#one day we must pick a character and fill them with anger/sadness/trauma for development purposes

[journey-to-the-attic]

if barbatos is also a spider then what if he and ik got bit by the same radioactive spider somehow and he has massive beef with her because 1. she keeps stopping him from doing evil shit, but mainly 2. because she just got the cute spider powers but he's got these awful mutated limbs that make it impossible to live a normal life

oh holy crap that's so good. barbatos is absolutely filled with an anger that no one could possibly understand and the only person who could even begin to try is some dumb kid, and even then she didn't get turned into a monster like he did

okay hey we were talking about why he only has three pairs of the spider-leg things... this is a little silly but maybe he hides the final pair somehow? so that ik won't be able to make that connection and attempt to reach out to him

so ik doesn't know why her spider-sense feels a little off whenever she's fighting him. then there's the big climactic stop-the-world-from-ending final battle where she subdues him, sees the eighth pair of legs, and finally has the "you're like me" moment

50/50 whether barbatos breaks down or just immediately attempts to kill her in response