Crimson Flame
Urizen
Izurich
pkken
Sp00ki
Lildear18
AlteredTundra
Lexisheeps
Polaris North
GubGarHere are my WIPs. Also a minor change to the backstory question.Do we really have to do this again? Okay, fine. One more time.
What’s your name?
It's Catherine Davis, but everyone calls me Caty. And don't you dare call me Cat.
How old are you?
I'm 20.
What do you look like?
You can take a picture if you want. This is my face.
And this beauty? She's my pride and joy.
What's your story? What was it like before and after becoming a Spider-Totem?
I guess I'll start at the beginning. My brother Danny and I are miracle twins. Hell, they weren't even expecting me. But I'll get to that. My parents tried so hard and for so long to have a baby and they almost gave up. Then one day they were pregnant. They were so overjoyed. During the entire pregnancy they thought they were only having one child. A boy. Apparently I was hiding under Danny the entire time, but when the time came for us to be born I decided I no longer wanted to hide and popped out first. Their little girl was in the world and already taking charge.
Ever since I was a kid I've always known I was... different. My mind was always fascinated with learning about almost everything and I soon realized it didn't take me long to understand what I wanted to know. Our parents noticed Danny and my interest in science immediately and did everything they could to support us and give us what we needed. Honestly you couldn't ask for better parents than David and Denise. I love you mom and dad!
Where were we? Oh right. High school. This is where the wonder twins started going their separate ways to find themselves, ourselves. Danny focused more on science club and I was forcefully thrown into the world of cheerleading. It wasn't like I tried to resist it. I kind of just went with the flow. I still took all AP classes, but when you didn't look like a nerd no one cared about you being smart. I didn't want to flaunt it either. I just wanted to have fun and make new friends.
Outside of school I was allowed a bit more freedom. Despite my rigorous cheerleading schedule I managed to sneak in gymnastic and martial arts lessons. They spoke to me just as much as science did and I will always have a passion for them. I'm a practitioner of Jeet Kune Do and Hou Quan aka Monkey Kung Fu. But despite this and this tough exterior I present I'm really weak.
That was until the day Danny and I took a field trip to Oscorp. It was the first school activity we did together. It was like fate or destiny or something. We were being shown around by THE Norman Osborne himself. I was impressed, but apparently Danny had met him a couple of times since he had been hanging out with his son, Harry. We were led to this exhibit of genetically modified spiders. I thought they were pretty cool, but one was missing. That set everyone on alert. Norman assured us that we weren't in any danger, but that didn't help calm down the arachnophobes so he escorted the group out of room. I stayed behind, curious about the last spider, and Danny and Harry stayed behind when they noticed I wasn't with the group.
I came out of hiding and Harry said we needed to get out of there before his dad killed us. I doubted his dad actually would and I didn't plan on leaving until I found the spider. Fortunately while we were bickering the spider found me. It landed on and bit the back of my neck. I yelped and smacked it away just for it to end up landing on Danny and biting him as well before scurrying away never to be seen again. I didn't feel anything entirely too wrong after the bite, but I was pretty nauseous the rest of the day so I went straight to sleep once I got home.
I then woke up a spider staring right at my face. Normally I wouldn't be scared of spiders, but no one wants to wake up to one right in front of their face. I yelled and jumped up to my ceiling and to my surprise I was sticking to it. But to an even bigger surprise the spider was on the opposite side of the room seemingly mimicking everything that I did. I called my brother in and we discovered that we both got powers from the spider-bites.
This brought Danny and I closer than ever, but at the same time created a chasm of anger and grief between us... You see... Danny and I had different ideas on how to train and get used to our powers. He wanted to do this big wrestling event and I wanted to patrol the streets and hope for the best. The wrestling event offered a cash prize, but I feel like Danny really did it to boost his confidence. It may have had the opposite effect. Don't get me wrong. Danny was great. I ended up catching it on someone's TV. The problem was that he was TOO great. The promoter shorted him because he didn't put on a good enough show. What better show could you get from a FIFTEEN YEAR OLD beating up a pro wrestler? That wasn't the worst of it. The promoter got robbed immediately afterwards and Danny didn't stop him. I don't blame him for feeling the way he did... I just wish he helped him anyway. Our dad would still be alive and maybe we would've gotten the money. But instead the man that stole the money, stole our dad's life.
We didn't find out until later that night and tracked him down. It took everything in me not to kill him, but all I could think of is what our dad would want us to do with these powers. He'd want us to use them to help people, not hurt them. Easier said than done. After that night I needed some space and decided to do the hero thing on my own. Danny did the same. We initially even had our own areas to patrol. The first year as Spider-Woman was the worst year of my life and it was only just beginning. After stealing some things I needed from our school's chemistry and robotics labs I built webshooters and kind of a reputation that year. Yeah, there were other heroes running about, but they weren't spreading fear through the underworld due to the way I chose to handle my grief.
I tried to return to a sense of normalcy when my best friend Liz invited me out to go to a Halloween Party. I was starting to make a name for myself and decided to go as well... myself. I figured there'd be other costumes and if anything happened while I was out I'd already be in costume and ready to swing into action. That was the stupidest decision I made in my life. On the way to the party some psychopath calling himself the Hobgoblin kidnapped Liz right in front of me. Told me if I wanted to save her I'd have to meet him for some climatic Halloween battle on the Manhattan Bridge. I didn't hesitate to follow him to the bridge. We fought, hard. Neither of us were holding back and I feel like that angered him more so he decided to play dirty and tossed Liz off the bridge. I... I tried to save her. I miscalculated and... I still hear the snap. I'm sorry, can I take a minute?
Where were we? Oh right... The maniac was laughing and yelling that he won, that he broke the Spider while I was cradling Liz's body. I couldn't take his laughter anymore. His gloating. I wanted to shut him up for good. I almost did, but Iron Man showed up and stopped me and the Hobgoblin instantly. Apparently he was throwing a Halloween party himself when he was alerted to the chaos at the bridge. He gave me his card and took him away leaving me alone with Liz. I lost my best friend and I almost lost myself that night. I waited with Liz until the ambulance came and went to tell her parents what happened, leaving out the part about me being Spider-Woman.
It took me a month to finally call and meet up with Tony Stark. I called him off a tracphone, but he told me already knew who I was so I went to Stark Tower to meet him. He told me that the Hobgoblin was a disgruntled Oscorp employee named Roderick Kingsley who stole an experimental formula that gave him his powers. Oscorp. In one year it both created and destroyed me. I didn't know what was going on at that company, but I didn't like it. Tony offered to be my hero and science mentor. If I was in a better headspace I may have taken him up on it. But I really just wanted to do my own thing. I just asked him for some Stark-Tech that could improve my webshooters since the stuff at school was kind of trash. He obliged after seeing what I had done with the very little I had to work with and at my young age. Before I left he offered me some advice about handling my grief, especially as a hero. How even though it feels good sometimes I can't take my grief and anger out on criminals. There's a line we don't cross and the ones we lost wouldn't want us to kill in their name.
I took his advice and went back on the streets as the new and improved Spider-Woman. Unfortunately J Jonah Jameson of the Daily Bugle began branding me as a menace after what happened with Liz and the Hobgoblin. I couldn't escape it. Besides that the rest of the year was smooth. I got PTSD around Holidays after Halloween and didn't allow myself to have fun. Not even for Christmas. I had to stay on alert just in case some villain wanted to ruin people's holidays or specifically mine. I also didn't like staying home because it was our first Thanksgiving and Christmas without our dad. I know Danny was still grieving as well, but I couldn't extend that olive branch. On New Year's Eve, my extra alertness paid off when my Spider-Sense was going crazy. Times Square was attacked and turned into some huge illusion by some other costumed psycho calling himself Mysterio, Master of Illusions. I knew I couldn't take on another supervillain by myself and I honestly really just needed Danny with me. He was the Yin to my Yang. My twin. I sent my pet Jumping Spider to find Danny while I held Mysterio off. Thankfully he wasn't too far and the two of us took down Mysterio together freeing Times Square right as the Apple dropped and officially becoming known as the Spider-Man and Spider-Woman of New York.
There wasn't really anything too eventful after that besides a couple more Spider heroes popping up out of nowhere. One of them had a very similar fighting style to a criminal I fought before. I can't believe I beat her into being a hero. Things really got interesting once Danny and I got to ESU. Our worlds opened up in a lot of ways. We still worked together as heroes, but we began branching out again in our personal lives. Danny started interning at Oscorp and I became Dr. Octavius's TA. He was only two years older than me, but so brilliant and accomplished. I was honestly kind of jealous, but in a, "I just found my rival", kind of way.
During this time Danny and I met Felix Hardy, the Black Cat and our ex. Yes, you heard that right. We met him at the same time and I don't know if it was his power, his charisma, his stupidly beautiful face, or the fact that he was someone that understood us, but he got us hooked that first night. We didn't care that he was a thief. He was the most honorable one I've ever met and I'm not saying that because of personal bias. One day when patrolling by myself I ran across him on a heist. I confronted him and one thing led to another and we kind of began dating. Neither of us truly cared for the idea of labels or exclusivity, especially in our lines of work. But it was fun and it was the first time I really allowed myself to be vulnerable and fall for someone since... Anyway, things were going great until Danny found out. A tiny rift formed between us that only got wider once the symbiote came into the picture. Some alien goo attached itself to Danny giving him an incredible new costume, powers, and a bad personality. But it was one that Felix apparently liked. They started seeing each other. I don't blame either of them, not really. Cats are creatures of self-interest and well, the alien goo speaks for Danny. I could tell it was changing him.
After discovering one of the symbiote's weaknesses I stole some tech from Doc's lab to modify my web-shooters to create electric webbing. This was the hardest battle I had to fight, but eventually I was able to get the symbiote off of Danny and seemingly destroyed it. Felix ended things with Danny after that and tried to fix things with me, but I just wanted to be friends with him, for now at least.
That event seemed to have the domino effect of spawning even more Spider-themed heroes. We were starting to become our own unofficial club or team. I crossed paths with them, but there were never any huge team ups. Sometime later Otto's girlfriend was killed. This brought us closer together and he revealed to me that he knew that I was Spider-Woman and that I inspired him to become the Arachnid. He apparently created his own spider. Was that what was happening? Were people going around creating genetically modified spiders like Oscorp or did more of his spiders get out? That was an investigation for another day. I finally had someone besides my brother that I could trust with all of my life. Someone that understood the pain of losing someone they loved to this life. I helped train him, he gave me pointers as well and I no longer had to steal anything from the lab that I needed. Working closely together we were able to accomplish more than we would've ever apart.
Fast forward to today, life is great. It's been a peaceful life as Spider-Woman, but I pray I didn't just jinx things.
Powers and Tech
Super Strength
Enhanced Agility/Speed
Enhanced Durability/Regeneration
Wall Crawling
Spider-Sense
Queen of the Web: So you know how I suddenly gained all the powers of a spider? Well, minus the webs. I gained something freaky instead. The ability to communicate with and control spiders. It's like I have this empathic and psychic connection with them. It's weird, but surprisingly comes in handy.
My brother and I decided we weren't going to let the lack of webs stop us and together with our resources at the lab we designed our own web-fluid and web shooters. We've been working on different concepts for different versions of the webs.
Do you believe in aliens?
Uhhh... Yeah. You'd have to be some kind of idiot not to. Give me a list of everyone that said no.
What are your goals for the future?
My goals? Despite everything that's happened I still want to stay in school and in my internship. But I also want to get a grasp on these new powers and use them for good. I don't want to be afraid anymore. My ultimate goal though? Find the ones responsible for the Recluse Incident and make them pay for killing my dad.
You lived in New York for a while now, right? What do you think of the city?
I love it. It's my home. It can be dark, dangerous, and dirty sometimes but I wouldn't trade it for the world.
How much technology do you use on a daily basis?
I'm a science intern. Think about it.
What do you like?
I like art, music, tv shows and movies.
I love Game of Thrones.
I love science, gymnastics, and martial arts.
I like men and women. You didn't think my brother was the only one waving a rainbow flag, did you?
I like learning and I like video games. I'm also kind of secretly into sports, but I couldn't focus on everything. I'm still only human.
What do you dislike?
I hate bullies. Especially homophobic jerks.
I hate murderers. People that can kill someone so easily and for no sensible reason.
I hate Hobgoblins and I'm not really a fan of holidays.
I don't like tea and I'm afraid of getting addicted to coffee so I avoid it.
I'm afraid of failure or letting everyone down.
In related news I hate the pressure to feel perfect.
Do you think true evil exists?
Absolutely. It may not be all black and white, but true evil took Liz and my daddy from me.
What’s your favorite color?
Lavender like my blunts Color Code = E137E3
Favorite song?
Anything else to add?
I'm fluent in French, Spanish, and Dothraki. I told you I love Game of Thrones, sue me.
I can sing, but I don't.
What are your thoughts on these people?
David Davis was the best dad anyone could've asked for. He may not be physically here anymore, but I carry him with me every time I put on the mask.
Denise Davis is my strong and amazing mom. She's doing the best she can to hold it together for herself and for us with our dad gone. I hope she knows how much I love and appreciate her.
Liz Allan was my best friend, my soulmate, and maybe even the love of my life. I never really got to tell her how I felt. I haven't even told Danny. I was going to tell her everything, even about my powers on Halloween. Now I'll never get the chance.
Danny Davis is my slightly younger twin brother. He and everyone else sees me as the twin that shines brightly, but it's not true. Deep down I know Danny shines even brighter than me. He just has to come into his own and step out of the dark.
Sam Blythe or Araltus, depending on who you're asking, is kind of like the big sister I never had, but always wanted. She used to be on the other side and saw me at my worst, so once she became a Spider and switched to the side of heroes all I began to see was the good in her. We work pretty well whenever we do cross webs. Otto hooked her up with some webshooters, but I kinda miss her grappling hook. Reminded me of Kim Possible.
Dr. Otto Octavius is my professor and fellow Spider-themed hero. But lately he's sorta been a little more than that. Not my boyfriend. We're not dating. We're... friends. Yeah, friends.
Alexander Lee is one of my friends from the dojo. His uncle was my sensei... Besides Danny, Xander is someone who truly gets how I feel when it comes to the losses we've suffered.
The other Spider-People are cool I guess. I never expected there to be so many after Danny and I came onto the scene, but I do find it interesting how we all seem to have unique abilities.
I went to school with Bob Brown, but I don't really know too much about him. Actually, now that I think about it he delivered a messed up pizza to me once. Haven't ordered from that place since.All right, let’s take it from the top, one more time…
What’s your name?
My name is Dr. Otto Octavius, but my enemies call me The Arachnid. Or they would if I gave them the chance to speak.
How old are you?
I'm 22 years old.
What do you look like?
(Description is preferable, picture is acceptable. Both is even better. Costumes if you have them)
What's your story? What was it like before and after becoming a Spider-Totem?
(Lay your backstories on me, guys. Good, bad, Uncle Ben moments, etc. Your character will have been bitten at any point within the past 5 years after a young Spider-Duo appeared on the scene. Also note that 5 years of your life has essentially been rewritten to add pain and misery where there wasn't any after being bitten. You don't have to disclose your original history now. Just keep that in mind for later.)
Powers and Tech
(Let's see what kind of Spider you are. What sets you apart from your fellow heroes?)
Do you believe in aliens?
(Also self-explanatory)
What are your goals for the future?
(These can be your goals as a newly-minted superhero, or mundane goals like going to college and paying the bills. Hey, Spider-Manning doesn’t pay the bills; everyone’s gotta have an ambition, right?)
You lived in New York for a while now, right? What do you think of the city?
How much technology do you use on a daily basis?
What do you like?
(Hobbies, talents, interests, things you like and are good at.)
What do you dislike?
(Fears, food you hate, things you consider not-good or bad.)
Do you think true evil exists?
(Heavy question, eh? Just answer honestly. No pressure.)
What’s your favorite color?
(Self-explanatory; also a place to put your text color if you have one.)
Favorite song?
(What song defines your character?)
Anything else to add?
(Miscellaneous. Anything that wasn’t covered upstairs, or anything you think is worth mentioning.)
What are your thoughts on these people?
(Relations. List each character by name, in their respective color, and your character’s current thoughts on them. Most characters should be aware of each other at least a little. To what extent is up to you.)
I hope everyone's having a great day today. I'm spending it with family for the holidays, but I was able to finish Caty's CS. I'll finish Otto's later, but I've referenced every major event that your characters would have known about that affects the spiders.
