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longestnight2023-09-02 04:45 am
thismaskismybadge) wrote in longestnight2023-09-02 04:45 am
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[video] the spider-teen has questions
[ Now she's out of her suit, Gwen is wearing a sweater that's visibly hanging off her shoulders to show the straps of the tank underneath, and some leggings. She is, however, still wearing her web-shooters and her dud of a multiverse-traversing watch on her wrists alongside the magic watch. ]
Hi, I'm Gwen. Otherwise known as Spider-Woman, but, well, you don't have to call me that. [ beat, visible thought, ] Probably don't, actually, it'd be kind of weird when you already know my real name.
Anyway.
I'm just, you know. [ she shrugs ] Curious. About a couple things. First, how many people here have done the whole multiverse song and dance before? Because there's at least a few of you, I know that.
Second, do like. Any of you that aren't Spider-Man yourself, or Loki who's already kinda answered this one, have a superhero called Spider-something in your world? Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Spider-Girl, Spider— any noun, really. We get a lot of variety, if I tried to list even the most common ones we'd be here all day.
[ Call it her testing a theory. She's got some thoughts swirling around up in that head of hers. ]
Hi, I'm Gwen. Otherwise known as Spider-Woman, but, well, you don't have to call me that. [ beat, visible thought, ] Probably don't, actually, it'd be kind of weird when you already know my real name.
Anyway.
I'm just, you know. [ she shrugs ] Curious. About a couple things. First, how many people here have done the whole multiverse song and dance before? Because there's at least a few of you, I know that.
Second, do like. Any of you that aren't Spider-Man yourself, or Loki who's already kinda answered this one, have a superhero called Spider-something in your world? Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Spider-Girl, Spider— any noun, really. We get a lot of variety, if I tried to list even the most common ones we'd be here all day.
[ Call it her testing a theory. She's got some thoughts swirling around up in that head of hers. ]
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Right, yes! You were one of the ones I overheard. Yeah, I stopped being surprised by the existence of alternate universes after my first surprise hop, but this is uh. New. This kind of hop is definitely new?
But, hey, like I told mister fluffy hair we totally get Spiders who have fictionalised versions of their lives in their dimensions. That's almost the least weird thing about all this, except for the idea it exists in a world without a real Spider... [ her head tilts a bit thoughtfully ] Wonder if it's anything like how it works here. The whole writers getting ideas from across dimensional thresholds thing.
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[Granted, modern-day suburbia was one of the nicer landings. Even if it had been in New Jersey.
She shrugs in answer to Gwen's musings.]
I mean, it could be? Stories are powerful. It wouldn't shock me if ideas can pass through realities. Though again, my life is already so weird, etc. My sense incredulity is extremely battered; but it does still exist.
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My first time I got yanked through a portal and shot into the middle of downtown New York like a human nerf dart. But that was to another Spider's universe. Something something super collider something something spider-DNA...
[ She waves her hands vaguely. It was different. And she was home within a week. ]
Which, yeah. My idea of 'weird' is already kinda skewed too. You get bitten by a radioactive spider in class one time in middle school, and suddenly you have spider powers and have to fight a bunch of animal-themed supervillains and sometimes an evil lawyer trained as an assassin tries to get on your good side by having people killed for you.
[ Seriously. ]
You uh, said werewolves? Back during the announcement, I mean. That's your thing?
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To be fair, if you get bitten by radioactive spiders on the reg, you're definitely doing something wrong. Either that or you're really, really devoted to getting some kind of horrible necrosis.
[Radioactivity doesn't not give you super powers in Stacia's reality, but they're the bad kind of super powers that warp your mind, body, and spiritual essence. She wonders if Gwen and the other Spider-persons would get picked up by Sense Wyrm, or if their radioactivity is Just Different.]
Yep, I'm a werewolf. That was a surprise for me, too; I grew up thinking that supernatural things weren't real and then bam! Suddenly my life looks like an urban horror movie with fewer pairs of black leather pants.
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I bet there's a Spider-Person out there who got bit at least twice. We have a Spider-Man who's a living plushie. Like, at that point, anything's possible.
[ That's not even getting into Popsicle Spider-Man. Or Spider-Ham. Sorry Porker you are, inherently, a very weird example. ]
...we even have a werewolf Spider-Man, actually. Huh.
[ Anyway, ] See, I at least knew superheroes were a thing. There's others, like, out there. Not knowing it's even real must have been uh. Disorienting?
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[ Stacia says "traumatized weirdo" with every sign of affection. ]
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[ Gwen laughs a short, grim laugh, ] Yeah, I hear that. That's not the worst description you could slap on the place me and the other Spiders came from, really.
[ The Spider-Society is full of traumatized weirdos. And for all her anger towards Miguel and the whole system, well. There's a reason so many people went with it. Well, besides the fact almost every Spider have responsibility complexes a mile wide and the Society was trying to save the whole multiverse. ]
Before that, though... [ a huff of air ] well, most of us operated alone.
[ Yeah. There's a reason so many people stayed a part of the society. ]
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[Granted, the Garou and the various Spider-People aren't generally dealing with the same kind of thing, Stacia's pretty sure. There's enough nerds around that she's pretty sure she'd have heard if Spider-Man regularly fought against the corrupted concept of entropy.]
In the last universe, I chatted with a kid who was new to the whole costume crime-fighter situation. I'm pretty sure the major points I hit were "build a support network" and "you're small, jab people in the eyeballs".
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It's... not easy. [ an understatement ] But it's not easy because it's complicated. You know? My dad—
[ A visible pause, as avoidant tendencies war with what is, here, now, an inconsequential detail that provides context. ]
—he was a cop. Not the biggest fan of vigilante justice. I can't speak for other Spiders reasons, but that was mine. [ among... other things... ] But the jabbing people in the eyeballs trick is legit. I was also very fond of webbing people in the face, which unfortunately isn't exactly transferable advice.
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I mean, spraying webbing on their face isn't not similar to eyeball poking! They still can't see, and you can therefore run away or reposition yourself to hit them again. But yeah, no, I don't have the option to spray goo from my body in any of my shapes, so not really transferable.
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Oof. That's uh... yeah. [ insightful, Gwen; but no, for all of her father's faults, it wasn't as if he was ever the one keeping a secret ] Not the same, but I kind of feel it. The first time I ever had a network... well. Let's say it was a recent development.
[ God, what she wouldn't do for Hobie and the others to be here... ]
But, okay, actually, see, only some of us actually make our web organically. Which, for the record—always weirded me out? There's just something about spewing bodily fluids everywhere that feels... eugh. Anyway, point is, I guess anyone could take advantage if someone built them web-shooters.
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