 ____________________________________________________ C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N Real Name: Gwendolyn "Gwen" Maxine Stacy Codename: Ghost-Spider Age: 25 Gender: Female Appearance: Gwen stands at 5’5 with a sleek athletic build. She is a white American woman with blonde hair and crystal blue eyes. Her body is quite toned despite her size and riddled with scars from the many fights she has gone through. She does have some tattoos, one of the Mary Janes band logo on her thigh and a small spider on the spot the spider that turned her into spider-woman had bitten. She tends to have very relaxed posture and does have a slight slouch. Gwen's suit is very interesting, as when not in her symbiote form, it is her classic spider-woman suit. Dawning bright colors, it had the base color of white with a hood. The space under her armpits were pink with white webbing, as was the inside of her hood. To round it off, spider symbol on her chest was teal and the legs snaked to a point on her back. Personality: Despite fighting many battles, many high stakes and many low stakes fights, Gwen is still a young hero. She is prone to losing her temper or jumping the gun if she feels necessary and it has unfortunately gotten her into a lot trouble. She has experienced many forms of maturing moments but her inability to to move past things, pushes her to act rashly, in an attempt to be better then she was in the past. Aside from as a hero, Gwen is the living embodiment of punk rock. She loves music and is a drummer herself, it being one of her favorite past times. She has a passé attitude about authority, something she is attempting to work on, on account of becoming an Avenger. Though, through the tough girl act exterior, is a woman who wants to help, be a hero that people can rely on. She has a soft spot for the weak and venerable and has an unfortunate habit of stopping on the way to important events to help out. Gwen also happens to have a bit of a chip on her shoulder, as she was considered a criminal for the death of her Universe's Peter Parker and Killed Her Universe's Harry Osborn, who had become the Green Goblin. Now in this universe that she mught permanently be stuck in, she vowed to do better then she did before. To be the best, not because it was cool, but because it was her responsibility. Powers/Abilities: Spider Sense, Superhuman Strength, Superhuman Speed, Superhuman Stamina, Superhuman Durability, Superhuman Agility, Superhuman Reflexes, Superhuman Equilibrium, Wall Crawling, Skilled Detective and extensive understanding of the police system, Musician, Symbiote Abilities include Emotional Strength, Invisibility, and Body augmentation (the symbiote amplifies its hosts emotions, removing their inhibitions and making them impulsive and aggressive if they feed it negative emotions. Even after Gwen learns how to control it, if she is feeling particularly angry the symbiote will transform into her Venom form to reflect this). History: Gwen Stacy was born in Forest Hills to George and Helen Stacy in the Universe-65. Following her mother's death, she was raised by George alone, the new City Police Chief. Gwen's free spirit and artistic inclinations often put her at odds with the type of ethics her father worked to instill. As a result of this contrast with her father, Gwen would often retreat into quiet seclusion and play the drums. Over time, she developed a friendship with her neighbor and fellow introvert Peter Parker, sharing their love for music. At Midtown High School, Gwen developed relationships with other students, a group of girls with whom she formed the band, The Mary Janes, and rebellious affluent student Harry Osborn. After being bitten by a genetically-engineered spider, Gwen was granted arachnid-like super-powers, and started a part-time career as a crimefighter, dubbed by the media as "Spider-Woman." She was given a costume and a set of web-shooters by retired crimefighter Janet van Dyne. Gwen spent most of her early adventures focused on exploiting and maintaining her newfound attention more than helping those in need; however, Gwen's behavior changed after her father expressed he believed Spider-Woman could easily help people. All of this was culminated into one moment, when Gwen was forced to make a choice between saving a burning apartment building and making the Mary Janes first headlining show. Ultimately saving the dozens of people and helping the fire crew put out the fire. However in turn, inadvertently ruining the Mary Janes big debut, and almost getting them dropped from their record label. The band would make the decision to drop Gwen, and thus began Gwen's switch into the full time profession of being a superhero. And it would continue on this way, still going to her old bands shows, they weren't on speaking terms, but she was happy to see their success. Deciding to go to college with Peter and Harry, it was there that she began to get to comfortable with her double life. Do to her being busy, she wasn't able to see the trio's crumbling relationship. Both of the men would begin to become toxic with their obsession of Spider-Woman, envying her power in different ways. For Peter, he envied the freedom and popularity spider-woman had, the lack of becoming Peter Parker dooming him to forever be the meek, glasses wearing nerd. While Harry wanted the power that Spider-Woman had, thinking of all the things he could accomplish with just a sliver of her power. And both men's path began to divert off the deep end, both using their respective resources to begin their own path to what they wanted. Peter would work with largely discredited Dr. Olivia Octavius, to find a way to bridge the gap between technology and mind. While Harry would use one of many Oscorps R&D Blacksites in attempts to create powers similar to that of Gwens. All the while both would appear cheery and happy when the three would hang out. It wasn't until the end of the school year, that Gwen began to notice how frequently the two skipped class. Not only that, but the two began to look drained, bags under their eyes, they seemed almost sickly. And worrying about her childhood best friends, she made the choice to follow Peter first. Coming to a laboratory on the outskirts of the city, it was there that Gwen would witness in horror, Olivia injecting nanites into Peter's body. It seemed as if his body had been undergoing this seemingly painful procedure a hand full of times, his Torso riddled with Metal Flesh scars. Unsure of how to handle this discovery, Gwen turned to Harry, hoping he was simply just off being a snobby rich kid. But he too would shock her, after finding he was attempting a similar procedure, instead using what appeared to be genetically manipulated Wasps to try and alter himself. Stuck on her own, she turned to the only person she felt she could trust. A young kid named Reed Richards, who was known as the Forefront of the future in technology and science. Asking him to look into what the two were doing, she would come to find they were both attempting to give themselves powers to achieve different things. Opting to talk to them both as Gwen instead of confronting them as Spider-Woman, she naively thought she could talk them out of their crazy actions if she made them confess too her. And so she did, a couple nights later when the two were over watching movies. It was painfully quiet as the two now seemed to talk less and less in the timespan she had last seen them. Slowly bringing up that she felt something was off with the three, she attempted to coax out the truth from the two. But neither budged, saying it was just her imagination, but this angered Gwen. What was suppose to be a simple talk, escalated into a shouting match, until the accident happened. Harry in a stroke of rage would push Gwen, the argument both hitting a crescendo and an instantaneous stop, followed by immediate shock from all three of them. Both the mens bodies would begin to finally react to their experiments as their stress peaked, falling to the ground in pain and agony. Peter would then become this universes Dr.Octopus, his arms made of nanomachines implanted in his brain and body, while Harry would turn into a twisted hybrid of a wasp and grotesque green skinned human, becoming this universes Green Goblin. The three would fight an intense building, Peter attempting to kill Harry, while Harry attempted to kill Spider-Woman in his confused twisted mental state, destroying multiple city blocks in its wake. The two would eventually flee with major injuries, leaving Gwen to try and fix their destruction. As a result however, she became the cities scapegoat for the damages and deaths, despite her trying her hardest during the battle to save the people in the three's path. Following that day, the publics opinion of Spider-Woman plummeted as every time Gwen would catch up to either Peter or Harry, sometimes both, the same result would happen. Not to mention J. Jonah Jameson and his podcast cult following slandering her any chance they could. Her world seemed to uncontrollably nosedive in the matter of a couple months. What was once a city that loved Spider-Woman, the peoples champion she had been called, was now hunted not only by the Police, but the citizens themselves. She still had her supporters, but she would often get attacked in the street by an angry mob. All the while Peter and Harry would wreak havoc all over New York. The two become determined to kill the other, Harry for Peter getting in his way of killing Spider-Woman. Peter on the other-hand was trying to protect Spider-Woman, figuring out she was Gwen after the first time they battled. Though often to the determent of innocent people, he only wanted to protect the woman he had loved since highschool. Then after a year of the city falling to chaos as Gwen began to stop fighting crime and focus on capturing Harry and Peter, Harry would cross a line that couldn't be uncrossed. Luring Peter and Spider-Woman into a trap in the sewers of NYC. Goblin would use the one-sided fight of Gwen against Peter as the man tried to convince her he was on her side, despite killing dozens of innocent and contributing to the chaos of the city. Harry would attempt to sting Gwen in her heart, her spider-sense letting her move out of the way. Peter, however, was both unknowing and unable to move out of the way. Struck through his heart, Harry laughed maniacally as Peter coughed up blood. Removing the stinger and flying away, Gwen caught the dying man, attempting to seal his heart wound with her webs. The hole in his chest would result in Peter Parker's death moments later. Blowing up the ceiling above them, Harry attempted to flee, while burying the two under the street. Gwen pulling both herself and Peter out of the rubble, citizens almost instantly began filming her holding the mans body. Knowing this was only going to make it worse for her, she chased after Harry, catching him at an abandoned railroad. While before she was pulling her punches, the death of Peter Parker sent Gwen into a blind rage, her strength overwhelming Harry, who underestimated the woman's rage. Ripping his wings off so he couldn't escaped, Gwen beat Harry Osbourne to death, only realizing he stopped breathing after trying to ask him why he killed Peter. Never taking a life before, Gwen was horrified fleeing the scene in tears. Of course unknown to Gwen, the security footage of her fight and eventually killing of Harry Osbourne was leaked to J.Jonah Jameson and by proxy the whole world. Thus began the worldwide manhunt for Spider-Woman. During this time, Gwen stopped being Spider-woman for two years, deciding that Peter and Harry's death could have been avoided if she had never put on the costume. It wasn't until her father sat her down and told her that he knew she was Spider-Woman, and that the city needed her more then ever in her absence. However to their surprise, the two would be visited by a team of Spider-Hero's lead by Spider-UK, looking to recruit Gwen for an upcoming battle that involved the many different Spider-Totems (People connected to the Master Weaver through their Spider Powers) called the "Great-Hunt". A monster like being named Morlun and his family fought and seized control of the Master Weaver, using their ability to travel across the multiverse and kill Spider-Totems one by one. She was sent on a mission of retrieving a Peter Parker who had lost his mind to the spider abilities. Through a journey of twist and turns, Gwen would help save the multiverse from Morlun and his family. She also would learn about the many different Spider-Totems and gain many new allies across the universe, as well as technology in the form of a watch that allowed her to jump to different universes when she wanted. In her months long absense, Matt Murdock, who had previously been a underling of Kingpin, and leader of the Hand, had usurped the big man and taken New York into his iron grip. While people feared the Kingpin, the city dreaded the cunning and ruthless blind man. With a new sense of purpose post-Great Hunt, Gwen wanted to do better, not only for herself, but for Peter and Harry's memory. And thus began her on and off fight against Matt Murdock and S.I.L.K, a terrorist organization that had even the Kingpin himself under their thumb. It wouldn't be until she turned 23 that another change in pace would happen for her. In a long winded plan, spanning many years, the Cindy Moon of her universe finally revealed her plan. Setting Gwen and her father up, she forced Gwen to make the choice between being Spider-woman and saving her father. Cindy revealed that she was the one that made the spider that bit Gwen all those years ago, and using the same serum, developed and Anti-venom that would get rid of her powers. Choosing to save her father, Gwen ultimately lost her powers for a year, and lost her universe jumping watch to Cindy Moon. Having walked well away from crime-fighting, one night while she was jogging, she was ambushed by Esmerelda Brock, or rather She-Venom. Getting saved by the Punisher, she inadvertently touched a part of the girls symbiote. Venom immediately latched onto the woman and Gwen would black out. Coming too at the top of the Empire State Building, she would find that she once again had her powers back, with a little spice so to speak. Intoxicated with having her powers back, she would drop her title as Spider-Woman and thus would be known as Ghost-Spider, a ruthless superhero known for having a hot temper and short fuse. What use to be quipping jokes, was turning into threats and anger. The Spider-woman that pulled her punches was for the time being replaced by the Venom corrupted Gwen. It wouldn't be until she found herself arguing with her Father about her recent actions as Ghost-Spider and she had the sudden urge to eat her father, that Gwen realized Venoms corruption. Running away, Gwen snuck into the Mary Janes recording studio, where she would use the power of punk-rock to separate herself from the symbiote. Before forcing it into submission with electric drums blasting off multiple speakers. Gaining the aliens respect, the two left the studio, but unaware to Gwen, the symbiote had accidentally left a piece of itself behind. That would later find its way to Mary Jane who stopped by the studio by herself to work on some music. It was here that the birth of the monster Carnage was born. Mary Jane's hidden emotions rising to the surface and taking the corruption of Venom to a new level. She would become Gwen's most dangerous villain, in a span of a few days racking up a kill count of a couple hundred, the city would be placed on lock down in fear of this new Red goo Monster. Though the connection that Venom had with Gwen, Mary Jane hard learned the secrets of Gwen and became blinded by her rage and hatred for Gwen leaving the band and walking away from their friendship. Going for Gwen's father, she nearly killed the man until Gwen intercepted her, the twos fight spanning the whole city. Hours of fighting and chasing each other, eventually culminated in the two fighting at MSG, where Gwen used the sound system to separate Carnage from Mary Jane and destroy them. Mary Jane would turn herself in, permanently scared by Carnage both physically and mentally. She would be unable to play music ever again and suffered short-term memory loss. Her only memories of Gwen being from highschool, MJ treated Gwen like a friend again, completely forgetting the bands break up, or any of Gwen's secrets. After the event of Carnage, Gwen then would begin to form a friendship with Venom, teaching it how to be a proper hero, though sometimes not always ending up this way. In the following year and a half, Venom and Gwen had developed an unbreakable bond, finding family in each other. They moved as one cohesive unit and together they began to track down Cindy Moon. With this new and improved version of Spider-Woman, the two naively believed they could match up to the brilliant villain. After months of following breadcrumbs, they came across a secret underground S.I.L.K base, where once inside and sneaking past many guards and soldiers, found themselves in front of an enormous gateway. WIth no sign of Cindy, Gwen attempted to find out what exactly this giant machine was. Until the alarms rang and the room flooded with S.I.L.K agents, Cindy Moon clapping condescendingly. Gwen would once again blindly fallen into yet another trap, Cindy impressed with the woman's new look. Gloating to Gwen, Cindy thanked her for the watch, saying she got so much use out of it. Gwen putting the pieces together, realized the gateway was simply a bigger version of the watch, a door big enough to transport a whole army. Taunting the woman, Gwen attempted to fight back, but Cindy bid her a farewell, signaling to turn the gateway on. Leaving as an army of goons began to slowly back her towards the gateway. Unable to escape and facing death, Gwen made the choice to jump through the gateway, deciding wherever was on the otherwise was better then getting the shit kicked out of her. And this is essentially how she came to be in this Universe, with no way back home, she did attempt to look around for a familiar face. But she quickly realized this Universe seemed largely unaffected by the events of the Great Hunt, so it was unlikely she would find anyone that she would recognize and vice versa. Trapped in this new universe, Gwen sort of decided to start fresh for many different reasons. If she could gather allies here, she could tell them about her universe's Cindy Moon and S.I.L.K having a multiversal portal, with access to anywhere and any time. She also wasn't considered a criminal and public menace in the way she was back in her home universe. It was a nice change of pace, and she kind of welcomed a do over in a way. So she began to slowly surface in the hero scene, doing just enough to not cause big enough waves for Spider-Man to come and investigate. She was unsure of how to handle meeting Peter Parker. She had read that this Universes version of her had died from a Spider-Man related incident, so she could only assume Peter would assume she's a bad guy pretending to be Gwen Stacy or a clone, both judgements possibly leading to the hero community attempting to hunt her down. However this would all be for naught, as she was approached by Nick Fury after inadvertently recovering stolen Shield Technology from some medium level thief's. Getting caught on Fury's radar effectively thrusted her into the Hero community tenfold, working with Fury a hand full of times before he asked if she would be interested in joining the Unlimited Initiative. After hearing about her Universe's Cindy Moon, and getting to work with her first hand, he said this could be a good thing for her. Befitting both parties to gain allies and to be able to work with Cap if Cindy ended up showing up in this Universe. Thus is her beginning on the Avengers team. Supporting Cast: Nick Fury - Currently her biggest ally on this universe, she had originally been hired to help Fury wrap up some loose ends regarding stolen shield technology. Though Shield was no more, Fury saw Gwen's potential and saw a potentially good addition to Cap's New Avengers. He also is currently the only person who knows Gwen's identity and her situation. Helping both Cap and herself, Fury is the reason Cap considered Ghost-Spider for the team despite not knowing her true identity. Extra/Notes: Theme |
