Peter Parker | The Spectacular Spider-Man
OOC:
Name: Saint
Are you over 16?: Yep.
Personal LJ: saintcynicism (NOTE: I don't log into it much anymore. Best to use my other contact info if you need to get ahold of me).
Email: captain_deepthoughts@hotmail.com OR jdc293@nau.edu
Timezone: Arizona Standard Time. We're in the Mountain zone, we just don't use daylight savings, which...complicates things.
Other contact:
AIM: SethWynd
MSN: captain_deepthoughts@hotmail.com
YIM: saint_cynicism@yahoo.com
Skype: saint.cynicism
So yeah, basically ALL OF THE THINGS.
Characters already in the game: n/a
How did you find us?: I kept seeing the game pop up in tags on Dear Mun, so I figured I'd check it out.
IC:
(NOTE: Any sections/sentences after this point marked with an asterisk (*) denote headcanon based on or to explain things seen in the show.)
Character name: Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Fandom: The Spectacular Spider-Man (TV Series)
Timeline: Post-season 2 (so, end of series)
Age: 16* (could have sworn it was mentioned in the series, but I can't find the episode)
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:* Significantly improved strength, agility, endurance, reflexes, etc. Essentially got bit by a Science!Spider and gained spider-related powers. Specific limits on his strength are never given in-canon, but there are some examples. He has, for example, swung a steel I-beam over his head like a carnival hammer, pulled the end of a cement mixer off, and (with great, great strain) lifted wreckage and a pretty huge piece of machinery off himself, which helps to get an idea for the upper limits of his strength. Less combat-oriented spider-perks include the ability to cling to walls and ceilings with his hands or feet. His grip is strong enough that he can easily support additional weight (including, at one point, the muscle-bound Enforcer "Ox"), as well as run on the ceiling.
He also gets an added perk from a "Spider-Sense" that warns him of danger, great or small, and it should be noted he doesn't actually have to see the threat in order to react to it. Endurance wise, he can take an enormous amount of physical punishment, and recovers from it far faster than the average human (a serious, serious beating might take a day at most*, but his recovery is never instantaneous), though he's not invincible. Things like bullets can still do him serious harm if they hit.*
His final edge is that he's a bit of a chemistry nerd and has created artificial webs he uses to help fight crime (and for transportation), as well as a pair of webshooters to dispense the aforementioned webs. His web-lines are extremely durable, though individuals with great strength have been shown capable of ripping through them. Still, he can suspend himself and a few others from a single web-line, so...it's strong (while not necessarily an "ability," it's listed here because of how heavily he relies on them, and how often he uses the webshooters). It's also durable enough that, in web-form, it's capable of catching and supporting the weight of everything from thrown cars to falling helicopters.
How would they use their abilities?: Fight crime, get somewhere in a hurry, etc. So, generally he's gonna try to keep right on being your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
Appearance: Pete is not exactly your average action hero kinda guy. He's fairly short at 5'6" (revealed here), and at first glance actually seems kinda scrawny. Part of this is because the vast majority of his newfound muscle is in the form of lean muscle, but it's also due to a careful wardrobe selection that avoids drawing attention to the aforementioned muscle mass*. As a result, out-of-costume, it's really not hard for him to look like a helpless science geek and social reject (the latter is also helped by the fact he regularly forgets to make sure the tag on his shirt isn't hanging out). On a more specific and mundane note, Peter Parker has brown hair and brown eyes. See for yourself:
In the more spectacular vein, there's Peter Parker as Spider-Man. Assuming he hasn't fallen into a shredder, typically a person can't see what the person in the costume looks like at all. He usually wears his costume under his clothes, with a few small exceptions. His gloves, mask, and webshooters are carried separately (usually in his book bag), as they'd be mighty hard to conceal with ordinary clothes. The costume itself sports a red and blue color scheme, with a black web design over the red portions of the costume, and a stylized black spider logo on the chest. The costume also includes a belt he wears that stores extra web packs, as well as the "spider signal" which...well, it's not used to call for help as much as it is to temporarily blind/disorient the bad guys. He doesn't use it nearly as much as he used to (or at all, really), but it has actually saved the day for him on at least one occasion. For a visual aid, see the spectacular wallcrawler below:
Background:
Peter hasn't been Spider-Man for a very long time at all. In fact, it's more of a recent hobby, having only just undertaken the mantle just prior to his junior year of high school (Source). Unfortunately, it was a less than glamorous start- he'd tried to use his powers to make money at a professional wrestling promo event, only to be cheated by the promoter in charge. Due to this, he allowed a robber to escape, only to discover later that night that his Uncle Ben was shot and killed by that same man just outside. It's something he considers his greatest mistake, and afterward he chose to honor his uncle as best he could be taking up the mantle of Spider-Man, living by his uncle's mantra of "with great power, there must also come great responsibility" (or various paraphrased versions of it).
This is something he almost forgot, when he also took up work for the Daily Bugle as a freelance photographer to make money for himself rather than to help out with his aunt's bills. Ironically, it was one of his newfound villains, Shocker, who put him back on the right path- after some arguing, he finally convinced his Aunt May to take a portion of each paycheck to pay the bills, realizing that with Uncle Ben gone, helping take care of her was just one of his new responsibilities. A later run-in with a symbiote also helped him realize just how much he had to be grateful for, not least among which was his friends and family.
Outside of this circle, he also received guidance from police captain George Stacy, who offers him advice when he can. In fact, due to the suspicious timing and circumstances of such advice, as well as a few unexpected alibis supplied by Stacy, Pete suspects he may actually know he's Spider-Man. He's given Pete a reason to keep his identity a secret when he doubted whether or not it was the right thing to do, and come to his aid other times as well, even helping subdue Rhino on one occasion. It's shown Peter that he doesn't always have to rely only on himself to get things done.
Personality:
Peter may try to be the responsible person, and he's quite capable of doing so, but...he does get distracted pretty easily. Not in the "ooh, shiny object" kind of way, but sometimes he tries to solve too many problems at once, or dedicates time to a problem when he should really be focusing on something (or someone) else. In essence, his mind wanders, and it gets him into trouble. He's intelligent, but also pretty lousy when it comes to picking up on the more subtle things- especially anything related to the opposite sex. In short, he can be pretty socially awkward at times, although he's nonetheless fairly capable of navigating the muddy waters of high school peer interaction without too much difficulty. He even manages to avoid drawing too much attention to himself, even if he is a total science geek, even taking an unpaid internship at the ESU Biology lab run by Dr. Conners (which he was later fired from).
As one would expect, he's got a pretty clear view on right and wrong, and is willing to make tough decisions if it would otherwise mean compromising his principles. He's even willing to save the people who pick on him as Peter Parker on a regular basis, though he may have a little "fun" with them in the process (such as leaving J. Jonah Jameson webbed to the ceiling). As mentioned previously, he lives by his uncle's mantra, and although the stresses of being Spider-Man can get to him from time to time, he always chooses to push on. His aunt, and his friends, mean the world to him, which is also why he works so hard to keep his identity as Spider-Man a secret. While revealing himself might ease a lot of the pressure he feels in his daily life and grant immediate celebrity status, it would nonetheless put everyone he cares about in danger.
Speaking of danger, it's something Spidey faces on a regular basis. Not because he wants to, but because he feels obligated to. Most of his villains could easily kill him if he isn't careful, so he relies on his (sometimes corny) humor to both keep himself calm under pressure, as well as annoy his foes to the point they might make critical mistakes for him to take advantage of.* And hey, who doesn't want to make fun of the person trying to kill them, right? He's also got a habit of giving his foes nicknames, something that occasionally carries over to his allies.*
Have you read up on how the game works?: Yep! Characters can make money through missions, through stealing it/stuff (with potential & probable consequences down the line), and even take out loans (though whether or not you consider this "making money," I'm not sure, so I'll list one more), or owning a shop. Also, the name of the guide plug-in is Flaming Ferret...and I really hope I don't have to do the multi-colored F thing like in the FAQ, I have no idea how :|
1st person sample:
[Hopefully no one logged into the network was afraid of heights, because once Spidey's feed comes on, it's pretty apparent he and his Guide are dangling from the bottom of a walkway somewhere near the top of one of the shopping districts. While the camera's not facing straight down, based on how many different walkways are visible in the background, it's obvious there's at least fifty feet between him and the ground.]
Why did no one warn me about the food here? I mean okay, sure it's probably edible, to somebody, but it moves. WHY DOES IT MOVE?!
[It'd probably be easier to feel sorry for the guy if he wasn't flailing about like that. From the sound of things, someone tried to dine in the wrong section of the ship. Which, admittedly, could have been avoided had he consulted his guide a little more extensively and learned how to find 'human' food, but cut the guy a break. He'd just come woken up on a space ship, in space, surrounded largely by aliens. All told, his visibly irritated body language is probably the best reaction someone in his position could be expected to have.]
I am not the kind of spider used to hunting his food- especially not when it starts off on his plate! I use my webshooters on the bad guys, not my lunch!
3rd person sample:
This was probably the worst day Peter could remember. And there'd been a lot of "worst days." But this, this just seemed to find its way into a whole new category all together. Because one minute, he was changing back into his civvies after an impromptu morning of crime-fighting, and the next, BAM! On a space ship, staring into the face of the ugliest giant mole of a person he'd ever seen. No, really, it was like looking at Martin Van Buren, if his face were made of silly putty and grime. And total apathy.
"How does...what?!" Pete was fumbling his speech, clearly at a loss for words, and it wasn't hard to understand why. He'd just been given the rather unexpected news that his entire planet had been destroyed by mistake. Sort of an intergalactic 'oops' on an epic scale. Somewhere, some low-level clerk had made a simple typo, a typo which was then passed up the chain as such.
"How does a typo destroy a planet?!"
Oh, and there was that. So, to recap: civilian clothes left on earth, earth destroyed, earth destroyed because of catastrophic clerical error (a one had been mistaken for an L, easy mistake to make), Peter shoeless on spaceship being given the bureaucratic run-around by the giant putty-faced reincarnation of President Martin Van Buren. Also, a towel, a book, a communicator, and a tiny little fish that now lived inside his head. To reiterate: Today was easily the worst day in the history of worst days.
"We're not quite sure. But we're looking into it. Rather embarrassing that something like that could go unnoticed."
"How is that supposed to help?! You just blew up my home! My whole planet!"
"Well, in ten to fifteen weeks, we should have some forms for you to fill out to file a formal grievance, a stern letter of condemnation, and customer service evaluation. Given your extreme circumstances, you'll also need to submit forms 49b and 16a, to request a petition for the formal request of an expedient review of the circumstances leading to the destruction of your planet."
"...what?"
Of course, at this point, a horn sounded from somewhere behind the Putty-face Van Buren's window, and Peter was told to move along to make room for the next refugee. Evidently the ship had picked up no fewer than thirty-three and a half refugees on its last stop, among them a rather distressed eel and a large river otter that had arrived hungry but no longer was. Within moments, Peter had found himself ushered out the door and onto a bustling walkway filled with aliens, some of whom only marginally more attractive than Putty-face Van Buren, holding his newfound belongings as well as all that remained of his earthly possessions. And without his shoes.
"Will someone PLEASE tell me what's going on?!"
Questions?: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: It'll be there until LJ takes it away 8|
Name: Saint
Are you over 16?: Yep.
Personal LJ: saintcynicism (NOTE: I don't log into it much anymore. Best to use my other contact info if you need to get ahold of me).
Email: captain_deepthoughts@hotmail.com OR jdc293@nau.edu
Timezone: Arizona Standard Time. We're in the Mountain zone, we just don't use daylight savings, which...complicates things.
Other contact:
AIM: SethWynd
MSN: captain_deepthoughts@hotmail.com
YIM: saint_cynicism@yahoo.com
Skype: saint.cynicism
So yeah, basically ALL OF THE THINGS.
Characters already in the game: n/a
How did you find us?: I kept seeing the game pop up in tags on Dear Mun, so I figured I'd check it out.
IC:
(NOTE: Any sections/sentences after this point marked with an asterisk (*) denote headcanon based on or to explain things seen in the show.)
Character name: Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Fandom: The Spectacular Spider-Man (TV Series)
Timeline: Post-season 2 (so, end of series)
Age: 16* (could have sworn it was mentioned in the series, but I can't find the episode)
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:* Significantly improved strength, agility, endurance, reflexes, etc. Essentially got bit by a Science!Spider and gained spider-related powers. Specific limits on his strength are never given in-canon, but there are some examples. He has, for example, swung a steel I-beam over his head like a carnival hammer, pulled the end of a cement mixer off, and (with great, great strain) lifted wreckage and a pretty huge piece of machinery off himself, which helps to get an idea for the upper limits of his strength. Less combat-oriented spider-perks include the ability to cling to walls and ceilings with his hands or feet. His grip is strong enough that he can easily support additional weight (including, at one point, the muscle-bound Enforcer "Ox"), as well as run on the ceiling.
He also gets an added perk from a "Spider-Sense" that warns him of danger, great or small, and it should be noted he doesn't actually have to see the threat in order to react to it. Endurance wise, he can take an enormous amount of physical punishment, and recovers from it far faster than the average human (a serious, serious beating might take a day at most*, but his recovery is never instantaneous), though he's not invincible. Things like bullets can still do him serious harm if they hit.*
His final edge is that he's a bit of a chemistry nerd and has created artificial webs he uses to help fight crime (and for transportation), as well as a pair of webshooters to dispense the aforementioned webs. His web-lines are extremely durable, though individuals with great strength have been shown capable of ripping through them. Still, he can suspend himself and a few others from a single web-line, so...it's strong (while not necessarily an "ability," it's listed here because of how heavily he relies on them, and how often he uses the webshooters). It's also durable enough that, in web-form, it's capable of catching and supporting the weight of everything from thrown cars to falling helicopters.
How would they use their abilities?: Fight crime, get somewhere in a hurry, etc. So, generally he's gonna try to keep right on being your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
Appearance: Pete is not exactly your average action hero kinda guy. He's fairly short at 5'6" (revealed here), and at first glance actually seems kinda scrawny. Part of this is because the vast majority of his newfound muscle is in the form of lean muscle, but it's also due to a careful wardrobe selection that avoids drawing attention to the aforementioned muscle mass*. As a result, out-of-costume, it's really not hard for him to look like a helpless science geek and social reject (the latter is also helped by the fact he regularly forgets to make sure the tag on his shirt isn't hanging out). On a more specific and mundane note, Peter Parker has brown hair and brown eyes. See for yourself:
In the more spectacular vein, there's Peter Parker as Spider-Man. Assuming he hasn't fallen into a shredder, typically a person can't see what the person in the costume looks like at all. He usually wears his costume under his clothes, with a few small exceptions. His gloves, mask, and webshooters are carried separately (usually in his book bag), as they'd be mighty hard to conceal with ordinary clothes. The costume itself sports a red and blue color scheme, with a black web design over the red portions of the costume, and a stylized black spider logo on the chest. The costume also includes a belt he wears that stores extra web packs, as well as the "spider signal" which...well, it's not used to call for help as much as it is to temporarily blind/disorient the bad guys. He doesn't use it nearly as much as he used to (or at all, really), but it has actually saved the day for him on at least one occasion. For a visual aid, see the spectacular wallcrawler below:
Background:
Peter hasn't been Spider-Man for a very long time at all. In fact, it's more of a recent hobby, having only just undertaken the mantle just prior to his junior year of high school (Source). Unfortunately, it was a less than glamorous start- he'd tried to use his powers to make money at a professional wrestling promo event, only to be cheated by the promoter in charge. Due to this, he allowed a robber to escape, only to discover later that night that his Uncle Ben was shot and killed by that same man just outside. It's something he considers his greatest mistake, and afterward he chose to honor his uncle as best he could be taking up the mantle of Spider-Man, living by his uncle's mantra of "with great power, there must also come great responsibility" (or various paraphrased versions of it).
This is something he almost forgot, when he also took up work for the Daily Bugle as a freelance photographer to make money for himself rather than to help out with his aunt's bills. Ironically, it was one of his newfound villains, Shocker, who put him back on the right path- after some arguing, he finally convinced his Aunt May to take a portion of each paycheck to pay the bills, realizing that with Uncle Ben gone, helping take care of her was just one of his new responsibilities. A later run-in with a symbiote also helped him realize just how much he had to be grateful for, not least among which was his friends and family.
Outside of this circle, he also received guidance from police captain George Stacy, who offers him advice when he can. In fact, due to the suspicious timing and circumstances of such advice, as well as a few unexpected alibis supplied by Stacy, Pete suspects he may actually know he's Spider-Man. He's given Pete a reason to keep his identity a secret when he doubted whether or not it was the right thing to do, and come to his aid other times as well, even helping subdue Rhino on one occasion. It's shown Peter that he doesn't always have to rely only on himself to get things done.
Personality:
Peter may try to be the responsible person, and he's quite capable of doing so, but...he does get distracted pretty easily. Not in the "ooh, shiny object" kind of way, but sometimes he tries to solve too many problems at once, or dedicates time to a problem when he should really be focusing on something (or someone) else. In essence, his mind wanders, and it gets him into trouble. He's intelligent, but also pretty lousy when it comes to picking up on the more subtle things- especially anything related to the opposite sex. In short, he can be pretty socially awkward at times, although he's nonetheless fairly capable of navigating the muddy waters of high school peer interaction without too much difficulty. He even manages to avoid drawing too much attention to himself, even if he is a total science geek, even taking an unpaid internship at the ESU Biology lab run by Dr. Conners (which he was later fired from).
As one would expect, he's got a pretty clear view on right and wrong, and is willing to make tough decisions if it would otherwise mean compromising his principles. He's even willing to save the people who pick on him as Peter Parker on a regular basis, though he may have a little "fun" with them in the process (such as leaving J. Jonah Jameson webbed to the ceiling). As mentioned previously, he lives by his uncle's mantra, and although the stresses of being Spider-Man can get to him from time to time, he always chooses to push on. His aunt, and his friends, mean the world to him, which is also why he works so hard to keep his identity as Spider-Man a secret. While revealing himself might ease a lot of the pressure he feels in his daily life and grant immediate celebrity status, it would nonetheless put everyone he cares about in danger.
Speaking of danger, it's something Spidey faces on a regular basis. Not because he wants to, but because he feels obligated to. Most of his villains could easily kill him if he isn't careful, so he relies on his (sometimes corny) humor to both keep himself calm under pressure, as well as annoy his foes to the point they might make critical mistakes for him to take advantage of.* And hey, who doesn't want to make fun of the person trying to kill them, right? He's also got a habit of giving his foes nicknames, something that occasionally carries over to his allies.*
Have you read up on how the game works?: Yep! Characters can make money through missions, through stealing it/stuff (with potential & probable consequences down the line), and even take out loans (though whether or not you consider this "making money," I'm not sure, so I'll list one more), or owning a shop. Also, the name of the guide plug-in is Flaming Ferret...and I really hope I don't have to do the multi-colored F thing like in the FAQ, I have no idea how :|
1st person sample:
[Hopefully no one logged into the network was afraid of heights, because once Spidey's feed comes on, it's pretty apparent he and his Guide are dangling from the bottom of a walkway somewhere near the top of one of the shopping districts. While the camera's not facing straight down, based on how many different walkways are visible in the background, it's obvious there's at least fifty feet between him and the ground.]
Why did no one warn me about the food here? I mean okay, sure it's probably edible, to somebody, but it moves. WHY DOES IT MOVE?!
[It'd probably be easier to feel sorry for the guy if he wasn't flailing about like that. From the sound of things, someone tried to dine in the wrong section of the ship. Which, admittedly, could have been avoided had he consulted his guide a little more extensively and learned how to find 'human' food, but cut the guy a break. He'd just come woken up on a space ship, in space, surrounded largely by aliens. All told, his visibly irritated body language is probably the best reaction someone in his position could be expected to have.]
I am not the kind of spider used to hunting his food- especially not when it starts off on his plate! I use my webshooters on the bad guys, not my lunch!
3rd person sample:
This was probably the worst day Peter could remember. And there'd been a lot of "worst days." But this, this just seemed to find its way into a whole new category all together. Because one minute, he was changing back into his civvies after an impromptu morning of crime-fighting, and the next, BAM! On a space ship, staring into the face of the ugliest giant mole of a person he'd ever seen. No, really, it was like looking at Martin Van Buren, if his face were made of silly putty and grime. And total apathy.
"How does...what?!" Pete was fumbling his speech, clearly at a loss for words, and it wasn't hard to understand why. He'd just been given the rather unexpected news that his entire planet had been destroyed by mistake. Sort of an intergalactic 'oops' on an epic scale. Somewhere, some low-level clerk had made a simple typo, a typo which was then passed up the chain as such.
"How does a typo destroy a planet?!"
Oh, and there was that. So, to recap: civilian clothes left on earth, earth destroyed, earth destroyed because of catastrophic clerical error (a one had been mistaken for an L, easy mistake to make), Peter shoeless on spaceship being given the bureaucratic run-around by the giant putty-faced reincarnation of President Martin Van Buren. Also, a towel, a book, a communicator, and a tiny little fish that now lived inside his head. To reiterate: Today was easily the worst day in the history of worst days.
"We're not quite sure. But we're looking into it. Rather embarrassing that something like that could go unnoticed."
"How is that supposed to help?! You just blew up my home! My whole planet!"
"Well, in ten to fifteen weeks, we should have some forms for you to fill out to file a formal grievance, a stern letter of condemnation, and customer service evaluation. Given your extreme circumstances, you'll also need to submit forms 49b and 16a, to request a petition for the formal request of an expedient review of the circumstances leading to the destruction of your planet."
"...what?"
Of course, at this point, a horn sounded from somewhere behind the Putty-face Van Buren's window, and Peter was told to move along to make room for the next refugee. Evidently the ship had picked up no fewer than thirty-three and a half refugees on its last stop, among them a rather distressed eel and a large river otter that had arrived hungry but no longer was. Within moments, Peter had found himself ushered out the door and onto a bustling walkway filled with aliens, some of whom only marginally more attractive than Putty-face Van Buren, holding his newfound belongings as well as all that remained of his earthly possessions. And without his shoes.
"Will someone PLEASE tell me what's going on?!"
Questions?: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: It'll be there until LJ takes it away 8|