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hey, so, full disclosure: this is super weird for me. i've never done this before. like, classically when i tell people bad stuff happens so i sorta don't tell anyone, but uh, here goes:

so i've got... superpowers. it feels like?? that's not that big a deal around here. some people are like 9 ft tall and can do magic (???) and have full robotic wings so it's just nbd but also for me it kinda is a big deal so it's a little scary to be upfront about this but i super duper did just liveblog my spider wall-crawling to the entire team during the last mission pandora's box is way open so yeah i have superpowers

( and apparently he's no better at trying to send brain messages, RIP friendos, his brain is just Like This )

but anyway, uh... since there are a lot of us, maybe if you wanna, we can... share??? nothing more than you are comfortable with, obviously, and trust me if you wanna hang back and stay quiet i get it. back home, i can't share this stuff. it gets people hurt. i was just thinking here, maybe... and since there's a ton of you like me or not even like me but different too, i don't know. maybe it'd be good for us to know who can do what? what we're all capable of? things we should look out for?

i guess i should go first. i, uh... can crawl on walls. everybody saw that (SIDEBAR that is my bad for that shaky camera work if i gave you motion sickness i am so so so sorry). i'm pretty strong too. and maybe be careful trying to touch me or throw things at me bc my senses make me react if it seems like a threat and i'm not super good at turning it off. i'm trying though. i have webslingers too, for flyin around?? so that's cool

uh... that's it? ama? i'll try and answer... or you can tell me anything, if you wanna talk shop. if you wanna keep things dl, private works. trust that i get it, this feels so viscerally uncomfortable, like those went to school in ur underwear dreams, only i really did it, holy snickerdoodle, i really hope this does not blow up in my face

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well has anyone told you that you are very very charming

( because IT SURE FEELS HOSTILE!!! )

no i'm not that's the whole point i said i wasn't gonna explain exactly how it happened
whatever it's fine. i AM sharing about my powers broadly, you're not wrong about that. i didn't really have much of a choice after everyone saw them in the midst of our final throwdown during the last mission

people tell me that all the time. glad to see it's been noticed so quickly.

( love you, meant it, peter. )

uh huh.
what happened last mission, then?
for a noob, like me.
what kinds of fabulous things did you save people from?

noob? wow, so you're also hip and happening, to go with all that charm

we were on a planet with a bunch of gangster families. kovacs and i ended up the ones to grab the orb, and i maybe kinda brainwaved the entire team the showdown. upsidedown, probably, since i was stuck to the ceiling for most of it

thank you, kind of you to notice.

( he knows that was sarcasm, peter, but he's going with it. )

stuck to the ceiling?
that happen to you a lot?
is it kind of like popping off early in the middle of a good lay?

i was stuck to the ceiling on purpose
it was the broadcasting it to the whole crew part that was the accident

all right
i'll bite
how'd you do that?
don't these things gotta on switch you gotta hit?

yeah but high stress situations don't make clear concise thinking particularly easy
i don't really think clear and concisely even in perfectly normal not stressful situations actually

you sound like you're a hoot at parties, ain't you?
just freaking out in corners
while people have fun around you

it's better in person because most of the freaking out is internal? but yeah i mean not entirely wrong

( and that's if he even gets to go to a party. people rarely invite him to things. which is probably fine because half the time when they do he doesn't go anyway, so busy saving new york and being socially awkward... thanks for pointing it out Billy really appreciated )

you don't use this sticking to shit as a party trick?
a way to get attention?

n...o? did you miss the part where i said i usually keep them a secret?

fine, i'm just gonna ask: what's w the 3rd degree? and the slightly accusatory tone wrt superpowers

we have 'em back home
don't like 'em.

never would have guessed.

( PETER SARCASM ISN'T GONNA HELP HERE, MY DUDE. )

look, i don't know your deal, but to be honest? i get it. some people get powers and it gets ugly fast. seen it happen dozens of times. i don't want to be like that, for what it's worth.

i'm guessing not much, so it's good i don't need your approval or anything.

you don't need my approval, junior
and it's a good thing
cuz you ain't got it

you can say you don't wanna go that way
but everyone says that shit.

yeah, well, most people don't get superpowers and think, you know what, supervillainy is for me

but i try and have perspective. i was a normal guy before i ended up like this. i tried not being a superhero, i really did, i just... can't sit by and let bad things happen to people when i can do something about it.

how long you been like this?
a superhero thing?

two years? two years and some months?
i took a break for awhile there

( dead girlfriend trauma ended up keeping him off the job a few months. )

what made you come back, then?

people were getting hurt.

( for a long time, he didn't even notice. and then when he came out of the depressive haze, for awhile he tried to ignore it. eventually it wore him down, Responsibility. threats that only Spider-Man could handle. )

and you decided that it was your responsibility to stop it at all?
that's how you'll get killed

so i should just let it happen when i can do something about it?

maybe it is my responsibility. nobody else could stop the oscorp financed goons that were roaming the city. and they'd probably die trying.

( maybe it will kill him one day. better him than people who can't hope to fight back. )

that's a lot to take on
what happens if you die?
who's going to do it after you're gone?

i don't know. but that doesn't feel like a good reason to do nothing in the meantime.

well
at least you don't sound like some supes i know.

well, uh, thanks. i guess.

( somehow this doesn't feel like much of a compliment. )

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