Mark Meyer (Earth-13999)

"'That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.'"

Mark Meyer (full name Mark Ainsley Meyer) is better known as Spider-Man in his alternate universe (Earth-13999 or Tired Octopus AU). An orphan from New York who was taken into care by the Morales family after the loss of his parents. He got his spider superpowers a year later, after his parents died - the spider that bit him was one of their experiments. Mark grew up a genius and, inspired by the works and morals of the famous scientist from Oscorp, Otto Octavius, became a hero under the nickname Spider-Man. Known for his intelligence and methodology, since the age of nineteen, Mark has been saving the citizens of New York, fighting and defeating everyone who does harm - from ordinary thieves to "Sinister Six".

Biography
Mark Meyer was born on March 27, 2003, in New York. His parents both worked at Oscorp and were scientists working on mutations and radioactive substances, trying to achieve the successful use of such things in medicine. In 2008, when Mark was five years old, an explosion occurred in Oscorp, for still unknown reasons, because of which both of Mark's parents died, and he himself was placed under the guardianship of his parents' friends - the Morales family. On the day when the explosion occurred, Mark was with his parents, who at that time were working with radioactive spiders, for a secret experiment by Norman Osborn. When Mark and his parents tried to escape from the building, one of the spiders managed to bite Mark.

Over the next year, Mark was often ill, which later turned out to be a side effect of a radioactive spider bite. At the age of six, a year later, Mark had already received his powers, but decided to hide them even from his adoptive family and, especially, Miles Morales, his step-brother, with whom they were the best friends. Mark studied and tried his new abilities alone.

Mark grew up with a great interest in science, studied biology, physics, chemistry and mechanics in depth. In these subjects, he was ahead of all his peers, which is why some envied him, and others began to bully him and call him a nerd or much ruder names.

In 2020, when Mark entered college, he met MJ and Harry Osborn for the first time, who soon became his friends. In the same year, he met Dr. Otto Octavius, during a tour of the Oscorp’s laboratories. He was about to quit there, but became interested in Mark and his greatest interest in science and offered him a job in his personal laboratory, to which Mark agreed without hesitation.

In 2021, Mark officially began working for Otto Octavius as his assistant, while completing his college studies. Octavius' work and mentality, constantly talking about intelligence and the fact that with it and their abilities they need to help people, inspired Mark and he came up with the identity of Spider-Man and soon became a famous super hero who helped the citizens of New York with spider powers and knowledge in science. None of the people close to him knew that Mark was Spider-Man. Mark used Octavius' laboratory to create and repair the mechanisms he needed, in secret from Otto himself.

In 2022, Otto Octavius started and completed work on one of his dream projects - four mechanical arms that help him do several things at the same time, accelerate the creation of other mechanisms and things in the process, such as prosthetics, in which he specializes. At Mark's request and idea, they decided to present the mechanical arms to the public as the next step towards improving progress in mechanics and science in general. At the last moment, Mark changed his mind about presenting the arms - he realized that there were vulnerabilities in programming and some parts and it would be dangerous to use the mechanism now, but Otto did not listen to him. There was an explosion. Mark immediately changed into the Spider-Man costume and began to lead people out of the burning building, trying not to leave anyone behind. When he returned, he realized that he couldn't save one after all - Otto Octavius was lying dead, and his hands clung to him, merging metal with his skin. Mark left the scene of the explosion. But it turned out that Octavius survived, and he, like Mark, thought that his assistant had died. As a result, they did not see each other again for a very long time.

That evening, after the explosion, Mark was returning home and when he tried to get into his room through the window without being noticed, Miles caught him and Mark had to tell him the whole truth. It so happened that Miles was also quite good at mechanics, so from that moment on, they started working together, since there was no laboratory anymore.

After a while, Spider-Man got more and more enemies who wanted to get rid of him or, sometimes, get his powers. Fortunately, he always won - by himself or with someone's help, such as Miles, MJ or, at some point, Otto, which was not a good idea.

Powers

 * Spider-Senses - One of the very first superpowers that Mark had at the very beginning. Unlike other abilities, Spider-Senses appeared to him not a year later, but immediately. With this ability, Mark was able to get out of the burning building not badly injured. Spider-Senses give him the opportunity to notice or feel something approaching him out of sight. This includes not only things that can, for example, fall on Mark, but also the approach of an enemy and when something is wrong (for example, when Norman is possessed by a Green Goblin), etc. This superpower goes hand in hand with Mark’s superhuman reflexes. The power itself originates as a tingling feeling in the back of his skull.
 * Mutated Physiology - When the spiders, one of which bit Mark, were still in development, what the scientists wanted to get from them was the ability to heal people with complex and serious injuries, or to give people with congenital disabilities abilities that they "lack" - vision, hearing, voice, walking, and so on. The project with spiders, at the time of the explosion in the laboratory, was not over, and the results or side effects after the bite were unknown. As a result, Mark was the first to be able to check how the bite actually works. The result exceeded expectations and gave Mark superhuman abilities such as super speed, strength, stamina, agility and reflexes.
 * Super-speed - together with the average human speed, which is from 10 to 13 kilometres per hour, Mark gained the ability to move much faster, ahead of the world record of the fastest person - 43 km per hour. With the help of his super-speed, Mark, if desired, can reach 50 km per hour, but decides not to use it so often, since he can use other means of transportation, for example, during a chase. Having obtained documents about the abilities that spiders, one of which bit Mark, should give, and having read everything that could relate to him, he learned that he was not supposed to receive such abilities.
 * Super-strength - Like spiders in nature, Mark can lift objects much heavier than himself with ease. But still, this ability has some limits - the heavier the object, the more effort Mark must make. He can lift cars or stop trains, but he doesn't have enough strength to lift a building or, at least, hold it for a long time. Super-strength is one of the abilities that Mark received before others. At the same time, when he received Spider-Senses, he could already lift objects heavier than an ordinary child can, but, unfortunately, these abilities were not fully revealed immediately after he was bitten, so he could not use it to his full strength. But also, this power, and its awakening at the time of the explosion in the laboratory, is proof that during critical situations, Mark's abilities can increase/ become stronger.
 * Super-reflexes - this superpower helps very well when using spider-senses. Just having spider-senses for Mark was not enough - in order to react and avoid what the senses warns him about, he needed super-reflexes. Super reflexes help him while he is trying to be agile or fast.
 * Wallcrawling/Adhesion - the pads of Mark's hands and feet have up to millions of microscopic, hair-like bristles called setae. These are believed to be extensions of his skin cells, rather than growths of tissue, due to their outrageously small size. With the help of them, he has the ability to move on vertical surfaces and ceilings, clinging well and firmly to the surface. The setae themselves are not sticky and do not leave any traces behind them.
 * Webbing - this superpower was one of the most problematic for Mark. Not because of the fact that it sometimes didn't work, but by the fact that because of it, Mark even stuck somewhere more often than because of adhesion. But also, unlike many variations of Spider-Man in other alternative universes, Mark's body creates the webs itself, using proteins. He never had problems with a web-block, because of which he could not use his web, but there were moments when he could not control them because of nerves, fear or other manifestations of strong emotions.