my baby's got a gun, my baby's got a gun.

CHARACTER: yelena belova from the marvel cinematic universe. a highly-trained russian spy and graduate of the red room's black widow programme: an elite formerly-brainwashed assassin and child soldier, and surrogate younger sister to natasha romanoff. also a huge troll.

CANON POINT: anytime! post-black widow or post-thunderbolts* most likely for new cr, but red room backstory scenes for canonmates (or appropriate cross-canon) also welcome. in general, can be set when she's operating independently & focusing on rescuing widows, or when she's an assassin again working for val, or trying to do good with the t* team, or some AUs where she's joined up with other heroes.

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BACKTAGGING: always yes! i can be really slow these days, so if you need perpetual speed i am unfortunately not the partner for you. but if you're cool with slow-but-steady, i will backtag into forever.

THREADHOPPING: no thanks

FOURTHWALLING: no thanks

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS: none for me. from yelena: an abusive childhood where she was deprived of family and brutally moulded by an institute into being a living weapon, including chemical mind control and a forced hysterectomy upon graduation, but i'll try to warn if/when the backstory comes up.

WRITING STYLE: present-tense prose preferred, but will happily match [ brackets ]

OOC CONTACT: comment here (comments are screened), or PM! discord available on request for writing partners.

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PHYSICAL CONTACT: not unless you want to lose a hand!! (translation: she's touch-starved and unaccustomed to affectionate physical contact, but will welcome it desperately when it's from someone she trusts.)

MENTAL CONTACT: she will hate it, already having had her mind messed with since her childhood, but have at it

FIGHTING/INJURY: 1000% yes, it's what she knows best.

GENRE INTERESTS:

• found family with the entire ohio crew!!!
• action and spy/assassin hijinks, but also all the soft quiet moments in-between
• "i was sent to kill you, but oops now we're teaming up and getting along"
• rescuing other widows, and former human weapons learning how to be actual people together
• yelena indulging in a completely unironic love of kitschy americana, please let her eat all the apple pies
• meeting her sister's other found family in the avengers and interacting with other mcu characters she hasn't had a chance to meet yet (particularly steve, bucky, and sharon, but honestly i'm down for whatever)
• shambolic shenanigans with kate bishop as the new widow & hawkeye (bonus: girlfriends)
• cool with AUs. i'm especially thirsty for undercover marrieds with a fellow spy/assassin where she's now playing the fake wife, as a natural extension of the ohio assignment; a bucky who's still working for hydra would be chefskiss a+ but it could work with other characters too. pls get @ me if you're interested!

CROSS-CANON: heck yeah, especially other spy or superhero canons. i would particularly die for her to interact with villanelle from killing eve or illya kuryakin from the man from uncle (& would be open to ship with either tbh).

SHIPS:
✓✓✓ bucky, kate
✓ ava, bob, steve, wanda
✗ alexei, melina, nat, clint, walker

otherwise open to both m/f and f/f and wherever there's chemistry, incl. cross-canon and probably combinations i haven't thought of yet. ftb or smut both ok, although the latter takes some buildup. i also love me a slow-burn!! [it's all about the yearning.jpg]