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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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[ This kid is like - everything good and pure and shit, which is terrifying, because superheroing is going to chew him up into a tiny spiderling pulp and spit him out feeling jaded and bitter with the occasional panic attack, probably. Any yet, even so, Tony can't muster up a single discouraging thing to say about it. ]

Spider-Man, hero of the people, defender of the little guy? Not bad.

[ He makes a great show of giving this some thought, rubbing his chin contemplatively. ]

Y'know, I'm into it, but I've gotta ask: why a spider?

[ That's certainly something, from a branding perspective anyway. ]

You'd be wrong. He just found out his friend betrayed him. I can't really blame him wanting some kind of an answer when in the process of being murdered. It's not like he was going to be able to ask afterward.

[ You want to debate this, Spider-boi, she will. Don't think she won't. ]

No one knows you here. And that costume is pretty dramatic. Sorry but people are going to focus on that stuff more than anything else.

[ oh okay wow look someone focusing on the cool things ]

It's - I mean. I don't actually have a way to scientifically test it, but it's never broken on me so far, and I've used it to swing through several G's, pull up parts of buildings, stop moving vehicles, uh. Hang robbers.

[ wait ]

Not hang! Not like, hang hang. I mean I like. Tie them up and then hang them from something to make sure there's no way to escape. Because if they did get free then they'd just. Fall.

[ also ] Wait do you have a metal hand? [ he was a little distracted by being defensive. ] Why do you have a metal hand?

[ u don't look much like an "elena" but okay, sure. maybe you don't feel like going into those issues yet. ]

I'm not trying to make money, I'm just trying to - I want to use what I can do to help people who can't do the same thing. [ ish. something like that anyway, but worded better. ]

Seems like a good time? Everyone just moved around and then we had the shadow things and the big fishy... slimy thing... I don't know who that actually effected though. But it's like. The normal stuff that people usually need help with, right? It's not really interesting or whatever, but it's useful.

[She looks like she's hanging on every word, so to say. In fact, she gives a soft 'hm?' of surprise when he calls attention to the hand.]

Oh, this? It's my handy-dandy cybernetic limb! [She flexes, and sure enough -- the whole arm is mechanical, at least up to the shoulder. Past that, it's covered by the sleeve of her shirt.] And I have it because I installed it, obviously. It's sort of like having my own superpowers!

... I mean, I can't really climb or walls, and I don't have any awesome ultra-strong spider silk. But I have the strength down! Kind of! Watch!

[She picks up a tin can up, the kind that a workshop might keep around for hold nails. And with her robo-hand, she... with some effort... crushes it down in the middle, kind of like a soda can.]

Okay, that was actually pretty lame. But if I had more room, I probably would've added gadgets, like a swiss army knife... arm... thing. You know?

[ THAT'S ACTUALLY REALLY NICE bc he was like. three and a half full seconds of silence away from asking if maybe he could talk to you again, and to be honest he still might, bc of reasons. ]

Oh, okay. [ vague surprise, but only in the whole sense where now it feels like someone's looking out for him and he doesn't even really know who they are or why. ]

If you, uh. Ever need help with... Well, I don't really know how to explain it. I guess just uh. [ shit, how can someone get in touch with him without getting in touch with him but still get in touch? there are Things Peter Did Not Think Through. ] I'll figure it out and let you know? [ god he's the worst superhero. ]

[ he's just furrowing his brow so much now he's so perturbed. not angry, somewhere around annoyed, but also trying to be patient since the whole identity-awareness thing is 100% one-sided right now

he likes cool aunt both much more and slightly less rn okay ]

Do you not have nicknames wherever you're from. [ 100% flat. ]

I can climb buildings and swing off stuff and I'm really strong
Idk I didn't pick it out okay
It's better than being Cockroach Man so I've embraced it

What organization are you with?

Okay, but in the process of being murdered via being stabbed a million times, who actually expects to get an answer to a question like that?

[ he doesn't actually want to, it's just that he wrote a paper about this only a month or so ago and he remembers all the shit he researched for it. or thinks he does, anyway. ]

Yyy ok that point's been hammered home by now.

The whole 'no one knows you'

Is the costume that dramatic after the weird stuff we've seen already or is it dramatic in spite of it
Or in comparison

We definitely have nicknames! But they're always very on the nose. Which is why if you were a man spider, everything would make much more sense.

[...To her anyway. She rubs at her nose idly before running a hand through her messy hair.]

So, why Spider-Boy? And why my TAB? I need it for work, you know.

[SHE DOESN'T HAVE A JOB.]

[ He can't read minds but that adorable bumbling was pretty transparent. Somewhere Adrien had the heel of his hand to his forehead and was shaking it, but ... he had to give the guy props for intention. ]

Yeah, sounds good. In the meantime, try not to end up in the hospital, okay?

[ It was a rhetorical question, and as such he'd be disconnecting the call and letting the kid get on with his do-gooding. ]

[ "Not bad."

he's going to get that embroidered on a pillow. he only has the one, but he can totally get a new pillow and get "not bad" embroidered on it and then just sort of. have it there. in case. who knows.

anyway it's nice that his face is completely covered, because that means only his silence indicates he's really waiting on whatever tony says next. and when he does speak, it's mostly that literally everyone seems to be harping on this that elicits the small sigh and vaguely slighter slump to his shoulders. ] I didn't pick it, okay - I was just trying to like. Help people, and then the newspaper decided I had "spider" powers.

[ he is like 96% forgetting that he knew he was bit by a spider and made the web-shooters himself, which is a large part of why he looks like a spider and not a gecko or a cockroach or an ant, but. he's not 100% sure why he feels defensive, now. ] Spiders are pretty cool though; they sort of sit on the line between weird and necessary, right?

Impossible without more data.

The person being murdered, obviously. I mean, he can't stop what's happening. And Brutus was someone he trusted greatly. Why wouldn't he want to know why this was all happening?

And yeah maybe it could've been rhetorical but it's just as likely to be an actual question that a dying man asks out of desperation of someone that he once considered a dear friend.

[ With how big of a bookworm she is, any chance to discuss this kind of shit is pretty welcome. Even if the other person doesn't agree. ]

Think it's the bright red and blue.
And you never told me what you do to help people. Or why it's "cool" to be Spider-Man.

[They're married, that's a whole two become one thing, right? It counts? It doesn't count.]

Sure sounded like you were looking to hire yourself out as a mover. Or whatever.

[ Good idea ]

Depends on who you ask. Not the ecological importance bit, though - that's pretty much set in scientific stone, last I checked. On Earth, anyway. Who even knows about this place.

[ If he's not careful he'll start digressing. Reel it back. ]

The newspapers, though. Damn good at coining superhero names. They should start charging.

I suppose so. Not everyone needs to be untied from the proverbial train tracks, so to speak.

[A beat.] Are you only helping move things, or are you interested in helping with anything else?

[ spider-man, why is this so difficult

anyway, the eyes on the mask narrow - not because of the name shift, but because she just said she needs her TAB for work. ]

What are you, some kind of social media consultant?

Are you saying I can't help without more data or that you can't answer me without more data
Or smth else idk

[ uhhhhhhhhhh ]

The fine citizens of new york city

[ nope he tried but it's just too cool to keep to himself ]

Also the Avengers [ !!!!! ]

Edited (icon) 2017-08-02 21:56 (UTC)

Idk I feel like once your bff is stabbing you to death your reasonable expectation of explanation is sort of shot since they weren't talking to you abt whatever the problem was in the first place so why should they start now
I'm not saying he wouldn't WNAT to know I'm saying expecting an answer that isn't some kind of crazy bad guy speech is kind of dumb
want*
WANT*

[ yeah this weirdly feels kind of nice, for reasons he can't really. explain. he doesn't even like this subject that much. he doesn't DISlike it, but it's definitely not really his whole deal. ]

Uhh idk random stuff
I stopped a truck from running into a bus
People stealing cars
Directions to lost tourists
There was a fire once! That was
That one was a little harder
Couple cats stuck on rooftops
Muggings
Idk that sort of stuff

Impossible to help you.

[...Rinzler might just be trolling at this point.]

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