#i've just noticed the term doesn't seem as common anymore?? if anyone who knows about fandom history want to share why feel free to do so

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

okay i finished going through all 55 pages of l&o fanfic on ffn (i did not read them all, but i do think i read all the kincoy), so maybe i'll put together a fic rec list soon 🤔

#there's technically three i've set aside to savor lol so i'll probably read those first #BUT. otherwise im all out of fics methinks #which means i have to write what i want to read. why. cruel world #there was a mike x nina fic i read which was SO galaxy-brained #here's what i learned from my ffn experience: #jack x abbie is probably jack's second most popular ship but some of the authors really seem to hate claire 💀 #jack x nora?? that's also a thing apparently??? and lennie x anita is also pretty popular #i was scrolling so far back in years that queer fics were being called slash #i've just noticed the term doesn't seem as common anymore?? if anyone who knows about fandom history want to share why feel free to do so #**wants #im curious. i would like to know #oh also 99% of recent fics were 'cutterosa' which i think is connie and ig the post-jack eada #lots of variants on aftershock fics! claire's dead claire's in a coma kincoy happy ending claire's a ghost etc. etc. #oh my god. yk what was unbelievably common with aftershock fics?? claire being pregnant #i just. im. this fandom lmfao #last but not least: fandom racism and homophobia rears its ugly head #there's a palpable absence of rey fics and i'd argue ed fics too #and the treatment of serena 😭 my girl deserves better #i need to go through all the l&o fics on ao3 ig #i think i've been through all the kincoy and all the fics with jack on there #anyways. too much talking in my tags!! #amy rambles

[roseamongroses]

something about the history of spider-byte's name (and intial lack therefore of a last name) is calling to me. like even now that margo has a last name, ppl still don't recognize her civilian identity bc of how little screentime she had and the brevity of the comic appearance.

hmmmm ok i've marinated. idk much about tech so take the terms with a grain of salt and just focus on the emotional story. think i have some headcanons:

margo lives in a society where it's common to use virtual reality to escape/ experience life but margo is actually one of the more extreme cases of this escapism

she's friendly with others, something doesn't seem to be wrong, but her peersknow she's always connected to the vr/always online. they don't notice how little they know about her home life or about her, despite her being familiar with everyone else.

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and this disconnect only becomes worst once she takes on the mask of spider-byte. helping people in the way she's always desired to be helped is fufilling, but it doesn't take long for margo to become lost in her online persona.

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the longer she spends as spider-byte, the more the two worlds blur. and once she gains the ability to physically manifest her avatar, her spider abilities begin to transfer into her irl body

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at first margo was excited about this change. she could finally be the hero she wanted to be inside and outside of her vr- headset, but she quickly discovers that her bodily automony is being manipulated.

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sometimes her skin glitches, changing into a rainbow of colors without her say-so (she'd have to fake sick to avoid questions from her peers/parents) . sometimes when she splits her avatar her body doesn't immediately return and if it does it never feels the same. as if data is missing.

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but most obvious is that her understanding of humanity--of herself changes. not in a cruel way, but she feels an alienation from human connection that she'd never experienced before. she saves the day, not because of her childhood desire to do good, to be saved and save others, but because it is her avatar. it is her purpose as spider-byte, not the dream of margo kess.

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it's when margo catches herself refering to herself spider-byte, even when she was outside of vr relaxing that she begins to investagate further.

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she begins to question her relationship with the cyber crime police department and how easily they accepted her" "vigilatism"/ eventually she tracks down conversations between the department and an unknown scientist/ leading cyber security company. i'm thinking of this being her "doc oc" connection, but im open to other villian parallels tbh

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the thing is this "doc oc" knows that margo has been tracking them . they think its funny. they're facinated with their experiement and are very willing to play along with the investagation as long as they get to observe their subject.

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the fact that margo got "bit" was part coincidence. the program/ bug was sent out to find a suitable host. someone isolated, someone online for long hours to properly conduct the experiement, someone who had the need to escape and become something more.

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it could've been anyone. they were meant to be corrupted entirely by the program, only leaving behind a husk irl as they accepted their new reality. but margo was different her need to do good was so great that it redirected the prgrams goals entirely. allowing for her persona of a hero to infliratrate her real life and vice versua in a way "doc oc" had never seen before

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doc oc at first wanted to let margo live as a hero . but her changing the bug--resisting its intended purpose intrigued them more. it wasn't enough to collect data on the experiement spider-byte anymore. now doc oc needed to break her. to rebuild her and understand what makes her so special

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and this back and forth does mean margo loses a lot. some days she doesn't even remember her last name. but she's motivated now to reclaim her life, her heroism, and make sure no one else is taken advantaged ;like this again

#atsv #atsv hc #across the spiderverse #atsv spider-byte #spider-byte #spider byte #margo kess #atsv margo kess #spiderverse #headcanons #writing #long post