitten by a radioactive spider. The cuffs around her wrists are actually to disguise the fact that her venom is natural, and when she’s done with her victims she wraps them in her web and feeds off their blood.
She never leaves a debt unpaid. If she cannot repay it, sleep with a gun at your bedside (or don’t, because the likelihood you’ll have the opportunity to use it against her is naught).
American studios hear about this master assassin in Russia, coming out of the post-Cold War depths, and they want to make her their villain. No one ever comes to the casting calls, and screenwriters refuse to touch the project.
RED
Pairing: Natasha Romanov/Maria Hill, Phil Coulson/Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov/OCs
Length: 9807
Author on LJ:
waldorphAuthor Website: At AO3
Why this must be read: Because it incorporates the myths, the legends, and more importantly, the *reality* of Natasha, then leaves it up to the reader to decide which is which. It's *gorgeous* and hits all the right beats
These are not all lies:
She’s Anastasia’s great-granddaughter, last of the Romanovs. Natalia Alianovna Romanova (“You’re joking.” “Look, that is the Romanov nose.” “That was lifetimes ago, and they found her body.” “But you flinched, and they have not proven that it was her, yet.”).
They call her паука, for her too-long limbs and the way she weaves a deadly web even as a child. Little spider.
She cannot be unmade, because there is nothing about her that is concrete. She has no personality that cannot be shifted, nothing but the desire to survive.
Her mother was an agent who retired, got married, had three children. Two she was to be allowed to keep, but the third was to become an agent, like her mother. It was the price one paid for freedom.
She is Anastasia, modified by the Communists to live forever. There has always been a Black Widow.
Her first kill was a drug lord who crossed the KGB. He took her to his bed and he never left it.
If they had put her in the field like they were supposed to, instead of handing the assignment to an older, more experienced agent, the Counter-terrorist Operation on Chechnya would not have happened.
When she is 14 she has three husbands. They start calling her the Black Widow because when she is 15 she attends three funerals dressed in black, and dabs at her eyes as her husband is lowered into the ground each time.
She takes to characters well, too well. They have to unmake her each time.
She never tries to run.
The Black Widow was an ordinary Russian teenager until, on a school field trip, she was bitten by a radioactive spider. The cuffs around her wrists are actually to disguise the fact that her venom is natural, and when she’s done with her victims she wraps them in her web and feeds off their blood.
She never leaves a debt unpaid. If she cannot repay it, sleep with a gun at your bedside (or don’t, because the likelihood you’ll have the opportunity to use it against her is naught).
American studios hear about this master assassin in Russia, coming out of the post-Cold War depths, and they want to make her their villain. No one ever comes to the casting calls, and screenwriters refuse to touch the project.
RED