doubting if there's a woman in there somewhere

33, scorpio, intj. natasha was raised in the soviet assassin school for wayward girls known as the red room. she ❝ graduated ❞ at the top of her class, working at first as an assassin/spy for the kgb, and then later as a mercenary for hire. targeted by the strategic homeland intervention enforcement logistics division (aka shield), natasha's life was spared by agent clint barton, who defied his orders to kill on sight and brought her in to become an agent of shield. she subsequently became a member of shield's strike tactical ops division, forming team delta with barton. she also participated in undercover work, most notably to assist tony stark (aka iron man) with his palladium poisoning. natasha would also participate in 'the battle for manhattan', officially joining nick fury's roster of avengers. later, she would become partner to steve rogers (aka captain america), and aided him in the destruction of shield, which had been revealed to have been slowly eaten away at from within by the fascist organization known as hydra. natasha wikileaked encrypted files onto the internet, destroying a large portion of her cover stories and releasing her past out to the section of the world with the ability to decrypt secret government organization files (akin to the panama papers). she joined the avengers once more to destroy tony stark's world destroying robot known as ultron, and tried to start a relationship with bruce banner (aka the incredible hulk), but after rescuing natasha from being killed by ultron, the hulk took off into space, leaving natasha behind. the team then began training new avengers — wanda maximoff, (aka scarlet witch), sam wilson (aka falcon), james rhodes (aka war machine) and vision (aka vision). a routine mission for them goes awry when wanda, in an attempt to save steve's life, blows up a building in the city of lagos, accidentally killing the people inside. the avengers are split in two. natasha joins tony's side, feeling that having some control is better than no control. however, when the accords tony's side follows threatens steve's life, she defects, allowing steve and his friend bucky barnes (aka the winter soldier) to escape. branded a traitor, natasha joins forces with steve and sam, dying her hair blonde and going undercover as the secret avengers.