⧗ Widow's Bites - bracelets that discharge electrical pulses and can electrocute others during hand-to-hand combat.
⧗ Assorted knives on her person - one in each ankle sheath, one strapped to the inside of her left wrist.
⧗ Two Glock-26s

⧗ Expert martial artist
⧗ Expert in acrobatics
⧗ Highly skilled in espionage, stealth, disguise
⧗ Highly skilled in interrogation
⧗ Above average strength (though just below the line of "super human")
⧗ Above average intelligence
⧗ Expert hacker (this likely will not matter in the setting, so expect it to be nerfed entirely)
⧗ Multilingual (Russian, English, French, German, Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin, Norwegian, Japanese, and others)

⧗ Telepathy (Cascade-granted power) — after passing through the Cascade, Natasha has the ability to sense and read the minds of others, as well as speak to across distances directly in people’s minds. With training, this power could likely extend to dream-walking, intentional memory transfer, and memory-viewing.
⧗ Increased Healing Speed (???) - Natasha is able to heal at a much faster rate than a normal human being. Prior to being brought to this world, the ability was above average for a normal human being but not ‘super-human’; after being brought through the Cascade, the ability is upgraded to super-human. Recovery times that will usually take weeks will be cut in half or a third. This is a passive ability and not something she can control.

⧗ Upon entry to the game, Natasha will not realize that she has gained the power of Telepathy — without training or understanding how to use it, she’ll be limited to ‘impulsive’ use (i.e. use of the power accidentally, or in times of need). Additionally, she will think that she’s going insane. Backfires might result in others receiving her thoughts and memories without her meaning to share them (opt-in and pre-plotted with folks if this does happen).
⧗ Natasha’s fear of telepathy and the fact that it might involve others seeing in her mind in return will result in a fairly significant mental block when it comes to her usage of the ability. She physically is able, but is emotionally unable to engage with it.
⧗ All telepathic stuff will be opt-in!
⧗ Natasha will heal at a super-human rate but her body cannot: re-grow lost limbs, heal fast enough to keep her from dying from a fatal wound, repair magic based damage faster than a normal human might. Healing at an increased rate will require a massive amount of energy to be expended, leaving her anywhere from a little tired to exhausted depending on the scope/scale of the injuries.

At her current point in canon, Natasha has been through A Lot. She's long since been pulled out of her comfort zone as spy and assassin, into the lime light and geopoliticking of being an Avenger. She's embraced working on a team, come to see them as the closest thing she has to a family, stuck around long enough to see them fall to pieces, reunited with the second-closest thing she ever had to a family including her sister, and then had her and billions of other beings snatched about by evil Barney with a god complex (ok, he is a literal god). By the time we see her in Endgame, she's had five long years to think about what is really important to her, what really matters — and it comes to a head in her sacrifice for the Soul Stone on Vormir.

Natasha will do anything for her friends and found family - and she does try to understand others, even if she can't fully commit to their perspective. She's shown as a kind voice for the Avengers on numerous occasions including comforting Tony Stark the night of his birthday when he was dying of poisoning from his arc reactor (with not-so-great effect) and convincing Clint Barton not to blame himself for the death of SHIELD agents at his hands after his manipulation and possession by Loki. She genuinely mourns for Nick Fury after his "death" at the hands of the Winter Soldier, and frequently covers her friends during battle or goes to their aid if they're injured (Clint, often, and protecting Banner). During Age of Ultron, she stays behind with Steve Rogers to help him evacuate Novi Grad despite also trying to convince him to consider other options. During Endgame, she lobbies for trying to undo the Snap, insisting that they owe it to everyone who died to try. Her greatest act of compassion is yet to come, sacrificing herself to retrieve the Soul Stone give the Avengers a chance of undoing the carnage of the Snap with no guarantee that they would be successful.

That said, Natasha is still a practiced liar, assassin, and spy — manipulation comes with the territory. She has not hesitated to adopt certain identities or personas in order to meet her (or her employer's) needs, whatever those happen to be at the time. The ability to manipulate and trick others was taught to her at an extremely young age in the Red Room program. As a child, she went undercover as the child of Alexei Shostakov and Melina Vostokoff during their time in America in order to allow them to infiltrate and destroy the North Institute. In other canon appearances, she’s served as an admin assistant for Pepper Potts, pretended to get caught in order to interrogate a smuggling ring, and feigned hurt and fear in order to determine Loki’s true goal to provoke the Hulk. While she's (now) got a moral compass to match her manipulations, her motives are not always apparent to those around her and she leans heavily into the spy and assassin narrative when it suits her, all too happy to add to her untrustworthiness if it means meeting her own agenda.

She's also a highly logical person with an extreme ability to compartmentalize. Upon facing a Loki-brainwashed Clint Barton, she doesn’t show any sort of leniency, not even attempting to bargain with him, launching straight into physical confrontation. It’s shown in canon that during that time she was also extremely worried about Clint as her partner on Strike Team Delta, but she considers her emotions as a weakness and something to be put away and dealt with at a later date. This is a pattern repeated often in canon after Nick Fury's "death" at the hands of the Winter Soldier, the battle between the Avengers during Civil War, and upon finding out the Red Rooms are still active. When emotions are high, she tucks them away for the good of the mission... but they do eventually come back. At her current time in canon, this compartmentalization is breaking down and more and more of her true feelings leak through — she cries in front of Steve Rogers and shows obvious and clear concern for Clint when he tests the time machine. It's not all doom and gloom, though! Prior to her death we see her cracking a few jokes, laughing, and hugging her friends close.

Natasha may be able to compartmentalize her emotions, but she can't vanish them completely. She carries a lot of guilt for her past - whether it's her life as a child assassin working for the KGB, prior missions gone wrong, or even the wrongs that the Avengers have committed while trying to do right. The guilt becomes a distraction, and while it drives her often to do the "right" thing, it also has Natasha believing she's not entirely worthy of the affection or care of others, that she has a ledger she is permanently trying to balance (if it's even possible), and to prioritize the lives & well-fare of those around her. She's horrified to learn that the Red Rooms are still active, torn up by guilt that Antonia Dreykov is still alive and disfigured/disabled by the mission that failed to kill her. Repeatedly in canon she refers to herself as "unmade," "a monster," and untrustworthy. She doesn't see a life for herself outside of the Avengers, even when the original Avengers move on and disband after the Snap, and continues to atone for her misdeeds.

Natasha’s primary motivation will be to try and find a way home to get back to saving everyone who was Snapped. She’s been involved in faction conflicts before, time and time again, and has 0 desire to be a part of that again, no matter how many familiar faces are around. I’d love for her to be dragged into the conflict and tensions, however — either in a way that forces her to choose a side or a way that questions her ability to remain neutral. I’m interested in exploring negative relationships with characters who have reasons to mistrust spies and assassins (so… everyone?) and who might see her lack of investment as a privilege and further confirmation of her lack of morals.