Pete and Pete
"Yeah it does," Peter agreed, and he could admit that things would be different if he was younger - if May was still alive and if he and MJ were still a thing. As it was his ties to the world he'd left weren't quite as strong as those that this Peter was dealing with now, so he got it - that Peter wanted to get back not just to support his aunt but for the support of her too, of the familiar, his friends and family and after the situation he'd been in Peter couldn't blame him for that. To have gone from that devastation to now this place? Well he'd have been pulling his own hair out trying to figure out how to get back if he was in Peter's place. He got it.
He huffed a little and nodded. "I know, but you know it doesn't always work quite like that. they might be gone but they're not gone gone." He reminded Peter. "I think a few of them are even here in town." He had heard enough of who hadn't made it in the fight that they'd dealt with where Peter and Tony and some of the others were from to know that a few of them hadn't survived it, and they were here now too. So he kind of thought maybe they got a vote all things considered. "People deserve to make their own choices and their own sacrifices. I can tell you, I've been doing this for ... well longer than you've been alive, and I've made those choices again and again, any one of them might have ended with me being the one that doesn't get a vote - but that'd be on me and no one else." It won't make it easier, Peter knew. This Peter would always carry the weight of what he'd lost with him, but it was important to remember that.
"You're never going to be okay with it, I'm not okay with it, there isn't a single person I've lost that I've forgotten, there isn't a single one that doesn't still ache, but at the end of the day you've got a choice to make. Do you let that be the thing that stops you - and keeps you from moving forward and trying to defend what you have left, or is it the sort of thing that you hold on to and let it make you stronger?" It wasn't an easy choice, but nothing about this life was easy, Peter had known that from the start.
"I'm sure Ben told you the same thing he told me. With great power, comes great responsibility. This thing we do - it's not always your friendly neighborhood spider-man stuff. But how could we do anything less? It's not easy, but it's a burden we were chosen to carry for some reason - and considering the number of Spider-Men I've met, I've got to believe we were chosen for a reason. And it wasn't all just random - so yeah, we keep getting up and we keep moving forward and we do the best we can even when it sucks and even when all you want to do is cry, because it's who we are." He hadn't come over here to have this kind of talk with Peter, but it felt important to say, especially now, especially considering the way Peter was reacting to all of this.