absolution /ˌabsəˈluːʃn/ When half of the universe vanished, the heroes and villains did too. Earth was left a graveyard of quiet, rot-stained cities, full of children who were forced to inhale the dust of their families. Fourteen-year-old Maren didn't survive the collapse by being good. She survived by being quick, terrified, and ruthless. Now, carrying a violence she never asked for and a guilt that eats her alive from the inside out, she finds herself at the gates of the half-empty Avengers compound, built for gods who couldn't save anyone, least of all themselves. Caught in the space between grief and survival, Maren has to learn how to exist in the wreckage alongside the broken remains of Earth's mightiest. But forgiveness isn't something given freely in a dead world. It is something carved out of the long, bitter years of learning how to stay human when everything around you has turned to waste.

Following the collapse of the Avengers, Natasha Romanoff has disappeared. However, the Red Room doesn't believe in disappearing. It believes in assets, and it just sent its most lethal one to bring her in. When a child assassin in a cat mask is sent for her, a decades old lie begins to unravel. The young girl isn't just a soldier, she is a biological anomaly, a shared project of Hydra and the Red Room, and the daughter Natasha was told had died years ago. Now, on the run from the world, Natasha is forced to navigate a reunion she never thought possible: a daughter who fears her, a sister she hasn't seen in years, and their "parents" who let all of this happen, Natasha must return to where everything began. The Red Room is still active. Dreykov is still breathing. And he wants his most valuable project back. -- Content Warning: This story explores sensitive themes that some readers may find upsetting. Please prioritise your well being and read only if you feel comfortable. I am not connected to the MCU or any of its official material. All original characters in this story, including Rose, who draws inspiration from Rose Romanova of Marvel Comics, are my creations. Full credit goes to Marvel for the original character that inspired her. Please ask before using Rose or any other characters I've created. If you'd like to see more content, I also post edits and other creative pieces related to this story on my TikTok account: @theredwidowp. I'd love for you to follow and join me there! Kindly do not translate, copy, or republish this story without permission. Thank you so much for reading and supporting my work, it truly means a lot! -- #1 redroom 22/05/26

Eight-year-old Maylee Sokolova was raised in the Red Room, a 'program' where you're nothing but a shadow of what you once were. Karina, who was also raised in the Red Room, is 12 years old and has been through hell and back. She tries her best to help Maylee after realizing they were putting her through the same torture she endured. Karina and Maylee escape together. Maylee seeks comfort and a sense of belonging in the world, while Karina seeks revenge. Her first act of revenge is against Tony Stark, the one she believes killed her parents. But things go south quickly, S.H.I.E.L.D. finds the two and takes them in. Karina mysteriously dies, leaving the eight-year-old all alone with her demons. But little does she know she's not alone, because Natasha Romanoff, an ex-assassin, relates to the kid just a little too much to leave her alone .ᐟ.ᐟ IN MY OPINION THE FIRST TEN OR SO CHAPTERS ARE NOT THE BEST! COVER MADE BY @theredwidow !! - top ranks!! 🥇in #theredroom 12/21/25 🥇In #blackwidow 3/19/26

Domesticating foxes was the stupidest thing humanity could ever do. But for Hydra, It was brilliant. Her names Matilda Rogers, her english is poor, she has a bad attitude. Oh and did i mention she's a shape shifter? - Matilda Rogers belongs to me, all other characters belong to Marvel :)

Anastasia has a past... But what past? when the small child was found roaming New York by Natasha Romanoff she instantly worried for her. Why wouldn't you? A little girl limping with blood running from her nose and a pleading expression in her Ocean blue eyes. Nat instantly took her back to Avengers tower so she could find out what happened to her but there was nothing. No past. No parents. Just a name Anastasia Ivanov. MARVEL ROMANOGERS

𝙰𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚜: 𝙰𝚐𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚄𝚕𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚗 when the avengers conquer the hydra base, find the sceptre, manage to gain a child, and also create a murder bot... is it possible for it to get worse? probably. is it going to? probably. but hey, who doesn't love fighting a murder-bot? #1 in experiment (30.11.19) COVER BY @-JUBILEELlNE [unedited] [19K words] book one in the "RAYS OF LIGHT" series SEQUEL IS UP - through the shadows (complete!)

Anya has been through a lot. She was taken by Hydra at the age of 2 right after the first shell hit. She then was raised, trained, and expiremented on there. But one day, when the Avengers come to attack the base for something important, she was given one job, and that job was to protect the artifact. Anya has to runaway, in fear of being killed. But she then runs into someone special. Someone no one would see coming. [I'm bad at descriptions but oh well] [I DON'T OWN ANY CHARACTERS BESIDES MY OWN]

Wanda's and Pietro's little sister

Sasha Romanoff 18, daughter of famous black widow, Natasha Romanoff but she doesn't know that... She was taken at birth raised by Madame B in a secret facility in Russia. She looks like Natasha, red hair green eyes. She has nothing but a small lion stuffed animal with a small silver chain around the neck that her mother gave her. When she was 4 she was already the best in her class and youngest. She went on her first mission at 8. Killed her first person at 10. Then a special project came along and she was volunteered, handed off to hydra to experiment and test her at 13. She was sent back at 16. She was remade, her code name red lion. She's killed hundreds, ruthless, cold, no emotion. Then the red room was taken down and she went into hiding with Madame B, then after almost a year, A.I.M was starting to surface and Madame B started to work with them and you were their new weapon. Toy. Thing to use...once again. Now you're 18 and had enough of being a toy, a weapon, so you destroyed the whole base leaving no one alive, the avengers happen to be raiding that base and find what Sasha left behind. Only a blood soaked lion left behind, one that Natasha knows all to well.

when 16 year old Natasha gets pregnant during a mission for the red room and Dreykov takes the baby and Natasha is made to believe that the baby is dead years later the avengers find a widow what happens when Nat finds out she is her daughter.