#martin is liams biggest rock besides roxy-- he is literally it for family after they really grow apart from their parents

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MARTIN LEVY.

“martin’s okay. he’s got a bad habit of being a smart-ass, but he’s okay.” — liam kaz, spiders issue #4

martin levy was born a year before liam to hannah and oscar levy. with his parents being hard of hearing and deaf he was raised with both asl and speaking english at the same time. liam was raised the same when she was born, a big part of why the two cousin’s spent a great deal of time together. unlike liam, who led a rather a independent childhood, martin spent a lot of time with his parents and when not with them then in after-school programs and camps. he recalls a lot of early memories of sitting in the office where his dad worked as a web designer for a small company or with his mom at the dentist’s office where she worked. 

liam and martin were close for much of their childhood, one family always picking up the other, and with their shared school, but their closeness outgrew them around the time they reached middle school, drifting apart in social circles and interests. liam’s parents going through their divorce would really only separate them more. they wouldn’t really be so close again until after liam got to college. despite this, martin’s parents remained pretty present in liam’s life.

martin attended empire state university, where he earned a bachelors in history and would continue his education in the school’s graduate program. during his undergraduate years he met his boyfriend, charlie, and was roommates with earth-1530’s peter parker for two years, at which time liam and roxy confided in them both, accidentally, about their spider identities. on the run, liam directed themself and roxy towards an apartment they knew to be safe: martin’s. after the incident, the two reconnected and have become important pillars of each other’s support system. 

talking certainly runs in the family, martin with his own tendency blurting words out of fear of losing them in his head. while texting, writing, he just happens to say it all out loud. between him and peter, there were a lot of “did you say something?” moments, on both sides. their apartment is covered in random sticky notes detailing reminders or simply miscellaneous words and phrases. 

he is the more extroverted and connected one compared to liam (and any of the e1530 group), frequently away at meetings for clubs or parties of friends. on campus, there was a high likelihood someone would recognize him— and more than once liam’s found that someone happened to know him from a random other connection. his popularity (or rather recognizability and participation in so much) was frequently joked about by him and the group. while his arguably closer connections were outside of liam, he’d come to love the little group that never seemed to leave his apartment.