Uncle Ben - Blog Posts

In the hero villain swap au Peter miles and Gwen have slightly difrent backstories to what is usually used. Uncle Ben died like he usually does only this time it was cause the police let the robber go and he killed Ben, instead of Peter putting on the mask to find the rober he left it to the police who failed to catch him from that point forward Peter decided to work against the law because he felt wronged. Similarly Gwen's best friend died because the police force was to slow, she dosent blame her dad as he wasent there but she started to steal from some of the worse members of the police. Miles dad died to someone who was supposed to be his partner and it pissed him off, mile didn't originally start his career with criminal intentions in mind but after the outher spiders started helping him get slightly petty revenge he started the whole villain career. (Backstories may change depending on plot)

“I love you, sweetheart,” Uncle Ben slurs through the blood bubbling around his lips. “You gotta- you gotta remember that, okay, Pete?”

Peter nods frantically, shoving harder against the wound. Pressure, right?

Hey, this’s a little random, but I’m rewatching LOKI and had a thought. What could Mobius have possibly done to become a Variant? Single dad of two boys who sold rec vehicles?

But then, I started thinking about his character. How patient, but firm he is. His good advice and who his wife might’ve been, right? He lived in the suburbs with his boys and based on his age (we’ll say roughly 40 something?)

And who else is around that age, living alone with a boy in need of a paternal figure?

What if his wife was May Parker? What if Mobius is a variant of Uncle Ben, if he and May had been able to have kids of their own and left New York to raise their boys in the burbs before Peter Parker was orphaned? Too far to be able to take him or maybe May died shortly before and he didn’t think he could handle a 3rd kid…?

That’s certainly something that would’ve broken the “canon,” especially if moving away inadvertently caused May to die somehow (ex: car accident or something), right? Great advice, positive teaching style, quick to bond with tricky/witty vigilante types?

This’s probably been done a hundred times already on this site, but it’s just a thought I had.

Just picturing something like:

Ben getting the call that his brother and sister-in-law are dead. He’s had to make the hardest decision of his life, but for the good of his boys and Peter, he thinks he made the right one. He’s not a rich man. The house already has two mortgages, the dealership is barely getting by as it is. Looks down at his wedding ring on a chain around his neck, thinking there was no possible way he could do it on his own and then? He sets the phone back on the hook and there’s TVA agents in his living room. Placing a reset charge on his coffee table and demanding he come with them for judgement.

For costing his universe the creation of an anchor being, like Spider-Man.

Also, could you imagine Loki trying to help Mobius save a version of his universe by raising Peter Parker together in a universe where both Ben and May died (like how Miguel tried to replace Gaby’s dad, except actually helpful?) Showing up to PTA meetings, just Ben Parker and his new very tall, elegantly goth, vaguely European husband?

Loki becomes PTA President, of course. Makes his own presidential sash. Mobius gets way too hyped about bake sales/food drives/blood drives/toys for tots. Loki judging the science fair. Showing up to debate club contests to cheer way too loud. Both of them having to act surprised when Peter starts sneaking in late until it finally comes out and they have to be like “Ooooh, nooo! We’re floored! Totally stunned! Hoooowww could we have missed this?!”

Then, Loki helps him make a real suit, because “no child of his is going be a vigilante AND a fashion disaster.”

Loki eventually coming out as a Frost Giant to make Peter feel less like a freak in some teary-eyed heart to heart about how difficult it is to let “normal” people close to them.

Just saving the world by being embarrassing, loving father figures together in the sort of open, honest family that Loki’s always wanted (cue his angst about immortality).

How we deal with grief

Peter loses a civilian, it was a simple mugging, 2 guys, they cornered the woman, she was 24, and newly married, she and her husband had married early when she fell pregnant at 21, Spider-Man jumped down into the alley way and webbed the two men to the wall just as the gunshot went off, there were three men. she dropped to the ground and peter quickly ran to her side, the man ran off with her bag and the gun, she wasn't moving.

He got home that night and went straight to his room, everyone was either already sleeping or just assumed he was tired. When he came out no one was still in the common room, everyone had moved to their own room. He walked out in black tights and a tight shirt, bright red ballet shoes in his hand, tears had stopped falling but the evidence was still there.

They were the last thing Ben had brought him before he died, he hadn't danced since Ben's death. He tried, he got up like nothing was wrong, and may drove him to his lesson. He had to tell her where it was, she didn't know,  Ben was always the one to drive him. He broke in his new shoes, never worn before, then put them on. He walked to the bar and put his hand on it before he broke down in tears and ran back out to the car, where he took off his shoes. They were only worn once before they went back into the box they came in.

He had FRIDAY take him down to the main training room, it had mirrors and a ballet bar for Natasha, Tony put it in once he found out she did ballet. he sat down and slid the shoes on before tying them up, they still fit as perfectly as they did the first time, he stood on point before walking to the bar and stretching, first he did common stretches before going into intense stretching and finding comfort in the burn, 15 minutes later he walked to the center of the little dance area, he took a deep breath in, "FRIDAY, can you put the room on lockdown please, I don't want anyone coming in" "are you sure peter you seem distressed?" "yes FRIDAY- please" "the room is on lockdown", he looked in the mirror and stuck his leg out, bent his other leg and took another deep breath, then spun.

Three spins later he put his leg down and then repeated the motion, leg out, bend knee and spin, after the first spin tears started to fall down his cheeks again. One after the other, he didn't stop until he had done 100; he took a water bottle from the mini fridge in the corner before taking his place in the center of the room again and starting again.