dangling, dangling . . .

❛ i excel at pulling strings, ❜     said the widow.     ❛ i am a spider. ❜

[belovay-a]

if you pull the right strings,   a puppet will dance any way you desire.

IN REGARDS TO HYDRA CHARACTERS.     i will not follow or interact with an muses that are affiliated with hydra,   canon or oc,   extending to the mcu portrayal of baron zemo   &   people who have hydra-based verses.

@BELOVAY.     yelena belova,   black widow.     independent   &   highly selective roleplay blog based in earth-616 canon,   no mcu content present.   primarily focuses on earlier characterization with some influence from modern runs,   but overall very heavily critical of marvel   &   the writing that typically focuses around yelena.

heavily associated with,   &   exclusively tied to,   @avengerled​​   &   @overclocks​​.   i am not presently following any more interpretations of steve rogers,   james barnes,   logan,   or tony stark.   references made to these characters are made with these specific interpretations in mind.

PROTOCOL.     struggle in the spider’s web.

WIDOW.     i am not who you think i am.   not who you want me to be.

CHARACTERIZATION.     somebody did it,   but nobody knows who.

HISTORY.     be wary,   for the threads are tightening.

DEPARTMENT X.     q.   friend or foe?     a.   come a little closer.

MULTIVERSE.     some things are better left in the dark.

VDOVAB.     a poison so sweet it never stung.

MOBILE.     old mobile information.

BLOG ROLL.     watch your back when you can’t watch mine.

[belovay-a]

yelena not doing much field work beyond personal pet projects   &   then getting dragged kicking   &   screaming into something Big.

[belovay-a]

it really is such a shame that ‘lena hasn’t made an appearance since 2002 when you think about it.

[belovay-a]

yelena belova.

[belovay-a]

*   [   fatedvoyage.     ›     barnes.   ]

“Excellent question.” Bucky pulled the binoculars from his eyes, holding them out to Yelena. No matter how hard he looked, he wasn’t seeing any sign of the convoy they were meant to intercept. “I don’t have an answer, by the way, I just wanted to tell you it was a really good question. Honestly at this rate, I’m not even sure their intel is good so I’m not sure why they’re here, period.”

❛   great.   ❜      it’s one thing after another,   then a dozen more   ;   an endless cycle   &   frankly she’s beginning to wish that she’d stayed in cuba,   where she could be pretending to laugh at some scummy politician’s joke instead of sitting out in the heat with him   ——   for virtually no purpose,   apparently.   she takes the binoculars,   raising them up to her face so that she can look in the exact same empty spot he’d been looking seconds earlier.      ❛   so,   they’re less harmful,   but completely useless now?   that’s a terrible trade off.   ❜

pause,   scanning well across the area before she stops,   nudges him with one elbow   &   offering the binoculars back with the other hand.      ❛   there are containment cells down that road there.   maybe we would have better luck seeing if we can track those instead of waiting around here for a convoy that may never show.   ❜

[belovay-a]

*   [   overclocks.     ›     stark.   ]

“Yeah, okay, two things.”  The nerve of some people, right?  Provide them with a resource for training and some will literally never be satisfied.  Too realistic?  They whine about that.  Too hard?  Whining.  Not hard enough?  You guessed it, whining.  They’re never satisfied, and given the chance they…Well, they add stupid techno lava to a masterpiece when they shouldn’t and annoy him utterly, because guess who has to metaphorically clean that up in the code?  That’s right.  Tony.

He holds up a finger.  “One, it’s a training program, or did you manage to miss that.”  Another finger joins the first.  “Two, techno lava is dumb, and you were never supposed to have access at all, don’t think I don’t see you using back doors.  When you write an entire training simulation, you can put whatever you want in it.  Otherwise, leave my actual training simulations alone.”

they’re talkers, the lot of them, and the spy in her finds it reprehensible   ——   she listens, because he’s talking   ( it’s polite, she’s polite, down to and excluding the utterly bored expression on her face. ),   but it’s nearly offensive to her better judgement as someone trained to search for every vulnerability in every word spoken. not that she isn’t beginning to get used to it, listening to the hawkeyes and ms. marvel and spider-man day in and day out, in seemingly unending conversations she never remembers agreeing to have in the first place, but. annoying nevertheless.

then he’s finished   ——   finally   ——   and she gets to be the talker now. and the mimic.

he raised a finger to her, she raises one back ; sharply, inches from his face.      ❛   one : it wasn’t lost on me, stark, no. i had simply assumed that training programs were intended to be used to improve upon our skills until this mission was done, not just to hit your glass ceiling and stop.   ❜      adds a second finger.      ❛   two : techno lava is not dumb   ——   have you not seen the number of those robots that tend to set things on fire? it helps get people familiar with not stepping in fire, even in a fight..   ❜      pause, then up goes a third.      ❛   three : you should have locked your back doors better if you didn’t want people going through them.   ❜

[belovay-a]

*   [   @fatedvoyage​.     ›     headcanon questions.   ]          what sort of work does yelena do? does she prefer solo work or teams? does she do freelance or prefer something with a steady stream of pay and work?

while the bulk of her work tends to be more focused on her business adventures these days,   yelena still keeps herself busy with two types of work   :   her civilian job   &   her occasional jobs as a spy.

BUSINESSWOMAN.     her primary civilian job   ( albeit under her alias yulya belkova,   rather than yelena. )   is as the owner   &   operator of the angelina modeling agency   ( out of which she also does occasional modeling work herself,   too,   in order to keep up with her status as a world-class model that got her there. )   that operates primarily out of havana,   cuba,   but has begun to branch out in recent years,   providing a wide range of models for high-end fashion,   both on the runway   &   in catalogues,   &   in advertisements for a number of companies   &   brands that fit to a certain standard that she has. on top of her modeling work,   she also owns a line of cosmetics   ( with more of a focus on selfcare products. )   &   dabbles in numerous miscellaneous investments,   while maintaining her status as a popular socialite in cuba.

SPY.     although not her primary focus anymore given her shifted life views   &   goals for herself,   yelena does still maintain a smaller operation in espionage,   primarily through her work with vanguard,   but also through her own personal ventures   &   the occasional job she may take from outside sources,   provided the request is one that she feels is worthy of her. largely,   these days,   she has more of a tendency to use her skill   &   training in espionage to help herself or do some good in the world now   &   then,   rather than as a primary means of income or supporting herself.

more specifically,   as a spy,   yelena has a tendency to focus on work that will best aid her   ( ruining people that would work against her in business or personal interests,   tackling local crime organizers   &   higher-ups to help the people around her,   manipulating the political climate to some extent within her bubble. ),   while also taking on work with vanguard when required   ( prior to their initial dissolution   &   faking their deaths to escape colonel america,   although she does keep contact with some of her old teammates with a standing offer to help if they should require her for a job she might be better suited to.   friends discount included. ).

on very rare occasions she may take outside work as a freelance operative,   but typically only on one-off,   short-term jobs,   as she finds that after her dealings with the red room   &   russian government,   she has little to no interest in attaching herself to any organization or group that may attempt to use her for their own gain while treating her as an expendable operative they can replace without struggle.

following her dealings with the red room   &   then vanguard,   yelena has more of a tendency to work solo these days   ;   she largely prefers the ability to lean only on her own abilities without needing to worry about other people getting in the way   ——   or eventually turning on her.

as a spy,   she works more primarily freelance   ;   it gives her better control over her work   ( enables her to ensure that what she does isn’t directly harmful to people she doesn’t want to be harmful to,   helping the people that she wants to be helping. )   &   a greater ability to make sure that what she puts her energy into is worth the expense of her time,   while enabling her to act as she wants to,   without concern for red tape or running things through a chain of command to get permission to handle something that needs handling.

[belovay-a]

i hate robots.

marvel’s avengers.

[belovay-a]

                                         *   [   @moonyte​.     ›     sc.   ]

❛   i hear you wear all that white to ensure that people see you coming   ——   now ask yourself why i wear all black,   moon man,   &   go away,   why don’t you?   ❜

[belovay-a]

           *   [   @museswithattitude​.     ›     unprompted,   in a way.   ]

❛   i heard you were out playing with the avengers these days,   brooks   ——   i wouldn’t have expected you to have the time to be lurching around in old haunts with that colorful crowd to entertain you.   did you get tired of killing vampires for the greater good or whatever it is you people do out there,   already?   ❜

[belovay-a]

                                         *   [   @rahbid​.     ›     sc.   ]

❛   ——   has anyone ever told you that you have the perfect demeanor for modeling?   ❜

[belovay-a]

                                      *   [   @overclocks​.     ›     sc.   ]

❛   so you can put in dreadbots with realistic anti-gravity bombs and perfect recreations of adaptoids,   but i add a little techno lava to the simulations and i get locked out of programming controls?   ❜

[belovay-a]

                                     *   [   @fatedvoyage​.     ›     sc.   ]

❛   agent morales wants us to retrieve containment filters from the troops while we’re out here,   ❜      a pause.      ❛   tell me,   winter soldier,   if we’re saving the inhumans   &   we’re collecting the supplies for their equipment,   why is it that s.h.i.e.l.d. is here again?   ❜

[belovay-a]

additionally of note is that yelena appears to be someone who received a series of lucky breaks in the fashion / modeling industry that led to her quickly gaining fame in the industry,   however the truth of the matter is that she did heavy amounts of behind the scenes work   &   manipulations to give herself those opportunities to facilitate her fast rise.

[belovay-a]

                            PERSONAL BLOGS DO NOT INTERACT.

FOREWORD.     THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION PERTAINS STRICTLY TO YELENA’S PERSONA AS SHE PRESENTS TO THE PUBLIC EYE   &   IS HOW THE GENERAL PUBLIC WILL KNOW OF HER.   MUCH OF IT WILL CONTRADICT WITH HER REAL INFORMATION BY DESIGN.   ALL PUBLIC DOCUMENTATION THAT CAN BE FOUND ON HER REFLECTS THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION.   ONLY THOSE WITH HIGH ENOUGH CLEARANCE WITHIN RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE,   THOSE FAMILIAR WITH YELENA PERSONALLY OUTSIDE OF HER PERSONA,   &   A SELECT HANDFUL OF PEOPLE WITHIN S.H.I.E.L.D.   &   THE AVENGERS,   ARE AWARE OF THE TRUE NATURE OF YELENA.

                                              BASIC INFORMATION.

FULL NAME.     BELKOVA,   YULYA KOSTYANTYNOVNA. NICKNAME(S).     YUL. ALIAS(ES).     NONE OF NOTE. DATE OF BIRTH.     MARCH 30TH,   1975.

CITIZENSHIP.     CUBAN.   RUSSIAN. PLACE OF BIRTH.     MOSCOW,   RUSSIA. LAST KNOWN RESIDENCE.     AN ESTATE IN HAVANA,   CUBA.

HEIGHT.     FIVE FEET SEVEN INCHES   ( 5′7″ ). WEIGHT.     ONE-HUNDRED-THIRTY-FIVE POUNDS   ( 135lbs ). HAIR.     LIGHT GOLDEN BLONDE.   CURLY.   THICK.   CUT TO JUST REACH HER SHOULDERS. EYES.     BABY BLUE.

IDENTIFIABLE MARKINGS.     NOTHING OF PARTICULAR NOTE.

MARITAL STATUS.     SINGLE. FAMILY.     UNKNOWN. NEXT OF KIN.     NONE.

EDUCATION.     COLLEGE GRADUATE,   UNKNOWN DEGREE.

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT.     MODEL.   OWNER OF THE ANGELINA MODELING AGENCY. FORMER EMPLOYMENT.     NONE.

                                                         HISTORY.

30.03.1975,   AGE ZERO.     BORN TO HER PARENTS IN MOSCOW,   RUSSIA.   ELDEST   &   ONLY CHILD.

1990,   AGE FIFTEEN.   BEGINS TO SEARCH FOR MODELING WORK IN RUSSIA,   PART-TIME.

1999,   AGE TWENTY-FOUR.     GRADUATES WITH HER DEGREE.

2001,   AGE TWENTY-SIX.     BECOMES A MODEL FULL TIME,   JOINING A MODELING AGENCY   &   MOVING TO HAVANA,   CUBA,   WHERE SHE QUICKLY BECOMES KNOWN IN THE MODELING WORLD.   HER PUBLIC APPEARANCES BEGIN TO OCCUR.

2004,   AGE TWENTY-NINE.     USING HER WEALTH   &   CONNECTIONS,   SHE FOUNDS THE ANGELINA MODELING AGENCY.

ONWARD.     MAINTAINS HER STATUS AS A MODEL   &   SOCIALITE IN HAVANA,   CUBA.   KNOWN FOR THE PRESTIGE OF HER MODELING AGENCY,   AS WELL AS HER HIGH-PROFILE APPEARANCES   &   CLOSE AFFILIATIONS WITH THE WHO’S-WHO OF CUBA.

NOTE.   WHILE BELKOVA DID NOT BEGIN TO MAKE HER PUBLIC APPEARANCES UNTIL 2001,   FALSIFIED DOCUMENTATION EXISTS TO SUGGEST INVOLVEMENT IN EARLIER PROJECTS,   AS WELL AS TO PROVIDE CREDIT TO HER OVERALL BACKSTORY.

[belovay-a]

            ⧗   TARGET   :   [ @propertyofseagate​ ]     * /     starter call.

the cover of night is useful to a spy   ——   particularly so to one that keeps a split between public   &   private faces,   maintaining a foothold in the shadows of the world while keeping it ignorant to her presence.   something that is,   maybe,   less important for someone like him,   whose faces are all the same regardless of who looks on him or when.   their worlds should not collide.   she hopes he is unfamiliar with cuban politics   &   people.

carefully,   the widow reaches back to retrieve the small explosive devices from the pouch at her back,   concealing them in her palm before she leaps over the railing of the upper platform she was on,   to land gracefully in his line of sight.       ❛   you are very loud.   ❜

[cleonxxiv]