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[color=447bb5][sup][i][b]"Shock it, you wanna be on the receiving end of these talons?! Be my guest!"[/b][/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color]
[color=447bb5]C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color] [/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][img]https://i.imgur.com/iMTJ0vK.png[/img]
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[sub][COLOR=darkgray]Miguel O'Hara[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Geneticist[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Alchemax Incorporated[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Multiverse 668 - Prime[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Open[/COLOR][/sub][/center]
[indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   N O T E S[/color]
[color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R   N O T E S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
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[indent][sub][b][color=447bb5] S U P P O R T I N G[/color][/b][/sub]
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[color=silver][b]Gabriel "Gabri" O'Hara[/b][/color] - Miguel's overtly liberal activist brother and software engineer for Horizon Labs, the ethical alternative to Alchemax and Oscorp.

[color=silver][b][I]LYLA[/I][/b][/color] - Gabri's own invention, an alternative to corporate smart home apps that doubles as a sentient artificial intelligence. 

[color=silver][b]Dana D'Angelo[/b][/color] - Miguel's on-again, off-again girlfriend and former fiancee, the professional stylist of popular actress Mary Jane Osborn.

[color=silver][b]Conchata O'Hara[/b][/color] - Miguel's mother, an oft-disapproving Mexican immigrant who openly dotes on Gabri.

[color=silver][b]Tyler Stone[/b][/color] - Miguel's boss, a highly corrupt CEO and his most hated enemy.

[color=silver][b]Norman Osborn[/b][/color] - CEO of Oscorp, possibly even more ruthless than Stone.

[color=silver][b]Ben and May Parker[/b][/color] - The husband and wife team heading of F.E.A.S.T., New York's premier homeless shelter and longtime friends of the O'Hara family.

[color=silver][b]J. Jonah Jameson[/b][/color] - Owner and host of TheDailyBugle.Net, New York City's most viewed web-based political news program and a particularly outspoken superhuman critic.

[color=silver][b]Robbie Robertson[/b][/color] - TheDailyBugle.Net's lead investigative reporter.

[color=silver][b]Peter Parker[/b][/color] - Robbie's photographer, adept at utilizing his engineering background to get impossible shots. Parker also works part-time at Horizon Labs.

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[color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/hider][/INDENT][indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] P O S T   C A T A L O G[/color]
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[indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   P O S T   C A T A L O G[/color][/b][/sub]
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[color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/hider][/INDENT][/cell][cell][INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] W H A T   I F...?[/color]
[color=lightgray]W H A T   I F...?[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]________________________________________________________________________________________[/sup]
[COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent][b]...Peter Parker never became Spider-Man?[/b]

While there may have at one point been a genetically enhanced spider, one almost certainly developed by Oscorp, it never reached a teenage Peter Parker and the timeframe for them to converge ultimately passed. Instead, a geneticist named Miguel O'Hara found himself embroiled in a plot of corporate espionage that tampered with his breakthrough scientific invention, a technology that enabled gene-splicing in an effort to make humans resilient to climate change. Using it on himself to save his own life, unaware that the genetic sequencer was programmed to mimic arachnid DNA, Miguel emerged from the process with superhuman powers... and a couple of unfortunate deformities, such as retractable talons, poisonous fangs and eyes with an ultrasensitivity to light.

Given the chance, Miguel might have been able to eventually reverse his condition. But almost immediately after the accident, his shady employer enlisted Alchemax-hired mercenaries to quickly handle the situation before it could go public, placing Miguel in the crosshairs of a bitter feud between Tyler Stone of Alchemax and his competitor, Norman Osborn of Oscorp. Donning a makeshift disguise made out of a costume designed after the local [i]El Día de Muertos[/i] festival, Miguel sought to lead the mercenaries off of his scent by pretending to be a masked interloper, engaging in battle with them directly in the streets of New York. Dubbing the unidentified superhuman "The Spider-Man", The Daily Bugle and it's editor J. Jonah Jameson brought attention to the vigilante and his very public altercations with these would-be assassins.

It's been a year since Miguel first put on the mask. And with both Alchemax and Oscorp looking to independently capture Spider-Man for their own morally dubious intentions, O'Hara has chosen to utilize his abilities to live a double life as an ultimately harmless cog of the corporate machine and Alchemax's worst nightmare. Given that he possesses the power to bring them down once and for all, he considers doing so to be his ultimate responsibility.
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]The setup here is basically a mix of the original [I]Spider-Man 2099[/I] series, the Peter Parker-led mythology, and a little bit of [I]Spider-Man: Noir[/I]. The latter series acts as a bridge for how I intend to weave in the classic Spider-Man rogues' gallery, since Norman Osborn controls the villains in that series from an untouchable spot above New York's criminal underworld. So that's how Miguel will end up tangling with characters like Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Electro, and the rest, building up to a clash with Osborn and a certain alter-ego of his directly.

Moreover, I also intend to depict how the world changes directly when Parker himself isn't there to affect it as a web-slinger. Without him in the lead role, some allegiances shift, some characters die when they shouldn't have and some even live when they normally don't. Miguel will be at the narrative forefront instead, unwittingly bringing a powerless Peter Parker and his loved ones into Spider-Man's own feud with Alchemax and Oscorp.[/INDENT][/COLOR][/cell][/row][/table][hr][/COLOR]