Pamela was born into wealth. Her parents were absent at best. As a child she was raised by a series of different caretakers. She still vividly remembers her childhood home. It was a great sprawling home punctuated by silence and an absence of life. It was very sterile and there was an acute lack of greenery. Outside was a different story.
In the back there was a great garden. For her parents it must have been a status symbol, but for Pamela it was her haven. She spent many hours playing there. Her best friends were the plants. Not any of the children from school. They only wanted her for her money. Pamela had learned early on how to fake it with her friends. They called each other names with smiles and subtly stabbed them in the back. All of her human relationships could more accurately be described as toxic.
When it came time for Pamela to go to university in Seattle. Her major was Botany. During her Uni years she began a love affair with her professor, Dr. Jason Woodrue. Jason easily seduced Pamela. The young woman had never been seriously courted nor had someone love her for her brains. Or so she thought. Her professor convinced her to help her on an experiment he was working on. Eager to please, she agreed. Pamela was only nineteen.
Unknown to her Woodrue was trying to copy what would be later termed mutant powers. While under the pretense of having Pamela run a test Jason injected the young woman with poisons and toxins. The concoction was enough to kill her many times over. Jason, after seeing her die, panics and flees the scene. However Pamela didn't die fully. There was dead and then there was dead.
One of the other students going to the university later found Pamela and called 911. She was rushed to the hospital and remained there for the next six months. The hospital records from the time showed that Pamela died twice more. Making the death toll three times.
Altered from her experiences the young girl only felt hate for Jason. Pamela was also no longer a timid, shy girl anymore. She became very cold and unfeeling towards people. After Pamela was released she went back to school and hunted down James. However the professor no longer worked at the university. Angry and upset she accidentally caused the administration building to be encompassed by plants. Vines grew up the walls and trees ripped through the floor.
Panicked, Pamela fled the school. She never returned to Seattle. Nor has she ever gotten her degree.
Pamela ended up travelling the world and found herself adrift. Without any motivations she wasn't sure what she was going to do with her life. She practiced her powers and became more and more connected with plants. She found herself caring less and less for those people around her. They couldn't see that they were poisoning the environment. Killing it with their greed and avarice.
While she was backpacking across Europe she came across a major eco-disaster. A local major plant had been dumping toxic waste. A local eco group was there protesting. The sight gave Pamela purpose. It was like a ray of sunlight on her withered leaves. She had to save the world from people.
Pamela took up the moniker Poison Ivy and became an Eco-terrorist. She had seen that the conventional routes would never work. Only by fighting back could she make a difference. However despite this, she wasn't out to kill anyone. If they left her no other choice, she would. But it wasn't her goal. Nor did she seek wanton destruction.
Supporting Cast:
Dr. Jason Woodrue
Pamela's former professor. He claimes he's from another dimension populated by Dryads. He's obsessed with plants and using them to further his own desires. Mainly to take over the world. After his experiment on Pamela he began to experiment upon himself. He turned himself into The Floronic Man. Part Man part Plant. He also became able to mentally control plant life.
How (if at all) does the New Frontier version of your character differ from the original?:
My Ivy stays true to the core of the character. Though by stripping her of Gotham I also stripped her of most of her supporting cast. Which means Harley, Selena and the Birds of Prey. Because of this Ivy is more of a lone wolf. Which feels more accurate to me. After being used she doesn't value humanity. And she doesn't go out of her way to befriend anyone or become friends with anyone. She merely tolerates. However I am keeping her maternal side. Children are valued and even protected despite being human. This is a core part of Isley's identity. She seeks to protect innocence even though she lost hers.
Another major difference is that my Ivy is not a Dr. She never received her degree. Rather she is a self taught woman. She keeps up on all the latest developments in Botany. She could be a Dr. if she so desired, but no longer cares for the learning institutes of man.
Post References: See Signature below this for all my current RPs. They should satisfy this requirement.
Let me know what you think, obviously the history can and will need to be changed but this is a general gist.
Name: Bruce Banner/The Hulk
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Affiliation: Lexcorp (Formerly), Fugitive
History:
Bruce Banner was born in Ohio to an abusive father and a fearful mother. When Bruce was four years old his father murdered Bruce's mother in a fit of rage and scared the young boy into silence. A few moths later people caught on and Bruce's father was arrested. Bruce was then sent to Chicago where he lived with his aunt and uncle Walters and their daughter Jennifer.
Achieving great prestige in the science world from an early age Bruce, after receiving his doctorate, was head-hunted by Lexcorp and put to work in their R&D division. Bruce was responsible for many pieces of technology that Lexcorp soon patented and, on occasion, even worked with the head of the company Lex Luthor himself. Upon the revelation of figures with special abilities Bruce was given the task of developing countermeasures to combat the emerging super-beings. Although he was indirectly involved with the creation of a great deal of technology that would later be incorporated into Lexcorp weaponry and test subject Bruce would become more well-known and posthumously vilified for his work in attempting to create a copy of Superman.
In a Lexcorp facility in Arizona Bruce was given access to some of Superman's DNA (recovered from numerous battle sites) and achieved a modicum of success in creating a 'Super Soldier Serum' when he added a liquid kryptonite compound. Eager to test his creation Bruce injected the serum into his own veins. This caused the creation of (what would alter become known as) the Hulk. Bruce's body underwent a critical transformation into a green-skinned giant of a man. Acting on instinctual rage, the Hulk destroyed the Arizona facility and ran on a destructive rampage to Metropolis where he ran afoul of Superman. The battle wasbrief but fierce with the two beings almost matching in strength. However, Superman's experience won him the day and Hulk fled the city. Upon reverting to Bruce Banner, he saw what had happened and went into hiding.
Despite being officially listed as 'missing' after the destruction of the Arizona facility, Bruce Banner has appeared in several unconfirmed sightings over the years. A conspiracy theory linking the scientist and the green-skinned Hulk still occasionally springs up on the forums online. The Hulk has made some confirmed appearances over the years; usually reported as a monster causing great destruction wherever he appears but sometimes is reported to have been a positive change on an area, ridding regions of local super-powered criminals and the like.
Supporting Cast: Friends & Family: Jennifer Walters - Bruce's younger cousin, currently working as a lawyer in Metropolis, she was Bruce's closest friend in childhood but the two lost touch when her morals stopped allowing her to accept his position in Lexcorp. A big critic of Lex Luthor, Jennifer often takes on the cases of Lexcorp victims, rarely winning but always a voice of reason against Luthor's well-paid lawyers.
Curtis Holt - Bruce worked with Curtis for the first year of his employment in Lexcorp. The two got along incredibly well personally but were so different in their approaches to science that they had to be separated to have any sense of productivity. Regardless, Bruce lived with Curtis for the first month after his nervous breakdown and the two always promised they'd go into business together someday. When Bruce became the Hulk Curtis left his job at Lexcorp and went to work on starting his own company 'Cyberwear'. He has since made millions.
Professor Emil Hamilton - Professor Hamilton was one of Bruce's mentors in his college days. The two never officially met but Emil had read one of Bruce's papers on the future of physics in the modern world and reached out to the young man online. They struck up an intellectual friendship and kept in touch over the years. When Bruce disappeared Hamilton reached out to Lexcorp and offered his assistance in locating the errant scientist but was met with emphatic refusal.
Betty Ross - An army brat, Betty was the daughter of General Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross, she met Bruce on several occasions where she accompanied her father to Lexcorp to inspect technology that the military would purchase. The two hit it off well and found themselves going on a few dates before engaging in a long distance relationship. Since his disappearance Betty has thought on occasion that she sees Bruce in a crowd but has started to let go and move on with her life.
Notable Individuals:
Jimmy Olsen - Jimmy is well up to date with the conspiracy surrounding Bruce Banner and the Hulk; always asking for leave to go check out the sightings. So far the response has always been an emphatic 'no'.
Rivals:
Lex Luthor - Bruce and Lex, after Bruce came to work for Lexcorp, had worked together occasionally on the superhuman deterrents that Lexcorp still use even now. Bruce held a fierce respect for the billionaire and his ideals until after the accident that turned him into the Hulk. Now he blames Lex for his condition and wants nothing more than to bring him down. Hulk barely knows who Lex is.
Superman - To date their interactions have been brief but fierce. Bruce has always harboured a mistrust for the alien protector of Metropolis, how much of that is his own feeling or simply that of Luthor's ideology that he has latched onto during his time in Lexcorp is unknown. But Bruce blames Superman's biology for his condition. Hulk feels an instinctual familiarity with the Kryptonian and, after their bout, irrational anger that superman might just be proof that Hulk 'is not the strongest there is'.
How (if at all) does the New Frontier version of your character differ from the original?:
The most notable difference is that Banner worked for Lexcorp prior to the accident that created Hulk. Because the Hulk was created with the aid of Superman's cells and Kryptonite there is a possibility of having different colours of Kryptonite causing him to change into the different coloured Hulks from comics with different abilities each time. Also, because he was created with Supermans cells, Hulk is affected by the yellow sun in a similar way to Superman, allowing him to be just as strong and potentially more so if fuelled by his rage (the angrier he gets, the stronger he gets).
I want to explore the duality of the character as many people do, but Bruce Banner will be the villain of the piece as far as morality goes. (Not that he's a villain or anything, but the Hulk just wants to be left alone, Banner's the one with ideas and objectives.) The Hulk is almost a Superman/Justice League villain who's gone on to have a spin-off in this. Having said that, despite the risk of terrible destruction, the Hulk is no more a villain than usual, he just wants to be left alone or have people around him who understand him. Bruce's intellect allows him to be just as useful as the Hulk in many capacities, his genius level intellect allows him to come up with scientific and technological solutions to situations where the Hulk's raw strength is not required.
Sample Writing:
Hulk is the strongest there is! Bruce awoke with a start. Checking his pulse he realised that his heartrate was above average; breathing deeply Bruce rearranged himself so he was sitting cross-legged on the rickety motel bed and allowed himself to fall into meditation. He had figured out this method of keeping the creature contained a few months back. Everything that upset his balance from a rude passer-by to a stubbed toe had sent him into convulsions and only sheer force of will had kept the Hulk from breaking free. He had thought back to his childhood, the days when his father had made him sit outside an office while the older man had gone to anger therapy. Bruce had always had good hearing and had listened carefully to what his father's doctor had said. 'Just allow yourself to let go, don't think about anything pressing, just take yourself back to your happiest memory. Deep breaths.' The man hadn't saved Bruce's mother but his advice was helping Bruce stay sane enough to hold the Hulk within his mind. He felt his breathing slow and the worry in his heart began to ease.
After showering and getting dressed Bruce left the motel. Pulling a worn hood up over a baseball cap to cover his features Banner began to walk the busy streets of early morning Metropolis. He'd argued with himself about coming back; he could be seen and recognised and there were so many things around that could make him angry enough to bring out the Hulk, but his need to be somewhere familiar has won out and besides, the Hulk hadn't emerged in months. He had to believe that it was possible to maintain control.
'Hey!' Bruce kept walking, having no reason to believe that the voice was addressing him. 'Hey!' Louder this time, Bruce turned to see who was calling and caught a glimpse of an overweight man in a blue jacket and flatcap. 'Where you goin'!'It was more a statement than a question but Bruce saw no reason to draw attention to himself by pointing this out. He began to pick up his pace but stopped when he saw the loud man grab the arm of another rough looking type.
Bruce exhaled softly and turned back in the direction he was going, just in time to see a flurry of orange hair and freckles crash into him. The Hulk might have been big enough to remain standing in a collision with a locomotive but Bruce had the proportional strength of, well, a slightly weaker than average human being. He fell backwards to the floor, hood coming away from his head and baseball cap flying into the road. Squinting, Bruce stared up at the youth who had knocked him down. The kid was very apologetic, pulling Bruce up and dusting him down, all the while bemoaning his own clumsiness and worrying about what the Chief (whoever that was) would say if ever he heard. 'It's...' Bruce began, 'it's fine.' 'I just,' the kid babbled before stopping and looking at him curiously. 'Are you-' Oh no. 'Are you Bruce Banner?'
Inwardly Bruce cursed, of course someone would recognise him, he pulled his hood up over his head. 'Who?' Leave Hulk alone! 'You're Bruce Banner!' The kid was stepping closer to him now, his bowtie pressing into Bruce's chest as he peered under the hood. 'Leave me alone kid.' Bruce lurched away, feeling the convulsions start in his chest, he stumbled into the road and was immediately the target of shouts and the horns from several vehicles as they slowed or swerved to avoid the figure stumbling through the busy road.
Bruce saw a car approaching out of the corner of his eye, the car was coming on too fast and the driver clearly had no intention of stopping. Bruce steeled himself to jump clear but felt another convulsion coming and doubled over. His mind, momentarily startled by the traffic and noise around him, let go of its control and immediately Banner felt a primal force rush into his body. Puny Banner not cage Hulk, Hulk is the strongest there is! Without warning, Banner's arm reached out and grasped the front of the approaching car. The car halted immediately, Banner stared uncomprehending at his hand as a shade of green began to appear along his veins. Eyes widening, he realised the danger. He took several deep breaths and ran, not caring about the rest of the traffic. He ran for the nearest alley and didn't stop until the horns and shouts faded into nothingness behind him.
Hulk smash, Hulk smash, Hulk smash, Hulk smash, Hulk smash, Hulk smash, Hulk smash.
Guys, I appreciate the effort some of you are going to in order to integrate your character into the wider universe but let's try not to create too much continuity before the game has even begun, shall we? This isn't directed at anyone in particular but when I said that this game is set in the present, I meant it.
Don't get caught up on the history portion. Explain where and how it diverts from the mainstream origin - if it does at all - and try (and this is the most important part) not to create continuity that will hamper anybody else.
Guys, I appreciate the effort some of you are going to in order to integrate your character into the wider universe but let's try not to create too much continuity before the game has even begun, shall we? This isn't directed at anyone in particular but when I said that this game is set in the present, I meant it.
Don't get caught up on the history portion. Explain where and how it diverts from the mainstream origin - if it does at all - and try (and this is the most important part) not to create continuity that will hamper anybody else.
There are still plenty of big characters that nobody has even taken a sniff at. Captain America, The Flash, Thor, Spider-Man, and Wonder Woman all come to mind. The game could really do with some Justice League members if only to help move things a long a little.
Guys, I appreciate the effort some of you are going to in order to integrate your character into the wider universe but let's try not to create too much continuity before the game has even begun, shall we? This isn't directed at anyone in particular but when I said that this game is set in the present, I meant it.
Don't get caught up on the history portion. Explain where and how it diverts from the mainstream origin - if it does at all - and try (and this is the most important part) not to create continuity that will hamper anybody else.
That's why I tried to minimize my style of CS detail. I think when you look at my older sheets like Batman and others like it my Superman app is a lot more player friendly.
“Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the center of things. What do you think of it?” ~ John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Luther's Justice League although this is nothing but a front as her true allegiance remains with the Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации (Federal Security Service)
History:
Officially the Cold War ended. Try telling that to everyone that was involved.
The story of the one known as Natasha Romanova starts in Early 1943. The new year was not christened by fireworks, cheering or the marching of the armies this year in the City of Stalingrad. It was rather brought in by a sound that had become familiar over the last few months artillery shells and screaming voices. The Germans continued their defense in the city that was supposed to be only a milestone on the path to Moscow but had instead became their frozen tomb, as the Red Army pushed them back room by room, building by building. Caught in the middle of this brutal bought of urban warfare was the populace of the city. Those that hadn't fled when they heard the approaching Tanks in August, those that couldn't flee when their homes became battlegrounds. They hid in buildings, swears and among the dead and dying hoping that the Nazis would not find them.
One such woman was caught with a small girl when the Germans torched the apartment building they were in to smoke out any Russian soldiers that may have been hiding inside. It was three in the morning when it happened and the woman had been trying to catch what little sleep she could in the small lulls between the fighting. They were a few stories up, because if the Germans entered the building they could hear them charging up the stairwell. It also meant that when the German Flamethrowers began to torch the bottom floor they could escape the blaze the conventional way. Instead the woman forced her way outside onto a frozen fire escape in cold and icy January Winds holding her sleeping daughter in her arms as she descended. Sadly halfway through the descent A German Sniper had spotted her and shot the Woman. She fell but in her last acts on Earth cradled her child and in that saved the Child from serious bodily harm.
The landing in the hardened snow had awoken the child and so she began to cry in the snow alone. Luckily it was not the Germans that had torched her building that had found her, no instead it was the Russian Squad that had repulsed them hours later. The leader of the Squad was Ivan Petrovich Bezukhov and he and the rest of the squad would take the small girl in from the cold and give her food. Natasha Romanova became the "littlest soldier" and would stay with the squad till the end of the Second World War, serving as their mascot and helper running messages and ammo between lines.
Natasha remembers these times fondly. It was back when the world was simple. When everything was black and white.
Following the dropping of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Second World War ended and the World entered the Cold War. Thus began the origins of Department X, a covert Soviet Agency designed to rival the Super Soldiers of the West such as the famous yet ill-fated Captain America. One of these projects was the Black Widow Ops Program. They took Russian girls - war orphans from across the ravaged USSR - and spirited them away where everyone would forget them. Natasha was one of many to join their ranks when Ivan reluctantly let the girl go into KGB hands once they learned of her and her potential. Here they were whisked away to become assassins ready to kill for the glory of the Motherland. And there they would stay in a base hidden deep away in the wastes of Siberia in a research station hidden deep underground.
The training itself was harsh and of hundreds of girls that were whisked away over a few dozen made it through the program's initial phase. This consisted of physical condition everything from ten mile runs in the snow to hours upon end of seemingly endless body weight exercises. This was followed by combat training everything from various forms of close quarters combat techniques to firearms training among others. The girls were expected to be accurate above levels of standard soldiers within three months of training. After combat training they went into book learning, they learned military history, tactics, law, dozens of languages, cultural skills such as dancing, chemistry among others. And if they were even found to be leaking mentally they were beaten and forced to scrub the bathrooms until their scores improved.
Eventually those one hundred or so that remained entered phase two of the program. It was here that the augmentation process began. Dr. Lyudmila Kudrin, a premier biochemist perfected what she called the new age of super sermons. The remaining one hundred were subjected to 48 hours of constant injections and around the watch hospital supervision. The chemical combinations were too deadly for most of the subjects and many died of complications and organ failure in the twenty four hours that followed. Natasha was one of twenty eight girls to make it through the procedure. As a result they were granted superhuman reflexes, strength, durability, speed, senses and an inhuman longevity. In short they had finally become the perfect assassins.
Soon they were put into active duty and it was here that she met Ivan again. Having retired from the army he was picked back up again by the KGB for his considerable skill and was once again assigned to watch over Natasha, this time as her handler.
And thus the life of Natasha Romanova began to hit something of a period of 'normalcy' to it. Ivan and her began to serve the Motherland and KGB in interests around the globe. Natasha had a cover produced for her as a trained dancer in the Bolshoi Ballet which give her an excuse to travel and Ivan was the ever watchful bodyguard hired by her Father. Together the two danced a path of fire and blood across Europe and many of the West and countless traitors to the Motherland were killed by their hands. But do to their policy of leaving no survivors and no witness her cover was never blown and things continued to normal.
She had her hands everywhere from Korea, Vietnam, Nicaragua and Afghanistan. She killed politicians, generals, spies, and double crosser with a brutal efficiency. Some may have been confused by the ruthless and seemingly heartless behavior of the girl but it was all she knew. It was all she could do and having been force fed the soviet ideals from a young age, it was what she knew was right. During this time she ran into other products of her time. She would run across men and women like: The Star-Spangled Kid, Shining Knight, Miss America, Whizzer, Jack Frost and many of the men that would take the costume of Captain America. It was these defenders of the West that presented her and Ivan the real problems. Their powers and abilities defied even her own superhuman injections and many a times they would fate Natasha would have to vanish into the shadows.
But as it turned out the USSR would not persist as long as Stalin had envisioned it to. The collapse was slow and lethargic like a corpse being taken apart by crows. Natasha's own life seemed to mimic this collapse when on a mission in West Germany Kingsley Faraday shot and mortally wounded Ivan leaving Natasha emotionally broken and shattered as she held her only friend and father figure in the rain as he slowly bled to death. It was in that moment that a fight that she had always been distance from became very, very personal as orders became a personal vendetta against the West.
But soon the Dissolution of the Soviet Union began in December of 1991 and the KGB was replaced with the FSB. But agents like Natasha remained in service, for them the changing of the guard may have meant a loss of ideals and virtue but it never meant that the end of the job. Life continued but under a new rule under the Russian Federation rather than the USSR.
In the 2010s the world changed with the so called "next generation" of heroes. Mutants and superheroes men and women changed by the power of atom, to become far beyond the normal humans that once walked the Earth among us. For one reason or another some believe do to the amount of atomic testing done there and other circumstances America had a huge population of these superhuman among their masses. This was a fact that many nations around the world became worried about especially former foes such as the Russian Federation. The Russians needed somebody on the ground to report back them, to feed them Intel. They needed to know what these knew God-men planned to do. And so they called in one of their best agents for the job. They called in Natasha Romanova. She hadn't been outside of Eurasia in a while at this point dealing with internal security issues that arose after the fall of the USSR. Unlike some members like the Winter Guard, Red Rocket Brigade and others she had remained in the shadows for the most part. Doing what she did best, make people disappear.
And in the time she had grown from the young teenage girl who had killed her way through Europe, and all the old heroes of the West she had fought long ago where at this point confined to their wheelchairs and losing their minds slowly. Nobody remembered her, nobody knew her. And so she was sent into America. She found her way into the mercenary circuit first working alongside names that would become big in the business later down the rode, Deathstroke, Deadshot, and others. And slowly she assimilated herself into the spectra of Superheros and super villains of America none the wiser that she still was reporting back to the Kremlin. She even became an American Citzen.
In fact she had infiltrated one of the most powerful Superhero organizations in the country if not the world. Lex Luthor's newly established Justice League of America. She joined sides with Captain America unaware of her experiences with his predecessors among others. She became part of a symbol of cooperation and hope for a new world. But beneath it all, beneath the double crossing, benath the spying for the Soviets she was still in America for one reason and one reason only. She was going to find Kingsley Faraday, no matter what path of bloodshed and chaos she had to make to do it.
Supporting Cast:
Superhero Associates: Dmitri Pushkin: 'Rocket Red #4' and a member of the Rocket Red Brigade. This Power armor, jet pack using, vodka drinking Russian. A kind man with a love for American culture especially 'cowboy-movies'. As one of the few Russian Heroes active in America he is the occasional confident of Black Widow even though he little taste left in his mouth for the games of the Kremlin.
Daredevil: During her early years of American infiltration when was still working as a mercenary she met one blind New York City attorney known as Matt Murdock. Little did Natasha know that Murdock was the masked vigilante known as Daredevil. Though after being kidnapped by Bullseye, Murdock soon found out that Natasha was a little bit more than she was letting on as well. After a brief romantic fling the two broke apart. Requires approval from Daredevil player
Captain America: Another member of Lex Luthor's Justice League. The Captain has no idea of Romanova's past. A little awkward for her as she has tried to kill other incarnations of him in the past. But that was before right? requires approval from Captain America player
Alexi Shostakov: Black Widow's one time lover back when the Cold War was in full swing. He was trained as the Red Guardian, the USSR's response to Captain America. But he "vanished" under mysterious circumstances in the later period of the war. Thought to be dead.
Other Associates:
Lex Luthor: One of the founding members of the Justice League of America. As a member of the JLA, Black Widow has a working relationship with the man.
Nick Fury: Natasha knew Fury from his CIA days back during the Cold War. Back then they almost killed one another once or twice. Now well he's gone to ground and even if Fury remembers her, she's seemingly turned a new head in life.
Rivals, enemies, and targets
Kingsley 'King' Faraday: Ex-CIA Operative, seems to have 'retired' after the end of the Cold War. Killed Ivan Petrovich Bezukhov and Black Widow wants him dead for it. He's seemingly vanished from the face of the Earth. But that won't stop her. She'll get him, eventually. Whatever it takes.
Nightshade: Eve Eden was King Faraday protege and a superhuman at that with the ability to manipulate shadows. She worked for the CIA for some time before quitting and going freelance. She's been seen around recently having popped back up after some years of silence. She's Black Widow's first stop in finding Farady. She's the first stop in revenge.
Black Lotus: Female Assassin for some reason or another she wants Black Widows head. Something to do with what she did during the war. Not that Natasha stuck around to really talk to her.
Leonid Novokov: Another KGB assassin, he went rogue several years ago and has been on the run ever since. Like all runaways Black Widow has a kill order on sight if he is spotted.
Petra, Marina and Yelena Belova: Other surving members of the Black Widow Project, once again the Russians have put a kill order on all of them to clean up their dirty little secretes. Locations are currently unknown.
How does the New Frontier version of your character differ from the original?:
Paranormal ghosts may not exists (well at least in our world) but people are certainly haunted ghosts of the past. Last vestigial motes of could of beens and what ifs. This incarnation Black Widow that I'm aiming for is very much haunted by the Ghosts of the Past. I always figured it made sense given her character and her history. A child of war, turned killer, spy and assassin while others her age learned to like boys and did algebra. She's killed more men then many men will ever in their lifetime and she's watch her own world rise and crumble around her while she remained almost suspended in time watching those around her age and fall to a place where sane minds do not dare venture. And the Ghosts of her deeds haunt her, the are specters in her sleep and ghastly flashes across her eyelids when they close for a moment.
And unlike the Black Window of mainstream, none of it just goes away because she falls for some boy. You don't just step away from a life of soviet doctrine being smashed into your head day in and day out, you don't just step away from the people that have become your family, you don't just defect because you might like a pretty boy. Black Widow is not a hormonal teenage, I've think she's gone past thinking with her sexual organs first. So yes this is a Black Widow that never left the KGB, that never defected who still holds alternative agendas, who carries secretes and operations behind the backs of her so called friends.
And it's all because well I have a little morality tale in mind, to tell you the truth. A story of revenge (a tired and well worn concept I know) and a story of duality. So while even she has mission from the the JLA and the Russians, she has another mission one more personal, one I created by taking a father figure and a ex-spy that has sort of been forgotten by the DC Mythos to create a classic tale of revenge. But Revenge is never quick and it's never easy. So well we will see what will happen won't we?
