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@RedRoomGhost- hanging out?

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@RedRoomGhost- 
            First meeting 

NATASHA ROMANOFF AU
            
            VISAGE ; Sophia Skelton
            
            PORTRAYAL ; my own 
            
            PENNED BY @Breadss-
            
            EST - 1/11/2025

Her adjustment was further complicated by the presence of another familiar-yet-different figure: Deadpool. Unlike the comrade-in-arms she may have known in Earth-295, this Wade Wilson in 616 had a reputation for chaos. He seemed to resent the X-Men, shirking their authority at every turn, preferring to follow his own bloody whims. She didn’t entirely disagree with his rejection of strict hierarchy — after all, she’d fought in a war where rules often meant death — but her instincts still drew her toward teamwork and shared responsibility. His independence both unsettled and intrigued her, leaving her torn between the discipline of the X-Men and the pull of Wade’s anarchic freedom.
            
            Now stranded in 616, she exists in a space between worlds. To the X-Men, she is a soldier with knowledge of battles they’ve never fought, hardened by a reality where they never truly “won.” To herself, she is a survivor wrestling with whether she can belong to this world’s dream — or if she’s destined to walk the blurred line between Xavier’s vision, Magneto’s mentorship, and Wade’s unpredictability.

But the war was merciless. When she was gravely wounded in battle, Magneto and his allies made the painful choice to send her away, knowing she would not survive without intervention. Through dimensional means, she was cast into Earth-616, where she awoke to a world that was both familiar and alien.
            
            Here, Charles Xavier was alive, his dream still intact, and his X-Men thriving in ways hers never could. The sight of them — whole, organized, with resources she could only dream of — was at once inspiring and heartbreaking. She was haunted by the knowledge of what her Charles might have accomplished if he’d lived, and by the fact that the Magneto who raised her could never exist here in quite the same way.
            

Hailing from Earth-295, her life unfolded in the shadow of tragedy. On her world, Charles Xavier never lived long enough to realize his dream of coexistence; his untimely death became the catalyst that allowed Apocalypse to rise unchecked. Mutants and humans alike were crushed beneath his dominion.
            
            She was taken in and raised by Magneto, who, despite his reputation as a revolutionary, had been profoundly changed by Charles’ sacrifice. Magneto forged his own version of the X-Men, not out of conquest, but as a tribute to the dream Charles had never had the chance to complete. With them, she grew into both a soldier and a believer — fighting in the desperate resistance to halt Apocalypse’s tyranny. Her loyalty was unwavering, her identity bound to the idea of mutantkind united against a greater evil.