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[center][h3][color=004b80]Peter Parker || 28 years old || New York City, USA || Photographer[/color][/h3][/center]
[center][sub][i]"I know I'm not good enough. I never will be. That's no excuse to stop fighting. No matter how much it scares me. No matter how much it hurts."[/i][/sub][/center]

[center][color=9e0b0f][h3]P O W E R S[/h3][/color][/center]
Spider-man has abilities akin to a… well, spider. Due to genetic alteration induced by a radioactive spider bite, he can climb walls; has enhanced strength, durability, stamina, speed, and reflexes; has regeneration; and has a spider-sense, a type of precognitive sixth sense that alerts him to danger. His spider-sense alongside his acrobatic reflexes allows him to easily evade most attacks.

He is also incredibly gifted in technology and chemical engineering, having created synthetic web-fluid shooters that allow him a versatile range of attacks, and a way of swinging around the city. Combining this wit with many years of combat experience makes him a valuable ally in battle, able to improvise non-lethal attacks against foes on the fly.

[center][color=9e0b0f][h3]H I S T O R Y[/h3][/color][/center]

Peter Parker was just your average nerdy teenager, living with his Uncle Ben and Aunt May in New York City, avoiding bullies like Flash Thompson, and just trying to survive the struggles of high school—until the fateful day a radioactive spider bit him at a science expo. After this, he soon found that he had been granted superpowers, mimicking the abilities of a spider. Using his genius intellect, he created synthetic web fluid and web shooters and began to in secret fight crime as the amazing Spider-man. Peter had a naive, but hopeful spirit that believed that he could use his strange powers to help the citizens of New York, and he soon became an internet sensation. This would lead to him getting the attention of none other than the Avengers, and he would fight alongside the big leagues on several occasions, proving himself to be more than just a quippy young vigilante.


Throughout his life, Peter would learn time and time again that wasn’t easy being a hero. Over the years, the threats grew more dangerous. Supervillains like Shocker, Vulture, Mysterio, then the Green Goblin, Doctor Octavius, Electro, and more. Peter found it incredibly difficult to separate the Spider from the Man, as he struggled to balance “real life” with heroism and to protect the ones he loved from evil. He would face loss many times in his life, losing Aunt May, Gwen Stacy, and others. After dealing with Mysterio revealing Peter’s secret identity to the world, Peter had to work with the Sorcerer Supreme to erase his identity from everyone who knew him. His girlfriend MJ and best friend Ned forgot he was Spider-man, and he had to live on his own, alone.

However, he would rise again and again. Although Peter found himself out of friends, out of money, and out of college, he would work twice as hard to improve, getting into a budget college, working at The Daily Bugle, and swinging through life as Spider-man. He befriended people like Harry Osbourne, and the thief, Black Cat. Even when fighting alongside or against superhumans, aliens, robots, or what have you of much greater power, Peter Parker showed incredible enthusiasm and resilience, always trying to encourage those around him. His skill in combat, intellect, and unrelenting willpower would earn him a spot among the Fantastic Four and the Avengers, and help him become an ally of even the X-Men. Yet at the end of the day, Peter would always seem to return to his solo ways as the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man of New York.

Presently, Peter Parker is at a high point in his life. He’s become the mentor for a young teen with similar powers as him, Miles Morales. He’s made a solid living off photography and tech, and he’s beginning to create a startup called Parker Industries, with the goal of using technology to help those in need (including depowering dangerous villains). Peter even has a bit of a situationship with Black Cat, trying to help the thief join the good side.

Yet, how long can peace last? With the new mutant nation emerging and protests for or against mutant-kind popping up throughout New York, Peter is being forced to reckon with the reputation and power he holds within the superhero community. While not a mutant, he has fought alongside them many times, and many people look up to him as an ideal superpowered person. Meanwhile, there are whispers in the criminal underworld of old foes remerging to take back the city and crush Spider-man once and for all. Are these just silly rumors? Or is Spider-man about to face something much more sinister?


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[b][color=003471]Cats and Spiders:[/color][/b] Peter is mentoring young hero Miles Morales, as well as trying to guide Black Cat towards vigilantism rather than criminality. Peter is learning to be not only a hero who defeats bad guys but someone who truly helps others towards a path of good.

[b][color=003471]Beyond the Neighborhood:[/color][/b] With heroes like Miles Morales and the Defenders emerging to help protect New York City, Spider-man (while still busy), is beginning to realize how key collaboration is and how his abilities could benefit others beyond the Big Apple. Peter may try to create Parker Industries and help that way, while Spider-man may begin to swing out of his usual city, getting more involved in global superhero affairs. Whether it will be trying to spend more time with the Avengers, or trying to help mediate mutant and human relations, we will soon see Peter Parker leaping farther out of his comfort zone.
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[center][h3][color=white]Louisa Reynolds || 19 years old || New York City, USA || Runaway || Mutant[/color][/h3][/center]
[center][sub][i]"They’re not pests! …They’re family. The only ones I have left."[/i][/sub][/center]

[center][color=a0410d][h3]P O W E R S[/h3][/color][/center]

The Piper has the mutant ability to psychically command rodents. She can control everything from the common sewer rat to mice, capybaras, chinchillas, and more. However, she tends to be most fond of rats and avoids working with squirrels (to avoid stepping on the schtick of Squirrel Girl). When commanding rodents, she can work on a minute level and make single rodents execute complex tasks or can command entire hordes, albeit with somewhat less accuracy. She uses these abilities to collect information, steal items sneakily, or overwhelm foes in combat with bites and scratches.

She can telepathically communicate with hordes of rodents within a certain range, scrying through their senses, or reading their emotional states. When rodents are under her influence, she can sometimes heighten their intelligence so that they can accomplish more complicated tasks outside of her range.

Working with “vermin” so often, she also has a secondary set of abilities: poison and disease resistance. While Piper can still get sick, it is very rare. Her immune system is incredibly resilient, and accustomed to the rot and sickness that is so prevalent in sewer systems or dumpsters.

While not necessarily combat-trained, she is skilled at stealth and acrobatics, able to leap away into the shadows when danger arises.

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Louisa Rodney was born a mutant with the strange ability to command rodents, something her parents discovered about her when they’d often find young Louisa in her crib cuddling with a swarm of rats. After several rodent extermination attempts, Louisa would still always end up with a rat or two secretly sticking around, and soon her parents came to simply ignore this unusual affinity, as long as Louisa kept it under wraps.

She was always a social outcast, a bit too awkward to fit in with popular kids, and a bit too offbeat to even hang out with the nerds, so growing up Louisa turned to her rats. She’d spend much time in the alleys or sewers of New York, practicing her abilities and playing with rats, growing quite fond of them. They would tell her very interesting stories about the city and its secrets. Although they couldn’t talk per se, she could read their recent memories and see what they saw. While her parents began to grow distant, caring more for her “normal” human siblings, Louisa grew reclusive, but stayed under the radar, not attracting too much attention.

However, a supervillain attack on her high school led to Louisa having a mental breakdown, and she uncontrollably unleashed a flood of thousands of rats, bringing the villain down but traumatizing everyone in the vicinity.

After this event, she ran away from home, harassed by anti-mutant advocates and various agencies looking to control or utilize her abilities. She turned to the place that always felt like home… the sewers, the alleys, and life among the rats. To get by, she would often command her rats to steal clothes, food, or other basic needs. However, she would begin to get more extravagant, planning heists to steal electronics, furniture, and valuable goods to deck out her sewer lair. She relied on her rats and indulged in greed to numb the pain of isolation.

As much as she wanted to be left alone, Louisa gained the attention of mutants and other parties interested in the information she can collect with her rats. At first, she avoided such people looking for her, but they soon offered her protection, money, and goods. Hesitantly, she’s begun taking on jobs from the underworld to stalk targets or steal things here or there. She would work with the Morlock mutants from time to time, and various criminals. She didn’t want to be bad… but she had to do what she had to survive. That’s what she told herself.

However, in a chance sighting, she and her rats witnessed a murder, some sort of well-dressed, affluent man killing an innocent woman.

Louisa had done and seen terrible things, but this was worse. The murderer somehow realized that the Piper had seen what he had done, and he killed the rat watching him and Louisa fled. Currently, Louisa has begun to find arrays of dead rats throughout her sewers, and has become much more paranoid. These aren’t normal deaths, but precise killings, poor creatures brutally eviscerated to scare her.

She saw something she wasn’t supposed to see, and now she’s being hunted.


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[b][color=yellow]Eyes in Every Corner:[/color][/b] Louisa has bartered her reconnaissance abilities to those who are willing to seek out The Piper and pay. However, her widespread perception via rat agents has also allowed her to witness things she shouldn’t have. Criminal dealings, supervillain plans, and most recently, a murder. And it seems this murderer wants to make sure no witnesses are left alive.

[b][color=yellow]Rodent Stowaway:[/color][/b] Louisa has heard of Krakoa, and part of her yearns to be among other mutants. However, she is deeply afraid of leaving behind her home in the sewers among New York’s rodents. Part of the journey in this roleplay will be reckoning with her mutant side and deciding if she wants to leave her home and stow away to Krakoa.
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