My Ultimate version of the Black Widow... I'm the only one taking advantage of this. lol. She's a bit of a combo between the Timely Comics Black Widow (Claire Voyant) and the better-known Marvel Comics Black Widow (Natasha Romanov).
Name: Clarissa ("Claire", for short) Romanova
Age: ? (appears to be in her twenties)
Background info: Clarissa Romanova was born and raised in Soviet Russia. Her father was one of the most prominent and well-known Russian mob bosses, specializing in arms-dealing and prostitution. Clarissa, unlike most daughters of Russian mobsters, was trained in the arts of assassination and seduction from birth. Clarissa's father was beginning to get sloppy, however, and the Soviet government began to catch on to the mob's activities. Her father feared that his fellow mobsters would execute his family - including Clarissa - and so - on the night of Clarissa's 21st birthday - he made a deal with the devil... Well, not the LITERAL devil... He made a deal with Mephisto. He offered Mephisto his daughter's soul, in return for her life being spared. Mephisto agreed, and Clarissa was made his slave. She was whisked away to Mephisto's Realm that night, the instant before the other mobsters fired their guns at the rest of her family. When she arrived in Mephisto's realm, he explained to her how his realm had grown lonely in the passing years... and it took too long for human beings to die on their own. So, he tasked Clarissa with bringing him the souls of the damned, imbuing her with special gifts, including the secretion of pheremones, the ability to transform into any other woman whose appearance she has studied, and energy blasts to stun or kill her opponents, known only as her "Widow's Bite". Since then, Clarissa has proceeded to do just that, and the tale of the Black Widow has evolved into something of an urban legend.
Powers and abilities: Clarissa can secrete pheremones, which she mostly uses to attract her targets to her.
Her "Widow's Bite" is a blast of energy that can be used to stun and - on rare occasions - KILL her opponent, though she prefers to kill them by hand or with a weapon.
Clarissa can mimic the looks and voice of any woman whose appearance she has studied. Due to this, it is unknown what she actually looks like, though the appearance that she uses most commonly is that of a 21-year-old woman with short, black hair and red eyes.
Clarissa has been trained from birth in the arts of assassination. Due to this, she is a highly-skilled, hand-to-hand combatant and knows how to use - essentially - any weapon.
Any person who is killed by Clarissa has their soul sent to Mephisto's Realm, where they either suffer for all of eternity or become one of his agents in the living world, as she is. Their corpses bear the mark of a black widow spider on the their backs.
Due to being one of Mephisto's agents, Clarissa cannot age or die and has been imbued with a healing factor, though it only takes affect if she is dealt a fatal blow. Her minor wounds heal at the same rate as any other human being.
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"A story has to be finished, and no matter how distracted you get, you need to force yourself to forge ahead, word by word. If your idea is boring though, and that's why you're easy to distract...well, that's a really fantastic reason for not being able to focus on the task at hand! In that case, head back to the drawing board. And again, don't give up!"- Marjorie Liu, NYX: No Way Home interview
"Really? That's INANE. Most people in life don't HAVE great power, and the few that do are almost NEVER responsible with it. The people who have the greatest responsibility are the kids with NO POWER because we're the ones who have to keep everybody else in check."- Gertrude Yorkes, Runaways (vol. 2) #11
...Pdub's still cooler than meh. Also: Sam. Nobody is cooler than Sam. Not even Sara. For Sam is the Queen of ze cool... I must murder her. Viciously. With a panda. Also: salsa. And a side of footie pajamas.
I was originally going to do Mystique, but I thought that would be overkill. I mean, I'm already shoving her down your throats every chance I get in the X-Men RPG... xD
-- Edited by Sara on Thursday 9th of July 2009 05:34:08 PM
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"A story has to be finished, and no matter how distracted you get, you need to force yourself to forge ahead, word by word. If your idea is boring though, and that's why you're easy to distract...well, that's a really fantastic reason for not being able to focus on the task at hand! In that case, head back to the drawing board. And again, don't give up!"- Marjorie Liu, NYX: No Way Home interview
"Really? That's INANE. Most people in life don't HAVE great power, and the few that do are almost NEVER responsible with it. The people who have the greatest responsibility are the kids with NO POWER because we're the ones who have to keep everybody else in check."- Gertrude Yorkes, Runaways (vol. 2) #11
