BUT I AM WRITING
sweats in only 200 words
BUT I AM WRITING
OK SO SHOUT OUT TO @niko-mesu-side-mainblog ALSO KNOWN AS @niko-mesu (IDK IF THEY HAVE A SPECIFIC ONE FOR AMPHIBIA STUFF) TY FOR FIRST TELLING EVERYONE ABOUT THIS IDEA, AND SHOUT OUT TO @alaskathelegozeldadude FOR BRAINSTORMING WITH US.
SO. HEAR ME OUT.
AMPHIBIA SPIDER-MAN AU. (i’m so sorry this was gonna be an info dump but now it’s a whole ass bare-bones fic)
Now, this is loosely based on the various Spider-Man movies and lore but,
Anne gets bitten by the spider first. She indirectly lets Sprig and Polly’s parents die (instead of herons in the show, it’s Anne’s “uncle Ben” origin story) and then takes it upon herself to stop crime. To fund her gear, she gets into journalism photography of “The Spider” at Sasha’s dad’s news company, The Daily Bugle.
Sasha doesn’t like how much time Anne dedicates to tracking down the vigilante because it means she’s always cancelling plans—not because she has a crush on Anne and doesn’t want to lose her to The Spider who obviously likes her back, what are you talking about?
So of course Sasha goes after The Spider as she flees the authorities after a battle. Y’know. To protect her friend. Yeah. Sasha realizes The Spider always knows how to avoid her, which was weird, until she looked back on footage and reports of her fights and realized she had a instinctual knowledge of her surroundings. And she gives up the chase
Until a few weeks later, when she finally understands why it all sounded so familiar. That was exactly what Oscorp was testing on a live sample before they reported it had escaped and kicked their tour group out. Once she had saturday’s afternoon free, Sasha went to their facility to “finish her tour” (cough—snoop on their projects—cOUGH).
As she neared the lab that had caused everything to shut down, she made sure to squeeze as many details out of the tour guide as she could. Apparently, her father’s no-isn’t-an-answer demeanor paid off, since their tour time ran out before they could move past the spider lab.
Sasha, content with the outcome, headed home without a glance back. Until something bit her. She then went through a horrible fever and woke up the next day with spider powers.
Welp. Time to be a superhero. (Definitely not to meaningfully threaten The Spider to stay away from Anne.)
(And definitely not to make Anne like her, Silkrider, more than The Spider.)
Marcy was concerned about her friends. They both had panic attacks in the cafeteria—she lent them her noise cancelling headphones before they could spiral too far—and they’ve been constantly on edge even in the quietest of classrooms. Marcy made sure to eat outside, bring extra fidgets and gift them a pair of her headphones to help them feel at ease. Still, she couldn’t help but wonder what changed their behavior.
Now, despite what everyone believes, Marcy can be very observant of her surroundings when she wants to be. So when Anne and Sasha start pushing their dorm curfew to barely minutes before lights out, Marcy took note. Even when they’re back early, they shut themselves in their rooms for hours on end. Still, not terrible. And then they started limping. Not for long, and not concerningly frequent, but enough to make Marcy worried.
Marcy let everything slide for a few months until that one night she heard multiple crashes and curses from Anne’s room. She finally confronted Anne, ready to yell at her to stop going outside and doing whatever it was that hurts her—but then realized Anne was bleeding. Anne made some (admittedly weak) excuse about getting too close when photographing The Spider. Marcy sighed and started to bring out the first aid kit.
From then on, Marcy used her father’s money and inventions to help supply them with tools to keep them safe. She even tried to tag along and be another pair of eyes, but any time a battle would break out, she’d lose her friends in the commotion. It was fine, they always came back to the dorm—even if some days it was with a black eye instead of photographs.
And then it wasn’t fine. This attack was much bigger than usual. The entire city was being torn apart block by block. Marcy tried to look for her friends in the chaos, but they had dissapeared again. Just as she thought she might be too close to the danger zone, she felt a sharp, overwhelming pain and immediately passed out.
As the battle ended, The Spider and Silkrider went through the fallen buildings, trying to hear for any heartbeats of trapped civilians. Both of them zeroed in on an incredibly faint one near the edge of the rubble. They called the paramedics over, but a large figure got to them first. It was Marcy’s father, Andrias.
He immediately took her to his laboratory, knowing this was the only chance they had. He quickly opened the canister to the symbiote, The Night. After some quick negotiation, The Night fused with Marcy, and her vitals stabilized. It was experimental, but it saved her life. Her wristband vitals tracker (initially for panic attacks) had alerted him that she was in danger, and he had gotten there just in time.
As Marcy woke up, she was immediately tackled by Sasha and Anne. They sat and cried and promised to never get into danger ever again. Once they left for the night, her father came in and explained what he had done to save her. The Night finally made himself known, effectively making Marcy go into an hour long Q&A session before having a breakdown over sharing everything about her life with another conciousness.
In the end, the two of them made an arrangement and lived fairly peacefully.
Until The Night posessed her after curfew to follow “the bushy-haired roommate” as she snuck out of the window. Since they were bonded forever, Marcy agreed to occasional nighttime possessions as long as she wasn’t woken up. She was woken up.
Although she shouldn’t spy on one of her her best friends, it’s a little too late now. Marcy stopped outside the alleyway and waited for Anne to start negotiating an illegal dealing or information leak, but she was surprisingly quiet. Until The Spider leaped out and started to swing through the city.
Huh.
That’s,, not what she was expecting.
But, looking back, it makes so much more sense.
Afterwards, Marcy quickly connected that Sasha was Silkrider. Now, Marcy wasn’t bitten by a radioactive spider, but she does have a very cool symbiote that basically works as a superhero origin so why not.
The two of them started training to work as a singular entity, and then went out on the streets. Due to their short fusion duration, they stuck to quick patrols and dissapeared as soon as the job was done.
Which gave them a scary reputation... until The Night posessed Marcy to dumpsterdive for chicken nuggets at 3 am, got caught, hissed at the sudden light, and climbed up the wall, disappearing into the night.
Once she woke up and saw it was trending, Marcy made an amendment to their arrangement.
When they went on their next patrol, they finally introduced themselves as “Nightmare” to the spider duo in front of the press. It was... a mixed reaction. (“HOLY FUCK YOU’RE REAL??” “i don’t trust you.”)
After a while, Marcy finally got their fusion steady enough to stick around after battles. It was during this time they complained about their homework, wondering how the other two finished their physics homework on time. The Spider snorted at the thought of completing homework. Silkrider, on the other hand, froze.
She asked how Nightmare knew what class she took, and why Spider answered them so easily. The Spider then realized she never told either about her school. Nightmare sat in confusion since how would they not know they were working together? They both snuck out at the same time? They’re roommates?
Silkrider realized it first. She got up and swung away. The Spider realized right after and promptly freaked out. Nightmare felt their time was running out, so they quickly fled as well.
No one left their rooms that night. In the morning, Sasha and Anne tried ignoring each other as much as they could. Marcy finally dragged the three of them somewhere alone and talked it out, starting with how she got her powers. The others joined in with their stories and the tension was broken.
Until Anne asked why Andrias had a symbiote sitting in his lab.
Marcy... didn’t have an answer.
Sasha remembered a rejected story about military investors asking around for Oscorp superhuman rip-offs. It was too unrealistic—superheroes? really?—but looking back, she doesn’t think it’s too fictional anymore.
They set up their red string and started connecting the dots. There was too much proof to sweep this under the rug. They had to confront Andrias.
Marcy called on her father’s bodyguard, Yunan, and his secretary, Olivia, to ask if they knew anything about his latest inventions—especially about the experiment he used to save her. They reported that they didn’t actually know.
The three girls (plus The Night) decided to sneak in and find out for themselves.
They were met with Andrias’s intensive studies on the genetically enchanted spider people. And then Andrias himself. Since they broke in, he brought it upon himself to make sure they could never get out.
Marcy quickly realized he had bonded with another symbiote and warned the others. They fought as best as they could, but it was ultimately the unstable fusion between himself and his forced symbiote that led to his defeat.
Olivia had called the authorities once she heard the fight. Yunan made her way down into the labs and helped the girls get to a safe place.
In the end, Andrias regained conciousness in prison, Marcy got adopted by Olivia and Yunan, and the Spider trio continued to save New York.
And The Night finally asked why Marcy wasn’t going on dates with the other two, which led to her realizing she had crushes on both of her friends—as civilians and superheroes—so she asked both of them out ontop of the empire building. She immediately fell off once they said yes.
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the good stuff came late, sorry (chapter 3)
It's been a few months and besides the adults not knowing how to adult, everything has been fine. Honestly, do they not know how to feed a child? Davenport had to get a milkflower so the baby wouldn't starve to death one time.
Lucretia, he later learned her name, was actually pretty okay with keeping everyone in check, but she’s off traveling for general supplies more often than not.
Magnus, surprisingly, is next in line for being calm. Despite his burly figure, he carves new wooden ducks every week and made most of the furniture in the house, including the crib.
Merle is definitely the worst. Kravitz didn't know if that “I can fuck an onion” spat was real or a goof, but it turns out, that wasn’t even the most questionable if not disturbing thing he’s done. Kravitz feels bad for Davenport on those… special days.
“Can you make him adore literally anything else?” Davenport once said after he came back for a report.
“Come on, this isn't A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There's no special flower that can magically make someone love something else,” He dismissed him with a nonchalant wave of the hand, but after Davenport left, Kravitz thumbed through his spellbook because he sometimes ran into Merle in the woods and would greatly appreciate not to. For many reasons.
And last on the report of his new neighbors was the devil. Okay, admitidadly, he wasn't horrible for a baby, but there were other complications with him nonetheless. For one, he wasn't scared of Kravitz. Two, the infant actually pet Davenport when the bird was distracted. Three, he wasn't scared of Kravitz. Four, he created chaos wherever he roamed. Five, he wasn't scared of Kravitz. And that's just the beginning.
Davenport started playing with the kid against Kravitz’s wishes (“YOU DID WHAT!”), and turns out, now the child has four parents. Admittedly, one is a bird, but nevertheless, a parent.
Around five years after they moved in, the four humans went on a picnic.
The guardians started chatting, “Oh, Magnus, I saw a few dogs last town that let me pet them, and one of them gave me a newspaper.”
“I KNEW IT! DOGS SHOULD VOTE!”
“How the hell did you come to that conclusion?” Merle squints at him.
“Dogs can now read. Dogs. Should. Vote.” He glares at the small man.
Lucretia closes her eyes and furrows her eyebrows, but her small smile gives away her amusement.
The child, however, starts wandering towards the cliff’s edge. He starts picking flowers and putting them in his braid. His foot suddenly slips on the ledge and Kravitz groans, summoning vines to catch him and put him back on the grass.
Davenport gives him a sideways look, one brow raised, before nodding his head the other direction and looking to the side in a “okay then” motion before turning back to the humans.
It only got worse when the kid figured out television. He would watch romantic comedies, then cooking shows, then some overly dramatic series, then another romantic comedy, then a cooking competition, then a sitcom, and then repeat. Kravitz didn't even know there were that many shows. It wasn't long before the child started nodding along or arguing with the judge’s opinion on the cooking shows.
He got up from the couch during the show one day and recreated the dish himself before yelling, “That's how you do it, chucklefucks! Not that shitty-ass ‘oh, I’ll put this in for three minutes then plop in on a plate’ method.” He mocked the contestant with a low and goofy voice. “You gotta realize it's a full creation! It needs seasoning! Fuck!”
Kravitz snorted from the trees maybe a little too loudly.
The kid froze and his head snapped towards his direction. After a few minutes, he turned off the tv and went upstairs, leaving the food on the counter.
Kravitz could hear a muffled scream from the bedroom window and he grimaced because the kid had definitely heard something come from the forest.
———
“I covered for Davenport one day. Just one! And look where it got me!” He kicks a pebble into the brush.
He hears a shout.
“Nope. I’m out. I swear, if that's Merle, I’ll personally carve my eyes out.” He reverses his direction, mumbling, and walks away at the same pace as before.
But before he could get very far, he hears someone's snickers grow into a bellowing laugh. “So you’ve met him too?”
Kravitz freezes, takes a long breath, and turns around with a pained look.
“I’ll take that as a yes. Hi! I’m Magnus!” He was just as loud as Kravitz remembers him.
“... hi?”
“It's really nice having someone else besides the Tres Horny Boys around here,” his smile never wavers.
Kravitz pauses. “I’m sorry, who now?”
He laughs again, “Tres Horny Boys, me, Merle, and Taako.”
Kravitz stares at him. “... taco.”
“Yeah, the kiddo. The one with the blonde hair?”
“Someone named their kid Taco?”
It takes Magnus a second to register that, “Oh! HAH! No, no. It's spelled T-A-A-K-O, not like the food or anything. Sorry about that. It's confusing at first.”
“Okay, sure, why not.” He pinches the bridge of his nose.
“So is this your side of the forest?”
“What?” He looks up.
“Well, you’re a fairy, judging by your horns, and you know Merle and what he… gets up to in these woods, so you must have territory near here, right?” He elaborates.
Kravitz thinks of the impenetrable wall of poison-tipped vines created to separate his domain and keep it safe from the King’s forces that have been persistently attacking and dying from the barrier’s defenses and says, “Yes.”
“Great! Let's discuss what we can and can’t do, because I respect your boundaries and will tell Merle to stop if he's been… exploring your woods.” Kravitz thinks Magnus’s smile literally could not drop. He was probably cursed to always smile. The only reasonable answer.
“Uh, well. I would prefer no unpleasant run-ins with him, but other than that, I think you guys are okay. I’m not very demanding.”
“Great! I just gotta pick a few more berries, then I’ll be out of you hair. The kid really likes to cook, even if he never admits it.”
After a moment of silence where Magnus turns back to the bush to pick some blackberries, Kravitz twists around some branches to get ready to travel by tree and says, “Goodbye, Magnus.” before disappearing into the leaves.
——–
Taako knows he saw something. There's no doubt. It laughed. He’s not going insane.
“What the fuck.”
He’s pretty sure this is the same person who saved him from that cliff. After a while, he disregarded it as a dream, because moving vines— but it felt so real.
He took out a notebook Lucretia got him after a trip. She always gives him one when she returns.
Plan: meet shadow person.
Steps: ???
Great.
Steps: ??? Follow/go into forest. Maybe Bird knows something, since he lives there. Where does Bird live? Does he have a family??? More intelligent birds??? Is shadow person a bird?
No, that doesn't seem likely. Only humans could make that noise.
Steps: ??? Follow/go into forest. Maybe Bird knows something, since he lives there. Where does Bird live? Does he have a family??? More intelligent birds??? Is shadow person a bird? Ask about shadow person. Follow Bird? Would that be okay? Probably not. Do it anyways.
He has a plan.
He internally countered, only like 5%.
He returned with, shut it, me.
———
Lucas was very glad he took precautions. He secretly swapped the kid with another to ease the kingdom when the prince was safe after sixteen years. Of course he put on a show of burning all the spinning wheels, but he wasn't faking when putting in the effort towards destroying his magical neighbors. While his forces hammered against the barrier for twelve years, he looked towards ensuring the growth of his kingdom.
This provided a problem when the Prince felt more like a Princess.
Her mother instantly fitted her with all the correct clothes, pronouns, and procedures.
Her father had more work to do before being comfortable with this change.
He then saw an opportunity to make everyone happy.
———
“Uh, do you know where the castle is?”
Taako was trying to find Bird when this high-and-mighty horse rider just waltzed onto his favorite berry bush. He looks him over, “After you bumbling about, I’m surprised you even found someone.”
He has a pained smile when he says, “I’ve never came around here before. I usually like to have a moment of freedom when visiting new places, but I— uh…” he groans and hides his face in his hands. Peeking out, he continues, “I got lost in my thoughts, then I got physically lost.”
Taako snorts with a smirk, “I’ll make you a deal— you get your four-legged friend off of the best berry bush in this entire forest, and I’ll point you in the right direction.”
“Oh sh— sorry, I didn't know I was on a plant.”
“You’re lucky it wasn't one of Merle’s… adored plants."
The poor kid seems to be deciphering that.
“You don't want to know.”
“Okay….” He pulls on the reins and the horse backs into a clear patch.
“C’mon, a kid like you shouldn't get lost in the forest.”
“But… you're also a kid?”
“Yeah, but I live here.”
“Oh.”
Taako hears the sound of hooves and wooden wheels on the path and he rushes ahead, jumping up and tackling her.
Lucretia greets him with a surprised yelp, then laughter. “Taako! Don't do that!” She sat him down beside her before noticing the other person. “Oh— who’s this?”
“Random dude that stepped on my elderberry bush then asked me to point out the castle.”
“Oh, just follow this path, then take the first two left branches before turning right,” She motions to the road behind her.
“Thank you, it's been hours and my mother is probably worried,” He flashes a relieved smile.
“I wouldn't want to hold you any longer. Besides, I gotta take this rascal back home,” She ran her fingers through Taako’s hair.
“Sorry for stepping on your plant.” He took the reins and galloped down the road.
“Strange kid,” Lucretia mumbles before wrapping an arm around Taako and finishing the tail home.
———
After a long, unexpected trip, Barry was immediately ushered to the Queen and King, where the Queen squished his face and started treating him like her own son, checking if he was okay, complimenting him, and pulling him towards the room he’s staying in.
“Oh, you simply must meet my daughter— she's absolutely lovely. I’m sure you two would get along. It'll get boring in the meeting room with all the adults, so you two can chat. You are only three years apart. I’m sure you’ll get along swimmingly.” She kept on rambling, never giving him a chance to say anything.
Before he knew it, he was sitting on his bed and alone in the guest room.
Reflecting on every insane thing that happened that day, he thought, I’m going to sleep.
———
“Yes, m’am,” “My pleasure,” “No, I don't mind,” “It was a pleasure meeting you,” were only a few things she says day-to-day. It gets horribly boring, so she's packing and leaving. This isn't the life for her. She on her way to order fifteen blankets to tie up and escape out of the window, but before she could, she was called into the meeting room.
Sighing, she opens the large door to find herself with another two rulers. She quickly plasters on a smile and curtsies before sitting to the side of her father, like her mother, and facing the other royalties.
“You must be wondering why we called you here so late, Princess,” the foreign King addresses her.
He chuckles, “No, no. It's quite the opposite. We have come to an agreement that an arranged marriage with our two kingdoms will help both of our empires advance as sisters.”
Haha, back up. Her mind said. “Sorry?”
“Lup, darling, I know this is sudden, but it's a good solution. We can't have a bachelorette first in line, and this will give you enough time to get to know him. It was bound to happen, so this is the most ideal situation. Besides, I saw him earlier, and he's pretty cute.” The two queens lock eyes and giggle together.
Since I couldn’t finish the short Marcy-centered fic before I passed out yesterday, may I present:
✨Nightmare✨
While they’re a symbiote instead of a enchanced spider person, they still take up the spider theme. However, they do share a “host body” with each other, so they compromised with splitting their conciousness—so when they’re in the superhuman state, green eyes and veins show when Marcy’s in control, while red eyes and veins show when The Night’s in control.
And ty to @niko-mesu-side-mainblog for the inspiration!! As in: you drew 4 rough sketches of symbiote Marcy and that made brain Fast Track into drawing for 8 hours
HAT HAT HAT
I went into a feral state for 3 days and finished this at 3 AM last night before taking a 12 hr nap is this how ford felt
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego 🎶
Doing the color wheel challenge! Starting with red
pLEASE I WANT THIS SO MUCH
i asked for mall day outfits and went into a Literal Trance for 5 hours after my friend gave me this idea:
pure.
(The Adventure Zone Graphic Novel)
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