[quote=@Eddie Brock]
Who am I? You really want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart...

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[color=64b5f6][sup][i]"I'm sorry -- I'm really sorry -- to interrupt but, see, I can tell you're saying it without the [b]hyphen[/b], and that just -- it [b]bothers[/b] me...."[/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]
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[sub][COLOR=darkgray]Peter Benjamin Parker[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray][b]◼ Mary Jane Watson[/b]
[b]◼ Gwen Stacy[/b]
[b]◼ Harry Osborn[/b]
[b]◼ Dr. Curt Connors[/b]
[b]◼ May Parker[/b]
[b]◼ J. Jonah Jameson[/b][/color][/sup][/indent]
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[COLOR=darkgray][b]◼ Doctor Octopus[/b]
[b]◼ Green Goblin[/b] [I](inactive)[/I]
[b]◼ Livewire[/b]
[b]◼ Mister Freeze[/b]
[b]◼ Scorpion[/b]
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent]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 [i]in media res[/i] 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.
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]The goal here is less [I]reinvention[/I] and more [I]reinvigoration.[/I] 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 [I]Amazing Spider-Man[/I], and I'm particularly keen on seeing how the web-head could interact with a whole new batch of heroes.[/INDENT][/COLOR][/cell][/row][/table][sub]__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________[/sub][right][color=64b5f6][sup][i]"Okay, byeee, criminals! Catch you later. Literally."[color=2e2c2c]___[/color][/i][/sup][/color][/right][/COLOR]
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Spider-Man is formally accepted.