#Project: SWING! Cario Sienna

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SWINGtember 6 - The Bite™️

When Cario found out that evidence of experiments from NiteMax—the same place that took Cario’s life from him as a child—were resurfacing, lurking in the shadows, he fled to find one of NiteMax’s abandoned laboratories to scream his heart out. He did not know then, how returning to that cursed place would change him again, as well as his fate.

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SWINGtember 18 – Suddenly, Symbiote!

Instinct often took Cario to the better parts of an awful situation; more lives were saved through gut feeling and driven heart, it has always been Cario’s driving force. But that night, when he decidedly took hold of the gooey, pulsing and raging being from Aiden Morgan’s body, things only took a turn for the worst. Cario felt himself hollowing, feeling nothing but borrowed anger, saw the world through Aiden’s eyes; saw that it was burning, always burning, saw how the creature fed on the fire.

The symbiote—Blaze—is familiar with the feeling of burning.

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SWINGtember 4 - Intro!

[Recorder Click] “…-yes yes, relax, officer. I’m starting… Hey. Been a while.” [Cario clears his throat.] “Guess it’s about time this city found out who I was. So… let’s do this one more time.”

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SWINGtember 25 - Coffee Run

The MIDNIGHT TALKS newspaper headline:

The (usually) camera-shy spider hero strikes in surprise appearance! And he’s…buying coffee?

“The defender of Midnighton is always seen in action. And despite several analyses by his many fans, no one has been able to pinpoint anything that gives away intimate details, if only to get to know him more. Fans know that the hero saves animals, doesn’t actually like the color green, and is active in several parades and riots. But a lucky photographer and student from MUDISci Journalism named Jacob Kwon, had a run-in with the hero in the evening of the 24th—buying coffee! The hero didn’t have much to say aside from apologizing to Kwon for spooking him, but after some light conversation, Kwon discovered another way this spider hero was, indeed, a hero. The following dialogue is from Kwon’s Christmas vlog:

“[Do] you buy coffee from Starbugs?” asked Kwon, to which the spider hero responded with:

“Nah. Not with everything going on. Buy your coffee local.”

Heroes don’t have to wear suits and skate on walls! The Spi-borg not only hinted at buying less from big companies supporting NiteMax and Oscorp, but encouraged us to buy our coffee local. It’s such a small gesture, but quite meaningful!” (Jenkins, Peer Street Journalist, 20XX)

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SWINGtember 8 - Weapon/Assist Tech

The Spi-borg loves to tinker, and these are all of his assistive tech; tested through years of trial and error. (Emphasis on error—we all start from somewhere.)

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SWINGtember 13 - Their Friend/s Find/s Out

Of all the times Cario imagined his friends finding out about The Spi-borg, this scenario was far from what he had in mind: under collapsed table and shelf, Adama and Tom hunched against the wall, wide-eyed with something Cario could not read at first. Jake was in front of them, fierce, protective, he looked like he’d seen a ghost.

Cario struggled against the grip of Glass-Ock’s claw, but he shook at the thought of his friends being terrified of him. That was, until they all silently mouthed, “Are you okay?” Then Cario nearly wept in realization—they weren’t afraid of him, they were afraid for him. In the same, companionable concern that made up their friendship as lab-mates in LAB326.

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SWINGtember 15 - Ship!

They made a strange pair, the snake and cyborg. Both kept their true lives (define ‘true’ in their case, though) at arms’ length, ran from pasts which they did not deserve. Even when their paths overlapped, they were so drastically different; they were two sides of the same coin.

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DIMENSION Z-11’s The Spi-borg

DIMENSION Z-9202 — The Reaper

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SWINGtember 27 - Family

Cario’s life had been a blur, one full of loss.

For a long time after the shutdown of NiteMax, his foster family had been the only family he had ever known. And even outside of that, friendships were fleeting. Nothing ever stayed anchored. That was, until he stopped chasing—only then did a vengeful assassin and a group of lost Spider-kids weasled their way into his life. And when even they could not stay, Cario would be assigned to watch over a few Spiders a few years later. They would name themselves the Project: SWING.

There were no constants in Cario’s life aside from loss. He knew what could come out of this arrangement eventually. But the Spider-borg knows hope like an old friend, and would cherish every person that came his way.

It’s not ideal, but he is happy. These people are the closest he will get to having a family.

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SWINGtember 22 - “Pet” Sitting

Cario attempts to be Aiden and Blaze’s therapist for a day, then realizes the mess is much deeper than he thought.

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SWINGtember 20 - Alternate Dimension Self

Sometimes the Spi-borg of Z-11 ends up in places he should not be. Sure, the Spider-Man are allowed to travel dimensions, but there are some specific ones the Spi-borg chose to specifically avoid. Unfortunately, a certain alternate self had caught on. And here they are, in dimension Z-9202—and it is here that he meets his alternate self: The Reaper.

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SWINGtember 11 - Canon Event

The words came with a new kind of sadness

They meant everything, you mean everything to me

- “Even Robots Need Blankets” by Mayday Parade

When exactly The Spi-borg and Strike slowly bled into just Cario and Sophia, they will never know. What the world knows is that one day, The Spi-borg was without his deadlier shadow, and Cario’s friends know that he lost Sophia, his partner, the sails to his anchor; the love of his life. Great things end; and what they had was indeed that—the pain, the healing, the love, finding home in each other (despite, despite, despite). That’s all it was. And they deserved more.

Some notes on Sophia;

Soviya Orsevi (later on: Sophia Parker) was a snake from the Institutum Serpenses, an institute dedicated to training girls to be assassins. After NiteMax and its connections shut down (including InSerpenses), she’ll spend her life finding those who worked with NiteMax and the Institute until she will no longer be haunted by a past she could not control. ‬

Also I don’t mean “snake” like, the reptile. Think of Black Widow, her past, and the widows she trained with. The Insitutum Serpenses and the girls they train to be “snakes” is essentially this dimension’s version of that.

I’m not sure how to talk about her being Cario’s canon event without full on rambling but, long story short: Sophia was sick with the same chemicals that had almost k’lled Cario (before the spider bite ‘reset’ his body/system)

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SWINGtember 25 - Coffee Run

The MIDNIGHT TALKS newspaper headline:

The (usually) camera-shy spider hero strikes in surprise appearance! And he’s…buying coffee?

“The defender of Midnighton is always seen in action. And despite several analyses by his many fans, no one has been able to pinpoint anything that gives away intimate details, if only to get to know him more. Fans know that the hero saves animals, doesn’t actually like the color green, and is active in several parades and riots. But a lucky photographer and student from MUDISci Journalism named Jacob Kwon, had a run-in with the hero in the evening of the 24th—buying coffee! The hero didn’t have much to say aside from apologizing to Kwon for spooking him, but after some light conversation, Kwon discovered another way this spider hero was, indeed, a hero. The following dialogue is from Kwon’s Christmas vlog:

“[Do] you buy coffee from Starbugs?” asked Kwon, to which the spider hero responded with:

“Nah. Not with everything going on. Buy your coffee local.”

Heroes don’t have to wear suits and skate on walls! The Spi-borg not only hinted at buying less from big companies supporting NiteMax and Oscorp, but encouraged us to buy our coffee local. It’s such a small gesture, but quite meaningful!” (Jenkins, Peer Street Journalist, 20XX)