#did I sprinkle in a little bit of sombra ovw? yeah yeah I did

[edgepunk]

I love me some villain!Peter in smaller doses, but not in a "I wanna take over the worlllld" kind of way, y'know?

His origin story is still the same - spider bite, Ben dies and Peter still tries the whole superhero thing, but this time, Jameson's slander + people hating on him actually gets to him and he gives up out of frustration. The fact that the Fantastic Four (especially Johnny who is the same age) are praised while he's constantly being hated on rubs extra salt into the wound.

After barely two years of superheroing, Peter goes back to his civilian life and tries to live a normal life while Spider-Man fades into obscurity, becoming nothing but an urban legend.

Fast forward to his college days, he's barely scraping by with his pizza delivery job and becomes desperate to get money. While he's cleaning up his tiny apartment he comes across his old Spider-Man suit and goes "Oh, right! I still have superpowers!"

At first, he's against using them for anything bad, because Ben's speech is still rattling around in his brain, but he looks around his crappy apartment and realizes that he doesn't need to live like this anymore. So, he turns to crime just being called The Spider.

He makes himself a new suit (design pending, but it's more stealthy so w a lot of black, similar to the Alex Ross design with a little bit of Superior sprinkled in)

He starts out small - robbing only stores bc he doesn't have enough groceries, but groceries are still not enough to keep him going. He needs money.

So, he *stealthily* starts robbing banks and develops a software to be able to transfer a small amount of money from people with bigger bank accounts (think of Watch Dogs) and while also being a thief, he becomes a black hat hacker and information broker for the other villains like Fisk. Information is power, after all.

At some point, he comes across Felicia and they become partners in crime and in bed

Of course, Aunt May and his friends have no clue that he's a villain and he lies to them that he got a job as the cybersecurity guy at a big company (Alchemax or Roxxon) to keep their servers safe.

The other superheroes become aware that there's a new illusive villain stealing money, expensive jewelry and selling sensitive information that could potentially start wars.

And uhhh, that's all for now ig lol I have more ideas but it's more abt Peter’s tech and how it disrupts the cameras so he's blurry and no one really knows what The Spider looks like. He does like to leave fun/mocking notes on the crime scene to mess around with the cops. I like to think he still cracks jokes and is a silly funnyguy, he's not an absolute sad sack in this AU :3c