𝒮𝓌𝒶𝓃𝙋𝙪𝙣𝙠: 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘍𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (sneak peek)
Pairing: Hobie Brown x Josephine Jameson! Fem!Spider-Ballerina OC!
Author’s Note: A glimpse of Jobie's first official meeting shown here. This is a draft version, so the actual material may alter from this but still have the same general idea once I release it.
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The constant flow of self-doubts and criticisms that surged through Josephine's mind was unrelenting, refusing to allow her to find fulfilment in anything she did.
Whenever she tried to accomplish something, there was always a voice there to remind her of her mistakes, her shortcomings, her inadequacies.
Failure. Never good enough.
And so, once again, Josephine found herself sinking in a hopeless spiral of self-sabotage, drowning in a sea of her own negativity...
Why can’t I be perfect? Why can’t I be enough? Why do I even try? Why can’t I just….-
“You got some jacked-up footwear, innit, little miss?“
The unexpected remark quickly jolted the poor dancer out of her self-pitying thoughts, catching her completely off guard. She whirls her head around to face whomever had spoken, her brain still fogged up from everything that had just happened. She wasn't even sure if she'd heard correctly,
“My footwear…what?”
There you go. She has no idea what he had just said.
Despite the gloomy atmosphere, her eyes are drawn towards the man's exceptional stature. He's leaning right next to the doorway, arms and legs crossed as he gazes at her from a distance. His height is added by the impressive volume of his hair, creating an overall imposing aura. However, his appearance is nothing compared to the weight of her own troubles, which continue to press down on her.
Josephine is taken aback from the sudden approach, still slightly confused until she spots him eyeing her shoes. She follows his gaze, looking down to the soles of her feet.
Her pointe shoes are completely worn out.
She sighs, acknowledging their horrible condition yet again before looking back up at him.
She is so done.
“What, you’re not gonna respond with any zingers? Come on, have a bit of backbone, I don’t bite.” He smirked, “Well, at least I don’t bite hard anyway.”
Her head tilts slightly in uncertainty as she raises an eyebrow. His speech is happening so quickly that she begins to notice it. It was hard for her to understand nearly everything he said just now considering his heavy accent.
“I’m sorry…what???”
“I said I don’t bite. Do I actually need to slow down for you? Or would that hurt that spider-pride of yours?”
As it only takes her a few lengthy seconds to absorb his response to her head, she narrows her gaze once more, “What is that supposed to mean? And what does pride have to do with hearing?”
Perhaps this man was right about her... She'd been so consumed in her own thoughts and issues that she hadn't even realized that her shoes were practically falling apart. Now, as she gazes down at them in humiliation, she can't help but be caught off-guard by his boldness.
He leans back against the wall, shifting his footing slightly to get more comfortable as he replies,
“The joke. It just whizzed right over… nevermind. Listen, I don’t wanna get your little spider-brain all twisted like those shoes of yours. But, it looks like you’ve been stomping through a forest of thorns, bruv.”
A few seconds would pass as Josephine ponders what to say. It is hard to get a good read on him. He appears to be messing with her. Judging by the tone of his voice, she can sense that he’s trying to get a rise out of her.
She narrowed her eyes, annoyed at him once again for bringing it up. After a few short seconds of silence she spoke,
“What is it with you and my shoes? Like, who even cares?”
“I cares, Frenchie. You can't be runnin' away from a stinker like this with them ratty clown shoes. What, you gonna be scuttling off in one direction while your shoes take off in the other? Bloody hell mate..."
Josephine is now visibly irritated by his persistence, despite the faint feeling of amusement seeping through the cracks of her frustrations, "And it's not that big of a deal, I can literally just get a new pair of shoes, okay? ….Merde.”
Il se prend pour qui, cet Anglais?-
"Well, I figured a ballerina like yourself would at least pay more attention to her footwork! But in all seriousness, your shoes are so worn out, they look less like pointe shoes and more like point...less...shoes..."
Wow.
Her own laugh surprises her a little.
It happened so suddenly, he caught her off guard.
She looks down at them again and notices a few more details he hadn't mentioned. As it was, her shoes looked more like something you'd see at a dumpster dive than in a ballet studio. After a quick glance back up at the man. She was still kind of mad though, only because he made her laugh this time.
Her sudden reaction makes him smirk even more.
"You're supposed to be pissed, not laughing at my dumb jokes, Twinkle Toes."
She flashes a tiny grin, locking eyes with him once more as she states, “Well maybe your jokes are stupid enough that I cant get mad.”
"Good. I don't want you to get all upset. You’ve already got enough on your plate with those nasty shoes of yours."
Maybe she should focus on not stepping on anymore thorns.
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so, who is ebony swan bonded with in this universe? Is it like the classic spiderman story where she was bonded with the symbiote and break it off or is it more like the ballet where ebony swan was empowered by her dad with the symbiote, or is it a combination of both?
The symbiote is bonded to a female variant of Eddie, who used to be Josephine's friend before jealousy took over.
Before this, the symbiote attached itself to Josephine before she realized it was causing harm and took it off of her.
It attached to Eddie(hadn't given her a name yet) due to a much stronger bond.
Eddie is pressured by her father, who is based off Von Rothbart( Odile's father), to be the perfect Ballerina. That's why she's bitter about Josephine, seeing that she doesn't deserve the spotlight due to her lower class status.
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Wait so did Josie's mother know that she is Spiderwoman? Cause in the post you made with her canon events, her mom says "With great power comes great responsibility". That doesn't seem very applicable to ballet imo but I could be wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also, how old is Josephine? You don't need to answer that question lol, just curious
Oh yes! Josephine's mother was aware of her hidden life as a spider hero but chose to remain silent because her daughter appeared to be gaining confidence, this happened way before the canon events began and Josephine wasn't traumatized yet.
Her death was similiar to Insomniac Spiderman's aunt May's death, where she always knew about her being Spider Ballerina.
As for her age, like Hobie, there isn't any confirm age for her but she's younger but older enough than the younger spiderkids.
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have trying to follow her mother's dream ever strain her? or is it her own true goal too?
It is also her goal, as she looks up to her mother, but she wants her career as a ballerina to be perfect in every aspect.
She is essentially a perfectionist, believing that if she makes one mistake, she would fail and disappoint her mother.
Furthermore, she was not particularly wealthy and had worked hard to gain admission to a prominent ballet academy, so the pressure was high.
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Wait- I’m confused on one part
So in Josephine’s bio it says that she wants to ‘follow her mother’s dreams as a professional ballet dancer’
Was her mother already a retired dancer? Or did the mom fail her dreams and wants Josephine to accomplish them for her?
(I feel so special when you notice me ❤️)
Lore unlocked!
Yes, Josephine's mom used to be a ballerina dancer before she was diagnosed with cancer.
Little Josie used to love following her mom to ballet practices and wanted to be like her
So after her mom's passing, Josephine worked harder to achieve her mom's dreams.
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