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GUESS WHO'S NERVOUS

also second, "guess who" but more literally, because this message contains only the TAB signature of one lady hawke - peter knows better than to connect his own TAB to his spider-man stuff, okay.

third guess (the charm) who's totally playing it off by being a cool guy, having totally hit record on the TAB remotely, so he's already squared off inside the video feed. congratulations to a head-and-shoulders view of some person in tight red and blue, head-to-apparently-toe spandex. as though spandex has any other possible adjective but 'tight'.

still, the same adjective could be applied to the posture, or at least what's visible. it's at least a... loose kind of tight? or something??

anyway, there's the kind of wave you do when you're either about to start a school project, or your great aunt josephine is giving you a thumbs up from afar for whatever weird family reunion cousin sack race you're about to do. ]

Hey everyone!

This is - [ uhh ] - just me. Spider-Man. Just saying, like. I think some people might have had some stuff missing when they evac'd, or whenever they tried to move around, I guess. Or maybe not, I - it's not like I talked to everyone. Either way, like. If you need stuff - your own stuff, please - moved around, or you want someone to keep an eye out for something, or you just need stuff - I can help with that! Or like if you need help getting here to there specifically, or have to move something really heavy, or - now I'm rambling, sorry. If you want help in general. I can't promise everything, but I can promise I'll try. At least, as much as I can.

[ that's what being a superhero is all about anyway, right? he's been slacking since he got here. ]

...........like, not just right now, I mean. All the time. I can be helpful all the time. This was a weird time to do this, wasn't it?

[ the feed cuts off a handful of hurriedly-over-analyzed seconds later. ]

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Oh okay

[ he can stop trying to figure out what kind of person does genuinely like to clean but who also doesn't probably have some kind of weird personality disorder or illness where you'd be like. taking advantage of them. he wasn't really going to keep working on it that hard, but for a few minutes there he was in some serious thought. like when you're suddenly really interested in what kind of bean really represents you after you read a buzzfeed list. ]

Tbf I think most people aren't that happy when strangers are in their house

So did you actually need help with anything or

[ She laughs out loud when she receives that last message. ]

Do you need me to invent something you can do? You seem eager.

I made the first one and this one was kind of based on it
But like
Waaaaay better

[ loose clothing and super-human agility don't mix v well. esp when most of your combat is hand-to-hand. most-ish. ]

Well I am [ ~~so there.~~ ] You avoided the question

...Can you condense what you're trying to say into one, maybe two sentences?

And a faceless man in red and blue spandex is any less creepy?

[ Look at the eyes of your suit, Peter. Serious creep factor going on here. ]

If you don't want to be easily recognized, why not just send across a text blast?

If you say so.

[ That goes for both, Peter. She has yet to see you in action tho. ]

Which one?

[ hey he's very good at living, okay

he's got a fifteen-straight-year combo running so far

also no one else is replying to him with video at all so he's like halfway into his first sentence before he realizes this isn't another audio feed and he's suddenly like really happy he didn't take his mask off to try and scratch that spot near his eye a couple minutes ago. Luckily, his "interesting speech mannerisms" probably mask his recovery. Also the mask. ]

Yeah, I'm basically a- I mean, like a sort of... Yeah. In other words. [ there's a mild pause with lots of thoughts happening all at once and then he just sort of does what he usually seems to do in moments like this: he says whatever words make him settle. ] That's what it's about, right? The little guy, the like... It doesn't always have to be aliens. Sometimes the impossible thing is getting the couch up to the seventh floor. If I can help with that, or keep someone from wrecking their back while they try instead, it's not... I can do more, I want to do more. But here? This is what I have right now.

I guess I was hoping it wouldn't be? [ honestly he really hadn't thought about it until just now. he's been called several things at this point, but 'creepy' never managed to be one of them. ]

Doesn't sending a text offering random help seem like. Even more creepy? At least with the video you know what the person you want to avoid looks like.

[this is going to be two nerds slipping all over their words at each other]

Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa. Rewind a bit. Spider Man? Sorta -- [she laughs] -- sorta having a hard time making the connection between spiders and moving.

Like, do you have little spider minions who can move stuff around for you?

Edited (actually, I guess gaige doesn't count as high school anymore for reasons) 2017-08-01 00:22 (UTC)

Where are you from that 'you too' isn't rhetorical
I meant the cool part

[ uhhhhhhhh ]

"If you need some kind of help, I might be able to give it"?

I was just making sure!

I mean you don't have to come up anything I was just clarifying
Come up with*

:)

Vague, but thoughtful nonetheless. Any particular reason why you're offering to move things?

So what's with the name?

[ If possible, Adrien's voice goes even more flat and wry. ]

No, no I really don't. You know why? Because you're wearing a creepy red and blue spandex suit with white eyes, that are probably going to feature in my next round of nightmares.

[ Come on Adrien, stop kicking the puppy.

The doctor sighs heavily and somewhere he rubs his hand over his face before giving his head a shake. ]

Alright, I'm just going to shut up now. Look, you had a nice thought and I hope people take you up on it. You're not wrong, help should always be available even when we're not in crisis mode, so ... good on you for offering.

Maybe you should ask Brutus. And I was referring to the question in your original post, smartass.

And I don't know if it's cool. Standing around in spandex doesn't usually qualify as "cool" but I also don't know how you plan to help people, either.

[ oh boy ]

No like - [ god. maybe he shouldn't have introduced himself. but then, that was literally the point of the video, wasn't it? he's just... he's 100% not used to having to explain who he is. well like maybe 97% now, but that's almost beside the point, since even in that one outlier no one actually dissected his name - they just went with it and moved on.

honestly he wasn't expecting this kind of problem with this whole broadcast at all. a few others, sure, but. explaining a name he never actually picked in the first place? no, not really. ]

Like I can climb the side of buildings and move super heavy things and kind of... Swing around on this stuff that looks like webbing. [ sliiightly more defensive: ] I figured the whole 'heavy lifting' thing might help somewhere, mostly.

If you're trying to make some spare change, you need a better sales pitch, kid.

[Climbing, super strength... oh? For some reason, it's the mention of 'webbing' that seems to catch her attention the most. Gaige visibly perks up.]

You mean like spider silk? Because if it has anywhere near the tensile strength of real spider silk, that might actually be kinda cooler than spider minions.

[When she brings up tensile strength, she mimes stretching something out in the air. At which point one can see that one of her hands is a robo-hand.]

[ clearly (somehow, through the longer-than-usual pause on his end) a point that peter's neither happy about nor had really considered. honestly, repping on the network prior to having really established himself - adrien has a good point, and while peter's not that pleased to consider it, he can already acknowledge that it's good it was brought up. peter will just have to work harder, do more things to raise his image organically, like it did back home, if he wants to have anything near the same kind of impact. ...if he was ever really having an impact at all.

i'd apologize for the puppy thing if i wasn't about to say that he sounds almost unbearably earnest, in the way that only vague naivety can ever seem to manage when he says: ] Thank you. That's... Not great news, but- Yeah, uh. Thanks. A lot.

[Hawke makes a humming noise as if she finds that answer acceptable for now. Then she gasps a little.]

You mean your real name isn't Man-Spider? You just lied to all of us out here? How can we accept help from someone who lies about his name?

Really
Is everybody gonna get in on this
It makes more sense when I'm actually doing things instead of just putting out a video saying I can do things

[ not that he hasn't been, he's just. been mostly swinging around region five and doing random small things here and there, so. not much publicity in that. especially when you have shit like sudden Winter and shadow bs going down on a not-irregular basis. ]

[ Oh that earnest tone did things to Adrien.

Namely stirred protective instincts that he had to clamp down hard on. This guy wasn't his responsibility and being a paranoid jackass at the kid, even if it was with the intention of warning him to protect himself, wasn't going to help. ]

Look when you end up with a, [ bullet hole, knife wound, other bumps and bruises ] muscle strain, tell them to bring you to the hospital in Kauto Region One and ask for Arbuckal. If you really, [ piss off the wrong people ] strain a muscle, you can also come to Kauto Region Two, ask for the apple orchard; it's where I keep my clinic.

So you do things like a spider does?

I figured it was a code name of some type.

Technically since he asked that while he was stabbed a million times I'd say that was rhetorical too

Which time?? What

Okay SORT OF fair. I'm used to like. Idk this isn't how I usually try to help but it seemed like it might not be a bad idea until everyone started just honing in on my name

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