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Miguel ([info]miguel_ohara) wrote in [info]spinningcompass,
@ 2018-07-01 23:03:00

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Entry tags:!closed, miguel o'hara, ~peter parker

Who: Spidermen (Peter and Miguel)
What: SCIENCE (holoprojectors etc) and possible Feels
Where: Pete's Apartment
When: Saturday morning, 30th June (Morning after these texts.)


Miguel headed round to Peter's apartment, carrying a small bag of baked goods in one hand and a holoprojector in the other. It seemed a lot easier for him to go round there when all he needed was the little holoprojector and his watch, while he didn't know what equipment Peter would need.

"I hope he likes my baking," Lyla said, not bothering to manifest while Miguel was walking.

"Why wouldn't he like your baking? The only time it's ever gone wrong before was when the oven malfunctioned and that was hardly your fault," Miguel pointed out, hoping to reassure his AI before they reached their destination.

"That is true, but this is still a new recipe."

"You've tried new recipes before and they've been good," he said, before smiling very slightly. "Didn't I eat one of your croissants?"

"Yes, bu-"

"Did I say it was nice or horrible?"

"You said it was good, and your biometrics did not indicate that you were telling a lie."

"Because I wasn't. If he doesn't like croissants, it won't be because of these, okay? It'll be because he doesn't like any croissants." Miguel gave a slight nod as he finished speaking, as if his point was the final say on something he didn't think needed to be discussed anyway. But Lyla said nothing, which was very unlike her.

"Lyla? Is something bothering you?" Miguel frowned as he asked. Lyla was never usually so unsure about things.

"No, I am fine. I ran a diagnostic last night. All is as it should be."

"Okay, good. Do you want to manifest now? We're at Peter's," he said, and knocked on the door just as Lyla appeared beside his wrist.


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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-01 11:00 pm UTC (link)
Peter had learned super quickly that being an adult was way too hard for a fifteen year old. He had tried to learn how to fix a blocked drainpipe this week and had taken six days to fix the damn thing. He really wasn't great at this stuff yet, but everyone else didn't really feel like people he could bother. They all had stuff going on and a blocked drainpipe was hardly DEFCON one status alerts, was it? So Peter had dealt with it eventually, and had properly running water again, even if the apartment was kind of a mess. He hadn't figured out how to do laundry here either.

The knock came at the door just as he realised that he probably should have cleaned up a bit. Or have some food or drink or something for Miguel. Did Lyla need food? Probably not, right? Since she was composed of light particles forming a solid mass. Right. The door.

Peter jumped from one side of the room to the other, pulling up his hoodie just before opening the door. "Hey," he said, looking between Miguel and the literally golden-y Lyla. "Thanks for coming.. uh... it's kind of messy in here, I'm sorry about that. Don't know how it got this bad..." he said, stepping aside. "Come on in."

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-01 11:25 pm UTC (link)
Miguel walked into the apartment, and glanced all round as the door closed behind him.

"It has got this bad because there are different items of clo-"

"Thanks, Lyla, that's okay for now," Miguel said, cutting her off before she could add any more detail to her scan. 'Teenage boy' was reason enough for the apartment being messy, right? That said, the layout was different from his apartment, and Sarah's one too. Only one bedroom door. Huh.

"You're in this apartment on your own?" he asked, looking round to see if there was anywhere they could set stuff out.

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-01 11:34 pm UTC (link)
Peter rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment at the mess. Aunt May would have reamed him out for all this stuff everywhere but it was how he always worked; he spread out, made organised chaos until patterns emerged. Somehow it had happened with everything he owned as well until it was only chaos without the organised bit.

"Uh yeah, it just seemed easier, you know? I don't wanna get in anyone's way and it's just fine being on my own..." he said, picking things off from the small dinner table he had. "At least I can cook some simple stuff for myself, and I fixed a blocked drain and I know where my things are..."

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-01 11:52 pm UTC (link)
"I thought you had a room-mate? But it's okay, don't worry. I'm not going to tell you off." Miguel picked his way over to the table and set the bag down. "This is food. Lyla's been baking so she's given you some. They're croissants. They're good."

He kept the holoprojector in his hand, though. Lyla was manifesting over the table, rather than beside his wrist, so when he held his hand out flat with the projector on it, the old holo of Gabri standing proudly beside his then-new car didn't clash with her. "This is my brother," Miguel said as explanation, then turned the projector round so that Peter could see how it was a complete 3D image; you got to see the back of his head, and the back of his clothes, and when Miguel spun the image, you could see the underside of the car. He reset the image afterwards. "So, we'll try and come up with something similar for you, okay?"

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-02 12:08 am UTC (link)
"I decided it was a bad idea, you know, I don't wanna mess anything up for anyone, or get in people's way. I have a habit of leaving webbing in weird places because it's less effort to pick something up from the other side of the room..." he rattled as he cleared a space finally, stepping back to see what Miguel and Lyla had.

Oh my God, she'd brought food. They looked so damn good. "I love croissants, thank you so much," he said, before reaching over and taking one immediately, stuffing it straight into his face. "I can eat and eat and eat and never feel full, it's awesome. You get that too, right?"

The hologram was even more impressive in person. Peter didn't think they'd get that kind of detail but it was worth a shot from his old digital camcorder and the photos he had of his family. It would be something. "Okay, you need my photos and video and stuff, right?"

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-02 09:11 am UTC (link)
Miguel didn't say anything as Peter 'explained' why he should be living on his own, although he did bark out a laugh at the comment about webbing. He also shot a pointed look at Lyla when Peter shovelled a croissant down in a few seconds. Lyla just looked delighted. "I am glad you like them, Peter!" she said, clasping her hands behind her back as she grinned to herself. Peter had just signed up for an endless supply of pastries, by the looks of things. Not that it would be a problem, it seemed.

"I get that too," Miguel agreed with a smile. "When the door to New York opened, I found an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet place. It was pretty great. I'm guessing if we both went to one at the same time, we'd get barred."

He set the holoprojector down on the table, switching off the picture of Gabri. "All that stuff, yeah. And then Lyla can work her magic."

"It is not magic, Miguel. It is a case of analyzing the various pictures and identifying the points of intersection on each individual picture in order to make as complete a 3D model as possible, before mapping the data onto the holographic matrices. We have done this before, and you knew what we were doing then. I do not understand why you are claiming it is magic now." Lyla looked genuinely puzzled. Miguel just rolled his eyes.

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-02 07:19 pm UTC (link)
He really did think the croissants were good and was basically covered in a snowfall of crumbs that he brushed off quickly into the kitchen sink behind him. Peter needed to learn to grow up if he was going to live alone, though; no more junk food and messiness everywhere around the apartment.

“I already got banned from three of those after I first got bitten,” Peter explained, watching the hologram with interest. “My aunt put it down to growth spurts even though I wasn’t actually growing. The high metabolic rate is super handy cos I can eat all the bad food I want and not gain a single pound. We’re every person’s dream.”

He chuckled as Lyla went super literal and crossed his arms over his chest. “Yeah, Miguel, don’t you know that magic isn’t a real thing? This is just science, definitely not magic. How can you be so dumb, Miguel…” he said, trying not to laugh. “I’m guessing that the more reference points you have, the more accurate the rendering is?”

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-02 08:19 pm UTC (link)
"But magic is real, Peter," Lyla replied, "Dr Sarah Sully is a technomage, as is her mother and her younger brother and sister, and her twin sister is a nature mage, and Miguel ha-"

"Lyla, stop. Please," Miguel managed, covering his mouth with his hand to try and keep from laughing too much at her. "And yeah, that's correct. So if we can get a decent vid clip of your family that pans round, that'd be exactly what we need. It can still be done from static pictures, although it'll require a bit more processing to begin with, and there'll be a bit of trial and error as well. Lyla's scanning is great but we can still move the reference points if we think she hasn't got them quite right."

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-02 08:41 pm UTC (link)
Right, right. He forgot that magic was supposedly a thing in this place, though he hadn't seen any being used and wasn't sure there wasn't some complicated scientific explanation for what was happening. He loved conspiracy theories but magic was a huge step to take without physical evidence.

Peter had to hide his smirk as Miguel hid a laugh, glad the guy had found it funny and not offensive. "I, uh, I might have some old videos laying around here somewhere," he replied, opening up a kitchen cupboard that stored his old tech gadgets from a few years ago, all modified. Of course he kept them in the kitchen. "They were at my aunt and uncle's wedding anniversary party, that was a few years ago now..." he mumbled, trying not to think about how long it really had been.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-02 08:51 pm UTC (link)
Miguel walked over to stand behind Peter and see what all was in the cupboard. When the kid started mumbling, Miguel just put his hand on Peter's shoulder (talons folded away, of course).

"So you'll have something with your mom, dad, aunt and uncle on it? That would be a good starting point." Miguel then pointed at one of the things in Peter's cupboard of Things. Distraction was a way to deal with things, right? "By the way, what the hell is that? ...or that? I've never seen most of the things in here."

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-02 08:58 pm UTC (link)
Peter pulled out an old camcorder, circa 2011, from the kitchen cupboard and put it on the table next to Miguel's tech. Next to it, the thing looked clunky and old, like it was from the stone age and Peter had to remind himself of how technology had exploded from the late 20th to 21st centuries, that innovation never stopped.

"That's because half this stuff is old to me so it's even older to you. I made some mods when I was a kid but the basics are still the same..." he said, pulling out gadget after gadget, all of them modified in one way or another. "Half of them probably aren't even gonna work here, to be honest."

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-02 09:13 pm UTC (link)
Miguel lifted up a couple of things, examining them briefly before putting them down. "If you want them up and running again, I'm sure we could modify them further. Sarah's uncle's been doing a lot of salvage around the station so we can get all kinds of kit there, and I have a couple of weird power sources I got out of weapons I brought back from New York."

He walked back over to the table after that and lifted the thing Peter had set down. "What's this? Is this what you've got your vids stored on?"

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-02 09:17 pm UTC (link)
The idea of getting to play with and invent, and modify, new tech was suddenly very exciting. Peter wondered what kind of things he could get a look at, break down to see how they were working, and put them back together more efficiently. He had so much to learn. "That'd be really really cool. For years I tried to get my hands on Chiaturi tech and I was like 11 at the time so I didn't know what I was really doing..."

His eyes turned when Miguel picked up the camcorder. "Yeah, it's heavy right? I modified it so it could take higher resolution and had more storage but the thing was already a brick when I found it."

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-02 10:16 pm UTC (link)
"Oh, you're in luck, then. The power sources are Chitauri. Glowy crystal things. Tony told me as much and then came round to poke at the fried weapons," Miguel said, still turning Peter's vid-thing over in his hands. He was right when he called it a brick.

"Lyla, can you connect to this, do you know how to connect to it, or are we going to need some sort of bodge-job?" he asked, looking at where there were slots for memory? And other ports for wires. Gabri would love all this, Miguel realized suddenly. His brother was an artist, so everything they were doing was entirely up his alley. Shoving those thoughts to one side, he concentrated on the vid-thing instead.

Lyla's response was to scan the thing, and then show a page from a very old manual for what was a camcorder, explaining where the memory was and how to access it. "Peter, have you modified it much beyond this?" she asked, highlighting the relevant section on the page.

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-03 09:53 pm UTC (link)
"Chitauri?" Peter repeated back, confused. Those were illegal, super illegal. Federal prison illegal. "You got your hands on Chitauri tech from the Battle? That's so unfair, I wanted to poke at those for years and nobody ever found them. They made Judas bullets to try and kill the bulletproof guy in Harlem and still nobody even found so much as a shell casing. Lucky."

Peter looked between Lyla and his own camcorder, hoping that the circuits wouldn't get fried. He still wanted the footage since it was one of the few he had of his whole family together.

He looked at the manual, eyes bugging a little as he read over the pages. He didn't know it even had a manual. "I might have added in an extra memory space but not the basic circuitry. It runs from my own brand of solar so I didn't need the power charge port... and I turned it into something useful."

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-04 10:23 am UTC (link)
"I have power sources, and possibly some tech?" Miguel said, not quite correcting Peter. He started examining Peter's work on the camcorder as he continued to speak. "I'm told the designs for the guns came from a massive leak of SHIELD and Hydra data or were inspired by those designs. Whatever they are, it's mostly earth tech, powered by the crystals. One gun fired concussive blasts that could destroy concrete, and the other was a weird anti-gravity thing. I got caught in it and moving was so shocking difficult, but Sarah was able to short out all the components after I knocked out the bit-head that was firing it at me. I took the guns with me when we left. You can have a look at it all later if you want. What the shock are Judas bullets, by the way?"

He held the camcorder out to Peter after that. "Adapting this to solar was a really clever move," he said with a smile. "Show us how it works, then? This is your tech and you're the one who knows how it works, so I'm not going to try and take over."

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-07 07:52 am UTC (link)
"Wow that's so freaking cool," Peter replied, without a hint of sarcasm. He'd wanted to poke at any alien technology since he was a little kid, having watched the entire battle from his parents' apartment in Queens. He remembered it so vividly, and the aftermath too, the effect it had long rang out. "I got to stop a bank robbery with an anti-gravity thing once but didn't get to keep the stupid weapon thingy. Not fair, man. And Judas bullets are hella powerful, they can rip through bulletproof stuff like butter."

Peter took his camcorder back, feeling better now that it was back in his hands. "Uhh... okay. You basically just..." he hit a button. "Turn it on, and it has like a database storage type. You can scroll through the memory or you can shoot a new video."

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-07 10:33 pm UTC (link)
Okay, he might need to learn more about these Judas bullets if they got another door back to Peter's world. "Do you know anything else about them?" he asked, before watching what Peter did with the camcorder.

"Okay, I got it. And can you only watch on this screen? Or can you connect it to the network?" If it did that, Lyla could access all the files and then they could see what sort of holos they could build.

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-09 11:36 pm UTC (link)
"Only that the metal they're made from comes from the battle of New York, and has Chitauri technology. Where I come from, if you get caught with a Judas bullet, it's immediately a federal charge and hard time. No exceptions, that was the rule." He said, remembering seeing someone immediately be surrounded by CIA, FBI, SHIELD, and cops when he was trying to buy Judas bullets. Spider-Man had not been needed that day.

Finally Peter understood what was going on, and what Miguel was asking. "Ohhh sorry, I'm an idiot. Yeah, I can connect it wirelessly or I can use the projector I built into it."

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-10 11:33 am UTC (link)
"Seriously? Holy shock, they're that bad? And you're not an idiot. I just need to learn how all this old stuff works so I'm not asking dumb questions," Miguel replied.

"Have you seen or met the big tall blue guy, Jake? He lives up in the park on the outside of the wheel. I once asked him how the Doors work. The ones that take you to different places, I mean, not the ones between corridors and rooms. So, I can ask some pretty stupid questions at times," he explained.

"I have accessed the data on your camcorder wirelessly, Peter," Lyla interrupted. "Which file would you like me to work on?" She then began to list all of the files she had found.

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-10 05:32 pm UTC (link)
"Yup. Federal charges are no joke, man. There was a huge ordinance after the incident, new laws got made super quick about all the scrap left behind and the Chitauri bodies. Nobody knows what they really did with all of them, it's been talked about in rumours for years..." he replied in hush tones.

Peter blinked for a moment. Blue? Blue and... tall? "Uh... no, I haven't? There's some big blue alien here? Is he Chitauri, they were pretty tall and kinda blue-ish."

He turned to smile kindly at Lyla, "There should be a file dated September 2009, it's an anniversary party. That'll be your best go."

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-10 06:34 pm UTC (link)
Lyla smiled at Peter. "I have located the file. I will copy it onto my hard drive to work on it, so that your original will not be affected. Is that okay with you?" When Peter said that was fine, Lyla stopped manifesting as she went to work on the video file.

This was normal, so Miguel didn't react. He was busy looking through the pictures on his phone for one of Sarah and Harri talking with their uncle Jake. "Lyla will take a couple of minutes to complete the first pass on your video," he said, and showed Peter the zoomed-in picture. "This is Jake. He's Na'vi. I don't know the details, but he's Sarah's uncle."

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-13 08:29 pm UTC (link)
Peter felt a stab of fear and trepidation at losing that original video file; his family was there, whole, together. He could hear their voices, see the blurrier video and the close ups. His Dad had been laughing all night and nothing had ever felt better. But he had to trust Miguel and Lyla, that nothing would happen to his footage, so he agreed and left her to it.

He was almost glad that Miguel had pulled his attention away from the video and to his own photos. "Woah, you weren't kidding about the tall blue thing, were you? He's huuuuge." He said, looking over at the photo. "How is he her uncle? Is he a blood relative?"

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-13 09:10 pm UTC (link)
"Yeah. He's her dad's twin brother," Miguel explained. "There are three versions of him on the station, but the other two are human. And sometimes when the station is doing things, he switches back to human. It's a bit weird."

"Peter, please tell me how this looks," Lyla said, before playing her first attempt at making the video into a 3D image. The sound was fine, and the people in the video could be seen moving around, but it was blocky and the movement was jerky at times. "I estimate that I have completed approximately 46.9234% of the render, but I require your input to know if there are errors."

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-13 09:35 pm UTC (link)
"Huh. Three versions, but only two are human? So... he wasn't born looking like a giant blue praying mantis?" he asked, feeling weirded out that he might just change species one morning, involuntarily.

Peter turned back towards Lyla, amazed at how short a time it had taken her. It was amazing just seeing half of a render in 3D of his family again, even though things were out of place and some stuff wasn't right. None of that mattered. "I uh... it's pretty good for a first try, though," he said, trying not to sound choked. "My Dad was a little taller than that compared to my mom. Maybe another couple inches?"

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-13 09:49 pm UTC (link)
Miguel was ...not great with emotions a lot of the time, his or other people's. It was different with Sarah because, well, it just was. But most of the time, he didn't know what to do or he felt awkward, or most often, he ignored them (especially when they were his). But he wasn't the massive bithead people back home often made him out to be, especially now that Spider-man was involved. So while Lyla asked questions and adjusted her work, Miguel stayed quiet and watched Peter.

"Are you okay?" he asked quietly, once Lyla had gone back to work, incorporating all her new changes.

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-13 10:26 pm UTC (link)
Peter couldn't tear himself away from the image for the longest time; it was really hitting home now that he was far away from Queens, away from his only family. He didn't like being alone but he was almost an adult now, and a superhero. It wasn't like he needed a father substitute. He just missed his family. Had done for years, only now it was Aunt May too.

"I'm fine," Peter replied, rubbing the back of his head. "You want something to drink? I got Kool-aid."

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-13 10:34 pm UTC (link)
"I have no idea what that is, beyond a drink." Miguel said nothing else, which was fine because Lyla was quick at her work and she was speaking again.

"Peter, please tell me how this second version looks," she asked, before playing her corrected version. "I estimate that I have completed 73.2841% of the render at this time." It was a lot smoother to watch, with only a few obviously-blurry parts. She had obviously concentrated on the main figures in the video, since the background was clearly in need of sharpening up.

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-13 10:46 pm UTC (link)
"Just a drink, yeah, kinda like fruit," he said, going to the refrigerator and taking out a gallon jug. "You want some?" he asked, reaching for a glass from the draining rack and pouring himself a half glass full.

Peter wasn't sure how much longer he'd be able to look at the rendering without breaking apart. Little by little, the thought of seeing it done was both exciting and terrifying. He'd lost them so long ago that the idea of seeing his parents in 3D was foreign. He was pretty messed up, for a teenage superhero.

He made himself look over at the rendering and swallowed. "Pretty great. That's super close to perfect, at least to my memory of them all. I think my Mom had a scar on her arm, right about here," he pointed on his own upper arm. "She got it was I was really small, I'd let go of my helium balloon and she tried to grab it before it got too high in the mall and scraped her arm on a nail or something."

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-14 12:24 am UTC (link)
"I'm good, thanks," Miguel said, and watched as a small scar appeared on one of the women in the holo. He kept glancing over at Peter, though.

"I will make my adjustments and complete the render of the background image. Miguel, I will need to stop all holographic projections in order to complete this work," Lyla said, and the images vanished again along with the holographic clothes that covered Miguel's spider-suit.

"Thanks, Lyla," he replied after the fact, only rolling his eyes very slightly before firing a webline up at the ceiling so he could hang upside down from it. He often thought better that way - hopefully Sarah had stopped being startled by finding him reading papers like that in the lab by now - and it was also just really comfy.

"Are you sure you're fine?" he asked after a couple of seconds, "Because... I don't think you are."

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-15 08:20 pm UTC (link)
Peter swallowed again as the scar appeared; he remembered that day. He must have only been about four or five, obsessed with the balloon, tugging on the cord repeatedly until it snapped around his fist and floated away. His mom hadn't even stopped to think about letting it go, just jumped up, grabbed it and scratched her arm up. His father had called her crazy.

He needed to stop living in the past, in his old memories. The point of this was to get them out, to give himself something tangible. Peter drank down his drink in one and watched as Miguel's clothes fell away from him, leaving just his suit underneath. "Neat trick, makes getting dressed in the morning super easy, huh?" he said, trying to lighten the mood.

And then he had a human spider dangling from his ceiling. Dude could have at least asked before webbing up his paintwork. Not that he'd been the one to paint it. "I'm wondering what you're doing hanging upside down from the plasterwork, that's what I am..."

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-15 09:03 pm UTC (link)
"I'm thinking," Miguel replied, as if it should have been obvious. "I do some of my best thinking when I'm upside down. It's very relaxing."

"Peter, I am at 75%," Lyla interrupted, although she didn't manifest.

"Besides, this way, I don't have to walk on or through your laundry," Miguel added with a small smile.

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-15 09:06 pm UTC (link)
"All that does is give me a headache if I do it too long. I think you're probably more spider than I am, man..." he smiled, leaning back against the counter. He had been so jealous of Miguel's powers and his talent because it seemed so effortless.

Peter glanced down at the floor, rubbing the back of his head. "Yeah I'm not... great at that. I'm still getting used to the whole single white male alone on the space station thing. Everybody has that, right?"

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-15 09:19 pm UTC (link)
"I guess? I mean, I stopped living with my parents when I went to boarding school, so I had this phase while I was there," Miguel explained, gesturing at the laundry-bergs as he spoke. "But that's what I'm thinking about. I have a spare bedroom. I was planning to use it as a work-room when I first arrived here, but there's so much lab-space in the college area that I don't need a work-room. It's yours, if you want?"

Lyla chose that moment to join in as well. "I would advise you to accept the offer, Peter, because I do a lot of baking and Miguel and Sarah do not eat all of the baked goods I create."

"Lyla! This is Peter's decision, not yours," he said, scowling very slightly at his watch before looking back at Peter. "She's right, though. She bakes a lot."

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-15 11:08 pm UTC (link)
Boarding school? Where he was from, only the rich kids went to boarding school. Maybe it was different in the future, maybe it was more common to send your kids off to get that kind of environment or whatever. But the offer was interesting. Peter didn’t love the idea of being pitied or guilting anyone into offering him a room. But he kinda sucked at adulting too, apparently.

“I couldn’t let you do that, I’m fine on my own,” he replied eventually, looking down. “It’s just a few piles of clothes, not a fire or anything. Not that anything’s caught fire here, no…”

He didn’t know Sarah either, he couldn’t just put a stranger out just because Miguel had been nice enough to offer something like that. If Lyla meant that Sarah lived there too.

“I’m sure your baked stuff’s great, Lyla, but I’m good.”

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-15 11:31 pm UTC (link)
"Render is 80% complete."

"Thanks, Lyla," Miguel said as he turned round on the web so he was the right way up now. "You wouldn't be in the way, I promise. The room is empty other than the furniture that was already in it, and Sarah has her own place; I stay over at hers, since she has kids. I have no problem with webbing, clearly, and I know how to fix blocked drains and deal with potential fires." Was that all Peter's objections? He thought so.

"You're the only person I'm going to offer the room to, so even if you don't accept now, it'll be there if you want it later. Okay?"

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-15 11:43 pm UTC (link)

80% already? Peter wasn’t sure if he was ready to walk into turmoil again; it was way too painful, wasn’t it? The video sure had been at times, and he cried like a kid every time he saw them on a fuzzy picture. If he had a 3D model, would he lose his shit in front of Miguel? In front of his AI?

“I don’t… you don’t have to ask cos you feel sorry for me or something,” Peter mumbled, looking down at the floor. “Home’s not ever gonna be here for me. Home’s always gonna be Queens, you know?” He was such a disaster of a human being, wasn’t he? Childlike, vulnerable, soft in the weak places. “I appreciate it, I do, but I don’t… I don’t like pity.”

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-16 12:09 am UTC (link)
Huh? Miguel flipped down from his webline and managed to land beside Peter.

"I don't like pity either, don't worry. And believe me, you don't make me feel sorry for you. I mean, I get that you're upset right now, but that's entirely different." Miguel put his hand on Peter's shoulder as he spoke. "I'm offering you the room for all kinds of reasons. I like you, you're funny, you're insanely smart and I want to learn as much as I can from you, like how I learn from Sarah."

"You eat my bak-"

"Yeah, we got it, Lyla, thank you," Miguel interrupted. "The point is, Peter, I'm asking because I want to, not because I think you're a charity case or anything like that."

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-23 09:24 pm UTC (link)
He even landed with more grace than Peter did. He really needed to work on his skills.

“I don’t?” he asked sceptically in reply. “I’m a literal orphan. I’ve been seeing people’s pity on their faces for me for years, and I’m kinda done with it. It makes me feel young and helpless when I’m not. I don’t want to end up seeing that on your face too, Miguel.”

Peter rubbed the back of his head slightly, tired at having to fake being fine all the time. “I’m just a dumb kid, aren’t I? I’d love to be your roommate, I just… don’t want it to end up with you regretting it because you felt sorry for me.”

He couldn’t help but laugh at Lyla, a genuine chuckle escaping his lips. “Do I have to clean my room?”

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-07-23 09:57 pm UTC (link)
"I'm not going to regret it. And keeping your room tidy would be cool," Miguel said with a smile. "The only rules I'm going to try and enforce are keeping the living room and kitchen tidy, and keeping the lights dimmed if I'm in."

He took his glasses off and let Peter see his bright red eyes. "My eyes are really sensitive to light, and I can see in the dark. But that means light like this hurts, and could even blind me for a while." His glasses went back on, pretty quickly, and he blinked to clear the colored spots that had started to form. "So if the lights are dimmed, I don't get a massive headache."

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[info]spooderboy
2018-07-23 10:19 pm UTC (link)
Peter still somehow had a sinking feeling about this, that it would end up in disaster and arguments. He was a teenager after all, and it wasn’t like he was a properly functioning adulty teenager; he was a giant heaping mess. “I can try on the first one,” he counted off on his fingers, “And I will definitely try on the second one but I will almost always remember the third. Promise.”

His own eyes bugged at the sight of Miguel’s bright red eyes. He kinda looked like Satan in a weird way and made Peter want to hiss and throw holy water at him. But just a little. “How the heck do you function with eyes like those, dude? I mean, super scary and intimidating but impractical for day-to-day humaning.”

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