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PART 3 GRIM HUNT.

Holy shit guys. It's Grim Hunt time. You want Peter and Kaine relationship? this is the Peter and Kaine comic.

In some ways this is Kaine's full on redemption. I know there's a comic literally called redemption but this is it.

I might have to go step by step for this one because ho. lee. shit.

Step one: acquiring a Kaine. Ominous warnings, blood, danger, Peter's already sick (drugged but he doesn't know it) we're of to a great start. Going into it with a clipped wing. And no flight feathers, really. Kaine is the stronger one. If someone was able to do this to him, Peter's in for a hell of a day.

And he is. Peter has a shitty fucking day! Lets skip it for now. Because it only gets better from here.

"But you did. You did because we're connected."

"Bull. I did it because I was bleeding out and they knew I was a coward."

608 forced Peter to accept that Kaine is his clone. Forced him to think on the fact that he could end up just like him, they're the same. It allowed him to expect better of him. To actually have some kind of empathy for him. And this is that realization becoming useless again. Being disregarded.

Kaine is a bastard. He's a self admitted coward. He saved his ass, but he wants Peter to run and screw the rest. He doesn't care if they live or die. Only Peter. And yet the cracks are already obvious. Before I even go into The Big Thing, its so obvious that he cares a whole lot more than he lets on. Than Peter even notices.

"I owe you because you saved me" Doesn't cover the actual concern he displays here. Doesn't cover the fact he actually tries to talk him out of going off to die.

And it certainly doesn't cover this.

....

That's a full on self sacrifice.

And a damn cool one too? Like come on. I know I'm biased but you gotta admit that's cool as hell. I didn't include all of it (go read the comic) but he's stabbed by two knives and a spear, shot twice, mauled by a lion, and then sacrificed at an altar. And THEN he's pinned to a wall as a trophy. And THEN he's set up in a mausoleum and coffin to taunt Peter.

I don't want anyone to jump in front of a bullet or stay behind in an explosion ever again. If you're not doing it like Kaine you're not doing it at all.

But here he is again. The fuck you, how dare you sacrifice yourself and force me to step in and take it.

"I'd sacrifice myself not once-- but a thousand times." And hell yeah, he's proven it.

608 was strange as hell. But this? This is the exact same Kaine we know and love. A weird, confusing asshole that would for some reason do literally anything for Peter.

And Peter wasn't expecting it. Obviously he wasn't because who the hell would? Kaine doesn't care about other people, clearly. He's a selfish piece of garbage. But Peter, and Peter's life, the "what if" that is Spider-Man is the only thing keeping him going. Because he does not deserve to be saved. But it was nice to see what it was like.

Pure regret. What could-have-been.

But what was the tipping point? Did Peter's words get to him? Did he finally manage to knock some type of responsibility into him? Hell no. Of course not.

It was here.

His punishment was life. He chose death. And in death, he got to see what it was like to be someone. To be Peter. He didn't die for him, he died in his place. He shaved to look like Peter. To fit in the mask. He made up his mind before he left. When he had that conversation with Peter, he already knew.

Something else.

Kaine can see the future. He knew he was going to die. He's prevented his futures from coming to pass before. He could have avoided it. Run off and left the others to die like he told Peter to. But he wanted this.

Dead because for once in his miserable life he decided to do something noble.

And Peter?

Peter loses it to be frank with you.

He Mark of Kaine's her. He actually fucking does that! He pulls her face off!

And this is the first time he calls Kaine his brother!

Kaine calls Peter his brother a couple of times before this. References him as such. But the moment of sacrifice is when Peter decides he really is his weird messed up brother.

The fact he can't do that to his face does hurt me. Especially given what happens next. But for the first time, he cares about Kaine. And about avenging him.

Kaine Parker. A brother.

He's given a last name. He's family now.

(also, i couldn't find a good place to stick it, but Kaine does clean Peter's entire dump of an apartment. Just because. He makes his bed for him. So when Peter goes home he has that to look forward to.)

What’s about Kaine and Peter throughout history together like their interactions, brotherly moments, cares about and respects each other. 

Alright I'm gonna have to do this one in instalments again cause these guys have a LOT of history.

first off, image/page dump here we go. MAN Kaine loves exposition and saying exactly what's on his mind.

(seriously I cut so much and its still a lot.)

So. Part 1, Clone Saga.

Peter and Kaine miss eachother for the first half of the Clone Saga. Kaine doesn't do much for a while actually. He runs around in the background, watching ominously.

The clone Saga is a mess. we all know this. So there's a lot of inconsistencies. Does Kaine think Peter is real? Does Kaine think Peter is the clone? Doesn't really matter. What does matter is he absolutely adores Peter. He commits a whole lot of murders in his name. Little bit (lot bit) of a stalker, never really puts up a pretense of not knowing who Peter is. They do a lot of fighting, (obviously, Kaine is a villain) but Kaine never wants to. His entire motivation is to protect Peter's life. He's obsessive and jealous but that's his entire goal. Also, he hates Ben Reilly. Because fuck 'im. And the Jackal for obvious reasons.

Peter has no idea Kaine exists for the first bit! And his first impressions of him are that he's insane and a murderer. Because he is. But Kaine is just so damn weird and makes so little sense that he's slightly conflicted. Influenced by Ben, he considers Kaine extremely dangerous. But he's nowhere near as personally invested in Kaine as Kaine is in him. He doesn't want him to die, but that's only because he doesn't want anyone to die. He doesn't shed any tears when he's arrested or dies.

His thoughts on Kaine would probably be: "Huh. That was fucked up and I learned nothing."

This relationship is extremely one sided.