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Peter Parker/Spiderman | The Amazing Spiderman | Reserved (1/2)
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Current Characters: Phil Coulson (MCU)
Character: Peter Parker / Spiderman
Fandom: The Amazing Spiderman (2012 film)
Character Notes:
History:
The first few years of Peter Parker's life, aside from being born to science nerds with an apparent penchant for alliterative naming, were ostensibly quite normal. From the small glimpse into their family life that we are given, they seem to be a caring, normal family -- given that Peter and his father are in the midst of a game of hide-and-seek when we first encounter them. Things were good. Peter seemed to be a happy child. However, when he was still quite young (around 5 or 6) things changed. His father was involved in scientific research in the area of cross-species genetics. For reasons that Peter is yet to entirely understand, his father chose to hide some of his research from his employers. Unfortunately this created a dangerous situation.
After a break in, Peter's father and mother bring him hastily to his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. They leave their son in their relatives care. This is the last that Peter ever sees his parents -- to date.
For the next dozen years or so, Peter is raised by his Aunt and Uncle, and very little remarkable happens. He grows quite close to his Uncle Ben and his Aunt May, viewing them as his parents entirely. He leads a normal life, uneventful until he's 17. In high school, Peter isn't the most popular kid, but he seems to get by for the most part, despite being bullied a bit. He takes up photography and skateboarding and seems to have a talent for both. And of course, there's a pretty blonde girl who's caught his eye by the name of Gwen Stacy. Unsurprisingly, they eventually wind up dating.
Peter's normal, everyday life begins to unravel when he finds a briefcase that used to belong to his father. Hidden in the leather bag he finds the secret files and formulas that his father had been working on when Peter was just a child. He also finds a picture of his father with a former colleague, Dr. Curt Connors. With a bit of creativity, he sneaks in to meet Dr. Connors and explore the lab. Despite warnings from Gwen not to leave the tour group, Peter breaks off and somehow gets himself into secure areas. In particular, he lets himself into a room filled with genetically altered spiders. As if this wasn't stupid enough, he goes and touches something. Spiders start falling on him, which really, should bother him a little more than it does. But he mostly just twitches and brushes them off.
He gets out and refinds the tour group, but not before being bitten by one of the genetically altered spiders.
This is where his life starts to really get strange. The bite alters Peter's DNA and gives him abilities beyond the normal. He can suddenly cling to walls and ceilings with his bare hands. His strength and speed and reflexes all increase significantly, so much so that he breaks half his bathroom before he gets used to it.
He visits Dr. Connors again and shares with him parts of his father's research, allowing Dr. Connors to push his research from theory into practice. However, between his new found powers and all the scienc-ing that Peter is doing, things start to go a bit wrong. He bullies one of the boys at school who used to bully him, and his uncle scolds him for it. He also forgets to pick up his Aunt from work. This creates some friction between him and his Aunt and Uncle, and Peter storms out one night. This would be unremarkable, save for the fact that his Uncle followed him.
After having a confrontation at a convenience store with the clerk, Peter chooses not to step in and stop a robbery at that store. The robber runs into Peter's uncle and shoots him. Uncle Ben dies then and there, and Peter is guilt-ridden.
His guilt drives him on something of a revenge mission, and he begins acting like a vigilante -- but only going after criminals who meet the description of the man who shot his uncle. He develops the Spiderman costume and gets something of a reputation for being a vigilante. It's only after Gwen's father (a Captain on the police force) points out that Spiderman seems to have a personal vendetta that Peter starts to rethink this. He realizes he has the power he has and has something of a responsibility to use it.
When Dr. Connors uses the research Peter helped him with on himself and transforms into a giant rage-y lizard monster, Peter further feels more responsibility. Instead of searching for revenge, he realizes that he should use his abilities to help people. Peter also believes that part of why Dr. Connors became the Lizard is because of his actions.
Peter, as Spiderman, fights with and eventually defeats the Lizard and cures Dr. Connors of what the serum had done to him. In the process. Gwen's father, Captain Stacy is killed by the Lizard. Having found out that Spiderman is Peter, Captain Stacy makes Peter promise to stay away from Gwen so that she can be kept safe because being Spiderman, he will make enemies.
Peter continues his actions as Spiderman, though now his motivations are to protect the people who need it. His relationship with Gwen comes to an end because of the promise that he made to her father.
Personality:
Peter is, as his Aunt tells him, good. He seems to have a fairly strong sense of justice, stepping in to stop the bullying of one of his classmates, refusing to "snap a picture" as the bullies are goading him too. He stands up for this other boy and his own beliefs even if it gets him beaten up rather badly in the process. Peter is also fairly proud, in that he doesn't want to admit to his Aunt and Uncle that he was beat up, or that he has trouble with bullying at school. Later in the film, Peter's sense of responsibility has him risking his own life to save the lives of others. He has the ability, and in part thanks to the advice of his Uncle, he believes that he has a responsibility as well. He shows himself capable of being very selfless, willing to lay his life on the line if necessary to help others.
This is not to say that Peter is not without his flaws though. He has them -- a lot of them. It may be because of his parents leaving him, but there's a deep hurt and anger in him at the perceived abandonment. Peter very obviously cares about and is affected by his parents having left. When he finds his father's old briefcase, he studies each and every last item in it, finding his father's glasses and adopting them as his own. He misses his family, and even though he tells his uncle that he's a wonderful father, the fact that his own father and mother had to leave him does leave him with a void in his life and questions about why. In one case, he lashes out at his Uncle when he brings up his father and how like him Peter is. He also shows himself to be susceptible to bouts of vengeance -- from petty to somewhat more serious. He humiliates a classmate who previously bullied him and also after his Uncle's death makes it his personal mission to find the man who killed him. However, with a push in the right direction and a reminder of what he's doing, he also shows that he can overcome it. Peter is very much still a kid, but he's growing and maturing constantly, bit by bit.
He also lashes out on occasion at his Uncle and Aunt when they are genuinely trying to help him. He can be a bit broody and seems to have a little difficulty breaking out of the cycle. However, he also has people who are excellent influences on his life, and he is aware of who they are and takes guidance from them. Even after his Uncle has died, Peter keeps a voicemail that his Uncle left him and listens to it over and over again, to take guidance and comfort. He also seems to draw strength from his Aunt May and Gwen Stacy. He's close enough to his family that he takes what they say to heart, even if he is going through his own struggles and dealing with his own demons at the time. He eventually makes it up to his Aunt as well, and though he doesn't share all his secrets (specifically the whole alter ego crime fighter bit), it seems that things become less secretive and uncertain between them.
One of the really defining characteristics of Peter's personality is his sense of humor. He is very quick witted and quick on his feet. He tends to make jokes quickly and easily as well as often. This carries over both in his life as Peter Parker as well as his actions as Spiderman. He banters with other students. He banters with criminals. He's quick to smile and laugh for the most part. He's good at sarcasm, though sometimes it can come off a bit flippantly -- mostly when he's in one of his moodier states. Also it seems that a pretty face sometimes eliminates his ability to be very clever at all. His thorough failure at forming sentences when asking Gwen out is a fairly good demonstration of his shyness. Peter is something of an awkward, nerdy little thing without much experience in dating. He seems to be the more "admire from afar" type, with keeping a picture of Gwen on his computer, before he works up the nerve to ask her out.
Peter is also a very bright boy. Gwen says that he's "second" in his class, something that he actually questions -- as though he expected to be first. He reads through his father's research and seems to understand it quite easily. Beyond that, he manages to finagle the web-shooting devices that he uses as Spiderman. However, Peter's brain also gets him in trouble. For example, his participation in the research that Dr. Connors is conducting leads to the whole debacle with the Lizard -- though there's really no way that Peter could have foreseen that exactly, the fact that his father kept his research secret probably should have made him wonder why. In a less "destroying the city" sort of consequence, the fact that Peter is opinionated and has trouble keeping his thoughts on Spiderman to himself gets him in somewhat hot water with her father on their first meeting. It was not the most auspicious start, but later the two men seem to come to an understanding and mutual, if grudging, respect. Captain Stacy even says that the city needs Spiderman.
The duality of Peter's personality is really quite plain. He is both Peter Parker and Spiderman. At the core they are the same person, but being Spiderman allows him to explore parts of his personality he may otherwise have not been able to. In particular, he discovers strength -- both inner and outer. He also comes to find who he is, something of a big step for a boy with no parents who never really fit in all that well at school. He becomes a more complete person because of his Spiderman persona, even if it does involve quite a bit of sacrifice on his part.
Other: Peter has an alterego, of course. And powers beyond a normal human being. Beyond this, he's also an avid photographer, skateboarder and science nerd. I'll be taking him initially from very early movie, likely just after he's been bitten by the spider -- and before his Uncle is shot, so he'll have a bit of trouble controlling some of his strength and such. :) He'll progress through canon as time goes on. Third person sample is set further in the timeline. Hopefully that's all right.
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Peter Parker/Spiderman | The Amazing Spiderman | Reserved (2/2)
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Third Person:
Peter lay sprawled along the narrow ledge of stone that jutted from the building, its end finishing in a gargoyle's gruesome face. One leg dangled off the edge, arms behind his head as he glanced into the clouded sky, twilight progressing quickly towards full on evening. His mask was clutched in one hand, the bright red and blue uniform he still wore contrasting against the plain gray of the building. He probably ought to care more about being countless stories above the street below. But he didn't, whatever fear that may have once come with dizzying heights long gone. He liked it up here. It was quiet.
It gave him perspective. Literally. Metaphorically. Both at once. Really, he mused to himself with a sudden little flash of amusement, it was kind of impressive. Anyway, it beat staring at his bedroom ceiling and pondering the mysteries of the plaster. Mostly. The amusement was quick to fade though, as his somewhat heavier thoughts caught back up with him. Heavy thoughts defied gravity, he guessed. Climb as high as you can, and they still find you. And boy had they found him. A frown pulled over his features and he draped an arm over his eyes. Aunt May was worried. He knew she was.
And he couldn't say that he blamed her. After all, balancing his life and his nightlife as Spiderman made things a little difficult. He kept odd hours. He had unexplained injuries. And she wasn't a stupid woman. Still it wasn't like he could just tell her. For one thing, well, she wouldn't approve. At all.
Really, he could imagine that conversation. "Guess what, Aunt May. I've become a masked superhero in my spare time. Good news is I've become a spandex aficionado. Bad news is the health plan sucks. No dental." Yeah. That'd go over fantastic.
More seriously, the less she knew about Spiderman, the better in terms of her own safety. She was the only family he had left, and he had to make sure that nothing happened to her. He had to take care of her. But he couldn't give this up either, couldn't just let go of Spiderman, like he'd never existed to begin with. He couldn't. At first it may have been about getting back at his Uncle's murderer, but it was more than that now.
It had changed. Like he had changed. He couldn't pretend that he was the only one with problems, not when there were people in this city he could help. If he could, he owed it to them. He considered the voicemail left on his cellphone, the small snippet of his Uncle's voice that he clung to, as a reminder. That's right. Responsibility. At the very least, he couldn't let Uncle Ben down, not again.
"Maybe I should just get better at sneaking out..." He mused to himself, arm falling away from his eyes. Or he could get better at dodging blows and bullets. That'd help with the bruises anyway. Really, he could go for fewer injuries in general. Yeah. Good goal. He shook his head at himself, somewhat amused all over again. He'd put that one on his to-do list.
Without thinking about it, he rolled, dropping instantly off his narrow little perch. The air rushed to meet him as he fell, fresh and cool against his unmasked face. Better methods maybe involved not throwing himself off buildings with no regard for small matters like gravity or terminal velocity or anything. A movement of his hands and the weblauncher around his wrist fired, a shot that looped up quickly to catch another of the building's decorative gargoyles. His fall stopped abruptly as he swung away, gaze roaming over the streets below. Well. Time for another night's work.
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