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

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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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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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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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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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