Alright, Webheads, by the rules, you now have 72-hours to submit in-character sample posts for the characters.

May the best Spidey win!

Hider [+]

The morning sun hadn’t even burned off the last of the street‑level haze when the first THOOM rattled the block.

A small corner bank sat at the center of the chaos, its front window blown outward in a perfect concussive circle that scattered glass across the sidewalk in a glittering halo. Morning foot traffic had vanished, replaced by the echo of sirens and the sharp smell of scorched concrete.

Three police cruisers were already parked at angles in the street, doors open, officers crouched behind them with guns drawn.

And standing on the hood of a dented sedan behind the bank, legs spread wide, quilted yellow suit puffed out like a deranged oven mitt…

Shocker.

He fired another concussive blast at the cops, the gauntlets whining as they charged.

“BACK OFF! I SAID BACK OFF! I GOT A SCHEDULE TODAY!”

One of the officers ducked as a shockwave tore a crater out of the asphalt beside him.

Then a voice drifted down from above, casual as a man commenting on the weather.

“This is not the day to be doing this, Herman.”

Two quick THWIP THWIP shots snapped through the air. Webbing splattered across Shocker’s shoulder and the side of his mask, jerking his aim off‑target.

Shocker staggered, swiping at the sticky mess.

Spider‑Man dropped from a webline and landed lightly on the roof of a nearby delivery van. The red and blue suit caught the morning light in sharp, clean lines, the white eye lenses narrowing as he took in the scene. He held a slightly dented white cake box under one arm, like he had swung straight from a bakery into a war zone.

Shocker finally ripped the webbing free and hurled it aside.

“It is never the day for this, you idiot!”

He fired.

The blast hit the van like a freight train. Spider‑Man barely had time to leap clear before the shockwave caught him mid air and hurled him sideways.

He crashed through a mailbox with a metallic WHANG, the box exploding into a spray of letters, envelopes fluttering down like sad confetti.

Spider‑Man groaned, peeling himself out of the twisted metal.

“Great. Now my day is ruined and so is the postal service.”

Shocker jumped off the car, stomping toward him.

“I don’t care about the fucking postal service!”

Spider‑Man blinked.
“Harsh words, Herman. The mail carriers of America will be devastated.”
He looked at the shredded envelopes around him.
“And also out of a job, apparently.”

Shocker fired again. Spider‑Man rolled, webbed a lamppost, and slingshotted himself forward. He landed on Shocker’s shoulders, riding him like a malfunctioning carnival ride.

“Herman, buddy, you have to stop robbing banks. It is 2026. Nobody carries cash anymore.”

Shocker flailed, firing wildly. A shockwave blew out a storefront window. Another sent a parked scooter tumbling end over end.

Spider‑Man flipped off him, landed behind, and fired two quick web shots.

THWIP THWIP.

Both gauntlets glued together.

Shocker stared at his hands.

“Oh come on!”

Spider‑Man stepped in and delivered a clean spinning kick to the side of Shocker’s head. Herman toppled like a sack of laundry, hitting the pavement with a heavy thud.

Silence.

Spider‑Man dusted off his hands, retrieved the cake box from the wreckage of the mailbox, and winced at the new dent in the lid.

He turned to the cops, gesturing at the unconscious villain.

“He is all yours, boys.”

One of the officers nodded, still wide eyed.

Spider‑Man checked his watch, sighed, and swung off down the street, trailing a faint sprinkle of crushed envelope paper behind him.

Fuck it we ball [+]

P U N I S H E R
P U N I S H E R

^{"Leave the dead to their guilt, action is for the living."}

C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y _________________________________________________________ Francis 'Frank' David Castle Sr. _________________________________________________________ 57 | American S U P P O R T I N G C A S T S U P P O R T I N G C A S T _________________________________________________________ [+] A L L I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ TBC A N T A G O N I S T S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ TBC - P O S T C A T A L O G U E P O S T C A T A L O G U E _________________________________________________________ XX - Post Name -

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T ___________________________________________________________________________________ You all know I like to try different things in these games these days. I like to experiment with different themes and stories. The one trait I have always followed is my desire to do proper capeshit. Largely Sci-Fi based. This time, we're going in the other direction. Do I need to spell out the exact origin? Frank Castle was raised, joined the military, served in practically every theatre of combat, and eventually became a training officer stateside. Until one day he's sat with his family at a local park having a picnic, where they are caught in the crossfire of a Mafia battle. His family die before his eyes, and a court case prevents him from being deployed. The guilt and the rage eat away at him; the perps walk free on a technicality. The Punisher is born. The Punisher tears through the criminal underworld. Some brand him a vigilante, others a murderer; the authorities call him a terrorist. He singlehandedly tears through the crime family that killed his family in cold blood, then, in the wake of 9/11 he disappears to the Middle East. His sightings inconsistent. Some American Soldiers claim to have been saved by him in the last second in a particularly harrowing ambush, then a week later, miles away, he volunteers to defend a girls' school from insurgents until backup arrives. Occasionally, an allied soldier is killed, but before a manhunt can ensue, evidence is discovered of their abuse and wrongdoing. All sightings end as Frank is recruited to Task Force X, until one day. He has finally had enough, and he retires. Amanda Waller tries to convince him to stay, but fails to intimidate him. The Punisher is doomed to the pages of history, or so he believed. P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) __________________________________________________________________________________ I want to tell a different story to the kind I usually do. I have a story planend out in my head, I have story beats and I have little tracks I'm going to go down in the process of telling that wider arching story. Frank is retired, his family, military life and Task Force X days are all behind him, or so he feels. I can't add too much to the backstory due to how I want to tie things in and together, so I hope what I have given is enough to whet some appetites. I will be open to interaction, and all the issues doing so with Punisher includes.

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^{"Witty Quote #2"___}

<Snipped quote by Colonel Sep>

We broke him in 8 days.

Alright, Webheads, by the rules, you now have 72-hours to submit in-character sample posts for the characters.

May the best Spidey win!

I think I’m going to withdraw my Spider-Man application. Besides preferring Eddie’s post to my own, I realise I don’t have a massive passion for this idea like I do with Ben and a few others I’ve been turning over in my head.

May try a different idea at one point soon, but for now I’m happy with just Ben

All this talk of Ben and Spider-Man in the same sentences got me sweating.

Hider [+]

That's it. I'm bringing my second sheet to the board:

10 Bens. [+]

The Thing
Scarlet Spider
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Señor Chang
Ice Clown
Treasure Hunter Gates
The Running Man
Hawkeye Pierce
The Man Who Aged Backwards
Matlock

Ben Solo

<Snipped quote by Lord Wraith>

Oh so now we're allowing Star Wars characters...

<Snipped quote by Colonel Sep>

Obi-Wan is in Roman's original post.

<Snipped quote by Lord Wraith>

I know but you're the one that said I couldn't do Star Wars, not him

<Snipped quote by Colonel Sep>

I just don't think you'd show the source material the same level of respect as Disney currently does.

Who am I? You really want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart...

S P I D E R - M A N
S P I D E R - M A N

^{"I'm sorry -- I'm really sorry -- to interrupt but, see, I can tell you're saying it without the hyphen, and that just -- it bothers me...."}

C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y _________________________________________________________ Peter Benjamin Parker _________________________________________________________ 20 | American S U P P O R T I N G C A S T S U P P O R T I N G C A S T _________________________________________________________ [+] A L L I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Mary Jane Watson ◼ Gwen Stacy ◼ Harry Osborn ◼ Dr. Curt Connors ◼ May Parker ◼ J. Jonah Jameson A N T A G O N I S T S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Doctor Octopus ◼ Green Goblin (inactive) ◼ Livewire ◼ Mister Freeze ◼ Scorpion ◼ Shocker - P O S T C A T A L O G U E P O S T C A T A L O G U E _________________________________________________________ XX - Post Name -

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T ___________________________________________________________________________________ The first fifteen years of Peter Parker's life were remarkably normal. The last five have been anything but. When thinking about how I would approach Spider-Man in this new continuity, I found that neither did I want to go with an older, settled-down version nor did I want to strip him down to the studs and leave myself the work of gradually introducing all the classic elements -- which led to this compromise, an in media res approach where we're meeting the character at the beginning of his prime. Five years felt like the sweet spot: enough experience to where Pete feels like he's seen it all, not enough experience to say he actually has. Making Pete a college student also positions him nicely within the larger universe. He's still significantly younger and more immature than the movers and shakers, your Superman/Batman/Captain Americas of the world. At the same time, he's just old enough to mentor the likes of the Teen Titans, Ms. Marvel, and perhaps even a young Miles Morales, should an interested player turn up. This age puts him on a level with folks like Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, and Roy Harper, which is great place for someone like Peter to live, in my opinion. As for storytelling, I'm a genre purist. I just want to provide fun, digestible adventures surrounded by all the interpersonal drama we've come to associate with Spider-Man. One of the things that keeps drawing me back to the character is not just Peter himself but the richness of his supporting cast; from love interests to villains, best friends and everything in between, there are so many moving pieces that I can't imagine how anyone could ever get bored. I certainly haven't, and that's why I've deliberately picked a time in Peter's life when his personal circle was the widest -- and that's before we even get into player-to-player interactions, which I intend to more consciously pursue. P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) __________________________________________________________________________________ The goal here is less reinvention and more reinvigoration. I want to avoid the malaise that has largely hung over modern Spider-Man comics by returning everyone's favorite wall-crawler back to an earlier time, a cleaner time in his history. While I can find something to love about every era of Peter Parker's life, I truly believe that his Empire State days are unmatched in their storytelling potential: you have the Coffee Bean Gang, the full Daily Bugle crew, Gwen and Mary Jane's Betty & Veronica dynamic, the looming threat of Norman Osborn's relapse, all the classic villains already introduced... It's the ideal pressure cooker to keep Peter on his back foot. Of course, I'm not here just to relive the glory days. While I won't pretend that I'm not already thinking of how to adapt and reinvent classic Spider-Man stories, my main focus is still to leverage the "One Universe" concept to its full potential. There are some DC baddies who'd feel right at home in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man, and I'm particularly keen on seeing how the web-head could interact with a whole new batch of heroes.

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^{"Okay, byeee, criminals! Catch you later. Literally."___}