For your spider-sona, what do you think their canon event looks like? Or who is their uncle Ben figure?
That's a good question Anon! I've been thinking about this a little. My first Spidersona was Spider Knight, so in my head Spiderphim is the same character continuing on their character arc.
Spider Knight never knew their parents, all they knew was the knight who took them in and trained them to be his squire. This knight was Sir Benegar, whose pennant bore a spider that Spider Knight would ultimately take as their symbol. Sir Benegar served Lady Maybelle, who Spider Knight became close with and saw as their own mother just as Benegar was like a father.
Spider Knight lives in a medieval world where magic is real, demons plague humanity, and angels fight them but are rarely seen.
When Spider Knight was only sixteen, Benegar was killed in a battle with a formidable evil, a fly demon named Beelzebub. After that Spider Knight took up his shield and title. To protect themself against demons, who can consume the true names of mortals to gain control over them, Spider Knight hid their name and true identity, and went only as "Spider Knight."
For a while Spider Knight dealt with other threats: demons are far too powerful for a single knight to handle, especially one so inexperienced. They battled a fellow knight who had turned to evil, the Green Goblin Knight; a sinister Plague Doctor Oc; and even crossed paths with a mischievous swordsman named Deadpoole. Eventually Spider Knight grew strong enough to try and take revenge on the demon Beelzebub. They tracked him down, armed with a sword blazing with holy fire - and they failed catastrophically and died.
As Spider Knight stepped into the river of death, ready to drink the waters and forget their life, an angel appeared to them as a reflection in the water. Somehow Spider Knight knew this reflection was who they always were, who they were going to be, and yet someone else entirely. The angel asked for another chance, and Spider Knight agreed to give it. But a toll had to be paid first. Spider Knight sank into the water, whispered their true name and removed their mask. Their shield and broken sword disappeared into the depths. Everything went dark as they drowned.
When Spiderphim awoke on the funeral pyre, she brought the sunrise with her. Her new form was strange yet exciting, and very warm. By this time Beelzebub was long gone, but Spiderphim didn't mind too much, the chase would mean she could see the world through her new eyes, which were plentiful. And she could help so many people along the way!
So to answer your question Anon, it is Sir Benegar who is Spiderphim's Uncle Ben, and Spider Knight's own death is their canon event.
While I consider Spider Knight and Spiderphim to be the same person, it is less clear to Spiderphim who will surely go through some angst about if they are the same; or possessed by an angel who ate their name; or that same angel, who just has the memories of a person who burned away on the funeral pyre. I also envision some plot point where other angels show up because I like angels, and I think Spiderphim is very annoying and would like to see her annoy them.
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The thing about NWH is that even though it's so praised and loved there are things that makes me wanna throw hands. One of them being Aunt May's death. May died for nothing. Her death was meaningless.
I mean, sure, she said and taught him the famous line "with great power comes great responsibility" but the thing is, PETER ALREADY KNEW THAT. That's literally one of first things Peter says when he was being introduced to the MCU, remember? When Tony asked him why was he doing the things he was doing, Peter responded saying "When you can do the things that I can, but you don't, and when the bad things happen? They happen because of you."
Sure, not the same line, not the same words, but the same fucking meaning. MCU Peter already knew that lesson. That's why he was there in the Civil War. That's why Homecoming happened. That's why he was there with Tony in infinity war. That's why Tony literally saved half of the fucking universe. That's why Far From Home happened. That's why Peter is Spider Man. Because he felt responsibility. Because he knew he had to save people. I mean, what? Did the writer of this movie think Peter was saving people because he was bored? Had nothing better to do? What the hell?
MCU Peter learnt that lesson before he was introduced. He already knew that with great power comes great responsibility. And to kill Aunt May only for him to learn that lesson again? That's only to shock the audience. That's just bad writing.
And the thing about MCU is that the writers make this annoying mistake a lot. Loki, Stephen, Wanda, Thor... The writers are making the same movies again and again. Maybe that's why lots of people are losing interest towards MCU. MCU needs better writers.
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OOC: I feel like Malenia and Miquella went on a fucking. Beach episode vacation with Finlay and Loretta, and when they came back everything’s just fucking. Bonkers.
Yet they’re in the Haligtree and almost completely disconnected from the action, so they’re just. Watching the chaos on the dash while eating snacks and feeling vaguely confused and concerned.
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I just think it's really interesting to see that people from my mom's side mostly passed away at like 40, 50, or even at 15, while on my dad's side they lived to be around 85, 90, and one lady even turned 103.
@beenovel @sehnsuchts-trunken @tolkien-fantasy @the-second-tonks
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It’s probably bc of the holidays but I always find myself missing my aunt* around this time of year. And every year I miss her more.
I was practically still a kid when she died and didn’t really learn about her incredible life until after she passed. Her father escaped Nazi Germany and almost 30 years later delivered justice to Eichmann, for one thing. And she was a brilliant mind, a physician-scientist who led research on SIDS and studied the effects of drugs and medicines like morphine, fentanyl, naloxone on the respiratory system. I knew her as a child but now that I’m an adult, I wish we could talk about those things.
But mostly I remember when I first expressed an interest in converting to Judaism, she was so thrilled and welcoming. She was one of the few observant Jews I knew at that time. I was shy, but she printed out the entire Wikipedia article on Hanukkah (like, two dozen pages at least, a thick packet) and gave it to me. I still have it. It was such a funny, thoughtful, grandmotherly thing to do.
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