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[OOC] [Daybreak] Application
PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Rho
CONTACT: ishidaaaugh at gmail, katoptron @ plurk
OTHER CHARACTER(S) IN GAME: None!
Revisions as of 1/4/19 have been added in bold!
Revisions made to match Gwen Stacy's app (1/14/19)
CANON INFORMATION
CHARACTER NAME: Peter Parker / Spider-Man
CANON: Marvel Cinematic Universe
HISTORY: In Peter’s version of New York, superheroes are a thing! And they’ve been a thing for like ten years at this point, to the point where it’s seeped into the daily life of everyone, even the not-superheroes. Peter was one of these not-superheroes right up until a year ago, when a radioactive spider bit him and gave him superpowers and - look, this is like the third iteration of his story, the backstory doesn’t matter much at this point. He puts together a hobo suit made out of swimming goggles and old hoodies and goes out and fights crime on youtube, which results in Tony Stark deciding to bring him along because the studio said so, and also he really needs someone with actual superpowers on his team when fighting Captain America. Afterwards, Tony realizes that bringing a literal child to a superhero fight is probably a bad idea and thus drop kicks Peter back into New York with a fancy ass suit and absolutely nothing to do.
Spoiler alert: bored teenagers get into trouble. Turns out that when your hometown gets invaded by aliens, those aliens leave behind a lot of dangerous trash! And since dangerous trash turns into dangerous weapons that threaten the friendly neighborhood Pete’s supposed to be taking care of, he decides that shit’s gotta stop. Peter … is not very good at fighting crime. He’s so bad at it that he disrupts Stark’s plans to actually stop the arms deal and also cuts a ferry in half. Cue Stark taking the suit back, lots of character development where he learns that the spider-man was inside him all along, etc. He decides that doing good is better than doing nothing even if you do have to use a hobo suit to do it. He stops the bad guy from making a huge raid on Stark’s tech, saves the day, but also realizes that the world is kind of too big for a dumb spider kid like him.
And then like six months later he stows away on an alien space ship, becomes an Avenger for a hot second, fights a Space Eggplant Wizard with a bling fetish, and then dies. (For real. Totally. Ignore the sequels in production.)
Or you could read the wiki page, which is more informative but also like a billion pages long.
STRENGTHS:
Intelligent: Peter is a smart cookie, no question. He canonically comes up with his own formula for synthetic spider silk and then builds webshooters for them in, like, a couple months? When he’s fifteen. Kid is wicked smart and incredibly inventive. He’ll probably serve as a tech guru (or at least meme source) for a decent population of the school. It also goes without saying that with great intelligence comes great nerdiness. He’s going to devour every book he can find and probably take every class that looks remotely interesting. Even the ones that are being taugth by daemons. Especially the ones that are being taught by daemons. That blistering curiosity is also going to get him into no small amount of trouble, but we’ll talk about Peter’s reckless tendencies later. This also makes him damn quippy to the point of not being able to keep his damn mouth shut.
Devoted: Peter is wildly enthusiastic about pretty much anything that catches his interest. One of his first loves is superheroes, of course, to whom he shows a powerful amount of devotion and excitement. Peter loves to look up at those crazy things in his life, especially now that he’s in the thick of them. Fighting Captain America in an airport? Awesome. Getting the world’s fanciest spider suit? Double awesome. Peter was a giant goddamn nerd before he even got bit by that radioactive spider, and turning into a superhero just made it even worse. On a more serious note, though, that fannishness is intertwined with a desperate need to live up to his idols. Tony Stark is a father figure to him, despite the obvious flaws in THAT particular plan. Peter genuinely doesn’t want to let down the adults in his life. Not his Aunt May, who he obivously loves and wants to protect from worrying about his extra curricular activities, and not anyone else he respects either.
Friendly: He’s not a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man for no reason after all. He’s an awkward nerd, yes, and not always like. Super great at talking to people like a coherent person? But Peter is deeply, utterly friendly to people around him, and he is kind to everyone he meets, including his enemies. He takes special care to make sure not to hurt the bad guys he’s up against, even when he’s wearing a suit that could probably insta-kill them. Sure, he still fixes problems by punching them, but he does it as carefully and nonlethally as possible. Hell, he apologizes to the people he’s fighting when he hits them too hard. He’s trying to do the best for the people in his life too. He doesn’t want to tell his aunt about being Spider-Man because he knows it would worry her (in addition to her grounding him forever). He helps old ladies with directions because it’s the right thing to do. And he genuinely tries to connect with people, even when he’s trying to interrogate them. He just can’t help it. Peter is completely and genuinely trying to do the right thing, even if he fails.
FLAWS:
Short-sighted: While Peter may not - and often doesn’t - know what the actual correct course of action may be, he’ll always try whatever he thinks is the right thing to do, often at great personal cost to himself. And sometimes at cost to other people, but only because Peter means well but doesn’t always think through the potential consequences. Even the example of saving his opponent also applies here: he saved the man who had tried to kill him, not even considering the fact that that the guy knew Peter’s secret identity and could very easily make Peter’s live a whole hell of a lot harder for having let him live. Peter’s a good kid, yes, but very much still a kid. And sometimes kids just don’t think all that clearly. Reckless is also a really good description for him. He didn’t really think before doing the whole pseudo-superhero thing (or Hunter thing in this AU) and doesn’t really regret it until later, after things are messed up. Or. Sometimes in the middle if he messes up enough! But definitely after it’s way too late to undo the messing up part.
Stubborn/Insecure: Peter does not know when to quit. He can be discouraged, for sure. When Tony takes back the suit after Peter accidentally disrupts a weapons sting, he sort of retreats for a while? But he’s not happy, and when he does get a chance to actually back out of the superhero life, he decides to keep going instead, despite having zero resources. The suit isn’t the superhero after all. Peter Parker is the superhero wearing the suit. This gets him in boatloads of trouble, well past any point when a sane person would give up. It also drives him to keep trying for approval, to do stupid things even when it’s clear that he’s doing the objectively wrong thing. Yeah, okay, superheroes need to be determined, but maybe they don’t need to be dumbasses at the same time. Peter would be a lot safer and a lot saner if he’d known when to quit. But when your idols are basically mythological figures … yeah. It becomes a bit of a compulsion trying to live up to them and leave your mark on the world. He does good with it, but it causes as many problems as it solves.
Impatient: Part of this is due to being a hyperactive spider-teenager, admittedly, but Peter can’t wait on anything to save his damn life. Sometimes that’s justified, like when he recognizes the need to solve a problem right away? But mostly he doesn’t realize that there’s bigger things in motion outside of his view, or he doesn’t understand why he can’t fix things right the hell now. He wants to skip high school and go straight to superheroing, or skip training in NYC and just straight up own the team. The good news is that he kind of matures at the end of his movie? He does turn down what he thought he always wanted due to the lessons he learned along the way. But. Well. He also thought it was a test, and then he jumps back into the next movie just as impatient as ever so. Eh. He’s always gotta be active, always gotta be doing something. And when he’s not, he’s bouncing off the walls out of sheer boredom. His max is, like, thirty-seven minutes or something. He’s not built for the quiet life and he doesn’t like it, not at all.
Canon Abilities:
Heightened physical capabilities: Peter has the approximate (and proportionate) strength/speed /durability as a spider. Canon doesn’t set clear limits, but he’s been known to stop cars with his body, hold together two halves of a large ferry with just his spiderwebs, and backflip across a hotel room with like zero windup. He strong. And jumpy. Also durable, which is good because the kid takes a hell of a beating as a superhero.
Spider-senses: As a result of the spider bite, all of Peter’s senses are dialed up to eleven. Hearing, vision, instincts, all of it. This results in some weirdness (he wears goggles in an effort to filter out excessive input), but also gives him a pseudo sixth sense for danger. (He can also sense when he’s meeting other spider-people, which is not the slightest bit relevant for MCU canon but applies for other interpretations of the character.)
Wall-crawling: Peter can naturally stick to walls - to the point where he’s able to scale walls and/or stick to completely smooth surfaces. This applies through clothing somehow (when dramatically appropriate, anyway.) He’s also incredibly good at balancing just about anywhere. The sticking helps with this, of course.
Increased metabolism: To power all this stuff, Peter has a crazy metabolism that he has trouble keeping up with. He eats all the time (even more than a normal teenage boy) and generally runs a couple degrees hotter than the average person. He also heals way faster than an average person as well, which is good.
Intellect: Also detailed above, but worth a mention here. Peter made his web-shooters himself, as well as coming up for the formula for his web fluid (and making synthetic spider silk strong enough to swing on). He’s also really good at typical school subjects, as well as scavenging/fixing stuff in general.
AU INFORMATION
AU CHARACTER NAME: Peter Parker
AGE:15 16
GRADE: 10th grade (sophomore in high school)
AU BACKSTORY: There’s a lot to cover here, so let’s do bullet points. Some of this is intentionally being left vague so that there are holes for canonmates (MCUs, etc.) and pseudo canonmates (what up Spiderverse). The Avengers are not public figures, and while they still do shit it's not baked into the background of their lives like canon.
AU PERSONALITY DEVIATION: Nnnnnot a whole lot to be honest. The biggest difference is superheroes not having such a big influence on his life, but the Hunters still replicate the most important story beats. His parents are still dead, Uncle Ben is still dead, tumblr is still dead but internet memes still live on in his nerdy heart. The biggest change is that he doesn't have superheroic figures running around, so he is more solidly on the normal end of the scale when he comes in. Still gawking at all the magic and weirdness like a muggle.
RACE: Human. Spider-human? Dead by technicality but not physically. Let’s go with “human that sets off a lot of weirdness sensors.”
SECRET SOCIETY: Candle, junior Hunter (formerly with the Avengers in NYC, currently freelancing in France whenever he can sneak out)
POWERS: Peter’s abilities are going to be incredibly similar to his canon ones. The biggest difference is that he was bitten by a Blighted spider instead of a radioactive one, with the resulting powers being a mix of the Blight’s effect as well as his own Radiance awakening to fight it back (instead of, y’know, just dying). The Blight is still in his blood, though, and blood transfusions would be a real bad idea.
Heightened strength and agility: Same as canon.
Spider-senses: By the slightest of technicalities, Peter’s spider senses fall into Seer territory. It makes his instincts into an actual (but INCREDIBLY WEAK) flash of precognition that warns him when something bad is about to happen. And also when he’s talking to someone weird. Mostly he can use it as a weirdness sensor with other Candles … and specifically, he can use it to sense other spider people. As a pseudo-cost for his pseudo-Seer ability, Peter’s enhanced senses have messed up his color vision to the point where he is functionally blue-yellow colorblind (tritanopia). It’s not terrible? He’s fine, but he does miss being able to see the color yellow.
Wall-crawling: Same as canon. Just blame magic instead of general stickiness.
Increased metabolism: Same as canon.
Intellect: Still a smart cookie, though his knowledge is limited to the scientific. His only familiarity with magic type stuff to begin with will be a) general familiarity with mythology/fantasy/horror stuff (in a fictional context) and b) limited supernatural info on stuff he fought directly with the Avengers.
HOUSING: No preference!
RP SAMPLE
TDM threads! Multiple characters, definitely more than 3 comments from Peter on each.
NAME: Rho
CONTACT: ishidaaaugh at gmail, katoptron @ plurk
OTHER CHARACTER(S) IN GAME: None!
Revisions as of 1/4/19 have been added in bold!
Revisions made to match Gwen Stacy's app (1/14/19)
CANON INFORMATION
CHARACTER NAME: Peter Parker / Spider-Man
CANON: Marvel Cinematic Universe
HISTORY: In Peter’s version of New York, superheroes are a thing! And they’ve been a thing for like ten years at this point, to the point where it’s seeped into the daily life of everyone, even the not-superheroes. Peter was one of these not-superheroes right up until a year ago, when a radioactive spider bit him and gave him superpowers and - look, this is like the third iteration of his story, the backstory doesn’t matter much at this point. He puts together a hobo suit made out of swimming goggles and old hoodies and goes out and fights crime on youtube, which results in Tony Stark deciding to bring him along because the studio said so, and also he really needs someone with actual superpowers on his team when fighting Captain America. Afterwards, Tony realizes that bringing a literal child to a superhero fight is probably a bad idea and thus drop kicks Peter back into New York with a fancy ass suit and absolutely nothing to do.
Spoiler alert: bored teenagers get into trouble. Turns out that when your hometown gets invaded by aliens, those aliens leave behind a lot of dangerous trash! And since dangerous trash turns into dangerous weapons that threaten the friendly neighborhood Pete’s supposed to be taking care of, he decides that shit’s gotta stop. Peter … is not very good at fighting crime. He’s so bad at it that he disrupts Stark’s plans to actually stop the arms deal and also cuts a ferry in half. Cue Stark taking the suit back, lots of character development where he learns that the spider-man was inside him all along, etc. He decides that doing good is better than doing nothing even if you do have to use a hobo suit to do it. He stops the bad guy from making a huge raid on Stark’s tech, saves the day, but also realizes that the world is kind of too big for a dumb spider kid like him.
And then like six months later he stows away on an alien space ship, becomes an Avenger for a hot second, fights a Space Eggplant Wizard with a bling fetish, and then dies. (For real. Totally. Ignore the sequels in production.)
Or you could read the wiki page, which is more informative but also like a billion pages long.
STRENGTHS:
Intelligent: Peter is a smart cookie, no question. He canonically comes up with his own formula for synthetic spider silk and then builds webshooters for them in, like, a couple months? When he’s fifteen. Kid is wicked smart and incredibly inventive. He’ll probably serve as a tech guru (or at least meme source) for a decent population of the school. It also goes without saying that with great intelligence comes great nerdiness. He’s going to devour every book he can find and probably take every class that looks remotely interesting. Even the ones that are being taugth by daemons. Especially the ones that are being taught by daemons. That blistering curiosity is also going to get him into no small amount of trouble, but we’ll talk about Peter’s reckless tendencies later. This also makes him damn quippy to the point of not being able to keep his damn mouth shut.
Devoted: Peter is wildly enthusiastic about pretty much anything that catches his interest. One of his first loves is superheroes, of course, to whom he shows a powerful amount of devotion and excitement. Peter loves to look up at those crazy things in his life, especially now that he’s in the thick of them. Fighting Captain America in an airport? Awesome. Getting the world’s fanciest spider suit? Double awesome. Peter was a giant goddamn nerd before he even got bit by that radioactive spider, and turning into a superhero just made it even worse. On a more serious note, though, that fannishness is intertwined with a desperate need to live up to his idols. Tony Stark is a father figure to him, despite the obvious flaws in THAT particular plan. Peter genuinely doesn’t want to let down the adults in his life. Not his Aunt May, who he obivously loves and wants to protect from worrying about his extra curricular activities, and not anyone else he respects either.
Friendly: He’s not a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man for no reason after all. He’s an awkward nerd, yes, and not always like. Super great at talking to people like a coherent person? But Peter is deeply, utterly friendly to people around him, and he is kind to everyone he meets, including his enemies. He takes special care to make sure not to hurt the bad guys he’s up against, even when he’s wearing a suit that could probably insta-kill them. Sure, he still fixes problems by punching them, but he does it as carefully and nonlethally as possible. Hell, he apologizes to the people he’s fighting when he hits them too hard. He’s trying to do the best for the people in his life too. He doesn’t want to tell his aunt about being Spider-Man because he knows it would worry her (in addition to her grounding him forever). He helps old ladies with directions because it’s the right thing to do. And he genuinely tries to connect with people, even when he’s trying to interrogate them. He just can’t help it. Peter is completely and genuinely trying to do the right thing, even if he fails.
FLAWS:
Short-sighted: While Peter may not - and often doesn’t - know what the actual correct course of action may be, he’ll always try whatever he thinks is the right thing to do, often at great personal cost to himself. And sometimes at cost to other people, but only because Peter means well but doesn’t always think through the potential consequences. Even the example of saving his opponent also applies here: he saved the man who had tried to kill him, not even considering the fact that that the guy knew Peter’s secret identity and could very easily make Peter’s live a whole hell of a lot harder for having let him live. Peter’s a good kid, yes, but very much still a kid. And sometimes kids just don’t think all that clearly. Reckless is also a really good description for him. He didn’t really think before doing the whole pseudo-superhero thing (or Hunter thing in this AU) and doesn’t really regret it until later, after things are messed up. Or. Sometimes in the middle if he messes up enough! But definitely after it’s way too late to undo the messing up part.
Stubborn/Insecure: Peter does not know when to quit. He can be discouraged, for sure. When Tony takes back the suit after Peter accidentally disrupts a weapons sting, he sort of retreats for a while? But he’s not happy, and when he does get a chance to actually back out of the superhero life, he decides to keep going instead, despite having zero resources. The suit isn’t the superhero after all. Peter Parker is the superhero wearing the suit. This gets him in boatloads of trouble, well past any point when a sane person would give up. It also drives him to keep trying for approval, to do stupid things even when it’s clear that he’s doing the objectively wrong thing. Yeah, okay, superheroes need to be determined, but maybe they don’t need to be dumbasses at the same time. Peter would be a lot safer and a lot saner if he’d known when to quit. But when your idols are basically mythological figures … yeah. It becomes a bit of a compulsion trying to live up to them and leave your mark on the world. He does good with it, but it causes as many problems as it solves.
Impatient: Part of this is due to being a hyperactive spider-teenager, admittedly, but Peter can’t wait on anything to save his damn life. Sometimes that’s justified, like when he recognizes the need to solve a problem right away? But mostly he doesn’t realize that there’s bigger things in motion outside of his view, or he doesn’t understand why he can’t fix things right the hell now. He wants to skip high school and go straight to superheroing, or skip training in NYC and just straight up own the team. The good news is that he kind of matures at the end of his movie? He does turn down what he thought he always wanted due to the lessons he learned along the way. But. Well. He also thought it was a test, and then he jumps back into the next movie just as impatient as ever so. Eh. He’s always gotta be active, always gotta be doing something. And when he’s not, he’s bouncing off the walls out of sheer boredom. His max is, like, thirty-seven minutes or something. He’s not built for the quiet life and he doesn’t like it, not at all.
Canon Abilities:
Heightened physical capabilities: Peter has the approximate (and proportionate) strength/speed /durability as a spider. Canon doesn’t set clear limits, but he’s been known to stop cars with his body, hold together two halves of a large ferry with just his spiderwebs, and backflip across a hotel room with like zero windup. He strong. And jumpy. Also durable, which is good because the kid takes a hell of a beating as a superhero.
Spider-senses: As a result of the spider bite, all of Peter’s senses are dialed up to eleven. Hearing, vision, instincts, all of it. This results in some weirdness (he wears goggles in an effort to filter out excessive input), but also gives him a pseudo sixth sense for danger. (He can also sense when he’s meeting other spider-people, which is not the slightest bit relevant for MCU canon but applies for other interpretations of the character.)
Wall-crawling: Peter can naturally stick to walls - to the point where he’s able to scale walls and/or stick to completely smooth surfaces. This applies through clothing somehow (when dramatically appropriate, anyway.) He’s also incredibly good at balancing just about anywhere. The sticking helps with this, of course.
Increased metabolism: To power all this stuff, Peter has a crazy metabolism that he has trouble keeping up with. He eats all the time (even more than a normal teenage boy) and generally runs a couple degrees hotter than the average person. He also heals way faster than an average person as well, which is good.
Intellect: Also detailed above, but worth a mention here. Peter made his web-shooters himself, as well as coming up for the formula for his web fluid (and making synthetic spider silk strong enough to swing on). He’s also really good at typical school subjects, as well as scavenging/fixing stuff in general.
AU INFORMATION
AU CHARACTER NAME: Peter Parker
AGE:
GRADE: 10th grade (sophomore in high school)
AU BACKSTORY: There’s a lot to cover here, so let’s do bullet points. Some of this is intentionally being left vague so that there are holes for canonmates (MCUs, etc.) and pseudo canonmates (what up Spiderverse). The Avengers are not public figures, and while they still do shit it's not baked into the background of their lives like canon.
- For most of his early life, Peter had a fairly normal life. Like, weird things happen sometimes? People disappear. His parents disappeared, and he swore he got saved from monsters by some dude in a mask when he was a kid. But this is New York, and New York is just weird even without supernatural stuff.
- He spends most of his life up until now with Aunt May and Uncle Ben. He’s a nerd, hangs out on the internet, scavenges junk out of garbage bins to help pay the bills, etc. This all changes about six months before the events of the game, when he does this too close to a company doing some super shady research on intentionally generating Flame abilities in people by irradiating animals (and eventually people) with Blight..
- One of their Blighted spiders escapes, ends up outside the lab, and Peter gets bit. He spends a week horrifically sick as his burgeoning Flame fights off the Blight in his body. (Did he have dormant powers before or did the spider do it? It is a mystery. Don’t ask him, he doesn’t know.)
- Bam! Spider-powers. They’re pretty sweet. Peter is frankly kind of reckless with them at first, using them to sneak around NYC. He's pretty sure he's the only person in the world with any cool powers and he kind of doesn't want to get dragged off to a lab? Also he probably stops some muggers. But he also gets into some massive fights with his uncle, who got terrified by his nephew nearly dying and would rather he not sneak out and show up with more bruises when he get home, thanks. There’s a great power and great responsibility speech at some point. Uncle Ben doesn't quite believe that his nephew suddenly got supernatural powers, because. That's not a thing. But something's totally strange here.
- Long story short, the sneaking keeps happening, Peter stays out too late, Ben goes out looking for him, and gets mauled by something horrible. Peter arrives just barely in time to dispatch the thing, but not soon enough to save his uncle.
- Uncle dies, Peter is traumatized, Aunt May definitely can’t find out now, because she also nearly lost her nephew, and now she’s lost her husband. Peter decides to don a mask and a costume and generally stick to saving people. He does this for a couple months on his own and gets a little local notoriety in Queens. Kind of an urban legend type thing, though it stops fairly quickly because hey, there's actually some supernatural people in town, and they're trying to keep it on the downlow, thanks. Peter gets the attention of a mentor figure who reveals to him that there's a secret Hunter group taking care of supernatural threats in town. It's awesome. A lot more things make sense now! Also he needs to be way more subtle here, no more running around in public like a dumbass.
- In canon this mentor figure is played by Tony Stark. In the AU, this is like the cardboard standup version of Tony Stark. It looks like him, it’s shaped like him, but he can be replaced by any other canonmate who wants to take on the role if they want. Or a mix of people! I’m flexible.
- ANYWAY. Cardboard Tony Stark sees potential in this spider-kid and recruits him to join the Avengers. Not that he has much of a choice if he wants to continue doing this. The team is bickering over some stuff but there is someone seriously out there worse than whatever drama they’re facing. It’s a daemon named Thanos who’s in the Outlands somewhere trying to wipe out half the human population so daemons can take over. He’s probably some advance guard for this whole Nightfall thing. Bad vibes all around.
- Peter ends up fighting the big purple daemon directly. They almost get his magical artifact away from him? They do stop him from doing whatever the hell he was going to do overall (as is probably obvious due to the world not being half dead), but they pay for it. Peter is killed by the (limited but still deadly) effect of Thanos wielding the artifact. Straight up vaporized by magic. (If death is too difficult of a thing to undo in a backstory, then I can also change this to “nearly almost goddamn dead” as well.)
- Peter’s mentor blames himself for dragging Peter into this and getting the kid killed. As such, he manages to convince a sufficiently powerful Fey to enter into some kind of time travel-y contract with him to bring Peter back to life with a minimum of damage to Peter himself. The cost is staggering, but Peter wakes up back in his own bed with really muddy memories of what in the hell even happened. He knows he went off to fight, he knows they were outmatched, and then. Something really bad happened.
- The experience wasn’t without cost for Peter. When he’s asleep he remembers clearly - too clearly. Nightmares up the wazoo. And whatever Fey pact his mentor signed to bring Peter back, it works better the fewer people who know about it, Peter included. There’s a glamour incorporated into the magic keeping him together that prevents casuals from realizing what’s up, but that lights him up with weirdness when someone with special senses looks at him. Once he realizes he’s actually kind of dead? He’s going to have to concentrate on continuing not to be dead. Maybe get some help with that.
- He also wasn't resurrected right way. Negotiating the contract took a significant chunk of time, or there were terms that dictated he had to stay dead temporarily while the magic reconstructed him from dust. Either way, Peter was actually dead for a full year without knowing it. (He did not age at all during this time; he died at 16 and is still 16 a year later.)
- A few select people know about Peter's death and resurrection. Specifically, Peter's Aunt May (for obvious reasons) and Peter's childhood friend, Gwen Stacy. May reached out to Gwen to explain Peter's situation - including the terms of his Fey contract - as soon as her adopted son was restored.
- The contract also had some weird, unknown effects? Like, there’s way too many Blighted spiders in NYC now for some reason. Maybe too many Peter Parkers now if some Spiderverse people show up.
- Anyway, his mentor is all fucked up now probably so Peter needs to be somewhere safe! This is how he got sent to this fancy supernatural school. So now he’s here and he’s totally fine, guys, he’s got this.
AU PERSONALITY DEVIATION: Nnnnnot a whole lot to be honest. The biggest difference is superheroes not having such a big influence on his life, but the Hunters still replicate the most important story beats. His parents are still dead, Uncle Ben is still dead, tumblr is still dead but internet memes still live on in his nerdy heart. The biggest change is that he doesn't have superheroic figures running around, so he is more solidly on the normal end of the scale when he comes in. Still gawking at all the magic and weirdness like a muggle.
RACE: Human. Spider-human? Dead by technicality but not physically. Let’s go with “human that sets off a lot of weirdness sensors.”
SECRET SOCIETY: Candle, junior Hunter (formerly with the Avengers in NYC, currently freelancing in France whenever he can sneak out)
POWERS: Peter’s abilities are going to be incredibly similar to his canon ones. The biggest difference is that he was bitten by a Blighted spider instead of a radioactive one, with the resulting powers being a mix of the Blight’s effect as well as his own Radiance awakening to fight it back (instead of, y’know, just dying). The Blight is still in his blood, though, and blood transfusions would be a real bad idea.
Heightened strength and agility: Same as canon.
Spider-senses: By the slightest of technicalities, Peter’s spider senses fall into Seer territory. It makes his instincts into an actual (but INCREDIBLY WEAK) flash of precognition that warns him when something bad is about to happen. And also when he’s talking to someone weird. Mostly he can use it as a weirdness sensor with other Candles … and specifically, he can use it to sense other spider people. As a pseudo-cost for his pseudo-Seer ability, Peter’s enhanced senses have messed up his color vision to the point where he is functionally blue-yellow colorblind (tritanopia). It’s not terrible? He’s fine, but he does miss being able to see the color yellow.
Wall-crawling: Same as canon. Just blame magic instead of general stickiness.
Increased metabolism: Same as canon.
Intellect: Still a smart cookie, though his knowledge is limited to the scientific. His only familiarity with magic type stuff to begin with will be a) general familiarity with mythology/fantasy/horror stuff (in a fictional context) and b) limited supernatural info on stuff he fought directly with the Avengers.
HOUSING: No preference!
RP SAMPLE
TDM threads! Multiple characters, definitely more than 3 comments from Peter on each.