She used to cut herself to the point where she needed stitches, and sometimes she felt lightheaded. Clint and Maria found out and helped her stop. She was clean for a good few years, and started getting intense urges to cut again during/after the events of AOU. She managed to stay clean until post CACW. After Black Widow she got clean again, and while she had a few relapses between Infinity War and Endgame, they didn’t bleed much and she did pretty good not spiralling into worse self-harm.
She tried to kill herself as a teenager, but the Red Room stopped her because she had more potential than any other widow they’d seen. They punished her severely, and spent time instilling in her that suicide was shameful, which only made her want to die more. When Clint was sent after her, she let him track her down, hoping that would be the end of it. After he rescued her, she tried so hard to not let him down, but her depression caught up to her. She tried to kill herself again, and was found barely in time. After that she went through a period where she was actively suicidal to the point where she couldn’t be left alone. With a lot of support from Clint, Maria, Fury, Laura, and Coulson, she slowly got better. She still struggles with suicidal thoughts throughout her life, and sometimes they’re worse than others. Worse specifically from AOU to the start of Black Widow, where she was really contemplating or even planning, but she never actually made another attempt.
She hides her depression really well. She typically doesn’t have any of the poor hygiene symptoms, in fact she’s extra careful about hygiene when she’s extremely depressed because she doesn’t want anyone to catch on. As a spy, she can fake being happy really well. It’s hard for even the people closest to her to tell when she’s not okay if she really wants to hide it. She’ll smile and laugh with her friends, while on the inside she’s having no fun, everything hurts, she wants to die, and when she gets home she sits down on the floor and sobs for hours.
She has severe anxiety, which can get debilitating. She’s thrown up on several occasions from being too anxious. Her anxiety is mostly directed towards normal life. She’s confident in her missions, because it’s all she’s ever known (she does get anxious on missions, just not to the point where it’s causing an issue.)
She sleeps better with other people, so especially if she’s having a really rough night Clint or Maria will come over to sleep with her. Sometimes that’s enough for her to sleep through the night, other times she still jolts awake from nightmares, in which case Clint or Maria is right there to comfort her.
She puts the complex in complex-ptsd. Her triggers can be obvious ones from shouting, to the sound of a whip, to breathing on her neck. Or they could be really obscure like a certain song, or the feel of a certain dress. She gets emotional flashbacks a lot, and often she doesn’t know what triggered them. It’s super frustrating and makes her anxiety worse, because she never knows what will trigger her.
Headcanon Natasha is violently opposed to Santa Claus. VIOLENTLY. Every Christmas the Avengers have a debate over whether Santa Claus is a fun children’s legend or a creep. Natasha insists all the elves on the North Pole are children he’s kidnapped and enslaved. She’s compared Santa’s workshop to the Red Room multiple times. “Put Dreykov in a stupid hat, it’s the same thing!”
after we have sex i'm lying in your arms when i'm like "hey can i tell you something?" and you're like "sure" and you figure it's going to be a love confession or something like that, but then i grab your arms in a vice grip so tight my nails are digging into your skin and stare into your eyes with a haunted expression and say, with grave urgency and deadly seriousness, "i'm a bad person. i've done terrible things." then i go back to cuddling you like nothing ever happened
I need the universe where they never figure out time travel, and Scott is stuck as a baby, and all the Avengers have to accept half the universe is gone, and raise baby Scott as a family, and Natasha and Tony are alive
Natasha would be so offended by those people who answer “personality” when asked ass or tits.
She’d be like “I HAVE PTSD AND PROBABLY SEVERAL OTHER UNDIAGNOSED DISORDERS AFFECTING MY PERSONALITY. MY ASS AND BREASTS ON THE OTHER HAND ARE AWESOME. APPRECIATE THEM.”
Imagine a TV in your elevator so you can watch Channel 4 and listen to Denise make excited puns about tragedy the whole RIDE and then you get to pretend to RIDE Denise’s strap
(Side note but are we positive Denise isn’t the cannibal…? She looks guilty. Or maybe not guilty, but she looks like she’s having an “oh shit” moment. She either IS the cannibal or KNOWS the cannibal)
(she defo isnt the canibal but that look is very dissaproving mom. she probally witnessed it and scolded the person then went "boys will do weird boy things")
So Denise is married…. What if I PUNch her husband and steal her with a pun?
Ok I have more Denise headcanons now:
- Her son is a criminal who assaulted the woman on the train
- Denise’s husband blamed her for their son’s behavior, saying she was a bad mother and it was her fault for raising him wrong
- So when Denise found out her son was also a cannibal, she helped hide the evidence, especially from her husband because she knows if he finds out he’ll divorce her
- She’s also torn, because she’s a repressed lesbian, and thinks Susan (the other woman on the show) is really cute
- Now Denise is realizing she made a mistake, and wondering how to turn in her son for cannibalism without getting in trouble for hiding the evidence in the first place, and then plot how to win the divorce against her husband
-the murder-suicide said on the news was the ex husband and his mistress. she was gonna turn the son into police so the husband killed her then in guilthimself.
and denise "accidentally" enters susans chnage room on accident
Additionally, the woman who was assaulted on the train was a woman Denise was cheating on her husband with. Her son found out and killed her to keep their marriage together
NSFW Denise headcanons:
- She narrates sex in her news anchor voice, puns included obviously
- She sings the opening channel 4 theme song during foreplay, and the closing channel 4 theme song during afterplay
I kinda don’t have any sfw ideas for her anymore other than
She is really into foreplay. She likes lots of suspense. And she’s humming the news 4 whatever song.
Once her and Susan develop dealings, one of them is afraid to be public but for adrenaline they like to fuck in the closet or maybe hair and makeup room before recording
ONG I WAS LEANING TOWARDS THAT. Susan probally has internalized homophobia while even if Denise is a repressed lesbian, she is kinda proud of it. Once her and Susan start hooking up Denise wants to move really fast while Susan is still so unsure .
(God we should be like improv people or smt like from on snl skit we are creating cinema)
anygays, Denice goes back onto the night news where she keeps making puns and everything but she is very upset still and maybe one day she starts crying on camera when the cannibal (her son) was caught and is facing charges…..
Imagine a TV in your elevator so you can watch Channel 4 and listen to Denise make excited puns about tragedy the whole RIDE and then you get to pretend to RIDE Denise’s strap
(Side note but are we positive Denise isn’t the cannibal…? She looks guilty. Or maybe not guilty, but she looks like she’s having an “oh shit” moment. She either IS the cannibal or KNOWS the cannibal)
(she defo isnt the canibal but that look is very dissaproving mom. she probally witnessed it and scolded the person then went "boys will do weird boy things")
So Denise is married…. What if I PUNch her husband and steal her with a pun?
Ok I have more Denise headcanons now:
- Her son is a criminal who assaulted the woman on the train
- Denise’s husband blamed her for their son’s behavior, saying she was a bad mother and it was her fault for raising him wrong
- So when Denise found out her son was also a cannibal, she helped hide the evidence, especially from her husband because she knows if he finds out he’ll divorce her
- She’s also torn, because she’s a repressed lesbian, and thinks Susan (the other woman on the show) is really cute
- Now Denise is realizing she made a mistake, and wondering how to turn in her son for cannibalism without getting in trouble for hiding the evidence in the first place, and then plot how to win the divorce against her husband
-the murder-suicide said on the news was the ex husband and his mistress. she was gonna turn the son into police so the husband killed her then in guilthimself.
and denise "accidentally" enters susans chnage room on accident
Additionally, the woman who was assaulted on the train was a woman Denise was cheating on her husband with. Her son found out and killed her to keep their marriage together
NSFW Denise headcanons:
- She narrates sex in her news anchor voice, puns included obviously
- She sings the opening channel 4 theme song during foreplay, and the closing channel 4 theme song during afterplay
I kinda don’t have any sfw ideas for her anymore other than
She is really into foreplay. She likes lots of suspense. And she’s humming the news 4 whatever song.
Once her and Susan develop dealings, one of them is afraid to be public but for adrenaline they like to fuck in the closet or maybe hair and makeup room before recording
ONG I WAS LEANING TOWARDS THAT. Susan probally has internalized homophobia while even if Denise is a repressed lesbian, she is kinda proud of it. Once her and Susan start hooking up Denise wants to move really fast while Susan is still so unsure .
(God we should be like improv people or smt like from on snl skit we are creating cinema)
anygays, Denice goes back onto the night news where she keeps making puns and everything but she is very upset still and maybe one day she starts crying on camera when the cannibal (her son) was caught and is facing charges…..