spidey!will is one of my favorite byler aus but please consider:
little canon 5 year-old will loves spider-man, and he has decided he wants to be peter parker. how cool would it be, after all, to get to fling webs and swing from building to building and hang upside down and stuff? (andi shut up enough with the upside down jokes)
anyways, mike, bless his five year old little heart, gets very excited when he learns will’s favorite hero is spider-man, because!!! whoa!!! he has the same initials as mary jane watson!!! so little mike grabs onto his best friend’s arm, and he excitedly tells will that he can be the mj to will’s spider-man! because he has the same initials as her!
and of course, neither of them fully realize what’s going on, and will just grins super wide and tells them that of course, mike can be the mj to his spider-man, and they’ll always be the bestest of friends!
anyways, this comes up again in casual conversation when they’re like 17, and joyce, not realizing mj is in fact a girl and in fact spider-man’s love interest, mentions how will and mike used to call themselves spider-man and mj. mike and will get incredibly flustered, and el, bless her heart, has been getting into comic books as she reads them to a comatose max. and she quietly asks the entire table, “mj is... peter’s girlfriend, right?”
lucas and dustin, who have caught onto mike and will’s whole not-so secret, secret feelings for each other, just smirk. mike and will are about ten seconds away from jumping into the upside down gate and letting themselves get eaten by some demodogs. and their friends just seal their fate and say, “yep. she sure is.”
and el turns to mike, a smile on her face, and she says, “oh... so... you wanted to be will’s boyfriend as a kid?”
and yep, mike wants to die. right then and there. because he’s sputtering and flustered, and will is dying right beside him too, and god, poor el does not understand homophobia at all, and lucas and dustin are trying so so hard not to laugh.
spiderman fics are my favourite things in the world. i think it's mainly because of the well accepted idea of spider-verse that makes me feel all of these stories are canon. despite the premise of every one of them being the same one character will be our clumsy,snarky, hilarious friendly neighborhood spiderman the other one will have their name modified to fit the MJ initials ( I am looking at you Micheal James Wheeler). also almost every fic having their own version of the upside down kiss. I eat it up every single time. giggling and twirling my hair reading EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. i really love how none of them ever feel boring
I'm up to chapter 9 of my fic. "Cat got your tongue?" (Bug_spray03 on ao3), and I've added a new character. (it is a byler fic where where Will is Spiderman and Mike is black cat 😎)
you know how in every spiderman there's a police captain that's close to spiderman? yeah, I'm so smart, I made Mr Clarke that police captain that is close to Will. Does this mean he is destined to something horrible?
These aren't excellently edited because I just did them on my phone but feel free use them for any spider!Will moodboards and such! Second suit is based on @kidovna design. Been loving all of the @spideywillandmjwheeler stuff so far!!!
ok, i’ve been seeing all the spider-will au fics on ao3 and now i rly wanna write my own 😭 especially bc as a kid i’d write andrew garfield spider-man fics. i need to get back to my roots, god damn it.
plus will is so spider-man and mike is so mj it’s insane to me??? i need to get my grubby lil hands onto this. i’m such a nerd for the spider-man lore too so i feel like it’d be rly fun to write byler in this context. idk who first came up with the idea but they are so smart and talented <3
introducing the other half of the dynamic spidey-sibs duo, SPIDER-EL!!! a junior avengers member, el (civilian name: jane hopper) splits her time between her beloved city and the superhero big leagues, never losing her signature wide-eyed wonder and dedication to defending those who cannot defend themselves.
As far as first dates go, Will thinks this one has got to go down in the history books as the World’s Worst First Date.
Okay, okay, okay. That’s probably not fair. The date itself hadn’t gone that poorly—actually, the date itself had been incredible. It’s just… well… it’s just how the date ended that made it so bad.
Alright. Maybe Will needs to rewind just a little bit.
mostly gonna follow the no way home plot here (linked if you need a refresher hehe), but with a little bit of a spin to get us some lucas as miles morales and max as spider-gwen/gwen stacy in there!