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**Mikhaila Niklausovna Novikov-Griffith** (Russian: **Михаила Никлаусовна Новиков-Гриффит**) was one of the most talented spies and assassins in the entire world and a founding member of the Avengers. As a child, she was indoctrinated into the Red Room by General Dreykov, and briefly lived as the surrogate daughter of Alexei Shostakov and Melina Vostokoff while they were undercover in the United States of America. After the Destruction of the North Institute, she underwent extensive psychological conditioning, before graduating from the Red Room as a Widow. Working as an operative for the KGB, she was targeted by S.H.I.E.L.D., before given the chance to ultimately defect to the organization by Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff, her former surrogate sister.

Having extensive mastery in martial arts and armed with her Widow's Bite, Novikoff became one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most efficient agents, using the title given by her former organization as her codename, Silver Widow. Novikoff eventually married Elijah Mikaelson. When Loki declared war on the Earth, Novikoff was recruited into the Avengers after Hawkeye had just been enthralled by Loki. Novikoff assisted in recruiting Stark and Bruce Banner into the team while they tracked down and attempted to capture Loki, eventually saving Barton from his grasp. Once Loki's entire plan had been uncovered, Novikoff joined the team during the Battle of New York and was instrumental in destroying the portal over the city which had been created by the Tesseract, effectively ending the entire invasion while Loki was defeated and deported back to his homeworld by his brother Thor.

In the wake of the Avengers successfully defeating Loki, Novikoff continued her work with S.H.I.E.L.D., this time working with Captain America. While working together, Novikoff, Romanoff, and Rogers uncovered a conspiracy following an assassination attempt on Nick Fury, which had eventually led to them discovering that HYDRA had been infiltrating their entire organization since its foundation. Despite the efforts of the Winter Soldier to stop them, Novikoff helped expose Alexander Pierce's evil schemes to the world, which also resulted in all of her own morally dubious history being revealed. As a result, Novikoff was forced into dropping off the grid again and began rebuilding her cover. She traveled to New Orleans after not hearing from Elijah for a few months. There Novikoff learned that her brother-in-law had gotten a werewolf pregnant. Novikoff worked with Rebekah and Elijah to protect the child and the mother, Hayley Marshall. After the child, Hope, was born

Novikoff worked as a vigilante, trying to protect the people of New Orleans until she intercepted messages from her former surrogate sister Yelena Belova about the Red Room's resurgence. In possession of the Red Dust, Novikoff, Romanoff and Belova were relentlessly pursued by Taskmaster, who worked for Dreykov, who was believed to have been killed. Reuniting with her surrogate parents, they worked together to bring down the Red Room once and for all. Upon learning Taskmaster was actually Antonia, who had survived all these years but was mind-controlled by Dreykov, Volkoff freed her from Dreykov's enthrallment, and put an end to Dreykov's plans for world domination. After parting her ways with Romanoff and Belova, Novikoff returned to New Orleans before she was killed by Thanos' Snap.

Upon her resurrection in the Blip in 2023, Novikoff attempted to seek out Romanoff, but was informed that she had died. After visiting Romanoff's grave with Belova, Novikoff reunites with Elijah and the two married before adopting a daughter. She was then given an assignment by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine to kill Emil Blonsky, though she was stopped by She-Hulk and Daredevil. Novikoff ended up abandoning her mission and departed to New York where she was living.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Taken During Infancy

Mikaela Xena Novikoff-Mikaelson was born on September 11, 1986 in Stalingrad, Soviet Union. As an infant, she was deemed by the Red Room to possess genetic potential, and was taken from her mother, Dorothy Foster, shortly after birth. However, Volkoff's mother was not in agreement and proceeded to search for her, until General Dreykov had her killed to prevent the Red Room Program's existence from being revealed. Melina Vostokoff was incharge of the team tasked with kidnapping the infant and was the one to name the small child.

#### Temporary Family Life

Volkoff was brought up within the Red Room Academy, where she endured both an education and indoctrination into the world of spy-craft. Volkoff became the star pupil in in this strict training environment. In 1992, Volkoff was granted a reprieve from the Red Room and was given an undercover assignment. Along with two another girls named Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova, the three acted as the daughters of Alexei Shostakov and Melina Vostokoff and relocated to the United States of America, where Shostakov and Vostakoff were tasked with retrieving cognitive data from the North Institute, a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility secretly run by HYDRA. For three years the four lived as an American family in Ohio and while aware that the family aspect was a simple ruse, Volkoff loved them all like they were her actual family while Shostakov and Vostokoff loved the two as their daughters.

In 1995, Shostakov successfully stole the data and burned down the North Institute. Realizing that they had to leave Ohio and that she had to return to the Red Room, Volkoff became upset while Vostakoff apologized. As they fled to an airstrip, they faced resistance from S.H.I.E.L.D. as they traveled to Cuba. Upon arriving, Volkoff apologized to Vostakoff, who told her not to let the Red Room take her heart.

As soldiers attempted to take Belova away, Volkoff and Romanoff went to Belova's defense and held the soldiers at gunpoint while Belova clung to them. As Volkoff threatened to shoot the guards, Shostakov attempted to calm her down. Volkoff expressed her refusal to return to the Red Room or to allow Belova to be indoctrinated into the program, citing Belova's age, to which Shostakov reminded her that she was even younger. As he took the gun from her, Shostakov told Volkoff that she, Romanoff, and Belova would be all right, and that they were to take care of each other. However, on Dreykov's signal, Volkoff, Romanoff, and Belova were sedated and placed on a plane headed to the Red Room Academy.

#### Red Room Training

Volkoff awoke in a cargo container with several other girls, watching as Dreykov told his men which girls to kill and which to take. As a guard took Belova and Volkoff away, Romanoff rushed to her younger sister's side and gave them a photograph of their family before another guard pulled her away. Returning to the Red Room Academy, she resumed her prior training, undergoing psychological conditioning and physical training, while exceeding in her marksmanship abilities. During one of her training exercises, she was forced to execute an innocent man, which would later haunt her.

As a final ceremony to complete her training, Volkoff was given an involuntary hysterectomy and had her ovaries and uterus removed, with the Red Room citing the need for sterilization as they believed pregnancy was the one thing that would prevent a Widow from completing their mission, a procedure which she deeply regretted later in her life. Following her graduation, Volkoff was given the mantle of "Silver Widow" and was placed in the KGB by General Dreykov, and soon became regarded as a master spy and one of the world's greatest assassins. In one of her missions, she killed many members of a prostitution ring and set the place on fire. However, she left the innocent women inside.

#### Freed

Due to both her expertise and her growing threat to global security, Volkoff quickly appeared on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s radar, prompting Nick Fury to send Clint Barton and newly rescued Natasha Romanoff to eliminate her. Volkoff was sent to Morocco on an assignment with a team of Widows to retrieve a vial of Niklaus Mikaelson's blood: a powerful substance due to his title of Original Hybrid. The team managed to locate the target holding the vials but it turned out to be a trap set by SHIELD. Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff ended up freeing Volkoff instead of killing her, despite their assignment.

### Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

#### Partners

As part of her induction, Volkoff had to inform Fury of her training from the Red Room Academy. Following her defection, she formed a lasting partnership with Romanoff and Barton, becoming best friends with them. The three of them had tactical missions in many other locations.The trio grew so close that Volkoff was the only other person beside Romanoff that Barton told about his secret family. She became a good friend to Barton's wife, Laura, and adopted an aunt-like relationship with their children, Cooper and Lila. Volkoff even trusted Barton enough to talk about Yelena Belova and how much she loved and missed her.

#### Family

As Volkoff worked as a SHIELD agent she was sought out by Elijah Mikaelson, who wanted to teach her about her birth family. Despite being wary at first, Volkoff listened and eventually began training with Elijah to master her skills. He taught her to use her abilities of Mind Compilation properly while also teaching her to fight off supernatural creatures. After meeting him, Volkoff began taking Vervain to protect her against other Vampires that might try to kill her.

#### Ambushed by the Winter Soldier

In 2009, on one of her earliest S.H.I.E.L.D. missions, Volkoff was assigned to protect a nuclear scientist. Despite having escorted the engineer from Iran and successfully made it to the rendezvous in Odessa, Ukraine, Volkoff and the scientist were both ambushed by the Winter Soldier, an assassin sent by HYDRA to neutralize the scientist as he was deemed a threat.

Although she and the scientist were pushed over a cliff, Volkoff managed to save both herself and the man she was protecting. Seeing this, the Winter Soldier fired a single round through Volkoff's stomach and into the scientist, effectively killing him. After this encounter, Volkoff would go on to attempt to track down the Winter Soldier for an unspecified amount of time but was forced to give up after accepting that he was more elusive than any other enemy she had encountered.

### Chitauri Invasion

#### Rescue Missions

Volkoff was tasked by S.H.I.E.L.D. with find and take down Madame B. who had escaped the supposed take down of the Red Room and was out trying to disrupt the balance between Supernatural and Mortal world. Volkoff was sent to spy on Madame's activities in Russia, however, she found that Elijah had been kidnapped by her and turned the mission into a Rescue. She entered the room where he was being held and began to question Madame B. in order to find more information and hold off Elijah's torture. Her interrogation was interrupted when Phil Coulson called and requested to speak to Volkoff. When Madame asked who was speaking to her, Coulson responded with the threat of sending a missile strike to their current location within the next thirteen seconds and assured her that her and his henchmen wouldn't have time to make it out of the facility.

Coulson informed Volkoff that she needed to come in which she initially refused as she was in the middle of an interrogation and was working at getting more information out of the former Red Room teacher, but Coulson claimed that she had to come in now as a certain situation involving S.H.I.E.L.D. took precedence over her mission. Once Coulson informed her that Clint Barton was compromised following Loki's threat on Earth as an incentive. Volkoff put Coulson on hold and then immediately took down Madame B. and her men before rescuing Elijah. After having explained to Volkoff that Barton's whereabouts were unknown, Coulson told Volkoff to go recruit the newly unfrozen Captain America.

#### Recruiting Captain America

Volkoff traveled to New York City where she met with Steve Rogers in his gym, where he was still trying to cope with having been asleep for nearly seventy years, with Volkoff suggesting that he should be out celebrating his survival and enjoying the new world he was in. Rogers, however, noted that when he disappeared, World War II was still being fought and he had only recently learned that it was won soon afterwards, although Rogers was still unsure of what America had lost. Volkoff then noted that they made some mistakes along the way, and confessed that some of these mistakes had been made very recently.

Volkoff then informed Rogers that he had come there with a mission for him, noting that she was trying to save the entire world before handing Rogers the file about the Tesseract, which she noted had been found in the ocean by Howard Stark while he had still been searching for Rogers in the 1940s. Volkoff then explained what S.H.I.E.L.D. had been doing with the Tesseract and went on to explain the current situation to Rogers, hoping that he would be able to provide them with some insight into the Tesseract after seeing Red Skull using it for HYDRA's ultimate goals of world domination, although Rogers was mortified that the Tesseract had fallen into the wrong hands once again.

As Rogers then questioned who took the Tesseract from them, Volkoff explained how Loki had taken it and was from another world, as they made a bet over whether or not anything could still surprise Rogers now he was in this new world. As Rogers left, Volkoff had asked for any more information, with Rogers telling him the best thing that could be done with it would be losing it in the ocean. Although Rogers was unhappy when he learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. had been in possession of the Tesseract, Volkoff was able to recruit him.

#### Assembling on the Helicarrier

Volkoff met up on the Helicarrier with Romanoff, Rogers, Bruce Banner, and Phil Coulson. She introduced the two before Romanoff told Coulson that he was needed on the bridge. The two then walked together and got acquainted and asked him if Coulson asked him to sign his trading cards. Romanoff then explained that Coulson's cards were vintage and was proud of owning them.

She introduced Rogers to Banner, despite the two having an awkward conversation initially with the latter having conceived that Rogers cared only about Banner's use. As Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. decided to lift the Helicarrier into the air, Romanoff recommended that they move inside as it would become hard to breathe. The Helicarrier then began to take off so the three went inside and headed towards the main control room which contained Agents Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, Jasper Sitwell, and Maria Hill. Inside the Helicarrier, Romanoff assisted Nick Fury and other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in their global search for Clint Barton.

Banner observed their work and asked them what they were doing, to which Fury responded that they were searching for Barton, who was missing, using cell phone signals, cameras, wireless phones, to triangulate his location, but Romanoff warned that using that method wouldn't find Barton and Loki in time so they could thwart his next plan. Under Fury's orders, Romanoff showed Banner to his new laboratory aboard the Helicarrier, promising that S.H.I.E.L.D. has the scientific and modernly advanced resources and equipment for him to complete his work.[2]

#### Capturing Loki

"I'd sit this one out, Cap."

"I don't see how I can."

"These guys come from legends, they're basically gods."

"There's only one God, ma'am. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that."

―Black Widow and Captain America[src]

S.H.I.E.L.D. located Loki in Stuttgart, Germany and Romanoff flew on Quinjet to this location with Steve Rogers. As Captain America fought Loki, Romanoff tried to get a shot at Loki but was unable to due to Loki using his magic to make multiple illusions of himself appear. Suddenly, loud AC/DC'S "Shoot to Thrill" started to play on the Quinjet as Iron Man flew in to help while greeting Romanoff. They succeed in capturing Loki and brought him on the Quinjet to take him to the Helicarrier.

Romanoff pilots the Quinjet

On their way back in the Helicarrier, Nick Fury asked Romanoff whether Loki had said anything, which Romanoff informed him that Loki had stayed silent. Suddenly, an unexpected lightning storm was taking place and Thor suddenly entered the Quinjet and left with Loki in tow. Romanoff asked if Thor was another Asgardian as Iron Man went to retrieve him. Rogers then went to join Stark, even though Romanoff warned him that he should sit this one out as Thor and Loki came from legends and were basically gods, but he chose to fight anyway.[2]

#### Interrogating Loki

Romanoff discusses Loki

"I've got red in my ledger, I'd like to wipe it out."

"Can you? Can you wipe out that much red? Dreykov's daughter? São Paulo? The hospital fire? Barton told me everything."

―Natasha Romanoff and Loki[src]

As Loki was being locked up, Romanoff listened in as he and Nick Fury talked to each other. Romanoff told Thor that Erik Selvig and Clint Barton are under Loki's control. When Thor told Bruce Banner to take care of how he speaks about Loki as he is his brother, Romanoff nonchalantly informed him that Loki had killed eighty people in two days making Thor state that Loki was adopted. Romanoff decided to interrogate Loki and find out his intentions. Romanoff approached the demigod Loki, undetected so she could interrogate Loki which he noted that not a lot of people could sneak up on him.

Romanoff interrogates Loki in his cell

Romanoff wanted to know what Loki has done with Clint Barton which Loki told her that he had expanded his mind. Whenever Romanoff asked what would happen to Barton after Loki had conquered Earth, Loki questioned Romanoff's feelings asking if it was love. Romanoff made it clear that she owed Barton a debt and she told Loki about her history with Barton. Loki instead told Romanoff that she fought in the service of killers her whole life, asking her if she would be willing to sacrifice the fate of humanity for the safety of Barton.

Romanoff skillfully learns Loki's plan

Romanoff decided to pretend to break down her barriers to Loki so he would reveal his plans. Loki then began to taunt Romanoff telling her about her history which Barton had told him about. Loki then told Romanoff that he would force Barton to kill Romanoff but he ended up revealing that he planned on unleashing Hulk. Romanoff then warned S.H.I.E.L.D. about Loki's plan and went to escort Banner to his room.[2]

#### Loki's Manipulation

Romanoff listens to Nick Fury's admission

"Loki is manipulating you."

"And you've been doing what exactly?"

"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you."

"And I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy."

―Natasha Romanoff and Bruce Banner[src]

After figuring out Loki's plan to unleash Hulk, Romanoff swiftly left the interrogation room made her way to the lab Bruce Banner was working in to escort him to his designated room in an attempt to thwart Loki's plans from coming to fruition. Banner looked at Romanoff shocked, asking her if she knew about Phase 2, which involved S.H.I.E.L.D. using the Tesseract to create weapons, which is what the Avengers believed Nick Fury wanted them for.

Romanoff with the Avengers

Romanoff instead attempted to convince Banner to leave the room as his transformation into Hulk and subsequent rampage was an integral part of Loki's escape plan. After Banner reminded them that he remained peacefully unbothered for two years in Kolkata, India, Romanoff then warned him a second time that Loki was manipulating him and using him as well as the rest of the Avengers to finally put his plans of the Chitauri Invasion into effect, which Banner did not believe and only thought about Fury's lie and still wondered if Romanoff knew about the second phase.

Romanoff during the Avengers' argument

A shocked Banner then asked her what she was doing the whole time, to which she responded that he did not willingly come to the Helicarrier to assist the Avengers in finding the Tesseract just to watch her. An argument erupted between the Avengers due to the effects of the Mind Stone. While the group argued, Clint Barton, under the control of Loki, fired an explosive arrow onto the Helicarrier which blew up the lab. Romanoff was briefly knocked out and she and Banner were thrown into another room.[2]

#### Attack on the Helicarrier

Romanoff is horrified by Hulk's emergence

"Dr. Banner... Bruce, you gotta fight it. This is just what Loki wants. We're gonna be okay. Listen to me. We're gonna be okay, right? I swear on my life, I will get you out of this! You will walk away, and never–"

"Your life?"

―Natasha Romanoff and Bruce Banner[src]

Whilst Romanoff lay senseless on the floor, a large piece of equipment had fallen on to her foot, and she awoke to find herself trapped with Bruce Banner transforming into Hulk. Romanoff attempted to calm Banner down, but he was in too much pain. Romanoff saw two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents coming to help, but she told them to leave, knowing they would be in danger. As Romanoff tried to free herself, she witnessed as Banner transformed into Hulk, leaving Romanoff horrified.

Romanoff is nearly killed by Hulk

Romanoff eventually freed herself and attempted to escape from Hulk. Filled with rage, Hulk chased after Romanoff. Romanoff tried to hide from Hulk but she could not escape from him. Romanoff attempted to fend herself off from Hulk and barely did causing her to try to run away from Hulk. Hulk managed to outrun Romanoff and threw her aside, which winded her and broke two of her ribs. As Hulk moved to kill Romanoff, Thor charged into Hulk saving Romanoff.

Romanoff fights a mind controlled Barton

Still traumatized after her encounter with Hulk, Romanoff was forced to recover to take on Clint Barton who was under Loki's control. Barton was walking down the Helicarrier when he was confronted by Romanoff who snuck up behind him in an attempt to disarm him. He immediately turned around sensing her presence and the two friends had a prolonged fight using her combat skills, Romanoff was able to fight Barton and defend herself from his attacks with his bow and arrows and knife.

Romanoff is almost killed by Clint Barton

Barton fired several arrows at, although Romanoff was able to dodge them, agilely moving between the confounded area. Barton used all his top-level training to kill his friend, and Romanoff was able to steal Barton's bow off him, causing him to draw out his knife. When the fight got dirtier, including attempting to drive the knife into her neck while pulling her hair back, Romanoff used her teeth to bite him in order to disarm Barton, forcing him to drop his knife. Despite this, Barton was no match for Romanoff's speed and agility.

Romanoff has Clint Barton taken away

Eventually, she got the upper hand, disarming him and slammed Barton's head onto a steel pipe. The blow weakened Loki's grip on Barton's mind and he recognized Romanoff, calling her by her first name before she knocked him out with a final strong punch to the head, breaking his connection to Loki and restoring his mind. Romanoff watched as Barton was taken away by a S.H.I.E.L.D. team to be rehabilitated. She was then informed of Phil Coulson's death by Nick Fury.[2]

#### Clint Barton's Recovery

Romanoff helping Clint Barton recover

"Do you know what it's like to be unmade?"

"You know I do."

―Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff[src]

After Romanoff defeated Clint Barton, he was arrested and tied down until it was certain that Loki's control was gone and he was no longer a threat. Romanoff looked after Barton in the recovery room, listening to him as he described the experience, which he compared to being unmade, which Romanoff understood from past experiences.

Romanoff is recruited by Captain America

Despite him asking, Romanoff refused to tell Barton how many S.H.I.E.L.D. agents he had killed, telling him that Loki and Loki alone was responsible for the killings and he must not blame himself. When Captain America arrived to ask Romanoff if she could pilot a Quinjet, Barton told him he could. After Romanoff gave him the nod of approval, Rogers allowed Barton to join them on the mission.[2]

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Enhanced Senses:** Despite being blind from birth, Eliza's remaining four senses are enhanced to a superhuman level, resulting in them becoming radar-like. She claims to constantly feel numerous things, including balance, direction, minuscule changes in air density, vibrations, and blankets of temperature variations, that are usually imperceptible to human beings. That, combined with her acute hearing and olfactory senses, allows Eliza to evaluate her surroundings in what she describes as an "Impressionistic painting" of the world around her, which, according to her is completely black like a starless night sky. Her superhumanly enhanced senses grant her tremendous awareness of her surroundings on a wide range, thus makes her extremely alert to danger. Eliza's senses, however, can be extremely overloaded at high vibrational levels which cause her extreme discomfort and disorientation.
	+ **Enhanced Hearing:** Eliza's hearing is sharper than a bat's and is extremely acute, she can clearly hear conversations, heartbeats and even breaths from several meters. Hearing the changes in people's heartbeats allows her to predict how they feel and what actions they'll take, such as attack or run. She also is able to memorize patterns of sounds to use them to track people later. When forced to improvise, Eliza was able to effectively keep track movements by listening to breaths and the sound of weapons cutting through the air. Eliza's hearing also makes her an adept thief, as she is able to skillfully bypass a combination safe. Eliza is also able to detect 25 individual heartbeats of various henchmen throughout builds.
		- **Lie Detection:** Eliza's hearing is so acute, that she can tell whether people are lying or not, based on the rate of their heartbeats.
	+ **Enhanced Smell:** Eliza's incredible olfactory senses which are even sharper than a dog allows her to detect the scent of stale cigarettes and cheap cologne three floors above her and through several walls. When she was a child, her sense was already so acute, she could smell that an old man sitting at a bench across from him had cancer. By smelling an old cigarette, Eliza could tell that whoever smoked it previously had rotten teeth.
	+ **Enhanced Taste:** Eliza was able to tell that someone had ripped open some of the stitches on their back, due to tasting copper in the air from the blood of the open wound. Stick taught her how to train this sense, which allowed her to pick out every individual ingredient of the ice cream she was eating, including that the milk used came from three different dairy farms, and that the man who served her used a certain type of soil in his garden.
	+ **Enhanced Touch:** Eliza can feel the presence of those around her through vibrations, air currents, and body temperatures. She can dodge attacks and projectiles by feeling them cut through the air, creating ripples of currents only detectable by her. She locates enemies through walls and from different floors by feeling the vibrations they make from moving, such as their footsteps. While in exile and temporarily powerless, Eliza was soon able to feel the vibrations from the subway lines running deep under the church. She used these vibrations to track and scan her environment, and to regain some of her strength and balance.
		- **Thermoreception:** Eliza can sense changes in heat in the environment. She could even feel the heat generated from the blood spilling from a gunshot wound; to one-half of a degree, she was able to distinguish the difference in temperature.
		- **Electroreception:** Eliza is able to detect electric fields, similar to a shark. She was able to find a hidden room by feeling an electrical current coming from behind the wall. She could hear the electricity buzzing inside the wall and felt a stop in the current where the mechanism for unlocking the secret room was.
	+ **Enhanced Balance:** Eliza's sense of balance is superhuman, giving her excellent equilibrium, coordination, dexterity, and agility, resulting in high levels of acrobatic and gymnastic ability.
		- **Enhanced Agility:** Thanks to her senses, Eliza’s agility is greater than even the finest athletes. She can traverse the city with speed and grace, by flipping, jumping, and swinging. She can dodge bullet fire, even at near point blank range, and can completely outmaneuver most enemies. She was also able to traverse down a multilevel parking garage in mere seconds, by jumping and flipping between the floors.
	+ **Enhanced Reflexes:** Eliza's reflexes are enhanced to superhuman level. Even before her training with Stick, she could effortlessly catch keys thrown to her while hearing the sound they made. She can instinctively react to oncoming blows nearly effortlessly with the use of her other senses, such as avoiding attacks with a sharp weapon at close quarters by hearing the noise of its approach, and even dodging bullets fired at close range. Because her reflexes are enhanced by her hyperawareness, Eliza is capable of reacting to objects being thrown in her direction with lightning-fast reaction time.
* **Enhanced Strength:** As a part Vampire, Eliza possesses enhanced strength which allows her to perform incredible physical feats. Though she isn't as strong as most Vampire's or even Dhampir, she is able to compete with them and use her skills in things like martial arts to make up for it.
* **Mental Shield:** Eliza processes a raw supernatural force-field that blocks any and all kinds of psychic powers that act on invading the mind. Since she is mostly human, she considers this power a "glitch" in her head. Her shield seems to be based on her "private mind," a place where no one can harm her. It also made her very desirable to Aro, who likes to collect vampires with special abilities for the Volturi guard. It is known to be unbreakable to psychic powers. Eventually Eliza was able to fit others under her shield, sometimes by accident (with Stick) and sometimes on purpose (with Jasper and Derek). Stick, though limited in knowledge of Vampires, was able to teach her how to shield herself from Alice's powers, since she saw it as an invasion on her mind's privacy in making decisions.
* **Compulsion:**
* **Accelerated Healing:** Since she is part Vampire, Eliza possesses the ability to heal from injuries faster than most. This ability also extends to her immune system, granting her almost immunity to all human diseases and conditions, as well as making it harder for her to become drunk on alcohol or high on drugs as a result of her body healing her damaged cells too quickly. On the other hand, Eliza's enhanced senses make it so if she does get sick or hungover it is excruciatingly painful since all of her senses are turned from 15 to 150.

### Abilities

* **Master Martial Artist:** Eliza is an extremely skilled and formidable hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist. Despite being blind, Eliza was rigorously trained in martial arts by Stick at a young age, and excelled in it, she later continued to train himself with the help of Jasper Hale and Derek Hale despite Stick giving up on her. Eliza eventually used her skills to fight crime and help out the Supernatural, and with several years of combat experience, making her one of the most powerful and best fighters on the planet. Eliza's fighting style incorporates boxing, Sambo, Hapkido, Krav Maga, Wing Chun, Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Taijutsu, Fencing, and Kali. She combines an acrobatic style of fighting with a more direct and hands-on. She takes practical approaches to her fights and is able to quickly use her surroundings to her advantage and use random items as improvised weaponry. By the time she met Stick again, Eliza rivaled her former mentor in skill, managing to keep up with him in an intense one-on-one duel and ultimately overpowering him, earning Stick's praise. Eliza often used her enhanced senses to her advantage in combat, seen when she knocked out the lights while fighting, putting her enemies at a disadvantage during the fight due to their decreased visibility whereas Eliza was not. Even though Eliza usually choose to use non-lethal weapons, she is skilled at using a sword in combat. She briefly used the katana against the Hand ninjas before being disarmed during the fight.
* **Staff Mastery:** Thanks to her early training with Stick, Eliza is extremely skilled at using staves and similar melee weapons in combat. The billy club that she uses maximize this skill by being able to easily change between different combinations of weapons, such as two batons or nunchaku.
* **Master Marksman:** Because of her enhanced senses, Eliza is an extremely skilled marksman, with an increased awareness of where objects are, allowing her exceptional marksmanship with both firearms and throwing projectile weaponry with extreme accuracy. She was able to quickly knock guns out of the Hunter's grasp with a hurled Billy club. Also, he was able to drop a fire extinguisher on someones head several floors down, timing it perfectly and knowing when they would be off the stairs and directly below it.
* **Master Acrobat:** Eliza's years of training and experience have made him an extremely skilled acrobat, gymnast, and aerialist. She could already do several agile flips as a child. She is highly skilled with parkour and free-running and able to quickly move over rooftops and climb buildings, managing to keep up with a car this way. Even when handcuffed, Eliza performed an agile backflip, bringing her hands back in front of his torso. She also utilized his agility to successfully gain the upper hand against Stick and Jasper Hale, despite their strength difference. She could even able to use her supreme agility to dodge bullets even at close range.
* **Master Spy:** Eliza is extremely skilled in moving quietly and staying hidden. Her agility helps her become hard to find as she clings on to wall corners to stay hidden and hides atop of things and strikes when necessary.
* **Gifted Intellect:** Eliza is a very accomplished and smart possessing an extremely high level of intelligence, which allowed him to earn a masters degree in Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement from Columbia University and be considered as one of the best detectives. Having been raised in the supernatural world her entire life, Eliza has an enormous amount of knowledge regarding supernatural species and mythological creatures. She was able to identify a Wendigo with ease among other supernatural creatures. She is especially versed in Werewolf culture and abilities, as she was able figure out the ritual to use Derek's mother Talia's claws to communicate with her beyond the grave. She has used this knowledge to help train many new shapeshifters in how to use their abilities, such as Scott McCall, Isaac Lahey, Vernon Boyd, Erica Reyes, Jackson Whittemore, Malia Tate, and Liam Dunbar.
* **Master Interrogator:** Eliza is well adept in interrogation methods, being able to extract information from criminals with ease.
* **Expert Tactician:** Eliza is a great strategist, she was able to formulate plans which successfully completely dismantle the Hand which have been established over four hundred years with the help of the Defenders. Eliza is also a skilled leader and she has demonstrated charisma and leadership skills.
* **Expert Thief:** Eliza has shown impressive thievery skills in stealing items without getting caught or giving notice.
* **Physician:** As Eliza grew up she picked up on many skills from Carlisle Cullen. This would later enable him to stitch Derek's wound.
* **Musician:** To some extent in her youth, Eliza learned to play the piano with her enhanced sense of touch to guide her through.
* **Meditation:** After years of training in martial arts, Eliza was an expert at meditation of extreme levels that allowed her to hone her enhanced senses to function at their peak, and accelerate the healing process of her body with the help of her vampire blood.
* **Multilingualism:** Eliza is fluent in her native English, as well as Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian, having studied the Spanish in college and learned most of the others through her Coven. As a blind person, she learned to read Braille. She learned some French when studying supernatural events.