#every day i regret turning my spideydevil fic into a team red series

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You might have answered this already, but the SpideyDevil fans are so few and far between that I have to ask: how did you get into it and what are your favorite parts of their dynamic?

bestie this is so embarrassing but I got into it because of you. you know the ultraviolent series you wrote? yeah, that's what made it click in my brain. I was re-watching the Netflix daredevil show at the same time I was rewatching everything Andrew Garfield has ever done and I was like...okay maybe this could work? Like I had read their comics and was like oh yeah their bros. but the spideypool fandom has not been it for years now so I needed someone to ship Peter with so... maybe Matt could work. And most of the fics I read were just so out of character, but yours just clicked. Idk it's like I had a strong understanding of both their characters and was getting back into both their fandoms at the same time, it made me want to try pairing them together.

Okay but their dynamic! I think my personal favorite thing is that Matt allows Peter a degree of freedom and depth of character that other ships don't allow for. Matt and Peter are both vigilantes that don't kill, both dirt poor, and both covet their secret identities. They've got this mutual understanding, neither of them needs something from the other. But they do want to give something to the other. Matt's addiction to violence points out that Peter is in just as deep as him. Like everyone always oversimplifies Peter as this "friendly neighborhood" hero which isn't wrong but it's not finished either. Peter wants to be a hero, but he also wants to be a vigilante specifically. Like I look at Peter's character and he's angry all the time, he's tired and he wants to be able to get in one good punch. When he's with Daredevil, that couldn't be more obvious. When he's with one of the more upbeat heroes or a hero that kills and Peter is trying to stop that, he looks like just another perfect hero who's kinda sarcastic sometimes. The spideydevil ship is my personal favorite way of showing that Peter is in the hero life for the adrenaline rush, for the outlet, for the opportunity to sink his teeth into someone's throat. But also, Peter's pulling his punches. And when Matt's with Peter, he's also got to pull his punches, not fully give into the devil. Matt does have the ability to experience happiness on his own, but like I think Peter brings a lightness to his life, forcing him to focus on saving people rather than hurting the bad guy. They balance each other out because they already are equal. When either of them are paired with a non-hero, I feel like that love interest is always left behind and that's largely a problem with the writers under-developing them but there is this tragedy to the hero life that they can't fit in once they take off the mask. But when they're paired with other heroes, especially for Peter, they have to either rise up to their level or they're trying to get the other hero onto their brand of specific heroism.

But like the violence is so important to me. Violence isn't the right word, but like idk how else to describe it. They're a battle couple. Those kisses that are more clashing of teeth than a meeting of lips. The taste of blood on their tongues and they're not sure who it belongs to but savor it because it's sweet. Smut scenes that read with the same energy and tension as a fight scene. Pain and pleasure rolled into one because that's their lives and they wouldn't trade it for the world. I feel like spideydevil as a ship is a declaration that Matt and Peter chose the hero life and they don't want to ever give it up no matter how hard it gets because they wouldn't have it any other way.

Also the bickering and the banter! No one else is doing it like them!!