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5 Times Peter Parker was a Kid + 1 Time He Wished He Wasn't
who: Peter Parker, age 9. Comments coming from beforethebite!
what: An NPC hits Spider-Man with a de-aging spell to escape capture.
when: Early October (potentially until end of October)
where: The streets, a playground, school, community housing, etc.
warnings: Not much! Child abduction panic from Peter? A sad kid, from time to time?
1. The Movie 'Taken', Part 50
[This is what happens when you try to arrest a quasi-wizard fugitive. You get magic slammed in your face when you're off your guard, and then you web him up, and then you feel just as sick as when you had that hangover that Shall Not Be Spoken Of. Groaning, he goes back to his apartment and just figures he'll wait and sleep it off. Seemed like just a stun attack, maybe deadly to a normal human? Maybe he should ask Mr. Stark about it... Or something...
Nah, sleep seems more important.
But when he wakes up, all he thinks is where's Ben and May? Usually they nudge him awake for school, make him stumble tiredly to a table to eat some Cinnamon Toast Crunch or something. Maybe it's Saturday? Maybe they can watch morning cartoons together? He squints around, patting where his dresser usually would be, for his glasses. There's no dresser there. He does see the Iron Man toy mask he loves so much, sitting on a little shelf. But the fuzzy world around him is definitely not his apartment. Immediately, May's grave talks about child abduction spring into his head, and his heartbeat quickens.
(He vaguely remembers a man blowing weird sparkly mist into his face; he swears, it sounded like he said something about spiders.)
He's been kidnapped.
Panic overwhelms him, and he leaps up looking around frantically. It doesn't look like a sicko's house. There's nobody around, though, and the front door is right there, so he grabs his Iron Man helmet and makes a run for the door, his eyes wide and full of fear. They could be anywhere here; he needs to find a phone, get a police officer. Right? Right! That's it, Peter. Don't be scared. Be brave, be Iron Man Brave. He puts on his plastic helmet and already feels strong enough to find his family.
He faced drones before; this can't be any worse. And yet the more he walks, the more he realizes... he's not in New York. There are big aliens wandering around, robots who side-eye him, people with pointy ears or bug men. Monsters. One towers over him working its mandibles, and he thinks for sure it's gonna eat him (it yells 'hey kid, are you okay, come back!' in an alien language as he runs away in a panic).
So yeah, there's a kid on the streets; not soweird, in Riverview, what with all the rampant orphans and street hooligans.
But this one seems withdrawn, in a too-big shirt that says 'WHY TO PLANTS HATE MATH? BECAUSE IT GIVES THEM SQUARE ROOTS'.
He ends up crouched behind a garbage can, and from around the corner of it, Iron Man watches with uncertainty.]
2. I Have No Pants And I Must Politely Inquire About Them
[If you're shopping at the corner store, a kid presses his fingers to the front desk and asks the cashier behind his Iron Man mask:]
Excuse me, I—I, um, I don't have any pants. I don't have any money, but I need pants. It's an emergency.
3. School-time Blues
[At some point, the crisis is averted. He's not kidnapped. So that's good. It's hard for Peter to open up to people. He goes to elementary school for the time that he's young, since it only makes sense that he not be in regular high school classes. Most of the kids already have friends they cling to; Peter's never really had a best friend before, just some here and there. He sticks to his corner of the playground, sits nervously in the cafeteria, and wishes he were allowed to hide behind his Iron Man mask for this particular occasion. He misses his uncle and aunt, and he wants to go home.
He ends up building a little robot out of things he's familiar with, because the teacher is nice enough to let him mess with stuff in the science room. She's really impressed, but it's nothing that fancy. He names it Bert, Bert the nervous robot.
He sits on the bench waiting for the bus to pick him up and take him where he's temporarily staying, in the community housing.
When he arrives back to his old rooming area there, he lets Bert the nervous robot run around the building, whirring loudly.
... And yes, he has an Iron Man mask on, and is chasing after it, firing fake lasers from his hands.
He ends up sitting against a hallway huffing and puffing after a very short time, popping his mask open long enough to use his Riverview-patented inhaler.]
4. Neeeeeeerd! (party-sized)
[He ends up at the local playground, where he meets a bunch of really nice kids; some are aliens or not human, and that's kind of freaky, but he's still got his Iron Man mask. It's always made him feel tougher than he is, gave him more confidence to work with. When he introduces himself as Peter, everyone else sort of just adopts him into their group. He makes friends with Lanie and her brothers, and they all run around playing superhero. It's the most fun he's had in a while, even if he ends up out of breath and not really able to keep up very well. He also kind of mixes up some people, because everyone's faces are still flippin' blurry from afar.
He pants, hands on his knees:]
Sorry, I got asthma. And my allergies're pretty bad. I can't do too much.
[He's not sure how, but he ends up sitting on a swingset with a totally intense conversation going on.
Bits and pieces are as follows:]
I've never heard of a Spider-Man before... b-but he can't beat Iron Man. Like, there's no contest... You should have seen him. I bet Iron Man could get to the stars if he tried hard enough. Can Spider-Man take out robots with hand blasts? Can he fly? Or does he, like, shoot webs out of his butt...? Is he hairy like a tarantula...?
5. Wildcard.
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The kid'll be all over, so I'm down for any random prompt you got in mind. Is he visiting? Babysat? Did they visit a comic store?]
+1. Homesickness | Closed to Close CR Who'd Have Him Over At Some Point
[Peter doesn't gravitate towards the roof when he's sad; he's scared of heights. He usually just finds the nearest bed, curling up and trying not to cry. When he went camping once for a week, away from May and Ben, he cried a little then, too. Because it's so scary, being away from the people you know, you know? Even when you're not whisked away to another weird world with aliens and monsters and no signs of normal life. Even when you're just at Camp Hard-To-Pronounce and you're sleeping in a bunking area with other kids... He worried something was gonna happen, like it did Mom or Dad. He missed the smell of May's chicken dinners. He missed Ben's weird cologne smell that adults sprayed so much.
Homesickness was a bitch. And it's one today, too.
He sniffs, cradling his toy helmet, trying to be quiet.]
beforethebite!what: An NPC hits Spider-Man with a de-aging spell to escape capture.
when: Early October (potentially until end of October)
where: The streets, a playground, school, community housing, etc.
warnings: Not much! Child abduction panic from Peter? A sad kid, from time to time?
1. The Movie 'Taken', Part 50
[This is what happens when you try to arrest a quasi-wizard fugitive. You get magic slammed in your face when you're off your guard, and then you web him up, and then you feel just as sick as when you had that hangover that Shall Not Be Spoken Of. Groaning, he goes back to his apartment and just figures he'll wait and sleep it off. Seemed like just a stun attack, maybe deadly to a normal human? Maybe he should ask Mr. Stark about it... Or something...
Nah, sleep seems more important.
But when he wakes up, all he thinks is where's Ben and May? Usually they nudge him awake for school, make him stumble tiredly to a table to eat some Cinnamon Toast Crunch or something. Maybe it's Saturday? Maybe they can watch morning cartoons together? He squints around, patting where his dresser usually would be, for his glasses. There's no dresser there. He does see the Iron Man toy mask he loves so much, sitting on a little shelf. But the fuzzy world around him is definitely not his apartment. Immediately, May's grave talks about child abduction spring into his head, and his heartbeat quickens.
(He vaguely remembers a man blowing weird sparkly mist into his face; he swears, it sounded like he said something about spiders.)
He's been kidnapped.
Panic overwhelms him, and he leaps up looking around frantically. It doesn't look like a sicko's house. There's nobody around, though, and the front door is right there, so he grabs his Iron Man helmet and makes a run for the door, his eyes wide and full of fear. They could be anywhere here; he needs to find a phone, get a police officer. Right? Right! That's it, Peter. Don't be scared. Be brave, be Iron Man Brave. He puts on his plastic helmet and already feels strong enough to find his family.
He faced drones before; this can't be any worse. And yet the more he walks, the more he realizes... he's not in New York. There are big aliens wandering around, robots who side-eye him, people with pointy ears or bug men. Monsters. One towers over him working its mandibles, and he thinks for sure it's gonna eat him (it yells 'hey kid, are you okay, come back!' in an alien language as he runs away in a panic).
So yeah, there's a kid on the streets; not soweird, in Riverview, what with all the rampant orphans and street hooligans.
But this one seems withdrawn, in a too-big shirt that says 'WHY TO PLANTS HATE MATH? BECAUSE IT GIVES THEM SQUARE ROOTS'.
He ends up crouched behind a garbage can, and from around the corner of it, Iron Man watches with uncertainty.]
2. I Have No Pants And I Must Politely Inquire About Them
[If you're shopping at the corner store, a kid presses his fingers to the front desk and asks the cashier behind his Iron Man mask:]
Excuse me, I—I, um, I don't have any pants. I don't have any money, but I need pants. It's an emergency.
3. School-time Blues
[At some point, the crisis is averted. He's not kidnapped. So that's good. It's hard for Peter to open up to people. He goes to elementary school for the time that he's young, since it only makes sense that he not be in regular high school classes. Most of the kids already have friends they cling to; Peter's never really had a best friend before, just some here and there. He sticks to his corner of the playground, sits nervously in the cafeteria, and wishes he were allowed to hide behind his Iron Man mask for this particular occasion. He misses his uncle and aunt, and he wants to go home.
He ends up building a little robot out of things he's familiar with, because the teacher is nice enough to let him mess with stuff in the science room. She's really impressed, but it's nothing that fancy. He names it Bert, Bert the nervous robot.
He sits on the bench waiting for the bus to pick him up and take him where he's temporarily staying, in the community housing.
When he arrives back to his old rooming area there, he lets Bert the nervous robot run around the building, whirring loudly.
... And yes, he has an Iron Man mask on, and is chasing after it, firing fake lasers from his hands.
He ends up sitting against a hallway huffing and puffing after a very short time, popping his mask open long enough to use his Riverview-patented inhaler.]
4. Neeeeeeerd! (party-sized)
[He ends up at the local playground, where he meets a bunch of really nice kids; some are aliens or not human, and that's kind of freaky, but he's still got his Iron Man mask. It's always made him feel tougher than he is, gave him more confidence to work with. When he introduces himself as Peter, everyone else sort of just adopts him into their group. He makes friends with Lanie and her brothers, and they all run around playing superhero. It's the most fun he's had in a while, even if he ends up out of breath and not really able to keep up very well. He also kind of mixes up some people, because everyone's faces are still flippin' blurry from afar.
He pants, hands on his knees:]
Sorry, I got asthma. And my allergies're pretty bad. I can't do too much.
[He's not sure how, but he ends up sitting on a swingset with a totally intense conversation going on.
Bits and pieces are as follows:]
I've never heard of a Spider-Man before... b-but he can't beat Iron Man. Like, there's no contest... You should have seen him. I bet Iron Man could get to the stars if he tried hard enough. Can Spider-Man take out robots with hand blasts? Can he fly? Or does he, like, shoot webs out of his butt...? Is he hairy like a tarantula...?
5. Wildcard.
[Got a specific starter you wanna do? Just hit me up at
The kid'll be all over, so I'm down for any random prompt you got in mind. Is he visiting? Babysat? Did they visit a comic store?]
+1. Homesickness | Closed to Close CR Who'd Have Him Over At Some Point
[Peter doesn't gravitate towards the roof when he's sad; he's scared of heights. He usually just finds the nearest bed, curling up and trying not to cry. When he went camping once for a week, away from May and Ben, he cried a little then, too. Because it's so scary, being away from the people you know, you know? Even when you're not whisked away to another weird world with aliens and monsters and no signs of normal life. Even when you're just at Camp Hard-To-Pronounce and you're sleeping in a bunking area with other kids... He worried something was gonna happen, like it did Mom or Dad. He missed the smell of May's chicken dinners. He missed Ben's weird cologne smell that adults sprayed so much.
Homesickness was a bitch. And it's one today, too.
He sniffs, cradling his toy helmet, trying to be quiet.]
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... If they believe him, anyways. It's kind of a wild story.
Mention of annoying Richard's fellow adult makes him grin.]
... That's not very nice, Mr. Strand.
[And yet he looks so tickled by it anyways. He'd never annoy anyone on purpose, but it is funny.]
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But if we don't, she'll think we're imposters. Also, it's incredibly enjoyable.
[He wasn't lying, Alex would completely think he was being weird if he stopped mocking and teasing her. He was, an asshole, after all.]
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[He swings his feet so that he's sitting up more.]
But Miss Alex is very nice, so we can't annoy her too bad. One time me and Uncle Ben followed my aunt around with kazoos once. It was at the store, because we were both getting bored of clothes shopping for school.
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[There's a smirk. Sometimes it's about creativity, especially when you're as young as Peter is now.]
How are you with drums?
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(What else could she be, anyways.)
Either way, he gives in.]
I play them a little. Sometimes.
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Alex has trouble waking up in the morning. Do you think you could make it your job to play drums as loud as you can to help her wake up?
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She'll still like me? I don't want Miss Alex to hate me for joking around.
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It's hard not to play with Peter though, he reminds him so much of himself at that age. Kind, caring, wanting to make others happy. It was looking into a de-aged mirror that he didn't really want to look into.]
Alex can take a joke. It's something I do to her quite often.
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And then smiles at last.]
... Alright! Let's do it! Operation, um — Morning Drum!
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[He can't help smiling as well. It's so reminiscent of Charlie, of the things they used to do when she was younger and still wanted him in her life.
It was a good memory manifest through his time with such a small version of Peter. Not that he thought of Peter like Charlie. Charlie was his daughter, Peter was a young man who needed care and guidance.]
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[WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF IT.]
Operation Wake-Up Call... Do we have drums, or... are we gonna make our own?
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[He's not spoiling Peter, not at all.]
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... They're, um, they're not cool robots who can talk and do a lot of crazy stuff, but they can bump into walls and turn themselves around.
[Bless.]
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[Richard knows the answer, but he's curious as to what Peter will say.]
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I dunno... I'm kinda young to worry about that far! B-but. I love making stuff, so I hope I always make stuff... Robots, or — or maybe something with a laboratory. But a cool one, with a lot of stuff always going on.
... Without a lot of explosions, though. I don't wanna be that kinda scientist.
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[Peter Parker does not mess around when it comes to homework, okay?]
What kinda stuff did you end up doing? Now that you're not a kid.
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[Hey, it's October and Alex wanted him to 'get into the spirit' he can just tell Peter he was lying when he comes back.]
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[Whoa. Whoa there. That's so scary — and cool?! And Scary?!
His eyes go wide.]
So you're, um, you're like someone who looks under beds and in the closet for kids?
That kinda proof?
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[He smirks slightly. He's actually never heard anyone think of his job so, enthusiastically.]
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[Spoken so innocently; money's a big deal, you know!
He imagines people give the guy big bags of it, to do that kind of helpful work.]
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To feel really safe, and stuff. I'd wanna know, so my family could be safe.
It'd use my birthday cash.
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But they forget about the amazing things that are real and right in front of their face.
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But... How are you sure those things aren't real here?
[He saw plenty of — well, interesting characters, to say the least.]
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