Retired

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Given the FF's long history with wacky space stuff, assuming they get accepted, I'll want some info on what's going on out there as well.

@AndyC

Anyone intending to explore the cosmos will have said information and the freedom to do with it as they wish.

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Should you be accepted, Sep, I'll have some cosmic info for you that could provide some story elements if you wanted to follow them. Interstellar war and all that fun stuff.

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To those who have already included this, thank you, but this is a reminder that a rough idea of how many years your character has been active as a vigilante/hero is part of the character sheet. I don't need exact details, just a general "they first began their career X years ago" or "their giant futuristic tower appeared in 20XX."

Determining where in the last dozen years your character fits in helps me with behind the scenes machinations.

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@Retired Are we allowed to edit sheets once submitted for approval? I am noticing some typos and I would like to add maybe some more NPCs and notes. Just curious.

@PatientBean

Yes. You already have a completed sheet, so as long as no new information is added I'll go by your original post time when determining the 48 hours.

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@Retired Good to know. I am leaning towards Domino. I think I can have fun with her.

@PatientBean

I look forward to your application.

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I am not sure what everyone else is thinking and I don't want to step on any toes (the interest check filled up quickly and I don't want to maneuver through it again), but I am leaning towards doing either Domino or Jessica Jones. If someone has their heart set on either or both of those, I can always fall back to someone else.

@PatientBean

No one had publicly expressed interest in either character in the interest check. You are also allowed to apply for the same character as someone else as your concepts will likely be different, and both will be weighed equally and fairly. Most of those who were in the interest check are familiar with the idea of competing and won't consider it to be toe-stepping.

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Peter was eight years old when death and destruction descended from the stars. It wasn't long after, amidst the looting in the chaotic aftermath of the 44-Hour War, that he lost his Uncle Ben. A little more than six years later, an incident during a school tour of Oscorp Industries' research division resulted in Peter gaining spectacular powers. At 15, he entered the rapidly growing world of superheroes. As Spider-Man, he has spent the better part of nearly six years contending with the Maggia's substantial influence over New York City. Currently in his sophomore year at Empire State University, he must balance the growing responsibilities he's facing as both Peter Parker and Spider-Man.

The recent death of Silvio "Silvermane" Manfredi, the longtime head of the Maggia, sent a ripple throughout the New York underworld that is about to make that balance that much more difficult to maintain.

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My version of Peter Parker isn't too different from the classic renditions we're used to. A little more modernized; a little less cloned. His rogues gallery isn't quite as expansive yet, but he's tangled with quite a few of the regular offenders over the years. There's not much about Spidey himself that is reimagined, but I will be taking some of Peter's supporting cast and some classic stories in a slightly different, more streamlined direction. Over the decades, Spider-comics have introduced a metric ton of characters and lore, and I have zero desire to touch upon them all. Instead, I want to take a handful that I think will either be fun to revisit or that could be reimagined in a less chaotic way and expand upon them in a steady, unrushed fashion. With just a few twists to make it my own.

The decline of the Maggia and the rise of new organized crime will be a particular arc I intend to cover.

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Supporting Cast

• Aunt May - Peter still lives with his loving aunt who spends most of her time volunteering for the charity FEAST.
• Gwen Stacy - Longtime neighbor and friend of Peter's. Having known each other since they were just out of diapers, next to his aunt, Gwen is the closest thing Peter has to family. In their senior year of high school, the two had a romance that was cut short after the tragic death of Captain George Stacy, Gwen's father. Deciding being home was too much of a daily reminder of her loss, Gwen left to attend university overseas.
• Flash Thompson - A childhood classmate of Peter's turned high school bully and tormentor. Flash dealt with an abusive home life until he finally moved out to attend ESU on a football scholarship. Unexpectedly, Flash and Peter reconciled their freshman year and the two have enjoyed a strong friendship since.
• Harry Osborn - Peter didn't meet Harry until after his fateful trip to Oscorp, but the instant the two crossed paths they became the best of friends. With Gwen, the trio was inseparable for the three years prior to graduating. During his freshman year of university, Harry developed a heavy drug addiction. Sent to a rehab center over the summer by his father, Peter has had little contact with Harry until recently when he was informed of Harry's recovery and upcoming return to school.
• Mary Jane Watson - A recent addition to Peter's social circle, MJ was introduced to him through Flash at the start of their sophomore year. An avid partygoer, MJ brings a spark of fun and joy that Peter desperately needs in his life. She interns for the infamous fashion designer Roderick Kingsley.
• Carlie Cooper - A forensic science major, Carlie and Peter shared many classes during their freshman year at ESU. Together with her roommate, Lily Hollister, Carlie became a frequent member of Peter's close friendship circle, ultimately culminating in the two beginning to date the summer before their sophomore year.
• Dr. Curt Connors - A geneticist and biochemist who heads up Horizon labs, a genetics, and technology research facility. He is an ally of Spider-Man and has aided the hero numerous times throughout the last several years, including the development of several gadgets and gear improvements. He works alongside his partner, Dr. Miles Warren, a professor of Peter's at ESU. Debra Whitman, ESU graduate student, and Michael Morbius, Greek transfer grad student, both round out the Horizon Labs roster as assistants for Dr. Connors.
• Jean DeWolff - A captain in the NYPD Major Crimes Unit, and former partner of the late Captain George Stacy. She often aids Spider-Man when it comes to Maggia matters, and vice-versa.
• Yuriko Watanabe & Vin Gonzales - Two young officers on the force who are more often than not the first on the scene of any criminal round-ups Spidey leaves behind.
• Elias Wirtham - A paramedic who has helped patch up Spider-Man on rare occasions the latter is in particularly rough shape.
• Staff of the Daily Bugle - The Daily Bugle began as a successful, tabloid newspaper owned by J. Jonah Jameson that in the last decade launched as a cable news network with a dedicated focus on covering the rise of vigilantism. Peter freelances there as a photographer tasked with capturing pictures of New York's costumed characters. Robbie Robertson is the current editor-in-chief of the print and digital editions of the Bugle, a vocal supporter of Spider-Man, and Peter's direct boss. Betty Brant is a junior reporter who doggedly attempts to get pieces regarding the Maggia to see the light of day. Ben Urich and Norah Winters are the anchors and personalities behind the successful investigative journalist show, Frontline, which is the flagship program of the cable network.

Rogues Gallery

• The Maggia - New York's dominant organized crime family for nearly a century. Peter has come into conflict with them and their operations time and time again in the five-and-a-half years since becoming Spider-Man. The longtime head of the organization, Silvio "Silvermane" Manfredi, passed away just two months ago, causing a major shakeup among The Maggia.
• Norman Osborn - The multimillionaire industrialist responsible for the genetically engineered spider that bit Peter. Norman, while not directly an enemy of Spider-Man, has caused issues for the web-slinger on occasion. Namely, hiring and supplying a mercenary with high-tech gear to hunt down and capture Spider-Man in order to discover the secrets to the hero's powers. He is currently running for mayor of New York on a platform of forming a privatized, super-soldier police force to combat mutant threats.
• Adrian Toomes/The Vulture - A brilliant inventor who used his prototype, zero-gravity flight harness to commit several crimes of opportunity in the wake of chaos left behind four years ago from the battle between the terrorist Gravitron and the Avengers. His prototype was confiscated by SHIELD and Toomes was imprisoned until his recent release. The Vulture was the first costumed villain Spider-Man encountered.
• Jason Macendale/Jack-O-Lantern - Marine-turned-mercenary who was hired by Norman Osborn to capture Spider-Man. Supplied with advanced technology in the form of weaponry, armor, and a state-of-the-art hovercraft. In order to conceal his identity, he took on the persona of Jack-O-Lantern, an apparently new supervillain on the block. Six months ago, he hunted Spider-Man for weeks but ultimately failed to capture the wallcrawler. Macendale made his escape after one final confrontation, taking with him all of the gear Osborn had provided, now with a personal vendetta against Spider-Man.
• Phineas Mason/The Tinkerer - Genius engineer and inventor, Phineas had a bright future ahead of him during the initial years of the superhuman arms race. He had a contract with the U.S. Government to develop advanced weaponry that would have proved most lucrative, but he disappeared right before he was to deliver his initial prototypes. Having gone underground for nearly a decade, he resurfaced two years ago as a black-market arms dealer providing criminals with high-tech gear. With the death of Silvermane, The Tinkerer is making a new bid for power.
• Lizard - The alter-ego of Curt Connors. Last year, after testing an experimental cellular regeneration serum on himself, he mutated into a violent, bestial, humanoid reptile with a monstrous hunger. It took all of Spider-Man's strength and cunning to capture and subsequently revert the good doctor before any serious harm could be done. While he has not transformed since, the potential threat of a recurring incident looms over both men. The Lizard was the first, and so far only, superpowered individual Spider-Man faced.
• Mac Gargan - A private investigator hired three years ago by J. Jonah Jameson, who was convinced that Spider-Man was a menace to society, in order to uncover the wallcrawler's true identity. This resulted in an embarrassing public display that left Gargan out of practice and a popular meme for several months. Although he has not been seen since, Gargan had threatened to make Spider-Man pay for ruining his life.
• Aleksei Sytsevich - A Russian enforcer that Spider-Man has apprehended multiple times throughout the years.
• Fred Myers and Anthony Davis - A pair of petty thieves who more often than not screw up their own plans before Spider-Man can even try to stop them. They have run afoul of the webhead more than a dozen times over four years.
• Walter Hardy - Renowned international cat burglar who committed a string of jewelry and art heists sixteen months ago that led Spider-Man on a multiweek game of cat and mouse that finally ended in Hardy's arrest.

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Peter Parker | Spider-Man - as played by @Retired

Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Jonathan Storm, and Benjamin Grimm | The Fantastic Four - as played by @AndyC

Logan Hudson | Wolverine - as played by @Supermaxx

Carol Danvers | Captain Marvel - as played by @TGM

Illyana Rasputina | Magik - as played by @Natty

Clint Barton | Hawkeye- as played by @Webboysurf

Jean-Paul Duchamp | Moon Knight - as played by @Hound55

Richard Rider | Nova - as played by @Sep

Erik Lehnsherr and Charles Xavier | Magneto and Professor X - as played by @Mao Mao

Tony Stark | Iron Man - as played by @Bork Lazer

Quentin Beck | Mysterio - as played by @Mintz

Steve Rogers | Captain America as played by @Redcord

Victor | The Vision as played by @udonoodles

Daimon Helstrom | Son of Satan as played by @Roman

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It began a century ago in the wake of The Great War. While the world recovered from its devastating conflict, scientists in the United States of America made a wondrous discovery; a mutant gene present in some individuals that granted incredible, unique abilities. The American government suppressed this information while simultaneously conducting experiments on these individuals.

The fruits of their research gave birth to the Super Soldier Project and its early successes during the height of the Second World War. Decades of continued immoral experimentation run by the US military and CIA finally culminated in the early 1960s, leading to a series of Congressional inquiries, and, ultimately, the public revelation of mutant kind.

Although a massive cultural and political shift in the American landscape, humanity would face an even larger encounter with the unknown just five decades later. In 2010, sixteen cities across the globe came under siege as an invasionary force from the stars descended on Earth. The Chitauri swarm, commanded by their queen, swept across these cities with unprecedented destructive force.

The Earth's military might proved largely ineffective against the seemingly unending hordes, and complete conquest seemed in sight. Pocket conflicts began to rise, however, across the globe as mutant kind began to rise up and take a stand against the invaders. A handful of individuals wielding mighty powers followed suit in New York City, taking the fight directly to the mothership above the United Nations building. The resistance was short and brutal, but ultimately effective as the Chitauri queen was killed in battle, causing the complete disarray of the invading army.

Hundreds of thousands lost their lives in the brief forty-four hours of that first contact war. Tens of millions more were directly affected by the devastation.

From there, the world quickly changed. In America, the enhanced individuals responsible for the defeat of the alien queen were recruited by the National Security Council into a fledgling initiative to defend the United States against future assaults. SHIELD, a former spy agency mothballed in the 1980s, was resurrected for similar purposes. Calls for new weapons of mass destruction capable of fending off planetary incursions led to the formation of the Sentinel Program. And a renewed spark in super soldiers gave rise to a superhuman arms race undertaken by private corporations and industrialists.

In the immediate months following the invasion, reports of vigilantism skyrocketed. Social media became flooded with the notion of the superhero. In the twelve years since the Chitauri's onslaught, acts of powered and costumed individuals became commonplace.

The world had entered the...