#plz someone ask me abt this au im in the trenches with it

[slightly-ace]

im so horrendously on and off tumblr, but occasionally i remember that it exists and post about something

anyways i have a Cal Kestis spider-man au and i wanted to share because i think its neat :3

Like any experienced, put-together superhero, his first instinct was to just… freeze, staring at you with equally wide eyes. In his defense, this was the second time he’s encountered you as Spider-Man, and he didn’t have the urgency of a supervillain trying to crush him to spur the interaction on. 

It wasn’t like he didn’t have the whole Spider-Man persona perfected; he knew all the ways Spider-Man differed from Cal Kestis, knew exactly what to emphasize in order to keep the two sides of his coin completely separate, but something about being in this specific situation with you made his brain stutter, and he was blue screening. If you listened closely, you could probably hear the obnoxious drone of the Windows error screen plastered over the coherent thoughts in his brain. 

“Uh,” you chuckled awkwardly, so, clearly nervous, “hi?” 

You lifted one hand in a little, two-fingered wave, the other one tucked into the pocket of your jacket, and it occurred to Cal that he should probably greet you back. 

“Hey,” he said, mortified at the way his voice cracked in the middle of the word.

[snippet from an unpublished chapter. first one is up on ao3]