#acau peter tag

[milimeters-morales]

i keep seeing your spiderman acau and like it seems so interesting and i wanna hear all about it but idk where to find like- idk how to word it 😭

my apologies if this was hard to understand 😓

idk what exactly u wanna find, but if you’re trying to see if there’s a masterpost explaining everything or something: there isn’t 🤞🏾 i’ll just tag this with all my acau tags and i guess you can go from there

[milimeters-morales]

A few months into year 1, Peter starts noticing new missing person posters of himself, and he doesn’t trust that this isn’t some evil plan to capture him again, so he asks Miles and Matt for old Spider-Man stories they know, researches articles and sloppy interviews that might give him information about his home life or areas he frequents, realizes the Peter Parker that took Spider-Man photos was actually him, and starts to look into his own documented life as much as possible (there isn’t a lot so that’s difficult). He also starts to gather information/stalk the people that put up the posters of him (his friends and Aunt May) because he honestly still doesn’t believe they’re normal civilians yet.

[milimeters-morales]

oh my fucking god if acau miguel had adhd or autism there was a chance miles or peter or both literally could’ve been his hyperfixations or special interests. i’m so sick this man could’ve literally time traveled and met his irl blorbos. this man might have written real person fanfic when he was a teen about peter saving his self insert from a collapsing building. he’s “fandom mom” age. he might say the 2099 equivalent of sweet summer child. i need to kill him.

[milimeters-morales]

(acau year 3) okay thinking of Peter trying to put Miles’s hair up into a twin tails but Miles keeps flinching and moving away from him, so Peter has to take the entire process of getting close to Miles very slowly, and Miles eventually relaxes just enough (so like 60% lol) to let Peter do it. Whole thing takes like 10 minutes when it would normally take 5 seconds between people, but peter is determined to show he’s different than how he used to be.

[milimeters-morales]

thinking of the other cryptid/supernatural shit that goes on in the acau world. like the mimics Peter found out about because Miles somehow managed to befriend one of each type to prank him. I already mentioned ghosts existing but they also fuck with memory, so someone could have memories of interacting with a ghost as if they were an alive person if the ghost really wanted them to. which might explain some things. oh and how could i forget: the goo

[milimeters-morales]

okay so there are robots in the ACAU, but they vary a ton based on who & what they’re made for. The main ones i talk about Miles destroying are robots that were made in secret by Alchemax, which was going to become like the Alchemax of 2099 before Miguel showed up, and he calls just calls them “prototypes”. more info under the cut bc it got long

They’re actual weapons, and are used to attack/kidnap whoever Alchemax wants them to without them getting an actual human’s hands dirty. These robots are not very smart but very strong, and can still be a huge threat bc of the weapons they can use, and have been programmed to not hunt down Peter and Miles because Alchemax just can’t risk them blowing shit up again and exposing their other experiments to the world (there’s more to it but that’s their main fear as a company), but can attack if they just so happen to run into them, and are programmed to self destruct if they realize they can’t win a fight or risk getting exposed to the public (usually already destroyed before they can do that lol)

The other robots, the ones that aren’t trying to kill anybody, are usually for cleanups, repairs, search & rescues, and constructions that are too dangerous for a human, and are a bit small and don’t have a human appearance at all. Think of the robots in Wall-E, that’s the most common style they’re made in and the. distributed to the better funded public services (private stuff gets more specialized, custom-looking, expensive robots) Some are simply created for companionship or servitude, which can actually be bought in some stores by anybody who can afford it. All of these robots are also mainly created by Alchemax!

Miguel knows what becomes of these Prototypes, so he and the duo try multiple ways to destroy them completely so their final versions don’t exist in the future to take away from the future’s already huge problem, but since altering the past is a delicate operation, unwanted things keep happening instead, some more horrible than others. So Miguel keeps having to jump back to Miles and Peter’s time and try something new. It ranges from a few hours to a few days for Miguel to come back to them and update them, but for Miguel, it can range weeks to months because he actually needs to be have the actual portal to time travel each time (but sometimes he does have to actually seek out what else changed in the future which takes a while)

and btw when I say Alchemax, i don’t mean every single worker, because around 80% of them don’t even know about the Prototypes or other insidious parts of the company, they’re just normal ass employees lmfao. well most of them.

[milimeters-morales]

in acau year 3, when miles starts to actually make jokes about their relationship and antagonize peter whenever he wants, Peter gets very pissed off very quickly because he’s trying so hard to be better for miles and everyone else, and this kid can’t take a single second to chill out, and then he feels guilty for getting mad when Miles has every reason to be doing this. And because of that, Peter feels guilty and hesitant even lightly scolding Miles (at first) when he’s very clearly in the wrong about something that doesn’t even involve Peter, like for example making offensive “jokes” or sometimes wishing horrible deaths on strangers or people he’s fighting. He knows Miles is just waiting for the other shoe to drop, and trying to quicken the process, but he has to truly prove to Miles that there is no other shoe at all :/ and it’s very fun to slap “Discipline” over it in a sarcastic way

[milimeters-morales]

So Peter’s approach to Miles’s destruction is to give tips on how to destroy them without accidentally getting unwanted people involved in the process, like how to actually hunt in the way Peter sometimes hunts and not lose himself entirely. He sees how overly excited and frantic Miles gets when he’s tearing into a Prototype, so he teaches him how to be in control with different strategies like isolating the robot or tricking it in some way, how the environment he’s in can affect his chances of actually destroying it, when to realize it’s not worth it (one of the most difficult lessons) and just give up on that hunt, stuff like that. Peter is genuinely helping using his own experience hunting down humans and and small animals, and it makes Miles sick but the advice does help so he appreciates it in a strange way, and is starting to sort of become desensitized to Peter’s actions towards others in a way and further attached to him. ruh roh raggy

(Aaron and Matt under the cut)

Aaron actually doesn’t disagree with Miles destroying Prototypes, he’s just worried that the robots will be made more advanced by Alchemax based off of the ways Miles defeats them, which will only make them harder for Miles to fight and increase the risk entirely, so instead he tries to steer Miles towards his old hobbies! Miles used to draw a TON, and for several reasons he stopped, and it always calmed him down and was a way to communicate, make friends, be more involved in his community, and just have fun. He also loved helping animals whenever he could, but he also stopped for several reasons, so Aaron tries to get him to do both of these things again, which he hopes will get Miles interested in new hobbies and topics as well. It’s hard since he isn’t always around to see if Miles is actually sticking with the hobbies and enjoying them, but he trusts Miles to be honest about that. They have a good relationship, but it’s just a bit complicated since Miles has gotten so used to Aaron not being around as often despite being his guardian that it’s hard to just act like Aaron has always and will always be there even if he accepts it. He’s sort of got this “why do all this work if my uncle’s not even gonna be around to see it, what does any of this matter when i have a working system already??” mentality that he’s not telling anyone about :/ Aaron has had a few thoughts when it gets very tough, about just letting Miles join him in doing Prowler work so they spend time together, Aaron can keep an eye on him, and he gets his energy out the way he’s used to, but mans quickly shuts that down .

Matt discourages him fighting the Prototypes entirely for more or less the same reason Aaron doesn’t like Miles fighting them. It gives Alchemax countless opportunities to improve and make them stronger against people fighting back with the amount of times Miles faces them, but he also sees this as first and foremost unnecessary endangerment of a child when said child has several adults perfectly capable of helping him out (and i mean. yeah.), & as a gateway to destroying whatever or eventually whoever he feels like because Matt doesn’t fully agree with Peter’s version of teaching Miles control. He likes and supports that Peter’s helping Miles not freak out while he’s… like that, but he thinks Peter focuses way too much on the “we’re in this emotion now, here’s how to minimize casualties and have the most fun!” aspect rather than the “we can avoid getting to this point entirely” one. He thinks Peter is being immature and not thinking far ahead enough, which is a dynamic im glad i can keep in this world btw! He tries to give Miles other actual (healthy) coping mechanisms and tips so upsetting stuff is a bit easier to handle, and he won’t just be a walking ball of frustration and other negative feelings until he can beat the shit out of something, and will frequently tell him that fighting isn’t always the answer. Miles typically ignores him about that, because he sees Matt as a giant hypocrite just like Peter rather than someone who is trying to help him not turn out so violent and angry, but somewhere deep down he wants to agree with Matt since it’s the same thing his mom or dad would probably say and he looks up to them.

(also, about Matt finding Peter immature and short-sighted, i think it’s also a bit sad because Peter doesn’t remember anything about his old life and doesn’t really act the way he used to, but still manages to frustrate Matt in the same way he always did anytime they had to work together, and Matt, in his most desperate moments, would do anything to have those moments back. lol. lmao even)

[milimeters-morales]

i think i’m gonna kill Peter