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[retrovirion]

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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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[monomachy]

[she looks a little confused, brows pitched together, but there's a small smile on her face anyway]

This is a kind thing to offer. But why would you call yourself Spider-Man? Are you some kind of ancient creature, part man and part spider?

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[retrovirion]

[ definitely mumbled: ] No but at this point that might be easier...

I call myself Spider-Man because I got called Spider-Man and once you're on the cover of the Daily Bugle there's really no way to say 'hey, I kind of prefer this instead'. [ you know what: ] Plus, I think it's cool. [ standing a little straighter and all that, because dammit, it's a cool name, okay. he's spider-man. ]

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[monomachy]

How could a bugle call you anything? And you did not answer my second question.

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[retrovirion]

It's not a real bugle, it's a newspaper. The Daily Bugle. I guess it's a simile? Or a metaphor, I don't know. They're basically the same thing anyway.

I'm not-- Well. I'm not ancient. I'm mostly spider and boy. Man. I'm part man and part spider. So yeah. But not ancient. Is there an ancient spider, man, thing?

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[monomachy]

I suppose naming a newspaper after a horn blowing each day isn't the most far-fetched thing in the world.

There are many ancient creatures. Why would you hide your face if you are part man?

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[retrovirion]

It's really not the sort of thing you think about very often but I guess it does make more like. Immediate sense than 'The Times'. Not that that doesn't make sense, but it's more abstract? Kind of.

[ wrong thing to ramble about, peter. it's cool, there's a chance it'll happen with the other topic, let's tune in to find out: ] Well I'm mostly man, just. With a little extra? I think the term is 'enhanced human'. But I hide my face to protect my identity! [ bc look if there's anything he's learned from reading comic books it's that you definitely have to protect your secret identity. nevermind that captain america and iron man didn't. but cap died - well. sort of. he didn't, but he also ....did, so. it's complicated. and iron man is super cool but he's had his house blown up and his other house also mostly busted up and honestly peter admires the guy for it but he's not sure the whole revealing-who-you-are-thing is a great idea in the long run. ]

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[monomachy]

Enhanced human? I take it that means you have abilities beyond the normal scope of human capability. [color her interested. also:] I still do not understand. Where I am from, all are proud of who they are and what they can do.