Video | UN: Spidey

[keepitgoing]

[The easiest introduction in the world! Being that it's a, uh, re-introduction. Peter Parker Spider-Man has already confirmed he'd vanished for months — which is totally crazy, because he feels like he hasn't been gone all that long — but here he is! In all of his 'confused but has spirit' energy that had gotten him through his time in Etraya before.]

Hey guys, I'm back!

Just gone long enough to apply to, like, fifty barista and pizza guy jobs back home.

... Swinging around doesn't pay rent, y'know.

What'd I miss?

[He's perched on his tippy-toes, on top of one of the tallest buildings in Etraya.

As you do.]

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[tinflower]

[ Gorgug definitely picks up on the implication--that had is meaningful, after all. ]

Do you think it would work? Was he that good at robots?

[ Not to devalue the guy, but also--a robotic tip jar might run into some problems. Or this guy could be that cool that it would be inspiring. And Gorgug wants to know their power levels...! ]

[keepitgoing]

Oh, yeah. Tony could make anything. I was actually kinda friends with one of the artificial intelligences he created — Well, specifically for my old suit. That one got blown up by bad guys... Sometimes I miss talking to her, honestly.

[Just his life, man. Missing talking to people.]

But yeah, you know. He could make anything work. Even if it was just something like a machine that made sandwiches, I can guarantee it'd be the awesomest sandwich maker you'd ever seen.

[tinflower]

[ Whoaaaaa. With this being a video feed, Gorgug's raising eyes in awe can be seen. Artificial intelligence in a suit...!! ]

That's so cool. I want to make a talking suit and an awesome sandwich maker.

[ Imagine... imagine!! ]

Did your old suit look like the one you wear now? Was it more-- metal?

[keepitgoing]

Oh, it actually didn't look too much different from this one.

But I did also have the Iron Spider suit for a while! That was one super cool. I was falling to my death in the stratosphere and Mr. Stark was nice enough to deploy it, since it let me breathe in space. Pretty awesome, right?

[He hesitates, memory drifting into more recent memories.

Unpleasant ones.]

... Unfortunately, that one kinda got messed up recently, too.

Suits tend to do that.

[tinflower]

A lot of my shit breaks, too. [ It's said sympathetically, with a nod. ]

...can I touch your suit sometime? Do you know how-- where he fit in the mechanics for the AI? [ You know, if he had to look at him and guess... ] Was it just voice control? Maybe your ears, or-- your eyes?

[ Gorgug wants to ask deeper questions, but he's just--really curious!! ]

[keepitgoing]

Uh... You mean when I'm, like. Not in it, right?

[ ]

[tinflower]

Uh, is that-- is that okay? Is that allowed? I don't know how spider-people work...

[ /////!!!! ]

[keepitgoing]

Oh! No, I'm -- It's cool! I've just had people touch me in the streets before. Totally weird and awkward.

[Spider-Man is harassed sometimes! He has coped.]

But also, uh. I kinda can't let you see it without taking if off, so you might have to wait until I decide whether or not I'm gonna keep my identity under wraps...

[tinflower]

Okay, I mean-- I wouldn't tell anyone your identity, but, I'm a hundred percent interested in the fibre of your suit and how cool it actually is, and zero percent interested in your body.

[ ...

He looks aside. Slowly: ]

...five percent.

[ ((How spider is he!!!!!!)) ]

1/2

[keepitgoing]

[keepitgoing]

I don't have any spider anatomy.

[tinflower]

[ GRIMAACCIING IN THAT WAY WHERE HE'S NOT TRYING TO SHOW IT, AND YET-- ]

You promise?

[ Small indoor voice here. ]

[keepitgoing]

I... promise? I'm human-shaped from head to toe.

... I can't tell if you're happy to hear that or not.

[tinflower]

[ If it helps, there is an audible sigh of relief! ]

I am. Sorry-- bug people deserve to live lives too, but I, they--

...

...not near me.

[keepitgoing]

[BUG PEOPLE PREJUDICE!!!!!]

Aw, c'mon. They can't help having a bunch of freaky legs and antenna...

[He doesn't like to imagine it either, though. He is a betrayer of his brethren.]

I don't have any of that, though. I can crawl up buildings, and I'm crazy strong, but my webs don't even come from my body.

[tinflower]

[ When he talks about they can't help it, Gorgug does lower his head and nods, in a I know, I know, manner. He's being rude... he needs to be better about bug-people! ]

They don't? Are they real webs?

[ Real spider webs??? ]

[keepitgoing]

Mine aren't, no. I just wanted to make something that would help me traverse New York really quickly -- the fastest way to do that is definitely swinging around on sticky string. A little science goes a long way, you know? And it's super on-brand.

[tinflower]

[ Ohhhh. Watch his eyes light up in that way where they're the only thing that do. ]

Really? That's, like-- cool. You made them? I had to make a spell web for class that takes spider web and enlarges it, you know, into a big web, but we didn't have to make it-- we just had to show we understood how to enlarge it, and-- make it stay. But I had to read about them. About the fibre and glue. It's actually pretty cool.

[ Note: This coming from the guy who was being creeped out by secret spider men just moments ago-- ]

[keepitgoing]

[Yeah, you are a real enigma, my dude. Someone who plays around with webs, but is freaked out by bug people? Pick a lane! Regardless, everything Gorgug says right now is the perfect storm to make Spider-Man instantly excited.]

A spell?!

That's super cool too, though! You gotta show me how it works!

I knew a sorcerer who could do all kinds of crazy magic, but I've never seen that before!

[tinflower]

[ It was schoolwork!!! He didn't get a choice!!!

Gorgug's used to getting this kind of reaction though, which doesn't make it--entirely easy, but he's nodding. ]

I'll, I'll see what I can do. What I can make. Maybe I can make a -- [ he mimics a motion ] -- throwing web. I've been practising making bombs...

[ Um. ]

More than just exploding bombs. A sticky bomb would be cool.

[ This kind of isn't sticking in the realm of magic, but hey...!! ]

[keepitgoing]

Oh!!! I've been making sticky bombs! Or, uh, I was making them.

But since I vanished from Etraya, all my work materials... vanished... too...

[Oh, he sounds so sad about it, Gorgug. So sad.]

[tinflower]

[ Oh no, he's sad!

... ]

... I've got a workshop with materials.

[ It's a voice of twiddling one's fingers, uwu (he is not doing this, he's just not used to inviting people to his workshop!). ]

[keepitgoing]

... Man, I couldn't take your materials for my own stuff. That's for you.

[You earned that!!!!]

[tinflower]

I'm interested in how you make stuff. But, you-- you'll have to get Fabian's permission, since you two have a [ ... ] thing.

And he put a gold gate around my workshop.

[keepitgoing]

A thing? C'mon, it's just some friendly fun...

Don't tell me he took all that seriously. Tell him I call a truce!