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[OOC] [MoM] Info Post
〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Rho
AGE: 33
JOURNAL:galatea
IM / EMAIL: ishidaaaugh @ gmail
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RETURNING: Not currently in the game. I previously played Miles Vorkosigan and Hiro Hamada.
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Peter Parker / Spider-Man
CHARACTER AGE: 16
SERIES: Marvel Cinematic Universe
CHRONOLOGY: From just after the end of Far From Home (stinger included).
CLASS: Hero, of course. Registering may be a trickier question, but he’s definitely a good guy.
HOUSING: Anything is fine, but Thor kidnapped him in his TDM thread and we’re keeping that canon. So you may as well put him in Thor’s housing from the beginning and save a little modwork.
BACKGROUND: Bam, wiki link. The very first section on the wiki is actually a great (and short) summary of Peter’s story thus far. The rest is comprehensive but very, very long. (Also some of the dates listed no longer work. Because MCU timelines are suffering.)
PERSONALITY: Peter is a Good Kid who is legitimately trying his best in a world that is just a little bit completeley insane. This is a kid who, when faced with his first supervillain just about blowing himself up, decides to go right back into the burning wreckage to fish him out and save his life. 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.
It doesn’t help that 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. Sometimes this ends up being a counterproductive urge (see previous notes on Being Bad At Consequences Always.)
This isn’t to say that Peter is completely flippant. On the contrary, Peter takes his powers and his superhero-ness pretty damn seriously. (With. Childish enthusiasm as well, of course.) While the death of his uncle isn’t spelled out in this iteration of his story, it’s implied to be Peter’s fault somehow. And it’s clear that Peter views any poor outcome that he could have stopped as being at least partially his fault. With great power comes great guilt. Peter can’t just not do something. If it puts him in danger, it doesn’t matter - he’s got to find a way to stand up to help or else it’s basically his fault.
Peter is also a really smart kid. Like, he’s a nerdy outcast(ish) type at a school specifically designed for nerds, that’s how nerdy he is. He developed his web formula all by himself (admittedly by stuffing school chemicals in his desk or under his locker and experimenting there). He’s passionately knowledgeable about what he loves, which includes science as much as it does superheroes. This was his identity before he got powers and picked up the suit. Nowadays he’s still smart (and quippy, so very quippy), but his self-worth and identity tie into his superheroics far more than anything else right now. To say that’s kind of unhealthy is definitely an understatement. While thoroughly screwing things up in his own backyard (and getting his fancy suit taken back for character development), he did realize that the spider-man was inside him all along, but he’s still struggling with the balance between the duties of being a superhero vs. the duties of being Peter Parker. Because when Spider-Man has to fight bad guys, it means Peter Parker has to leave his date alone at the homecoming dance. The scale is tipped towards Spider-Man at the moment, with all the problems and complications that entails. He did turn down fulltime superherodom after realizing that the smaller problems around him were arguably more important than the Earth-shattering ones, but. Well.
All of this so far is still true about Peter, but it doesn’t quite take into account more recent canon, which has been incredibly painful for him. In Infinity War, Peter risks absolutely everything to sneak onto an alien spaceship and get involved in a fight that ultimately ends up being rather hopeless - and also kills him. At heart, Peter is still a teenager right now. When he’d faced death in the face in his first encounters with supervillains, he’d reacted like a normal kid: crying for help, panicking a little at the situation. Versus Thanos, he was at least more experienced with fighting in general … but still very much unprepared for the thought of dying as a result. Dying on an alien world, knowing that you’ve failed and that you’ll never see Earth or your sole living relative again? That shit is traumatizing. And then, when he’s resurrected, he gets one awesome fight scene with all of the heroes before having to watch his mentor die in front of him. That one-two punch of dying and then seeing Tony die has done some serious damage to his mental health.
So when he gets back home to try to be a superhero again, he sort of doesn’t want to be. After staring mortality in the face twice over, and seeing his heroes fail and/or die … It’s no surprise that he fights hard to have some semblance of a normal life, and tries to stay out of the way of trouble for at least one summer vacation. He panics and freezes up when a crowd asks him how he’s going to take over from his dead mentor, or who he’s going to face the next Avengers-level threat. Him, personally, as if he’s not a kid who’s been traumatized twice over. He’s regained some of his momentum fighting Mysterio, at least, but it’s not perfect. He’s going to have a lot of work to do in MoM to navigate the boundaries between his heroic life and his civilian one; he’ll probably make a mess of both before he figures it out.
POWER:
Does Whatever A Spider Can (Canon): What it says on the tin. Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider, which in turn gives him a whole slew of spider-related attributes to work with. This version’s powerset is pretty condensed, at least, with less of the weird stuff that happens in 616 canon. This includes:
Tech Support (Canon): Peter will come into MoM with two pieces of tech from home: the latest iteration of his Spider-Man suit including webshooters and a limited supply of webbing, plus a (mostly useless) pair of AR glasses, aka EDITH. The suit is the red and navy (black?) design seen at the end of FFH, meaning it has a couple cool tricks (multi-functional webshooters and wingsuit webs specifically) but not the nanobot capabilites of the Iron Spider suit or the AI backup in his first Stark suit. He also has EDITH with him, but without an orbital defense platform to connect to, EDITH is just a fancy pair of AR glasses that he’ll have to reprogram to access a normal computer system. It has no real functionality on its own. In addition to the tech itself, it’s worth noting that Peter is a tech genius in his own right who developed his own webbing and webshooters even before Tony gave him access to more resources. Kid is smart as hell and will probably end up doing some tech internships in MoM.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[ It’s amazing how fast Mysterio has ruined Peter’s entire life. Just one week ago, posting an internet video would have been super easy. Like, he was born to post dumb videos on the internet and look dumb doing it. And then Mysterio ruined it by ratting out his secret identity to freaking JJJ. Peter hadn’t even been able to approach his social media accounts since; his twitter inbox had blown up instantly, with Facebook and Instagram taking slightly longer to catch on fire and then explode.
So here he is. Trying to find an angle that lets him hide at least some of his nervousness. Or at least lets him use it to channel his best impression of a Definitely Normal Team, No Superheroics Here Honest. He mostly just looks awkward and nerdy, which is … accurate anyway, so let’s go with that. ]
Hey - um, so I’m Peter. Peter Parker. And I just got here, and -
[ He’s read through what’s left of his files, he’s read through the last couple weeks of posts just to get a feel for things. After that, he has one incredibly important question: ]
Did I seriously just barely miss out on a Death Star being here? For real? That’s not fair. Please tell me it’s coming back at some point.
[ That’s probably an objectively incorrect thing to want, but. Look. He’s had a very bad couple of weeks and that would have made his entire life. He could die happy. For the second time. Well, the second time dying, first time dying happy. Anyway. He wishes this weren’t the first time he’s felt powerfully alone despite ostensibly having a lot of superheroes around him. Once again he has to wonder how the hell he’s going to navigate his way through this. For now, it seems like trying to err on the normal side is the right thing to do. It’s … well, it’s the thing that brings him the most relief, anyway, even if he simultaneously feels selfish for wanting it.
He makes a few faces as those emotions fliter through him, reluctantly turning to the list of actual serious questions he made. Not enough time to ask them all (unless he just takes in a breath and rapid fire asks all of them in thirty seconds) so he’ll just pick one for now. ]
So, school. How do you know which one you go to? And can you like … argue with it at all? Because I’m all for finishing high school, but this is my third time going into sophomore year and I’m starting to feel like that movie with the Ghostbuster being depressed in Pennsylvania.
[ He means it. Someone save him from this Groundhog’s Day sophomore year before he really loses his marbles. ]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: TDM threads!
FINAL NOTES: Not too much? I’m happy to extrapolate on his powers if need be, but given he’s Spider-Man I feel like they mostly explain themselves at this point.
NAME: Rho
AGE: 33
JOURNAL:
galateaIM / EMAIL: ishidaaaugh @ gmail
PLURK:
RETURNING: Not currently in the game. I previously played Miles Vorkosigan and Hiro Hamada.
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Peter Parker / Spider-Man
CHARACTER AGE: 16
SERIES: Marvel Cinematic Universe
CHRONOLOGY: From just after the end of Far From Home (stinger included).
CLASS: Hero, of course. Registering may be a trickier question, but he’s definitely a good guy.
HOUSING: Anything is fine, but Thor kidnapped him in his TDM thread and we’re keeping that canon. So you may as well put him in Thor’s housing from the beginning and save a little modwork.
BACKGROUND: Bam, wiki link. The very first section on the wiki is actually a great (and short) summary of Peter’s story thus far. The rest is comprehensive but very, very long. (Also some of the dates listed no longer work. Because MCU timelines are suffering.)
PERSONALITY: Peter is a Good Kid who is legitimately trying his best in a world that is just a little bit completeley insane. This is a kid who, when faced with his first supervillain just about blowing himself up, decides to go right back into the burning wreckage to fish him out and save his life. 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.
It doesn’t help that 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. Sometimes this ends up being a counterproductive urge (see previous notes on Being Bad At Consequences Always.)
This isn’t to say that Peter is completely flippant. On the contrary, Peter takes his powers and his superhero-ness pretty damn seriously. (With. Childish enthusiasm as well, of course.) While the death of his uncle isn’t spelled out in this iteration of his story, it’s implied to be Peter’s fault somehow. And it’s clear that Peter views any poor outcome that he could have stopped as being at least partially his fault. With great power comes great guilt. Peter can’t just not do something. If it puts him in danger, it doesn’t matter - he’s got to find a way to stand up to help or else it’s basically his fault.
Peter is also a really smart kid. Like, he’s a nerdy outcast(ish) type at a school specifically designed for nerds, that’s how nerdy he is. He developed his web formula all by himself (admittedly by stuffing school chemicals in his desk or under his locker and experimenting there). He’s passionately knowledgeable about what he loves, which includes science as much as it does superheroes. This was his identity before he got powers and picked up the suit. Nowadays he’s still smart (and quippy, so very quippy), but his self-worth and identity tie into his superheroics far more than anything else right now. To say that’s kind of unhealthy is definitely an understatement. While thoroughly screwing things up in his own backyard (and getting his fancy suit taken back for character development), he did realize that the spider-man was inside him all along, but he’s still struggling with the balance between the duties of being a superhero vs. the duties of being Peter Parker. Because when Spider-Man has to fight bad guys, it means Peter Parker has to leave his date alone at the homecoming dance. The scale is tipped towards Spider-Man at the moment, with all the problems and complications that entails. He did turn down fulltime superherodom after realizing that the smaller problems around him were arguably more important than the Earth-shattering ones, but. Well.
All of this so far is still true about Peter, but it doesn’t quite take into account more recent canon, which has been incredibly painful for him. In Infinity War, Peter risks absolutely everything to sneak onto an alien spaceship and get involved in a fight that ultimately ends up being rather hopeless - and also kills him. At heart, Peter is still a teenager right now. When he’d faced death in the face in his first encounters with supervillains, he’d reacted like a normal kid: crying for help, panicking a little at the situation. Versus Thanos, he was at least more experienced with fighting in general … but still very much unprepared for the thought of dying as a result. Dying on an alien world, knowing that you’ve failed and that you’ll never see Earth or your sole living relative again? That shit is traumatizing. And then, when he’s resurrected, he gets one awesome fight scene with all of the heroes before having to watch his mentor die in front of him. That one-two punch of dying and then seeing Tony die has done some serious damage to his mental health.
So when he gets back home to try to be a superhero again, he sort of doesn’t want to be. After staring mortality in the face twice over, and seeing his heroes fail and/or die … It’s no surprise that he fights hard to have some semblance of a normal life, and tries to stay out of the way of trouble for at least one summer vacation. He panics and freezes up when a crowd asks him how he’s going to take over from his dead mentor, or who he’s going to face the next Avengers-level threat. Him, personally, as if he’s not a kid who’s been traumatized twice over. He’s regained some of his momentum fighting Mysterio, at least, but it’s not perfect. He’s going to have a lot of work to do in MoM to navigate the boundaries between his heroic life and his civilian one; he’ll probably make a mess of both before he figures it out.
POWER:
Does Whatever A Spider Can (Canon): What it says on the tin. Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider, which in turn gives him a whole slew of spider-related attributes to work with. This version’s powerset is pretty condensed, at least, with less of the weird stuff that happens in 616 canon. This includes:
- Super Strength. Peter is crazy strong - he can hold up an airplane bridge, stop a speeding car with his bare hands, and (mostly) hold a ferry together, which puts his upper limits at something that’s frankly pretty ridiculous. He strong as hell. He is at least somewhat beholden to the laws of physics, however, so don’t expect him to lift buildings any time soon. Peter can hold up to 16,000 pounds as an extreme upper limit. This is under limited circumstances, however. Specifically, it’s the maximum he support when that weight is dropped on him from a short distance (less than five feet). Actual bench press strength is significantly less than that, somewhere in the range of lifting a car (so around 5000 pounds.) More than that and he risks injury and/or can’t lift the item in the first place.
- Super Agility. Peter is supernaturally light on his feet, able to do casual backflips, leap through the air, and generally move in whatever way he needs to move. He’s not perfect - also, still an awkward teenager - but is definitely an acrobatic fighter. His reflexes are also off the charts. He doesn’t have super speed, though. Presumably he has a decent sprint but it’s mostly about how well he moves, not how fast.
- Spider Senses. Peter has something similar to a sixth sense that tells him when he’s in danger. Some of this is done automatically, which feeds into his incredibly fast reflexes. And he can use it to see through illusions under certain conditions, assuming there’s no actual physicality to them. It takes effort, though, and he has to know he’s facing illusions/holograms in the first place. His vision is also greatly improved, to the point of getting too much input. Wearing something to help block out the extra stimuli is vital to him fighting well.
- Wallcrawling. Peter naturally sticks to walls, which permits him to stand crawl up them, stand sideways on them, and generally ignore gravity in unrealistic ways. This applies through the right clothing as well, specifically his spider-suit and sometimes civilian stuff too. Shoes less so.
- Healing Factor & Resiliency. Peter heals incredibly fast from any injury that doesn’t actually kill him. If Thanos snaps him into dust he’s dead, but anything else? He can probably heal from, given enough time. He’s survived having a building dropped on him, multiple nasty villain confrontations, getting hit into (and through) a bus, and also literally getting hit by a train. Alas, his healing factor doesn’t make it hurt any less, but at least he heals within a matter of days rather than, y’know, dying. He’s also very hard to damage permanently in the first place. The aforementioned train incident resulted in him needing some stitches and having a limp, despite him very likely having broken multiple bones. While Peter can (and has) recovered from a lot, it has to be something he has to be capable of healing from naturally. Broken bones will reknit and (mostly) reset themselves, but he cannot heal amputations or anything else that removes body parts. He has a solid resistance against disease/colds/poisons but is not immune; mostly his metabolism outpaces anything that a normal illness or poison can do. (Something engineered to blast through that metabolism will work just the same, however, and magic completely bypasses his defenses as well.) His factor works at approximately ten times normal healing for a human. So, for a broken bone, he’s functional within 6-12 hours (but still hurting/recovering for about a week). Other injuries scale accordingly, so smaller injuries fade faster while larger ones take longer but still heal much, much faster than normal. He is still extremely killable, though - anything that would kill a human in less than an hour (like a bullet to the head, extreme damage to heart or brain, decapitation, extreme radiation poisoning, etc.) is just as fatal to Peter.
Tech Support (Canon): Peter will come into MoM with two pieces of tech from home: the latest iteration of his Spider-Man suit including webshooters and a limited supply of webbing, plus a (mostly useless) pair of AR glasses, aka EDITH. The suit is the red and navy (black?) design seen at the end of FFH, meaning it has a couple cool tricks (multi-functional webshooters and wingsuit webs specifically) but not the nanobot capabilites of the Iron Spider suit or the AI backup in his first Stark suit. He also has EDITH with him, but without an orbital defense platform to connect to, EDITH is just a fancy pair of AR glasses that he’ll have to reprogram to access a normal computer system. It has no real functionality on its own. In addition to the tech itself, it’s worth noting that Peter is a tech genius in his own right who developed his own webbing and webshooters even before Tony gave him access to more resources. Kid is smart as hell and will probably end up doing some tech internships in MoM.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[ It’s amazing how fast Mysterio has ruined Peter’s entire life. Just one week ago, posting an internet video would have been super easy. Like, he was born to post dumb videos on the internet and look dumb doing it. And then Mysterio ruined it by ratting out his secret identity to freaking JJJ. Peter hadn’t even been able to approach his social media accounts since; his twitter inbox had blown up instantly, with Facebook and Instagram taking slightly longer to catch on fire and then explode.
So here he is. Trying to find an angle that lets him hide at least some of his nervousness. Or at least lets him use it to channel his best impression of a Definitely Normal Team, No Superheroics Here Honest. He mostly just looks awkward and nerdy, which is … accurate anyway, so let’s go with that. ]
Hey - um, so I’m Peter. Peter Parker. And I just got here, and -
[ He’s read through what’s left of his files, he’s read through the last couple weeks of posts just to get a feel for things. After that, he has one incredibly important question: ]
Did I seriously just barely miss out on a Death Star being here? For real? That’s not fair. Please tell me it’s coming back at some point.
[ That’s probably an objectively incorrect thing to want, but. Look. He’s had a very bad couple of weeks and that would have made his entire life. He could die happy. For the second time. Well, the second time dying, first time dying happy. Anyway. He wishes this weren’t the first time he’s felt powerfully alone despite ostensibly having a lot of superheroes around him. Once again he has to wonder how the hell he’s going to navigate his way through this. For now, it seems like trying to err on the normal side is the right thing to do. It’s … well, it’s the thing that brings him the most relief, anyway, even if he simultaneously feels selfish for wanting it.
He makes a few faces as those emotions fliter through him, reluctantly turning to the list of actual serious questions he made. Not enough time to ask them all (unless he just takes in a breath and rapid fire asks all of them in thirty seconds) so he’ll just pick one for now. ]
So, school. How do you know which one you go to? And can you like … argue with it at all? Because I’m all for finishing high school, but this is my third time going into sophomore year and I’m starting to feel like that movie with the Ghostbuster being depressed in Pennsylvania.
[ He means it. Someone save him from this Groundhog’s Day sophomore year before he really loses his marbles. ]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: TDM threads!
FINAL NOTES: Not too much? I’m happy to extrapolate on his powers if need be, but given he’s Spider-Man I feel like they mostly explain themselves at this point.
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