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Peter Parker ([info]breakspromises) wrote in [info]marinanova,
@ 2013-02-11 16:07:00

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Entry tags:aradia megido, dawn summers, dick grayson (all-star), duo maxwell (au), kitty pryde (aoa), kitty pryde (evolution), peter parker (stnas), peter parker (tas), sheryl nome

Day 206 [Video | Action]
[Waking up is always disorienting for Peter. Waking up in an unfamiliar place wearing clothes that aren’t his is nearly panic inducing. It’s enough that he doesn’t really absorb or register the welcome message that is presented to him. His mind jumps to conclusions: maybe what happened to Dr. Connors is happening to him; the spider DNA is taking over the human DNA and he’s blacking out. Maybe the police caught him and he has a massive head injury, which is why he can’t remember how he got here wearing a prison jumpsuit.

Except…except when he looks around, this isn’t like any prison he’s ever seen, any he’s ever heard of. Once he calms down, he notices that he’s nearly deaf and blind which brings about a fresh wave of panic during which he realizes he’s neither deaf or blind, he’s simply lacking all the spidey senses he’s become so accustomed to. After some experimentation involving doorknobs and benches, he discovers that his super strength is gone as well. It becomes apparent his balance has returned to normal pre-bite clumsy when he trips over his own feet walking over to sit on the bench he’d just been trying to mutilate. That’s when he finally pays attention the information he’s been given and figures out (to a degree) what’s going on. He doesn’t contact the network quite yet though. Instead, he liberates a pair of jeans, a tee shirt, tennis shoes and a hoody, changes into them and hits the food stands. It’s only after he’s dressed and has been fed that he decides to navigate the network. At least his tech knowledge and ability hasn’t been stripped from him.]

And suddenly I’m in Sci-Fi Land, which I always thought should be a real place in Disneyland. I mean they’ve got Tomorrowland, but who are we kidding? It didn’t look anything like what I imagined the future would be. They could bling it out with tech and holograms, all kinds of shiny things and lights, people walking around in too much latex. Maybe an alien or two, the friendly sort…

[He stops rambling and his brow furrows a moment.] That—that got away from me. Any chance Oscorp has their fingers in this?

[ He’d question NYPD because they want Spiderman gone as much as anyone, but he doesn’t think they have the juice or funds to make that happen, not to mention that as far as he knows, they don’t know Peter Parker and Spiderman are one and the same.]

[ooc: If you’d like to action, you can catch Peter in sector 0 wearing the orange jumpsuit, trying to break a bench or a doorknob or a something. You can come upon him sitting on the bench and learning all about Marinanova or shopping in the clothing stores or scarfing down an incredible amount of food at any number of street vendors]


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[info]breakspromises
2013-02-24 06:53 pm UTC (link)
"He built sex bots?" The words fly out of his mouth before he can stop them. Sex bots are traditional fodder in comic books and sci-fi mythology. "Yeah, there's definitely a grey area. Anyone who's ever stepped out of the house knows there's a grey area. it's sort of the basis for a practical, functioning world, at least in my opinion. Good and bad are great and good lines to have and not cross, but it's--it's not the most practical sort of thing to go by."


Peter opens the door for her, holding it so she can walk through. "I always liked that guy."

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[info]the_dawnster
2013-02-24 08:55 pm UTC (link)
“Sadly, yes he did. And even sadder, I knew all about them.” Her nose wrinkles yet again because nothing can wipe those mental images made out of her overactive imagination. Xander had told her all about what he had witnessed in that cemetery. And there’s not enough brain bleach in the world.

She walks into the pizza parlor with him and finds an empty table. He opened the door for her too, which she is putting in his score column for being a cool guy. After sitting down, she sets her book bag down on the floor next to her chair and plucks a menu out of the holder it’s in in the center of the table. “You know it’s like in the world we live in, sometimes you have to work outside of the lines of the law to get good things done. We were considered terrorists for awhile back home but really we were just trying to save the world from vampires and other nameless big bads.”

She looks at him over the top of the menu. “Is there anything you hate on pizza? Cause I like everything but jalapenos.” One of those girls who picks at their food in front of a cute boy, she is not.

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[info]breakspromises
2013-02-24 09:38 pm UTC (link)
Peter makes a face as well because yeah, not enough brain bleach.

His aunt and uncle would have had a fit if he hadn't opened the door for a lady. He doesn't like disappointing them. "Terrorists? That sounds like a story." He hesitates, considering something for a moment. "There was this guy back home, he wore a costume, you know so no one knew who he was. He was doing good things, catching criminals and delivering them to the police but they didn't see it that way. He's kind of on the most wanted list and I think he's a hero. You know?"

He hesitates a moment and then shakes his head. "I'm not a big anchovy fan, but I'll eat pretty much anything." He's a seventeen year old black hole of a teenage boy when it comes to food.

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[info]the_dawnster
2013-02-25 06:50 pm UTC (link)
Dawn nods because she completely gets that. Sometimes she thinks Buffy would be better off hiding her identity like that. "Like a super hero. You know how Bruce Wayne and Batman are one and the same except one wears a costume and alters his voice and the other pretends to be a playboy that doesn't give a crap about anything? Which, I know this is an opinion of the unpopular but I actually liked the Clooney Batman because of the cheesiness of it. I really like cheese, both metaphorical and in a dairy product."

She shrugs. "But I get it. My sister is kind of like a super hero. And I think she'd be safer if she wore a mask or something. The cops and the military wouldn't always be knocking at the door when questionable or in-explainable things happen. It's a safety kind of thing. If I were a super hero I'd totally figure out an awesome costume to wear."

She looks over the menu and finally decides on an everything pizza minus jalapenos and anchovies. When the waitress comes by, she orders a medium one and some of the cinnamon breadsticks with icing for dessert. "Did you know there's an entire world of shrimp? I have it on good authority. Random facts I know. I only thought about it because of the anchovy thing."

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[info]breakspromises
2013-02-25 08:47 pm UTC (link)
He grins at her explanation of Batman and nods a little. "Yeah. I mean I like the Bale Batman too, but it sort of depends on my mood and what I want in a movie at that particular time, you know?"

"Yeah, what sort of costume would you wear? And what would your superhero name be? 'Cause you've got to have a super hero name."

He can do an everything pizza and he doesn't tell her, but he could eat the medium pizza all by himself. He'll swing by to get more to eat on his way to whatever it is he has to do next. "Huh. Shrimp? Really? Does that come with cocktail sauce?"

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[info]the_dawnster
2013-02-26 06:48 pm UTC (link)
"Oh yeah. It's like the difference between Gene Wilder Willie Wonka and Johnny Depp Willie Wonka. I'm almost always in a Gene Wilder mood but sometimes you've just gotta go with Captain Jack Sparrow on acid because of the cheese." Her examples are obviously the best examples. It's easy to see that she amuses herself with the way she's still smiling.

"Hmmmm costume would probably be something less spandex-y and more trench coat and eye mask. Just because the spandex thing is already overdone in the land of comic book superheroes." Her lips twist thoughtfully as she tries to think of what her superhero name would be. "Your superhero name usually has something to do with your powers, right? So... I'd be... research girl?" She rolls her eyes. "Lame."

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[info]breakspromises
2013-02-27 04:17 am UTC (link)
"That movie made me afraid to eat candy ever again. For about five minutes." He grins at that. It's a pretty decent example as far as examples go.

"Yeah, but spandex...everything is spandex. Trench coats are good." He chuckles a little at that. "Now, don't be so hasty. Put a definitive article in front of it: The Researcher. I think you've got yourself something."

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[info]the_dawnster
2013-02-27 08:21 pm UTC (link)
"Only five minutes? Good because if it was any longer I'd probably judge you in the most judge-y of ways. Honestly, I might have the most hugemongous sweet tooth of all the sweet tooths. Candy and chocolate and sugary cereals. I'm really lucky I have the metabolism I have." She laughs at herself again, but also she thinks his five minutes of no candy is pretty darn cute.

And his repairing of her lame super hero name just makes her smile even more. "The Researcher. Way less lame than Research Girl. I like it. You're pretty good at that... the whole superhero naming thing, I mean. Maybe naming superheroes is your super power."

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[info]breakspromises
2013-03-05 08:31 pm UTC (link)
"Maybe less. I'm not--I'd usually rather have pizza or street dogs or something like that over sweets, but I can destroy a cake or a pie in pretty much record time." Oh good. He was going for cute, but he wasn't sure he actually managed it. At her metabolism comment, he glances over, grinning a bit. "Yeah..yeah that's--" Okay, wait. No being creepy noticing she's pretty. Now quick, cover up. "That's another thing I've got going for me. The whole metabolism thing. It's a good--g-good thing to have going for you with the--you know."

He scrubs a hand over his face and up into his hair before he finally shoves it back in his pocket.

"Yeah. That'd be kind of an awesome super power because you know some leader of the school for superpowered kids is going to want you working for them."

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[info]the_dawnster
2013-03-06 04:06 pm UTC (link)
Okay if he wasn't already really cute, he just made himself cuter. She's so smitten for just a brief moment that she just kind of smiled like a doofus at him. When she finally looks away, it's down at the table to somewhat hide that stupid smile that won't go away.

"So tell me about New York. What's life in the Big Apple like? Do you ever sleep in the City that never sleeps?"

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[info]breakspromises
2013-03-14 02:46 am UTC (link)
Hey, no hiding the stupid smile. It's cute and besides, it makes him smile back at her like a goof. He ducks his head at her question, taking a moment to get his bearings. He clears his throat and shakes his head to clear it rather than to answer her question.

"Uhm...yeah. I mean everybody sleeps. Or, you know, mo-most people sleep. I sleep. Just-just not a lot. One of those things. Uhm...I don't know. I go to school. I sort of--I try and help my Aunt out around the house.It's--I've got a boring sort of life."

Except that it wasn't really, but he couldn't tell her that.

"Wh-what about you? What's life like in San Francisco? I've never been there."

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[info]the_dawnster
2013-03-14 06:26 pm UTC (link)
"Boring sounds nice though. I was trying the boring thing before I got pulled in here." Dawn pauses as their pizza and their drinks are brought to the table. She thanks the person who brought it and slips a slice off of the tray to put on the plate in front of her.

"I almost got killed in the last apocalypse type thing that happened. This guy... Giles, he was kind of like a dad to us and he did get killed. Anyway, I decided I needed a break and got back to school and back to normal." She smirks. "Weird how life keeps getting in the way of normal. I'm starting to think that normal and boring is just something that will never be. So consider me all the jealous of your boring."

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[info]breakspromises
2013-03-14 08:59 pm UTC (link)
"Sorry to hear about...your uhm...dad pers-GIles." He takes a deep breath then lets it out so that what he says next comes out in that rush of breath. "My uncle was murdered. Uhm...a few months ago. Months for me. Not--anyway. I guess--I don't know why I'm telling you that."

Maybe so that she'll guess that his boring wasn't as boring as he'd like to make it sound or maybe it was because she'd get it, the whole losing a dad thing.

"He was like--my parents died when I was five. Uncle Ben and Aunt Mae raised me."

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[info]the_dawnster
2013-03-16 04:20 pm UTC (link)
“Oh, Peter…” This is probably the most serious he’s ever seen her. But she looks completely concerned and sympathetic. She knows how it feels to lose a parent. She knows how it feels to feel left behind and maybe even to feel like you don’t have anyone. “How was he murdered?” It might have been an odd question. But she’s thinking vampires, werewolves or whatever else. Normal murders don’t happen very often in her world. There was Tara. But even that stemmed from something supernatural.

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[info]breakspromises
2013-03-19 05:36 pm UTC (link)
He does that thing where he thins his lips out, pressing them together and shakes his head more to clear it then to answer anything. "Uhm...he--" he blows out a breath. Talking about Uncle Ben's death is still really hard for Peter. He's never felt like he didn't have anyone because Aunt Mae was always there, but he has felt like he was being punished, like it was his fault and he didn't deserve to have anyone there. "Uhm...I was--there was this guy that robbed this store. Convenience store. I stopped for chocolate milk because Uncle Ben and I had had a fight. He--Uncle Ben went looking for me and he--he heard the clerk yelling for someone to stop the guy. I---I could have stopped him, but the clerk had been a jerk to me earlier and I...I told him that it wasn't my problem. He---the guy...he shot Uncle Ben because Uncle Ben tried to stop him."

It's clear from his body language and the way he tells the story that he blames himself. His shoulders are hunched a bit, his hands are shoved in his pockets and the ground has become incredibly fascinating. Of course, looking at the ground conveniently hides the tears that he knows are in his eyes.

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[info]the_dawnster
2013-03-21 05:03 pm UTC (link)
Oh gosh does she ever recognize guilt. Maybe because she can relate to it since her sister literally jumped off of a tower and died for her. Dawn will always harbor a lot of guilt for that no matter that Willow's spell brought Buffy back. So she recognizes it it Peter and it tears at her heart.

She reaches across the table and lays a hand over his, her fingers curling around to hold on and to give him something to, even momentarily, hold on to. She doesn't try to tell him that it wasn't his fault. Because she knows that doesn't work with this kind of guilt. Instead, she gives him a quiet look that says she understands all too well. And then prompts him to talk about the living.

"So tell me about Aunt Mae."

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[info]breakspromises
2013-03-21 08:51 pm UTC (link)
His fingers curl around hers a bit, holding her hand in gratitude. He appreciates that she doesn't tell him it's not his fault. That's something that he has to realize for himself and something that he may never realize. He also recognizes that she had to have gone through something similar, experienced some sort of guilt, in order to understand that. He just doesn't think this is the time to talk about it.

And he is incredibly grateful for the subject change.

"Aunt Mae...she's great. She...she doesn't want anyone in her kitchen. She gets the dish towel and flicks it at us when we come in while she's cooking. She works at a...a doctor's office as the receptionist. She's a really good cook and she likes doing the organic thing when she can. She used to read to me every night when I was little. Now she's always checking on my homework and getting onto me for skateboarding. She's afraid I'm going to get hurt."

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