Sooooo...
Anyone craving an AU Marvel RP?
One thing: no DC/Marvel cross-overs. I hate those. Seriously. >.< However, for humor, Detective Comics
will exist as background; the character I'm thinking of is a huge fan of the Flash and dresses up as a female version of him every year for Halloween - or at least, she did until she gained her spider-powers. I'll explain that shortly.
First, there's a TLDR version at the bottom for those of you who aren't into details. There's a strong possibility you'll have to at least skim what's between this and that to get an idea of what's going on but at least the TLDR version will give you a basic idea of what I'm looking for.
We can do this one of two ways. One: this would be a next-generation Marvel RP. Think May Parker, daughter of Peter and Mary Jane Parker, for example. We could also skip ahead a generation of her, if you like, and go for the Anya Corazon era. At least, that's how it's chronologically playing out in my mind; I'm probably wrong. Honestly...I'm a huge Spidey fan but haven't picked up the last several series of comix. 'cause money.
Don't judge me. >_>
SO ANYWAY.
The characters here will either be canon or original, depending on who you wanna join with. May Parker would definitely be an option, as would any children of canon couples. Or, if you have a fandom couple you wanna be the kid of and can explain it logically, by all means - go right ahead. We can do canons or we can do originals, or we can do both. We can even alter canons for an AU - which is the idea I had in mind to begin with.
I also really like the idea of using
this page as a historical basis for the RP timeline even if Carol Danvers isn't so much as referenced in the RP; her history spans a large portion of the major events in the Marvel universe, making it a good centre pointe for the general timeline. In that case, the story would be mostly canon but with AU elements, such as the introduction of originals or some other plot that intersects with canon storylines.
The main idea I had was the introduction of a mysterious Spider-Woman. In this RP, Gwen Stacy is dead; she's not a superheroine of any sort, wasn't resurrected, isn't a clone, et cetera - she's a corpse and has been for a good long while. Whether MJ has come into the picture...that's another matter entirely that we can discuss. Or we don't have to focus on the Spider-Verse at all, in which case my character idea would fill the role of Spider-Man/Woman/Girl/whatever (Jessica Drew is a completely separate character; I'm not counting her among those monikers - she can be played or not, up to the joiners, if any).
The reason I bring Gwen Stacy up is her
costume when she
was Spider-Woman in the comics. That costume would be the one worn by my Spider-Woman. However, my Spider-Woman would be a little different from others. Her story is as follows.
Cheryl Blaine grew up doing gymnastics and ballet. Unbeknownst to her and her parents, her mutation manifested when she was thirteen. Her mutant ability is that her body does not retain anything that does not improve it. So for example, she could eat nothing but red meat and retain the protein, making herself strong and healthy, but never suffer the ill effects that people supposedly suffer later in life from eating too much red meat. When she was fifteen, an odd thing happened. It wasn't really anything out of the ordinary - typical high school bull **** - but what resulted was a truly life-changing experience.
When Cheryl was fifteen, a jock at her school - let's say Midtown High for the sake of argument - set his sights on "conquering" her (you know how high school boys are, especially jocks). Well, he just happened to be the school's star quarterback and loved/lusted after by pretty much every cheerleader in the school. The cheerleaders were mortified and angered that he chose a relatively unpopular loner - basically a nobody - over them. But when Cheryl told him to **** off because she wasn't going to sleep with him - in front of
everybody - the cheerleaders seemed to be of the belief that she thought he wasn't good enough for her. So they chased her, intending to beat her up for such an insult. She ended up running into an empty lot and falling through some rotten wood.
It turned out that a house used to be on the lot but it had been torn down years ago; however, the underground cellar - boarded up though it was - remained. It was into this she had fallen. She was only sore - not seriously hurt - but in seconds, she was literally covered in huge spiders. Thousands of them swarmed her, and their combined venom knocked her out. These spiders weren't normal, however; their venom was designed to attach itself to the victim's blood cells, thereby combining the spiders' DNA with that of their prey. In so doing, the venom worked extremely quickly and there was no antidote for it. But because of Cheryl's as-yet-undiscovered mutation, the harmful effects of the venom didn't kill her. Instead, her body retained the DNA of the spiders. Her confused body soon adapted, rewriting her DNA to give her incredible new powers. However, she retained her mutation via the x-gene that was a part of her basic genetic code.
Whether she's still a mutant, now a mutate, or both is a philosophical question I'll let you decide the answer to.
One theory I had is that these spiders are extraterrestrial in nature and their intelligence is superior to that of Earth-based humans. They worked together to drag Cheryl back to the surface, where she was found hours later, thinking she was dead. The spiders, despite their intelligence, couldn't have known about her mutated DNA and the spiders would be her personal mystery, thus keeping her story aligned with the typical Spider-Man-ish plot devices. She would be in a coma for four days and then would awaken and slowly begin to discover her new-found abilities. Very long story short, she would eventually design a costume and become Spider-Woman.
But that's just my idea (and please, please, PLEASE do not steal it - I worked long and hard on coming up with that in my head). Other canons, au canons, and/or originals could be brought in, as I said. Now, origin story/ies aside, we could set this in NYC or we could come up with a plot in Madripor or some other Marvel location.
TLDR:
I don't have set plot in mind but I'd like to do an AU Marvel RP using an original character I've invented but haven't developed beyond an origin story. My character would be an AU Spider-Woman wearing the
Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman costume but her powers and origin story would be unique, as would the character herself, because this would be an OC. You can bring in canons, OCs, or AU canons and we can decide upon a location and plot; NYC is the default location but that assumes we don't come up with a location we like better for this. Let's bounce ideas off of one another, shall we?
Welcome to da partay! 
