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Low quality AND low budget? You guys sure are living the real life. Here's a very, verrry basic outline of these two. Major dorks, huh? That's because they secretly are despite being so good at their job. Incredible. Expect some basic character bios and official designs very soon!

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Introduction? Hell yeah, baby.

Oliver Owens. Twenty-three, and swinging through New York City like nobody’s business.

The one and only Spider-V. But you’ve probably heard this a million times, huh?

Same old kid who gets bitten by the same old spider, who’s same old uncle who’s famous last words were always, “With great power comes great responsibility”, and the same old cliche ‘becoming a super hero’ movies, tv shows, comic books, and fanart being created over and over again.

But this just isn’t Oliver. He’s a special character you might say.

For one, he isn’t all mentally there. A little too devious for his own liking and finds his job just a tad too fun. His job you ask? Oh, y’know, a mercenary. Yep. Mercenary, "hero". Both a vigilante and a murderer, the perfect duo! Though he prefers the term ‘justice-bringer’, slips off the tongue much easier than icky ol’ merc.

He’s been doing this scarily well-paid job for almost seven years now. Starting at only sixteen really did turn his whole life around, but hey, when you had a dead-beat father who left at age three and a mother who tried to care but couldn’t even keep herself alive long to support you? You had to find options. Even if said options were grim.

Now now, don’t get him confused with the ol’ merc with the mouth. Deadpool has his own special thing. By god, he has his own movie. Oliver wouldn’t dare try to take that spotlight from him, considering he tried once, and shooting someone in head with a sniper rifle just doesn’t do the job like it’s supposed to. At least not for Wade Wilson and his insane healing abilities.

So after a proper apology and a box full of brewskis, they became incredibly well known acquaintances. Not friends of course, Oliver just found him a tad too unwired to hang around the guy. And this was coming from someone who enjoyed what he did.

In all honesty, who could really care what happened? They were just bad guys. Like, really bad guys. He was doing the world a favor, and a rather heavy one at that. Oh, what’s that? These people had itty bitty families who’re crying for their losses? Psh. Nah. Nadda. The family’s of these guys would probably personally hand-shake Oliver for the good work he’s done. I sure wouldn't want to be related to a bad individual like that. No siree. Thank you Spider-V, your efforts have been nothing short of spectacular.

And look people, he still has feelings. He’s like Spider-Man but with a cool twist! He still stops speeding trains, he still saves people from falling buildings; he very much helps people, but he’ll also take on the occasional job of killing some bad guys for some cold hard cash.

Not like the original Spider-Man didn’t kill people. Who’s fault was for Uncle Ben’s death, huh? Or how about Gwen Stacey, yeah? Too far? Yeah alright I get that.

But besides the point, up until now, Oliver Owens has always been the one and only Spider-based hero there’s ever been. Just on his own, vigilante slash mercenary slash what-some-would-call-murderer doing his job like he’s supposed to. But what happens when another spider-like hero enters the scene to mess everything up? Or more so, our dubious loner crashes into a whole other world?

Yeah I’d wonder about that too.

Sincerely, an awful fourth-wall breaker (really it was just for effect. Did it work? Do you feel enthralled with my humor and commentary? Even if you weren't, you still read this far, so that must count for something. Thanks, bub)