Peter Parker (Earth-10253)

"'Alright, let's do this one more time...'"

Peter Parker (aka Lore), better known as Spider-Man in his home dimension of Earth-10253, is an orphan who was raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben in Queens, New York. At fifteen years old, during a field trip to Oscorp Laboratories, he was bitten by a radioactive spider, and in the subsequent days, began to exhibit strange spider-like abilities. After the (extremely preventable) death of his Uncle Ben, and an attack on his school by one of his classmates that built herself four mechanical tentacle appendages, Peter suited up as Spider-Man and began to fight crime in his local neighborhood, becoming the first superhero since Captain America during World War II. Though he often keeps to himself, he has found himself becoming an inspiration for nearly every other superhero that has arrived on the scene since his debut as a vigilante, having become a vital centerpiece to the growing superhero community.

Early Life
Peter Benjamin Parker was born on October 14, 2000, to parents Richard and Mary Parker. His life was marked with tragedy almost immediately, as at some point during his infancy, his parents were involved in a fatal car accident that left Peter an orphan. His only remaining family, his father's older brother Benjamin and wife May, took him in, though it added a thorough dent in their already waning finances. Regardless, the two were very salt-of-the-earth kinds of people, and they worked their very hardest to provide for their nephew as best they possibly could. They managed to keep their financial struggles hidden from Peter as he grew up, though this became more difficult as time went on.

Childhood
When Peter entered elementary school, his reclusive nature and penchant for writing and drawing as opposed to socializing prevented him from having very many friends. That is, until another kid in his class, one Gwen Stacy, marched up to him on a dare and demanded to know what he was doing. Flustered at being addressed in such a straightforward fashion, Peter immediately began over-explaining the comic book series that he had thought up, and when Gwen offered to help him color his artwork, he accepted her offer without thinking. Since that day, the two had been close friends.

However, due to his aunt and uncle's financial struggles showing in his wardrobe, compounded with the fact that he was neurodivergent (specifically autistic), Peter often became a subject for bullying among his classmates. Gwen tried her best to defend him, but Peter simply assured her that it did not bother him, so as to get her to stop advocating on his behalf, which he saw as a sign of his own weakness. One day, the rich kid on campus, Harry Osborn, began to tease Peter, and in an attempt to defend himself, Peter punched him in the face. The next day, Harry sat next to Peter at lunch as if nothing had happened, and since that day, Peter, Gwen, and Harry were a steadfast friend group. During these times, Peter would often subsume himself in his writing, earning himself the nickname "Lore" from his friends.

The Spider Bite
The rest of Peter's elementary and middle school days passed by uneventfully. When he entered high school, in his sophomore year, his intellect began to show itself, and his usual middling performance in school became exemplary grades and places on the honor roll. As such, he was one of the few people chosen to go on a field trip to Oscorp Laboratories, where Harry's father, Norman Osborne, and his slew of scientists were conducting a super soldier experiment in an attempt to recreate the world famous Captain America. Peter, having never been fond of the military or his country in general, scoffed at this notion, and began to drift away from the crowd and left the exhibit, shuffling over to a laboratory where spiders were being experimented on. Though Peter did not know this, this laboratory was the crux of Osborne's super soldier experiments.

In an attempt to take a look at the spiders, one of the arachnids crawled onto Peter's hand and bit him. Peter slapped it away, and, desperate not to be caught, quickly returned to the crowd of students and blended in, acting as if he had never left. This single moment would change Peter's life forever.

Becoming Spider-Man
After the field trip, Peter fell very ill for several days. He slept for an entire week, wracked with spasms and sharp pains, as, unbeknownst to him, his body was undergoing a strange mutation. When he awoke, he found that his senses had reached a fever pitch, and he also discovered that he was stronger and more agile than ever before. In a freak accident where Gwen surprised him at school, he found that he could stick to the ceiling, and, through more experimentation, discovered that he could use this ability to scale walls with relative ease.

When he became aware of his family's failing finances, he decided to join an underground fight club with his newfound athletic ability to gain some extra cash, though this eventually led to him skipping out on his classes. When they were alerted of his missed courses, Uncle Ben and Aunt May were extremely alarmed, as this kind of behavior was quite uncharacteristic of Peter. Sure, he had a bit of a temper, but he never fell into the wrong crowd. When Peter returned home one night with a wad of cash, he found his Aunt and Uncle waiting for him. They interrogated him about what he was doing and where the money came from, and through it all he refused to reveal to them what he had been doing. Uncle Ben, furious, decided to leave the argument for the next day, leaving Peter with a familiar adage about power and responsibility.

The next day, Uncle Ben, unbeknownst to Peter, followed him to the fight club, and planned on confronting him once he left, refusing to enter the premises. Unfortunately for both of them, the fight club was robbed that very night, and Peter, seeing the club as beneath him, let the robber go, failing to see how it was his problem to solve. After his stint at the fight club, Peter emerged from it to find paramedics on the scene and his Uncle dead of a bullet wound. Peter, using his superhuman abilities, began to chase down the mugger who had killed him, discovering to his horror that it was the same robber that he had let escape.

The Parkers were devastated by the loss. Peter began searching for a job to alleviate the loss in income for the household, eventually finding work as an intern and freelance photographer for a failing news site called The Daily Bugle. His first assignment was to shadow a reporter as they interviewed Norman Osborne about his super soldier program, and in hearing Norman's hollow platitudes about how good a man Captain America was, Peter was struck with inspiration. All his life, in his writing and in his history classes, Peter had been hearing about the idea of a superhero. Why not, Peter thought, become one himself? He figured it was the only true way to take responsibility for when he had failed to take action. That night, he fashioned himself a costume from his pajamas and old skate gear, and he began spending his nights after school and work fashioning web shooters for himself.

His first appearance as Spider-Man was a trial by fire. He had brought his costume and web shooters to school, in an attempt to use some chemicals from his school's chemistry lab to create a form of web fluid. However, before he could, he heard a loud crash in the distance, and students began to run towards the exits. Upon investigating, he found that his antisocial lab partner, Olivia Octavius, has constructed four mechanical appendages, and was attacking the bullies that had wronged her. Peter immediately suited up and began to fight her off, though he did seize the opportunity to snap a few pictures of the fight while he did so. The fight was broken up by police, and Peter fled the scene and headed straight to the Daily Bugle to hand in his pictures. These photos were his first to catch the Head Editor, J. Jonah Jameson's, attention. He dubbed this new vigilante the Spider-Man, and though his coverage of the fight was, to put it lightly, less than impartial, the news of a new superhero swept around the city like a wildfire, even reaching the ears of the most influential people in New York.

Peter manages to fall into a sort of rhythm after this event. He manages to maintain this rhythm, for about a month or so, with the only shake up being Mary-Jane Watson entering his life with all the grace and subtlety of a bull entering a china shop. She immediately began to tease him on what little social media he had as Spider-Man, telling him that she had figured out his secret identity. Though this freaked Peter out quite severely, she did not hold this over his head, simply using it as a bargaining chip to become a part of his inner circle. She really only wanted to be Peter's friend, and had a rather strange way of going about it.

Doctor Octopus and The Writer
Olivia Octavius breaks out of custody rather easily, and begins working on a plan that would make her life better. Unfortunately for her, her own self awareness got the better of her; she knew she would not be able to take back the things that she had done, and that, in lashing out shortsightedly at the world, she had essentially given up her reputation, and would likely live the rest of her days in the shadow of her past actions. This realization shakes her to her very core, and in that brief moment, she considers giving up. It was in this moment that she meets Tony Stark.

A college dropout, Tony Stark had moved to New York to search for work when he, in a number of strange happenstances that not even he can recall, stumbled upon The Wall, the border in between Earth-10253 and the wider multiverse, and met JARVIS, the AI operating it. There, he became The Man On The Wall, the self-appointed defender of the Earth. Inspired by Spider-Man's example, he suited up as in a suit of armor to fight crime. He was originally searching for Spider-Man, hoping to get him to work with him, but after seeing Olivia escaping from jail, he decided that she would likely do well as his protege, operating under the foolhardy assumption that he could "redeem" her with his mentorship.

Olivia, seeing through this flimsy plan, decides to use Stark for her own ends. Realizing the amount of otherworldly technology Stark had at his disposal, the two begin working on a machine that, if it worked, would allow Olivia access to what are essentially metaphysical abilities, and, if Olivia's hypothesis proved correct, the ability to change her reality the way she saw fit. In all actuality, this was a rather simple-minded and moronic plan, but neither of the people working on the machine were in the particularly best headspace to be making these sorts of decisions.

As the machine inched closer and closer toward completion, it sent out shockwaves that sent the entirety of New York City, as well as a sizable portion of New York State, into a power outage. Peter, being as curious and skeptical as ever, investigated these outages and discovered their source; a point in the Long Island Sound where The Wall was located. Reluctantly, Peter swam to where he found the shockwaves originated and discovered the machine that Olivia and Stark had built. After snooping a little, he discovered what the purpose of it was, and resolved to destroy it. When Olivia discovered that Spider-Man had found her again, she flew into a rage, attacking him, being able to keep Peter busy long enough for Stark to finish the machine and turn it on.

A message is sent to the uncaring cosmos, reaching into the sky, piercing through the stars, and eventually reaching something... more. Something higher, something more metaphysical. The Writer, the architect of the universe. When Olivia asks for the world she wants, for the world where she is happy, her question reaches wherever in this plane of existence The Writer resides, and they open their lips, and the answer crashes down into the heavens and into Olivia's very soul, and she hears inside her mind, echoing and overwhelming...

No.

She does not take this well. At first, she lashes out again, beating Peter to a pulp. The machine that she and Stark had built was tearing the fabric of reality apart, but Olivia didn't care. Why should she? After the very universe told her that it didn't. After she lets out all her frustration, she breaks down crying, content to let the world tear itself apart. It is at this moment that Peter reaches out his hand and offers to be her friend. Albeit stunned, she accepts, and together they destroy the machine before it can tear apart the universe. When the dust settles, Stark is gone, and Olivia and Peter are alone together. She gives him her number in case he needs her, and goes home to her parents, who have decided to move away after all the drama.

Norman Osborne and The Sinister Six
Meanwhile, behind the scenes at Oscorp, one Norman Osborne has caught wind of the vigilante with remarkable powers, calling himself "Spider-Man", and he rather easily puts two and two together. Norman, deeply enraged that a vestige of "his work" was not under his direct control, immediately began his attempts to put a stop to Spider-Man's shenanigans. He initially tried to do things in a more civilized manner, contracting one of his employees, child prodigy Will Baker (who had discovered the ability to manifest thoughts and dreams through illusions) to bring the Spider-Man in, and by confusing Peter with his illusions, managed to succeed in bringing him to Osborne's doorstep. Norman offered to pay Peter an exorbitant amount of money in exchange for his services, carrying out dirty under-the-table dealings for Oscorp. Peter, already not fond of the rich in general and of Norman in particular, declined his offer and threatened to expose his criminal endeavors to the public.

With Norman's ire sufficiently drawn, he and Peter begin to fight, and Baker, who was an overemotional child, accidentally sends his dream powers out of control, transporting Peter to the world of Echoes, a metaphysical land of thoughts and dreams where Baker drew his power from. There, Peter was forced to confront his own insecurities, his fear that his superhero antics will not actually help anyone, and his desire to become anyone other than himself. Peter suffered a full-blown panic attack from this, and his surroundings, being literally made of thoughts, became hostile, and as much as Peter tried to fight them off with force, they simply would not relent. It was only when Peter realized that his darker thoughts were just that, thoughts, did he use a grounding technique that Gwen had taught him, using deep breaths to calm himself. His surroundings calmed along with him, and when Peter had opened his eyes, he was back in his apartment, having successfully escaped from Echoes.

After the "civilized" option was exhausted, Osborne realized that he simply could not allow Spider-Man to live. Norman Osborne was a very image-obsessed man, constantly making sure that he presented exactly the kind of person he wanted to be given the circumstances. In public he was a charitable, charming man, and to his underlings, he was a ruthless, dangerous, intimidating figure. Now, this... bug... had gotten so close to destroying Norman's image, and that would simply not do. He had no means of killing the vigilante, until his top bodyguard, Aleksei Sytsevich, bought some sort of strength-enhancing powersuit from the black market on a dare. He immediately tracked down the suit's maker, one Maxine Dillon, an amateur inventor that sold superhero costumes on the black market until a lab accident caused her to develop electricity powers. He commissioned her to develop some weapons and a powersuit of his own, fashioning it after a goblin. After that, he contracted Adrian Toomes, head of a crime family, and Quentin Beck, a notorious thief who nearly broke into Osborne's private vault. Together, they donned the supervillain monikers of Green Goblin, Rhino, Electro, Vulture, Mysterio, and Sandman, to take on Spider-Man themselves.

One night, the six attack Spidey all at once, and the team of villains nearly kill him. A beaten down and injured Spider-Man managed to escape, and the Sinister Six split up on Goblin's orders. What follows is what Peter will mark as the longest night in his life. The first two to find him are Vulture and Rhino, and he managed to trick Rhino into exhausting himself and colliding with Vulture whenever he made dive bombs. Later, he was jumped by Mysterio, who he managed to take down rather easily thanks to his sixth sense and superior strength. He ended up really having to tap into his sixth sense with Sandman to avoid his illusions, along with Electro's lightning bolts. He eventually realized that neither of them really wanted to fight him, so after thoroughly disarming them by dousing them in water, he offered to help them take on Green Goblin. The two were rather hesitant, however, so Spider-Man insisted that they run as far as they possibly can while he fights the Goblin himself. Unfortunately, that fight doesn't go nearly as well as the others had. Goblin beat Spidey nearly to death, leaving him for dead after it was clear that the night was over, as he didn't want to risk being seen in broad daylight.

Peter did not sleep that night. Or the next. Or the next, or the next. Peter was terrified of this man, this monster, and he realized that he would be haunted for the rest of his life if he did not take him down immediately. Peter eventually ran away from home, dropping out of school to become Spider-Man full time, allowing himself very little time to rest. Eventually, his friends track him down, MJ having told them his identity. While MJ and Harry are hesitant to help him given the danger, Gwen makes the conscious decision to drop out of school and join Peter, much to his dismay. However, with their two heads together, they manage to find the identity of Green Goblin: Norman Osborne. Gwen uses the fact that she has an Oscorp Internship, Harry’s help with blueprints and keys and such, and MJ’s people skills to infiltrate Oscorp Tower and gain access to some incriminating files that would destroy Norman’s reputation. However, Norman finds her and holds her hostage atop Washington Bridge. He drops her when Spider-Man arrives, but Peter manages to catch her, though he can feel and hear the snap of her spine from the top of the bridge. She was still alive, but paralyzed from the waist down. Enraged, Peter managed to crash Goblin's glider, beating Osborne within an inch of his life, tearing open his mask and exposing him to the crowd that had gathered on the bridge. Peter ripped a blade off of the wrecked glider, intending to skewer Osborne, but he simply couldn't go through with it. Norman retreated, his public image having been completely shattered. He disappeared, never to be seen again, his fate remaining ambiguous.

New Superheroes
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, a number of individuals found, through one way or another, that they had powers, and, inspired by Spider-Man's heroics, decided to suit up and fight crime alongside him. While Peter adamantly does not speak to them due to his closed-off personality, it is still important to mention them, as Spider-Man being the unwitting center of the superhero community will come into play later.


 * The Fantastic Four

Reed Richards was a scientist who was investigating the existence of the multiverse. One day, he, his lab partner Susan Storm, her brother Johnny, and Reed's closest friend Ben Grimm, were conducting an experiment when they accidentally opened a portal to the space in between universes, and were bombarded with metaphysical energy from the world of Echoes. When the four awoke, they realized that they had been granted supernatural powers. Reed's body had taken on the consistency of rubber, Sue could turn invisible and create force-fields, Johnny could light his very body ablaze, and Ben's body had turned seemingly to stone. After recovering from their miscellaneous injuries, the four were inspired by Spider-Man's heroics to form their own superhero team together, though some were more enthusiastic about the idea than others.


 * The Avengers

The aforementioned Man On The Wall, Tony Stark, was, underneath it all, a very lonely man, and in a fit of rage at his own circumstances, he toyed with The Wall's technology with Olivia Octavius when cooperating with her on the aforementioned machine to contact The Writer, and in an accident that even he would be unable to reenact, he brought his imaginary friends that he had created to combat his loneliness to life, those friends being Thor (a creation of Stark's younger years), Bruce Banner (a manifestation of Stark's own inconsistent emotional state), Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne (manifestation's of Stark's intellectual ambitions), Clint Barton (a manifestation of Stark's selfishness), and Natasha Romanov (a manifestation of Stark's desire for self-improvement). Stark decided to have these people help the world, and so suited up formed the superhero team The Avengers. One of their first missions involved them rediscovering Captain America's frozen, but still alive, body, and reviving him, which led to him joining the team as well.


 * The X-Men

In the following months, the number of superpowered individuals increases dramatically. Unlike the aforementioned heroes, however, these new cases appear to have developed superpowers after being chosen by an omnidimensional being known as The Writer. These people are called mutants, and the public at large fears their existence. One Charles Xavier opens up a school called Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, which is meant to educate mutant children on how to acclimate to their abilities. His best students are eventually discovered to be attempting vigilante activity themselves, and instead of forbidding them from doing so, he decides to have them become a superhero team of their own under his leadership.

The Age of Ultron (WiP)
The idea of being a superhero that protects everyone goes a bit too far when Tony Stark, now Iron Man, creates the Ultron AI in the hopes of protecting the world. Predictably, it goes haywire and takes over the world’s technology. All of the heroes have to team up with each other to combat this threat, though Peter is wary of working with Stark, as he finds him irresponsible and not worthy of holding the amount of power he has. Eventually, it comes to the point where Stark has to use his reality warping technology to wipe Ultron from history, though none of the other superheroes are comfortable with him toying with reality, as though his actions should not have consequences. (to be expanded upon later)

The Secret Invasion (WiP)
Peter has little time to recover from his face-off with Norman, as one day a half-alien little girl named Carol Danvers crashes into the Long Island Sound. She eventually tracks down Peter and Captain America, and she warns them that an alien race called the Skrulls have their sights set on Earth. However, she is too late; the Skrulls are already here, hiding among our heroes, wearing familiar faces as disguises. Spider-Man and Captain America, along with this strange girl who introduced herself as Captain Marvel, have to figure out a way to stop this secret invasion from taking over the world. Meanwhile, the Skrulls’ leader, Thanos, is searching for the final Infinity Gem that lies hidden on this planet. (to be expanded upon later)

Community College and The Symbiote (WiP)
On top of his friends having distanced themselves from him and attending community college, Spidey has been stretched a bit too thin by all the new villains that keep arriving on the scene. This is slightly helped by a new Spider-Man making his debut, but it isn’t enough to relieve the stress. One night, Peter wakes up in Echoes and, in his stress, makes a contract with a demon that manifested from his own dark desires named Venom, and when he awoke, he found that his Spider-Man suit had turned pitch black. When he is wearing the black suit, it takes away Peter's inhibitions, allowing him to be the funny outgoing guy he wants to be, but it makes it so that he gives in to his darker thoughts, making him act on his anger and spite, even toward those he cares about. (to be expanded upon later)

The Galactus Incident (WiP)
Several strange occurrences happen in quick succession. The fabric of spacetime is unraveling, and all the superheroes are on high alert. One day, all of the superheroes and their loved ones are disappeared into a pocket dimension, and they hear the voice of The Writer telling them to play a game for the fate of the world. The heroes would have to fight against Nightmares, beings made up of fear, to earn points, and whoever won the game would have their greatest desire granted. Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four have to participate in those game while spacetime was and distorts around them, in the hopes of saving their world... (to be expanded upon later)

Powers And Abilities

 * Superhuman Strength
 * Superhuman Speed
 * Superhuman Reflexes
 * Superhuman Agility
 * Enhanced Stamina
 * Adhesion
 * Spider-Sense