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Feb. 15th, 2020 11:25 amUser Name/Nick: Steph
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E-mail: underwater.owl@gmail.com
Other Characters: Darlene Alderson, Peter Nureyev, Quentin Coldwater
Character Name: Miles Morales
Series: Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse
Age: 15
From When?: Post-canon.
Inmate/Warden: Warden! Classic heroes journey here.
Item: One of his new wrist webslinger cuffs.
Abilities/Powers: Miles is a spider-person, with the usual powers plus a few more.
-Strength: stronger than human, especially in terms of taking hits.
-Speed: very quick
-Agility: good ducker
-Web slinging: can throw, swing from, bind people up with web from slingers on his wrist (mechanical, not biological)
-Sticking to building walls
-Spidey senses (danger, weirdness, etc)
-Invisibility/camouflage
-'Venom strike,' an electrical or energy blast discharge that can knock out an adult.
Note: these powers were only attained recently and are not under the STRICTEST amount of control.
Personality:
Miles Morales is a nice young man whose own good nature brings out the best in people. He's a product of his (slightly embarrassing) parents- he has good manners, is polite to the people in his community and knows his neighbours, is friendly with new people. His first instinct is always to try to do the right thing, even if he's still at an age where his perception of what the right thing is can be a tiny bit silly.
He has lots of friends in his own neighbourhood, used to be a nice, normal, popular kid- but Miles has a bit of a harder time in new environments. The movie meets up with him two weeks after he's transferred to a new competitive boarding school, where Miles is struggling under the weight of great expectations. His father thinks the school is a tremendous academic opportunity, but Miles misses his friends and his normal life.
The workload at Visions Academy is a lot more intense, and although Miles can hold his own intellectually the new work load is a big adjustment and with the new stress, he's having his first ever experiences of pressure- trying to juggle his coursebooks, trying to get to class on time. To make matters worse, he isn't making friends- he's a bit isolated by his dorky sense of humour. He makes jokes when he's uncomfortable, and in a crowd where people aren't inclined to laugh at them simultaneously wilts internally and doubles down on the class clownishness.
He's already trying hard to get home when everything gets worse because of his radioactive spider bite. The biggest source of his anxiety during the transformation is whether he's weird now, whether everyone thinks he's a freak. He's already self-conscious but that gets way worse when he starts sticking to ceilings. The whole experience makes him miserable, lonely, and profoundly homesick. His father would like him to understand what a gift it is to have the potential to be anything he wants- with great power comes great responsibility, even if that power is just an aptitude for physics- but Miles starts the movie in a place where he'd prefer just to be normal. He ends the film having learned that even if he is a spider-person he isn't alone out there, that being exceptional and saving the world is tough but he'll have people with him along the way, and that understanding and using his powers for good may be frightening, but it's worth it. He develops the great expectations for himself that all the adults in his life have had.
Miles is a creative kid. He likes music, loves art, and is constantly in a bit of trouble for drawing, stickering, graffiti. He's running late because he's sitting over a sketchbook, singing along to music in his headphones at moments where it's slightly dorky, in trouble with dad for slapping stickers on public property, sneaking down disused subway tunnels with his delinquent uncle to paint abandoned architecture. His work is brilliant, creative, expressive, and full of colour and positivity, but he's still learning how to channel that energy.
Throughout the movie, he also displays a tendency to psych himself out, especially in the face of outside criticism, under other people's expectations, or when he's the odd person out in a group. He wilts under the pressure of being just one high achiever in with all the other high achievers at his school (even though he's technically quite capable of doing all the school work) and he wilts under the scrutiny and demands of the other spider-people, who pester him so much about his readiness to use his abilities that he decides for himself he isn't ready and turns invisible and slinks out the back. He spends quite a lot of time trying to use his powers effectively, panicking, and then over-firing or under firing them. The plot of the film is him overcoming all these insecurities and getting comfortable with his spiderpowers with a leap of faith and the weight of the expectations at his new school. He's done a lot of work already but it's a tendency he'll retain and a process of needing to overcome he'll go through again on the barge and his ability to warden.
It must be said, Miles also tends to panic. Both in action sequences and in slightly more mundane adolescent problems, he is not suave. ("Morales, I know you snuck out last night," says the security officer. Play dumb, shouts Miles' internal narration. "Who's Morales?" NOT THAT DUMB! and then he just bolts past the guy in the hallway. Not slick.) He has good spidey reflexes and can dodge hurled buses, but his stats take a hit in the 'deception' column.
Of course, one of the biggest and best thing about Miles is how brave he is. He wants to help the other spider people, he leaps into battle even though he's still a teenager. He fights Kingpin, the villain who he personally witnessed murder Peter Parker as well as his own uncle, because it's the right thing to do and people need to be protected. He's got that 'civilians are in danger I have to leap into the line of fire' thing that all young superheroes have in spades. He's still at a stage where he's scared as heck while doing it, not one hundred percent confident in his abilities, but doing it anyways because it needs to be done.
Miles is surrounded by great role models in his life. He's the son of a mother who's a medical professional of some kind (scrubs, field unspecified) and who lets him know firmly when his courage is failing "our family doesn't run from things, Miles." He actually has his mother's last name, and they speak Spanish together, it's a bilingual home. His father, Officer Davis, is a longtime and wonderful police officer. He can be tough on Miles but is very emotionally affirming- lots of hugs and 'I love yous' and dorky jokes. He inherited their resilience and drive for community service. Even his cool Uncle Aaron is more good than bad when it comes to his relationship with Miles. Aaron turns out to be a hench-villain called the Prowler, but before Miles realizes this he just thinks his uncle is an engineer who's inclined to tell him to look on the bright side about his new school, there must be lots of smart girls there and smart girls are great. Aaron is the one who encourages his art even if it's technically in violation of local bylaws and who tries to teach him how to flirt and encourages him to find himself, his true self, no matter the expectations his parents and the school put on him.
Miles is a character with an inner light that the adults around him respond to. The whole film is a study in him either trying to escape the notice of adults and ending up accidentally nurtured (teachers), trying to get the attention of adults who don't want anything to do with him but end up as his mentor (spider-people).
He also has an extremely sensitive side. Whenever there are condolences to be offered or something to commiserate on, Miles is the character to blurt the 'I'm sorry for your loss' or 'are you okay?' or 'that must be really tough.' He empathizes easily and isn't scared at all of engaging to support other people.
What's harder for him is seeking out that support in return- even with all the great adults who look after him in his life whenever he's at his most stress he's always at a loss for words. He wilts easily under the pressure of other people's expectations and doesn't always see that it'll be all right, that they'll love him anyway. His father, as a police officer is pretty irate about spider man in general because he doesn't believe in vigilante justice, so Miles never tells him about his new powers. When he finds out his uncle is the Prowler he doesn't tell him until the last possible second that he, Miles, is the spiderman the Prowler has been assigned to kill- the pressure of having to explain himself, self-consciousness, uncertainty that he's even fit to be spiderman to begin with and the potential weight of their judgement make him keep the mask on even when it should be obvious that coming clean would make everything simpler.
Miles tends to trust the adults in his life and anticipate they'll do the right thing, often resulting in them rising to his expectations. He talks up Peter B Parker into going home and taking responsibility for his personal life. He faces down his Uncle Aaron as the masked villain the Prowler, resulting in his uncle turning his back on Kingpin's gang and sacrificing his own life to save Miles. With his dying breath, Aaron confesses to Miles that he's ashamed, that he'd always wanted Miles to be proud of him and had let him down, and that Miles was the best of all of them and was going to grow into a great man. Although Miles isn't necessarily wise beyond his years in more conventional ways, he has a very strong moral compass and a way of seeing the best in people that will serve him well as a warden.
When the film ends, Miles hasn't solved all of life's problems, but he is doing a lot better with the big anxieties and tensions in his life. His dad has arranged a wall for him to paint on down at the police precinct and they draw a memorial for Uncle Aaron together on it. He's sticking it out at his school and has made friends with his roommate. He's found his stride academically and is thriving rather than buckling under the pressure. He's throwing himself into the Spiderman gig and at peace with his new purpose, with his place in life. He has a psychic link with Gwen (possibly the other spider people as well?) and so isn't alone under the weight of all those great expectations. He's a relatively sensible, stable, sweetheart of a fifteen year old superhero.
And then the barge finds him!
Barge Reactions:
For a pretty social creature, Miles will have a harder time than you might expect with being on the barge. He retreats when he's nervous, and a) has a super suit and b) can turn invisible, so will probably just be a straight up ghost for the first littlpoe while until his calmer judgement prevails.
Duty and protectiveness will eventually be what get him out of his shell. He'll emerge immediately for his first temp, and while at first he'll probably try to play Big Serious Adult will crack pretty quickly and should transition eventually into being a local kid for people to watch out for and a good warden for someone who needs a shoulder-angel who they can't bear to disappoint.
Deal: Miles wants his uncle back. He'd like Aaron returned to life.
History: Link
Sample Journal Entry:
[Miles stays off the network for a long time. No posts, no comments, no fights, no chatter- it's supposed to be his generation that puts their breakfast on instagram every sixty seconds but they're on a ship full of actual serial killers and everyone's got their innermost secrets hanging out? His dad took him through stranger danger training as a kid; no thanks, dude.
Things change when he gets his first inmate. The temporaries go up, and it's a name he doesn't recognize, because they're all names he doesn't recognize, and oh. Oh. That's the downside to not having done the full formal join the community thing.
Still. No reason not to start now. Miles clears his throat, puts on his mask- takes off his mask again, that looks dumb, no one else wears them- clears his throat again and opens up a voice feed to the person he's paired with.]
Hello!
[He says, and flinches immediately; it sounds like a badly trained telemarketer, or a kid playing a businessman in a school play.]
Hey, yeah. I'm Miles.
[That's better, if choppy. Miles stares frantically down at his communicator, as though some kind of script will present itself on the screen. No dice.]
Looking, uh, forward
to
hearing back from you!
[The last bit at least sounds cheerful, but the momentum carries away from him a little, picks up pace, squeaks distressingly upwards. He cuts the feed and looks up at his ceiling, taking comfort in the fact that this is actually not the most humiliating thing to happen to him this month.
Okay. Ball in the other guy's court.]
Sample RP:
After the breach, Miles gets to work.
It's a lot to cope with, after all. He'd had the job offer after waking up one night from his dorm room bed into a fuzzy, weird- was it an office setting? Why can't he be sure? And then without so much as a bag packed he was in some kind of... some kind of Arthurian legend, the son of some other family, some other father's hands straightening his tunic and telling him to stay out of trouble at the tournament. Reams of knowledge of smithery and the care and feeding of the family donkey crammed into his skull, and a fanboyish obsessive knowledge of all the knights and all their crests and statistics in the tournaments across the land. The shout of joy in his throat watching two guys actually jousting with one another, riding headlong on horseback down an open pitch and then the crash of impact.
He cracks the lid off a spray paint can, head so breachswept it for a moment he actually loses the word for it, has to grasp and reshape in his thoughts, paint. Spray paint. Kilz black spraypaint, specifically, from the bag under the bed of his new room, and the sound of it is pure home, snaps him back to real life.
Miles paints the boat a knight- one of the lady ones who'd won her tournament and pulled her helmet off, revealed a crown of braids and a beaming smile. It's no one in particular from the barge, but pieces of a few of their stories, and his mother's face, her serious eyes, her fly-away curls. He puts her in armour, hip cocked to one side, helmet balanced on it, sword over her shoulder casually. Her gauntleted hand leans on a painted extension of the banister, like she's just catching her breath on the landing before carrying on up.
At the sound of footsteps on the landing, he leaps straight on and up, grabbing the underside of the steps above his art, sticking himself firmly to them and turning invisible with a breath. Below him the paint is still drying- in fact the last silver spray paint can is still in a gentle roll, coming to a stop against the wall, accidentally kicked over in his hasty jump. Coping with people does not feel like it will help the situation any, never mind getting yelled at for a mural, so Miles shuts up and hangs tight.
User DW: None
E-mail: underwater.owl@gmail.com
Other Characters: Darlene Alderson, Peter Nureyev, Quentin Coldwater
Character Name: Miles Morales
Series: Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse
Age: 15
From When?: Post-canon.
Inmate/Warden: Warden! Classic heroes journey here.
Item: One of his new wrist webslinger cuffs.
Abilities/Powers: Miles is a spider-person, with the usual powers plus a few more.
-Strength: stronger than human, especially in terms of taking hits.
-Speed: very quick
-Agility: good ducker
-Web slinging: can throw, swing from, bind people up with web from slingers on his wrist (mechanical, not biological)
-Sticking to building walls
-Spidey senses (danger, weirdness, etc)
-Invisibility/camouflage
-'Venom strike,' an electrical or energy blast discharge that can knock out an adult.
Note: these powers were only attained recently and are not under the STRICTEST amount of control.
Personality:
Miles Morales is a nice young man whose own good nature brings out the best in people. He's a product of his (slightly embarrassing) parents- he has good manners, is polite to the people in his community and knows his neighbours, is friendly with new people. His first instinct is always to try to do the right thing, even if he's still at an age where his perception of what the right thing is can be a tiny bit silly.
He has lots of friends in his own neighbourhood, used to be a nice, normal, popular kid- but Miles has a bit of a harder time in new environments. The movie meets up with him two weeks after he's transferred to a new competitive boarding school, where Miles is struggling under the weight of great expectations. His father thinks the school is a tremendous academic opportunity, but Miles misses his friends and his normal life.
The workload at Visions Academy is a lot more intense, and although Miles can hold his own intellectually the new work load is a big adjustment and with the new stress, he's having his first ever experiences of pressure- trying to juggle his coursebooks, trying to get to class on time. To make matters worse, he isn't making friends- he's a bit isolated by his dorky sense of humour. He makes jokes when he's uncomfortable, and in a crowd where people aren't inclined to laugh at them simultaneously wilts internally and doubles down on the class clownishness.
He's already trying hard to get home when everything gets worse because of his radioactive spider bite. The biggest source of his anxiety during the transformation is whether he's weird now, whether everyone thinks he's a freak. He's already self-conscious but that gets way worse when he starts sticking to ceilings. The whole experience makes him miserable, lonely, and profoundly homesick. His father would like him to understand what a gift it is to have the potential to be anything he wants- with great power comes great responsibility, even if that power is just an aptitude for physics- but Miles starts the movie in a place where he'd prefer just to be normal. He ends the film having learned that even if he is a spider-person he isn't alone out there, that being exceptional and saving the world is tough but he'll have people with him along the way, and that understanding and using his powers for good may be frightening, but it's worth it. He develops the great expectations for himself that all the adults in his life have had.
Miles is a creative kid. He likes music, loves art, and is constantly in a bit of trouble for drawing, stickering, graffiti. He's running late because he's sitting over a sketchbook, singing along to music in his headphones at moments where it's slightly dorky, in trouble with dad for slapping stickers on public property, sneaking down disused subway tunnels with his delinquent uncle to paint abandoned architecture. His work is brilliant, creative, expressive, and full of colour and positivity, but he's still learning how to channel that energy.
Throughout the movie, he also displays a tendency to psych himself out, especially in the face of outside criticism, under other people's expectations, or when he's the odd person out in a group. He wilts under the pressure of being just one high achiever in with all the other high achievers at his school (even though he's technically quite capable of doing all the school work) and he wilts under the scrutiny and demands of the other spider-people, who pester him so much about his readiness to use his abilities that he decides for himself he isn't ready and turns invisible and slinks out the back. He spends quite a lot of time trying to use his powers effectively, panicking, and then over-firing or under firing them. The plot of the film is him overcoming all these insecurities and getting comfortable with his spiderpowers with a leap of faith and the weight of the expectations at his new school. He's done a lot of work already but it's a tendency he'll retain and a process of needing to overcome he'll go through again on the barge and his ability to warden.
It must be said, Miles also tends to panic. Both in action sequences and in slightly more mundane adolescent problems, he is not suave. ("Morales, I know you snuck out last night," says the security officer. Play dumb, shouts Miles' internal narration. "Who's Morales?" NOT THAT DUMB! and then he just bolts past the guy in the hallway. Not slick.) He has good spidey reflexes and can dodge hurled buses, but his stats take a hit in the 'deception' column.
Of course, one of the biggest and best thing about Miles is how brave he is. He wants to help the other spider people, he leaps into battle even though he's still a teenager. He fights Kingpin, the villain who he personally witnessed murder Peter Parker as well as his own uncle, because it's the right thing to do and people need to be protected. He's got that 'civilians are in danger I have to leap into the line of fire' thing that all young superheroes have in spades. He's still at a stage where he's scared as heck while doing it, not one hundred percent confident in his abilities, but doing it anyways because it needs to be done.
Miles is surrounded by great role models in his life. He's the son of a mother who's a medical professional of some kind (scrubs, field unspecified) and who lets him know firmly when his courage is failing "our family doesn't run from things, Miles." He actually has his mother's last name, and they speak Spanish together, it's a bilingual home. His father, Officer Davis, is a longtime and wonderful police officer. He can be tough on Miles but is very emotionally affirming- lots of hugs and 'I love yous' and dorky jokes. He inherited their resilience and drive for community service. Even his cool Uncle Aaron is more good than bad when it comes to his relationship with Miles. Aaron turns out to be a hench-villain called the Prowler, but before Miles realizes this he just thinks his uncle is an engineer who's inclined to tell him to look on the bright side about his new school, there must be lots of smart girls there and smart girls are great. Aaron is the one who encourages his art even if it's technically in violation of local bylaws and who tries to teach him how to flirt and encourages him to find himself, his true self, no matter the expectations his parents and the school put on him.
Miles is a character with an inner light that the adults around him respond to. The whole film is a study in him either trying to escape the notice of adults and ending up accidentally nurtured (teachers), trying to get the attention of adults who don't want anything to do with him but end up as his mentor (spider-people).
He also has an extremely sensitive side. Whenever there are condolences to be offered or something to commiserate on, Miles is the character to blurt the 'I'm sorry for your loss' or 'are you okay?' or 'that must be really tough.' He empathizes easily and isn't scared at all of engaging to support other people.
What's harder for him is seeking out that support in return- even with all the great adults who look after him in his life whenever he's at his most stress he's always at a loss for words. He wilts easily under the pressure of other people's expectations and doesn't always see that it'll be all right, that they'll love him anyway. His father, as a police officer is pretty irate about spider man in general because he doesn't believe in vigilante justice, so Miles never tells him about his new powers. When he finds out his uncle is the Prowler he doesn't tell him until the last possible second that he, Miles, is the spiderman the Prowler has been assigned to kill- the pressure of having to explain himself, self-consciousness, uncertainty that he's even fit to be spiderman to begin with and the potential weight of their judgement make him keep the mask on even when it should be obvious that coming clean would make everything simpler.
Miles tends to trust the adults in his life and anticipate they'll do the right thing, often resulting in them rising to his expectations. He talks up Peter B Parker into going home and taking responsibility for his personal life. He faces down his Uncle Aaron as the masked villain the Prowler, resulting in his uncle turning his back on Kingpin's gang and sacrificing his own life to save Miles. With his dying breath, Aaron confesses to Miles that he's ashamed, that he'd always wanted Miles to be proud of him and had let him down, and that Miles was the best of all of them and was going to grow into a great man. Although Miles isn't necessarily wise beyond his years in more conventional ways, he has a very strong moral compass and a way of seeing the best in people that will serve him well as a warden.
When the film ends, Miles hasn't solved all of life's problems, but he is doing a lot better with the big anxieties and tensions in his life. His dad has arranged a wall for him to paint on down at the police precinct and they draw a memorial for Uncle Aaron together on it. He's sticking it out at his school and has made friends with his roommate. He's found his stride academically and is thriving rather than buckling under the pressure. He's throwing himself into the Spiderman gig and at peace with his new purpose, with his place in life. He has a psychic link with Gwen (possibly the other spider people as well?) and so isn't alone under the weight of all those great expectations. He's a relatively sensible, stable, sweetheart of a fifteen year old superhero.
And then the barge finds him!
Barge Reactions:
For a pretty social creature, Miles will have a harder time than you might expect with being on the barge. He retreats when he's nervous, and a) has a super suit and b) can turn invisible, so will probably just be a straight up ghost for the first littlpoe while until his calmer judgement prevails.
Duty and protectiveness will eventually be what get him out of his shell. He'll emerge immediately for his first temp, and while at first he'll probably try to play Big Serious Adult will crack pretty quickly and should transition eventually into being a local kid for people to watch out for and a good warden for someone who needs a shoulder-angel who they can't bear to disappoint.
Deal: Miles wants his uncle back. He'd like Aaron returned to life.
History: Link
Sample Journal Entry:
[Miles stays off the network for a long time. No posts, no comments, no fights, no chatter- it's supposed to be his generation that puts their breakfast on instagram every sixty seconds but they're on a ship full of actual serial killers and everyone's got their innermost secrets hanging out? His dad took him through stranger danger training as a kid; no thanks, dude.
Things change when he gets his first inmate. The temporaries go up, and it's a name he doesn't recognize, because they're all names he doesn't recognize, and oh. Oh. That's the downside to not having done the full formal join the community thing.
Still. No reason not to start now. Miles clears his throat, puts on his mask- takes off his mask again, that looks dumb, no one else wears them- clears his throat again and opens up a voice feed to the person he's paired with.]
Hello!
[He says, and flinches immediately; it sounds like a badly trained telemarketer, or a kid playing a businessman in a school play.]
Hey, yeah. I'm Miles.
[That's better, if choppy. Miles stares frantically down at his communicator, as though some kind of script will present itself on the screen. No dice.]
Looking, uh, forward
to
hearing back from you!
[The last bit at least sounds cheerful, but the momentum carries away from him a little, picks up pace, squeaks distressingly upwards. He cuts the feed and looks up at his ceiling, taking comfort in the fact that this is actually not the most humiliating thing to happen to him this month.
Okay. Ball in the other guy's court.]
Sample RP:
After the breach, Miles gets to work.
It's a lot to cope with, after all. He'd had the job offer after waking up one night from his dorm room bed into a fuzzy, weird- was it an office setting? Why can't he be sure? And then without so much as a bag packed he was in some kind of... some kind of Arthurian legend, the son of some other family, some other father's hands straightening his tunic and telling him to stay out of trouble at the tournament. Reams of knowledge of smithery and the care and feeding of the family donkey crammed into his skull, and a fanboyish obsessive knowledge of all the knights and all their crests and statistics in the tournaments across the land. The shout of joy in his throat watching two guys actually jousting with one another, riding headlong on horseback down an open pitch and then the crash of impact.
He cracks the lid off a spray paint can, head so breachswept it for a moment he actually loses the word for it, has to grasp and reshape in his thoughts, paint. Spray paint. Kilz black spraypaint, specifically, from the bag under the bed of his new room, and the sound of it is pure home, snaps him back to real life.
Miles paints the boat a knight- one of the lady ones who'd won her tournament and pulled her helmet off, revealed a crown of braids and a beaming smile. It's no one in particular from the barge, but pieces of a few of their stories, and his mother's face, her serious eyes, her fly-away curls. He puts her in armour, hip cocked to one side, helmet balanced on it, sword over her shoulder casually. Her gauntleted hand leans on a painted extension of the banister, like she's just catching her breath on the landing before carrying on up.
At the sound of footsteps on the landing, he leaps straight on and up, grabbing the underside of the steps above his art, sticking himself firmly to them and turning invisible with a breath. Below him the paint is still drying- in fact the last silver spray paint can is still in a gentle roll, coming to a stop against the wall, accidentally kicked over in his hasty jump. Coping with people does not feel like it will help the situation any, never mind getting yelled at for a mural, so Miles shuts up and hangs tight.
