tl;dr and you: a love story (stolen from annwyd)

[gobias]

TL;DR Character Relationship Meme
(A Cheat Sheet for CR Charts)

♥ Step one: post with your characters.

♠ Step two: respond to other people's characters with your characters.
♦ Step three: they tell you in detail what their character thinks of your character. TL;DR is enouraged; that's how this works.
♣ Optional step four: discuss it with them if you want! Make a big chain of tl;dr if you're up to it.
♥ Step five: other people do the same thing to you! Maybe you even harvest your tl;dr to use in a CR chart later.
♠ Step six: keep checking back in so that no one is ever late!

Comments

[incywincyhero]

[hastheedge]

Spidey and Connors, pleeeease! c:

[incywincyhero]

(This is all pre-Shadow Marchen.)

Peter sees him as both an opportunity and a risk. Despite the different univereses, this version of Doc Connors is clearly much earlier in his timeline; he may have gotten himself Lizarded despite Peter's attempts to warn him off, but he's holding out some home that ol' Scaly isn't nearly so entrenched in Connors' psyche (or DNA) as he is in Peter's time. Though part of that optimism is pure sentimentality. Connors knowing his secret identity is incredibly nerve-wracking, because he's not supposed to know, but also reassuring, because the simple acceptance Curt has offered him is not a reaction he's used to getting about his, erm, night shift. He wants Connors to make it because he wants what their relationship offer and he has daddy issues but that's a treatise for another time.

The risk comes from what happens if a Curt Connors who knows his secret identity succumbs entirely to his Lizard persona, natch. Especially if he keeps any of Connors' brains.

[ex_mostlyarmless446]

really, you can just rename any sort of Spider-Man thing as 'all my father figures eventually fail me: the series.'

[incywincyhero]

When J. Jonah Jameson is about as good as it gets, at least among the live ones...

(That's not really true, but even the writers forget Robbie Robertson. :|)

[professorlionface]

hey hey hank

[incywincyhero]

This is a repost since I don't think a huge amount has changed (WE SHOULD FIX THAT):

Spidey's always gotten along with Hank on a professional basis, but in the two years since they both arrived Hank's become not only a close friend but something of a mentor and confidante. If only it weren't for that dangling identity issue ... the guilt of that secret has been eating at Peter for a while, especially after Hank's crisis and the things he trusted Peter with then. If anything it's gotten worse since he told Hank and the telling didn't keep, because Peter knows he should figure out what happened and tell Hank again, but -- he can't help but be relieved that there's one less person who knows.

In the months since I last typed that Peter has managed to push a lot of the guilt down underneath the denial of the day-to-day bantery interaction, but he's still feeling it a bit.

[culver]

nill & molly

[incywincyhero]

NILL: Peter has honestly no idea how he got to be friends with Nill; one of those weird import connection things that just ... happens, or so he supposes. Or maybe it's because we couldn't remember our CR He still doesn't know her that well yet, but he respects how kind and caring she manages to be, despite having dealt with more than her fair share of City drama in the years (!) she's been here. She's so sweet and innocent-seeming that it'd be easy to be patronizing, but he does his level best to treat her as a fellow adult -- even if his overprotective streak is bound to come out eventually.

MOLLY: Honestly, he has a teeny bit of a crush. Just a teeny one! Nothing that'd interfere with their friendship or his relationship with Carol, just. She's a fellow nerd, and she's fun to be around in her own quiet way, and of course she's pretty. He wouldn't expect anything to come of it even if he were alone and emotionally available (the two are not synonymous where Peter's concerned); he just enjoys being her friend and occasional science buddy.

[culver]

THIS IS KIND OF FUNNY BECAUSE JUST YESTERDAY KING & I WERE DISCUSSING HOW MOLLY HAS A CRUSH ON PETER KIND OF BUT SHE'S IGNORING IT BECAUSE HER LAST 2 RELATIONSHIPS HAVE BEEN A DISASTER, EVEN THOUGH SHE IS 99.9% SURE PETER IS NEITHER A PSYCHOPATH NOR A NAZI

[incywincyhero]

"Neither a psychopath nor a nazi:" the most ringing endorsement.

[ecphrasis]

look she has simple tastes

[bests]

chinhands

haha worst icon for this

[incywincyhero]

It's funny what you said about Carol re: Peter, because Peter, I think, is also falling head over heels for Carol way, way faster than he could've imagined. In a backwards way it's the casualness of their interaction that makes it so emotionally intense. Being around Carol is so... simple. He feels relaxed in her presence, feels like she brings out the best in him: he's funnier, more pleasant, more honest, more the guy he wants to be. He feels safe with her, though you'd have to start pulling out teeth before he'd admit it out loud in quite those terms.

The elephant in the room is that as much as Peter deeply, genuinely cares for Carol, he's still hung up on MJ (maybe always will be), and the fact that one relationship was in one universe and one relationship is in this universe is letting him stay in denial about whether that emotional standoff is sustainable in the long run. And speaking of denial, emphatically not thinking about how they could both go home and not remember anything about being together and never get together at all in that universe, oh no.

[retropolis]

WHOMEVER YOU LIKE.

[incywincyhero]

Spidey thinks Nelson is adorable. NOT THAT HE WOULD PUT IT THAT WAY, BUT. He's always had a soft spot for the oh-golly-gee man-out-of-time sorts. Probably because they remind him a bit of Uncle Ben in cultural sensibility, although for once in his life there are absolutely no daddy issues involved here, thank god.

Peter is trying very, very hard not to think about Norman, and the plague, and what Norman might be doing or thinking about the stuff he slipped. Of course it's hard to try and stalk someone and avoid them at the same time, but he's doing his level best.

[viced]

tony and spidey!

[incywincyhero]

NGL, I was nodding along and facepalming as I read your take on it, because Peter... is pretty much in the same place as Tony, from the other side? He misses him, but none of his issues with their relationship are even close to resolved, so he's entirely ambivalent about rekindling any kind of... anything.

Granted, this may change in the near-ish future, given that Spider-Man and Norman Osborn's nemesishood is heating up again, and Peter, if pressed, might find he hates the idea of getting new people involved slightly less than he does Tony knowing everything about it already.

[howillusive]

heh heh heh

yes peter, yes



Eventually they shall be back to the way they should be, eventually

[howillusive]

WOW I DIDN'T REALIZE WHAT JOURNAL I WAS ON, WHOOPS?

[incywincyhero]

IT WORKED REALLY WELL THOUGH

I literally leaned back a little in my chair and thought, "Whoa, Jill, creepy much?"

[magicalworld]

Mordin!

[incywincyhero]

Peter loooooves working with Mordin (though he doesn't ... love Mordin). Brilliant scientist, even faster talker than he is, respects Peter's own work -- it's a dream partnership come true.

He's still not entirely sure how to reconcile the Mordin he's been working with with the Mordin whose backstory came out during the Venezuela period. Part of him feels very uneasy about it; part of him realizes he's the last person to condemn someone who's trying to redeem themselves, and anyway it's not really his place, as an Earthbound human in this universe, to judge what the guy did in an entirely different universe in a situation Peter has trouble wrapping his head around. Though he's aware that might be a convenient rationalization.

[heal_or_execute]

ngl I would absolutely love for some negative CR to come up because of Mordin's past. Especially if it's with his best science buddy.

[incywincyhero]

If we find some way for it to come up, I'm game for it!

I feel like given the number of logs we've done where Peter has angstploded at one of your characters, we're about due for a reversal ;).